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![Price dip in Prime London is chance for savvy investors](/upload/images/24%2006%2013%20%2005.jpg)
Demand remains relatively subdued in London’s prime postcodes, as the General Election nears. The number of offers made above £5m was 22%...
13 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Demand boost for property in lower-value prime London locations](/upload/images/24%2004%2018%20%2005.jpg)
The number of sales instructions in London was 17% above the five-year average in the first quarter of 2024, according to...
18 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![Prime Demand Dips as London’s high end market remains challenging](/upload/images/24%2004%2011%2004.jpg)
The latest index by London agency Benham and Reeves shows that buyer demand for both prime (£2m+) and super prime homes...
11 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![London’s struggling prime market offers opportunities for investors](/upload/images/240326%20%2003.jpg)
The prime London sales market recorded both price and transaction falls in February, while in lettings, rental growth increased slightly and...
26 March 2024
From: Breaking News
![Insider Insight: top agent’s view of Prime London housing market](/upload/images/24%2003%2019%20%2004.jpg)
A developer once said that after a slowdown, you need no further bad news for two consecutive quarters for a recovery...
19 March 2024
From: Breaking News
![Green Shoots appear in Prime London sales market - LonRes](/upload/images/24%2002%2027%20%20%2005.jpg)
London-focussed property data firm LonRes says there are signs of green shoots in the capital’s prime housing market. January saw a rise...
27 February 2024
From: Breaking News
![Knight Frank’s Investor Update on residential sales and lettings](/upload/images/240213%2004.jpg)
Sales Market: The UK housing market is at an inflection point, which means mixed signals for buyers and sellers. Inflation has fallen...
13 February 2024
From: Breaking News
![Investors Warned - rising prime London lettings supply hits rental growth](/upload/images/24%2001%2030%2005.jpg)
Data from London property data consultancy LonRes suggests supply in prime areas of the capital is improving and so rental growth...
30 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![Agency forecasts no more house price falls in London](/upload/images/24%2001%2025%2003.jpg)
Cluttons, a prime London residential property specialist, has flagged an end to house price falls in its new forecasts for 2024...
25 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![Confidence Returns To Prime Property Markets - Savills](/upload/images/24%2001%2004%20%2003.jpg)
One of the country’s highest profile high-end property consultancies says confidence is returning to prime markets after a turbulent year, with...
04 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![Foxtons explains how to add 50% to the value of a London house](/upload/images/23%2012%2019%203.jpg)
The latest research by Foxtons reveals just how much London homeowners can add Ali’s to their property by digging down. The research...
19 December 2023
From: Breaking News
![Late Autumn Property Sentiment surges in prime London](/upload/images/23%2012%2014%203.jpg)
It’s not often you can say the property market was stronger in November than in September, but it was this year....
14 December 2023
From: Breaking News
![Investing For The Super-Rich - a snapshot of London’s poshest market](/upload/images/__thumbs/23%2010%2024%2004.jpg/23%2010%2024%2004__400x226.jpg)
Momentum within London’s £5m-plus residential market ramped up in the third quarter of 2023, according to new analysis from Savills. The high...
24 October 2023
From: Breaking News
![Investors In London Property Buoyed By Better Returns](/upload/images/23%2010%2019%2002.jpg)
A leading lettings agency and property consultancy has revealed that it anticipates stronger-than-expected rental growth this year and next in prime...
19 October 2023
From: Breaking News
![Cash investors snap up prime London flats as buy to let landlords exit](/upload/images/23%2010%2019%2004.jpg)
Prime London markets are proving more resilient to rising interest rates than their mainstream equivalents, says high end agency Savills. Prices in...
19 October 2023
From: Breaking News
![Prime London properties attract top dollar!](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Misc/prime%20London(695%20%C3%97%20395px)%20(400%20%C3%97%20310px).jpg)
The capital city’s super-top-end property transactions rose by 30% last year, and that is likely to continue in 2023. Multi-millionaires and billionaires...
