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Mortgage approvals jump 13%
Net mortgage lending reached an all-time high in March.
Supply squeeze is a ‘short-term distortion’
Bumpy exit from the pandemic tells us very little about how the property market is going to perform over the next 12 months, says Knight Frank.
Stamp Duty data shows surge in £500k+ property sales
Just over a third (36%) of residential transactions were liable for SDLT in the opening three months of this year, compared to two-thirds (67%) in the same period in 2020.
Ranked: Britain’s property price inflation hotspots
Rightmove has done some more analysis of the "frenetic" housing market, identifying which locations have seen the highest rates of price growth in the last year, and revealing that around a quarter of…
Ranked: £3m-plus hotspots beyond the capital
Elmbridge and Buckinghamshire were the areas with the most £3m sales outside of London last year, according to analysis of Land Registry records.
Why sourcing best-in-class properties has become even harder for buyers
Most of the decent houses have sold over the last year, and what remains is often either overpriced or substandard, writes Hannah Aykroyd.
‘Hotting up’: PCL set for ‘healthy market bounce’, predicts buying agency
'The market could go up a few per cent quite quickly, and a lot of good quality property has been held back from the market during lockdown', says Black Brick
Total value of UK homes sold so far this year doubles to £150bn
"Extreme market momentum will moderate," predicts Zoopla, as more stock comes to market and buyer demand calms.
Estate agents report highest March sales figures since 2007
One in six homes is selling for more than the original asking price, reports Propertymark - the highest proportion recorded since May 2014.
Are city centre markets dead? It couldn’t be further from the truth
While many Londoners did exit the city for more space over the last year, just as many realised the importance of being near amenities, friends and family, writes developer Christopher Murray.
Stamp Duty receipts rocket
HMRC's revenue from SDLT was 22% higher last month than in March 2020.
How the race for space changed the PCL landscape
Using granular LonRes data, Fraser Slater examines how sales values for houses and flats PCL changed over the course of last year - and the premium buyers were willing to pay across all the key neighbourhoods...