Market Index

Official numbers suggest a 104% year-on-year spike in residential sales in the run-up to the end of the Stamp Duty 'holiday'.

A lumpy sales market in the capital as deal numbers dwindle following a late-March surge.

Fresh property portal data indicate house price growth is losing momentum, but buying & selling activity remains higher than last year.

Tenant demand has eased but 'the rental market is still really busy,' says Rightmove.

Foxtons reports a 14% rise in new rental instructions from February to March, and an 11% increase in prospective tenants.

A predictable holiday slump in agreed sales & new instructions for Easter.

After surging upward for most of the last three years, the pace of rental growth has been running below wider consumer price inflation for the last five months.

Stock is piling up in Prime London's property market, as agents list more homes for sale than are being bought.

Rightmove points to 'resilient activity' as the cost of buying a home jumps.

'You can sell but only if you are prepared to be pragmatic,' advises James Cleland of Knight Frank, despite potential boosts to the market from sunnier weather & Trump's trade war.

Savills had six prospective tenants for every London rental property on its books in March.

'The initial rush to complete sales before the April 1 deadline notably subdued towards the latter end of March,' report surveyors.