05 January 2023
From: Breaking News
![American dream! US buyer demand for London property doubles](/upload/images/Locations/UnionJack-USFlags-400x310.jpg)
American investors are increasingly interested in prime London property, boosted by favourable exchange rates, the current need for diversification of portfolios and...
16 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![What does Liz Truss mean for the prime London property market?](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/Parliament-Summer-400x310.jpg)
As the idea of a new prime minister takes effect, how the government tackles the economic challenges facing the country remains...
16 September 2022
From: Breaking News
![Reflection: how Prime Central London has weathered yet another storm](/upload/images/Locations/PrimeLondonHousesArc-400x310.jpg)
Just last week, Savills published their World Cities Prime Residential Index, which highlights that despite economic and political gloom, the prime...
19 August 2022
From: Breaking News
![Prime London prices up by 114 percent as high-end buyers return](/upload/images/Locations/London-WestEnd-400x310.jpg)
Despite prime London property prices remaining largely flat on a year-on-year basis, some postcodes have seen average sale prices climb by...
27 April 2022
From: Breaking News
![Prime London homes remain discounted, but the figures start to drop](/upload/images/library/Central-London400x310.png)
London lettings and estate agent, Benham and Reeves, claim that although prime London properties are subject to discounts, this discount is starting...
15 April 2022
From: Breaking News
![London exodus reverses as rental demand climbs in Q1](/upload/images/Locations/LondonMap400x310-min.png)
With tenants returning to the capital in 2022, research by rental portal Rentd has revealed that the London rental market has...
01 April 2022
From: Breaking News
![Russian buyers account for £190m in London market value in 2021](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/uk-housing400x310.png)
Russian residential property purchases contributed an estimated £190 million in market value and £13.2 million in stamp duty tax last year,...
07 March 2022
From: Breaking News
![Planning to buy a luxury new build? Watch out for the leasehold…](/upload/images/Locations/PrimeLondonHousesArc-400x310.jpg)
In this guest piece, Hugh Wigzell, senior associate at Farrer & Co, lists three issues that property buyers and investors should watch out for...
02 March 2022
From: Breaking News
![Wandsworth wins as wealthiest London hotspot in 2021](/upload/images/library/Wandsworth-400x310.png)
The borough of Wandsworth sits top as London’s prime property hotspot over the last year, accounting for the highest level of...
07 January 2022
From: Breaking News
![Insight: Which prime London areas are driving the rental market revival?](/upload/images/library/Central-London400x310.png)
The prime London rental market has enjoyed an 8% uplift in rental values over the last year, with the most in-demand...
17 December 2021
From: Breaking News
![Where to invest in London’s most exclusive resi neighbourhoods](/upload/images/library/BPS-LondonAerial-400x310.jpg)
London remains one of the most desirable locations to live in the world, despite its ranking as the sixth most expensive...
29 October 2021
From: Breaking News
![Foreign buyer return could boost London house prices by £134k](/upload/images/Locations/LondonMap400x310-min.png)
A return of foreign buyer demand could increase property values by £134,000 in some areas of the capital according to the latest...
10 September 2021
From: Breaking News
![Belgravia property receives record-breaking investment of £6.4m](/upload/images/Locations/Wilton%20Place%20.jpg)
UK property finance platform CapitalRise has funded its biggest crowdfunding raise. Investors of the platform have reserved £6.4 million in finance...
28 July 2021
From: Breaking News
![Q&A – how can retirement living be redefined?](/img/default/pit.png)
Living well in retirement and into old age has become a very hot topical issue in the last 15 months or...
11 June 2021
From: Breaking News
![Prime London update: sales activity soars as rental values decline](/img/default/pit.png)
The number of sales transactions in the Prime Central London (PCL) market recorded in March was the highest since March 2016,...
19 April 2021
From: Breaking News
![The roaring 20s – will there be a return to the cities that never sleep?](/img/default/pit.png)
One of the strangest sights during the pandemic has been the image of some of the biggest, busiest cities in the...
