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Real Business: How I went back to basics to build a successful property agency
After two decades in the corporate world, PCL agent Harry Wigram took the plunge and launched his own consultancy earlier this year - amid some seriously challenging market conditions
Climate Change: Real estate worth billions could become obsolete – unless owners act now
Academics weigh-in on the costs for property owners of not acting now on energy efficiency
Why our staff are choosing to sell their homes now
Matt Gibberd of design-led estate agency The Modern House explains why four members of the team, including himself, are choosing to sell their homes now, and offers up eight nuggets of advice for ensuring t…
Charting the price of a top 1% home across the UK
'The difference in the cost of the top 1% of homes by region just might come as a surprise,' says Savills' research chief Lucian Cook
Small site planning delays are stalling the engine of UK development
Unacceptable delays - sometimes lasting a year or more - are forcing individual building projects to be abandoned, slowing UK development, and putting small and medium-sized firms out of business, says…
The London property market continues to tick along relatively robustly – and here’s why…
An awful lot of buyers who, having expected prices to fall like an anvil out of a window in a Tom and Jerry cartoon, are finding the choice of houses disappointing and prices far firmer than they had hoped,…
On the increasing trend for rural diversification
Country buying agent Jess Simpson reports on an upsurge in demand for farms and land with the opportunity for diversification, and explains the impact of the Agricultural Bill’s new system to reward f…
From Paris to Shanghai, citizens are largely unaware of indoor air pollution risks
Indoor air can be far more polluted than outdoor air and was responsible for 3.
Why do HNWIs find it so hard to get a mortgage?
A recent study has shown that being very well off doesn't always guarantee access to the right finance, explains Alpa Bhakta...
Downing St & Out: Our economy needs a decision and someone to make it
As PM May officially steps down as Tory leader and candidates jostle for position, former financier turned agency boss Charles Curran explains the impact that current political events are having on th…
Hannah Aykroyd on PCL’s new two-tier market, and why buyers need to wake up
'Things have recently changed' in Prime Central London, says a top buying agent. 'It's important for buyers to forget what they've read over the past two years about markets going down, down, down'