Trevor Abrahmsohn
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What effect will ‘Trussonomics’ have on the property market?
Thatcher admirer and leading London estate agent, Trevor Abrahmsohn, passes a critical eye over the new PM's plans for the economy and its likely impact on housing.
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The day Gorbachev flew in to attend an estate agency party
Following the news of Mikhail Gorbachev's death, agent Trevor Abrahmson remembers the day the former Russian leader dropped in for a drink.
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Clever Trevor? Britain’s most outspoken estate agent returns to his typewriter
He's back! Glentree founder Trevor Abrahmson casts an acerbic eye over the current housing market and reveals he's handling a sale worth £400m.
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Talk of a Spring house price correction is hogwash. Here’s why
The colourful north London estate agent explains why the fundamentals of the housing market remain in place despite the current Covid disruption.
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Shock GDP figures: What does the property industry think will happen next?
We ask leading figures and experts with their nose to the ground what the recessional data published yesterday will mean for sales and letting agents.
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Why the 2% Stamp Duty hike for non-residents is not clever, says Trevor
Never afraid to speak his mind candidly, Trevor Abrahmsohn is aghast that a Tory government is seeking to put off foreigners buying property in England.
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HMRC confirms 2% Stamp Duty surcharge for non-residents
Draft legislation has now been laid in front of Parliament despite warning from prime estate agents that it will put off international investment.
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Guest blog: ‘Hong Kong flight turns from trickle into torrent’
Veteran North London estate agent, Trevor Abrahmsohn, reports on the large numbers of Hong Kong islanders seeking refuge in London's prime market.
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Johnson makes U-turn on mansion tax plans after heartlands backlash
Boris Johnson has scrapped government plans to introduce a mansion tax after a backlash from his party’s traditional bricks-and-mortar owning heartland. Over the weekend the new Chancellor Rishi Sunak said it was ‘highly unlikely’ that the measure would proceed, while the Prime Minister is said to have ‘cooled’ on the idea despite heralding it last week as a key policy to enable the UK to be ‘levelled up’ economically. But another reason for the ditching of the idea has been forming over the weekend among political commentators; that the mansion tax proposals were part of a plan by Johnson and his chief aide Dominic Cummings to oust Sajid Javid from No.11 if he didn’t go along with their plans to downgrade the power of HM Treasury. The idea was clearly not Javid’s. As property industry figure Trevor Abrahmsohn (left) found out after attending a private meeting recently with the now former Chancellor, he is unlikely to have adopted what has been in the past a Labour policy. “It was evident that he was a ‘fiscal pragmatist’, i.e. he believed in the notion that taxes are designed to raise as much money as possible for the Treasury, rather than being a…
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The post-election residential property market – is it safe as houses or should you run for sunnier climes?
As a nation we are going through changing times, with the various political parties spewing out their pre-electoral rhetoric, like the drunkard that everyone tries to avoid.
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