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Historic Hotspot: Chelsea named as one of the world’s top ‘luxury neighbourhoods to watch’
Venerable PCL enclave picked alongside up-and-coming districts of Boston, Dubai and Shanghai in rundown of 18 locations 'set to outperform' in the year ahead, after suffering one of the biggest slowdowns…
Chelsea Focus: Five notable recent deals
Canny buyers have been picking up some top-notch properties in this underperforming - but now hotly-tipped - district of prime London...
Ranked: Britain’s fastest-moving property markets
Zoopla highlights three characteristics of locations where properties sell quickly.
Property transactions tick up in February
The latest HMRC property transactions statistics 'support the narrative of relative stability over the past five years'
Notting Hill market sets the pace as buyers ‘get on with their lives’
The average number of days between a property being listed and going under offer in W11 has fallen by 42% over the last year, the biggest such reduction in PCL...
To The Manor Drawn: On the realities of buying a top-tier country pile
There is much more to consider besides maintenance and running costs when acquiring a genuinely top-end country estate or manor house, says Charlie Wells;
May is peak buying season in the UK property market
'The traditional buying seasons remain apparent in both London and the regions', says Knight Frank, after analysing sales activity over the last three years;
Deals, Disputes & Dilemmas: On the complicated business of dual fees
Following the publication of new TPO guidance on dual fees, designed to curb the rising number of disputes, veteran agent Trevor Abrahmsohn steers us through the labyrinthine world of inter-agency dealings,…
UK property prices drop by 0.8% in a month, driven by a Southern slowdown
The UK's average house price fell by 0.8% between December 2018 and January 2019, according to the latest official UK HPI, leaving the annual rate of growth at its lowest level since 2013.
Portal valuation leads jump by over a third
Rising new business leads could indicate pent-up supply in the sales market.
Long in the tooth? Analysing the 2014-2019 bear market from a historical perspective
At the end of last year, fund manager-turned-buying agent Fraser Slater set out ten reasons why he expects Q1 2019 to mark the low point of the Prime Central London property market;
These four years saw average house prices double within five years
The average value of a home rocketed by 100% within five years of 1974, 1980, 1989 and 2004; it took 16 years for the same growth to be recorded to the end of 2018.