Cash buyers pay an average of 9% less for a home than mortgagers
The average price paid by cash buyers for a home in the UK is 9% less than that paid by mortgaged buyers... But it's a different story in London.
London’s property market ‘has bottomed out’, but an ‘exodus of cash buyers’ has quelled price inflation in southern cities
A pick-up in activity and a return to positive annual price growth in London "isn’t a precursor to price rises,” says Zoopla, “but we do expect sales volumes to start rising once again”
‘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 the…
£1m+ deals have soared 12-fold in 20 years, as the average house price has almost tripled
Today's prime property market is "much bigger and more complex" than in 1999, says mortgage firm Private Finance as it charts the rise of seven-figure transactions over the past two decades
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Agents instructed to sell super-luxe Chelsea retirement apartments
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