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'Agents with experience are just as well placed to sell as they are to buy': Charlie Willis on the rise of the prime property broker
American-style property brokers "are lapping up the choice it gives them" on this side of the pond in today's prime resi market, writes Charlie Willis of The London Broker (formerly head of Strutt & Parker's London Residential Agency). But they need to be "transparent with all parties about their instructions and intentions."
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