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![Rebound! Housing market strengthens despite election uncertainty](/upload/images/24%2006%2006%20%2001.jpg)
There’s been a modest rebound in house price growth according to new figures from the Nationwide. The lender says UK house prices...
06 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Global City Capital Appreciation strongest for 18 months - Knight Frank](/upload/images/24%2005%2021%20%2003.jpg)
The first quarter of 2024 witnessed an average annual growth rate of 4.1% across the 44 markets covered by the Knight...
21 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![Figures show capital appreciation hotspots across the UK](/upload/images/24%2005%2010%20%2002.jpg)
New figures from the Halifax show where in the UK capital appreciation is running at its highest. Northern Ireland remains the strongest...
10 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![New London investment hotspot triggered by regeneration scheme](/upload/images/24%2004%2023%20%2001.jpg)
Southall in West London is set to be one of the capital’s hottest property investment spots in 2024, according to a...
23 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![Global Housing Markets Pick Up](/upload/images/24%2004%2023%20%2002.jpg)
Average prices across 56 major global housing markets increased again last quarter, with average annual growth now at 3.9% across a...
23 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![Good News - strong start to 2024 housing market says the Halifax](/upload/images/240213%2002.jpg)
Average house prices rose by 1.3 per cent in January, the fourth monthly rise in a row according to the Halifax. Property...
13 February 2024
From: Breaking News
![Industrial Property investment boost - Savills highlights key region](/upload/images/240213%2005.jpg)
The West Midlands industrial market is poised for continued rental growth over the next five years, according to Savills latest Big...
13 February 2024
From: Breaking News
![Confidence Returns To Prime Property Markets - Savills](/upload/images/24%2001%2004%20%2003.jpg)
One of the country’s highest profile high-end property consultancies says confidence is returning to prime markets after a turbulent year, with...
04 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![Global league table reveals the world’s best residential property returns](/upload/images/23%2012%2028%201.jpg)
A new global league table for residential property investment has placed the Republic of Ireland as its top tip for 2024. This...
28 December 2023
From: Breaking News
![Should Investors Wait for new round of House Price Falls?](/upload/images/23%2012%2014%204.jpg)
Two leading house price indices have shown recent rises - both the Nationwide last month and now the Halifax. The latter says...
14 December 2023
From: Breaking News
![House prices WILL fall in 2024 despite recent rises - top analyst prediction](/upload/images/23%2012%2012%201.jpg)
A prominent investment platform says the recent small house price rises recorded by both the Nationwide and the Halifax are merely...
12 December 2023
From: Breaking News
![Global Luxury Property Investment Returns Tick Higher](/upload/images/__thumbs/23%2011%2016%203.jpg/23%2011%2016%203__400x300.jpg)
Average annual price growth in prime global city markets ticked up in Q3 2023 to 2.1 per cent, well above the...
16 November 2023
From: Breaking News
![Investors In London Property Buoyed By Better Returns](/upload/images/23%2010%2019%2002.jpg)
A leading lettings agency and property consultancy has revealed that it anticipates stronger-than-expected rental growth this year and next in prime...
19 October 2023
From: Breaking News
![What’s Happening In The Housing Market Now? Zoopla’s take…](/upload/images/__thumbs/23%2009%2012%202.jpg/23%2009%2012%202__400x267.jpg)
Zoopla is giving investors five key takeaways in its latest market analysis: 1. UK house prices have risen 0.1 per cent in...
12 September 2023
From: Breaking News
![Northern England Will Be Best Bet For Investors ‘for the foreseeable future’](/upload/images/23%2008%2029%202%20Northern%20England%20Will%20Be%20Best%20Bet%20For%20Investors%20%E2%80%98for%20the%20foreseeable%20future%E2%80%99.png)
The North of England is outperforming the South for both capital appreciation and rental yields. Sourced Franchise has analysed annual changes in...
29 August 2023
From: Breaking News
![Substantial House Price falls present investor opportunities](/upload/images/1%20DemandDown-400x310.jpg)
The average UK house price fell only slightly in June, by around £300 compared to May with a typical property now...
13 July 2023
From: Breaking News
![High Returns in High End Global Luxury Markets](/upload/images/4%20High%20Returns%20in%20High%20End%20Global%20Luxury%20Markets%20by%20Graham%20Norwood.png)
Rents in global luxury residential markets are continuing to see strong growth. The Knight Frank Prime Global Rental Index rose by 8.5...
