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“After the roller-coaster ride of the stamp duty holiday, activity levels in the UK housing market will feel tame by comparison in the final months of this year," says Knight Frank research chief Tom…

Cluttons summarises some themes to look out for as the recovery continues.

The annual rate of UK property price inflation was running at +6.1% in August, according to Zoopla; that's more than double the rate recorded in August last year.

Second home purchases outside of London are up by 83% this year, notes Chris Druce - and the trend is boosting the coffers of the government...

"We’re more likely to see a continuation of modest price growth, such as we’ve witnessed during the last five years, rather than a boom followed by a bust," says Hamptons, as it forecasts the start…

Hamptons has just published its house price forecasts for the years ahead, predicting the start of a new market cycle in 2024/5. Here the team outlines the key trends to watch in the coming 12 months.

Black Brick has signed up eight new clients in the last fortnight - all but one of whom are looking for apartments in London’s top postcodes: ‘It was tumbleweed for 18 months but now it is a frenzy’…

With demand levels running high, sellers ‘don’t feel the need’ to offer a discount right now, according to Chestertons.

A tenant’s market has become a landlord’s market in the last six weeks, reports Knight Frank, as offices re-open and air traffic rises.

"Activity in the residential investment sector is once again picking up", says buying agency Garrington, although the firm reports "a different profile" of buyer in the sector.

The capital's three Royal Boroughs - Kensington & Chelsea, Kingston and Greenwich - have underperformed Greater London's average property price growth over the last five years.

Brexit and Covid have utterly changed the landscape in terms of what it costs to renovate a property - but the marketplace remains massively underprepared and ill-informed, warns buying agent Guy Meacock……