Buyers’ desire for a better work-life balance is driving ‘increased urgency’ in the prime property market
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‘Covid-19 has increased the desire to move home, with more space the key driver’ for prime buyers
The latest Savills buyer survey reveals "a greater urgency in the desire to move home", allowing the top-end estate agency to predict that the current surge in buying activity will continue beyond theā¦
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How Covid-19 will reshape what prime UK home buyers & sellers want
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Bond-themed triplex at Twenty Grosvenor Square seeks £25k per week
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Another senior appointment for Strutt & Parker in PCL
Andrew Chambers has followed in the recent footsteps of Claire Reynolds, moving to the BNP Paribas-owned heritage estate agency from UK Sotheby's International Realty.
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Fresh Savills research reveals 'a dynamic reshaping' of global wealth migration - 'comparable to the expansion of air travel in the 1960s & 1970s.'
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Marylebone’s high-end market keeps moving despite pre-Budget uncertainty
Savills reports 'robust' activity across the fashionable PCL neighbourhood, completing a string of super-prime sales & lettings deals.
Related Argent bolsters exec leadership team
Developer appoints Parm Nijjar as Executive Director and promotes Oli Rifkind to Chief Development Officer.
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Italian design platform lands in London with Embassy Gardens penthouse
Artemest collaborated with Dublin-based designer RóisĆn Lafferty on the high-end project in Nine Elms.
REDD appoints new director to lead private client growth drive
The luxury real estate firm is expanding its bespoke services offering for HNWIs, family offices & investors.
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