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Speedy home-sales pick up as Stamp Duty holiday boosts the market
One in seven homes listed since the Stamp Duty holiday was announced in July sold within a week, says Rightmove, up from one in ten during the same time last year.
Offers accepted hit an all-time high in London during August
Another report on the post-lockdown Summer buying flurry, as Knight Frank reports "few signs of the high levels of demand we’re been experiencing since the market reopened abating."
More change at Propertymark as Chair Hamer stands down
Propertymark's Executive Chairman Christopher Hamer is following bosses of the NAEA and ARLA out the door.
Keller Williams enters 50th international market
'World’s largest real estate technology franchise' expands its presence in the Caribbean and South America; now has 240 market centres outside of the US and Canada.
Welsh castle & Balham townhouse scheme to star in bumper Allsop sale
295 lots to feature in auctioneer's September event, with 14 guided above £1m.
‘Covid-19 has increased the desire to move home, with more space the key driver’ for prime buyers
The latest Savills buyer survey reveals "a greater urgency in the desire to move home", allowing the top-end estate agency to predict that the current surge in buying activity will continue beyond the…
Slim pickings for buyers as lenders cull mortgage products
A typical buyer with a 10% deposit currently has a limited choice of around 60 mortgage products, according to Moneyfacts - down from 779 at the start of March.
St William launches marketing suite & latest batch of units at King’s Road Park
Developer's 'flagship' scheme is transforming the last major site in the South Fulham Riverside Regeneration Area.
Mapped: London’s top-selling prime & super-prime postcodes so far this year
1,348 residential property sales went through above £1m in London in the first half of this year, according to some analysis by Enness.
Developers stumping up cash to keep subcontractors afloat
Trend for providing financial assistance to ensure work can continue has become increasingly widespread during the Coronavirus crisis, reports Boodle Hatfield...
Studio Indigo bags planning for Kensington townhouse project
Design firm has spent nearly a year achieving consent to restore and rework the Grade II listed property, which has lain untouched since the 1930s.
Listen: Buying & selling agents discuss market realities in 2020
SP Property Group’s Jo Eccles & Knight Frank’s Tim Hyatt exchange insights in prime resi-focused podcast...