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2025 is here and we’re all keen to see what it has in store for the UK’s housing market.

‘We have been amazed by how much prime stock there is to choose from at the moment,’ says PCL acquisition firm, which has just secured an apartment in Kensington for less than half its original £30mn asking.

They have sat at the very pinnacle of the world’s super-prime property market for the past century. And despite a year of global conflict and political upheaval, penthouse apartments continue to shatter price ceilings all over the globe.

One of London’s leading home buying agents has revealed that in the Capital’s prime areas, a staggering 40-50% of homes for sale are not advertised on the big portals.

Where once it was the sight of a Waitrose that lit up house-buyers’ eyes, reassuring them that this must be a desirable place to live, now it’s a local pub that’s the most prized “local amenity”, according to research by Jackson-Stops.

Earlier this year, a client of buying agent Camilla Dell offered £3mn less than the c£20mn asking price for a home in a prestigious central London development completed in 2020.

Hi, it’s Sarah Rappaport, your luxury reporter in London. Last time you heard from me, I was soaking up the sun on the Athens Riviera. This week, I wrapped up warm on a reporting trip to the Athens of the north—Edinburgh.

Camilla Dell, Managing Partner and Founder of Black Brick, a premier buying agency specializing in London real estate, is gearing up for a notable visit to Dubai and Riyadh in November.

The phones of London’s high-end estate agents have been ringing overnight. Enquiries from anti-Trump Americans to rent trophy homes on London’s most prestigious streets started to come in during the early hours of Wednesday morning as a Donald Trump victory seemed inevitable. 

On 30 October 2024, Labour set out its fiscal plans for the year ahead. Expectations of clampdowns on multiple homeowners, with breaks for the poorest in society, had been swirling. Aspiring homeowners hoped for a silver bullet to help them get onto the property ladder.

Ever since Sir Keir Starmer stepped into the Downing Street garden and issued a warning that the forthcoming budget would be “painful”, commentators have been predicting a whole range of possible tax raids, writes Camilla Dell.

Inheritance tax (IHT) changes could penalise older homeowners and create a form of “social engineering” for downsizers, a buying agent has warned.