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...Many are huge and were surely too unwieldy to have been much practical use, but others were carried — like a knight’s broadsword, perhaps — both in ceremonies and in battle and were covered in elaborate,...
...Oliver Hooper, director at Huntly Hooper, the property search firm, says he has seen one vendor offer to take a 30 per cent loss on the price they paid for a home....
...Even those who don’t love Hooper’s style will have to concede that she offers a sweet, redemptive message here. Quests are generally reserved for heroic types: dashing knights, courageous hobbits....
...Recent figures from Knight Frank showed the proportion of luxury homes being bought by overseas purchasers dropped by 20 per cent year on year in the seven months to July....
...A spectacular mash-up of knights, Roman legionaries and magical animals....
...Tom Bill, associate residential researcher at rival agent Knight Frank, pointed out that house price growth in prime central London is slowing; it was 7.5 per cent in the year to February compared to 11...
...We think of Shakespeare’s great fat knight as rollicking, but in truth we see him do little of that sort of thing; he isn’t built for rollicking, after all....
...According to Ollie Hooper of Huntly Hooper, the property consultants that undertook the research, four of these sites saw values fall, while the rest experienced price growth but at a lower rate than that...
...Estate agencies H&H King, tel: +44 (0)1228 810799; www.hhking.co.uk Knight Frank, tel: +44 (0)191221 2211; www.knightfrank.com...
...This is impassioned and entertaining, like watching a John Grisham courtroom drama in which big ideas have replaced big actor-characters. It is the surrounding bits that fizzle....
...“It looks as if more of the adjustment here may take place through reduction of new supply,” says Peter Hooper, chief economist at Deutsche Bank Securities in New York....
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