Revealed: London's 'most desirable neighbourhoods'
Savills has used socio-economic and health data from the Census alongside house price records to rank the capital's top enclaves for prime and super-prime property buyers.
Frances McDonald works within the internal agency side of the research team, providing market insight to residential agents. As part of this, she is responsible for the coordination of both the prime London and prime regional indices. Her work also includes analysis and development of stories for the national press which has led to frequent quotes. Frances also helps to write reports for both the public and the wider business.
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