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Developer Jamie Reuben: ‘London needs to make foreign investors feel welcome’

June 27, 2025

To turn off Piccadilly and into White Horse Street in London’s Mayfair is to enter a different world.

The homes selling at a £5m discount

June 23, 2025

Two houses were recently put on the market for £15m, one in Cornwall, the other in West Sussex. They were luxurious and sprawling, but they definitely weren't worth that much.

London’s Luxury Property Downturn Looks Set to Get Even Worse

June 23, 2025

When two Chinese investors bought a majority stake in a development dubbed “Mayfair’s most exclusive address” in 2015, London’s housing market was booming. Almost 10 years and an insolvency later, half the apartments have yet to be sold.

How does the prime London property market vary by postcode?

June 6, 2025

We asked leading industry professionals to share the price and demand trends they have observed in the prime property market locations that are most popular with Investec clients.

Why first-time buyers are going straight for the family house

June 5, 2025

Marie Calligaris always thought her first property would be a flat, then she would gradually climb the property ladder.

Americans are flocking to ‘Hamptons of England’ as cost of buying property plunges by 40 percent

May 27, 2025

Americans are flocking to the 'Hamptons of England', where the cost of buying a charming countryside property is 40 percent cheaper than purchasing stateside. 

The £400m blossoming of Bloomsbury

May 22, 2025

The £400m blossoming of Bloomsbury Hovering on the edge of prime central London, the bohemian enclave’s quiet charm and proximity to Soho and Covent Garden, is being reinvigorated by local campaigns and new investment.

How interest rate cuts will help revive our flagging housing market

May 12, 2025

The spring housing market is traditionally a hive of activity, with homes flanked by gardens of tulips and daffodils flying off estate agents’ shelves like hot cakes.

April 22, 2025

The first stages of the £3bn redevelopment of Queensway are bedding in. More change is on the way. But there’s still some distance to go to shake off the “cheap side of the park” jibes.

‘For the brave, there are real opportunities’: Camilla Dell on buying PCL property in a global financial crisis

April 16, 2025

Global financial markets have been on a wild ride in recent weeks, reacting to rapid changes to international trade dynamics as President Trump toys with the America’s tariff regime.

Will Trump’s tariffs hit the UK property market?

April 14, 2025

Just as everything seemed to be settling down after the rush to beat last week’s stamp duty tax hike, tariff turmoil has hit.

Spring Budget 2025: The prime property industry’s hopes & fears

March 24, 2025

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is due to present the annual Spring Forecast and economic statement later this week (on 26th March).

The UK’s new £1m property hotspots include this south-east London grown-up hipster favourite

March 17, 2025

With London’s house prices on a go-slow, the place to go to meet a newly-minted property millionaire is Cambridge.

London’s luxury empty houses: why are so many not lived in?

March 16, 2025

There’s a serene garden square in Notting Hill surrounded by majestic three-storey double-fronted homes. The driveways are as bare as the trees on a cold wintry morning, and many of the windows shuttered.

Behind locked doors: the secret lives of London’s mega mansions

March 13, 2025

Property billionaire Nick Candy made headlines when he complained about the £161,000-a-year service charge at his ultra-luxurious One Hyde Park apartment.