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The prime country house market has "come back to life" in 2013, according to Knight Frank, with a 0.8% uplift in Q3 marking the third consecutive quarter of price growth.

The last three months have been the best yet for Knight Frank's super-prime team, with more new buyers looking for £10m+ homes than ever before, and the average price of the top-end's top end climbing…

Less than a week after releasing its predictions for the next five years (+24% UK-wide if you missed it), Knight Frank has been updating us on last month's activity in the UK, prime and rental markets.

Another report has confirmed the escalation of demand for homes while stock levels continue to wallow.

Rightmove's November stats are out, with oodles of references to "asking" prices this time round.

Knight Frank's take on what will happen to property prices next year falls pretty much in the middle of what everyone else is saying, with property "substantially" out-gunning inflation: +7% for average…

 The number of properties with reduced asking prices has fallen "significantly" over the last couple of years, says Zoopla, from 40% in November 2011 to 31% this month.

The top-top end of the world's resi property market is calming down, growing more slowly in "new world" destinations as the "old world" takes the mantle for market growth on the back of perceived safe…

Next year's looking alright for the prime property market, thinks Strutt & Parker, but then it all goes a bit sorry. This year's +6% price performance in PCL will be followed by a 3.

Over a third of tenants actively looking to buy a home are doing so because they are anxious to pre-empt further price rises, says Cluttons in its latest tome.

What do you get when you cross a 20% rise in viewings with a 22% decline in available stock? Small but steady price rises, says Douglas & Gordon's Ed Mead in the firm's latest market update...

With some agents reporting eighteen buyers per instruction*, competition for "best in class" has never been tougher.