22 June 2023
From: Breaking News
![Vetro shines as Tower Hamlets leads the capital](/upload/images/__thumbs/Vetro.png/Vetro__399x269.png)
New Rightmove data revealed Tower Hamlets as the only London borough to see house price growth in the first month of...
19 January 2023
From: Breaking News
![Could modular homes solve the housing crisis?](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/ModularHomes-1-400x310.jpg)
The average UK house price hit a fresh high in May, rising for the 11th month in a row, according to...
08 July 2022
From: Breaking News
![Knight and shining forecast: global consultancy revises up 2022 forecast](/upload/images/Logos/Knight-Frank-logo400x310.png)
Global consultancy Knight Frank recently revised its UK residential house price forecast upwards, with the firm saying the supply of houses coming onto the...
29 June 2022
From: Breaking News
![Modular housing set for a boost as build costs soar – claim](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/ModularHomes-1-400x310.jpg)
The homes we live in will increasingly be constructed off-site as investors and developers strive to balance spiralling costs with net-zero...
22 June 2022
From: Breaking News
![Global house price index – Istanbul leads the way as values soar](/upload/images/Locations/WorldMapAsia-400x310.jpg)
Knight Frank's latest Global House Price and Residential Cities Index has revealed that Istanbul was the city with the highest rate of...
08 June 2022
From: Breaking News
![Revealed - firm delivers £10.4m cash returns to buy-to-let investors](/upload/images/Locations/ManchesterMap-400x310.jpg)
Sequre Property Investment has announced a £10.4 million cash realisation for over 1,400 investors over the last 12 months, across its...
06 June 2022
From: Breaking News
![Buy-to-let sector heats up rent rises tempt landlords back to market](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/uk-housing400x310.png)
New analysis from Knight Frank suggests that rent rises are tempting landlords back into the market. It found that, in some cases,...
29 April 2022
From: Breaking News
![Auction roundup – soaring revenues and a time warp house for sale](/upload/images/Site%20logos/AuctionRoundup-400x310-min.jpg)
It’s success galore for this week’s auction roundup, with Bond Wolfe witnessing revenue growth of over £23 million at its second...
08 April 2022
From: Breaking News
![Chris Holland - Director of Sales and Lettings at the Heaton Group](/upload/images/adv-2021/60-second-interview/Heaton%20Group/Urban%20Green.png)
Who are you? Chris Holland What does it say on your business card? Director of Sales and Lettings What is Heaton Group? Heaton Group are a...
06 April 2022
From: 60 Second Interview
![Revealed – which cities will be the investment hotspots of 2022?](/upload/images/library/Birmingham-Bullring-400x310px-min.png)
Staying at the forefront of the property investment industry takes a great deal of work, experience and expert knowledge, which is...
24 January 2022
From: Breaking News
![Investors – how to avoid the down value trap](/upload/images/library/UK-Cash-NEW-400x310.jpg)
Recent reports that over half of all London homes on the market last year were downvalued by lenders was somewhat concerning...
20 September 2021
From: Breaking News
![Sandstone - company launches fund across ten UK cities](/upload/images/library/BPS-LondonAerial-400x310.jpg)
A UK-based private property investment and management company has launched the Sandstone Residential REIT, focused on traditional residential property across ten...
13 August 2021
From: Breaking News
![Serviced apartments: the major player on the hospitality stage](/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
![Ongoing boom! Scotland property market ends 2020 on a high note](/img/default/pit.png)
The housing market in Scotland is showing no signs of slowing down, with marked increases throughout Q4 2020 despite Covid setbacks,...
06 January 2021
From: Breaking News
![Rents across the country rise as London continues to struggle](/img/default/pit.png)
Average monthly rents are performing strongly across the country on an annual basis, although comparative figures in the capital dropped for...
05 August 2020
From: Breaking News
![Manila and Budapest top of the list for global house price growth](/img/default/pit.png)
Knight Frank’s latest Global Residential Cities Index, which tracks the movement in mainstream residential prices across 150 cities worldwide using official...
03 July 2020
From: Breaking News
![Rental growth continues following property market restart in May](/img/default/pit.png)
The latest rental market data from HomeLet shows that average annual rents increased last month following the market officially reopening on...