12 April 2021
From: Breaking News
![Post-Brexit UK-China property investment outlook – what should you know?](/img/default/pit.png)
A new thought leadership paper has looked at where, what and why Chinese high-net-worth-individuals (HWNIs) and investors are buying and developing in...
22 March 2021
From: Breaking News
![Insight - why are international investors piling into the North West’s BTL market?](/img/default/pit.png)
International investors are increasingly focusing on the buy-to-let (BTL) property market in the North West of England, according to property investment...
10 March 2021
From: Breaking News
![A 'beret' good time – prime French market tempts buyers from London](/img/default/pit.png)
Research by high-net-worth mortgage broker, Enness Global, has revealed how the upper tiers of the French property market are currently tempting...
19 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![Q&A – is now the time to be investing in distressed assets?](/img/default/pit.png)
In this Q&A, Thomas Balashev – who has spoken previously of breaking into the old-money elite of prime London property despite...
17 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![Revealed: Prime property continues to bear the brunt of Covid](/img/default/pit.png)
The UK’s prime property market is evolving, rather than suffering, throughout the coronavirus pandemic, new data from wealth manager and private...
15 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![Insight – what does the 2% SDLT surcharge mean for overseas investors?](/img/default/pit.png)
To no-one’s surprise, there haven’t been petitions or concerted pressure from the public, MPs and trade bodies regarding the introduction of...
10 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![How has the prime London market fared in 2021 so far?](/img/default/pit.png)
The annual price decline in prime central London (PCL) was 4.3% for the third consecutive month in January, while average rents...
08 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![Revealed – what will 2021 have in store for the UK property market?](/img/default/pit.png)
With 2020 wrapped up and many anticipating the year ahead, Tom Bill, head of UK residential research at Knight Frank, provides commentary...
04 January 2021
From: Breaking News
![Multi-million-pound London mansions you can ‘buy now and pay later’](/img/default/pit.png)
Two super-prime London mansions are on offer as part of a ‘buy now, pay later’ scheme that allows buyers to move...
26 October 2020
From: Breaking News
![Revealed: The highs and lows of London’s property market](/img/default/pit.png)
While average rental values in prime central London (PCL) have declined annually by 6.9%, average house prices in prime London property...
14 September 2020
From: Breaking News
![Revolutionising the prime market – one developer’s goal to shake up the system](/img/default/pit.png)
A residential property and design consultancy for the prime and super-prime London market is seeking to disrupt the traditional model by...
14 September 2020
From: Breaking News
![Prime London market the busiest it has been for 'over five years'](/img/default/pit.png)
The Prime Central London (PCL) property market is the busiest it has been for over five years, according to estate agency...
19 August 2020
From: Breaking News
![Q&A – the highs and highs of investing in the PCL market](/img/default/pit.png)
In this Q&A, we catch up with Dean Main – founder and major shareholder of luxury residence management company, Rhodium –...
30 March 2020
From: Breaking News
![Why are tech tenants driving the demand for prime London rentals?](/img/default/pit.png)
Last week tech giant Facebook announced that it would be hiring 1,000 more staff in London, bringing its total workforce in...
31 January 2020
From: Breaking News
![Women in Property Investment – “believe in what you are building”](/img/default/pit.png)
Welcome back to Women in Property Investment (or WIPI), where we focus on inspiring women who are making their mark in...
17 January 2020
From: Breaking News
![The most in-demand prime London streets revealed](/img/default/pit.png)
Benham and Reeves has revealed the capital’s prime and super-prime streets where buyer activity remains strong despite a wider market ‘freeze’...
27 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Boost to the co-living market as Crosslane Group enters with large pipeline](/img/default/pit.png)
Co-living is currently a nascent market in the UK – still highly niche, albeit growing – but there are signs that...
20 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Bulk buyers flock to Central London before Brexit](/img/default/pit.png)
Central London has seen a 55% increase in demand from family offices, real estate funds and large investors looking to bulk-buy...
