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Over the last couple of years we have seen a massive increase in the cost of acquiring super prime London property. A general increase in stamp duty has added a significant amount ...
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Headline news today is a new Barclays Bank mortgage which offers a cash element which effectively covers stamp duty purchase tax on properties worth up to £250,000. The idea of ca...
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St John’s Wood is an integral part of the London property market and one which has suffered of late due to the Brexit vote last year. Indeed throughout London there were just 23 ...
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While the “experts” would have you believe the UK is in a post Brexit decline the property market is giving a very different signal. Despite the fact that January is often seen...
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Just a few days ago we discussed the issues facing the UK property fund market which was beset by a number of suspensions in light of the surprise Brexit vote last year. In effect ...
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While much of the US real estate action tends to concentrate on New York and other ”affluent” markets last week saw a phenomenal sale in Jackson, Wyoming. The Four Springs Ranc...
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Metallica lead guitarist and songwriter Kirk Hammett joined the luxury property jet set back in 2005 when he bought his luxury abode for a modest $5.7 million. Hammett is a man who...
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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is looking into UK property funds in light of an array of suspensions after the Brexit vote last year. This was headline news when many funds ...
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While the luxury end of the UK property market, predominantly London, has been hit by the Brexit saga, prices are now beginning to look interesting. Across the length and breadth o...
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When New Zealand real estate company Harcourts Cooper and Co announced the opening of the company’s annual training conference in January, few could have expected the massive med...
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Tom Brady may be the darling of the New England Patriots after their record-breaking comeback in last weekend’s Super Bowl, but he is also a major player in the US real estate ma...
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Over the last few weeks we have seen some major changes in the Indian real estate market after the government intervened. The result is that the market is far more transparent toda...
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Over the last few weeks we have seen a number of historical homes listed for sale in the US and now it is the turn of Ireland. The Guinness family’s ancestral holiday home just o...
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The UK government White Paper earlier this week on the property market has created some eye-catching headlines. There seems to be a step back from the homeownership promise in the ...
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Paul Pogba, a returning starlet of the Manchester United youth team, has been living in the Lowry Hotel for the last six months. While these luxury surroundings befit a man who ear...
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The UK government has finally admitted we have a “broken” housing market in the UK in light of its recent White Paper. Even though we have been here before, with various govern...
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When Jackie Kennedy persuaded the then president John F. Kennedy to acquire a family country hideaway he duly obliged with a country estate just outside Washington DC. Dubbed “We...
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Following on from our article yesterday, it has been revealed that the UK government is considering offering “bribes” to elderly people who downsize their properties. This is n...
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In a rather condescending White Paper the UK government has put forward a plan to “incentivise older people to downsize their properties”. In the week when it was reported ther...
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Whether we admit it or not many of us are envious of multi-million dollar celebrity homes which seem to have the view, the decor and the stature. While these multi-million dollar h...