The Market
Underground Market: Map tracks property prices by tube line
An engaging new map has tracked London's house prices in relation to tube lines and underground stations.
This Saturday is the best day to sell houses
This Saturday - the middle one in May - is the best day of the year to sell a house, according to Carter Jonas.
Poacher Turned Gamekeeper & Poacher: Drawing the buying agency boundaries
Should buying agents also be selling properties for their clients? Camilla Dell takes on a piping hot potato...
UK’s Eastern Region is fastest growing market outside London – Bidwells
The UK's Eastern Region looks to be in bullish form after a marked increase in planning applications, new developments, transaction volumes, town and country house prices and mortgage approvals.
Trend-bucking Fulham sees house sales leap
Rather than settling dust, one particular area of south west London is witnessing a dramatic sales trend in the wake of the government's new SDLT measures.
Fortress Central London: The buy-to-bubble-wrap ghost town
In his first column for PrimeResi, Ed Mead talks ska music, buy-to-bubble-wrap and flunking the milk and newspaper test...
Flirting vendors but little action – D&G
Potential vendors are flirting with selling their properties, but supply levels still haven't risen to meet some pretty consistently strong demand in Douglas & Gordon's reckoning.
Off-Plan: Only 15% of respondents supported extended permitted development rights
Only 15% of respondents to the Government's consultation supported new permitted development rights that double the size of extensions allowed without the need for planning permission, according to results…
HS2: Majority of compensation applications “turned down”
299 of the 455 applications made by homeowners living in the shadow of HS2's first stage have been rejected, according to reports today.
“One Stop Shop” for infrastructure planning opens for business
A new "one-stop-shop service for planning consents" will, according to Whitehall, make major infrastructure projects easier to get off the ground by reducing the number of bodies developers need to consult…
The Westminster Constitution: The Hyde Park Estate
Making sense of Westminster's mercurial micro-markets, Martin Bikhit analyses the fortunes of Tony Blair's illustrious stomping ground - the Hyde Park Estate and Connaught Village...
Office Politics: Most of central London exempt from new permitted development rights
Areas in seventeen local authorities - including vast swathes of central London - have been exempted from new rights that make it easier to convert offices into resi, due to "exceptional economic circumstances".