UK property transactions have been in ‘structural decline’ since 1989

After another year of churning out more graphs and analysis than everyone else combined, Knight Frank's research team picks its favourite prime property stats from the last 12 months...

Each residential property transaction adds an average of £9,559 to the UK economy, according to some sums by Knight Frank and the Home Builders Federation.

The number of UK properties worth at least £1m is expected "to more than triple between now and 2030", says Santander Mortgages, rising from under 500,000 today to over 1.6 million in 15 years' time.