Greedy fingers are wanting too big a slice of the property pie
Seasoned buying agent Simon Barnes reports on a worrying trend in the PCL market…
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Chunky sales go through on Victoria Road, Wilton Place and Tite Street
There’s plenty of life in PCL’s £5m-£10m range at the moment…
Land of the Free, Land for the Many: On politics and the London property market
What with the looming Brexit deadline, George Monbiot’s radical proposals for the Labour Party, and a new starter at No.10, political interference will remain a major influence on London’s residential property market for the foreseeable future, say Richard & Sophie Rogerson…
Real Business: How I went back to basics to build a successful property agency
After two decades in the corporate world, PCL agent Harry Wigram took the plunge and launched his own consultancy earlier this year – amid some seriously challenging market conditions. Here, he talks us through his first six months, explaining how some early goodwill helped dispel any anxieties about going it alone…
Spencer’s Move iQ backs home reservation platform Gazeal
Phil Spencer’s property advice website has thrown its support behind anti-gazumping proptech enterprise Gazeal
Hannah Aykroyd on PCL’s new two-tier market, and why buyers need to wake up
‘Things have recently changed’ in Prime Central London, says a top buying agent. ‘It’s important for buyers to forget what they’ve read over the past two years about markets going down, down, down’
The Buying Solution appoints a new London head
Will Watson has joined Knight Frank’s property buying arm from Middleton Advisors, as Partner and Head of the London
Property Ombudsman issues revised Codes of Practice with ‘substantial’ changes for agents
TPO’s new Codes for property agents comes into play on 1st June, including ‘substantial’ updates to reflect the Tenant Fees Act, Client Money Protection, GDPR requirements, and expanded guidance on dual fees and referral fees
Three reasons why savvy buyers are snapping up unmod properties
Buying agency boss Hannah Aykroyd explains how purchasers who have the vision and appetite can really take advantage of lower values in the PCL market…
Death of the traditional estate agent?
‘In this tough market, a good, “proper” Estate Agent has more value than ever’, says buying agent Tracy Kellett, as she questions the business sense of low fixed-fee operations, and argues that many traditional agents are failing to sell-in their biggest USP…