Is this the sign that the London market is bottoming out?
LCP has just recorded the smallest annual decline in transaction levels across Prime Central London since 2014; 'an increase in activity normally presages price growth', says the firm, but investors 'may hold back again' with the prospect of a no-deal Brexit looming...
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