London Property Market News & Insights
The property market as the Covid threat recedes.
It's the third week of May 2021 and the property press are hyping the market to an almost hysterical level. At the same time, my clients are seeing the same old properties available to purchase all over central London and no sign that the market is freeing up. So what...
What will happen to house prices once the stamp duty holiday ends?
What will happen to house prices once the stamp duty holiday ends? More people are wondering what the end of the 2021 stamp duty holiday will mean for UK property. I was recently asked to provide my opinions on a series of questions posed by a property market...
UK housing market predictions 2021
In November 2020, I was asked a series of questions about prospects for our housing market in the near future. The questions and my responses are below: 1. Are house prices expected to fall? If so, when? It is difficult to lump all houses into one homogenous group and...
Coronavirus and the property market in London
Coronavirus and the property market in London. 2020 has been a fascinating year so far for the property industry in the prime areas of central London. Most central London based Estate Agents were in good spirits earlier this year after a so-called "Boris bounce"...
Negotiating a house purchase in 2020
We just successfully concluded a negotiation and exchanged contracts on a very special house in Notting Hill Gate. Our client had waited over 2 years for a house of this calibre to materialise and we moved quickly to secure it “off-market” before any advertising was...
Will Boris bring the good times back to the property market?
So many of our industry “talking heads” have been expressing wildly optimistic predictions for the UK property market in 2020 following Boris Johnson's sweeping election victory. The property industry is usually optimistic at the turn of each year. However, optimism...
Why this is NOT the time to be selling your buy to let property
Good time to sell? In recent years, the residential property market in London has been a fairly uninspiring place to be for the investment landlord. Buy to let investors who entered the arena in the past 3/4 years have more often than not seen the value of their...
Is property a good investment in 2019?
The residential property buy-to-let market has proven to be a solid investment asset class over the years. However, since 2014, the real estate market has been very turbulent. Many buy-to-let landlords have seen fit to sell up as capital growth has stalled and yields...
