Property transactions to plummet by 38% this year, predicts Knight Frank, but PCL prices are set to surge in 2021
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Knight Frank predicts ‘rising momentum across all property markets’, with PCL set to out-perform
Prime Central London property prices are likely to rise by 18% over the next five years, forecasts Knight Frank, out-performing mainstream markets.
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A looming "shortfall in incomes has a tremendous potential to disrupt the UK’s housing markets", warns the Centre for Economics & Business Research.
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‘Certainty will return to the UK housing market’, predicts JLL in an upbeat set of forecasts
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