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KEYWORD "London Homes" - 49 RESULTS
Agent says you need £100k income to buy in ‘cheap’ part of London

The director of a London estate agency claims a buyer needs an income of £100,000 a year to purchase a home...

12 August 2024

From: Breaking News

Warning that Budget may temper prime London sales this autumn

The latest prime London market snapshot from Knight Frank suggests muted activity so far this summer and warns of possible hesitancy...

12 August 2024

From: Breaking News

Billionaire buyers worried about prime London purchases under Labour - claim

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

16 July 2024

From: Breaking News

Greater London homes taking up to 147 days to sell – research

It’s taking an average of 17.61 weeks to sell a property across Greater London, with some parts taking up to 147 days on...

20 February 2024

From: Breaking News

Chancellor urged to introduce Stamp Duty cut for downsizers

Agency brand Chestertons has joined calls for Chancellor Jeremy Hunt to include Stamp Duty reform in his Autumn Statement. Hunt will deliver...

10 November 2023

From: Breaking News

SmartSearch launches innovative new solution to help estate agents and conveyancers detect dirty money

Leading digital compliance firm SmartSearch has launched an innovative new solution to help professionals working within the UK property sector to...

30 September 2023

From: Features

Sellers head to auction houses to combat cooling market - claim

Increasing numbers of sellers are turning to auction rooms to combat the cooling housing market conditions, research suggests. Upfront information provider Moverly...

29 June 2023

From: Breaking News

The super-rich are returning to prime London - claim

Rising mortgage rates and falling house prices don’t appear to be deterring the super-rich. A report from upmarket agency Beauchamp Estates suggests...

20 June 2023

From: Breaking News

An Englishman's home is his castle he can buy for less than a London terraced house

Market analysis by estate agent comparison site, GetAgent.co.uk, reveals that Homebuyers can buy a fort for the same price as a...

27 May 2023

From: Features

Tory peer labels Stamp Duty a ‘tax on mobility’

A former minister has questioned whether the Government has a long-term commitment to reform Stamp Duty to boost transactions and has...

20 January 2023

From: Breaking News

London exodus: Record share of first-time buyers look beyond the capital

A record share of buyers are leaving London to purchase their first home, research shows. Analysis by Hamptons found that a record...

01 August 2022

From: Breaking News

Secret sellers! Off-market sales soar due to stock shortage

Record numbers of homes are being sold off-market and for a premium due to the property supply shortage. Off-market sales are traditionally...

06 June 2022

From: Breaking News

More politicians back seizure of oligarchs' London property assets

Momentum is building up in support of the government’s probe into whether the London homes of oligarchs on the sanctions list...

04 March 2022

From: Breaking News

Revealed - London’s busiest housing markets

An estate agency has revealed which London boroughs have been the busiest in terms of the number of homes sold as...

19 January 2022

From: Breaking News

Foreign rich wooed by full-size models of London homes built overseas

Agents and developers are creating full-size show home-style properties overseas in a bid to woo wealthy foreigners who cannot travel to...

18 August 2021

From: Breaking News

Deferred-payment scheme for high-price London homes

A developer operating in prime central London is offering buyers a deferred-payment scheme. K10 Group says it’s doing this because of the...

28 October 2020

From: Breaking News

PropTech firm swipes at Purplebricks over property measurements

A PropTech firm that regularly claims London homes are mis-measured in property descriptions has taken a swipe at Purplebricks. Pupil, a spatial...

05 August 2020

From: Breaking News

220,000 London homes owned by Chinese: more to come, say agents

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

30 June 2020

From: Breaking News

Demand plummets for ultra-expensive London homes, says agency

London estate agency Benham & Reeves says there’s been a sharp fall-off in demand for ultra-expensive homes in prime suburbs of...

21 May 2020

From: Breaking News

Prime London market may take until early 2021 to resume fully - agent

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

23 April 2020

From: Breaking News

There’s still a market - over £28m raised at online auction

Allsop has staged its first principal residential auction entirely online, and has raised £28m. Some 76 per cent of all lots offered...

15 April 2020

From: Breaking News

Stamp Duty change set to take centre stage in Budget next week

Increasing numbers of reports suggest that the government will use next week’s Budget to confirm a three per cent stamp duty...

05 March 2020

From: Breaking News

US high rollers buy London homes expecting post-Brexit bounce

A leading London estate agency with US connections says there has been a surge in high net worth American buyers in...

18 July 2019

From: Breaking News

Family home for £1m in London? You'll be lucky, says OnTheMarket

Research from OnTheMarket shows that 40 per cent of London homes costing around £1m have only two bedrooms or fewer. And only...

