In a new piece for The Financial Times, Black Brick Founder and top London buying agent for over 20 years, Camilla Dell shares her advice for buying prime property in Belgravia.
“Now might be a good time to put in a cheeky offer,” she said. “Christmas can be a great time to buy because a lot of sellers who’ve had their houses on the market [for a while] want to get it done, and start the year afresh.”
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The impact of this market trend is leading some to believe that London’s properties could start to see “distorted price rises”, according a new article in The Financial Times.
Sharing her insights for the article, our Founder and Managing Partner, Camilla Dell said she believed that the effect of the tech companies on London’s property market has already been felt.
“Once all the companies are in, it’s too late,” she simply put, going on to explain how “the short-term beneficiaries from the new tech arrivals are likely to be landlords looking to rent units out”.
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Sharing his thoughts as to why he believes the central London’s slowing market will soon begin to affect Clapham, Black Brick’s Partner Caspar Harvard-Walls has featured in The Financial Times this week:
“Prices in the best areas of prime central London are down 7.5 per cent since the 2014 peak and it’s my belief that what starts in [the centre] will filter out into outer-prime London, which includes Clapham. By the end of 2016, I expect the best stock in these outer-prime locations will have seen a price drop of up to 10 per cent.”, he said.
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A new article in The Financial Times talked all about it this week, questioning whether we should be “morally outraged” by the trend.
We were delighted to have shared our thoughts for the piece, too. As a top London buying agency for prime property, Black Brick’s Partner and esteemed buying agent Caspar Harvard-Walls revered that “Investors want a safe haven and real estate in London falls into that category,”.
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Many people had been holiding off from purchasing new homes due to fears of the ‘mansion tax’ changes proposed by Labour and Lib Dems, a new article in The Times reveals.
Now that that certainty has been clarified, the mansion market is moving again.
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With property values rising by up to 20% in the past year alone, a new article in The Financial Times this week looks into what makes the neighourhood quite so attractive to home buyers.
“There’s also been a lot of new-build in and around Clapham, attracting foreign buyers who feel they’re getting more value than in prime central London,” said Black Brick’s Founder, Camilla Dell, featuring in the piece.
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We shared our insights into the growing secrecy of the prime property market for a new piece this week in The Financial Times:
“Many rich sellers do not wish the general public to know about a sale, especially if they are well-known, because it may attract window shoppers.”, said Black Brick Founder and Managing Partner, Camilla Dell.
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In a new piece for The Financial Times, Black Brick Founder and top London buying agent shared how the phenomenon was quickly becoming a top priority amongst our agency’s Indian client base:
“Many of our Indian clients are into vastu and so we have had to learn the principles behind it to help them with property searches,” she said.
“The critical question for us is the positioning of the front door,” she says. “If it faces south there is no point in us even showing the property to a client. South is the energy point; the belief is that if the door faces south then all the energy will flow out of the house.”
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Sharing our perspective as a top buying agency for luxury London property, Black Brick Founder, Camilla Dell was delighted to feature her thoughts in the piece:
“We’re seeing a big increase in Middle Eastern, African and other dollar-linked buyers, who are now showing strong renewed interest in the London market as a great investment opportunity,” she said.
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As a successful business woman herself and owner of the renowned buying agency Black Brick, Camilla has long been beating the drum that women can be, and often *are* just as successful as men in the UK.
“Successful female bankers, hedge fund managers and saleswomen – particularly women in property – are creating a new single woman status”, she said.
“[I] first noticed single women making their mark on the market about five years ago […] increasingly they are looking for the same things as men – a cool pad with space where they can entertain their friends and have dinner parties.”
Why? The answer is simple. “Women are staying single for longer and are empowered to buy on their own and own the ultimate female bachelor pad”, she explained.
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