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‘New opportunities for well informed purchasers’: Buying agency predicts ‘a brisk first quarter’
Echoing a lot of other market data and anecdotes, buying agency Garrington has just enjoyed "one of its busiest Januarys in ten years", with rising levels of both new searches and agreed sales.
Why 2020 is looking like a year for determined purchasers
The London market should grow in confidence as more buyers decide to hop off the fence, but don’t expect the up-tick in demand to be matched by an increase in supply, warns Saul Empson...
Mapped: Achieved prices and rents across Prime London last year
W1S remained the most expensive postcode area in the capital with an average achieved price of over £2,900 psf
Middle Eastern buyers pile into the UK’s prime country house market
Knight Frank has noticed a tripling in the relative number of Middle Eastern buyers spending over £5m on English country houses...
Carrington on Q4: Just how bad was 2019?
LonRes Chairman William Carrington looks back at how last year compared to previous downturns, and forward to Prime London's prospects in the year ahead...
Agents optimistic amid busiest PCL market for three years
Buyers have finally returned to the prime postcodes, reports LonRes, but keep an eye on those stock levels...
Prime London stock levels drying up as new instructions halve
Most areas have seen new listings fall by over 50% since the height of the market in 2014, reports Coutts
Buyers splash £60m at luxury Northacre schemes
Super-prime developer hails flying start to 'milestone year' as flagship PCL projects take shape;
Ranked: World cities by gross prime residential yields
LA & Moscow top Savills' annual league table with average yields of 5% or more; Hong Kong remains the most expensive place in the world to rent a prime house, with an average weekly figure of $7k
Stamp duty change could give domestic buyers the upper hand in London’s new-build hotspots
Forthcoming surcharge on purchases by overseas buyers will have a number of knock-on effects, says PCL buying agency
Ten tales of London’s prime property market revival in 2020 so far
Ten front line luxury property firms share their January news, from a buying agency's Brexit Day deal bonanza to surges in new buyer enquiries for boutique and big brand estate agencies alike...
High-value sales surge as confidence boost translates into transactions
Stamp duty receipts hold up as £1m+ deals hit their highest final quarter total in a decade