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The predictions game can be tricky. Sometimes you just don’t know whether to stick or twist. As reported in Estate Agent Today...

Uncertainty triggered by the new Labour Government and taxation concerns that await the 30th October Autumn Budget, have made many wealthy...

I have been an agent for 25 years and have represented a large corporate agency and Anderson Rose (my own independent...

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

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

Strutt & Parker has extended its National Country House Department in Scotland. Annabel Blackett, associate, has been appointed to cover the prime...

Knight Frank has revised its house price forecasts for prime central London (PCL) and now expects values to fall this year. The...

Prime central London (PCL) property values flattened out during the first quarter of 2024 after six consecutive quarterly falls, figures suggest. Analysts...

The Keller Williams UK (KWUK) brand is facing yet another restructure with its leadership in the country effectively removed. KWUK spent much...

Winkworth is expanding its country house operation to capitalise on demand from UK and international buyers. The operation will work from Winkworth’s...

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

Prime London Residential, which describes itself as London’s largest single branch agency, has acquired 21 Grosvenor Gardens from Grosvenor, securing the...

September has been ‘underwhelming’ for sales in prime London except for at the high-end £5m price point, figures suggest. Separate analysis from...

Prime London property values are not falling as far as the rest of the market but realistic pricing will be crucial...

An index of prime London properties suggests buyers standing back as economic uncertainty reaches the upper levels of the market. The Prime...

Fine & Country has launched a new Masterclass Series focused on the art of maximising fees and boosting additional revenue. Set to...

Cash purchasers, younger needs-based buyers and relocators are the driving force behind the current prime UK property market, according to research...

Price sensitivity and a flight to quality is dominating prime London markets, research suggest. Analysis of second quarter property market activity by...

Higher interest rates have already softened UK prime regional markets but cities are proving resilient, Savills claims. Research by the agent shows...

The gap between prime buyer and seller price expectations has widened, estate agents have warned, with the majority of buyers expecting...

International buyers appear to slowly be returning to the prime central London (PCL) market, according to Hamptons data. Figures released by the...

It has been a busy start to the year for job moves. If you want your jobs or appointments news to feature...

New year, old worries: what’s happening in the housing market? We’ve asked experts and collated forecasts, 15 in total. On the one...

Fall-throughs are up and the number of properties under-offer in prime London areas has fallen below the pre-pandemic average for the...

House prices could fall by 10% next year as higher mortgage pricing and rising inflation dampen buyer budgets, Savills has warned. The agency...

The prime central London (PCL) market may escape a property downturn, JLL claims. The real estate and agency brand has highlighted the...

The Bank of England increased interest rates to their highest level since the financial crisis yesterday, prompting fears of higher cost...

Hamptons is anticipating an 12% drop in property transactions across Great Britain next year as interest rate rises and the cost of...

Savills has released a revised five-year forecast for the UK’s prime housing markets, to reflect the strong levels of activity in...

Fine & Country claims it has overtaken the established prime agency brands in recent months when it comes to listings. The premium...

Prime London prices continue to hit record levels but actual sales vary depending on values. Figures from property data company LonRes for...

The prime country market outside of London appears to be booming again in a rush to beat a slowdown in house...

A third of first-time buyers have had to reduce their budgets as a result of recent interest rate hikes and the...

A new ‘local and independent’ boutique estate agency has been founded in the heart of Wimbledon Village, with a vision of...

This is our first Property Jobs Today column of 2022 and it’s testimony to how busy our industry is right now...

London’s super-prime residential market has recorded its strongest year since 2013, according to high end agency Savills. In total, there were 522...

Savills has set out its annual house price forecast for prime London - and after years of price falls, the prediction...

Forget London, Scotland is now the fastest-moving market for million-pound properties. Analysis by Rightmove has found that million-pound homes are selling 25...

It may be the height of summer but the industry is still super-busy and new appointments continue to come thick and...

One in 10 buyers say they will seek to renegotiate on the price of their chosen home if they miss the...

High end purchasers of homes in London paid 15 per cent of the stamp duty in 2020, yet the value of...

