Entries for September 2009

Latest results from Knight Frank’s Global House Price Index show that values increased in almost half of the locations reporting price changes for the second quarter of 2009

The National Landlords’s Association has claimed that millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money is being wasted by a new method of paying housing benefit, the Local Housing Allowance (LHA).

The upturn in residential market sentiment has been reflected by an increase in the sales rate at London auctions

Following the latest interest rate hold by the Bank of England, the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has seen fit to mount a rearguard action against the growing number of critics of its members

So it is time for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs to get tough with Syrian property tycoon Simon Halabi over £4.8m of outstanding tax

Poor old DTZ. Its management took a voluntary pay cut last year at the same time as sacking hundreds of its staff as it struggled to stay afloat

Banks have had an appalling press over the past year but some of them must have been encouraged by the findings of a recently released report from accountants Grant Thornton

You will have noticed that the stock market has perked up somewhat in recent months with property stocks benefiting more than most. Analysts’ assessments are beginning to perk up too

The National Pension Service of Korea (NPS), the fifth largest pension fund in the world is reportedly considering investing heavily in prime property assets in central London

Hablib.com, a shortened version of Habitation Libertum – home freedom – is the name of a new website being launched by ex Goldman Sachs trader Anton Kreil

Congratulations to Fergus and Judith Wilson who have decided to cash in their 700 home property portfolio

Just under one acre of cleared residential land in Alpha Place Chelsea is about to come on to the market through Allsop

Six months of improved sentiment in the mainstream UK housing market has seen the value of the average home increase by 8%

Knight Frank is, according to its chairman Nick Thomlinson, “looking ahead to a period of stability and a much more realistic property market”.

There has been a sharp reversal of fortune in the central London housing market if the latest figures from Knight Frank are to be believed