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DAMAC chief: ‘I see 2019 as a year of opportunity in London’
Current uncertainties around Brexit offer just the right conditions to strike great property deals, says billionaire Emirati developer Hussain Sajwani...
Mapped: Average rental & sold prices across prime London this year
Latest visual from LonRes shows the spread of average rental prices per week and sold prices per square foot during H1 2019
Cutting Stamp Duty ‘could boost transactions by 40% and tax revenues by £9.8bn’
According to buying agency Ludgrove's workings, a 36% reduction in Stamp Duty rates across the board would likely lead to 40% additional transactions in England per annum, in turn generating an extra £1.
Carrington on Q2: It does seem that the tax rate in the popular Laffer Curve has now been breached
Successive parliaments have fiddled with stamp duty 14 times since 1995, but the right balance is yet to be struck, writes LonRes Chairman William Carrington
Sales rise in PCL as buyers make their move
Transaction volumes in the capital's most expensive neighbourhoods were up by 3% in Q2, compared to last year, but buyers remain 'scarce' across the rest of the prime postcodes...
PCL buying agency reports 50% jump in transactions
Mayfair-based advisory Black Brick acquired nearly £43m worth of property in the first six months of 2019, and has twice as many buyers on its books compared to last year...
Why new is the new old for today’s prime property buyers
Attitudes towards new-builds are changing in London as developers continue to up their game, suggests buying agent Sara Ransom...
Mapped: Prime London price & rental growth over the last three months
Knight Frank charts how the many neighbourhoods of Prime London performed between April and June of this year...
Market Snapshot: Prime London’s inner & outer commuter zones
Prime property prices in London's Outer Commute just posted positive growth for the first time in two years, says Savills, but commuter homes closer to the capital are falling...
Agency heralds a ‘Boris Effect’ in prime London as buyers take a long-term view
"It looks like Boris [Johnson] has and will put the bounce back into the London property market", says top-end estate agent Mark Pollack
UK market polarised as price growth in southern cities sinks to seven-year low
Increases in supply are compounding the downward pressure on prices across the South, report Zoopla & Hometrack, while the opposite is true elsewhere...
Residential investment surges by 150%, despite Brexit
2018 was 'a breakthrough year' for institutional property investment in the UK, says JLL