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10% more property sales were agreed in 2020 than in 2019
The sales market has seen a busy start to the year, although asking prices have dipped in the last month as vendors price competitively.
New sales head at Savills Salisbury
James McKillop returns to the agency after almost nine years with Knight Frank.
Weekly Showcase: Ten featured prime resi listings
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Industry backs digital identity scheme to speed up home sales
Etive Technologies secures Innovate UK grant to improve identity verification in the resi buying and selling process; ‘very real change will speed up the process and add increased certainty to the transaction’, say…
Inside No.1 Palace Street: Northacre reveals two show apartments opposite Buckingham Palace
In Pictures: PrimeResi takes a tour of the two contrasting marketing units at one of London's most-anticipated luxury developments.
Buyers & sellers ‘remain largely undeterred’ by lockdown, but half do not feel safe on physical viewings
A third national lockdown has deterred just 14% of buyers and sellers from a purchase or sale in 2021, according to a survey of over 10,000 people, with 81% planning to carry on as they planned.
£15m Upper Phillimore Gardens shell sells
Rare renovation project tucked away on one of London's most coveted turnings.
Developer looks to turn TikTok views into sales
Avanton continues US-style marketing drive for £130m scheme in Battersea.
Planning clampdown stamps out PCL’s mega-basement boom
New figures show a massive decline in basement-related applications across RBKC & Westminster since the introduction of stringent rules designed to prevent over-development.
What has Brexit done to house prices?
The pace of property price inflation in the UK has slowed sharply since the EU Referendum. 14% growth since 2016 compares to 28% - double the rate - in the equivalent time period prior to the vote
Savills reports ‘an extraordinary rebound’ in prime resi activity
"The volume of activity in prime residential markets [outside London] for [2020] as a whole was the strongest since before the global financial crisis," says Savills.
‘Sales market momentum will fade further in coming months,’ warns the RICS
Housing market activity continues to rise but momentum is easing, according to the latest survey of Chartered Surveyors.