The Curate’s Egg: Why the housing market headlines are well off the mark

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What is happening at ground level is far too complex to be covered in a newspaper by-line, writes Saul Empson

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Saul Empson

Owner at Saul Empson

Saul Empson is an independent property buying agent, offering a personal, bespoke service to a small group of private clients. He has been involved in the central London property market since 1985 and spent his first fifteen years as a selling agent selling residential property and running sales offices for some of the big high street names. In 1999 he made the switch to finding and buying property on behalf of clients instead of selling houses and has never looked back.

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