Sales

For the first time since 1996, farmers are accounting for less than half of all purchases, notes Strutt & Parker

Full-year sales figures for 2018 showed a surge in the number of £5m+ deals across central London, and it's not hard to see why...

Savills recorded a 43% surge in the number of £15m+ deals across PCL last year;

Success in other niches has shown how a differentiated development can succeed even at times when the general housing market is poor, says Nigel Sibley

London Central Portfolio Property Fund sees net asset value fall by nearly 20% as political uncertainty and tax changes eventually take their toll;

New data and a broker survey indicate growing demand for short-term property finance

Lots offered, sold and total raised were all well down on the same period in 2017, reports EIG, as the market remains 'on tenterhooks'

HMRC reports seasonally adjusted resi transaction count for December at 102,330, down slightly on the previous month but up 3.6% on December 2017

LSL & Acadata index records UK house price growth at seven-year low, with London slipping back into negative territory; Westminster & RBKC post 12-month movements of -24.8% and -21.2% respectively

"The Christmas slowdown came early" for the UK property market, says Rightmove, "and the hangover lasted a few days longer into the New Year than usual".

RICS' latest monthly survey delivers its weakest near-term sales expectation reading since it started, in 1999

The UK's average house price increased by 2.8% in the year to November 2018; London's average dropped by 0.7%, according to official figures.