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London’s super-prime stock selling at fastest rate in three years
It's currently taking an average of just 12 weeks to shift a £10m+ instruction in the capital's prime postcodes, down from six months in 2017 and marking the shortest timeframe since the start of 2016;
Buyer confidence is picking up in central London, reports Winkworth, despite falling transaction numbers
Central London prices are 'starting to make a recovery after bottoming out in 2017', declares estate agency
The Art of the Mega-Deal, by Gary Hersham
Gary Hersham - founder of PrimeResi's No.1-ranked PCL Boutique Estate Agency in 2019, Beauchamp Estates - has been instrumental in many of London's most expensive ultra-prime property sales in recent years.
Property price growth in UK cities falls to 2.7%, dragged down by London, Cambridge & the South
Zoopla identifies a 'tripartite housing cycle' from 2009 to the end of 2018
Supply & demand rises – but deal numbers dwindle
'There is movement in the market' insists NAEA Propertymark
PCL prices and sales plummeted at the end of last year
Fewer than than 68 deals per week went through in Prime Central London during 2018, reports London Central Portfolio, while annual transactions across England & Wales fell by 3.
Prime London sales volumes slide to ten-year low
Transaction numbers sank to their lowest ebb in a decade in 2018, after a 14% year-on-year decline...
New breed of wealthy ‘lifestyle buyer’ boosts England’s farmland market
For the first time since 1996, farmers are accounting for less than half of all purchases, notes Strutt & Parker
The Big PCL Price Drop: Calculating the discount on a £5m property
Full-year sales figures for 2018 showed a surge in the number of £5m+ deals across central London, and it's not hard to see why...
London’s trophy home market rallies as world’s wealthy shop for bargains
Savills recorded a 43% surge in the number of £15m+ deals across PCL last year;
Why resi developers should be considering the specialist retirement sector
Success in other niches has shown how a differentiated development can succeed even at times when the general housing market is poor, says Nigel Sibley
Market woes hit PCL property fund
London Central Portfolio Property Fund sees net asset value fall by nearly 20% as political uncertainty and tax changes eventually take their toll;