Property Market News

Property portal Rightmove has recorded its busiest ever start to a new year, with visits to the site up 30% compared to the same period in 2020.

Estate agency Benham & Reeves has ranked which prime London areas and price brackets are seeing the highest levels of buyer demand.

The annual rate of property price inflation across global cities increased from 4.1% in Q2 to 4.7% in Q3, according to the latest index from Knight Frank.

Dexters plans to open six new estate agency branches in London this year, as it forecasts strong growth in both prime sales and lettings markets.

Savills, Knight Frank and Hamptons have all reported a booming country house market.

Londoners spent more on property outside of the capital in 2020 than in any year since 2007 reports Hamptons, as the number of "London leavers" reached 73,950.

Zoopla is predicting that the UK's annual rate of property price inflation will slow to just 1% next year. Here the firm explains some of the thinking behind that figure...

Prime Outer London has seen less significant price drops than central areas, reports Knight Frank.

Tax changes and the withdrawal of support measures mean the post-Covid ‘normal’ will only begin to emerge later next year, writes Knight Frank's Head of UK Residential Research.

Zoopla reports a continuing surge of house-buying activity, particularly in higher price brackets.

The official house price index indicates that property prices are rising at the fastest rate since 2016. In London, however, the average property value dropped by 1.2% in October.

"People are offering the asking price after walking through the door," says island estate agency Wilsons Knight Frank.