The Market
Required Reading: Second home ownership and the EU’s new succession rules
Ten years in the making, a fundamental shift to succession rules in most EU countries will come into force next year.
Asking price jump 2.6% in a month
"The usual October trend" has seen asking prices jump by 2.6% this month, according to Rightmove.
Entry-level mansion-dwellers would pay £250 per month – Balls
Ed Balls has detailed just how Labour's Mansion Tax would work, should the party get lucky in May.
Wealth of Migrations: The rise of the global HNW citizen
The world's wealthy are getting more footloose and fancy free, says Barclays Wealth, moving homes and investments around the globe like never before.
Ranked Outsiders: Estate agency league table launches
A league table of local estate agents' performance has been launched to 'help property owners make an informed decision' and drive business for local independents with skinny marketing budgets.
FORECAST: PCL values to double over the next ten years – D&G
There's value in prime central London's £2m-£4m bracket if you take a longer term view, says D&G Asset Management.
Capco’s Covent Garden prime rental play
Capco has made its first foray into the luxury rental market in Covent Garden, with a new scheme on Southampton Street.
Housing market is ‘not going to be back to normal until the end of the decade’
London's housing landscape is "not going to be back to normal until the end of the decade," argued a top housing professor yesterday.
Demand rises but prices hold in prime Scotland
No change for prime Scottish country house prices last month, leaving annual growth down to it's lowest level of the year, +1.4%, according to the latest from Knight Frank.
Henry VIII’s palatial Surrey tower looks for a new tenant
The only surviving remnant of the Royal Palace of Esher has become available to rent for £15k a month.
Be Careful What You Wish For: The reality of a ‘dampened’ property market
With Carney in a bugger's muddle over interest rates, let's hope 'the medicine does not kill the patient’, says Trevor Abrahmsohn...
I despair.
Former Aylesford boss launches independent prime agency
Louise Hewlett has just launched an independent property company