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Estate agency branches did an average of eight sales deals last month, according to Propertymark, down from 13 in November but still the highest December total since 2006.

The average price paid in Prime Central London has fallen by 10% since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic - but some enclaves have seen dramatic prices rise.

"The volume of households moving through the homemover funnel" has reached "unparalleled levels", says research firm Twenty Ci.

Surprisingly high prime sales volumes are "a clear demonstration of confidence in London as a leading world city," says Savills.

National buying agency Garrington has compiled a "definitive league table of post-Covid property hotspots", assessing the best places to live in the "new normal" of 2021 and beyond.

Comparison with 2008 'puts the impact of Covid-19 on the property market into context', says Knight Frank, suggesting that 2021 'may also surprise on the upside'

West London agent Paul Cosgrove looks back on an extraordinary period for the capital’s property market, and explains why recent demand shifts are much more than a passing trend...

'People want more from the places they live, both in the physical bricks and mortar as well as the immediate external surroundings', says Canary Wharf Group after surveying 2,000 buyers.

The pace of property price inflation picked up dramatically towards the end of last year, according to the latest official UK HPI.

Zoopla reveals where family-size homes (3-5 bedrooms) have seen the biggest increase in price per square foot since 2016.

The nine-month SDLT break is likely to cut HM Treasury's revenue by £1.5bn, says estate agency Keller William UK, having already saved property buyers £817m in tax payments.

Rather than politics, currency fluctuations or legislation changes, the market’s sustained performance is actually being underpinned by an innate desire for progress in our lives, writes Giles Barrett...