LONDON PROPERTY MARKET NEWS & INSIGHTS
UK property market in 2023
UK property market in 2023 The property market in 2023 has had an interesting year. Consumer confidence has been incredibly delicate and it has been hard for owners of prime central London properties to reconcile the difference between their expectations on price and where buyers consider the...
Buying and Selling Property
Buying and selling property A property landed in my inbox this week and I immediately knew it was something I had to see straightaway. You could just tell from the floor plan and photographs that this was something special and I was not disappointed when I arrived to have a look around. In fact,...
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 exactly is going on? Are...
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 journalist. Their questions and my...
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 to make a generalised...
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" produced a turnaround in fortunes...
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 put together and the wider...
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 this year was greatly surpassed...
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 properties fall. This is...