November 23, 2023
Mayfair-based Black Brick has sourced 23 properties on behalf of its clients this year, including two "rare treasures" in Chelsea and Knightsbridge - and an apartment overlooking the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
November 7, 2023
Minutes from Parliament at Westminster, 9 Millbank used to be the headquarters of Imperial Chemical Industries, formerly the largest manufacturer in Britain, which once made products such as the acrylic plastic Perspex.
November 3, 2023
Buyers are sitting on their hands waiting. Waiting to catch that mythical sweet spot between interest rates falling and property prices rising.
November 1, 2023
Renovating a house from top to bottom is not for the faint-hearted, but if the property is listed, this comes with many added layers of red tape and expense.
October 26, 2023
In the early summer the sun was shining, the air was scented with lilac and Kam Babaee was full of optimism when he put his former family home on to the market for £7.95 million.
October 6, 2023
Owning buy-to-let property can offer a range of benefits, including a passive income and the potential for capital growth. And for those with property in London’s prized ‘golden postcodes’, there’s also the added allure of status.
September 22, 2023
Who would you trust with the biggest investment you’ll ever make; the Labour party or the Conservatives? A year on from Liz Truss’s mini-budget, with mortgage interest rates of 6.5 per cent biting into incomes, it feels as though the connection between politics and the housing market has never been stronger.
September 11, 2023
Demand may have fallen off a cliff during the pandemic, but 2023 has seen apartments mount a resurgence in PCL, accounting for a growing share of sales as lockdown memories fade: 44% of £5mn+ transactions across the capital in the year to last month, up from 40% last year and just 28% in 2021.
London may be no different from other world cities in this regard, but recent media reports have painted a particularly grim picture of the capital: widespread looting, armed burglaries and attacks on high-profile personalities in broad daylight have all featured on the front pages over the summer – and security concerns have even been cited as a factor in some A-listers’ decisions to move out to the country.
September 7, 2023
Answer: They sit on top of the Mediterranean Sea in Monaco, in an enclave designed by a starchitect dream team. And the developers are handpicking every resident By Mark Ellwood Portier is a turn in the road familiar to Formula 1 fans, a double right- hander that tees up one of the trickier stretches of […]
August 10, 2023
It was a pleasure to chat to Bloomberg’s Francine Lacquer and Ray Boulger from John Charcoal about what another rate rise means for London house prices.
August 4, 2023
After falling out of favour during the pandemic, it seems demand for apartment living is well and truly back. A top buying agency in PCL has revealed that 90% of deals it’s been involved with so far this year have involved flats, up from 43% last year.
July 31, 2023
On the face of it, the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, with its palace, its Michelin star restaurants, and its fabulously expensive real estate, has little in common with the down-to-earth Lancashire town of Clitheroe, where the main attractions include a tiny Norman castle and some outstanding traditional pubs.
June 15, 2023
I work 25 hours a day, eight days a week and 366 days a year,” says Becky Fatemi, who buys houses for the super-rich with budgets from £5 million up to £200 million.
June 6, 2023
Transactions are likely to remain low in Prime London during the months ahead, as buyer and seller expectations remain out of alignment.
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