PCL prices fail to stabilise; volumes continue to slide
Prime Central London transaction levels are now almost 50% lower than they were five years ago, reports Strutt & Parker, while prices ended 2018 at the lower end of the forecast; agency manages to buck trend with volumes up by over a quarter
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