Prime central London (PCL) property values flattened out during the first quarter of 2024 after six consecutive quarterly falls, figures suggest. Analysts...
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The Keller Williams UK (KWUK) brand is facing yet another restructure with its leadership in the country effectively removed. KWUK spent much...
07 March 2024
From: Breaking News
Winkworth is expanding its country house operation to capitalise on demand from UK and international buyers. The operation will work from Winkworth’s...
12 February 2024
From: Breaking News
Prime market activity hasn’t caught up with more positive sentiment, Knight Frank claims. It comes as figures from the agency brand showed...
05 February 2024
From: Breaking News
Prime London Residential, which describes itself as London’s largest single branch agency, has acquired 21 Grosvenor Gardens from Grosvenor, securing the...
19 October 2023
From: Breaking News
September has been ‘underwhelming’ for sales in prime London except for at the high-end £5m price point, figures suggest. Separate analysis from...
17 October 2023
From: Breaking News
Prime London property values are not falling as far as the rest of the market but realistic pricing will be crucial...
05 October 2023
From: Breaking News
An index of prime London properties suggests buyers standing back as economic uncertainty reaches the upper levels of the market. The Prime...
26 September 2023
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Fine & Country has launched a new Masterclass Series focused on the art of maximising fees and boosting additional revenue. Set to...
07 September 2023
From: Breaking News
Cash purchasers, younger needs-based buyers and relocators are the driving force behind the current prime UK property market, according to research...
04 August 2023
From: Breaking News
Price sensitivity and a flight to quality is dominating prime London markets, research suggest. Analysis of second quarter property market activity by...
06 July 2023
From: Breaking News
Higher interest rates have already softened UK prime regional markets but cities are proving resilient, Savills claims. Research by the agent shows...
03 July 2023
From: Breaking News
The gap between prime buyer and seller price expectations has widened, estate agents have warned, with the majority of buyers expecting...
03 April 2023
From: Breaking News
International buyers appear to slowly be returning to the prime central London (PCL) market, according to Hamptons data. Figures released by the...
07 March 2023
From: Breaking News
It has been a busy start to the year for job moves. If you want your jobs or appointments news to feature...
31 January 2023
From: Breaking News
New year, old worries: what’s happening in the housing market? We’ve asked experts and collated forecasts, 15 in total. On the one...
07 January 2023
From: Features
Fall-throughs are up and the number of properties under-offer in prime London areas has fallen below the pre-pandemic average for the...
16 November 2022
From: Breaking News
House prices could fall by 10% next year as higher mortgage pricing and rising inflation dampen buyer budgets, Savills has warned. The agency...
04 November 2022
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The prime central London (PCL) market may escape a property downturn, JLL claims. The real estate and agency brand has highlighted the...
05 October 2022
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The Bank of England increased interest rates to their highest level since the financial crisis yesterday, prompting fears of higher cost...
23 September 2022
From: Breaking News
Hamptons is anticipating an 12% drop in property transactions across Great Britain next year as interest rate rises and the cost of...
02 September 2022
From: Breaking News
Savills has released a revised five-year forecast for the UK’s prime housing markets, to reflect the strong levels of activity in...
05 August 2022
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Fine & Country claims it has overtaken the established prime agency brands in recent months when it comes to listings. The premium...
17 June 2022
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Prime London prices continue to hit record levels but actual sales vary depending on values. Figures from property data company LonRes for...
06 June 2022
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The prime country market outside of London appears to be booming again in a rush to beat a slowdown in house...
12 May 2022
From: Breaking News
A third of first-time buyers have had to reduce their budgets as a result of recent interest rate hikes and the...
03 May 2022
From: Breaking News
A new ‘local and independent’ boutique estate agency has been founded in the heart of Wimbledon Village, with a vision of...
22 April 2022
From: Breaking News
This is our first Property Jobs Today column of 2022 and it’s testimony to how busy our industry is right now...
24 January 2022
From: Breaking News
London’s super-prime residential market has recorded its strongest year since 2013, according to high end agency Savills. In total, there were 522...
17 January 2022
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Savills has set out its annual house price forecast for prime London - and after years of price falls, the prediction...
15 November 2021
From: Breaking News
Forget London, Scotland is now the fastest-moving market for million-pound properties. Analysis by Rightmove has found that million-pound homes are selling 25...
13 September 2021
From: Breaking News
It may be the height of summer but the industry is still super-busy and new appointments continue to come thick and...
05 July 2021
From: Breaking News
One in 10 buyers say they will seek to renegotiate on the price of their chosen home if they miss the...
21 June 2021
From: Breaking News
High end purchasers of homes in London paid 15 per cent of the stamp duty in 2020, yet the value of...
12 March 2021
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A leading agency chief suggests there will have to be substantial bargaining between buyers and sellers as the stamp duty holiday cliff...
10 February 2021
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A prominent London agency says cash buyers are securing substantial discounts in prime areas of the capital. The biggest cash discount currently...
11 December 2020
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A buying agency targeting what it calls the “prime and super-prime” London market is offering clients not only a sourcing service, but also...
11 September 2020
From: Breaking News
In the week the Nationwide recorded the UK’s highest ever average house price, high-end agency Savills has forecast that prime markets...
