Buying

Everything you need to know about buying a home at auction this spring

Everything you need to know about buying a home at auction this spring

Over the next three months millions of pounds worth of London property will go under the hammer during the annual spring auction season.

With the Brexit shambles denting confidence and buy-to-let landlords squeezed out by higher taxes, buyers are facing less competition in the battle to secure the best homes in this year’s sales season.

Price gap between asking and sold prices across the capital reaches £27k

Sellers are “shooting themselves in the foot” by not lowering their price expectations as London establishes itself as a buyers’ market, according to Rightmove's latest house price report.

Why Londoners are buying houses in the new cool countryside 'banker belt'

Why Londoners are buying houses in the new cool countryside 'banker belt'

There was a time when ownership of an elegant country manor was confirmation of a successful career — witness all those Victorian industrialists who ploughed heaps of cash into Robert Adams mansions approached via wrought-iron gates and a long drive through landscaped acres.