Property Market News

Record levels of traffic and enquiries were recorded on the major property portals following the Chancellor's SDLT tax cut announcement.

Revised five-year forecasts suggest more muted price inflation in Prime Central London, following the Covid-19 crisis.

Sales activity has "rallied noticeably" since May, report surveyors.

It'll come as no surprise that most estate agents and property developers are quite delighted with the temporary raising of the Stamp Duty threshold to £500k, as announced by the Chancellor in a "mini…

Fine & Country and Dataloft have analysed what's happening at the top of the property market, number-crunching movements in the top 5% of sales.

"I can’t see there being a mass exodus from the capital but it does look set to be much more challenging for sellers of more expensive properties in zone 1 and parts of zone 2 who are looking to sell…

“People are sensing an opportunity now" in the prime country house market, says Knight Frank's Edward Rook.

A survey by Zoopla has revealed that one in seven (14%) of those who were planning to move home before the pandemic hit have cancelled or paused those plans for more than a year.

Knight Frank reports that "after an initial burst of demand following the re-opening of the market on 13 May, the number of new sellers has risen and the ratio between supply and demand has normalised.

"We can see the first green shoots of a recovery," writes James Liffen of Mishcon de Reya as he takes stock of the property sector's current situation, "but think it may be some time before the prime and…

NAEA members managed to agree an average of five sales per branch in May.

"Early trading indicators in England are encouraging and we expect a similar bounce back in Wales and Scotland," says Countrywide's Board ahead of the Plc's AGM.