The best prime property buying agents in 2026

By Spears.

Welcome to the Spear’s ranking of the best buying agents who represent UHNW individuals seeking to buy prime property.

Spear’s WMS has published a detailed look at the prime and super-prime property buying agent sector, exploring how the best firms operate — and what genuinely separates them from the rest.

For high-net-worth buyers, working with a buying agent is fundamentally about access: to off-market opportunities, to the right professional network, and to strategic advice at every stage of the acquisition process. Leading agents spend their time building relationships with brokers, developers, family offices and private clients, often sourcing properties that never formally reach the open market.

Spears highlights a growing consensus around the importance of conflict-free representation. Many of the industry’s top practitioners believe that a buying agent should act exclusively for buyers — never accepting fees from third parties or representing sellers — a principle that sits at the heart of Black Brick’s own approach.

As the buying agent market has expanded significantly over the past two decades, quality and expertise vary enormously. True excellence at the top of the market, demands intellect, access and patience in equal measure.

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The best buying agents for prime property in 2023

We are delighted that three members of the Black Brick team have been included in highly competitive and coveted Spears ranking for “Best Buying Agents for Prime Property in 2023”.

Managing Partner Camilla Dell is listed as a “Top Flight” buying agent; Caspar Harvard-Walls is “Top Recommended” and Tom Kain is “Recommended”.

Read the report here.

£10 million is no longer enough to buy ‘an amazing family home’ in prime central London

How much does a prime property in London now cost? Black Brick’s Camilla Dell discusses the super prime central London property sector this week in Spear’s.

Sitting down amongst a panel of property experts who specialise in sourcing the capital’s most luxurious properties for high-profile clients, Camilla shared her perspective on how international buyers are down at the moment compared to times before the pandemic.

She added, though, that, “there’s a huge amount of interest at the moment from [HNWs who are] US dollar-based”.

“At the moment, we’re seeing a lot of clients from emerging market countries,’ Dell said, noting that buyers who had recently made money in the oil and gas industries were particularly prevalent. ‘London for them is looking really quite cheap at the moment”, she continued.

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The best buying agents for prime London property

Black Brick has been exclusively ranked as one of London’s best buying agents!

We are delighted to see Black Brick’s Managing Partner, Camilla Dell, Partner Caspar Harvard-Walls and Senior Buying Consultant Tom Kain featured in the Spear’s ranking of the best London buying agents for high-net-worth individuals this week.

The list features Spear’s Top Recommended and Recommended agents.

Read it here.

Spear’s 500 Top Ten 2022

Featured in Spear’s 500!

We are delighted that Black Brick’s Managing Partner Camilla Dell is in the Top Ten London Buying Agents, and Partner Caspar Harvard-Walls and Senior Buying Consultant Tom Kain are Top Recommended Buying Agents in the latest 2022 edition of the Spears 500.

The Spear’s 500 is the definitive, market-leading guide to the top private client advisers, wealth managers, lawyers and service providers for HNW individuals.

The Spear’s 500

We are delighted to be included in The Spears 500, which is considered the essential guide to the top private advisers for HNW individuals.

If you need to know who should manage your money, take care of your legal affairs, find you a house or protect your family, The Spear’s 500 has the answers.

In a landmark event for the private client world, Spear’s has published the first-ever comprehensive guide to every field which matters to HNWs. The Spear’s 500 covers professionals from the best private bankers, wealth managers, family lawyers and property consultants to the top art, philanthropy, wine and security advisers. We also feature lawyers in fields like immigration, crime and landed estates.

Everyone in the major Indices in The Spear’s 500 has been peer-reviewed and validated with client feedback, making this the most authoritative and far-reaching guide around today. Every single person in The Spear’s 500 has been interviewed by the Spear’s Research Unit so we can give you a sense of who you are dealing with: their specialisms, their outlook and their personality.

Black Brick awarded “Property Advisor of the Year” at Spear’s Wealth Management Awards

We are absolutely delighted to have been awarded “Property Adviser of the Year” at the prestigious Spear’s Wealth Management Awards, held at The Savoy in London on Tuesday 29th October and presented by CNBC’s Ross Westgate.

Spear’s Wealth Management Awards celebrate high net worth individuals and wealth managers for their successes, innovations and acumen. The judges described our offering as “the most comprehensive service” and “the go-to for banks,” as well as praising us on our free concierge services.

Competition was stiff, so we are extremely proud to have won this award. We work extremely hard to ensure we offer an exceptional service that goes above and beyond the norm, and winning this award demonstrates our commitment to our clients, as well as recognising the hard work of our team.

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Why are so many Chinese HNWs moving to the UK?

The UK is seeing a considerable rise in the number of Chinese HNWs (High-Net-Worth Individuals) coming over here to live.

As a top London buying agency whose client base is made up of 30% Asian buyers, Black Brick’s Founder, Camilla Dell offered her insights into the rising interest from Chinese investors in a new piece this week for Spear’s:

“Asian buyers like to buy “offplan” [before construction has commenced] or new-build properties, as this is what they are familiar with in their own local markets.”, she said.

“Areas such as Canary Wharf have become extremely popular with Chinese buyers who want to invest in off-plan developments. However, we always advise buyers to be wary of such purchases, which can be located in secondary areas and tend not to perform as well as prime central London properties.”