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![Foxtons explains how to add 50% to the value of a London house](/upload/images/23%2012%2019%203.jpg)
The latest research by Foxtons reveals just how much London homeowners can add Ali’s to their property by digging down. The research...
19 December 2023
From: Breaking News
![UK Property Equity Hotspots Revealed](/upload/images/__thumbs/23%2011%2007%201.jpg/23%2011%2007%201__400x266.jpg)
What do the property markets in North Norfolk, Kensington and Chelsea and East Devon have in common? They are the only areas...
07 November 2023
From: Breaking News
![Singapore nationals help to drive UK property market activity](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/House-pounds_400x310.png)
New research by Benham and Reeves, highlights that a supporting cast from Singapore is helping to drive UK market activity. The bonus of the...
02 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![Foreign homeowners sitting on £90.7bn worth of property](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/UK-Housing-1-400x310.jpg)
The total market value of foreign-owned homes in England and Wales currently stands at £90.7 billion, research from Benham and Reeves...
13 July 2022
From: Breaking News
![Prime London prices up by 114 percent as high-end buyers return](/upload/images/Locations/London-WestEnd-400x310.jpg)
Despite prime London property prices remaining largely flat on a year-on-year basis, some postcodes have seen average sale prices climb by...
27 April 2022
From: Breaking News
![London exodus reverses as rental demand climbs in Q1](/upload/images/Locations/LondonMap400x310-min.png)
With tenants returning to the capital in 2022, research by rental portal Rentd has revealed that the London rental market has...
01 April 2022
From: Breaking News
![Hong Kong buyers dominate 17 London boroughs, study shows](/upload/images/Locations/Central-London400x310.png)
Hong Kong buyers currently have the biggest property footprint within the London market, new research from Benham and Reeves shows. The agent’s...
18 March 2022
From: Breaking News
![International Women’s Day: Mind the gender house price affordability gap](/upload/images/Miscellaneous/gender%20equality%20400%20x%20310.png)
In the second instalment of our International Women’s Day 2022 series, PIT takes a closer look at a new study that uncovers...
09 March 2022
From: Breaking News
![Wandsworth wins as wealthiest London hotspot in 2021](/upload/images/library/Wandsworth-400x310.png)
The borough of Wandsworth sits top as London’s prime property hotspot over the last year, accounting for the highest level of...
07 January 2022
From: Breaking News
![South Kensington development plans rejected in major win for local residents](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/SOS-Logo-400x310.jpg)
On Thursday night last week, it was announced that the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea's Planning Committee had voted unanimously,...
22 November 2021
From: Breaking News
![Rental update – new HMO licensing rules, green spaces and low supply](/upload/images/library/MillennialTenants-1-400x310.jpg)
In this market update, PIT looks at how HMO licensing will potentially impact Westminster’s rental market, the rising demand for green...
13 October 2021
From: Breaking News
![Foreign buyer return could boost London house prices by £134k](/upload/images/Locations/LondonMap400x310-min.png)
A return of foreign buyer demand could increase property values by £134,000 in some areas of the capital according to the latest...
10 September 2021
From: Breaking News
![Beach huts – how are they performing as an investment?](/img/default/pit.png)
This May Day Bank Holiday, PIT is running a staycation special series on a range of topics associated with a market...
03 May 2021
From: Breaking News
![UK investment - has there been a boom in buyers hailing from Hong Kong?](/img/default/pit.png)
Britain and Hong Kong have long had close relations, not least because it was a British colony until as recently as...
29 March 2021
From: Breaking News
![Post-Brexit UK-China property investment outlook – what should you know?](/img/default/pit.png)
A new thought leadership paper has looked at where, what and why Chinese high-net-worth-individuals (HWNIs) and investors are buying and developing in...
22 March 2021
From: Breaking News
![A 'beret' good time – prime French market tempts buyers from London](/img/default/pit.png)
Research by high-net-worth mortgage broker, Enness Global, has revealed how the upper tiers of the French property market are currently tempting...
19 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![Insight: are beach huts a worthy investment or a waste of money?](/img/default/pit.png)
With a surge in demand for staycations as people continue to shun overseas travel in favour of domestic holidays, could there...
24 July 2020
From: Breaking News
![Revealed: the UK’s best and worst places for buy-to-let](/img/default/pit.png)
Many landlords and investors may now be looking to expand their portfolios, with lockdown restrictions gradually being eased and major lenders...
05 June 2020
From: Breaking News
![Buy-to-let hotspots – where are yields climbing despite the pandemic lockdown?](/img/default/pit.png)
Despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic disrupting pretty much every aspect of daily life, the latest research from lettings management platform Howsy...
