Evening Standard
London home values rise, but not as much as the rest of the UK
It’s bad news for homeowners in London: house prices in the capital grew less than the national average last year, new research shows.

It’s bad news for homeowners in London: house prices in the capital grew less than the national average last year, new research shows.
Camilla Dell is Managing Partner and founder of Black Brick Property Solutions LLP and has worked in the London property market since 2002. She is highly experienced in meeting the needs of demanding domestic and international property buyers.
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.
The housing market is hotting up with prices and sales set to head north in the coming months, according to the respected Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.
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.