Is the Prime Central London recession anomalous?
It's been a particularly tough six years for the capital's prime property market, with tax changes, the threat of a hard-left Government, Brexit and Covid all impacting on sentiment; here, fund manager-turned-buying agent Fraser Slater explains why he believes PCL is looking 'anomalously cheap' right now...
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