19 June 2019

From: Breaking News

Massive discounts up to 21% for prime London homes, says bank

Some of the most expensive properties in London are selling typically between 13 and 21 per cent off the asking price. And...

07 May 2019

From: Breaking News

Huge house price falls bring super-rich back to central London

High-end agency Savills says London’s super-rich are now buying and selling more actively than a year ago.  The agency says London’s so-called...

25 January 2019

From: Breaking News

'Desperate' stamp duty surcharge will hurt London market - warning

Agents have continued to express their shock and opposition to the announcement by the government that it wants a stamp duty...

02 October 2018

From: Breaking News

New stamp duty surcharge to be imposed on foreign buyers

The government has used this week’s Conservative party conference to announce a new stamp duty tax of one per cent to three...

30 September 2018

From: Breaking News

Shock figures show some London homes take average 220 days to sell

A new market snapshot shows how there’s now a two-tier market with homes in London taking substantially longer to sell than...

18 July 2018

From: Breaking News

London homes now take 17 weeks to sell thanks to market over-supply

New figures from Hometrack show that a typical home in Greater London now takes 17 weeks to find a buyer -...

25 April 2018

From: Breaking News

London homes to be raffled by start-up entrepreneur for £5 a ticket

A flat in Brixton is being raffled for £5 a ticket by a start-up entrepreneur who claims this is just the...

23 April 2018

From: Breaking News

Senior Tory wants 50% of new London homes reserved for Britons

Chris Philp, a Conservative MP and Parliamentary Private Secretary to Chancellor Phillip Hammond, says 50 per cent of new homes in...

18 December 2017

From: Breaking News

Over a third of London homes on sale have cut asking prices - claim

More than a third of the homes in London currently on the market have had their asking prices reduced according to...

25 July 2017

From: Breaking News

Money laundering: NAEA backs new bid to list 'beneficial owners'

The National Association of Estate Agents has thrown its weight behind a government move to create a register of overseas companies...

07 April 2017

From: Breaking News

Barratt Homes slashes up to 10% off some new London properties

Barratt Homes, the UK’s largest housebuilder, is slashing the asking prices of some of its most expensive London homes by 10 per cent. In...

17 November 2016

From: Breaking News

Countrywide regional director is latest to quit the company

Countrywide's regional director Martin Coombes has quit the company, having worked for it since the early 1990s. A statement to Estate Agent...

11 November 2016

From: Breaking News

£100,000-plus asking price cuts commonplace in central London

Figures from London data consultancy Lonres show that since the referendum the average price cut on homes across most of central...

26 October 2016

From: Breaking News

Agency says London homes under £120,000 on verge of extinction

The average house price in London is now £484,700 - over twice the national average - and property in the capital...

18 October 2016

From: Breaking News

Brexit: survey says only 50% are confident about housing market

Surveys on housing and Brexit are coming thick and fast - the latest have Haart estate agency reporting a £30,000 price...

10 August 2016

From: Breaking News

Flood of 20- and 30-somethings leaving London says estate agency

There are more people quitting London than ever before, with 20- and 30-somethings leading the exodus according to high-end agency Humberts.   The...

25 July 2016

From: Breaking News

Foreign elite don't mind SDLT but Brits are priced out, says ex-Savills agent

A former head of Savills’ buying arm says well-heeled overseas buyers are unphased by the recently-increased stamp duty on high value...

20 April 2016

From: Breaking News

19 top housing experts say prices will rise more slowly next year

A survey of 19 senior property market analysts by the news organisation Reuters suggests that the majority believe house prices will...

02 December 2015

From: Breaking News

Why the NAEA is right to tighten money laundering screws

News from the Halifax this week that the combined values of the residential properties in London amounts to £1.13 trillion, virtually...

13 November 2015

From: Features

26% slump in sales of London homes over £1m

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

07 September 2015

From: Breaking News

New call for prime London agents to be more transparent

A pressure group is calling for estate agents to conduct additional checks to ensure the legal provenance of buyers’ funds, and...

23 July 2015

From: Breaking News

House price dip prompts market panic claim

House prices dipped by 0.8 per cent in March according to the Land Registry - a marked contrast to figures produced by Nationwide...

01 May 2015

From: Breaking News

Only 43 affordable London homes claims Shelter

The housing charity Shelter claims that there are only 43 truly affordable homes on sale across all of London. That number “would...

30 April 2015

From: Breaking News

Investors 'one third of prime London buyers' says agency

Investors now account for almost a third of buyers in prime central London according to one of the capital’s largest chains,...

30 April 2015

From: Breaking News

Property makes the rich richer, shows Rich List

There is one common denominator amongst the majority of those who dominate the latest Sunday Times Rich List, regarded as the...

27 April 2015

From: Breaking News

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