The Market

The buzz of the Olympic summer in London has significantly swelled interest from international buyers, but most appear reluctant to swallow the higher SDLT and are looking to purchase below the £2m threshold,…

Many buyers say they'll only consider a freehold or long-lease property, but that rules out a huge number of cracking homes, especially in prime central London.

Knight Frank's latest report, out today, shows that prime central London property prices are now 14% above their March 2008 peak, and nearly 50% above their March 2009 low.

Prime central London rents have now fallen for fourteen out of the last fifteen months, according to Knight Frank's latest Residential Review. August saw a 0.4% drop, taking the annual change to -1.7%.

The £5m+ prime London property market remains buoyant, with the Middle East, Russia and other Commonwealth of Independent States countries dominating proceedings, according to Beauchamp Estates' latest…

It's that time again and the Land Registry has released its House Price Index, showing a 107 per cent increase in the number of £1m+ properties sold in May 2012 (562), when compared with the same month…

Do open houses ever work at the top of the market? Dan Crofton looks at a launch tactic that divides the market.

An odd proposition from Winkworth, but one that could prove mighty attractive to investors with a eye on the long term: they are marketing a property in South Kensington with a "deferred purchase agreement."

 The prime property market continues to romp along (relatively speaking) while Britain's economy languishes in the doldrums, with a third consecutive quarter of dismal news on GDP: national output in…

The majority of British architects are pessimistic about their workload levels for the coming year, according to RIBA's Future Trends Survey, but the high-end residential sector is proving to be "resilient,"…