The Guardian view on housing in London: bricks and mortals

Editorial: Records of who owns what in one plush tower by the Thames reveals how the capital has been building for ghosts, rather than its own citizens

British property market has peaked, estate agency boss says

Sellers will have to cut prices to find buyers, says Paul Smith, whose company operates Haart, Felicity J Lord and others

The London skyscraper that is a stark symbol of the housing crisis

Exclusive: Tower underoccupied, astonishingly expensive, mostly foreign owned, and with dozens of apartments held through secretive offshore firms

House prices could fall by 18% if Britain quits EU, says George Osborne

Chancellor predicts Brexit would cause an ‘economic shock’ but pro-leave minister dismisses ‘extraordinary claim’

First-time buyers would benefit from Brexit, says Moody’s

Ratings agency says fall in house prices and less competition triggered by vote to leave EU would make homes more affordable

Rents and property values would drop after Brexit, say landlords

Associations for estate and letting agents say average UK house would be worth £2,300 less in 2018 if Britain leaves the EU

Brexit would prompt stock market and house price crash, says IMF

IMF issues stark warning that vote to leave EU would prompt panic among investors and send UK shares and property prices into a spin

EU referendum: barrage of grim forecasts takes aim at our homes

Osborne, Carney and Lagarde are like wartime generals, with a relentless salvo of bad news for Brexiteers. It isn’t working. Targeting house prices might do the trick

Generation rent: can your landlord be your friend?

As rents soar, the gap between landlords and tenants is becoming a social division as much as it is a financial one

£1.5m Battersea power station apartments held back from market

Developers withhold from sale 150 flats designed by Frank Gehry and Norman Foster because of downturn at top end

Fancy living in BBC Television Centre? Now’s your chance

Flats at developed White City site to go on sale to public on Saturday, for occupation in 2018

House sales could fall due to stamp duty changes and Brexit risk

Rics survey finds most estate agents and surveyors expect first slowdown since 2008 amid ‘climate of uncertainty’

Buy-to-let off the hook in Bank of England report

The Bank’s report on the buy-to-let market was necessary but it had room to be bolder and this timid plan may be too little, too late

Bank of England warns that vote to leave EU risks a credit crunch

Financial policy committee also warns of possible run on sterling and higher interest rates for mortgages in boost for remain side

Poetry or property punts: what’s driving China’s love affair with Cambridge?

House prices in Cambridge have risen 50% since 2010 – caused in part by Chinese investors whose passion for the city may have begun with a poem they learned at school. But what do local residents make of this romantic vision?