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Foreign buyers have seen the cost of buying a property in the UK rocket over the last week, after a Tory election win sent the value of the pound skywards.

Rightmove recorded an unseasonal but not unpredictable fall in asking prices before the election.

It sounds like a chunky deal may have just gone through on Mayfair's Mount Street.

Pre-election uncertainty saw new instructions fall for the third month in a row, and house prices rise again in all parts of the UK in April, according to the latest from the RICS.

The super-luxe Meier on Rothschild Tower in Tel Aviv has officially joined the world's high-rise apartment scheme elite after racking up a whopping £165m in sales.

Turns out there were some serious buyers around last month after all. One of the biggest deals to ever go down in W11 completed just a few weeks before the General Election, PrimeResi has learned.

With the pre-election stand-off morphing into a post-election face-off, those buyers who are able to move quickly will typically be the ones snaffling up all the best instructions.

It could have been a very different story, but Friday's unexpected result already appears to have triggered a flurry of trophy-level instructions across the country.

If this stonker in Holland Park goes for anything near its £13m asking price, someone's worked out it will have "earned" its owner around £130 an hour since it last sold back in 2007.

What could have been one of the punchiest asking prices of recent times has actually turned out to be a pretty good deal, considering the restaurant in question is actually Scott's of Mayfair...

Sam McArdle & Claire Owen of The Buying Solution narrate a well-worn path followed by generations of Londoners; from a Royal Borough party pad to a Home Counties idyll...

The weakened Euro, abolition of some punitive taxes on non-resident owners and the continued fall in property prices have improved conditions for overseas buyers in the Paris property market, reports Laurent…