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Send us Fan Mail Farnaz Fazaipour has spent 30 years in prime central London, running an independent platform built on personal recommendation and serving 1,500 HNWI members. In this solo episode: why property is the irresistible political football, how one line in a stamp duty schedule stopped thousands of homes being built, and why the landlords who restructured ahead of the Renters' Rights...

Send us Fan Mail News Bulletin — 8 July 2026. Six stories through the prime London property lens. This week: Burnham puts property tax on the table with a land value tax under consideration; Westminster debates a £5 million investor visa; Knight Frank's head of super prime says London offers the best buying opportunities in a decade; Gulf capital backs The Bay on Hyde Park's doorstep; Ba...

Send us Fan Mail One in three UK property transactions never completes — costing consumers £400 million a year and the wider economy £1.5 billion. Drawing on 30 years in Prime Central London, Farnaz Fazaipour explains why conveyancing is broken by design, what the government's reform roadmap actually proposes, and the three practical moves to make before the safety net arrives: instruct speci...

Send us Fan Mail This week's bulletin covers six stories  and together they point to one of the most consequential structural shifts in the market in a single quarter. Morgan Stanley acquiring 3,200 London rentals for over a billion pounds. Smaller landlords exiting. New housing safety regulations in force overnight. Leasehold transparency under fresh pressure. Overseas institutional money re...

Send us Fan Mail Six stories. Prime London lens. What matters to owners this week. Stamp duty bills have risen 194% over the past decade — four times faster than house prices. In prime London that burden is quietly keeping people in properties that no longer suit them. This week's bulletin also covers the government's biggest home-buying shake-up in a generation, Morgan Stanley's £1...

Send us Fan Mail From April 2027, unspent pension pots will be subject to inheritance tax for the first time and for HNWI London property owners, the combined effect of IHT and income tax could leave families with as little as a third of what was saved. Farnaz Fazaipour is joined by Alan Kennedy, Managing Director of Trident Tax, to work through the numbers and the options: mirror wills, the 25% t...

Send us Fan Mail For almost 30 years, the same structural problem has repeated: the government regulates property owners directly because the agents advising them carry no professional accountability. No licence. No exams. No liability. In this Friday Opinion, Farnaz Fazaipour makes the case that the compliance burden has been landing in the wrong place — and asks whether mandating agent regulatio...

Send us Fan Mail Five things worth knowing this week. 1. Prices dip, transactions drop. Halifax confirmed a 0.1% fall in UK house prices in May. London and the South East led the decline. Residential transactions fell 3% in April to just over 101,000. Higher inflation expectations are keeping borrowing costs elevated despite recent cuts. For prime London owners, the headline number is less importa...

Send us Fan Mail For 18 months, the dominant narrative out of prime London has been departure — non-doms leaving, capital relocating to the Gulf and beyond. Gary Hersham, with 40 years at the top of this market, is hearing something different: Gulf-based clients calling to come back, driven not by a change in tax policy but by a reassessment of personal safety. Farnaz Fazaipour discusses what this...

Send us Fan Mail Farnaz Fazaipour, founder of London Property, has spent 30 years in prime central London advising high-net-worth clients independently. This is her Tuesday Bulletin for 3 June 2026. Six stories this week: a 30% retreat by overseas buyers; an April 2027 IHT deadline that affects pension wealth directly; planning reforms against a backdrop of 7% target delivery; the lights-out Mayfa...

Send us Fan Mail Gary Hersham, founder of Beauchamp Estates and one of London's longest-standing prime market figures, returns to the London Property Podcast for a conversation with Farnaz Fazaipour on the state of prime central London in 2026. Gary discusses a developing return flow from the Gulf — non-doms and others who relocated to Dubai and Abu Dhabi now reconsidering after regional inst...

Send us Fan Mail UK property tax is now 3.7% of GDP — the highest of any major economy. The Treasury is asking whether overseas owners of £2m+ homes should pay an additional levy on top of the new mansion tax — the FT calls it an "oligarch premium". And yet central London rents are up 6.7% and super-prime lettings just had a record year. The sales market is repricing. The lettings market...

Send us Fan Mail  Six stories shaping prime London this week. The Sunday Times Rich List exodus and the quieter arrivals taking their place. Knight Frank's warning that bonds, not base rate, are the swing factor. A £53m purchase in St John's Wood. Leasehold reform still more ambition than impact. Landlords raising rents to absorb November's tax rise. And why AI will split mortgage b...

