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Spanish luxury real estate agency Lucas Fox witnessed sales of new homes triple in the period from January to April 2019,...

A prime and super-prime London property portal has examined the capital’s most expensive roads for homes. The portal, Vyomm, analysed Land Registry...

The number of sales agreed per member branch increased for the first time since October 2018, according to NAEA Propertymark. Its April...

UcaDO – the UK’s first ever free-to-list, peer-to-peer property app – has been launched on the App Store. It was founded by Will...

Brexit! Whether you’re a Brexiteer or a Remainer, no one can deny that this is probably the number one issue on...

The French property market saw a record 970,000 transactions in 2018, up from 564,000 in the depths of the financial crisis. The...

Confidence is returning to Barcelona’s property market following a stuttering period after the October 1 independence push in 2017. That’s according to...

Landlord action to reduce higher tax costs could lead to a lower level of buy-to-let mortgage transactions going forward. That is according...

Property Investor Today recently spoke with Alex Cook, Litigation Solicitor and Partner at Helix Law to discuss the rise of property...

It took the Spanish property market several years before it really started to claw its way out of the chaos brought...

Mallorca has experienced a steady increase of real estate purchases by foreign investors, with the total number of transactions hitting 15,000...

Uncertainty over Brexit is thought to be having a significant impact on rental and house prices, according to a recent Belvoir...

Spain’s property market is set for steady growth in 2019, according to Lucas Fox International Properties. With 2018 proving to be another...

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...

Blackpool’s property market is set to exceed a valuation of £250m this year, with the total spent on sales growing by...

Property auctioneer Auction House has sold 3,076 lots this year, exceeding the figure one month earlier than in 2017. The cumulative total...

The number of buy-to-let lenders lending to limited companies has increased by 47% over the past year, according to Mortgages for...

The UK property market is facing a period of consolidation as property transactions dip, according to DJ Alexander Ltd. The property management...

Liverpool’s property market is set to reach a £1 billion valuation this year as the total spent on house sales has...

Property transactions in the Balearic Islands have more than doubled in the last five years, according to estate agents Porta Mondial. The...

New data has revealed that the Scottish Government’s private rental reforms are shaking up the sector, with rental property sales outdoing...

UK national house price growth is on an upward curve, according to Carter Jonas. But it continues to slow with rates...

More than half of British buyers still want to buy a holiday home in the UK, according to estate agent Jackson-Stops. The...

Britons still top the numbers of foreign buyers purchasing homes in France, according to new research by BNP Paribas. What’s more, as...

The latest Acuitus auction achieved a success rate of 80% and the sale of £37.3 million of assets. Earlier this year, the...

Spain’s third city is now seeing steady gains and attracting investors following the fall of its property prices and the number...

The amount spent on European property by Britons has increased by two thirds. That is according to data released by international...

New analysis from buy-to-let broker Commercial Trust has highlighted the appeal of London and the South East for investors aged 50...

Turkish property agency Spot Blue International Property has revealed that the country is emerging as an unlikely champion of cryptocurrencies, with...

Activity of transactions in Scotland’s Purpose-Built Student Accommodation (PBSA) exceeded £100 million in 2017, according to recent figures for GVA’s Student...

The Spanish property market continues to thrive, according to estate agency Lucas Fox, with sales of new homes in Madrid and...

Demand for residential property on Mallorca remains at a high level, according to luxury estate agent Engel & Völkers. The number of...

An online platform for mid to long-term rental accommodation, Spotahome, has handled over $4 million in residential rental transactions since its...

Property sales in the UK have still not recovered to anywhere close to their pre-2008 levels, a decade on from the...

The inaugural Homebuyer Urban Flood Risk Report has found that nearly one in seven UK homebuyers faced a potential flood risk...

The UK property market is becoming stagnant as people who wish to move homes are being hindered by Stamp Duty Land...

Bishop Fleming has called for the Chancellor in his next Budget to assist residential landlords who wish to downsize their property...

The latest research by luxury estate agency Lucas Fox has revealed that Madrid is cementing its status as a key European...

First-time buyers in London are taking a step back to wait for a reasonable deal, causing a lack of demand in...

Home sales in Spain soared by almost 50% in the first half of 2017, according to findings from estate agency Lucas...

Scotland's property market is at its strongest since 2008, despite the EU Referendum, this year’s general election, higher tax rates than the...

Aston Property Ventures has announced the development of two luxury apartment towers and a shopping mall in the heart of Dubai...

There has been a sharp increase in the number of home sales in Spain, according to the latest figures from the...

