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...“It’s not quite like a January sale, but it’s obviously starting to bite and people are readjusting their expectations as a result,” said Henry Pryor, an independent buying agent, who has been involved in...
...Henry Pryor, an independent buying agent, said he had seen demand return among buyers of second homes or investment properties, suggesting the sharp slowdown in the fourth quarter “was a blip not a trend...
...“There is no doubt that if you are a cash buyer, you are a much simpler, much more predictable and highly bankable commodity,” says Henry Pryor, an independent buying agent....
...“The only time I would ever advocate anybody thinking about it is if they’ve exchanged on the sale of their home,” Pryor said....
...Henry Pryor, an independent buying agent, said the stamp duty holiday had no impact on buyer behaviour....
...Pryor related the experience of a client who recently went to see a property in Gloucester. “They were one of 20 viewers and the agent had already turned away 30 people who’d wanted to see it....
...Mr Pryor said there was less nervousness this time around. “People are bolder because they know what the rules are....
...James Pickford is deputy editor of FT Money. Email: james.pickford@ft.com; Twitter: @MrJamesPickford...
...No one clocked until a few months in that there are clear winners and losers,” says James Pomeroy, an economist at HSBC....
...Buyers may increasingly want properties “decontaminated” before taking possession, Mr Pryor said, raising the issue of who should pay for deep cleaning....
...But since all sellers have been equally affected, buyers will be more forgiving of a lengthy marketing period, says Henry Pryor, an independent buying agent....
...Mr Pryor says sellers who have got to the “sale agreed” stage should move quickly to try to keep their deal alive....
...“While sellers in [nearby] Fulham and Putney have had to swallow their pride in 2019, residents in Chiswick have mostly survived the downturn and held on to gains made since 2012,” says Henry Pryor, a buying...
...“It’s taken her six years to go precisely nowhere,” says Mr Pryor....
...For writer James Baldwin, that was Maurice, the “elegant, middle-aged Frenchman with patrician manners” who presided over Restaurant Tolentini in Nice, where a fish tank lined one wall and the napkins came...
...Legal certainty in divorce sale cases is desirable for Mr Pryor, the buying agent, but for different reasons....
...“We’re seeing a lot more of the Google and Facebook crowd,” says James Diaper, associate director at Savills....
...At the lower end of the London prime market, Mr Pryor has worries about the future viability of prices....
...“Blackheath comes off a relatively low base so while it has seen strong price growth it was historically always the poor relation,” says Henry Pryor, a buying agent based in London....
...But as James Pickford reports, Kensington is still where the UK’s wealthiest people live. Selling? Judith Evans explains how to value a super-prime home....
...According to James Probert, director of marketing at Historic Houses, which represents independently owned historic homes, ghost tours are “growing as a source of visitors and income”....
...” “The greater issue still needs to be who is doing the writing and who they are writing for,” adds Pryor. “It’s a collective job to move the industry on.”...
...But buying agent Henry Pryor reckons Clapham’s property market is suffering from “a hangover after a really good party”: after years of rising prices, the average reduction from asking to selling price is...
...Mr Pryor said the option of improving the value of a home through refurbishment or development had not gone away....
...“I have two clients looking in Fulham at present and I’m banging on about Brexit at every opportunity,” says independent buying agent Henry Pryor....
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