London Gravity: What goes up must come down - and vice versa

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Buying agent Saul Empson has seen five "readily identifiable" market cycles in his property career, and he's sensing another swing of the pendulum...

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Saul Empson

Owner at Saul Empson

Saul Empson is an independent property buying agent, offering a personal, bespoke service to a small group of private clients. He has been involved in the central London property market since 1985 and spent his first fifteen years as a selling agent selling residential property and running sales offices for some of the big high street names. In 1999 he made the switch to finding and buying property on behalf of clients instead of selling houses and has never looked back.

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