A leading agency chief suggests there will have to be substantial bargaining between buyers and sellers as the stamp duty holiday cliff...

A prominent London agency says cash buyers are securing substantial discounts in prime areas of the capital. The biggest cash discount currently...

A buying agency targeting what it calls the “prime and super-prime” London market is offering clients not only a sourcing service, but also...

In the week the Nationwide recorded the UK’s highest ever average house price, high-end agency Savills has forecast that prime markets...

How prime London has changed. In 2002 work began on The Knightsbridge. Located within a stone’s throw of Harrods and a near-neighbour...

A leading estate agency says it has observed that some banks previously opposed to accepting remote and desktop valuations have started...

London Central Portfolio, the investment consultancy which  saw signs of an upturn in the prime market in the capital this autumn,...

The number of prime residential housing transactions has increased rapidly in the past two decades and even in the past five...

A growing free-to-list property portal says there's never been a better time for estate agents to target foreign investors. Residential People, which,...

Savills, once a safe bet for year-on-year growth, has seen its underlying UK residential profits plunge 44 per cent with economic...

The practices of competitive bidding and sealed bids have made a 'surprise return' to the Prime Central London (PCL) property market,...

A portal specialising in prime and super-prime London property has turned perceptions of the capital’s housing market on their head -...

At the end of a week consisting of largely depressing market reports, new data from Knight Frank suggests that the bad...

Strutt & Parker says transaction levels in Prime Central London, already at a low ebb, plummeted a further nine per cent...

It’s the word on everyone’s lips: after two and a half years of debate, and months before that leading up to...

A major UK city which previously appeared to have avoided Brexit-induced problems is now showing signs of being affected by political...

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

Data from the buying agency Black Brick reveals just how big an impact has been made by the additional homes stamp...

Figures from Savills suggest that there’s currently an average 1.14 price adjustments per sale across the prime regional markets of the...

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...

Savills has revised its forecasts for the housing market and says that uncertainty over the impact of Brexit points to two...

The latest market snapshot by high-end agency Strutt & Parker reveals more bad news for London - despite the agency itself...

Being a leading world-class city comes at a price – they are the most expensive for occupiers and the most lucrative...

Gently rising house values in the mainstream market and problems facing the prime market in the capital mean that over half...

Average prices in prime central London remained flat in May but are down 6.6 per cent on the year according to...

The snap General Election on June 8 adds to uncertainty but does not significantly worsen the market for prime properties in...

The number of new homes built in London will reach record levels in 2017, according to high-end agency Savills - but...

Chancellor Philip Hammond delivered his first Budget this week pledging extra funding for the NHS, transport in the Midlands and the...

Two reports produced by Savills suggests continuing struggles for high-priced properties in prime locations to combat economic uncertainty and the deterrent...

One of the key factors associated with an active private rental market in the UK, as detailed in the Dataloft PRS...

New data from Knight Frank shows that prime property prices have dipped by 0.1 per cent in the three months following...

Given the uncertainty that shrouded the immediate build up to, and aftermath of, the EU referendum, the current lettings market in...

Marsh & Parsons is the latest agency to show a price drop in prime central London - homes there were down...

New data from LonRes shows that transaction volumes across the capital’s prime markets tumbled 41 per cent in the second quarter...

Countrywide has confounded its critics with an upbeat performance in the first six months of the year, growing revenues by nine...

A leading London buying agency is warning that some areas of prime central London could face a downturn following the Brexit...

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

Winkworth, the franchise giant with most offices concentrated in or close to London, says the high-end of the capital’s prime market...

Humberts says property values across the south east of England have seen robust growth of almost eight per cent over the...

Savills and Knight Frank say prime central London property values dipped slightly over the summer with stamp duty still being blamed...

Agents across the country, hopefully refreshed by a nice holiday somewhere warm, will be gearing up for the phones to start...

This week RICS reported a further drop in the number of people putting their homes up for sale; new instructions fell...

Simon Pallett has been elected chairman of Carter Jonas LLP. Pallett, a partner in the firm’s Winchester and Newbury offices, takes over...