Compare the market

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As if we didn’t know it London is made up of many different smaller markets and just as there isn’t ‘a national housing market’ it’s not really fair to judge Mayfair along with The Old Kent Road. I have clients who want to live in N1 but not in Nw1, happy to look in Sw11 [...]

Do they think I am a complete fool?

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Ok, don’t answer that. My question is actually directed at the optimistic (or should that be just plain greedy) vendors who at no cost to themselves ask an estate agent to waste everyone’s time by asking too much for their home? As many on Twitter will know, I regularly post price reductions not, as some [...]

BBC News

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The monthly charade that is the RiCS house price survey provides the excuse to take a look at the health of the housing market – the property equiverlant of sticking a photo of Pippa Middleton on the front page – makes you feel better but as a guide to house prices as useful as draping [...]

BBC Breakfast

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Up early for a turn on Wake Up To Money on Radio FiveLive to be described as “our own favourite property expert” but the famously generous Mickey Clark. Then on to the last BBC Breakfast to come from Tv Centre. A good chat with Naga Munchetti & Nick Owen on the market, advice to buyers [...]

The effect of foreign buyers

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Each new house price survey is published to cries of “it’s skewed by the London effect” and commentators will point to the capital and it’s influence on ‘average’ house prices. Rightmove records prices in London are now at £435,000, twice the average across England & Wales of £226,000 and a world away from the £141,000 [...]