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This week alone I must have been sent a dozen invitations to champagne-fuelled property launches. The last time I was being sent this sort of invitation was before the financial crisis.

Property transactions are at a standstill, with the number of homes sold this year a third lower than in 2022. Buyers have seen their budgets slashed by the mortgage chaos while sellers’ expectations of what their homes are worth have yet to catch up with the current reality.

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Multi-award-winning buying agency Black Brick is expanding out of prime central London, the Home Counties, and the South East following its most successful start to any year to date.

Black Brick is expanding out of prime central London, the Home Counties, and the South East, with the launch of a new country and coast department.

Property buying agency Black Brick has set up a new arm covering locations across the West Country.

The Mayfair-based firm’s new country and coast department, launched to coincide with this year’s spring market, will be overseen by two new recruits – both of whom will be based out in the field.

There were hopes that the Spring Budget 2024 could bring new schemes to help first-time buyers and surprising tax cuts.

The property industry seems underwhelmed by this year’s Spring Budget. Chancellor Jeremy Hunt set out a suite of tax tweaks and spending pledges, but stopped short of pulling any blockbuster moves.

Jeremy Hunt is preparing the next big outing for HM Treasury’s red box, limbering-up to make a suite of tax and fiscal policy announcements next week. His speech on 6th March will very likely be the last big Budget address before the next General Election – which means the Chancellor is more likely to pedal vote-garnering tax-cutting policies than in a less politically-charged year.

Nothing is certain except death and taxes,” Benjamin Franklin, the US founding father, once said. Labour may be ahead in the polls but the outcome of the general election remains uncertain.

Echoing other reports from across Prime Central London, buying agency Black Brick has reported its busiest January to date, with a flurry of deals and a book of clients with budgets ranging up to £25mn.

A staggering 71 per cent of buyers in prime central London chose to buy property using cash this year, according to research by the estate agency Savills.