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"We can confidently predict a strong end to the year," says Knight Frank, "just less frenetic than the first six months."

‘The reports that the property market reached its peak at the end of the stamp duty holiday are unfounded’, says Arlington Residential.

More than half of properties sold over the summer had three or more bedrooms, reports LonRes.

Using a very long-range crystal ball, insurance website Comparethemarket is predicting that London's average property value will climb by 63% by 2040, with the UK average rising by 58%.

Knight Frank has tucked away £100m worth of property on the Wentworth Estate so far this year, including the spectacular Villa Oman.

Rightmove has identified which locations are being hardest hit by the ongoing shortage of properties available to buy.

UK borrowers repaid £1.4bn of mortgage debt in July; it's only the second time in a decade that the Bank of England's data has shown a net repayment.

A London estate agency has estimated that nearly 400,000 residential transactions across the UK have been hit with a down valuation in the last year - including 59% of transactions in the capital.

Lifestyle and security are the most important elements for UHNW purchasers, writes Steve McGregor, but those things will look very different in a post-pandemic world…

“The post-pandemic ‘reassessment of home’ has further to run," says Zoopla, as the UK's property market faces its "greatest stock shortage since 2015."

"The pandemic has left its mark on the UK property market by magnifying existing trends rather than re-writing the rulebook," says Knight Frank, as the firm identifies 19 new £1m+ property markets across…

Official estimates tell of a 63% drop in residential property sales from June to July - but transactions are still running above last year's level.