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The director of a London estate agency claims a buyer needs an income of £100,000 a year to purchase a home...

The latest prime London market snapshot from Knight Frank suggests muted activity so far this summer and warns of possible hesitancy...

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

It’s taking an average of 17.61 weeks to sell a property across Greater London, with some parts taking up to 147 days on...

Agency brand Chestertons has joined calls for Chancellor Jeremy Hunt to include Stamp Duty reform in his Autumn Statement. Hunt will deliver...

Leading digital compliance firm SmartSearch has launched an innovative new solution to help professionals working within the UK property sector to...

Increasing numbers of sellers are turning to auction rooms to combat the cooling housing market conditions, research suggests. Upfront information provider Moverly...

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

Market analysis by estate agent comparison site, GetAgent.co.uk, reveals that Homebuyers can buy a fort for the same price as a...

A former minister has questioned whether the Government has a long-term commitment to reform Stamp Duty to boost transactions and has...

A record share of buyers are leaving London to purchase their first home, research shows. Analysis by Hamptons found that a record...

Record numbers of homes are being sold off-market and for a premium due to the property supply shortage. Off-market sales are traditionally...

Momentum is building up in support of the government’s probe into whether the London homes of oligarchs on the sanctions list...

An estate agency has revealed which London boroughs have been the busiest in terms of the number of homes sold as...

Agents and developers are creating full-size show home-style properties overseas in a bid to woo wealthy foreigners who cannot travel to...

A developer operating in prime central London is offering buyers a deferred-payment scheme. K10 Group says it’s doing this because of the...

A PropTech firm that regularly claims London homes are mis-measured in property descriptions has taken a swipe at Purplebricks. Pupil, a spatial...

Government figures show the 218,975 properties within Greater London have Chinese owners - and two agents say there will be more...

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...

Allsop has staged its first principal residential auction entirely online, and has raised £28m. Some 76 per cent of all lots offered...

Increasing numbers of reports suggest that the government will use next week’s Budget to confirm a three per cent stamp duty...

A leading London estate agency with US connections says there has been a surge in high net worth American buyers in...

Research from OnTheMarket shows that 40 per cent of London homes costing around £1m have only two bedrooms or fewer. And only...

Some of the most expensive properties in London are selling typically between 13 and 21 per cent off the asking price. And...

High-end agency Savills says London’s super-rich are now buying and selling more actively than a year ago.  The agency says London’s so-called...

Agents have continued to express their shock and opposition to the announcement by the government that it wants a stamp duty...

The government has used this week’s Conservative party conference to announce a new stamp duty tax of one per cent to three...

A new market snapshot shows how there’s now a two-tier market with homes in London taking substantially longer to sell than...

New figures from Hometrack show that a typical home in Greater London now takes 17 weeks to find a buyer -...

A flat in Brixton is being raffled for £5 a ticket by a start-up entrepreneur who claims this is just the...

Chris Philp, a Conservative MP and Parliamentary Private Secretary to Chancellor Phillip Hammond, says 50 per cent of new homes in...

More than a third of the homes in London currently on the market have had their asking prices reduced according to...

The National Association of Estate Agents has thrown its weight behind a government move to create a register of overseas companies...

Barratt Homes, the UK’s largest housebuilder, is slashing the asking prices of some of its most expensive London homes by 10 per cent. In...

Countrywide's regional director Martin Coombes has quit the company, having worked for it since the early 1990s. A statement to Estate Agent...

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

The average house price in London is now £484,700 - over twice the national average - and property in the capital...

Surveys on housing and Brexit are coming thick and fast - the latest have Haart estate agency reporting a £30,000 price...

There are more people quitting London than ever before, with 20- and 30-somethings leading the exodus according to high-end agency Humberts.   The...

A former head of Savills’ buying arm says well-heeled overseas buyers are unphased by the recently-increased stamp duty on high value...

A survey of 19 senior property market analysts by the news organisation Reuters suggests that the majority believe house prices will...

News from the Halifax this week that the combined values of the residential properties in London amounts to £1.13 trillion, virtually...

The dramatic slump in the sale of London’s most expensive homes is continuing with one agency claiming that over the past...

A pressure group is calling for estate agents to conduct additional checks to ensure the legal provenance of buyers’ funds, and...

House prices dipped by 0.8 per cent in March according to the Land Registry - a marked contrast to figures produced by Nationwide...

The housing charity Shelter claims that there are only 43 truly affordable homes on sale across all of London. That number “would...

Investors now account for almost a third of buyers in prime central London according to one of the capital’s largest chains,...

There is one common denominator amongst the majority of those who dominate the latest Sunday Times Rich List, regarded as the...