The Market
Happy Lending: Mortgages up a fifth in May
The Council of Mortgage Lenders has estimated that total gross mortgage lending in May leapt up to £14.7 billion, representing a rise of 21% from £12.
Sir Merv’s watch saw London house prices rise by £600k
Sir Mervyn King GBE FBA’s (he's just been given a peerage) ten year reign as Guv'ner of the Bank saw a £600k surge in London property prices, with house prices in prime central London lifting by 58.
Wealth Health: One million join the global HNW club
A global recovery in the property and equity markets caused a bit of a rebound for the world's wealthy in the in 2012, with the investable wealth of High Net Worth Individuals (HNWIs) growing by 10%…
Energy efficiency now a key factor influencing sale prices – DECC
The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has been drumming up support for its Green Deal scheme today, by claiming that making energy saving improvements to a property could increase its value…
Harrods Estates opens up in Chelsea
Harrods Estates has thrown open the gilded doors of its new office on the Fulham Road today, marking the next stage of the firm's expansion across prime central London.
Required Reading: How to Buy and Sell Short Leases
Short leases; big opportunity or tall order? We asked Child & Child's Katie Cohen and Mo Hakim and Prosper Marr-Johnson of Marr Johnson & Stevens to put together the definitive crib sheet...
Marcus Cooper to create £200m Regent’s Park uberpile
Property tycoon Marcus Cooper is planning to turn seven Regent's Park houses into one of the world's most expensive residences.
Ready about for Henley as deals surge 30%
With a cracking sense of timing, The Buying Solution has flagged up some exceptionally high demand in lovely Henley.
Abrahmsohn: Xenophobic proposals to increase housing supply are daft with a capital D
The latest idea from a Lib Dem MP - to stop developers selling homes to overseas buyers - has not gone down well with Trevor Abrahmsohn. At all.
Portal Kombat: Another agent-owned property portal enters the fray
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Look North (London): Investors go North and East for property returns
Investors should be looking North and a bit East to pick up the best returns in London, according to Allen Wargent.
Hammersmith & Fulham goes through the roof
Hammersmith and Fulham Council has been praised by estate agency Winkworth for creating a particularly robust property market over the last five years.