Sales
Country house price declines moderate as prime buyers sense value
Market Snapshot: Knight Frank’s Q3 sit rep for the prime country house sales market
Blue Sky Thinking: James Greenwood on why it’s a buyer’s mistake to wait
Whether we wind up with a hard Brexit, a soft one, or none at all, we are unlikely to see any dramatic effect on the property market, argues buying agent James Greenwood - and those waiting for the perfect…
Buyer demand jumps in prime London, reaching a five-year Summertime high – but vendors continue to hesitate
Market Snapshot: Knight Frank's Summer sit rep for the prime London sales market
Top-end prime London prices have fallen by 16% since last year
The average £2m+ price paid in prime London in the first half of this year was £3.9m; that's 16% less than a year earlier
Look what a mansion tax has done to New York’s prime property market
Manhattan brokerages report how prices are in 'near free fall' following two recent tax hikes
UK property prices have increased three-times as fast as earnings since 2008
The average value of a UK home has risen by 43% over the last decade, while the average wage has increased by 15% - and mortgage payments have trickled up by just 3%
PCL househunters are looking for village charm, says buying agency
Black Brick explains why neighbourhoods like Marylebone High Street have been outperforming Knightsbridge - and tips Queensway as the one to watch...
‘Wind of change’ in London as buyer interest begins to translate into sales
Transaction levels in PCL and Greater London are still falling on an annual basis, but the latest Land Registry data shows a marked improvment over the last quarter, reports LCP...
Prime central London has finally bottomed out, says Savills
Following a correction on the same scale as those seen post-GFC and in the early 80s and 90s, the PCL market is 'close to a full re-pricing' - but uncertainty is holding back the bounce...
SDLT receipts slump by 10% as high-value property deals fizzle
£1m+ property sales accounted for nearly 3% of transactions last year - and over 45% of total SDLT receipts
Cutting SDLT could bring 130,000 more homes to market each year – Purplebricks
Estate agency urges the Prime Minister to follow through on Stamp Duty reform proposals
London’s property market ‘has bottomed out’, but an ‘exodus of cash buyers’ has quelled price inflation in southern cities
A pick-up in activity and a return to positive annual price growth in London "isn’t a precursor to price rises,” says Zoopla, “but we do expect sales volumes to start rising once again”