The Market
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…
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…
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…
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.
South Bank Show: Wanda unveils One Nine Elms
Here's how Wanda One's Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates-designed One Nine Elms project - which officially launches on Thursday - is eventually going to look.
£15.5m Hans Place house becomes UK’s most expensive online-only instruction
A 5385 square foot end-of-terrace on one of London's most sought-after turnings has just smashed the record for the UK's most expensive online-only listing.
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.
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.
FORECAST: +5% for UK house prices next year, but only +2% for PCL – Strutt & Parker
Strutt & Parker is more optimistic than Knight Frank about what 2015 holds in store for the UK's property market, but there's not much in it.
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.