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Sales activity reaches six year high, despite no Spring supply bounce – RICS
Surveyors are whooping as Q1 saw the average number of houses sold per chartered surveyor clamber to its highest level in six years, according to the RICS.
Buyers’ Summer forecast as stock returns
Increased stock levels will create buyer’s market this summer, according to buying agency The Buying Agents.
Transaction levels in PCL resale market fall by 10%
Knightsbridge-based agency W.A.Ellis has reported transaction levels in the second-hand PCL market were down by 10% in Q1, compared with the same period last year.
Leisure Hunt: Appetite returns for world’s prime boltholes
2013 marked a turning point for many prime second home markets around the globe, according to the latest research from Savills.
Wrong Side of the Tax: How SDLT reshaped London’s prime property market
Believe it or not, it's been two whole years since the stamp duty levied on properties over £2m was ramped up to the eye-watering 7% mark.
London’s market becomes ‘less abnormal’ as the ripple returns
London's property market is becoming 'less abnormal' says Knight Frank, as prime central prices rise at a more moderate level, and are out-performed by the mainstream market and prime fringes as the ripple…
Prime Scottish prices rise as vendors wait it out
The first quarter of 2014 has seen another significant boost for Scotland's prime property market.
Knight Frank has recorded a 1.
Rare portfolio in The Knightsbridge hits the market
A highly-prized portfolio of six flats in one of London's most expensive apartment blocks has just hit the open market.
Prime London prices 68% higher than post-Lehman low; Crimean instability drives new demand
Crimean turbulence has "underlined how uncertainty abroad has the potential to affect sentiment in the prime central London market," says Knight Frank in its latest market update.
‘Unprecedented demand’ for Fulham family homes drives off-plan sales for London Square
Over half - 23 of 40 - of London Square's units in its Farm Lane development have already been sold off-plan, leading the developer to comment on the "unprecedented demand" for family homes in Fulham as…
Edinburgh’s property prices rise for fourth consecutive quarter, but prime under-performs
"The question mark over whether Scotland will remain part of the UK following the Referendum in September 2014 does not seem to be having an impact on buyers," says Knight Frank, as Edinburgh's property…
JLL opens flagship resi office in Kensington
Global property behemoth JLL has set up a dedicated resi sales and lettings office in W8.
Thomas Middleditch