Miscellanea
Ranked: Rightmove’s most searched for locations & most viewed homes in 2025
Property portal's end-of-year round-up reveals home-buyer trends & attention-grabbing listings.
2025’s most viewed homes & most popular keyword searches: Zoopla’s Year in Review
Property portal heralds an 'optimistic end to the year' and predicts a busy start to 2026.
Ranked: Britain’s ‘happiest places to live’ in 2025
North Yorkshire enclave takes the top spot for the first time, followed by two London enclaves.
Six Trends: On wealth mobility & global super-prime markets in 2025
UK buying agency Garrington highlights some key patterns & demographic shifts for luxury property agents targeting the world's super-rich.
Ranked: Best places to live near top-performing state schools
'Access to high-quality state education often comes with a house price premium,' says Savills.
Book Now: Ask the Experts – Everything you need to know about Customer Due Diligence
Latest in FCS Compliance's series of free webinars for property pros will focus on key CDD issues, including verifying complex ownership.
FT: End of The Line – how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled
The Financial Times employs remarkable visualisations to tell a story about Mohammed bin Salman's extraordinary plan for a high-rise city in the desert.
Natural England sets out ‘building better places’ strategy
DEFRA-sponsored organisation wants to 'make nature-based solutions a part of early planning' for property developments.
Land Registry launches ‘ambitious new strategy’ to ‘unlock a faster, less stressful property market’
England & Wales's official property database has set out long-term priorities as it pursues 'the digital transformation of the property market.'
New Yorkers elect left-leaning Mayor promising housing & tax reform
Zohran Mamdani wants to freeze rental prices & raise taxes on high-earners in the Big Apple.
Property sector among hardest hit as UK business distress surges
The number of real estate & property services firms in ‘significant’ financial distress rose by nearly a third in Q3, reports insolvency firm.
London letting agency under fire over Chancellor’s rental mis-step
Rachel Reeves 'had not been made aware of the licensing requirement' when she rented-out her home in Southwark via a letting agency.