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![Brits less interested in buying overseas property, admits portal](/upload/images/24%2001%2004%20%2004.jpg)
British interest in international property has dipped slightly, claims property portal Kyero. It says British buyers await a possible relaxation of post-Brexit...
04 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![Changing Face of Property Investment Hotspots in 2024](/upload/images/23%2012%2014%201.jpg)
A property search company - Recoco - has given a radical reassessment of some investment hotspots in its preview of 2024. Nigel...
14 December 2023
From: Breaking News
![Dubai - a surge of demand presents investors with opportunities](/upload/images/__thumbs/23%2010%2012%2004%20by%20Tej%20Kohli.jpg/23%2010%2012%2004%20by%20Tej%20Kohli__400x253.jpg)
In August, Dubai's real estate market experienced a remarkable surge, presenting an exciting opportunity for investors like myself. Sales soared by...
12 October 2023
From: Breaking News
![Commercial property investment takes a beating](/upload/images/__thumbs/23%2009%2026%203.jpg/23%2009%2026%203__400x267.jpg)
Market analysis by Sirius Property Finance, a debt advisory firm, reveals that commercial property transactions are down 67 per cent while...
26 September 2023
From: Breaking News
![Sun, Sand and Investment - surge of investor interest in island](/upload/images/23%2008%2022%203%20OverseasMarket_400x310.png)
Cyprus Sotheby’s International Realty has published its quarterly report analysing the performance of the Cyprus residential real estate market in the...
22 August 2023
From: Breaking News
![Nation’s new-build homebuyer hotspots revealed as London ranks just 24th in the list](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Developments/Construction-400x310.png)
Research by Alliance Fund, the end to end real estate fund, has revealed that while Greater London may have seen the...
02 March 2023
From: Breaking News
![Prime London properties attract top dollar!](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Misc/prime%20London(695%20%C3%97%20395px)%20(400%20%C3%97%20310px).jpg)
The capital city’s super-top-end property transactions rose by 30% last year, and that is likely to continue in 2023. Multi-millionaires and billionaires...
05 January 2023
From: Breaking News
![Property Surge in Spain - golden visas drive Spanish property boom](/upload/images/Locations/Cudillero-Spain-400x310.jpg)
Securing a property in Spain seems to be at the top of the agenda for many Brits. Residency service for non-EU-buyers,...
06 July 2022
From: Breaking News
![Getting technical – developers use PropTech for new-build sales](/upload/images/PropTech%20%26%20Online/PropTech-4-400x310.jpg)
Homebuilders are reportedly utilising technology to dramatically reduce the time it takes to exchange on a new-build transition, the latest research...
06 May 2022
From: Breaking News
![Predictions for 2022 in tech and real estate revealed](/upload/images/library/PropTech-4-400x310.jpg)
Following a successful year in PropTech last year, spatial data technology company Pupil predicts that 2022 will be the year that...
12 January 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
![New-build boom – 6.5% of Brits bought new-builds during pandemic](/upload/images/library/UK-Houses-Row-2019-400x310.jpg)
New-build homes account for 6.5% of pandemic property purchases, new research from Unlatch finds. The new-build sales optimisation platform looked at the...
15 December 2021
From: Breaking News
![Super savings – London buyers saved more than £1bn during stamp duty break](/upload/images/Locations/London400x310.jpg)
London homebuyers managed to save over £1 billion since the stamp duty holiday first launched in July 2020. The latest analysis by...
26 November 2021
From: Breaking News
![Where to invest in London’s most exclusive resi neighbourhoods](/upload/images/library/BPS-LondonAerial-400x310.jpg)
London remains one of the most desirable locations to live in the world, despite its ranking as the sixth most expensive...
29 October 2021
From: Breaking News
![Black History Month investor special - Q&A with Roy Ledgister](/upload/images/Site%20logos/BlackHistoryMonthInvestorSpecial.jpg)
Black History Month, an annual event with origins dating back to late 1960s USA and celebrated in the UK since 1987,...
15 October 2021
From: Breaking News
![New-build market share hits lowest level in a decade](/upload/images/library/Flats400x310.jpg)
New research has found that the proportion of UK property transactions accounted for by the new-build sector hit its lowest level in...