14 October 2019
From: Breaking News
![Prime London stamp duty costs are enough to buy a house in 167 UK areas](/img/default/pit.png)
Buying a detached house in the UK is cheaper than paying stamp duty in prime central London, analysis from Springbok Properties...
04 October 2019
From: Breaking News
![Transactions and prices drop in London’s prime postcodes](/img/default/pit.png)
The number of prime London transactions dipped by 7% in the first half of 2019 when compared to the same period...
02 October 2019
From: Breaking News
![Prime London lettings market shows signs of recovery](/img/default/pit.png)
The prime lettings market in the capital is showing signs of strength, according to agency Russell Simpson. The firm says it has...
30 September 2019
From: Breaking News
![London’s next door neighbour effect – is it reversing?](/img/default/pit.png)
Looking back to four or five years ago when Prime Central London property prices were booming, it became commonplace to buy...
28 August 2019
From: Breaking News
![London prime properties snapped up by American and Asian buyers](/img/default/pit.png)
Dollar-led buyers are snapping up prime London properties as sterling sinks to a 28-month low, according to The London Resolution. The company...
07 August 2019
From: Breaking News
![Prime Central London property outperforms other investments](/img/default/pit.png)
Property in prime central London (PCL) has outperformed a range of other asset classes (including gold, farmland, antique jewellery and the...
12 July 2019
From: Breaking News
![Hyde Park Gardens revealed as London’s top performing micro market](/img/default/pit.png)
The latest research report by ultra-prime estate agent Beauchamp Estates has revealed that Hyde Park Gardens and the immediate area have been...
19 June 2019
From: Breaking News
![I need a dollar! – London witnesses surge in number of US buyers](/img/default/pit.png)
The weakness of the pound following the Brexit vote has helped to propel the number of US buyers in London to...
19 June 2019
From: Breaking News
![Going for a pretty penny...portal reveals London's most expensive streets](/img/default/pit.png)
A prime and super-prime London property portal has examined the capital’s most expensive roads for homes. The portal, Vyomm, analysed Land Registry...
14 June 2019
From: Breaking News
![Returns from London BTL homes don’t outweigh risks, firm claims](/img/default/pit.png)
Investment yields from prime London buy-to-let properties don’t reflect the risks involved, Hadrian’s Wall Capital (HWC) has claimed. The London-based specialist debt...
23 January 2019
From: Breaking News
![Theresa May announces plans for stamp duty levy on overseas buyers](/img/default/pit.png)
Theresa May kicked off the Conservative Party conference – which is taking place in Birmingham this week – by outlining plans...
03 October 2018
From: Breaking News
![Property Partner announces tie-up with luxury developer](/img/default/pit.png)
Property Partner has announced a ‘strategic partnership’ with GAMA Property that aims to give investors the chance to access returns from...
29 June 2018
From: Breaking News
![Affordable UK property prices help to attract UAE expats](/img/default/pit.png)
Expats and foreign nationals in the UAE are using the weak pound to snap up UK properties while prices remain affordable...
06 December 2017
From: Breaking News
![Prime central London property sales improve slightly](/img/default/pit.png)
There was a marginal increase in the number of residential property sales in prime central London in the first half of...
03 August 2017
From: Breaking News
![Cheaper house prices cause surge in prime London housing market activity](/img/default/pit.png)
The decline in property prices at the upper end of London’s housing market has led to a sharp rise in home...
18 July 2017
From: Breaking News
![More realistic pricing attracts motivated buyers in prime central London](/img/default/pit.png)
Despite a backdrop of political uncertainty, sales volumes are starting to pick up in the prime central London property market as...
07 June 2017
From: Breaking News
![London’s property market is booming – if you know where to look](/img/default/pit.png)
Despite weakening growth in the capital, where values are around 80% higher than in 2009, there are still plenty of good...
10 May 2017
From: Breaking News
![Small investors can now ‘earn attractive returns’ from prime property in London](/img/default/pit.png)
A property investment platform offering investors the opportunity to indirectly invest in prime residential property in the capital with as little as £1,000...
