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Deutsche Bank predicts a 20% slump for UK house prices
Everyone agrees that transaction volumes will plunge, but opinions are divided over the impact of the Coronavirus on property values...
Housebuilders begin to re-open construction sites; Government urges more
Taylor Wimpey, Vistry, Persimmon, Mace and Sir Robert McAlpine are all getting back to work - but Crest Nicholson and Redrow are maintaining Coronavirus closures.
£7.5m penthouse tucked away on Ennismore Gardens
Rare £5m-plus deal goes through in locked-down PCL
Keller Williams recruits 200th UK agent
Franchised property brokerage has ambitions to become the UK's biggest estate agency, says Russell Quirk.
UK property sector ‘centuries behind the US’, says ambitious London firm
Fitzrovia-based Montague Property is looking to make inroads into LA's luxury real estate market
Borrower secures £7.5m to refurb Belgravia mega-mansion
Property lender Century Capital overcomes market challenges to complete three chunky financing deals, involving a £30m renovation project in Belgravia, a £40m resi scheme in Kings Cross, and a £2m Chelsea…
Significant wealth tax hikes ‘should now be very firmly on the UK policy agenda’
"Low-hanging" wealth & property taxes could rise to cover Covid-19 costs, suggests a political economist Professor Richard Murphy.
Lettings market still moving says major London agency
Chestertons has agreed nearly 200 new tenancies and brought over 800 properties to market since the lockdown began
Dubai looks to delay Expo 2020
The Bureau International des Expositions has provisionally agreed to postpone the Expo 2020 event - which many in Dubai's property world hopes would drive a market recovery - to 2021.
Patrizia recruits UBS real estate boss as co-CEO
Thomas Wels has joined the European property investment giant, working alongside CEO Wolfgang Egger.
Historic England launches £2m emergency fund for hard-hit heritage specialists
The UK's heritage body extends a 'safety net' to small-scale operators affected by the pandemic
UK’s ‘frozen’ mortgage market begins to thaw
Lenders are raising LTVs, embracing desktop valuations and hunting for business, notes Knight Frank