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Luxury residential property funds preempt recovery
Funds investing in high-end residential property are making ... The Prime London Capital Fund which invests in ... The £10m fund, founded and run by Stephen ... The assets of the PCLF is down 5% ... Stephen Yorke, manager of the Prime London Capital ... Long leases and freeholds fell 26% in value...
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London prime property now just 5% below 2007 peak
Luxury London property is being buoyed by an ... The lack of supply means good quality property ... "We launched a flat last week and had ... Philip Selway at The Buying Solution, a Knight ... He added that prices have risen around 10% ... The news comes after agent Knight Frank last...
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Mortgage drought could stunt prime property market, say agents
A dearth of mortgage availability could stunt the ... A new report from Knight Frank shows the ... The report said: "The real concern is that ... The UK mortgage market has shrunk by almost ... The inability of buyers to gain mortgage approval ... Estate agents call it an irrational and unsustainable...
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Prime property regains peak prices as supply dwindles
The supply of prime London property is drying ... Sales volumes rocketed 234% compared to last August, ... But prime properties are becoming more expensive because ... He said: "The London property market is by ... James Pace, partner and head of Knight Frank ... He added: "We recently sold a property in...
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Overseas buyers flock to London's top neighbourhoods
Half of the properties in London valued at ... Fifty one percent of prime central London property ... High end agent Savills said 51% of prime ... Charlie Bubear of the Savills’ Knightsbridge office, said ... Knight Frank said that within the overseas market, ... Buyers from these markets doubled their interest in...
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European wealthy move back into £10m property
Prices of London homes worth £10m and more, ... For the first time since April 2008, prices ... Overall prime London property gained an average of ... However on an annual basis prices are still ... Viewing volumes are up by 7% over the ... The agent said prices are on the rise...
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Sowing the seeds of recovery
The appearance of green shoots in the economy ... Agents Knight Frank says confidence is returning to ... In March, prices averaged £4,760, against £5,100 in ... Private bank Pictet has taken a different tack ... Their marketers argue that the world’s population is ... The middle classes of Asia are keen to...
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One thousand non-doms leave the UK, more to follow
At least one thousand non-domiciled UK residents and ... A new survey from the estate agent found ... The combination of the annual non-dom levy and ... Seven per cent of non-doms have sold their ... The agent said around 50% have moved to ... Knight Frank said that as many as 31%...
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Mayfair property springs into life
Knight Frank, the high-end London property agent, said ... The estate agent said prices for all prime ... But Mayfair and Marylebone – another exclusive London ... However, prices for prime London residential property are ... Cheaper London properties have led the recovery in...
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Prime London property recovery could be short-lived
For the first time in over a year, ... The latest report published by high-end estate agent ... The biggest price rise was seen in property ... However, super prime property on the market for ... Agents are sceptical that the rise will continue ... Overall, London's prime property market is still down...
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Top London rents fall to lowest level since 2000
Prime central London rents have dropped by 18% ... Falls are most pronounced at the top end ... The report showed the drop in rents has ... Liam Bailey, head of residential research at Knight ... “However, the drop is by no means uniform. ... But Bailey is bullish on coming months. He...
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Wealthy Indians buoy luxury London property
Wealthy Indians are steadily buying top-end residential property ... Billionaire Cyrus Vandrevala, an equity investor, was one ... Vandrevala, who is married to the heiress of ... He told Wealth Bulletin: "The wealthy Indian community ... Charles McDowell, who runs a Kensington-based property search...
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Top London properties to slump 50% from peak to trough
Luxury residential properties in London are selling for ... Jeremy McGivern, who runs property consultancy Mercury Home ... Large price hikes by ambitious vendors at the ... Alex Michelin, head of Kensington-based estate agents Finchatton, ... Trevor Abrahamson, head of Highgate-based Glentree Estates, which...
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Rural property market shows 'transformation'
Residential property in rural commuter towns have witnessed ... The Knight Frank country house department - which ... "We are seeing international buyers take advantage of ... The agent said that with interest rates now ... The rise in activity has been led by ... Andrew Shirley, head of rural property research, added:...
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Super-prime houses fall in line with declining market
Luxury residential property in London fell 3.7% last ... Prices for prime London property mainly based around ... It found that overall prime London prices fell ... The super-prime £10m bracket is catching up with ... Liam Bailey, head of residential research at Knight ... "Even when it became apparent that this was...
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Ray of light for prime property buyers
The UK's dire property market may be nearing ... Experts say the bottom of the prime property ... The report examined country property above the £1m ... "Drops of this magnitude will be a bitter ... He added that buyers must not wait too...
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Prime London rents slump record 9.6%
Rents in prime central London fell 9.6% in ... There has been an increased demand for rental ... However, this has been outweighed by the sheer ... Increasingly, those owning property in prime central London ... Liam Bailey, head of residential research at Knight ... He added: “As a result, the owners of...
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Top property agent reports profit fall as partners take pay cut
Knight Frank, London-based high end property agent, suffered ... The London estate agent, which announced results for ... The news comes despite the privately-owned company cutting ... Over the last year the number of partners ... The total staff bonus pool this year was ... November saw the second steepest falls on record...
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Foreign buyers to cash in on 7.5% prime property slump
Prime residential property prices in London are being ... November saw the second steepest falls on record ... Prices are now 14.1% lower than last year, ... The report said one outcome of falling property ... Liam Bailey, head of residential research at Knight ... He added: "A fall of 15% may translate...
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Demand for ski chalets melt
Sales of ski chalets are stagnating – not ... Regions with slopes less than 2,000m above sea ... Swiss towns Wildhaus and Unterwasser, Kitzbuhel in Austria, ... In Austria, the snow line is likely to ... However, Isobel Rostron at Aspect International, a ski ... She said: "Buyers investing in the Alps now...
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