06 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![Sales of prime London property pick up as prices become more ‘realistic’](/img/default/pit.png)
Sales volumes are increasing in the prime central London property market as purchasers look to take advantage of more ‘realistic’ asking...
17 March 2017
From: Breaking News
![Investment demand in London's prime residential markets improves](/img/default/pit.png)
Competitive bidding, lower asking prices, a weak pound, the residential property market in the capital continues to appeal to many prospective...
15 March 2017
From: Breaking News
![Prime country buyers seek ‘value away from the capital’](/img/default/pit.png)
Residential property price growth across all prime regional markets slowed during the final quarter of last year, bringing annual growth to...
06 February 2017
From: Breaking News
![Property sales rising in prime central London but prices continue to fall](/img/default/pit.png)
Despite ongoing political and economic uncertainty, sales volumes are rising in the central London prime property market as buyers look to...
09 January 2017
From: Breaking News
![Prime London land values fall sharply](/img/default/pit.png)
Land values in prime central London dropped by 10.3% in the year through to September, and are now at around the...
18 November 2016
From: Breaking News
![Check out the world's best - and worst - performing housing markets](/img/default/pit.png)
Prime residential property prices across the world’s major cities increased on average by 3.8% in the 12 months to September 2016,...
01 November 2016
From: Breaking News
![House prices in England and Wales rise marginally in September](/img/default/pit.png)
The average price of a residential property in England and Wales rose slightly last month despite a month-on-month decline recorded in...
17 October 2016
From: Breaking News
![London’s prime house prices forecast to fall 9% this year - Savills](/img/default/pit.png)
Residential property prices in London’s prime locations will fall by 9% this year and not rise again until 2019 as increased...
22 September 2016
From: Breaking News
![Surge in buyer interest offers room for ‘cautious optimism’ in prime London](/img/default/pit.png)
There has been a significant rise in the volume of prospective property purchasers in the prime central London since the EU...
12 September 2016
From: Breaking News
![Prime London property prices falling sharply](/img/default/pit.png)
Residential property prices in prime central London are currently falling at their fastest rate for seven years owed in part to...
06 August 2016
From: Breaking News
![London luxury property prices continue to fall](/img/default/pit.png)
Property prices across London’s prime housing markets continued to fall in the run-up to the EU referendum, with further declines anticipated...
08 July 2016
From: Breaking News
![Sellers in central London ‘cashing in’](/img/default/pit.png)
High property prices and an ultra-low interest rate environment are tempting many property owners in prime central London to sell up...
13 June 2016
From: Breaking News
![Prime London land prices continue to fall](/img/default/pit.png)
Prime central London development land prices fell for the second quarter in tandem with values for greenfield land in England which...
07 June 2016
From: Breaking News
![Cash is king in London’s prime property market](/img/default/pit.png)
More than a third of prime London property acquisitions made by buy-to-let investors in the first quarter of the year were...
27 April 2016
From: Breaking News
![Prime London rental market cools](/img/default/pit.png)
The rental market in prime central London is starting to slow following a year of record breaking growth with rents either...
18 April 2016
From: Breaking News
![Record number of new buyer registrations in Prime London](/img/default/pit.png)
Buyer registrations and tenancy agreements in Prime London have soared in the last year, according to Marsh & Parsons’ latest London...
12 February 2016
From: Breaking News
![New Year to kick-start 2016 lettings market](/img/default/pit.png)
This January is set to be the strongest month outside of the summer for lettings activity, fuelled by Christmas divorces and...
05 January 2016
From: Breaking News
![Findings from Knight Frank’s latest UK Residential Market Forecast revealed](/img/default/pit.png)
Cumulative growth in UK prices will total 20.3% in the five years to the end of 2020, according to Knight Frank’s...
17 November 2015
From: Breaking News
![Prime Central London set to reap the benefits of shock election result](/img/default/pit.png)
The surprise election result is set to boost transaction levels across Prime Central London, according to new research by high-end agency...