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Competition from Dubai and concerns about taxation under the new Labour Government have led the world’s super-rich to spend less and...

There’s no question that trust is the bedrock of any longstanding client relationship. It is built on delivering on your promises...

London’s ultra-prime housing market for multi-millionaire and billionaire buyers rose by 10% in unit sales and 25% by value of property...

Visits to Rightmove have fallen by 18% in the past year as high mortgage rates hit the national market from the...

New research shows that while the UK homebuyers are paying far more than those in many other countries, the properties they...

Property consultancy JLL has rebranded its residential China division to the APAC Desk. JLL’s residential China Desk was established in 2012 when...

The return of commuters and international buyers has seen buyer demand return to 2019 levels, a major London agent claims. Dominic Agace,...

Almost three quarters of property professionals agree that estate agent pay is too low. A poll conducted by Estate Agent Today found 73%...

A property finance expert is telling buyers to sit on their hands and not commit to purchases - as he believes...

London’s housing market may be distinctly lacklustre compared to much of the rest of the UK right now but one development...

New research shows that UK estate agents are amongst the best value in the world. Using data from the Global Property Guide...

It’s been reported that Foxtons is to create ‘virtual branches’ in as many as 15 UK cities outside London, plus commuter...

Shock price rises in materials are set to make new build homes more expensive if a warning from leading industry figures...

Hello, and as we near the first Bank Holiday of the year (and a little light at the end of the...

The UK is only the eighth most popular country for Asian investment buyers, and accounts for just three per cent of...

In the not-too-distant future, it will be possible to order a driverless car to collect you and then drive you to...

The country producing the largest number of buyers of prime London properties is not China, nor from north America or the...

New research suggests that British estate agents charge some of the lowest fees in the world. Based on an apparent British average...

The stamp duty holiday running until March next year has triggered a surge in interest in UK property from Hong Kong...

The number of Hong Kong buyers looking at property in London has doubled in just five weeks according to an agency...

Government figures show the 218,975 properties within Greater London have Chinese owners - and two agents say there will be more...

How prime London has changed. In 2002 work began on The Knightsbridge. Located within a stone’s throw of Harrods and a near-neighbour...

One of prime central London’s most respected estate agencies is warning that it could take until spring 2021 for the luxury...

We are still living in highly extraordinary times, perhaps evidenced best by the fact that the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, was...

Where else to start? Since my last Natter two weeks ago, all our lives have changed more than we could ever...

We'd hoped it was good news but in fact it's just good-news-yet-to-come. The Savills office in Wuhan, the epicentre of the Coronavirus crisis in...

Savills is the latest agency to warn about the possible threat of Coronavirus to its business activities and success this year. In...

The coronavirus outbreak has highlighted once again how fragile and interconnected our societies have become. We don’t know yet how dangerous Covid-19...

An estate agent who has himself made the move from the High Street to a hybrid operation has urged anyone in...

A high profile and widely-respected estate agent is predicting a huge demographic change to one of the country’s wealthiest enclaves -...

A sales agency based in Warrington and set up originally to market new homes in Manchester is now expanding into Shanghai...

A few weeks ago, I came across a couple of really interesting articles which I immediately thought worth writing a piece...

OnTheMarket’s selective fee freeze for agents has been challenged by a new portal which asks agents: ‘Why pay at all?’ OTM revealed...

1. Win More Listings For estate agency in the UK, the number one task is to get new properties to market. However,...

A new global free-to-list property portal says it has secured 800 new property enquiries for estate agents in the last four...

Hello and welcome to both this week’s PJT and welcome to July. It may be summer and Wimbledon time, but there’s no...

A recently-launched free-to-list portal says it’s uniquely positioned to attract overseas buyers and investors interested in purchasing in major UK cities. Residential...

New free-to-list portals Residential People and Commercial People are aiming to secure one million property listings by Q4 2019. The portals -...

Experts suggest that overseas buyers are likely to act quickly to take advantage of a delay in any stamp duty surcharge on...

The head of a leading Chinese property portal has taken the unusual step of commenting on a British tax policy -...

Last week, I wrote about the speed of innovation in the Far East. This week I’d like to do the same...

A few stories caught my eye this week from China, all of which announce the arrival of cutting-edge technological innovation in...

Winkworth is beefing up its services for franchise owners with expanded support teams for its IT, Client Services and China departments.  Winkworth’s...

London estate agency Kay & Co says it is targeting Chinese buyers following research data produced by a portal. The China property...

Savills has reported good figures for 2017 although most of its strongest performance was outside the world of residential property. In a...

For a while now, property and technology have been combining seamlessly to offer the industry innovative solutions to often complex problems....

Another new year is nearly upon us and, once we’ve got the season of mince pies, mulled wine, pigs in blankets,...

The fact is that most house hunters simply do not have the time, let alone the inclination, to trawl around properties...

The Property Ombudsman has taken the unusual step of warning all estate and letting agents to act with caution over fraudulent...

The political ebb and flow continues - seemingly with all the subtlety of a Boris Johnson rugby tackle on a 10-year...

Peter Robinson, CEO of AIPP – Association of International Property Professionals – shines a light onto the international property market. Some UK...

The property market in northern England, supported in part by the Northern Powerhouse concept, has attracted a lot of media attention,...

We’re almost nine months on from the EU Referendum and yet the issue remains the big divide across the nation: an...

The chronic shortage of housing supply in the UK relative to demand has been a national issue for decades. The Government...

A leading buying agency says there might be at least one upside to having The Donald in the White House -...

Only a week to the Christmas break and still our industry goes above and beyond the call of duty to raise...

It is fair to say that 2016 is a year full of surprises. Anyone who had the foresight to predict Britain...

There is really only one topic of debate and forensic analysis at the moment and that’s the ascendency of Donald Trump...

As many northern cities struggled to recover from the 2008 global financial crisis, the north-south divide returned to plague the British...

What is Properstar? Properstar helps UK estate agents cross the chasm from local to global in respect of advertising their properties. Using...

Summer finally arrived, the transport system (as always) went into meltdown, everyone complained that it was too hot and the sun...

Plans for the Northern Powerhouse scheme, designed to rival London and the South East as the main driver of economic growth...

Sheffield in South Yorkshire, which was once one of the leading industrial cities in Britain and is still recognised for its...

With the new Formula One season now well underway, we delve into the fast lane to take you on a whirlwind...

As I sit and write this piece, even with the FTSE 100 back up and sterling having recovered some of its...

JLL says the stamp duty surcharge on buy to let properties and second homes has obliged it to downgrade its forecast...

Cluttons is warning that the prime central London market may stagnate for at least the early part of this year thanks...

Purplebricks recorded a volatile bout of trading on London’s Stock Exchange yesterday, where it ended the day with a 5.7 per...

The Bow Group - a think-tank that was previously a solid backer of the Tories but has recently flirted with UKIP...

The latest blow to the prime central London market has come from Knight Frank, the high end agency, which has slashed...

There’s been a lot of talk lately about artificial intelligence (AI). We’ve seen it feature prominently this year on film (in...

The dramatic slump in the sale of London’s most expensive homes is continuing with one agency claiming that over the past...