Tom Bill: 'Taking the right mortgage at the right time could prove more fruitful than waiting for prices to bottom out'
Track the mortgage market not house price data to get the timing right in 2023, says KF's head of UK resi research.
Tom Bill is Head of UK Residential Research, producing reports that include Knight Frank’s flagship Prime Central London indices, the Super Prime London Insight and the London Residential Review. He has written detailed reports on London sub-markets and contributes to The Wealth Report and Global Cities report. Tom, a former Bloomberg and Reuters property journalist, is a regular media contributor on the London property market and has presented at events in Europe and the Middle East.
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