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‘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...
New Presidents at NAEA & ARLA as Propertymark gears up for estate agency regulation
Kirsty Finney is now in charge at the NAEA; Angela Davey has taken the helm at the ARLA.
Mapped: Britain’s hottest property sales markets
375 of the 378 local authorities across the UK saw more agreed sales this Summer than last, says Savills, with both London's commuter zone and more rural locations seeing sharp rises in property market…
Average house prices nudged up by 0.3% in May – UK HPI
The average UK house price increased by 2.9% over the year to May 2020, up from 2.7% in April, according to the latest official UK HPI update.
Agents are marketing their best instructions quietly to avoid being ‘inundated’, reports buying agency
Selling firms are aiming to attract only the 'hottest' purchasers, says Stacks, as demand continues to soar...
Entire private valley in the Lake District goes up for sale at £2m
The 292-acre Dowthwaite Head, north of Ullswater, comes complete with two farmhouses, a dilapidated cottage and an array of traditional farm buildings.