The Market
Ranked Outsiders: Estate agency league table launches
A league table of local estate agents' performance has been launched to 'help property owners make an informed decision' and drive business for local independents with skinny marketing budgets.
Required Reading: Second home ownership and the EU’s new succession rules
Ten years in the making, a fundamental shift to succession rules in most EU countries will come into force next year.
FORECAST: +5% for UK house prices next year, but only +2% for PCL – Strutt & Parker
Strutt & Parker is more optimistic than Knight Frank about what 2015 holds in store for the UK's property market, but there's not much in it.
FORECAST: PCL values to double over the next ten years – D&G
There's value in prime central London's £2m-£4m bracket if you take a longer term view, says D&G Asset Management.
Capco’s Covent Garden prime rental play
Capco has made its first foray into the luxury rental market in Covent Garden, with a new scheme on Southampton Street.
Housing market is ‘not going to be back to normal until the end of the decade’
London's housing landscape is "not going to be back to normal until the end of the decade," argued a top housing professor yesterday.
Demand rises but prices hold in prime Scotland
No change for prime Scottish country house prices last month, leaving annual growth down to it's lowest level of the year, +1.4%, according to the latest from Knight Frank.
Be Careful What You Wish For: The reality of a ‘dampened’ property market
With Carney in a bugger's muddle over interest rates, let's hope 'the medicine does not kill the patient’, says Trevor Abrahmsohn...
I despair.
Henry VIII’s palatial Surrey tower looks for a new tenant
The only surviving remnant of the Royal Palace of Esher has become available to rent for £15k a month.
Former Aylesford boss launches independent prime agency
Louise Hewlett has just launched an independent property company
BoJo: We can deliver 500,000 new homes for London within the next ten years
Boris Johnson has kicked off the inaugural MIPIM UK conference with a rabble-rousing keynote speech, criticising the 'xenophobic left-wing commentators' calling for a clampdown on overseas investment.
Chelsea Garage to Grand Design: 0.013 acre plot asks £550k
'Challenge of the Week' surely has to go to this intriguing proposition in Chelsea.