08 June 2020
From: Breaking News
![Greening the market – new tie-up set to deliver eco-friendly homes](/img/default/pit.png)
A leading modular housing company has partnered with housing provider Stonewater to deliver 120 affordable eco-homes to Hereford in a deal...
08 June 2020
From: Breaking News
![Forecast: Spring surge expected, despite spread of coronavirus](/img/default/pit.png)
The housing market in England and Wales remains on course to record strong growth this spring, according to reallymoving.com. Its House Price...
16 March 2020
From: Breaking News
![Property predictions – what could happen to the housing market in 2020?](/img/default/pit.png)
Now that 2020 is underway, activity in the property market is likely to start picking up due to the traditional seasonal...
17 January 2020
From: Sponsored Content
![Top performing property types of the decade revealed](/img/default/pit.png)
Terraced homeowners in London have seen the highest price growth of any property type across the whole of England and Wales...
08 January 2020
From: Breaking News
![House prices predicted to end 2019 at 4% annual growth](/img/default/pit.png)
House prices in England and Wales are set to end the year 4.1% higher than at the end of 2018, reallymoving’s...
15 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Londoners buying prime country properties at eight-year high](/img/default/pit.png)
The number of Londoners purchasing country properties costing £2 million and above between January and June was at its highest level...
14 October 2019
From: Breaking News
![Global property prices - Europe dominates as Berlin leads the way](/img/default/pit.png)
Property prices in 46 prime global cities grew by 1.4% during Q2 2019, according to Knight Frank. The consultancy’s Prime Global Cities...
16 September 2019
From: Breaking News
![UK’s most expensive cities become more affordable](/img/default/pit.png)
The average house price in London now stands at £483,100, which is 13 times more than typical earnings in the capital,...
30 August 2019
From: Breaking News
![Berlin leading the way on price growth, says Knight Frank](/img/default/pit.png)
In the second quarter of this year, Berlin was the city with the strongest rate of annual house price growth, according...
21 August 2019
From: Breaking News
![Southern England property market experiencing house price falls](/img/default/pit.png)
More than a third (36%) of homes in Southern England are in property markets experiencing house price falls as slowdown ripples...
21 June 2019
From: Breaking News
![What has Brexit's impact been on the holiday homes market?](/img/default/pit.png)
As Brexit draws closer it is only natural that home owners are worried about how it will affect them. However, experts...
19 June 2019
From: Breaking News
![House price growth slowed annually in 2018, Zoopla reveals](/img/default/pit.png)
House price growth across UK cities reduced steadily throughout 2018, according to new analysis carried out as part of Zoopla’s UK...
01 February 2019
From: Breaking News
![Rental sector remains resilient amid housing concerns](/img/default/pit.png)
Average UK rental values continued to grow towards the end of 2018, with December showing a continuation of the steady rise...
16 January 2019
From: Breaking News
![Edinburgh market overperforms while Scotland improves](/img/default/pit.png)
Edinburgh has seen price growth of 1.9% across Q3 2018, while prices in Scotland rose by 0.7% in the same period,...
10 October 2018
From: Breaking News
![Global city price growth continues to slow, but Europe performs strongly](/img/default/pit.png)
Average house prices in global cities grew at their slowest rate since 2015 during the first quarter of this year. Research by...
06 July 2018
From: Breaking News
![Valencia’s competitive property prices attract investors](/img/default/pit.png)
Spain’s third city is now seeing steady gains and attracting investors following the fall of its property prices and the number...
01 June 2018
From: Breaking News
![Knight Frank analyses prime price movements in decade since crash](/img/default/pit.png)
Fresh research examining the movement of prime residential prices in the world’s top cities since the start of the financial crisis,...
23 March 2018
From: Breaking News
![Prime country house prices remain unchanged, Knight Frank says](/img/default/pit.png)
Knight Frank’s research revealed prime country house prices have fallen a mere 0.1% between July and September, with annual growth remaining...
29 September 2017
From: Breaking News
![Prime Central London experiences steady recovery in sales volumes](/img/default/pit.png)
Asking price reductions continue to stimulate demand in transaction volumes in prime central London with a steady recovery through the summer,...
20 September 2017
From: Breaking News
![British house prices will ‘struggle to rise much’ this year](/img/default/pit.png)
Residential property price growth across Britain eased to a three-month low in August, as cooler economic conditions and political uncertainty continued...
