Sales
Manchester, Birmingham & Edinburgh tipped for 20-30% price surge
Regional cities have lots of room for growth over the next four years, says Hometrack, while questions surround the "sustainability" of pricing in the capital...
£1m+ sales volumes ‘surprisingly robust’
A million-pound-plus home was sold every 27 minutes across the UK last year, reports Savills
The Chiltern Firehouse Effect? It’s been more of a slow burn in Marylebone…
Andre Balazs' A-list establishment is only part of the reason why Marylebone is now outperforming all other areas of Prime Central London, notes Knight Frank...
Store Credit: How Harrods influences the Knightsbridge property market
Analysis looks into the 'Harrods Effect', finding that stable pricing and significant premiums surround the famous department store...
Deal numbers hold steady in January
Transaction volumes were 0.1% lower in January compared to the same month last year
The bottom of the prime resi market in London may have passed six months ago
'They don’t ring a bell when sentiments change from a Bear to Bull market, but if they did, the sound would be deafening!'
Motivation, Motivation, Motivation: Understanding the vendors that need to sell
Analysis of recent transactions prompts buying agency to propose an addition to the three D's...
‘Cautious optimism’ returns to the market as property portal reports a start-of-year flurry
Asking prices, new listings and website traffic are all up, says Rightmove - but the traditional January asking price bump is still well below the ten-year average
The problem with using £psf to analyse development opportunities
Developers need to understand that we are in a very different market now, says Alexander Lewis...
Buying in London for less than five years ‘doesn’t warrant the transaction costs’
HNWIs now seeing renting as a more commercial alternative, says buying agency
Conveyancing volumes drop for the first time since 2011
Conveyancing volumes fell by 12% last year, from 1,077,959 in 2016 to 952,966 in 2017. It's the first annual drop in workloads since 2011, says Search Acumen, "reflecting a subdued property market".
Defining the key value drivers in property; why you shouldn’t mistake a good spec for a good scheme
The most valuable scheme to have ever sold in London had no services and a basic but elegant specification - but it offered space and scenery par excellence, says Alexander Lewis...