The Market
Banda goes big on off-plan after ‘shift in mindset’ amongst UK buyers
Kensington-based Banda Property has strengthened its buying team after reporting a surge in demand for off-plan resi.
Helical Bar's hotly-tipped Barts Square scheme by Smithfield Market
INFOGRAPHIC: ‘The Mansion Tax Trap’
The peeps over at Property Division have had a bash at an ambitious Mansion Tax visualisation, showing the extent to which each London borough would be affected by Labour's proposed new levy.
Bridging the Gap: How The Thames’ three new bridges can change the prime map
Three new bridges across the Thames "can galvanise their north and south banks" says buying agency Garrington as St James's Riverlight development in Nine Elms welcomes its first residents.
Home Counties rents rise – a bit – for first time in two years
Despite dropping a touch in Q3, rental values in the Home Counties have increased on an annual basis for the first time since June 2012, says Knight Frank.
It's not a big increase: 0.
Prime London prices to stay put for the rest of the year as supply levels ‘soar’
It's the end of the rise for prime central London's property prices, says Marsh & Parsons.
Q3 saw prices struggle up by just 0.5% as supply levels jumped by 13%.
Foxtons suffers as sales volumes slump
The second half of this year "will be significantly below levels during the same period last year" warns Foxtons, as its Q3 turnover drops.
Buy-to-let Index launches; shows that ‘BTL is not always a great investment’
EC3, WC1 and WC2 are the top three postcodes in the UK for buy-to-let investors, reveals LendInvest in its inaugural Buy-To-Let Index.
£300m? That wouldn’t even pay for a new NHS logo!
Going by Ed Balls' latest figures, it's unlikely that the proceeds raised from a Mansion Tax would make any meaningful contribution to an organisation that requires £100 billion a year to run, says…
JLL backs new top council tax band
JLL, which recently teamed up with WA Ellis, has come out swinging at Labour's latest plans for a Mansion Tax, choosing to back the Lib Dem's modified version - a "pragmatic and deliverable" new top Council…
PCL sales volumes down by over a quarter on last year (but don’t panic, it’s ‘just a correction’)
Not only has the number of deals tanked, but the total value of all the properties sold across Knightsbridge, Belgravia, Chelsea, South Ken, Fulham, West Chelsea, Kensington and Notting Hill during Q3…
Transactions numbers drop by nearly 5%
Transactions dropped by nearly 5% between August and September, according to the latest batch of stats from HMRC.
The seasonally adjusted estimate of the number of residential transactions fell by 4.
British renters come home to prime Surrey
UK nationals have overtaken US tenants as the dominant force in Virginia Water and Wentworth's rental market for the first time in three years, according to stats from local agent Barton Wyatt.