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New-build homes are a fifth smaller than they were in the 1970s
Study of new-build listings across 20 UK cities shows some significant shrinkage over the last few decades
Ranked: August’s top ten buyers’ & sellers’ markets
London dominates PropCast's top ten postcode districts for buying this month, while Birmingham is looking better for vendors.
Developers swarm over Clapham office-to-resi scheme
£18.5m development opp overlooking the Common attracts '450 interested parties', demonstrating keen appetite for consented schemes in the capital
London’s super-prime buyers make their move as prices re-base
Bumper June sees £470m worth of £10m+ deals recorded, revised up from £407m and now the highest figure since December 2014 by a distance...
UK house price inflation slows to its lowest rate since 2013
The average property price in London fell by 0.6% in June, according to the official UK HPI
New mortgage activity dips as remortgaging takes centre stage
House purchase activity slowed in June but remortgaging activity remains high, according to the latest from UK Finance
Bumper year for top-end land and estates market as HNWI hedge their bets against inflation
£150m worth of prime rural estates have already been sold in 2018, notes buying agent Jess Simpson, with grand affairs in the south of England commanding the greatest premiums...
Property prices stabilise as transaction numbers dwindle
National transaction volumes are 6% below the seasonal trend, reports LSL, while London has seen a 7% drop in deal numbers in the last year
Mapping Prime London
The latest data from LonRes shows the proportion of £1m+ sales and the average weekly rent across the capital's prime postcodes...
Carrington on Q2: Brexit, Purplebricks & PCL
With the arrival of Kit Malthouse as the seventeenth incumbent Minister of State for Housing since 1997, one could say that this time, at last, we have someone with real experience of local government…
Prices are picking up in Prime Central London
LonRes records the strongest annual growth in achieved prices since 2015, but transaction levels 'continue to be constrained by economic and political uncertainty'
Smaller-scale landlords are moving out of the market as tax changes bite
'The impact of recent and ongoing tax changes is clearly having a material impact on the Buy to Let sector', warns the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors, as rental stock levels drop again