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Property firms note surge in activity following the Budget
“It’s clear from our record-breaking traffic numbers that the Spring Budget has introduced buyers into the market who were not perhaps able to consider moving until now or who were waiting to hear what was going to happen to stamp duty,” says Rightmove.
PCL prices have ‘fallen back to Earth’ despite activity surge – Coutts
"Prime Central London looks cheap," the Queen's bank tells its HNW clients in its latest property market report.
‘Frenzied buyer activity’ breaks property market records
Buyer demand is "massively outpacing" the supply of homes for sale, says Rightmove, as the national average asking price surges up by more than 2% in a single month.
Housing market activity ‘continues at strong pace’, but the longer-term outlook is ‘increasingly negative’ – RICS
Surveyors across the UK reported a continued rise in demand, supply, prices and agreed sales in September - but the consensus is that things will turn in the next 12 months...
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Knight Frank creates new UK board
Property agency assembles top-level team to drive long-term growth & strengthen operations.
Almacantar reports ‘landmark’ sale at The Bryanston
Buyers have splashed almost £55mn on apartments at the developer's super-prime West End projects in recent months.
In Pictures: £13.5mn RH collaboration unveiled at The Whiteley
American super-brand curates 4,000 sq ft duplex at luxury west London scheme in UK first.
In Pictures: Grand Nine Elms duplex apartment seeks £32mn
HBA Residential has designed interiors for an extraordinary ground-level super-prime home in Excel Winner's Thames City development.
London Square adds big Wimbledon site to expanding portfolio
Latest SW London deal marks the developer’s fifteenth acquisition since late 2023, and third major move this year.
Big-brand luxury property agency rolls into the Cotswolds
The region's property market makes for 'fertile ground' as the wealth corridor expands, says United Kingdom Sotheby’s International Realty.
Agency bags trio of trophy listings in St George’s Hill
Savills Weybridge's new instructions include one of only a handful of original W.G. Tarrant houses on the exclusive private estate.
Savills & Knight Frank alumni acquire Jackson-Stops Exeter
Seasoned agents SJ Bingham-Chick & Tom Bedford have bought the business from longstanding director Richard Addington.
D&G ‘on a mission’ to recruit 50 new self-employed brokers this year
James Evans' estate agency is looking for 'entrepreneurial individuals keen to bring Selling Sunset or Love It or List It vibes to their local neighbourhoods.'
Grade I listed Kent mansion hits the market at £23.5mn
The sale of Holwood House represents the 'first real test of the spring market', say agents.
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