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Uncertainty triggered by the new Labour Government and taxation concerns that await the 30th October Autumn Budget, have made many wealthy...

Annual house price growth remained at 2.7% ahead of the general election in June and was up just 0.5% on a...

Competition from Dubai and concerns about taxation under the new Labour Government have led the world’s super-rich to spend less and...

The General Election sparked an early summer slowdown for London’s prime housing market, research suggests. Analysis of the prime London housing market...

Lomond chief revenue officer John Ennis has joined the LonRes board as a non-executive director.  Ennis began his property career at Foxtons...

Gary Hersham, the founder of high-end London-focussed agency Beauchamp Estates, has been given a Lifetime Achievement Award by the property data...

Almost half of properties sold in prime central London (PCL) this year had a price reduction, research suggests. The latest data from...

Prime London property sales are taking longer to go through once under offer, which is creating a vicious cycle of fall-throughs,...

Average sold prices in prime London have returned to 2014 levels, research suggests. The latest market data from LonRes shows the prime...

The number of properties going under offer and new instructions are on the rise but this has yet to translate into...

Prime London prices fell 6% annually over 2023 but remain higher over the long term, LonRes claims. Analysis by the data company...

Achieved prime London sale prices fell by their largest levels since May 2021 last month, research suggests. Analysis by property data firm...

September has been ‘underwhelming’ for sales in prime London except for at the high-end £5m price point, figures suggest. Separate analysis from...

High mortgage rates and a lack of supply may mean the prime property market misses its typical seasonal boost in the...

A lack of urgency is limited the number of deals being agreed in prime London, LonRes has warned. New analysis from the...

LonRes has declared the prime London sales market to be “subdued” entering the second half of 2023. The data consultancy says that...

Rising mortgage rates and falling house prices don’t appear to be deterring the super-rich. A report from upmarket agency Beauchamp Estates suggests...

A standoff between sellers looking back at the 2021 and 2022 markets and buyers anticipating a weaker one is stifling the...

The prime London market appears to be lacking its usual spring buzz as buyers wait for prices to drop research suggests. Analysis...

The prime London property market appears to be finding a new level as sales, demand and prices slide, LonRes claims. Figures from...

The average discount to asking price on a sold property has almost doubled since last July as sellers are becoming ‘more...

Record numbers of prime properties were reduced in price last month as the pandemic boom is officially over, LonRes claims. Analysis by...

The top-end of the prime London market was a key driver for sales and new listings last year, LonRes figures suggest. Analysis...

It has been a mixed year for prime London markets, with some areas faring better than others when it comes to...

LonRes has launched a new mobile app for its subscribers to access listings while on the move and support agents while...

Fall-throughs are up and the number of properties under-offer in prime London areas has fallen below the pre-pandemic average for the...

There are signs of caution in the prime London market with an increase in sales falling through during August, new figures...

Prime London sales activity remains above pre-pandemic levels despite an annual drop, figures suggests. Analysis of the prime London market for the...

Prime London prices continue to hit record levels but actual sales vary depending on values. Figures from property data company LonRes for...

Houses continued to be the preferred property type for prime London buyers last month as flat sales continue to struggle amid...

London’s prime sales market is set to underperform compared with 2021 but is still looking to be better than the pre-pandemic...

LonRes has teamed up with compliance consultancy iCompli to launch a  range of services which they say will keep estate agents...

The estate agent known to his thousands of followers on Twitter as Mayfair Guru is predicting a ‘Roaring 2020s’ for the...

Cluttons has given its market snapshot for the sales market in central London - and it’s echoing the familiar story of...

The latest LonRes market snapshot for prime London carries mixed messages in terms of transaction volumes.  Overall, for the month of October,...

More buyers in prime central London are choosing larger properties - a function of the pandemic and the race for space. That’s...

Transaction volumes in prime London fell in July according to data from LonRes. Transactions were down 22 per cent compared with July...

Property consultancy LonRes says June was a record-breaking month for property sales in the capital, with exchanges up 140 per cent...

The founder and managing director of FCS Compliance, Jerry Walters, has died suddenly. A statement from the company says he died during...

In this week’s In Conversation Today, I am delighted to chat with Lucy Morton, Head of Residential Agency at JLL, about...

Data consultancy LonRes has given a typically upbeat assessment of the Prime London sales market - despite the effects of Coronavirus...

The anti-money laundering compliance service that is now part of data company LonRes is holding a training session for Rightmove member...

There’s been a surge in activity in London’s prime housing market according to LonRes. The property data company says that new instructions in March...

