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From Triple Whammy to Stagnation: A review of the PCL property market
Prime Central London estate agency Rokstone reviews recent market trends, and makes a few predictions for the year(s) ahead
Taking stock and looking ahead
Black Brick's Camilla Dell reflects on an eventful year
UK house prices to nudge up by 2% next year, but London likely to fall – Reuters
London property prices to dip by 0.5% in 2017, according to a poll of economists, estate agents and brokers
Government’s ‘War on Landlords’ sees buy-to-let sales collapse
Buy-to-let transactions have fallen by 64% in the last 12 months
Lucian Cook’s six key themes for the resi property sector in 2017 and beyond
"Expect the unexpected" says Savills, but "life in the property world goes on" despite 2016's series of seismic shocks
London property’s ‘downward momentum looks to have eased significantly’ – RICS
Supply of available property for sale continues to stagnate across the country
They don’t ring a bell at the bottom of the cycle, but if they did, the sound would be deafening
'Excess supply will be slowly absorbed and this could possibly herald the low point in the market, with only an upward direction in values as the next predictable change'
PCL transaction volumes stabilise as vendors get real
Levels still 25% down on the same period last year
Super-prime new-build sales plummet
Analysis of Land Registry data suggests just nine £5m+ new-build properties were sold between May and October
‘Unprecedented slowdown’ for Prime Central London property – Cluttons
Five-year property price inflation in PCL to "touch 7.7%, down sharply on the 35.7% rise recorded between 2011 and 2016"
Parts of prime London ‘close to the bottom’ after prices fall 7% in a year
Knight Frank releases UK and prime London forecasts
FORECAST: ‘Remarkably resilient’ property market to see price growth slow to 6.5% in 2017 – Chestertons
Agency's five-year predictions indicate that prime London is about to pick up again