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UK property prices drop by 0.8% in a month, driven by a Southern slowdown
The UK's average house price fell by 0.8% between December 2018 and January 2019, according to the latest official UK HPI, leaving the annual rate of growth at its lowest level since 2013.
Lodha collaborates with designer Pablo Reinoso at Lincoln Square
Acclaimed Franco-Argentinean artist designs 'sculptural archway' for luxury developer's new scheme in London's legal land
Dubai developer is ‘looking aggressively’ for another major prime London development project
Damac's Chairman says the firm is 'looking aggressively' to spend 'up to £500m' on a second prime London resi project.
Rewards & Attitudes Survey 2019: How the UK property sector pays
The 20th annual RICS & Macdonald & Co Rewards & Attitudes Survey polled nearly 3,500 UK property professionals on their rewards and motivations, views on market sentiment and talent management issues;
Firstport swoops on Barratt London’s property management arm
BRAM acquired by the UK's biggest resi property manager
Report calls for a ‘public interest test’ on Scottish estate sales to tackle ‘the socially corrosive effects of land monopoly’
Scotland's 'land monopoly' is 'socially corrosive', argues a major new report from the Scottish Land Commission, as it calls for a new 'public interest test' on large-scale land deals.
Portal valuation leads jump by over a third
Rising new business leads could indicate pent-up supply in the sales market.
Fine & Country moves into York
Estate agency opens its first branch in the historic Yorkshire city, targeting high-value homes in the area.
These four years saw average house prices double within five years
The average value of a home rocketed by 100% within five years of 1974, 1980, 1989 and 2004; it took 16 years for the same growth to be recorded to the end of 2018.
Mixed picture for house prices across England & Wales as market conditions remain ‘challenging’
Annual change currently at -0.5%, reports LSL & Acadata, after marginal monthly rise; transactions slip to 59,100, marking the lowest February figure since 2015
MPs set out blueprint for leasehold reform
HCLG Committee 'demolishes' the current system with a series of wide-ranging recommendations, including a wholesale shift to commonhold ownership and a lid on ground rents
12% of HNWIs ‘have been turned down for a mortgage’ in the last ten years
New research by Butterfield Mortgages lambasts 'tick box' methods of high street lenders