The Market

A £10,000 fine if immigration details are wrong? For Pete's sake, give letting agents a break says Trevor Abrahmsohn... The ramifications of the immigration problem facing the UK are horrendous.

"Tough" measures that will see lettings agents take a front-line role in tackling immigration, announced in yesterday’s (8 May 2013) Queen’s Speech, have not gone down well in the industry (read what…

After four of the wettest years on record, the flood insurance market could be facing a seachange moment.

Another firm has been at the Casios today, this time working out by how much prime property values have been swelling by the hour.

Knight Frank’s current market forecast tips prime central London prices to rise by 31% over the next five years, but anywhere within a "walkzone" of a new Crossrail station could see values rocket by…

If your clients have had their fill of Formica and black vinyl sofas, Grosvenor's brand new 16-unit "premium rental product" at 65 Duke Street in Mayfair (launched at a swanky soirée last night) claims…

Central London agency (and now part of CBRE of course) EA Shaw has flagged up the return of UK buyers, the popularity of new builds and plenty of action in the £1m-£2m price bracket throughout its prominent…

“Extremely positive and encouraging” results from the latest quarterly Registers of Scotland report indicate that Edinburgh's property market is reeling for the better.

Here's something you don't hear every day: so far this year, new stock levels in Kensington & Chelsea have improved dramatically.

39% of rentals through Strutt & Parker's Knightsbridge office over the last few months have been to monied 20-somethings, who, the agent says, typically spend £1,563 per week on a two-bed flat.

The third part of Candy & Candy's Global Prime Sector report looks at how New York is the new land of opportunity for overseas property investors.

Thoreau once said that success comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. By this measure, the last five years have been very successful indeed for some PCL agencies - few more so than W.A.