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Country houses out-performed in 2021, but PCL’s property market is primed to ‘bounce rapidly’ this year
Savills expects prime regional price growth to moderate this year, while Prime Central London prices feel ready to surge upwards.
‘Vintage year’ for the prime country house market as top-end prices surge 20%
“I’ve never known a time like it in 30-plus years," says Rupert Sweeting, head of national country sales at Knight Frank.
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Cash buyers have been out in force this year
Jackson-Stops reports a 12% year-on-year increase in the number of all-cash purchases across England, with volumes also outstripping pre-pandemic levels
‘We have seen a huge rise of people returning to their roots’: Property market predictions from a Welsh buying agent
West Wales Property Finders boss Carol Peet expects demand for country and coastal homes to continue to run hot in 2022.
Planners green-light Hollaway’s latest country house project
Hollaway Studio has chalked up another planning win in the Kent countryside, this time on behalf of T&G designer homes
Another major agency makes the switch to electric cars
‘Perhaps the biggest surprise is that our most traditional agents have embraced the change with such positivity’, says John D Wood’s MD Polly Ogden Duffy
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‘Next year will see super-prime return with a bang’ & other property market predictions from a top buying agent
Edward Heaton, founder and managing partner of buying agency Heaton & Partners, shares his top property market predictions for the year ahead.
House of the Year 2021: Britain’s seven best-designed new homes, in pictures
A contemporary extension to a Georgian farmhouse in Gloucestershire has been named RIBA's House of the Year for 2021.
London market regains ground as buyers return from the country
The capital’s share of sales agreed above £1m has reached it highest level since April 2020, reports Savills
Country home renaissance to continue in 2022, predicts Jackson-Stops
National estate agency predicts 3% growth for average UK property prices, with prime country houses set to out-perform at +5%.