The Market
Perky homeowners optimistic on house prices
HPSI vs house price indices (12 mnth change)
Crouching Agent, Hidden Buyer: What does the Chinese New Year mean for the UK property market?
Possibly too grand a build-up for this quirky project from Chesterton Humberts, but the imaginative research team has delved all the way back to 1953 to see what the Year of the Snake could mean for house…
Back away from the future: Has anyone called 2013’s property market right so far?
What is the point of property forecasting, asks Camilla Dell...
Abrahmsohn Part I: Mansion Tax would be the death knell of London’s residential property market
Prime property's £3 billion man Trevor Abrahmsohn rails against Miliband's latest "Desperate Dan" proposal...
Ed must have a very low opinion of the Labour voters in Eastleigh.
What happened to second homes in 2012?
Well, the number of second homes in England rose again in 2012, according to recent data from the Department of Communities and Local Goverment.
Regional yields drawing Far Eastern investment
London is no longer the first choice for Far Eastern property investors, according to buy-to-let specialists Assetz.
Savills’ resi auction breaks records with £50m haul
Savills' residential property auction, held on Monday, broke the firm's capital value result record, bringing in over £50m through 195 lots (Savills' largest catalogue for two years).
Finchatton’s £12.5m Lansbury penthouse sells within 24 hours (for £1m above asking)
It looks as though Finchatton has got it right again - the 3,000 square foot, three-bedroom showcase apartment in the firm's latest development has been snapped up after what sounds like a global bunfight.
What have tax changes done to the prime property market?
Deloitte Real Estate's Matthew Lodge assesses the market's reaction to tax charges on high-value residential property.
On 31 January draft Capital Gains Tax (CGT) legislation was published.
Housing transactions up for fourth month in row – RICS
The number of housing transactions continues to grow across the UK property market, according to the latest RICS housing market survey (the UK's longest-running house price survey).
PCL resi development land values still rising as developers focus on capital
Hot on the heels of yesterday's Prime Rental Index, Knight Frank's spoiling us with more stats;
New lettings boss for Cluttons
Cluttons has appointed Zoe Innes as Partner for Residential Lettings, responsible for lettings operations across all of the firm's nine Central London offices.