Company Tag: Benham & Reeves

Our panel of buying agents, estate agents, housebuilders and architects weigh-in on the Chancellor's latest announcements, including cutting VAT on energy-efficient home improvements.

International buyers owned c.£6bn more London property in 2021 than in 2020, according to some new analysis of Land Registry data.

Two weeks on, we asked prime property insiders - including those who specialise in Russian clients - about what effect anti-war sanctions are really having on the London property market, and how their…

3.3% of private homes in London changed hands in a 12 month periods, with eight boroughs seeing more than one in every 25 homes sell.

Benham and Reeves has tracked which London locations have the highest proportion of open-market property listings that have been marked as sold or under offer.

Property price growth of around 5% is "a realistic benchmark" across the capital in 2022, says the chief of 17-branch London estate agency Benham & Reeves, while "the return of the prime London market…

"We can say with confidence that the London rental market decline is now firmly behind us," declares the boss of estate agency Benham & Reeves.

"This Budget could be regarded as a reprieve for the housing industry," says one commentator, while others bemoan an "underwhelming" speech...

The capital's three Royal Boroughs - Kensington & Chelsea, Kingston and Greenwich - have underperformed Greater London's average property price growth over the last five years.

A London estate agency has estimated that nearly 400,000 residential transactions across the UK have been hit with a down valuation in the last year - including 59% of transactions in the capital.

“The outlook for the super-prime London market remains fairly positive at present," says Benham and Reeves boss Marc von Grundherr.

"We expect to see house prices along the Crossrail route continue to climb as its launch approaches," says Marc von Grundherr of Benham and Reeves.