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Successive parliaments have fiddled with stamp duty 14 times since 1995, but the right balance is yet to be struck, writes LonRes Chairman William Carrington

Transaction volumes in the capital's most expensive neighbourhoods were up by 3% in Q2, compared to last year, but buyers remain 'scarce' across the rest of the prime postcodes...

Mayfair-based advisory Black Brick acquired nearly £43m worth of property in the first six months of 2019, and has twice as many buyers on its books compared to last year...

Attitudes towards new-builds are changing in London as developers continue to up their game, suggests buying agent Sara Ransom...

Knight Frank charts how the many neighbourhoods of Prime London performed between April and June of this year...

Prime property prices in London's Outer Commute just posted positive growth for the first time in two years, says Savills, but commuter homes closer to the capital are falling...

"It looks like Boris [Johnson] has and will put the bounce back into the London property market", says top-end estate agent Mark Pollack

Increases in supply are compounding the downward pressure on prices across the South, report Zoopla & Hometrack,  while the opposite is true elsewhere...

2018 was 'a breakthrough year' for institutional property investment in the UK, says JLL

Having failed to sell their properties at the right price, some landlords have made a return to the lettings market, says Knight Frank

In 2004, over 60,000 homes were resold within 12 months; just 18,630 homes were flipped in England & Wales last year...

A chunky sale on Chelsea Square topped the rundown of resi transactions lodged with the Land Registry in June...