Property Market News
Cutting SDLT could bring 130,000 more homes to market each year – Purplebricks
Estate agency urges the Prime Minister to follow through on Stamp Duty reform proposals
London’s property market ‘has bottomed out’, but an ‘exodus of cash buyers’ has quelled price inflation in southern cities
A pick-up in activity and a return to positive annual price growth in London "isn’t a precursor to price rises,” says Zoopla, “but we do expect sales volumes to start rising once again”
Neighbourhood Swatch: Assessing London’s patchwork property market
CBRE has gone borough by borough to chart London's top-performing neighbourhoods for a realm of property and lifestyle factors
Brexit uncertainty continues to impact architects
RIBA's Future Trends Workload Index sank to its second-lowest point of the year in August
OnTheMarket warns investors of slow agent take-up; cuts contract prices
"Due to market conditions, conversions have occurred at a slower rate than originally planned," says property portal, "with fewer having been to long-term, full-tariff contracts"
Irish property price inflation stalls as supply rises & Brexit looms
It's the the first time since early 2013 that average house prices in Dublin have fallen on an annual basis
The Million Pound Street Drop: The number of £1m+ addresses in the UK has fallen by 10% in the last year
There are now 15,484 streets with an average property price in excess of £1m, says Zoopla; 1,805 fewer than the 17,289 recorded at the same time last year.
‘Best Scottish housing market since the financial crisis’ as £1m+ deals fly
More £1m+ residential deals have gone through in Scotland in the last 12 months than in any year since 2008, says Savills
Summer’s ‘steady rather than spectacular’ market is ‘reassuring’ – Garrington
"It seems to have been a steady, rather than spectacular summer as far as the UK property market is concerned," reports buying agency Garrington in its September market update.
Autumn sales market bounce ‘could be missed altogether’ as buyers continue to hesitate
Asking prices fail to rise in September for the first time in eight years, reports Rightmove
‘Ominous’ signs for the lettings market as the ‘never-ending Brexit saga’ curbs sales – RICS
There's a "consistent imbalance" between tenant demand and rental supply, warn surveyors, while Brexit-based uncertainty is continuing to thwart activity in the sales market
Is now the right time to buy in London?
There's been "no crash, no fire sales and no mass exodus from London", despite three years of catastrophising by "so-called 'experts'", writes Islay Robinson, CEO of global mortgage firm Enness.