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Nest Seekers broker joins Harding Green
Arthur Kotliarovas has jumped ship to the Kensington-based broker-model agency after co-fronting Nest Seekers’ NY-Lon operation.
Under 4% of UK homes signed up to fraud alert service
New figures show a threefold increase in the number of property owners signing up for HM Land Registry’s Property Alert Service - which flags up suspicious activity - but overall take-up remains very…
Monday Market Review: Key figures and findings from the last seven days (w/c 08.08.22)
Catch up on all the latest movements and commentary in less than five minutes, featuring data and analysis from Knight Frank, Rightmove, RICS, Savills, LonRes, Acadata & more…
Another top agency cuts Prime Central London property price forecasts
Strutt & Parker now expects PCL property prices to end this year 2-5% higher than they started it, having predicted 5-10% growth through 2022 just a few months ago.
Weak sterling opens a ‘window of opportunity in London for Middle East investors’
JLL estimates that sterling buyers are currently paying 35% more for London properties than they were in 2014, while those purchasing in US dollars are paying 3.8% less.
Traditional Summer dip sees asking prices fall for first time this year – Rightmove
"Prices usually drop in August, and this 1.3% drop is on a par with the average August drop over the past ten years," explains the Rightmove team.
PCL tenants lock-in for longer as rents continue to soar
The average length of tenancies in Prime Central London reached a new high of 25.8 months in Q2 2022, reports LCP, while the time taken to let a vacant property is at an eight-year low.
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Behind the Schemes: How an indoor/outdoor transformation ‘unlocked the true potential’ of a grand Belgravia townhouse
Inside the super-prime reinvention of a dilapidated Georgian gem, which had previously lain untouched for three decades…
Property portals ‘are inflating the cost of running an estate agency business to near impossible levels,’ warns agency boss
Steph Walker, COO of 19-month-old firm The Agency UK, says many top-end independent estate agencies "will have to shut their doors as competition in the marketplace greatens."
Heatmapped: Housing market continues to confound, as prices rise again
Annual price growth increased to 10.2% in England & Wales last month, reports Acadata.
‘Embrace the fear’: One year in the buying agency business, it’s been quite the journey
Emma Fildes of Brick Weaver reveals what it’s really like to start your own buying agency…