The Super – Prime Dilemma

Wealthy homeowners who have moved abroad for tax reasons must decide: sell, rent or manage their London home?

Please click here to read the full article and Camilla Dell’s commentary.

Can going ‘off-market’ help sell my house?

In a sluggish market, canny tactics can be presented as a silver bullet. In London, a below-the-radar approach continues to seduce. But the strategy has mixed results.

73% of Camilla Dell’s properties she bought for clients last year, were off market.

For her thoughts on off market deals, please read the full article here.

Marylebone property prices are ‘defying gravity’

W1U saw prices rise more than 9 per cent in 2025, as those in broader prime central London fell more than 3 per cent. What is it doing right?

Camilla Dell, Managing Partner, is quote in the FT discussing why Marylebone is such a hotspot for buyers.

Read the article here.

Call my Buying Agent! Black Brick in Financial Times

We are delighted to have been featured in The Financial Times this week, in a new piece that spotlights premium buying agencies in London and the wider UK.

Speaking with writer Cathy Hawker, Black Brick’s Founder, Camilla Dell, shared insight into the hidden world of premium property, and reflected how current times have affected the market and growing need for buying agencies like Black Brick.

“Over the past two years, half of my clients, appointing a buying agent for the first time, have a budget below £3mn. Using one is much more understood now. Off-market properties are more prevalent and transaction costs much steeper. The stakes for getting it wrong are so much higher. Going into the London market without a buying agent is a bit like going to court without a lawyer.”, she commented.

Read the full article here.

How pets are helping to sell homes

In a new piece for The Financial Times this week, Black Brick Founder Camilla Dell shares why pets are increasingly being featured in property listing images as a way to attract buyers.

“I think pets give more of a human element to the property,” Camilla said. “It’s not this pristine show home that no one has ever lived in.”

Read the full article here.

Cautious UK homebuyers are forcing corrections in sellers’ price expectations

The falling mortgage rates may be pushing up demand, but it’s still a buyers’ market out there.

Speaking on the current state of the market and its impacts on buying agencies like Black Brick, our Founder & Managing Partner, Camilla Dell shared her insights in The Financial Times this week.

“Some buyers that were sitting on the fence and renting because they couldn’t afford to borrow will be able to crack on now that rates are more sensible,” she said. “We’re also pretty busy with new US, European and Middle Eastern clients.”

Read the full article here.

Inside London’s prime property stalemate

London’s “stalling” amid a prime property stalemate between sellers who are refusing to cut prices and buyers who won’t offer more, The Financial Times has reported this week.

Sharing insight into the current situation, Black Brick Founder Camilla Dell shared: “We have lurched from one crisis to another and although the latest issues in the banking sector don’t directly impact London property, they affect sentiment and people’s investment portfolios,”.

“If people are feeling less wealthy, they are going to be nervous.”, she continued, reflecting on why people are being extra stubborn about their budgets this year.

Read the full article here.

Buyers are choosing high end homes in bustling Battersea

After decades of struggle, south London’s Battersea is finally having its moment (largely thanks to the newly redeveloped Battersea Power Station!).

Reflecting on the resurgence of the region, which is proving to attract plenty of high-end property buyers, Black Brick’s buying agent Caspar Harvard-Walls shared in the The Financial Times how he recently brokered the sale of a three-bed duplex facing the river by the power station for over £5 million.

In March, Caspar Harvard-Walls of Black Brick, a buying agent, brokered a sale on a three-bedroom duplex river-facing apartment within the power station listed at £5.55mn.

“The buyer was looking for a house in Knightsbridge or Chelsea for £5mn but thought the turbine hall property with its floor-to-ceiling Crittall windows was too impressive,” Caspar commented.

Read more in the full article here.

The super-prime rent race in London

Renting in prime central London has always been rather particular in terms of proving credentials to picky landlords.

But as the market opens up again post-pandemic, it seems that premium property in London has become even more scrutinising.

Commenting on this emerging trend in property, our Founder Camilla Dell shared her input in The Financial Times this week.

Read the article here.