What has happened to the PCL market over the last five years?
On average, the value of the capital’s most expensive housing stock has slumped by 20.4% since the market peaked more than five years ago, notes Savills, with Mayfair, Chelsea & South Ken taking the biggest hits...
PCL market to begin recovery next year, predicts Chestertons
Agency foresees a return to growth for London's high-value locations in 2020, although further declines are on the cards for the rest of the capital...
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PCL market ‘on hold’ as uncertainty prevails
Values and volumes were generally steady across the prime postcodes last month, reports LCP, but the capital's new-build sector is really suffering...
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The effects of tax and regulation on the buy-to-let market, three years on
The 3% SDLT surcharge and the reduction of mortgage interest tax relief have changed the shape of the buy-to-let market
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Top brokers assess the Iran conflict’s effect on global prime property markets
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Sales team behind Twenty Grosvenor Square and The Whiteley gearing up to market 103 luxury apartments in Nine Elms.
Vabel picks sales agents for flagship Bayswater scheme
DDRE Global & Savills will launch apartments at Vabel Townhouse later this Spring.
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Knight Frank appoints new UK marketing head
Former Crown Estate and Disney exec takes role spanning agency’s resi and commercial divisions.
Strutt & Parker recruits estates & farms head from Savills
Louise Harrison is now head of Strutt's London-based National Estates & Farm Agency team.
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£10mn Notting Hill project offers chance to create ‘one of the area’s great homes’
Rare unmod Ladbroke Grove townhouse with communal garden access and basement planning comes to market.
FT: ‘We’re past the $200mn threshold’ – the rise of super-super prime property
'How much is mere showboating listing,' asks FT journalist Mark Ellwood - 'and how much higher can prices for single private properties actually be pushed?'
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Ex-Hamptons & Domus Nova agent joins expanding brokerage
Chris Shaw has made the move to Harding Green after more than 20 years specialising in the markets of RBKC & Westminster.
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