Herts breaks price barrier
Is £3.5 million a record asking price for a flat in Hertfordshire? This is no ordinary flat, however. One of the apartments at Wall Hall in Aldenham is back on the market.It was once the home of...
View ArticleBidding in the online ballroom
The first properties to be sold by Lambert Smith Hampton's online auction platform are now live. They are five covered former reservoirs, for sale by Capita Real Estate, on behalf of Severn Trent...
View ArticleBoris gives Hendon a boost
As London Mayor Boris Johnson spread the plans for Hendon across his desk, he knew he would be taking a risk promoting the area as a redevelopment zone. More than 20 years earlier, his mentor Michael...
View ArticleAuctions host ballroom darlings
Auctioneers are the darlings of the UK property seller. Professional property traders are increasingly instructing estate agents less and less in favour of auctioneers which see a nine in 10 chance of...
View ArticleRise in stamp duty fails to deliver
A Government move to help first-time buyers appears to have backfired. The stamp duty deadline caused a mini boom in demand for property. This squeezed out first-time buyers but it was most profoundly...
View ArticleIs London still good value?
Agents have reacted angrily to new research from UBS, which says house prices in London are the most overvalued in the world and are in "bubble-risk territory". The bank cites foreign investment, the...
View ArticleThe jewels in the property crown
Property shows, one would think, are the best place to meet potential housebuyers. But you are just as likely to encounter them at luxury-goods fairs. London-based estate agent Beauchamp Estates has...
View ArticleThe beating heart of London healthcare since Queen Victoria
If you live in north west London, it is likely that you have paid a visit to The Royal Free Hospital, either to see a friend or relative, for treatment as an inpatient, or just to sit in A&E,...
View ArticleBrits brush off the Brexit dust
Tiles may be rattling on the roofs of the City's most stable institutions as the EU referendum vote sinks in but London's estate agents and developers remain resolutely positive about the future of...
View ArticleInvestors enjoy winter buying spree
The auctions market can congratulate itself on a good 2015. Elections notwithstanding, sales records have tumbled as fast as prices and catalogue sizes have increased. Lambert Smith Hampton reports a...
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