30 August 2017
From: Breaking News
![House prices in Birmingham rise faster than anywhere in the country](/img/default/pit.png)
Birmingham is now the number one UK property hotspot, after it was revealed today that property values in the city increased...
25 August 2017
From: Breaking News
![House price growth in Scotland outperforming England and Wales](/img/default/pit.png)
House prices in Scotland increased by an average of 0.5% in June to reach an average of £175,941, according to the...
18 August 2017
From: Breaking News
![Annual growth slowing as market 'pauses' for summer break](/img/default/pit.png)
Annual house price growth slowed in July, according to the latest figures from LSL Property Services. Last month, annual growth dipped by...
14 August 2017
From: Breaking News
![Prices in key UK cities up 5.1% in H1 2017](/img/default/pit.png)
Residential property prices in key UK cities have proved resilient in the first half of the year, with growth of 5.1%,...
21 July 2017
From: Breaking News
![Sales activity picking up for prime country homes in the UK](/img/default/pit.png)
There was a marginal rise in prime country prices in the UK in the second quarter of the year, thanks in...
05 July 2017
From: Breaking News
![The rental market is ‘strong and stable’ despite election uncertainty](/img/default/pit.png)
Most parts of England and Wales saw rents rise in the run-up to the recent general election with yields stable at...
03 July 2017
From: Breaking News
![Demand falls due to ‘increasing house prices and limited housing stock’](/img/default/pit.png)
Mortgage approvals and household credit growth both slowed last month, adding to growing signs that prospective purchasers in the UK are...
27 June 2017
From: Breaking News
![Housing shortage drives up property prices in Scotland](/img/default/pit.png)
Residential property prices rose by an average of £3,217 north of the border in April, the latest Your Move’s Scotland House...
19 June 2017
From: Breaking News
![UK house prices proving resilient despite political uncertainty](/img/default/pit.png)
Britain’s housing market is once again proving resilient despite political turmoil caused by Theresa May’s decision to call a snap general...
14 June 2017
From: Breaking News
![Top 10 global investment property hotspots](/img/default/pit.png)
There was a 6.5% increase in global house prices in the year to March 2017, the highest annual rate of growth...
13 June 2017
From: Breaking News
![The days of surging UK house prices ‘are gone’](/img/default/pit.png)
The tide has definitely turned against the seller in the UK housing market, a leading property expert has yesterday, following the...
02 June 2017
From: Breaking News
![Urban residential land values continue to rise across the UK](/img/default/pit.png)
Urban brownfield land prices continued to increase across the UK during the first quarter of the year, while prices even remained...
31 May 2017
From: Breaking News
![UK house prices stall amid affordability issues](/img/default/pit.png)
Annual house price growth continues to slow, as affordability issues deter many prospective homebuyers. With 2017 proving to be a rather challenging time...
17 May 2017
From: Breaking News
![House prices fall in Sydney for first time in 18 months](/img/default/pit.png)
House prices in Sydney dipped for the first time in 18 months in April, according to new data, as regulators continue...
02 May 2017
From: Breaking News
![House price inflation at 12-year high in large regional cities](/img/default/pit.png)
City level residential property price growth gained momentum in the first quarter of the year, rising by 3.5%, led by large...
28 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![Australian house price growth surges to seven-year high](/img/default/pit.png)
Residential property prices in Australia are increasing at their fastest pace in seven years, fuelling growing fears about a property bubble...
04 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![Squeeze on consumers weighs on UK property market](/img/default/pit.png)
Growing economic uncertainty in the UK is starting to weigh on consumer confidence and willingness to engage in major transactions such...
03 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![US investors target homes in Ireland](/img/default/pit.png)
Property investors in the US flocked to an Irish property show in Boston last week with a view to taking advantage...
27 March 2017
From: Breaking News
![Shortage of ‘suitable property for sale’ drives up asking prices](/img/default/pit.png)
Asking prices in the housing market in England and Wales continued to rise in March, led by gains in the Midlands,...
20 March 2017
From: Breaking News
![Irish property prices up by almost 8%](/img/default/pit.png)
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...
15 March 2017
From: Breaking News
![Investor demand drives up property prices in Sydney and Melbourne](/img/default/pit.png)
A surge in demand from inventors is continuing to drive up residential property prices in Australia’s two biggest cities, with Sydney...
