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Trendwatch: London’s overseas buyers look beyond the golden postcodes
The old adage of location, location, location is being replaced by value, value, value, according to these experts...
Budget 2017: Prime resi industry reactions
What the residential property industry thinks about abolishing stamp duty for first-time buyers, the empty homes levy, housebuilding targets, & more
Digging deeper into the UK’s housing problem
It’s not just the imbalance between supply and demand that's pushing pricing upwards, it’s also the cost of funding developments, says Charles Curran
Budget Preview: What the prime resi industry wants (& what it expects)
Pretty much everyone in the property sector wants the Chancellor to re-reform stamp duty on 22nd November - but Hammond probably won't cut it.
BoE raises interest rates for the for the first time in a decade: Property industry reactions
"No surprise" from the prime resi sector as the Monetary Policy Committee votes 7-2 to increase the base rate from 0.25% to 0.5%
Gleaming Spires: International students & the PCL lettings market
It's become less expensive to live and study in London of late, and top agents are reporting a surge in applicants with money to learn...
Talking Heads: The art of the viewing (and why a vendor being present is the ‘kiss of death’)
Prime London agents share their tips...
Buying Time: The prime property firms selling luxury lifestyles
As one PCL estate agency predicts 'lifestyle services' will make up 40% of its activities and enquiries in the next five years, PrimeResi looks at the firms going above and beyond traditional property…
In Suspense: Weighing up the positives and negatives of a hung parliament
The election result may have delivered yet more unwelcome uncertainty, but the prospect of a 'Soft Brexit' could be good news for both the economy and the housing market, says Charles Curran...
Hung Parliament: The prime resi industry reacts
Hard breakfast for Theresa May as the Conservatives lose their overall majority, flinging the country into yet more uncertainty
Separation Anxiety: The economy, housing and Brexit
Former financier turned agency boss Charles Curran examines where a 'Norway Deal' - or access to the EU on a 'pay with no say' basis - would potentially leave the UK and its property market
Talking Heads: Investing in property
'Don't do it alone' seems to be the overriding consensus...