We're influential.

Although London is generally a sellers’ market right now, particularly for houses, there are always homes which stubbornly fail to sell.

Sales of “super-prime” homes in the capital increased in 2020 despite the pandemic, showing widening gap between rich and poor.

London’s (and indeed the whole country’s) lockdown has shifted people’s attitudes, and first-time buyers are cashing in.

David Bell meets Camilla Dell and Caspar Harvard-Walls from Black Brick where they discuss common misconceptions in the UK property market. Watch below:

In this episode of devcast… Senior Consultant, Ryan Doyle, was joined by luxury real estate advisor, Ms Camilla Dell.

A year ago this week, England’s housing market was temporarily closed as part of the first national coronavirus lockdown.

To no-one’s surprise, there haven’t been petitions or concerted pressure from the public, MPs and trade bodies regarding the introduction of an extra 2% stamp duty surcharge on non-UK buyers from April 1 2021.

To walk around the streets of central London today is to know what it’s like to be in a zombie apocalypse. Streets empty, shops closed, pubs forlorn, the desertion would have been unthinkable only a year ago.

A number of estate agents have reported a good performance for January, as buyers raced to get deals over the line before the stamp duty holiday deadline.

When Dubai resident Mohy Shams heard about UK finance minister Rishi Sunak’s stamp duty holiday for residential property purchases last July, he jumped at the opportunity to make a saving.

In the past year, many of us who live in towns or cities have been forced to embrace a more local way of life. Working from home, we’ve become regulars at our local coffee shops, or at neighbourhood businesses we rarely used before, patronising those on our doorstep instead of rushing off to the office for a Pret al desko.

The growth in sales was strong over the summer, but activity is waning as the end of the stamp duty holiday draws closer?