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Property price discounts hit four-year low
Just 27% of properties - and 15% in London - listed on Zoopla have had their asking price reduced, which the portal says is the lowest level of price cuts in four years.
Required Reading: How to extend a lease or buy a freehold
John D Wood's Head of Valuation James Wyatt talks us through the complicated business of safeguarding the future value of a property...
Offers double up but prime London cooling for the Budget countdown
The number of offers received last month was nearly twice as high as in February last year, according to the latest from Douglas & Gordon, but that's "almost certainly a product of multiple bidding" in…
Chelsea, Knightsbridge & Kensington transaction levels up 49%
It sounds like February was a pretty lively one in the PCL sales market; W.A.
Knight Frank expands in Belgravia
If yesterday belonged to JLL, it's all about Knight Frank today.
The firm's Belgravia sales team has opened the doors to some shiny new offices on the corner of Chester Square and Lower Belgrave Street.
Domestic purchasers dominate London’s Midtown market – CBRE
CBRE Residential (Midtown) - or EA Shaw as it used to be known - turned in a bumper end to the year by all accounts, reporting a 26% year-on-year boost in average values and a near-tripling in the total…
90% of househunters won’t compromise on location – Rightmove
Nine out of ten potential buyers "say they are not willing to compromise on their chosen location" according to Rightmove, despite 79% thinking that house prices are on the up over the next 12 months.
“Only 15%” of London’s new homes go to overseas buyers – BPF
Going by recent headlines, you'd be forgiven for thinking that nearly all of London's new-builds were being hoovered up by foreign investors.
Notting Hill, Holland Park & Kensington in “rude health” as prices per square foot rocket
The housing market in the swankier parts of West London (W8, W11, W2, W10 and W14) remains in "rude health", according to the latest from local agent Crayson.
PCL sales transaction values hit another high note as Notting Hill & Kensington boom
The prime central London property market has been generating sales transaction values not seen since 2006, according to Strutt & Parker.
Property transactions rocket 30% in a year as market “bounces into 2014”
The number of homes sold last month was 29.9% higher than in January 2013, according to the latest numbers from HMRC.
Seasonally-adjusted transactions increased by 1.
Hackney Quick: 350 buyers queue up in East London
If you needed proof that the capital's property market was sizzling hot right now, how about 350 buyers queuing up outside an estate agency for the chance to buy an off-plan flat?
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