The view from Knightsbridge: On Covid-19 and its impact on the PCL housing market
No one knows when some sort of new normality will return, writes Patrick Alvarado, but those firms that manage to see out the crisis may end up stronger as a result...
Patrick Alvarado is a Director of boutique estate agency Nicolas Van Patrick, based in Knightsbridge. He was born in Madrid and moved to Knightsbridge with his family in the early 70’s where he lived for 25 years. He is trilingual and has 15 years property experience in the prime central London market where he worked in sales for a leading estate agency before going on to open and manage their South Kensington office.
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