What do the next 12 months hold for high-end borrowers?
James Chisnall predicts a shift away from traditional high street lenders to smaller, private banks who are more willing to consider ‘higher-risk’ opportunities…
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‘We can see the first green shoots of a recovery’: Mishcon’s James Liffen on the current state of the property market
“We can see the first green shoots of a recovery,” writes James Liffen of Mishcon de Reya as he takes stock of the property sector’s current situation, “but think it may be some time before the prime and super prime markets show the levels of activity that we saw in January and February of this year.”
PCL Notes: On the two-tier market, localisation & the Autumn gamble
We may be in the middle of the worst economic crisis in living memory, but certain properties are still being fought over in Prime Central London, reports buying agent Karim Bazzi
Capital Revalue: Don’t write London off just yet…
Going by recent reports, you’d think most of London had upped sticks in search of rural idylls; the truth is that people want choice, says country buying agent Charlie Wells – and keeping a property foot in the capital is important…
How it feels to steer a proptech start-up through a crisis
2020 was going great guns for Tom Reiss and the AI assistant he created for rental agencies and property managers – until the world was turned upside down by a global pandemic; here, he explains how he used an old military tactic learnt during his time as a pilot to regroup and plan for the recovery…
An architect on how the pandemic could change our homes forever
With fewer people now commuting and more people working from home, where people choose to live and how they want their houses to function may change after this prolonged period of lockdown, writes Tara Hipwood…
The melting pot of a divorce, a pandemic & an uncertain housing market
As new figures show a spike in divorce enquiries during lockdown, Sital Fontenelle looks at how marriage asset pots should be divided when everything is up in the air…
Buyers & sellers will have to carefully navigate the economic data this summer
We will only be able to start understanding what has taken place towards the end of the year, writes Tom Bill…
The Curate’s Egg: Why the housing market headlines are well off the mark
What is happening at ground level is far too complex to be covered in a newspaper by-line, writes Saul Empson
Back to work: How the London property market is really faring
While a move to the country may the be trend du jour, the bright lights of the capital will be turned back on in time, says Guy MeacockÂ
Back to Basics: A PCL agent’s take-aways from lockdown life
The importance of home has been paramount over the last few months, writes Harry WigramÂ
The view from Knightsbridge: On getting back to business
Nic Pejacsevich reports from an eerily quiet Montpelier Street as buyers and sellers begin to stir…