January 12, 2018
The old adage goes: “There is no such thing as a bad property, just a bad price.”
January 5, 2018
Knightsbridge isn’t usually somewhere to shop on a budget but this year one lucky home hunter might pick up a three-bedroom apartment on Walton Street — valued at more than £3m — for £10.
December 5, 2017
Indian buyers are pouring into central London’s lethargic high-end property market after a change to how much money they can take out of their home country.
November 23, 2017
Areas of the capital that attract international companies could see distorted price rises Lexington Street in Soho. Google is expanding its presence in nearby King’s Cross, Twitter has established European headquarters in Soho and Instagram has set up shop a short walk away in Covent Garden.
November 13, 2017
October 30, 2017
Having a home near the water has always been important to Ben Hunt-Davis. The Olympic rowing champion, who won gold at Sydney in 2000, currently lives in a five-bedroom apartment moments from the Thames in Barnes, south-west London, with his wife, Isabella, teenage daughters, Sofia and Julia, and younger son, Luca.
October 27, 2017
The average cost of student digs across the country is about £88 a week, although in some areas of London parents are paying almost 100 times that to secure the best luxury accommodation for their offspring.
September 18, 2017
Black Brick is proud to be featured in the Chambers High Net Worth 2017 guide, as a professional adviser in the buying agents section of its UK chapter. Chambers, which researches and ranks the world's top lawyers, last year launched its first guide aimed at the international private wealth market.
September 15, 2017
The difficulty with surveys, whether they are from RICS, Nationwide, Halifax or others, is that each one is based on different sets of data and as such they can conflict with each other.
September 14, 2017
Alex Oliver has joined the Bruton Place-based agency as a buying consultant, after a successful stint at M&P’s Notting Hill office, where he was their highest-performing sales negotiator. He spent a couple of years at Foxtons before that, and has sold in excess of £50m worth of property to date.
September 11, 2017
House hunting for wealthy business people and foreign multi-millionaires is no easy job. One couple wanted a £10m house perfect for a chihuahua, “with no balcony and the right outside space”, while some superstitious buyers would only consider addresses with numbers “that didn’t mean death”.
September 8, 2017
People swoon when you tell them that you’re selling a five-bedroom house. How lovely, they say. Think of the space for children, the potential for guests. However, Britain’s “ideal home” for buyers now has just 3.5 bedrooms, according to the property website Zoopla. With the market in some areas almost static, sellers are forced to face a counterintuitive fact: abundant bedrooms can be a curse.
September 6, 2017
We explore the past and future of London’s residential garden squares, how much it costs to live on one and one woman’s campaign to regenerate hers.
September 4, 2017
Buying agency Black Brick celebrated a record year in 2016, tripling its turnover to GBP3million. The company attributes its success to buyers seeking honest, impartial advice, about where best to invest their money during a time of market uncertainty in London.
July 18, 2017
Mayfair buying agency Black Brick has just finalised an interesting acquisition on Park Lane.In a departure from high-end house and apartment sourcing, the firm dug deep to secure an off-market bank vault next to the Dorchester for the South African owner of IBV International Vaults, Ashok Sewnarain, who has plans for a super-luxe storage concept.
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