Street Views: International buyers in Prime Central London
The proportion of overseas purchasers in PCL is at a six-year high, according to new research out today, accounting for over half of the homes sold in the capital's top postcodes. These kind of headline figures only tell part of the story - and sometimes much, much less - so here's how some of London's top buying and selling agents have been reporting things on the ground...

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