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Property markets in most prime global cities continue to run hot, reports Knight Frank.

“We are not on the verge of the sort of dramatic double-digit bounce-back in prices,” says Tom Bill, head of UK residential research at Knight Frank.

Greenfield development land values picked up by 3.9% in Q3, says Savills, while urban sites increased by 2.2%.

The pace of country house price growth appears to be slowing - but demand continues to outpace supply by some margin.

The latest official UK House Price Index tells of 10.6% inflation in the year to August.

Every region and market sector saw asking prices rise to a record high last month, reports Rightmove; it's the first "full house" since 2007.

Scotland's top-end property prices have climbed by an average of 5.9% in the last year, with Edinburgh seeing 8.5% growth, according to Knight Frank's analysis.