Average asking price for homes in Britain ‘hits record high’

Surge in sales down to stamp duty holiday and ‘race for space’ as Rightmove predicts 7% rise in prices for 2020

Revealed: Sheikh Khalifa’s £5bn London property empire

Documents reveal UAE president owns multibillion-pound property portfolio spanning London’s most expensive neighbourhoods

Retailer’s plan is part of strategy to rebuild profits to £400m within five years

UK government’s help-to-buy scheme also helped orders after Covid lockdown ended

‘I was telling two girls how safe an area was – when a policeman came up and said there’d been a murder round the corner’

Researchers say tenants in worse off areas more likely to be affected by economic fallout

Value of some homes in Bristol is up by 120%, says Rightmove, but down in parts of Scotland

Desire for more space on back of Covid homeworking fuels housing market, says Halifax

Boris Johnson’s conference promise leaves mortgage industry bemused and puzzled

Estate agents and even boat-builders have seen a surge in interest from buyers keen to relocate to the country

Buyers take advantage of benign market despite Covid-19 pandemic

SpareRoom also says more people are looking for kindness and empathy in flatmates

Dramatic rise in August upends what is usually a quiet month in the property calendar

Shaftesbury says 20% of flats vacant as Covid-19 prompts professionals to leave capital and international students to stay home

£1m-plus houses selling at fastest pace since 2014 as home workers seek more space and leafier locations