In this week’s In Conversation Today, I speak with Anthony Payne, Managing Director and co-founder of LonRes, a data and network...

An agency says it now sells more prime London properties than any of its rivals. Chestertons makes the claim based on figures...

The industry seems almost back to normal. Not the ‘new normal’ we spoke so much of a few weeks and months ago,...

The coronavirus pandemic has somewhat eclipsed Brexit this year – which is no mean feat. Cast your mind back to pre-Covid...

Over a fifth of key businesses say they do not trust any element at all of automated anti-money laundering checks and...

New instructions almost doubled across prime areas of London in September compared to the same period a year ago, while the...

How prime London has changed. In 2002 work began on The Knightsbridge. Located within a stone’s throw of Harrods and a near-neighbour...

London estate agency Benham & Reeves says there’s been a sharp fall-off in demand for ultra-expensive homes in prime suburbs of...

One of prime central London’s most respected estate agencies is warning that it could take until spring 2021 for the luxury...

The lightbulb moment for LonRes was born out of sheer frustration. I’d just missed out on a deal and the postman...

Figures released this morning by data firm LonRes provide the latest evidence of a so-called Boris Bounce with the market improving...

Winkworth says the central London market has picked up from its lows of a year or more ago, but warns that...

Stories with good news about the prime central London market seem few and far between but the latest figures from B2B...

London-focussed business-to-business deal data service LonRes has acquired an anti-money laundering compliance consultancy specialising in residential and commercial property. Financial Crime Services,...

Prime London subscription-based property platform LonRes has launched an off-market service for its subscribers. It says that as transactions across prime London...

Despite optimistic reports on prime London’s housing performance from some sources in recent weeks, figures from subscription service LonRes paint a...

Subscription-based business-to-business prime London platform LonRes has launched a new service for retained agents.   The Retained Agent Buyer Alert enables buying agents...

New data from respected property consultancy LonRes shows that prices in prime central London fell 9.7 per cent in the 12...

There’s anger in the industry over an article in The Times which accused agents of overvaluing properties - although why this was happening...

Knight Frank says the number of exchanges in Prime Central London in the year to the end of February slumped 14...

New data from LonRes shows that prices of homes in three key prime areas of London tumbled 5.7 per cent last...

The LonRes data consultancy that monitors transactions right across prime central London says Brexit is the single biggest factor impacting the...

The Advertising Standards Authority has banned an advertisement for a new development in London after complaints over claims about the yields...

The chairman of LonRes says online estate agents have only a one per cent share of the market in prime central...

LonRes says transactions in prime locations in London dropped another six per cent when the second quarter of 2018 is compared...

Average prices dropped another 1.1 per cent in prime central London in the year to March according to new figures released...

Garrington Property Finders says some two-thirds of homes in two high-value parts of prime central London have been on sale for...

Being a leading world-class city comes at a price – they are the most expensive for occupiers and the most lucrative...

LonRes has launched a new product which it says helps developers and agents ensure maximum exposure to previously untapped buyers. A new...

Theresa May’s call for a snap general election on June 8 took many by surprise. But estate agents have been broadly...

Almost half the agents in London surveyed by LonRes say that 10 per cent or more of their vendor clients intend...

Sales in Prime Central London were down 21 per cent in the year to December according to investment consultancy London Central...

Agents who subscribe to LonRes are being offered a personalised report builder offering sales and lettings data at postcode level, and...

Sales of homes in prime central London improved towards the end of 2016 says Savills - but only after prices were...

Prominent buying agent, TV housing market commentator and hard-core tweeter Henry Pryor has accused traditional estate agents of becoming “fat and...

Strutt & Parker says both the volume of sales and the sum of the selling prices of homes in Prime Central London...

Figures from London data consultancy Lonres show that since the referendum the average price cut on homes across most of central...

One of the most respected buying agencies in the country, Property Vision, says the estate agency industry's turnover is down not because of...

New data from LonRes shows that transaction volumes across the capital’s prime markets tumbled 41 per cent in the second quarter...

Buying agent Johnny Turnbull claims that 83.2 per cent of the properties sold in prime central London in the second quarter...

London transaction data company LonRes and law firm Eversheads are launching an agent-to-agent anti money laundering compliance service for LonRes subscribers.  The...

It was interesting to see the report on Estate Agent Today about the meeting between London estate agents, NAEA, and HMRC. No,...

Transactions in prime central London have plummeted and prices per square foot have dipped. Data from LonRes shows that in the second...

In a flurry of artistic jargon, LonRes has unveiled the thinking behind its new pink corporate logo, unveiled on the website...