The UK’s housing market showed further signs of weakness in July, as the number of property sales fell as uncertainty and...

Serviced office take up across the UK has more than doubled in the first half of this year, reaching 1.07 million...

Birmingham is now the number one UK property hotspot, after it was revealed today that property values in the city increased...

There were 104,760 residential property transactions in the UK in July, up 1.3% from June and 8.3% higher than the corresponding...

Commercial property investment in the City of London last month totalled £2.1bn, boosted by the sale of the Walkie Talkie to...

The UK housing crisis will be top of the political agenda in September and October when the main political parties hold...

Canada’s property market continues to run out of steam, with the latest data from the Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) revealing...

Growth in UK property prices increased at a slower pace of 4.9% in June, down from 5% a month earlier, according...

Improvements to the existing stamp duty regime would significantly boost the number of housing transactions across England and Wales, according to...

There was a 30% rise in the number of foreign buyers of property in Montreal in the first half of this...

Strutt & Parker, one of the UK’s largest independent estate agents, has seen demand for property in the UK increase significantly...

There was a marginal increase in the number of residential property sales in prime central London in the first half of...

Property investors acquiring commercial property in London’s West End continue to target ‘trophy’ assets, with around £3.9bn spent on properties in...

Chinese investors maintained their leading position regarding dollar sales for the fourth consecutive year by spending a record high $31.7bn (£24.1bn)...

Following May’s fall in property sales, the number of homes sold in the UK during June improved significantly, as buyers and...

With a growing number of property investors using short-term bridging finance to buy property, June was a landmark for many specialist...

More than £2bn was invested into the UK hotel market in the first half of the year, according to the latest...

Canada’s red-hot housing market looks set to cool next year, with property prices heading for a ‘soft landing’, according to the...

Buying property abroad has always been attractive to many UK-based investors, and it would appear that demand from the UK for...

The average lot size for commercial property investments in the City of London reached almost £110m last month, up 52% on...

The property market in northern England, supported in part by the Northern Powerhouse concept, has attracted a lot of media attention,...

Property deals worth £100m+ are dominating London’s West End investment market at the moment, with ten deals of this size totalling...

Residential property sales in the US rebounded last month following a fall in April, helping to drive up prices in the...

Residential property transactions in May dropped by 3.3% on the previous month, following two successive months of growth, in what could...

Commercial property investors across the UK are turning their attention to the industrial market, which has seen a rise in transactions...

House prices in England and Wales returned to growth in May, pushing the average property value to a new all-time high...

There has been a sharp increase in the number of commercial property acquisition by investors despite the ongoing political and economic...

Strong investor interest in good quality, long term assets helped Allsop raise £94m at its third commercial auction this year. The auction...

Manchester remains the number one UK property hotspot, after it was revealed today that property values in the city increased faster...

Demand for commercial office space in Sheffield remains remarkably strong, driving upward pressure on rental prices and increasing the demand for...

Property transactions fell in April this year, down 3.2% on March’s total, according to the latest figures from HM Revenue &...

There was a sharp rise in the number of property transactions north of the border in March, as demand for property...

Residential property prices continued to increase at a modest pace in April, the latest figures show. The average home in England and...

Annual gross bridging lending dropped slightly in the first quarter of the year, according to the latest Bridging Trends data. The figures...

The average price of a home in Scotland in February reached £173,862 – a rise of 3.3% on the previous year,...

The average deal size in London’s West End hit a new quarterly record of £86m in the first quarter of 2017,...

The price of the average property in England and Wales broke through the £300,000 barrier in March, following a 0.5% rise...

Levels of remortgaging reached the highest level for eight years in February, while the average amount borrowed fell, according to new...

The bridging sector in the UK has witnessed five-fold growth in lending since 2011, as property professionals have increasingly considered bridging...

Mortgage Gym, the world’s first regulated mortgage robo-adviser, is launching in the UK with a view to speeding up the loan...

Growing economic uncertainty in the UK is starting to weigh on consumer confidence and willingness to engage in major transactions such...

The number of new homes breaking ground in central London has plunged by 75% year-on-year as housebuilders put planned projects on...

Property investors from China have replaced those from Singapore as the largest group of foreign property buyers in Malaysia, fresh figures...

Residential property sales across many parts of the UK will fall in the year ahead, especially in London, if demand for...

Manchester has become the latest UK property hotspot, after it was revealed today that property values in the city increased faster...

The average price of a home in central London hit a new high of £1,818,262 in 2016, thanks largely to a rally...

Residential property prices in Ireland increased by 0.6% month-on-month in January to keep annual growth steady at 7.9% following the first...