Send us Fan Mail  Six stories shaping prime London this week. The Trump effect drives more Americans to London. New land transparency rules tighten the net on offshore ownership. MEES 2030 puts a £30,000 fine on the horizon for landlords. Polling reveals 49% think the Government is failing on housing. The Housing Minister renews the pledge on leasehold reform. And UK house prices fall for a second...

Send us Fan Mail  Six stories shaping prime London this week. The Times pushes back on rent controls and Pennycook rejects them. BTL lending rose 21% year-on-year in Q4 2025 — the landlord fightback is quieter than the exodus, but under way. Leasehold reform sets up a two-tier London market, the Finance Act 2026 pulls offshore structures into the IHT net, and City Hall opens its service charge pro...

Send us Fan Mail  From 1 May 2026, the Renters Rights Act ends Section 21, abolishes fixed-term tenancies, caps upfront rent at one month, and makes it illegal to refuse tenants on benefits or with children. In this episode Farnaz walks through every change coming into force — in plain English, with the practical implications for prime London landlords. Fines for getting it wrong run from £7,000 t...

Send us Fan Mail  The rules change on Friday. The Renters' Rights Act 2025 takes effect on 1 May 2026, and the era of landlord discretion is over. This week: what 1 May really means for prime portfolios, why rents are climbing as landlords reposition, why the New York Times is using London as a cautionary tale, why wealthy Britons are quietly exiting, and why lenders are watching leasehold re...

Send us Fan Mail  Five stories every prime London property owner needs this week. Section 21 abolition is 11 days away and most landlords still aren't ready  with a physical delivery deadline for the government information sheet on 31 May and fines up to £7,000. IHT business property and agricultural property relief caps are now live from 6 April, with defined contribution pensions entering t...

Send us Fan Mail Prime central London is correcting hard in early 2026. Transactions have halted, values are down 15–20%, and capital is quietly moving to Malta, Dubai and Riyadh. Ben Sloane joins Farnaz Fazaipour on Word from the Street to explain what's actually happening on the ground  and what might come next. In this episode: Q1 2026 in prime central London: tax reform, pre-budget positi...

Send us Fan Mail Silvina Paz a prime central London property consultant with over 13 years' experience  joins Farnaz Fazaipour for the Q1 2026 market update. Silvina gives her unfiltered read: prices down ~20% from peak, off-market stock at its highest in years, and a new cohort of strategic buyers British, American, Indian and European  moving quietly without urgency. They also tackle the Lo...

Send us Fan Mail This week's London Property News Bulletin — 14 April 2026. We  break down six stories prime London property owners need to understand this week: 1. Iran conflict rattling UK seller confidence failed sales hit 24.4% in March, a four-year high. What this means for PCL owners. 2. Gulf demand pushing prime London rents higher  Knight Frank data confirms what agents are hearing on...

Send us Fan Mail Farnaz Fazaipour is joined by Kris Ericsson, prime central London specialist, for one of the most data-rich market assessments of 2026. Kris shares the numbers few people in the market will say on record: prime central London is now 20–25% below 2014 peak levels. Belgravia and Knightsbridge are down 30%. The correction has been running for 12 years driven by interest rates, Brexit...

Send us Fan Mail Farnaz Fazaipour is joined by Jeremy Davidson for a frank assessment of where prime London property prices actually stand in 2026. Jeremy's view is direct: the market has not fully corrected. In high-value areas like Chelsea and Kensington, properties could still fall by 15–20%. Deals are happening but only where vendors accept substantial discounts from asking price. Buyers...

Send us Fan Mail Farnaz Fazaipour is joined by Marco Pasi, specialist in off-market transactions and international prime London clients, for a first-quarter 2026 market update. Marco shares what he is seeing on the ground: clients who left London for Switzerland, Monaco and Dubai are quietly reconsidering. The non-dom regime and inheritance tax changes accelerated departures  but global instabilit...

Send us Fan Mail Is the prime London market running out of steam  or just finding its new level? Farnaz Fazaipour sits down with Tom Tangney of Rose and Partners for a frank assessment of where the market stands as we move through the first quarter of 2026. Fewer transactions above £10 million in Kensington, Holland Park, and Notting Hill. More activity at the £5 million mark. Buyers who need to m...