The Market

After capital value growth of +3% in 2013's final quarter, taking the annual rise to +12.6%, the average property in prime central London is now worth £1.

This is buy-to-let on an industrial scale. Britain's biggest property services group, Countrywide plc, has acquired 28 lettings business throughout 2013, spending £23.

Despite pretty universal forecasting that the regions are now playing catch-up with London's runaway property values, "The Great House Price Divide" is bigger than ever and threatens the stability of the…

2013 has been an "interesting" year in the market for farms and land, according to Chesterton Humberts (or "up and down" in other words).

"No-one is surprised" that the six of the ten most expensive homes on the market right now are in London and New York (three a-piece), with nine out of ten sitting in either the UK or the US, according…

Why did so many commentators and analysts get it wrong this year? Perhaps we still don't fully understand the strength of the forces behind the price growth we've been witnessing, says Camilla Dell..

The number of £1m+ homes in the UK increased by 31% to 92,985 this year; that's 255 new property millionaires a day, according to Zoopla. 1.

Mayfair resi sales are 25% up on last year, but are still 75% below their 2007 boom-time peak,  according to the area's top estate agent Wetherell's (with a 25% market share according to Lonres) review o…

According to Beauchamp Estates and Dataloft, the average price paid per square foot for London properties over the £10m mark has increased by a chunky 27% since 2011, rising from £2,400 per square foot t…

Rightmove is predicting that asking prices will rise by somewhere between 6% and 8% next year, as stock shortages continue to plague the market

Homeowners are more positive about house prices now than at any time in the last five years, according to Knight Frank's latest Sentiment Survey

Someone's come along and told us we're in trouble: there is, according to the eminent Professor James Mitchell of Warwick University's business school, a 93% chance that London is in the midst of a property …