Mortgage lending to home buyers fell to a near two-year low in January amid a ‘stubbornly persistent’ lull in moving activity,...

The average price of a home in England and Wales increased by almost £1,900 in February compared with the previous month,...

International investors’ interest in UK food stores is likely to increase this year, according to a new Savills report, as the...

Despite ongoing political and economic uncertainty, there has been a major improvement in sales volumes throughout prime central London as purchasers...

Investment from China last year exceeded Singapore as the largest source of Asian capital in the global property market for the...

The number of home buyers in London fell to the lowest level for four years, fresh figures from the Council of...

The Chinese city of Shanghai has become the number one destination for property investment in Asia Pacific, replacing Tokyo in top...

The UK housing market remains remarkably solid, as reflected by the 4.9% increase in the volume of residential property transactions between...

The number of industrial and warehousing deals in Leicestershire hit an all-time high in 2016 as property investors looked to capitalise...

Investment volumes in London increased to £4.1bn in the final quarter of 2016, the latest Property Perspective report from CBRE shows.  The...

Political and economic uncertainty and a dip in sentiment and transactions generated in part by the outcome of the EU referendum...

Transaction volumes in prime central property have dipped further as a result of changes in residential taxation, Brexit and global economic...

In the region of £3bn was invested into UK shopping centres in 2016 thanks mainly to a bounce back in activity...

Home sales in the UK increased in December compared with the previous month, but were significantly lower than 12 months earlier,...

The number of property sales made in Barcelona by Lucas Fox International Properties increased by 73% last year when compared with...

Prime commercial property rents in Dublin will increase by more than 4% in 2017, according to fresh research by Cushman &...

European property markets finished 2016 strongly, experiencing both improving fundamentals and further yield compression, according to Savills. Savills Investment Management transacted €5bn...

Asking prices for homes in Britain have increased marginally in the last month, while demand on the house-hunting website Rightmove has...

Overseas investors were increasingly active in the UK property market during 2016, accounting for a significant share of all transactions, according...

Despite ongoing political and economic uncertainty, sales volumes are rising in the central London prime property market as buyers look to...

Despite ongoing uncertainty around Brexit, the UK property market is expected to return to relative calm and renewed prosperity in 2017,...

Residential property prices in the UK remained broadly stable in 2016 but is likely to slow next year, the Nationwide has...

Marc Langdon, a partner at Bidwells, offers his thoughts on what property market trends we can expect over the coming year. I...

Will Herrmann, director at West Eleven, a property developer and investment company, offers his thoughts on what property market trends we...

Some 30% of all Middle Eastern capital targeting the UK post EU referendum has been deployed outside of central London with...

Fewer people are expected to invest in residential property in 2017, as tax changes and economic uncertainty deter many property investors...

Palace Capital has revealed plans to target the acquisition of buildings near city centre train stations that offer plenty of room...

The average residential property price in England and Wales edged up by 0.1% in November, according to the latest the LSL/Acadata...

Homeowners and property investors in Greater London are facing steep falls in house prices as the slowdown in prime areas of...

New research into Aberdeen’s housing market suggests the prospects for a long-term recovery are good, despite the fact that sellers’ price...

The number of residential property transactions increased by 1% in October compared with the previous month, according to the last HMRC...

Residential property prices in Scotland rose 0.6% month-on-month in September, taking the average price above £170,000 for the first time since...

Residential property prices in Dubai dipped during the third quarter of the year following a fall in transactions, new figures show. Annual...

Land values in prime central London dropped by 10.3% in the year through to September, and are now at around the...

The latest residential property sales figures in Spain published by the National Institute of Statistics (INE) show that the number of...

The chancellor Phillip Hammond should use his upcoming Autumn Statement to raise the Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) threshold to £250,000...

The number of home sales fell sharply in the year to September, the latest figures from the tax office show. According to...

Investment into the UK hotel market totalled £3.1bn in the first nine months of the year, according to new research from...

International investors accounted for 78% of the commercial property acquired in central London in the last three months, as the fall...

A Spanish real estate agency's half-year report shows that property prices and transactions have increased in the country's key cities and...

Confidence appears to be returning to the UK housing market as new figures reveal an increase in the number of homes...

Ireland is at risk of another economic disaster because the country has failed to learn from the mistakes of the last...

Stamp duty receipts fell 2.5% to £7.3bn as the reforms made by former chancellor George Osborne take their toll on the...

Of the four Middle Eastern housing markets included the latest Global Property Guide survey, all, except UAE, performed worse in the...

