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...“The people are what makes it,” Melissa Sample, 56, a bar owner who drove three hours from LaCrosse, Wisconsin, said of the unique atmosphere of a Trump rally....
...Demand for remote PAs has surged following the pandemic, says Melissa Smith, founder of The Personal Virtual Assistant service. “It gave people time to reflect . . ....
...Frances Dickens, from Purley in south London, whose new four-bedroom villa on the golf resort of Royal Westmoreland was completed in March, concurs....
...“Everything is about your working capital,” says Melissa Morris, founder of the leather goods label Métier, which opened its first shop in Mayfair in 2017....
...Homes are on the market with Knight Frank from £700,000. Three units have sold since sales launched in May....
...Only a quarter of sales in the Greenwich Peninsula development have been investor-led, says Kerri Sibson, sales and marketing director at Knight Dragon....
...Now “Brexit has swallowed that,” says Kate Cooper, associate sales manager at Knight Frank’s Barnes office....
...Sales launched in January and all units have sold except the three-bedroom penthouse, which is on the market with Knight Frank for £4.25m....
...In 2014, the average price per square foot for a one-bedroom flat sold in Chelsea — once known as “a village of palaces” — was £1,246, according to LonRes data compiled by Knight Frank....
...According to Knight Frank, 20,000 private housing units are planned over the next 20 years. Buyers are spoilt for choice....
...Knight Frank also launched the 17-unit 19 Bolsover Street development last year, but Christian Lock-Necrews, head of Knight Frank’s Marylebone, Fitzrovia and Bloomsbury residential office, declined to comment...
...The problem is, “lots of people ignore it”, says Christoph Michler, team leader of rentals at Ziegert, Knight Frank’s Berlin partner....
...By Knight Frank’s calculation, £1m in prime London buys only 29.5 sq m on average....
...In the decade since the financial crash, Sydney property prices nearly doubled, says Erin van Tuil, partner at Knight Frank Australia....
...The number of individuals worth more than $5m dropped by 24 cent between 2012 and 2017, according to Knight Frank....
...“Anything above £1m is getting sticky around here,” says Anthony Clay, partner at Knight Frank Cardiff....
...The drop looks even more pronounced when you account for the fact that the volume of transactions over that period has fallen by at least 30 per cent, according to Liam Bailey, global head of Knight Frank...
...The area is popular with bankers, those in tech and the legal profession, says Raul Cimesa, Knight Frank’s head of London new homes....
...A little closer to Land’s End, Knight Frank is selling an entire private cove....
...In the first quarter of 2018, the average discount on London’s £10m-plus homes was 10 per cent, according to Knight Frank. The hors d’oeuvres and velvet ropes are perhaps not too far off....
...There were 591 sales in the 12 months to March 2018 in Peckham’s SE15 postcode, a 23.3 per cent fall since 2014, according to Knight Frank. One reason is the disappearance of buy-to-let investors....
...Today, the property market is suffering from a Brexit hangover, says Michael Hall, senior negotiator at Knight Frank Hampstead, and a lull caused by successive changes to stamp duty....
...“I do get asked how many animals, especially snakes, escape,” says James Simpson, head of Knight Frank’s St John’s Wood office. It’s not a ridiculous question....
...Or, more specifically, it is their parents — nearly a fifth of all flat sales are to parents buying for their children, says James Marshall, head of Knight Frank Islington....
...Edward Douglas-Home, head of Knight Frank Edinburgh, says that a £1m-plus property is currently under offer for a price 35 per cent above the valuation....
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