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My money…Camilla Dell

July 4, 2018

CAMILLA DELL is managing partner and founder of Black Brick Property Solutions. Having worked for two of London’s largest and most successful estate agencies, Foxtons and Knight Frank, Camilla set up Black Brick in January 2007.

In With The Old: Wealthy Buyers Seeking Cut-Price Dilapidated Properties

Wealthy buyers in London are increasingly shunning luxury homes for cut-price dilapidated properties in the hopes of making a tidy profit.

How to negotiate with estate agents

June 19, 2018

Whether you are buying or selling, dealing with estate agents can be a trying experience — and, for sellers, an expensive one.

How the Best in Class Ignite a Bidding War

June 4, 2018

The property, a detached villa in Holland Park, went on the market at around £13 million. That valued the unmodernised property at around £2,500/square foot – a respectable price for a house in a desirable area, backing onto attractive communal gardens.

Is Now the Time To Invest in a Prime London Home?

May 21, 2018

London’s luxury market, long home to aristocrats, wealthy Middle Easterners and Russian oligarchs, has been more aptly known lately as the home of plummeting real estate prices.

Going green: how a historic communal garden can add more than 40% to the value of your property

London’s garden squares are legendary.  No other city in the world has quite so many — and they never cease to astonish tourists, particularly Americans, who go all wobbly at the knees if they ever get to visit them.

Construction of central London new-build flats fell by a quarter in 2017

May 15, 2018

Construction of luxury flats in central London dropped by a quarter last year, with apartments housed in developments dubbed “posh ghost towers” struggling to sell.

Estate agency sets up divorce division aimed at wealthy splitters

May 8, 2018

Estate agency Black Brick has launched a specialist service to cater for divorcing couples as an increasing number of the super-rich seek to untie the knot in London.

Hiring a ghostbuster and only buying on the eighth floor: how beliefs and superstition can make or break a property sale

April 30, 2018

When the Norman Foster-designed HSBC building in Hong Kong was completed in December 1985, it was the most expensive building in the world ever to have been constructed.

Camilla Dell talks to Coutts about the London property market

April 26, 2018

Camilla Dell talks to Coutts Bank about the London property index.

London buying agency looks to Hong Kong after a ‘surge’ of interest from Asian investors

April 19, 2018

Camilla Dell’s buying agency Black Brick is taking a team to Hong Kong after seeing “a surge in interest from Asians looking to invest in the central London property market”.

Chelsea mansion’s £16.5m price cut does the trick

March 5, 2018

The “one-off” behemoth on Cresswell Place came to market amid a blaze of publicity last summer at £37.5m, following a full-scale redevelopment programme at the hands of luxury specialist Albyns.

True grit: will redevelopment blunt Kentish Town’s edgy appeal?

March 1, 2018

Prime property Added Market stalls in London’s Covent Garden Properties around the historic piazza have been upgraded but sales have slowed shops and stalls in Covent Garden market.

Market stalls in London’s Covent Garden

February 2, 2018

Prime property Added Market stalls in London’s Covent Garden Properties around the historic piazza have been upgraded but sales have slowed shops and stalls in Covent Garden market.

A stage too far?

January 23, 2018

Take a look at any model on the cover of a magazine these days and you assume the image has been airbrushed to remove any blemishes: sadly, digital trickery has become an acceptable fact of life in the world of publishing.