13 September 2021
From: Breaking News
![Investors – can you still benefit from the stamp duty holiday?](/img/default/pit.png)
Buyers now have only 92 days to benefit from the second stage of the stamp duty holiday before the nil rate...
07 July 2021
From: Breaking News
![Insight – will auction houses be returning to traditional in-room auctions?](/img/default/pit.png)
Since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic and the start of the first lockdown in March 2020, major auction houses up...
19 May 2021
From: Breaking News
![2021: is it the comeback year for PCL property?](/img/default/pit.png)
It goes without saying that 2020 was an incredibly eventful year for us all. The Covid-19 pandemic and associated lockdowns meant...
29 January 2021
From: Breaking News
![Property investment in 2021 – adjusting to new circumstances](/img/default/pit.png)
Following one of the most disruptive and challenging years in living memory, I have no doubt that many of those in...
22 January 2021
From: Breaking News
![MMoA could thrive if homeowners understood it better – study](/img/default/pit.png)
The Modern Method of Auction (MMoA) could almost double and become a more mainstream way of buying and selling if people...
04 January 2021
From: Breaking News
![An outlook on the year ahead, as told by property specialists](/img/default/pit.png)
With mixed views of what 2021 could bring to the property market, Nicky Stevenson, managing director of Fine & Country UK...
23 December 2020
From: Breaking News
![Will the 2020 housing market boom continue?](/img/default/pit.png)
As property investors, it is very important that we monitor house price trends when assessing new deals and during existing long-term...
25 November 2020
From: Breaking News
![Auction roundup – Luxury hotels and iconic partnerships](/img/default/pit.png)
This week, we provide a rundown of the latest auction news, from a one-of-a-kind hotel business site up for sale in...
02 October 2020
From: Breaking News
![Revolutionising the prime market – one developer’s goal to shake up the system](/img/default/pit.png)
A residential property and design consultancy for the prime and super-prime London market is seeking to disrupt the traditional model by...
14 September 2020
From: Breaking News
![A timeline – how has coronavirus impacted the Scottish property market?](/img/default/pit.png)
Scotland, alongside Wales and Northern Ireland, is using its devolved powers to take a different course from the UK government by...
13 May 2020
From: Breaking News
![Overseas property: how has Covid-19 affected the market in Mallorca?](/img/default/pit.png)
Spain has experienced one of the most severe lockdown regimes, with rules in place from March 15, subsequently affecting the country's...
04 May 2020
From: Breaking News
![How is the Scottish property market coping with Covid-19?](/img/default/pit.png)
Covid-19 has had a significant impact on the nation, and undoubtedly the property market, with people remaining indoors until normalcy is...
15 April 2020
From: Breaking News
![Q&A - should British investors still be considering Spanish property post-Brexit?](/img/default/pit.png)
With Spain being one of the most popular investment destinations for British investors, we checked in with David Fuster, a highly...
12 February 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
![Striking a policy balance is crucial for foreign property investment](/img/default/pit.png)
When it comes to regulating and managing foreign investment in highly desirable UK bricks and mortar, understanding the subtleties of the...
11 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
![Moving home? Here’s your guide to property jargon](/img/default/pit.png)
Moving home? Here’s your guide to property jargon When it comes to buying, selling, letting or renting a property, you will likely...
08 October 2019
From: Sponsored Content
![The best performing £1 million-plus property postcodes in 2019 revealed](/img/default/pit.png)
Super-prime property portal, Vyomm, has looked at the highest average house price across England and Wales to determine the best performing...
31 July 2019
From: Breaking News
![Increased property transactions despite fall in supply and demand, says NAEA](/img/default/pit.png)
The number of sales agreed per member branch increased for the first time since October 2018, according to NAEA Propertymark. Its April...
31 May 2019
From: Breaking News
![How can Brexit be a property investor’s opportunity?](/img/default/pit.png)
Brexit! Whether you’re a Brexiteer or a Remainer, no one can deny that this is probably the number one issue on...
22 May 2019
From: Breaking News
![Overseas investors boosted by Brexit uncertainty and weak pound](/img/default/pit.png)
Brexit uncertainty is continuing to drive foreign investment in the UK, research by CashbackRemortgages.co.uk has claimed. A third of multi-million pound homes...
30 November 2018
From: Breaking News
![Property transactions dip across the UK](/img/default/pit.png)
The UK property market is facing a period of consolidation as property transactions dip, according to DJ Alexander Ltd. The property management...
