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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.