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Return of bank bonuses fuels a new surge in house prices

22.10.09
Return of huge bonuses is already pushing up the price of homes - even though City workers have yet to receive their payouts... more

London house prices will jump nearly 40% by 2014

13.10.09
London will escape falling house prices next year while the rest of the country faces a setback in the values of most properties... more

Top-bracket estate agents attack curb on bonuses

02.10.09
Upmarket estate agents today warned that Alistair Darling’s curb on bankers’ bonuses could knock the property market’s fragile recovery in desirable London postcodes ... more

Lib-Dem mansion tax is such a mess

24.09.09
Have the Lib Dems thought through their plan to tax houses over £1 million? They “might find the definition of a house less than clear-cut”... ... more

Price rises lift recovery hope in capital’s housing market

22.07.09
Hopes of a recovery in the London housing market gathered momentum today, after figures showed prices rose sharply in prime suburban areas ... more

Spring house price rise leads experts to say worst is over

01.06.09
A spring bounce in the property market has pushed the average London house price back over the £300,000 mark... more

Property market recovery in air as top house prices rise

01.06.09
Prices of £1 million-plus houses in central London were up 1.6% in May, four times the rise in April ... more

London house prices are on the rise again

24.04.09
Hopes of a recovery in the housing market were fuelled today after prices rose in London for the first time in more than a year... more

London homes no longer world's priciest

23.03.09
London is no longer the most expensive place to buy a home... more

Top properties home in on recovery

09.03.09
The luxury London homes market is calling the green shoots of recovery... more

Madoff chief's struggle to sell £1.75m English home

04.02.09
The man behind Bernie Madoff's London-based trading business may be forced to cut the asking price of his house even further, experts say... more

Average house price plunges by as much as £50,000 in a year

26.01.09
London house prices fell by an average 10.9 per cent in the past year. New figures show the worst-hit area saw average sales drop by £50,000... more

Ditch pretend targets on housing

10.12.08
An expert says that 100,000 homes will have been built in Britain this year, the lowest figure for a generation. Next year he thinks it could be as low as 70,000 ... more

London home slump 'will go on next year'

14.10.08
House prices in London will continue to fall next year and not return to last year's peak until 2015, estate agent Knight Frank warned today, adding that "there is more pain to come" for the housing market.... more

Property sales down by 75 per cent with 50 viewings to get a deal get a sale

10.10.08
The London property market has virtually come to a halt over the past month, threatening the jobs of thousands of estate agents... more

Property premier league bucks the credit crunch

06.10.08
The market for the most expensive homes in London is expanding despite the economic crisis, research for the Standard has found... more

Monaco overtakes London for the priciest properties

24.09.08
Monaco has overtaken central London as the world's most expensive property market... more

Credit crunch pain hits £5m homes, says Knight Frank

29.08.08
The collapse of the housing market is spreading to central London as all but the very richest are hit by the credit crunch... more

Country property prices take a tumble

15.07.08
The average price of expensive homes in the country favoured by bankers and other rich Londoners escaping the capital has fallen at its fastest rate for more than a decade... more

House prices plunge 3% in London's top areas

02.07.08
Property prices in London's most sought after areas have plunged by more than three per cent in three months, figures show... more

Gloomy spring for estate agents as prime London property prices dip

07.05.08
Two London estate agents specialising in expensive property give a gloomy assessment of prices in the capital's most desirable areas... more

CDs of the week

18.04.08
Alex Turner's side project, The Last Shadow Puppets, is a debut of extraordinary promise, The Accidental could improve with time and Anita Wardell has an impressive go at scat-singing.... more

Asking prices slashed as home sales slump to lowest since 1995

08.04.08
The number of houses being sold in London is at its lowest level for more than a decade, research shows... more

Fears of mass job cuts put a block on prime house prices

01.04.08
House prices in the most expensive parts of London barely rose last month... more

Through the keyhole at world's first £100m flat

18.02.08
This is the first image of how the interior of London's most expensive property will look... more

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