14 September 2018
From: Breaking News
![Balearic Islands popular among foreign property investors, analysis shows](/img/default/pit.png)
Property transactions in the Balearic Islands have more than doubled in the last five years, according to estate agents Porta Mondial. The...
22 August 2018
From: Breaking News
![NLA warns that Scottish rental reforms could put Edinburgh festivals at risk](/img/default/pit.png)
New data has revealed that the Scottish Government’s private rental reforms are shaking up the sector, with rental property sales outdoing...
15 August 2018
From: Breaking News
![Place in the sun ambitions rekindled by sterling’s improved performance](/img/default/pit.png)
The amount spent on European property by Britons has increased by two thirds. That is according to data released by international...
25 May 2018
From: Breaking News
![Sales still nowhere near pre-crash levels, research finds](/img/default/pit.png)
Property sales in the UK have still not recovered to anywhere close to their pre-2008 levels, a decade on from the...
16 February 2018
From: Breaking News
![Stamp duty is dampening housing market growth, says bank](/img/default/pit.png)
The UK property market is becoming stagnant as people who wish to move homes are being hindered by Stamp Duty Land...
15 November 2017
From: Breaking News
![Autumn Budget can help free up rental homes to buy](/img/default/pit.png)
Bishop Fleming has called for the Chancellor in his next Budget to assist residential landlords who wish to downsize their property...
27 October 2017
From: Breaking News
![Residential property transactions pick up in year to July](/img/default/pit.png)
There were 104,760 residential property transactions in the UK in July, up 1.3% from June and 8.3% higher than the corresponding...
23 August 2017
From: Breaking News
![Foreign homebuyers surge 30% in Montreal](/img/default/pit.png)
There was a 30% rise in the number of foreign buyers of property in Montreal in the first half of this...
09 August 2017
From: Breaking News
![Chinese investors set new record acquiring US real estate](/img/default/pit.png)
Chinese investors maintained their leading position regarding dollar sales for the fourth consecutive year by spending a record high $31.7bn (£24.1bn)...
31 July 2017
From: Breaking News
![UK home sales set to drop significantly amid political uncertainty](/img/default/pit.png)
Residential property transactions in May dropped by 3.3% on the previous month, following two successive months of growth, in what could...
22 June 2017
From: Breaking News
![Commercial property purchases by investors hit a nine-year high](/img/default/pit.png)
There has been a sharp increase in the number of commercial property acquisition by investors despite the ongoing political and economic...
01 June 2017
From: Breaking News
![Transaction volumes fall 3.2% in April](/img/default/pit.png)
Property transactions fell in April this year, down 3.2% on March’s total, according to the latest figures from HM Revenue &...
24 May 2017
From: Breaking News
![Scottish housing market remains ‘stable and reliable’](/img/default/pit.png)
There was a sharp rise in the number of property transactions north of the border in March, as demand for property...
22 May 2017
From: Breaking News
![Bridging loans open up opportunities for budding investors](/img/default/pit.png)
The bridging sector in the UK has witnessed five-fold growth in lending since 2011, as property professionals have increasingly considered bridging...
10 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![Central London housebuilding collapses 75% as prices continue to fall](/img/default/pit.png)
The number of new homes breaking ground in central London has plunged by 75% year-on-year as housebuilders put planned projects on...
31 March 2017
From: Breaking News
![Fall in property sales threatens London’s status as economic powerhouse](/img/default/pit.png)
Residential property sales across many parts of the UK will fall in the year ahead, especially in London, if demand for...
28 March 2017
From: Breaking News
![Property transactions see a ‘marked upturn’ across prime central London](/img/default/pit.png)
Despite ongoing political and economic uncertainty, there has been a major improvement in sales volumes throughout prime central London as purchasers...
07 March 2017
From: Breaking News
![Shanghai replaces Tokyo as most attractive property market in Asia](/img/default/pit.png)
The Chinese city of Shanghai has become the number one destination for property investment in Asia Pacific, replacing Tokyo in top...
23 February 2017
From: Breaking News
![Confidence in UK housing market remains strong](/img/default/pit.png)
The UK housing market remains remarkably solid, as reflected by the 4.9% increase in the volume of residential property transactions between...