The number of residential property transactions decreased slightly between July and August according to newly released data from HMRC, with last...

Five of the eleven Asian property markets for which figures are available saw house price increases during the year to Q2...

The annual rate of UK house price growth cooled further in August, after slowing the previous month, fresh data shows. Halifax said...

A self-employed property investor and caterer from Bermondsey, who confessed to stealing more than £70,000 in a tax credit fraud, has...

There was a significant rise in the number of commercial property investors ploughing money into Manchester’s office property market during the...

Scotland’s housebuilding industry has expressed concern over the impact of the land and buildings transaction tax (LBTT) following its introduction in...

There has been a sharp rise in the number of homes sold in Spain as more buyers, including investors, look to...

Activity levels in the UK’s commercial property market have slowed considerably following the UK vote to leave the European Union, as...

The number of residential property transactions fell by 0.9% between June and July, according to newly released figures from HM Revenue...

Up to 350 lower-cost residential units, including 150 affordable properties, will be developed in Croydon, after a property fund managed by...

Residential property prices in the UK dipped by 0.9% in July compared with a month earlier, despite a healthy rise in...

The average price of a residential property in Scotland fell by 2.3% during the second quarter of the year compared with...

There has been a significant fall in residential property transactions across the UK which has had an adverse impact on home...

Following Lewis Hamilton’s comfortable victory at the Hungarian Grand Prix on Sunday, we delve into the fast lane to take you...

The number of residential property transactions in the UK increased by 4.9% between May and June, according to new data from...

Fewer homes are now changing hands in prime central London than during the trough of 2008, fresh research shows. Looking specifically at...

A new auction house has been launched as part of city property investment firm ALB Group, it has been announced. The new auction...

New buyer demand for homes has improved in recent week now that the uncertainty over whether the UK would leave or...

Residential property prices in the UK look set to fall in the coming months as economic and political turmoil have an...

More than a quarter of residential property sales fell through in the UK during the second quarter of the year mainly because...

Residential property prices in the UK increased marginally in June, despite greater uncertainty in the run-up to the EU referendum, the...

A significant number of house sales fell through in the immediate aftermath of the win for Brexit as buyers got cold...

Global markets have plunged, David Cameron has announced that he is to step down as Prime Minister later this year and...

There has been a significant increase in the number of homes sold in Lisbon in recent years as the Portuguese capital...

Residential property sales in the UK increased by 1.5% in May compared with April but the month’s seasonally adjusted figure is...

The Spanish housing market continues to show signs of recovery with the latest national figures revealing that completed sales in April...

The sense of gathering momentum for the Leave campaign ahead of the EU referendum is causing high levels of uncertainty in...

With bookmakers now offering the shortest ever odds on the UK voting to leave the EU, some homes are being sold...

A growing number of property investors are adding clauses into contracts giving buyers the right to walk away from commercial property...

Portugal’s largest bank, Caixa Geral de Depósitos (CGD), which holds almost one-third of all deposits in the country, is on the...

The average price of a home in the Algarve has increased for the first time since 2008, thanks largely to a...

Residential property prices in cities such as Bristol, Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester have increased significantly over the past year, a survey...

Residential property auction sales remained relatively firm in April despite the introduction of the new stamp duty surcharge, according to official...

Investor appetite continues to grow for most commercial property markets across Europe despite a sharp drop in the total investment volume...

Keystone Property Finance has responded to investor feedback by introducing new ranges for auction purchases and commercial property. The auction range includes...

High-end apartments in Milan are now selling for as much as €9,750sqm (£7,710sqm), which is a similar level to luxury homes...

Interest in Portugal’s property market from Chinese investors is rapidly increasing, as wealthy buyers target investment opportunities and seek to tap...

Some €15.8bn (£12.3bn) worth of residential and commercial property in Ireland was transacted in 2015, up 6% on the previous year,...

There was a sharp increase in the number of property transactions between February and March 2016 as property investors rushed to...

There was a significant increase in the volume of buy-to-let mortgage products available in the UK in the first quarter of...

The introduction of a stamp duty surcharge next month has again been deemed responsible for a boost in housing demand, with...

Property investor M&G Real Estate bought and sold £4.2 billion of property in 2015, taking the total level of transactions to...

The National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA) October Housing Market Report has revealed that sales to first-time buyers are at their...

A new report from the National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA) has revealed that sales to first-time buyers grew in September,...

The latest research from estate agency Carter Jonas has revealed that investment volumes in UK commercial property are set to pass...

Housing demand reached an eleven year high in June as property supply levels continued to fall, the National Association of Estate...