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

Detached homes in Wales are the slowest property types to sell across the UK and take an average of 92 days...

A lack of urgency among buyers is hitting the higher value property markets, new research suggests. Analysis of prime London activity by...

The prime London sales market has made a hesitant start to 2024, Knight Frank has said. Despite the agent and property brand...

Prime market activity hasn’t caught up with more positive sentiment, Knight Frank claims. It comes as figures from the agency brand showed...

The negative effects of higher mortgage rates on affordability were overestimated throughout 2023, TwentyCi claims. The property data firm highlights that house...

Knight Frank has revised its house price forecasts and said it now expects average values to rise this year rather than...

A Stamp Duty holiday would be more beneficial now than at the start of the pandemic, Knight Frank has suggested. The latest...

Demand for residential property remains fragile despite a pause in interest rate rises, Knight Frank claims. While the number of new prospective...

Our data shows vast regional differences in current house prices and many areas are defying the current overall national dip. The study...

There was little sign of a major spring bounce in March for prime London markets, Knight Frank analysis suggests, which the...

Agents are seeing more instructions as the year ends but fewer properties are selling, industry data shows. Figures from property data company...

The market share of hybrid and online agents increased slightly during the third quarter of 2022 but firms are still struggling...

Knight Frank expects prices to fall by 3% next year in Prime Central London (PCL) before rising modestly in the years...

Knight Frank has revised its house price forecasts upwards due to continually low levels of residential stock on the market. The agent...

All regions of the UK have seen at least a 2% increase in property supply, TwentyCi claims. A June update from the...

New data suggests the prime London market has a new lease of life as buyers and sellers look to beat the...

Supply is slowly increasing but there are signs that buyers are now biding their time. Analysis by property data company TwentyCi shows...

Buyer demand has rebounded in prime areas of the capital and there is also talk of a return to competitive bidding. The...

A leading agency has admitted that the uncertainty over the effects of the Omicron Covid variant has thrown forecasts for the...

Rightmove has revealed the strongest markets for sellers and buyers this autumn.  Grays in Essex has topped the list of the strongest...

An analysis of over 1.6m listings by Rightmove shows a big return to normality - demand for smaller city centre properties...

The market share of hybrid and online agents has remained at eight per cent, according to property industry consultancy TwentyCi. This figure...

Another leading research team in a major agency has revised upwards its forecast for the 2021 market. Savills revised its predictions recently...

In the six months to November there’s been a 79 per cent increase in sales of homes priced £5m to £10m says Knight...

Some 713 estate agency branches have failed to reopen following the spring lockdown according to a business consultancy. TwentyCi says that is the...

It’s not a big rise, but price growth has returned to the Prime Central London sales market for the first time...

The Zoopla Rental Market Report, published this week, mentioned a two-speed rental market, but what does that mean? We are seeing two...

Winkworth says it’s achieved a big jump in London sales market share despite “an uncertain and difficult year that was dominated...

The property market in prime central London showed some impressive signs of recovery during the summer months, according to Knight Frank. The...

There’s a clear change of mood music in the country now regarding environmental issues. You don’t need to be old to remember...

High end agency Knight Frank says prices in prime central London have fallen again - although the 4.4 per cent drop...

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

The gap between average asking prices and average selling prices has increased in recent months according to Zoopla. Its latest study of...

An estate agency has produced figures showing a 12.5 per cent slump in the number of homes listed to sell in...

Winkworth’s latest trading statement reveals that while its rental side blossomed, sales suffered thanks to the familiar cocktail of Brexit, uncertainty...

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

Foxtons has revealed that its six branch closures announced towards the end of last year will save the company £3m in...

Average prices of flats and houses in prime central London are now the same as they were six years ago; meanwhile...

A property platform that has chronicled the London sales market’s problems in recent years says the recovery will start in 2020...

The share of the market taken by online agencies in the final quarter of 2018 slipped from last summer’s high of...

Another high end estate agency is reporting difficulties in the London market with Knight Frank saying prices are down in both...

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

One of the last major estate agencies to give its forecast for 2018 says London prices will drop another 0.5 per...

Winkworth says solid performances from its lettings and property management services, plus new franchise deals, have compensated for a challenging sales...

Home ownership has halved for young families across some parts of the UK according to a charity.  The Resolution Foundation says its...

Savills is warning that while low interest rates will probably keep house prices relatively static, transaction volumes are likely to remain...

The East of England, which takes in areas from Hertfordshire to Norfolk, has recorded the biggest hike in property prices over...

New data from LSL Property Services suggest that the image of London as one large housing market encountering difficulties at the...

There’s been a fall in the typical asking price of a home on sale of 2.1 per cent according to Rightmove...

A campaign has been launched to make Bristol the colour capital of the UK by ensuring that more homes are painted...

The Brian Cox estate agency, at the centre of a weekend newspaper allegation about £2,000 deposits from buyers, has strongly defended...

An estate agency says it is returning money to buyers after a newspaper revealed it was demanding would-be purchasers paid the...