The Market

We've all heard a lot about the rise of South-of-the-River, what with Nine Elms and Battersea Power Station, One Tower Bridge, the Ram Brewery and more...

The latest data from the Land Registry shows a big annual increase in the amount of £1m+ deals recorded across the country. Sales volumes by price range (England & Wales)

The total value of the UK's housing stock rose by £186bn in 2013 to hit £5.2tr, according to some (big) number crunching by Savills, and by £1.6tr over the last decade from £3.6tr in 2003.

There's a fully-fledged bunfight for sub-£2m investment properties, according to the latest market report from W.A.

We all know it's been a shrewd investment in recent years, but just how easy - or sensible - is it to buy up and develop farmland?

Fair Edinburgh has seen a return to "normal, healthy transaction levels", according to the Knight Frank team after they recorded a whopping increase in Q4 deals.

There'll probably be fewer foreign buyers, dull design schemes and 60s mansards this year, says James Bailey...

Countrywide's latest YouGov sentiment survey comes to a very similar conclusion to Knight Frank's version released last week: we're all pretty positive about house prices.

An independent inquiry, commissioned by the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors, has suggested that Home Reports - which sound rather similar to the much-maligned Home Information Packs that were ditched…

Any recent property market report will - more likely than not - include the phrase "chronic supply shortage".

The Mayfair corner's come out swinging with some statistical gymnastics to counter Nick Candy's claim that W1's oversupplied and due for a price drop this year (as reported here). N.B.

Knight Frank's latest Future House Price Sentiment Index has hit a brand new high, with homeowners expecting prices to rise at the fastest rate since 2009, when the index started, and households in every…