The Market
Survival of the Fittings: On London’s luxury lettings market
Prime central London rents have risen year-on-year, but levels of tenant demand are falling on all but the highest quality and best presented properties, says Lucy Morton...
Oxford and Cambridge outperform as Londoners capitalise on house price gap
Uncertainty may be ruling the roost in London’s housing market, but it's a different story in other parts of the country, notes top buying agency Garrington.
Search for new Ombudsman gets underway as Hamer announces retirement
Christopher Hamer, better known as The Property Ombudsman, has announced he'll be stepping down at the end of the year.
Election Special: The prime property industry holds its breath
We don't need Jon Snow to tell us which way the property industry's election swingometer is headed;
Oxfordshire manor house with ‘the finest view in England’ hits the market
Lording it over what's been described as the best vista in the country, this Grade II listed Georgian manor house has just become available in a very stately corner of Oxfordshire.
Duty Bound: On the aftermath of Osborne’s SDLT reforms
Historically, SDLT rate changes have corrected themselves in the market through a natural process of adjustment;
Bricking It: Election outcomes & the UK property market
Cutting through the proverbial, Beauchamp Estates has distilled the four most probable scenarios we can expect to see emerge from Thursday's General Election, and predicted how each will impact the…
Tory triumph ‘could unleash a pent up multi-million pound wave of Indian investment’
A Conservative majority on Thursday "could unleash a pent up multi-million pound wave of Indian investment into the prime London residential property market," says NW specialist estate agency Rescorp Residential.
In Pictures: Diddy’s surprisingly low key New Jersey pad
Hip hop mogul Sean "P Diddy" Combs has re-listed this frankly rather elegant affair in New Jersey.
Now on for a tad over £5.
PCL market to present good buying opportunities in post-election window
Buying agency Huntly Hooper has issued some words of advice for investors looking to spot a bargain in prime London over the coming weeks.
First time buyers drive a 20% surge in prime London demand – Marsh & Parsons
Overall demand for prime London homes has shot up by 20% in Q1, says Marsh & Parsons, with first time buyers and investors each accounting for nearly a third of sales.
£5m+ transactions in prime London have tumbled by 49% in the last year
The Lonres Residential Review, Spring 2015: The sales market.
As befits an election year, demand levels have dropped and, as a result, so have transactions and values.