Mortgage market ‘knocks it out of the park’ with biggest February since 2008

Harrods Estates has signed an agency-wide partnership with Chinese mega-portal Juwai.com, as new figures are released on the scale of Chinese investment into the capital's property market.

The Council of Mortgage Lenders estimates that gross mortgage lending reached £19.9bn in December. That's is 3% lower than November's £20.5bn, but 23% higher than December 2014's £16.2 bn.

When it comes to investing in the capital's property market, the term 'safe' has taken on a very different meaning in recent years;