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01 February 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
![Rich Pickings - Market boom for prime and super-prime property in London](/upload/images/23%2012%2028%204.jpg)
Investment returns and activity in London’s property market has been stronger than the rest of the country over the last 12...
28 December 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
![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
![2022 – where in outer London are Chinese and HK investors buying?](/upload/images/Locations/ChinaUKInvestment-400x310.png)
A thought leadership article jointly conducted by UK/China PR firm 11K Consulting and mixed-use property developer Regal London has revealed the...
13 July 2022
From: Breaking News
![Sun shines on Cyprus - property sales on island hit their highest in 14 years](/upload/images/Locations/Cyprus_400x310.jpg)
Residential property in Cyprus continued to be in high demand in April 2022, with 938 successful transactions completed on the island...
20 May 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
![SevenCapital - how can I invest like the ultra-rich?](/img/default/pit.png)
If you could be one thing in your life, what would it be? Chances are the answer to this question for...
23 July 2021
From: Breaking News
![Update: new schemes in West London plus Guinness housing development](/img/default/pit.png)
With lockdown easing and the vaccine rollout continuing to go well, there is hope on the horizon again for a brighter...
07 May 2021
From: Breaking News
![Countryside closure – demand for rural living drives record price growth](/img/default/pit.png)
In the first quarter of 2021, the escape to the country trend triggered by the pandemic drove annual price growth to its...
05 May 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
![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
![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
![Staycation boom: is it time to invest in the UK holiday property market?](/img/default/pit.png)
With international travel currently banned, and likely to remain that way for the foreseeable, the great British summer holiday is likely...
05 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![Five reasons why property investors are feeling the 'Verbier vibe'](/img/default/pit.png)
Fashionable Swiss ski resort Verbier is firmly on the radar of international buyers as 2021 approaches, according to Skiingproperty.com. The website says...
23 November 2020
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
![Global super-prime property outperforming expectations](/img/default/pit.png)
Global super-prime property markets have performed strongly in recent months, despite the challenges of Covid-19 lockdowns. Knight Frank research shows that 153...
27 July 2020
From: Breaking News
![Chelsea Barracks – is it London’s next major investment hotspot?](/img/default/pit.png)
It has largely been in the shadow of another major renovation of a heritage structure nearby – the transformation of Battersea...
05 June 2020
From: Breaking News
![Insight – have Asian investors in the UK property market increased?](/img/default/pit.png)
International investors make up a big chunk of Britain’s second home market, especially in London. Many of these investors hail from...
22 May 2020
From: Breaking News
![Q&A - how has the prime property market coped with lockdown?](/img/default/pit.png)
While England slowly starts to emerge from lockdown under the UK government’s three-point plan (the devolved administrations are taking a slightly...
18 May 2020
From: Breaking News
![Prime property: lockdown buying and selling advice for investors](/img/default/pit.png)
The UK property market is currently on hold due to the government's lockdown restrictions. Although in-person property viewings and valuations can't take...
06 May 2020
From: Breaking News
![Women in Property Investment - a surge in capital investment from women](/img/default/pit.png)
We’re back with another instalment of Women in Property Investment, where we chat with inspiring women who are making their mark...
28 February 2020
From: Breaking News
![Women in Property Investment – making it in the super-prime market](/img/default/pit.png)
Welcome back to Women in Property Investment, your bi-weekly dose of tales, tips and tidbits from inspiring women breaking barriers in...
14 February 2020
From: Breaking News
![Women in Property Investment – finding buyers the right home to invest in](/img/default/pit.png)
In this week’s Women in Property Investment, we speak with Gemma Thomas, buying adviser for the northern Home Counties at Middleton...
31 January 2020
From: Breaking News
![Q&A – why Prime Central London is still appealing to investors](/img/default/pit.png)
On a rainy Thursday at the end of last year – the day of the general election, in fact – Property...
20 January 2020
From: Breaking News
![Overseas buyers caught between rock and a hard place ahead of election day](/img/default/pit.png)
Overseas buyers may be faced with a relative drop in value of up to 30% in the event of a Conservative...
11 December 2019
From: Breaking News
![Investing overseas: spotlight on Dubai and Limassol](/img/default/pit.png)
At Property Investor Today, whenever we shine a light on an overseas investment hotspot, British buyers typically feature towards the top...
11 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![One million pound-plus residential property sales soar twelve-fold](/img/default/pit.png)
The number of residential housing transactions has increased rapidly in the past 20 years, propelled by rising property prices, according to...
25 October 2019
From: Breaking News
![What does France’s property market currently look like?](/img/default/pit.png)
Global property consultancy Knight Frank recently launched its Prime France Report, which revealed that British buyers now account for one in...
23 September 2019
From: Breaking News
![Global property prices - Europe dominates as Berlin leads the way](/img/default/pit.png)
Property prices in 46 prime global cities grew by 1.4% during Q2 2019, according to Knight Frank. The consultancy’s Prime Global Cities...
