Proportion of overseas buyers in PCL falls below 50%

Before the pandemic, only around one in 20 Chinese and Hong Kong home-buyers used to look for a home in England's Home Counties; now it's nearer one in five, according to a new study.

"All the activity we are currently seeing gives us every confidence about the outlook for the Prime Central London property market," says Dexters. But others are less bullish.

The capital's three-year 'repricing process' is coming to an end, says Zoopla's top analyst Richard Donnell - but London's slowdown has now rippled out to higher-value markets across Southern England…