Location: South West
Prices carry on up but regulators ‘need to look beyond London’
Property prices in England and Wales rose by 1.5% in April to take the annual increase to 6.7%, according to the latest from the Land Registry.
Property: Boom or Bust? – ERC Debate 2014
The second annual Economic Research Council (ERC) debate will tackle the property market, asking three of the most seasoned property pundits to weigh in on what the future holds for the UK and London markets.
Salcombe named UK’s most expensive seaside town as average price breaches £600k
The sailing and Sloane mecca of Salcombe in South Devon has topped a rundown of Britain's most expensive seaside towns, with an average house price of £615,344.
The UK’s Real Property Hotspots: Spa towns steam ahead of the rest of the market
Canny investors who put their money in the UK's Spa towns have cleaned up in more ways than one, according to Knight Frank.
House prices are ‘fully valued on a long-term basis’ – Coutts
Parts of the UK's property market are 'fully valued' says Coutts, as it forecasts a dip in transactions 'to a more normal level of activity' and flags up a slowdown in London's £10m+ prices.
Prime Property of the Week: Pony Up
The Manton Estate, Wiltshire
£26m (OIEO)
Case Study: Using video to market a trophy instruction
Can a set of snaps and some pithy paragraphs ever really do justice to a super-prime scheme?
Prime Property of the Week: Paradise Reduced
Redlap, Devon
£5m
Some people think the best instructions are the new ones. They're so wrong. Pros keep a beady eye on price drops, and they don't come much bigger than this.
Country property goes on show in Chelsea
John D Wood is bringing its country network to town just in time for the Chelsea Flower Show, hosting a country property exhibition at the Sloane Club in SW3 on 23rd May.
If a property was worth £1m in 2007…
By Savills' reckoning, values in the inner commuter zone are now at least back to their 2007 peak, and those in the outer commuter zones aren't far off.
Prime urban prices rising twice as fast as rural homes’
Prime country houses prices rose, on average, by 1.9% in the first three months of the year, says Knight Frank, taking the annual increase to +4.5%.
First Impressionists: The value of art in property
Anyone who has the money can buy a plane, car or beautifully crafted clothes. Art is individual, says Joe Burns, and it plays a key role in selling today's prime and super-prime properties...