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Demand for new-build homes in London eased in the run up to and just after the General Election but more recent...

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

New research reveals nearly half a million homes could be built across London on land that currently lies derelict amid a...

Our latest research has revealed London’s six best performing boroughs when it comes to positive property price growth. But a wider trend...

More than a third of homes have declined in value over the past six months, Zoopla data shows. It comes despite the...

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

Higher utility and staffing costs pushed profits down in Savills’ UK residential business last year. The property and agency brand revealed in...

With the Treasury and the Bank of England stepping in to try and calm the markets, talk of an emergency interest...

High end estate agency Savills says the imposition of sanctions on Russians, amid new measures obliging overseas buyers to be more...

Almost exactly a decade ago I wrote a blog on the back of a spate on mainstream news stories about prime...

Robert Jenrick has been sacked from his post as Housing, Communities and Local Government Secretary. He was the third major name to...

The London housing market is enjoying the end of the lull before the storm, according to a leading buying agent. Sara Ransom...

First off, hello and welcome to this new series – appearing in Estate Agent Today’s Breaking News section each month –...

The Times has revealed new allegations concerning the behaviour of Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick. The Cabinet member has been under the spotlight...

Controversial Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick, tipped by some for sacking when the Cabinet is reshuffled next month, appears to be confident...

The number of offers agreed on homes priced below £1m since mid-May is a healthy 41 per cent higher than the...

Controversial Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick is the subject of a harshly critical cartoon in The Times which depicts “pigs in the...

Suddenly Brexit Day is nearly here. It may have taken three and a half years from the Referendum but the UK will,...

Yesterday (January 10 2020), the Fifth Anti-Money Laundering Directive (5AMLD) became law. It forms part of ongoing international efforts to tackle...

A veteran agent says the new government’s Budget, expected in the next few weeks, should not provide too much help to...

For the stock market generally, 2019 has been a positive year - but a few high profile agencies and associated companies...

Another estate agency has provided evidence of the problems that continue to hurt the prime central London housing market. Strutt & Parker,...

House prices increased 0.5 per cent in November, which was the strongest monthly rise since April according to the Nationwide.  However, annual...

There may be signs that the gloomy housing market which has hit Prime Central London for some years may finally be...

Theresa May arrived in Downing Street some three years ago - but her premiership has not been a smooth ride. As she...

Respected investment consultancy London Central Portfolio is warning that “sales go on falling and falling” across the capital, fuelled by Brexit...

An early sign of a possible recovery in the London housing market may be appearing, according to data consultancy Hometrack.  It’s just...

It’s time to sort the wheat from the chaff when it comes to overseas buyers of property. If you listen to Theresa...

Savills is warning that heightened uncertainty around Brexit negotiations will delay recovery in the prime central London housing market for up...

Foxtons is shutting its Park Lane office - the flagship of the agency in prime central London’s Mayfair. Estate Agent Today was...

With the continued indecision surrounding Brexit and the final divorce settlement still months away, it seems property buyers are choosing to...

Foxtons share price hit a new low yesterday, dropping to only 46p early in the afternoon: it eventually closed narrowly up...

Two more price reports from high-end agencies make grim reading about the prime London housing market. New data from Savills suggests that...

House price growth in London has hit a seven year low according to Hometrack, with prices actually down across 42 per...

House price indices provided each month by Halifax and the Nationwide have been branded as “misguiding” and “out of date” and...

London’s prime central market is turning around at last according to the chief executive of Belgravia estate agency Henry & James. James...

More price falls have been recorded across areas of prime London according to Savills.  The pattern is not uniform - the agency...

UBS says London's housing market still faces the risk of becoming a bubble - although that risk has marginally eased over...

Foxtons - a company seen by many as a barometer of the London housing market - is likely to face a...

The chief economist of Price Waterhouse Coopers says that although by some measures the London housing market looks ripe for a...

New research by business information firm Bloomberg suggests many thousands of London’s financial services jobs are under threat thanks to Brexit...

Foxtons has received lavish praise from investment consultancy Jefferies despite long-term share price worries reflecting its mixed performance in the troubled...

One of the world’s leading financial institutions, UBS, says any sustained economic recession triggered by Britain’s departure from the EU could lead...

The importance of overseas buyers in underpinning increasing elements of the capital’s housing market and won support from an unlikely quarter...

Agents have been giving their reaction to the shock Brexit referendum result - and their comments have ranged from the gloomy...

Prices are wobbling in the London housing market, with the referendum and ongoing currency fluctuations being two of the major causes. That...

The race to replace London Mayor Boris Johnson has entered its final few days, and like never before, housing is the...

Sadiq Khan, Zac Goldsmith or whoever else wins the London Mayor election this spring should have the power to levy stamp...

There has been more volatile stock market trading for some of the industry’s highest-profile agencies.  Countrywide - whose chief executive Alison Platt...

Countrywide says the current malaise in the central London housing market is not, as many agents and commentators suggest, simply down...

A body called the UK Housing Market Observatory - consisting of economists at Lancaster University Management School - is giving a...

An estate agency claims there is a “contagion” spreading across the prime London housing market with sales reduced drastically thanks to...

The gap between house prices in London and other major regional cities is at its widest for 20 years, according to...

Data from Countrywide Group shows the potential volatility that exists in the much-discussed Prime Central London housing market, simply because of...

David Lammy, one of six contenders for the Labour nomination for next year’s Mayor of London election, says he wants to...

High end residential, commercial and consultancy specialist Savills has boosted its group profits by seven per cent to £26.4m before tax. Group...