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Prime property agency London House, which features in the new Netflix series Buying London, has seen a 30% increase in global...
07 June 2024
From: Breaking News
Our latest research has revealed London’s six best performing boroughs when it comes to positive property price growth. But a wider trend...
24 February 2024
From: Features
Rising mortgage rates and falling house prices don’t appear to be deterring the super-rich. A report from upmarket agency Beauchamp Estates suggests...
20 June 2023
From: Breaking News
Prices will fall during this year, but the outlook differs depending on location, according to Cluttons. A first quarter update from the...
13 February 2023
From: Breaking News
Most of us can only dream of buying a prime home, and new research by a mortgage broker has reinforced this...
12 August 2022
From: Breaking News
A leading agency predicts that prime central London house prices, so long in the doldrums throughout the pandemic, will bounce back...
09 November 2021
From: Breaking News
Over-65s saw their property wealth increase by £800 a month recently thanks to frenzied demand during the stamp duty holiday, an equity release...
20 October 2021
From: Breaking News
Prices in prime central London have risen for the past two quarters, prompting a tentative claim that the market may be...
05 October 2021
From: Breaking News
A new forecasting model from a consumer website is predicting that house prices will rise by an average 30 per cent...
06 September 2021
From: Breaking News
Two former directors of the prestigious Beauchamp Estates agency in central London have set up their own new company. They say their...
13 May 2021
From: Breaking News
The London sales market is slowing as Christmas nears but no significant impact has been caused by the second wave of...
12 November 2020
From: Breaking News
London’s properties are “over-valued” according to a leading bank. UBS, which has what it calls a Global Real Estate Bubble Index, says...
07 October 2020
From: Breaking News
A woman who bought a London house in 2012 is now suing the conveyancers that worked for her at the time...
05 October 2020
From: Breaking News
Owners and investors who may be leaving their properties empty in the current Coronavirus crisis risk having their insurance invalidated. High-end property...
27 March 2020
From: Breaking News
The latest market snapshot from the National Association of Estate Agents continues to show how political uncertainty is dampening sentiment and...
27 November 2019
From: Breaking News
The international estate agency Engel & Volkers is closing its single prime central London office - despite past claims that sales...
22 August 2019
From: Breaking News
Agents have put a brave face on official government figures which have shown a shock fall in London house prices and...
18 July 2019
From: Breaking News
It’s a new index but it tells an old story - how prime central London prices have dropped significantly since their...
25 April 2019
From: Breaking News
The topic of introducing rent controls in London crops up time and time again in our industry. But it’s been hitting...
16 March 2019
From: Features
Who are you and what does it say on your business card? It just says “Agent” for, at the end of the...
08 November 2018
From: 60 Second Interview
A house in Mayfair that was sold for £19.175m in 2014 and put on the market this year at £25m has...
08 November 2018
From: Breaking News
A leading London estate agency is reporting a surge in overseas buyers sealing deals ahead of the government’s new stamp duty...
18 October 2018
From: Breaking News
House prices grew two per cent year on year for September according to new figures - and a senior agency chief...
03 October 2018
From: Breaking News
London has been identified as one of a number of ‘bubble risk cities’ in a report by Swiss bank UBS. In a...
28 September 2018
From: Breaking News
Prices and transaction volumes have both fallen again in Prime Central London according to the index produced by Central London Portfolio,...
01 August 2018
From: Breaking News
House prices in London are projected to fall in the short-term, down by two per cent by the end of 2018...
17 July 2018
From: Breaking News
Two more price reports from high-end agencies make grim reading about the prime London housing market. New data from Savills suggests that...
04 July 2018
From: Breaking News
Hometrack says other cities are now closing the gap on London in terms of house prices and market value. The latest Hometrack UK...
29 June 2018
From: Breaking News
A poll of housing market experts suggests London house prices are likely to fall this year as a result of Brexit...
07 June 2018
From: Breaking News
LSL Property Services - parent company to 12 brands including Your Move, Reeds Rains and London’s Marsh & Parsons - has...
06 March 2018
From: Breaking News
More price falls have been recorded across areas of prime London according to Savills. The pattern is not uniform - the agency...
03 January 2018
From: Breaking News
The property consultancy Hometrack says London is facing “a drawn-out period during which there will be a slow re-alignment of house...