13 May 2020
From: Breaking News
![UK’s most valuable property postcodes revealed](/img/default/pit.png)
With the property market set to recover this year – recent research, for example, has shown buyers are growing in confidence...
07 February 2020
From: Breaking News
![First-time buyers – do you know the best areas to buy new?](/img/default/pit.png)
Despite stretched affordability in most parts of the country, with the average income required for a first-time buyer (FTB) to purchase...
13 January 2020
From: Breaking News
![Where are London’s Airbnb hotspots? Google Search Trends reveal all](/img/default/pit.png)
In recent weeks we’ve focused on the seemingly unstoppable growth of Airbnb and its competitors and how women are helping to...
02 December 2019
From: Breaking News
![The most in-demand prime London streets revealed](/img/default/pit.png)
Benham and Reeves has revealed the capital’s prime and super-prime streets where buyer activity remains strong despite a wider market ‘freeze’...
27 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![One million pound-plus residential property sales soar twelve-fold](/img/default/pit.png)
The number of residential housing transactions has increased rapidly in the past 20 years, propelled by rising property prices, according to...
25 October 2019
From: Breaking News
![The cost of living near London’s 342 outstanding schools revealed](/img/default/pit.png)
The average London property price near an ‘outstanding’ state primary school is £693,849, according to research from Portico. Schools rated as ‘outstanding’...
14 October 2019
From: Breaking News
![Prime London stamp duty costs are enough to buy a house in 167 UK areas](/img/default/pit.png)
Buying a detached house in the UK is cheaper than paying stamp duty in prime central London, analysis from Springbok Properties...
04 October 2019
From: Breaking News
![Going for a pretty penny...portal reveals London's most expensive streets](/img/default/pit.png)
A prime and super-prime London property portal has examined the capital’s most expensive roads for homes. The portal, Vyomm, analysed Land Registry...
14 June 2019
From: Breaking News
![The top performing London boroughs in 2018 revealed](/img/default/pit.png)
The best performing boroughs in the London residential market in 2018 have been revealed by new research from CBRE Residential. Its annual report, the...
04 January 2019
From: Breaking News
![Scotland dominates list of UK property hotspots in 2018](/img/default/pit.png)
Glasgow and Edinburgh have seen house prices rise faster than any other major UK town or city in 2018, according to...
21 December 2018
From: Breaking News
![How badly has Brexit and the recession affected Prime Central London?](/img/default/pit.png)
The owners of some of London's most affluent homes have faced a number of challenges since the market crashed in 2007,...
10 October 2018
From: Breaking News
![House prices on the up since Brexit, research reveals](/img/default/pit.png)
UK house prices have risen by 7.3% since the Brexit vote, according to the latest Land Registry house price data. Now, in...
22 August 2018
From: Breaking News
![Falling rents in London ‘distorts’ picture for the rest of England, Index shows](/img/default/pit.png)
The average rent for a property in London fell 0.27% in the year to April, weighing down the resilient rental growth...
09 May 2018
From: Breaking News
![Airbnb listings in the capital soar](/img/default/pit.png)
Airbnb has seen a 43% jump in listings in the last 12 months, with the number of entire properties on the...
02 May 2018
From: Breaking News
![Nation’s most expensive street revealed by survey](/img/default/pit.png)
The latest research from Lloyds Bank has crowned Grosvenor Crescent in Belgravia as the most expensive residential street in England and...
05 January 2018
From: Breaking News
![Central London property prices hit record high](/img/default/pit.png)
The average price of a home in central London hit a new high of £1,818,262 in 2016, thanks largely to a rally...
21 March 2017
From: Breaking News
![The widening gulf between salaries and house prices is “extremely worrying”](/img/default/pit.png)
Residential property prices in England and Wales now cost 7.6 times the average income, up from 3.6 times earnings in 1997,...
20 March 2017
From: Breaking News
![UK house price inflation continues to slow](/img/default/pit.png)
Residential property price inflation across the UK is continuing to slow, the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS)...
14 December 2016
From: Breaking News
![House prices in London to hit £1m by 2030](/img/default/pit.png)
The average London home will cost more than £1m by 2030, according to new analysis, as a growing population and severe...
18 May 2016
From: Breaking News
![London’s super-rich target ‘iceberg homes’](/img/default/pit.png)
There has been a sharp rise in the number of mega-basement planning applications across many parts of the capital as wealthy...
03 May 2016
From: Breaking News
![Average homeowner made nearly £28,000 in 2015, research finds](/img/default/pit.png)
The average homeowner made £27,264 in 2015; around the same as the average salary in the UK, according to research from...