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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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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