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Major mortgage lender Lloyds and top-end buying agency Black Brick are both predicting a fall for property values as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic.

Buyers are not responding to the Covid-19 crisis in the same way as to the 2008 global financial crash or to 2016's Stamp Duty changes, says Knight Frank's Priya Black, who heads up the Baker Street…

After three years in the doldrums, country house prices and activity were beginning to turn up in Q1, says Knight Frank. Now prices are likely to drop by 3% this year.

While it would be easy to only see the negatives, this situation will be what we make it, writes Tim Hyatt...

This is not like the GFC, buyers told

Agency reports selling over £436m worth of land during the first three months of the year

Zoopla estimates that 50% fewer homes will be sold in 2020 than in 2019... The current rate of deals is about 10% of the usual March tally - a market more akin to late December than Springtime.

Latest Molior survey of the capital's new-build scene shows sales and starts were both up significantly pre-lockdown

Nearly a third (30%) more London homes were marked as "under offer" at the end of March compared to the same time a year ago, according to LonRes data mined buy Coutts bank, as deals piled up under the…

Developers are already 'exploring their options' over deals where the buyers seem to have gone cold, reports Boodle Hatfield

Everyone agrees that transaction volumes will plunge, but opinions are divided over the impact of the Coronavirus on property values...

Writing for the FT, Liz Rowlinson reports from the UK's holiday home hotspots, where the coronavirus has been heightening tensions between locals and second home owners.