04 September 2020
From: Breaking News
How prime London has changed. In 2002 work began on The Knightsbridge. Located within a stone’s throw of Harrods and a near-neighbour...
06 June 2020
From: Features
A leading estate agency says it has observed that some banks previously opposed to accepting remote and desktop valuations have started...
09 April 2020
From: Breaking News
London Central Portfolio, the investment consultancy which saw signs of an upturn in the prime market in the capital this autumn,...
31 October 2019
From: Breaking News
The number of prime residential housing transactions has increased rapidly in the past two decades and even in the past five...
28 October 2019
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A growing free-to-list property portal says there's never been a better time for estate agents to target foreign investors. Residential People, which,...
02 October 2019
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Savills, once a safe bet for year-on-year growth, has seen its underlying UK residential profits plunge 44 per cent with economic...
09 August 2019
From: Breaking News
The practices of competitive bidding and sealed bids have made a 'surprise return' to the Prime Central London (PCL) property market,...
05 July 2019
From: Breaking News
A portal specialising in prime and super-prime London property has turned perceptions of the capital’s housing market on their head -...
06 June 2019
From: Breaking News
At the end of a week consisting of largely depressing market reports, new data from Knight Frank suggests that the bad...
09 April 2019
From: Breaking News
Strutt & Parker says transaction levels in Prime Central London, already at a low ebb, plummeted a further nine per cent...
08 February 2019
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It’s the word on everyone’s lips: after two and a half years of debate, and months before that leading up to...
11 January 2019
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A major UK city which previously appeared to have avoided Brexit-induced problems is now showing signs of being affected by political...
28 December 2018
From: Breaking News
Savills is warning that heightened uncertainty around Brexit negotiations will delay recovery in the prime central London housing market for up...
12 October 2018
From: Breaking News
Data from the buying agency Black Brick reveals just how big an impact has been made by the additional homes stamp...
22 August 2018
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Figures from Savills suggest that there’s currently an average 1.14 price adjustments per sale across the prime regional markets of the...
27 July 2018
From: Breaking News
London’s prime central market is turning around at last according to the chief executive of Belgravia estate agency Henry & James. James...
24 January 2018
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More price falls have been recorded across areas of prime London according to Savills. The pattern is not uniform - the agency...
03 January 2018
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UBS says London's housing market still faces the risk of becoming a bubble - although that risk has marginally eased over...
29 September 2017
From: Breaking News
Savills has revised its forecasts for the housing market and says that uncertainty over the impact of Brexit points to two...
27 September 2017
From: Breaking News
The latest market snapshot by high-end agency Strutt & Parker reveals more bad news for London - despite the agency itself...
01 August 2017
From: Breaking News
Being a leading world-class city comes at a price – they are the most expensive for occupiers and the most lucrative...
14 July 2017
From: Features
Gently rising house values in the mainstream market and problems facing the prime market in the capital mean that over half...
12 July 2017
From: Breaking News
Average prices in prime central London remained flat in May but are down 6.6 per cent on the year according to...
22 June 2017
From: Breaking News
The snap General Election on June 8 adds to uncertainty but does not significantly worsen the market for prime properties in...
25 April 2017
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The number of new homes built in London will reach record levels in 2017, according to high-end agency Savills - but...
10 April 2017
From: Breaking News
Chancellor Philip Hammond delivered his first Budget this week pledging extra funding for the NHS, transport in the Midlands and the...
11 March 2017
From: Features
Two reports produced by Savills suggests continuing struggles for high-priced properties in prime locations to combat economic uncertainty and the deterrent...
23 January 2017
From: Breaking News
One of the key factors associated with an active private rental market in the UK, as detailed in the Dataloft PRS...
09 December 2016
From: Features
New data from Knight Frank shows that prime property prices have dipped by 0.1 per cent in the three months following...
29 September 2016
From: Breaking News
Given the uncertainty that shrouded the immediate build up to, and aftermath of, the EU referendum, the current lettings market in...
16 September 2016
From: Features
Marsh & Parsons is the latest agency to show a price drop in prime central London - homes there were down...
23 August 2016
From: Breaking News
New data from LonRes shows that transaction volumes across the capital’s prime markets tumbled 41 per cent in the second quarter...
11 August 2016
From: Breaking News
Countrywide has confounded its critics with an upbeat performance in the first six months of the year, growing revenues by nine...
28 July 2016
From: Breaking News
A leading London buying agency is warning that some areas of prime central London could face a downturn following the Brexit...
30 June 2016
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Agents have been giving their reaction to the shock Brexit referendum result - and their comments have ranged from the gloomy...
24 June 2016
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Winkworth, the franchise giant with most offices concentrated in or close to London, says the high-end of the capital’s prime market...
29 March 2016
From: Breaking News
Humberts says property values across the south east of England have seen robust growth of almost eight per cent over the...
11 November 2015
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Savills and Knight Frank say prime central London property values dipped slightly over the summer with stamp duty still being blamed...
01 October 2015
From: Breaking News
Agents across the country, hopefully refreshed by a nice holiday somewhere warm, will be gearing up for the phones to start...
14 August 2015
From: Features
This week RICS reported a further drop in the number of people putting their homes up for sale; new instructions fell...