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

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.

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 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 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.

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 Bank about the London property index.

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”.

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.

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.

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.

The old adage goes: “There is no such thing as a bad property, just a bad price.”