02 March 2017
From: Breaking News
![UK property remains a ‘fundamentally safe asset class’ for investors](/img/default/pit.png)
Despite initial concerns that a Brexit vote might lead to significant falls in capital values, the latest research by Savills shows...
28 February 2017
From: Breaking News
![UK house price growth continues to slow](/img/default/pit.png)
Residential property price growth continues to slow across parts of the UK, led by falls in London where annual home price...
24 February 2017
From: Breaking News
![Housing shortage and cheap borrowing will continue to support UK house prices](/img/default/pit.png)
UK house prices may have ended last year around £15,000 higher on average than when the year started, but the signs...
16 February 2017
From: Breaking News
![Purpose-built student accommodation delivers positive rental growth](/img/default/pit.png)
There has been a sharp rise in the number of students living in private sector purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) in the...
07 February 2017
From: Breaking News
![Prime country buyers seek ‘value away from the capital’](/img/default/pit.png)
Residential property price growth across all prime regional markets slowed during the final quarter of last year, bringing annual growth to...
06 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
![House price growth shifting from London to regional cities](/img/default/pit.png)
Property prices across the largest UK cities rose by an average of 7.2% in 2016, taking the 20 city average to...
20 January 2017
From: Breaking News
![UK house prices remain ‘reassuringly resilient’](/img/default/pit.png)
Residential property prices were at the forefront of the Brexit debate in the run-up to the EU referendum, with the now...
10 January 2017
From: Breaking News
![Where in the world are house prices growing fastest?](/img/default/pit.png)
Global house prices rose 5.3% on average in the 12 months to September 2016, with Turkey, New Zealand and Iceland recording...
04 January 2017
From: Breaking News
![UK house price growth picks up pace, says Halifax](/img/default/pit.png)
UK house prices rose at their fastest pace for eight months in November, fresh property price data has revealed. The Halifax, part...
08 December 2016
From: Breaking News
![Mortgage approvals recover in October as consumer appetite for credit grows](/img/default/pit.png)
The number of mortgages approved for residential property purchases rose for the second consecutive month in October as the housing market...
01 December 2016
From: Breaking News
![Check out the world's best - and worst - performing housing markets](/img/default/pit.png)
Prime residential property prices across the world’s major cities increased on average by 3.8% in the 12 months to September 2016,...
01 November 2016
From: Breaking News
![UK house prices defy Brexit gloom, but slowdown intensifies down south](/img/default/pit.png)
The annual rate of home price growth across 20 of the largest UK cities hit 8.5% in September, up from 8.2%...
22 October 2016
From: Breaking News
![Chinese cities dominate global house price growth](/img/default/pit.png)
Chinese cities continue to dominate Knight Frank’s latest Global Residential Cities Index, which at 5.5% in Q2 2016 recorded its strongest...
06 October 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
![House price growth in UK’s major cities continues to slow](/img/default/pit.png)
The annual rate of residential property price growth across 20 of the largest UK cities slowed to 8.2% in August, from...
23 September 2016
From: Breaking News
![European house price boom continues unabated, market analysis shows](/img/default/pit.png)
Residential property prices rose in 17 of the 22 European housing markets for which figures were available during the year to...
21 September 2016
From: Breaking News
![Where in the world are property prices growing fastest?](/img/default/pit.png)
Residential property prices across the world increased on average by 4% in the 12 months to June 2016, with New Zealand,...
09 September 2016
From: Breaking News
![Outlook for Scottish housing market ‘looks favourable’ as prices rise](/img/default/pit.png)
Residential property prices in Scotland rose in June and the signs are that values will increase further as demand continues to...
24 August 2016
From: Breaking News
![House price growth remained steady in June, despite pre-Brexit uncertainty](/img/default/pit.png)
The latest UK House Price Index for June, which includes data for the week after the Brexit vote, shows an annual...
17 August 2016
From: Breaking News
![Regulator could step in to curb property investment activity in Australia](/img/default/pit.png)
The banking regulator in Australia may step in to curb lending in the investment sector of the country’s housing market if...
12 August 2016
From: Breaking News
![Australian house price growth slows in July, says CoreLogic](/img/default/pit.png)
Residential property prices continued to increase in most of Australia’s major cities in July, led by gains in Sydney and Melbourne,...
02 August 2016
From: Breaking News
![London house price growth set to slow, says Hometrack](/img/default/pit.png)
Annual house price growth remained broadly unchanged in June across the UK’s major towns and cities, but signs are that price...