22 February 2017
From: Breaking News
![Caution to dominate UK housing market in 2017](/img/default/pit.png)
Political and economic uncertainty and a dip in sentiment and transactions generated in part by the outcome of the EU referendum...
03 February 2017
From: Breaking News
![UK housing market remains remarkably resilient](/img/default/pit.png)
Home sales in the UK increased in December compared with the previous month, but were significantly lower than 12 months earlier,...
26 January 2017
From: Breaking News
![Residential transactions up 1% in October, says HMRC](/img/default/pit.png)
The number of residential property transactions increased by 1% in October compared with the previous month, according to the last HMRC...
23 November 2016
From: Breaking News
![Property sales drop 11.3% amid housing shortage](/img/default/pit.png)
The number of home sales fell sharply in the year to September, the latest figures from the tax office show. According to...
24 October 2016
From: Breaking News
![Stamp duty receipts fall as George Osborne’s reforms take their toll](/img/default/pit.png)
Stamp duty receipts fell 2.5% to £7.3bn as the reforms made by former chancellor George Osborne take their toll on the...
03 October 2016
From: Breaking News
![UK property sales fall in August, HMRC figures show](/img/default/pit.png)
The number of residential property transactions decreased slightly between July and August according to newly released data from HMRC, with last...
23 September 2016
From: Breaking News
![Asia’s housing markets are now two-tiered](/img/default/pit.png)
Five of the eleven Asian property markets for which figures are available saw house price increases during the year to Q2...
23 September 2016
From: Breaking News
![Property investor jailed for tax fraud](/img/default/pit.png)
A self-employed property investor and caterer from Bermondsey, who confessed to stealing more than £70,000 in a tax credit fraud, has...
05 September 2016
From: Breaking News
![Scottish property market hampered by LBTT](/img/default/pit.png)
Scotland’s housebuilding industry has expressed concern over the impact of the land and buildings transaction tax (LBTT) following its introduction in...
31 August 2016
From: Breaking News
![Spanish property sales increase significantly](/img/default/pit.png)
There has been a sharp rise in the number of homes sold in Spain as more buyers, including investors, look to...
26 August 2016
From: Breaking News
![Property transactions slip after the Brexit vote](/img/default/pit.png)
The number of residential property transactions fell by 0.9% between June and July, according to newly released figures from HM Revenue...
24 August 2016
From: Breaking News
![UK home prices fall despite pick-up in sales momentum](/img/default/pit.png)
Residential property prices in the UK dipped by 0.9% in July compared with a month earlier, despite a healthy rise in...
10 August 2016
From: Breaking News
![Average Scottish house price down 2.3%](/img/default/pit.png)
The average price of a residential property in Scotland fell by 2.3% during the second quarter of the year compared with...
28 July 2016
From: Breaking News
![Sharp fall in property transactions post-Brexit](/img/default/pit.png)
There has been a significant fall in residential property transactions across the UK which has had an adverse impact on home...
26 July 2016
From: Breaking News
![UK property transactions increase](/img/default/pit.png)
The number of residential property transactions in the UK increased by 4.9% between May and June, according to new data from...
22 July 2016
From: Breaking News
![New buyer demand starts to improve](/img/default/pit.png)
New buyer demand for homes has improved in recent week now that the uncertainty over whether the UK would leave or...
11 July 2016
From: Breaking News
![Further signs of recovery in Spanish property market](/img/default/pit.png)
The Spanish housing market continues to show signs of recovery with the latest national figures revealing that completed sales in April...
15 June 2016
From: Breaking News
![Buyers are ‘investing in the Algarve again’](/img/default/pit.png)
The average price of a home in the Algarve has increased for the first time since 2008, thanks largely to a...
02 June 2016
From: Breaking News
![Prime Milan apartments ‘in high demand’](/img/default/pit.png)
High-end apartments in Milan are now selling for as much as €9,750sqm (£7,710sqm), which is a similar level to luxury homes...
16 May 2016
From: Breaking News
![£12.3bn worth of Irish property sold in 2015](/img/default/pit.png)
Some €15.8bn (£12.3bn) worth of residential and commercial property in Ireland was transacted in 2015, up 6% on the previous year,...
28 April 2016
From: Breaking News
![Investor frenzy fuels surge in sales](/img/default/pit.png)
There was a sharp increase in the number of property transactions between February and March 2016 as property investors rushed to...