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Mortgage approvals jump 13%
Net mortgage lending reached an all-time high in March.
New Business Realities: Buying agent Richard Winter on moving out of the corporate life
After three decades in the corporate world, former Savills director Richard Winter took the plunge and started his own buying agency last year, covering the prime Surrey market.
Planning reform to be given key billing in the Queen’s Speech
Government to push ahead with "radical" reforms to create "a whole new planning system for England."
Supply squeeze is a ‘short-term distortion’
Bumpy exit from the pandemic tells us very little about how the property market is going to perform over the next 12 months, says Knight Frank.
Green light for Earls Court’s Old Brompton Road scheme
RBKC has approved 51 new homes opposite West Brompton Station as part of the Earls Court redevelopment.
London buying agency AWS expands
Jake Irwin-Brown has joined Alex Woodleigh-Smith's prime property acquisition firm, having previously worked at Aykroyd & Co, Harrods Estates and Wetherell.
Stamp Duty data shows surge in £500k+ property sales
Just over a third (36%) of residential transactions were liable for SDLT in the opening three months of this year, compared to two-thirds (67%) in the same period in 2020.
Ranked: Britain’s property price inflation hotspots
Rightmove has done some more analysis of the "frenetic" housing market, identifying which locations have seen the highest rates of price growth in the last year, and revealing that around a quarter of…
Ranked: Britain’s best & worst locations for ‘Place Satisfaction’
People living in towns and cities tend to be more satisfied with their location than people living in rural areas, according to a major new study...
Country Strife: Savills’ Philip Eddell on avoiding trouble in paradise
With demand continuing to surge in the UK’s country property market, the head of Savills’ London & Country House Consultancy advises UHNW owners to address seven key themes to make sure their mansion…
New York & London: The race to recover
As London and New York begin to look beyond the pandemic, luxury property insiders from both sides of the Atlantic weigh in on what may be in store for our cities and their property markets in the coming…
How much space does $10k rent in prime global cities?
Hong Kong is still the most expensive city in the world to rent a luxury property, says Knight Frank, despite the pandemic and political headwinds.