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Estate agents angrily reject Chancellor’s mansion tax proposals
Over the past few days The Negotiator has been overwhelmed by agents telling us about Sajid Javid's mansion tax proposals. Here are some of their missives.
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Fast-growing luxury buying agent hires former Marsh & Parsons sales star
Fast-growing luxury property buying agent Black Brick has poached one of London’s fast-rising agent stars, Alex Oliver (pictured, right). Harrow-educated Alex has joined Black Brick after four years working in the capital including initially two years and four months at Foxtons in Brook Green as a sales negotiator, and then a year and eight months at Marsh Parsons in Notting Hill. At M&P he was a senior sales negotiator and also one of the company’s top performing sales people. During his career to date Alex says he has sold property worth £50 million in “some of the toughest property markets”. “We are delighted to welcome Alex to the team,” says Camilla Dell, Managing Partner at Black Brick who, like Alex, is a former Foxtons employee (pictured, left). “As a boutique company, we work on a one to one, bespoke basis with our clients and Alex’s knowledge, expertise and personal approach is the perfect fit for our company ethos.” The company says its success is down to current market conditions and increased demand from buyers seeking impartial advice from the buying agency. The growing team now consists of nine staff, with plans for further expansion in the coming months. Times interview…
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10% more off-market sales in London so far this year
London’s slowing property market has driven 10% more vendors in its prime central markets to dispose of their homes via off-market sales this year, according to Mayfair-based buying agent Black Brick. The company says it considers ‘off market’ to be those which are sold directly via the vendor to the seller, via an estate agent, who will utilise their contacts to sell a property without any marketing or brochures, or those sold from buying agent to buying agent. Some 38% of all properties sold by Black Brick during the first six months of the year were sold this way, it says, an increase of 10% compared to last year. The company says this is because London’s super-rich are increasingly anxious about putting their homes on the open market, and particularly worried about then having to drop their asking price, as London’s prime property markets cool off dramatically. Off-market sales According to Lonres, prices per square foot in London’s prime central postcodes have dipped by 11% since their 2014 peak and that vendors are waiting five months to find a buyer, on average. And Hamptons recently reported that foreign buyers have all but deserted central London since the EU Referendum, while…
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