16 September 2019
From: Breaking News
![Global prime city property markets starting to slow down](/img/default/pit.png)
It’s common knowledge that in the UK the London property market is stagnating and even the Prime Central London market is...
06 September 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
![The best performing £1 million-plus property postcodes in 2019 revealed](/img/default/pit.png)
Super-prime property portal, Vyomm, has looked at the highest average house price across England and Wales to determine the best performing...
31 July 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
![Barcelona property expert confirms renaissance of city’s property market](/img/default/pit.png)
A Barcelona property expert has confirmed recent reports that Barcelona’s property market has firmly bounced back from the crisis surrounding the...
12 June 2019
From: Breaking News
![Demand soars in France’s prestige property market](/img/default/pit.png)
The French property market saw a record 970,000 transactions in 2018, up from 564,000 in the depths of the financial crisis. The...
15 May 2019
From: Breaking News
![Townhouses dominate as demand for prime property remains strong](/img/default/pit.png)
Townhouses have recently outperformed all other property types in the prime country house market, according to Knight Frank's latest Index. The agency's...
05 April 2019
From: Breaking News
![British demand for Spanish property increasing, despite Brexit fears](/img/default/pit.png)
You might think that Spain has always been a popular destination for property investors, but has Brexit meant that the Brits...
19 October 2018
From: Breaking News
![Knight Frank analyses prime price movements in decade since crash](/img/default/pit.png)
Fresh research examining the movement of prime residential prices in the world’s top cities since the start of the financial crisis,...
23 March 2018
From: Breaking News
![New-build luxury London homes could outlast existing properties on the market](/img/default/pit.png)
New-build developments in the capital’s most popular areas could remain on the market for longer and be sold with higher discounts...
09 February 2018
From: Breaking News
![Spanish property market continues to thrive](/img/default/pit.png)
Demand for Spanish property continues to increase, the latest market analysis from Lucas Fox has revealed. The number of Lucas Fox sales...
29 November 2017
From: Breaking News
![Spain’s residential market continues to recover](/img/default/pit.png)
After a decade of uncertainty, the Spanish prime property market finds itself on its firmest footing, according to Knight Frank’s latest...
04 October 2017
From: Breaking News
![London is a ‘strange market’ filled with people living in unsuitable properties](/img/default/pit.png)
It is undoubtedly a buyer’s market in London at the moment, with those who are looking to buy prime property in...
27 July 2017
From: Breaking News
![Top ways to reduce stamp duty on prime property](/img/default/pit.png)
Sales of homes at the top end of the housing market have collapsed over the past 12 months or so, especially...
18 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
![Investors fund £1m London development in 71 hours](/img/default/pit.png)
Property investors have raised £1 million for a development in Knightsbridge in just 71 hours. The row of five townhouses and four...
24 January 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
![UK house price inflation continues to slow](/img/default/pit.png)
Residential property price inflation across the UK is continuing to slow, the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS)...
14 December 2016
From: Breaking News
![London’s super prime housing market is not ‘dead in the water’](/img/default/pit.png)
London remains among the most desirable cities in the world for the super wealthy, but with property prices reaching record-breaking levels...
22 November 2016
From: Breaking News
![Prime waterfront properties could fetch 71% price premium](/img/default/pit.png)
Prime properties in coastal locations could be worth up to 71% higher than similar properties situated inland, according to research by...
17 August 2016
From: Breaking News
![Sharp rise in British demand for property in Spain since EU vote](/img/default/pit.png)
There has been a significant increase in the number of Britons registering an interest in buying property in Spain post-Brexit, according...
08 July 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 property investment community launched by Kwikhomes](/img/default/pit.png)
A London-based property tech venture is aiming to disrupt “the property investment market by creating a community of like-minded individuals who...
15 December 2015
From: Breaking News
![Vancouver and Sydney lead the way in the global prime property price stakes](/img/default/pit.png)
Average prime property prices in the world's key global cities increased by 1.9% in the year to September 2015, according to...
06 November 2015
From: Breaking News
![Prime property market slowed in first half of 2015](/img/default/pit.png)
Research from Lloyds Bank has shown that the number of homes sold for more than £1m fell by 11% in the first...
30 October 2015
From: Breaking News
![London leads the world on prime property](/img/default/pit.png)
London is now the destination of choice for the world's richest investors, according to recent findings from high-end agency Knight Frank....
09 October 2015
From: Breaking News
![Is the influx of overseas investors a good sign for local investors?](/img/default/pit.png)
I’ve seen a sharp rise this year in the number of foreign investors looking to establish a presence or even expand...
02 October 2015
From: Breaking News
![Sales of prime properties set to fall, says Jackson-Stops & Staff](/img/default/pit.png)
The number of sales for properties over £1.5 million seems set to drop for the first time in two years, according...