From ‘wow for now’ homes to a Stamp Duty cut: Four predictions for prime London property in 2024
Adrian Black, founder of boutique estate agency YOUhome, shares his predictions for the central London property market in 2024.
Adrian has been a property specialist for 13 years following a career in technology and finance, latterly leading technology development for the Equities Division in Europe and Asia at Goldman Sachs. He has sold, bought and let hundreds of homes either personally or as an agent and estate agency businesses founded and led by him have sold and let thousands of homes. This has been achieved through delivering a blend of exceptional grass roots estate agency and leading the leveraging of the digital world in the estate agency space. He has been local a resident in Notting Hill and South Kensington for over 35 years and graduated from Imperial College, London.
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