28 December 2017
From: Breaking News
Data from Hometrack shows that the gap between average earnings and house prices has reached an all-time high in London. The price...
28 November 2017
From: Breaking News
London house prices are stuck in neutral according to the latest figures from property consultancy Hometrack, which says values in the...
25 October 2017
From: Breaking News
UK house price inflation is now running at a modest 2.0 per cent but London's housing market has recorded its worst...
02 October 2017
From: Breaking News
Prime London house prices are now 5.3 per cent lower than at the time of the EU referendum admits Savills, following...
29 June 2017
From: Breaking News
House price inflation in London continues to slow and has now reached 4.9 per cent year-on-year according to Hometrack. London is now among...
28 April 2017
From: Breaking News
Average UK house price growth will reach 2.2 per cent this year, a rise of £4,460 that will see the average...
20 April 2017
From: Breaking News
Hometrack data suggests that annual house price inflation in London has fallen to 6.4 per cent, the lowest level since June...
24 February 2017
From: Breaking News
There is no doubt that 2016 managed to catch the world by surprise on more than one occassion. But will 2017 be...
14 January 2017
From: Features
House prices in London are now rising at 7.6 per cent per year - the lowest figure for 39 months according...
16 December 2016
From: Breaking News
The latest Hometrack cities index suggests that London house prices in the last quarter recorded the lowest growth for 20 months...
21 October 2016
From: Breaking News
Data from Your Move suggests annual house price movements in London boroughs range massively from +16.4 per cent to -16.5 per...
17 October 2016
From: Breaking News
One of the world’s leading financial institutions, UBS, says any sustained economic recession triggered by Britain’s departure from the EU could lead...
28 September 2016
From: Breaking News
In the capital, people will pay a premium to live near great transport links, and as we’ve seen from Crossrail and...
02 September 2016
From: Features
The sales website Home claims that London house prices have dropped an average of 1.2 per cent in the past four...
23 August 2016
From: Breaking News
Marsh & Parsons is the latest agency to show a price drop in prime central London - homes there were down...
23 August 2016
From: Breaking News
Another crowdfunding platform has launched, encouraging investors to buy a share in a property - in this case, a prime London...
29 July 2016
From: Breaking News
London house prices rose by 251 and 209 per cent respectively during Thatcher’s and Blair’s time at Number 10 - but...
26 July 2016
From: Breaking News
A note to investors sent out yesterday by the international bank Societe Generale is warning that Brexit could wipe 30 per...
19 July 2016
From: Breaking News
London house prices have fallen by 1.1 per cent in the past month - mostly since the Brexit vote on June...
13 July 2016
From: Breaking News
Rightmove has released a series of online ‘portraits of how London might look after the completion of a series of development,...
17 June 2016
From: Breaking News
House prices across the UK increased by 9.0 per cent in the year to March, showing a significant rise from the 7.6...
18 May 2016
From: Breaking News
Average house prices will rise by 20.1 per cent by the end of 2019 with a typical home then costing £236,691...
18 March 2016
From: Breaking News
London is heading for a house price bubble by the end of the year according to figures produced by academics at...
05 February 2016
From: Breaking News
The outgoing chief executive of the Nationwide building society, Graham Beale, is warning that prime central London house price rises of...
23 November 2015
From: Breaking News
A body called the UK Housing Market Observatory - consisting of economists at Lancaster University Management School - is giving a...
04 November 2015
From: Breaking News
The Land Registry says the average house price in England and Wales now costs £186,553, an annual increase of 5.3 per...
29 October 2015
From: Breaking News
I’m writing this from the brand spanking new Center Parks in Woburn Forest. Set within 365 acres of lush Bedfordshire forest,...
23 October 2015
From: Features
Rightmove says the annual rate of housing asking price inflation in London is now up to 9.5 per cent - and...
21 September 2015
From: Breaking News
Estate agents have been warned by the National Crime Agency that they must not hesitate to inform the authorities if they...
27 July 2015
From: Breaking News
Prime central London house prices appear to have plateaued in recent weeks, failing to recover from the quiet pre-general election period...
01 July 2015
From: Breaking News
Average house price growth is slowing and is now just a third of what it was this time last year according...