Forecasts

Property portal predicts a buyers' market across the UK next year, with more transactions and 4% growth for asking prices.

Estate agency expects property values across London and the UK to rise by 3.0-3.5% next year, while the capital's rental market undergoes 'a period of adjustment'.

But rental growth is likely to be much slower across Prime London and Regions in the next five years than in the five years just past.

Top-end residential markets are set to under-perform mainstream UK housing, says top consultancy.

Property portal expects UK house prices to increase by 2.5% in 2025 and by 7.5% over the next three years.

But Tom Bill's team has upgraded its outlook for prime London property price growth over the next five years.

But London's rental market has hit an 'affordability ceiling', so is on track for lower growth than other parts of the country.

Bullish forecast comes despite a 'larger-than-normal seasonal slowdown in pricing as we head towards Christmas'.

'The mood of the housing market has shifted from trepidation to cautious optimism,' says national estate agency - but Hamptons' longer-term outlook is less bullish than other property market forecasts.

'With the October Budget behind us, the outlook for both house prices and rents remains positive,' says JLL in its latest property market forecasts.

Savills has issued fresh forecasts for the mainstream housing market, with an optimistic outlook for less turbulent times ahead.

A quarter of non-doms with on-shore trusts are likely to migrate out of Britain, suggest experts, plus 12% of non-doms without trusts.