The property market ‘will probably polarise more’ – Yolande Barnes
Prime property prices 'may not be as overheated as they are looking in some mortgage-reliant mainstream markets,' argues former Savills research chief Yolande Barnes, in some new analysis commissioned by Middleton Advisors, as she warns that the housing market 'will probably polarise more between ‘the best and the rest’; between mortgage-reliant buyers and equity-rich buyers' in the coming years.
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