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Send us Fan Mail Thirty years in prime central London property, and one question keeps coming up: who do you call? Farnaz Fazaipour explains how London Property acts as an outsourced property director for owners of serious property wealth, bringing together trusted specialists in tax, law, finance, design and build, buying, selling and letting. If you have a property problem and no one to call, ge...

Send us Fan Mail A tax that doesn’t yet exist is already reshaping the London market. This week a quarter of homeowners told The Times they would sell rather than pay the mooted mansion tax — a threat that falls hardest on London and the South East, where so many are asset-rich but cash-poor. Prime listings are being held back amid the rumours, and an Indian tycoon has cut his Surrey mansion 23% o...

Send us Fan Mail There was a telling split in the London market this week: it is becoming cheaper to borrow, but dearer to own. On the lending side, the tide is turning. From 28 October the Bank of England removes the cap on high loan-to-income mortgages, giving lenders room to stretch borrowers further — and HSBC and NatWest both cut their rates in the same week. After years of tightening, credit...

Send us Fan Mail This week in prime London, the quieter signals told the more encouraging story. After a long correction, the market is turning. The buying agency Black Brick calls the luxury end “off the critical list” — still soft, but stabilising, with the sharpest falls behind it. Vendors across prime central and prime outer London are finally pricing to the market rather than to memory, and e...

Send us Fan Mail Prime London has corrected. The question now is who moves while it has. Farnaz Fazaipour, founder of London Property, has spent 30 years in prime central London, independent of any estate agency, advising around 1,500 private clients. This week she covers the FT's verdict on London as property's black sheep, developers retreating from the capital, and Gulf and Asian buye...

Send us Fan Mail There were two forces pulling against each other in the London market this week. At home, the tax pressure built ahead of the Budget. A new report claims London homeowners underpay some £3.1bn a year under a council-tax system still pegged to 1991 values, reviving the case for a proportional property tax — and Labour MPs moved to close a loophole that had cut one billionaire’s bil...

Send us Fan Mail There were two stories in the London market this week, pulling in opposite directions. On tax, the net widened: the Chancellor is reported to be considering a cut to the mansion tax threshold to £1.5m. down from the £2m first floated,  more than doubling the number of homes caught. Beneath the headlines, the frozen inheritance-tax nil-rate band continues to pull more estates into...

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Send us Fan Mail The mansion tax has moved from proposal to process. The government has begun sending assessors to inspect homes worth more than £2m ahead of the autumn budget, preparing to place them in a new, higher council tax band. For prime central London — where much of the stock sits above the threshold — the real question is not whether, but how each home will be valued, and by whom. That...

Send us Fan Mail The £20m buyer in prime London is getting younger — and buying differently. This week's bulletin reads six stories through a prime London lens: — Tech-founder money reshaping super-prime, ice baths where the home gym used to be — A widening north–south split, with London still the exception — Labour's proposed mansion tax, and a Valuation Office now preparing to price hi...

Send us Fan Mail   Six developments shaping the prime central London property market this week.  New HMRC disposal data shows overseas owners stepping back from top-end UK residential property, with sales above £5m thinning as tax changes bite ahead of a two-point rise on property income in 2027. Elsewhere: falling values are allowing families to reclaim overpaid inheritance tax; the private-rente...

Send us Fan Mail Four London boroughs. Fifty-five per cent of the proposed mansion tax. This is where the Budget conversation starts. This week: why the mansion tax would fall on just four postcodes; how Grosvenor's spending across Mayfair and Belgravia shows the core still holding; what one hundred days of the Renters' Rights Act is doing to rental supply; why China's super-rich ar...

Send us Fan Mail  Buy-to-let has become a profession, and the accidental landlords of the 80s and 90s are reaching the end of the road. Farnaz Fazaipour speaks with Angela Niering-Wren, Senior Commercial Banker at Arbuthnot Latham, about tighter lending, Renters' Rights, Building Safety, and what it now takes to borrow against property in prime London.  The London Property Podcast Hosted by F...

Send us Fan Mail This week the market is being moved by a tax that does not yet exist.  Speculation over how Andy Burnham will reshape property taxation is already doing the damage the reforms themselves have not. Buyers and sellers are hesitating, and prime London — where transactions are already thin — feels it first.  In this week's bulletin:  → The "uncertainty tax" freezing dec...

Send us Fan Mail With 30 years in prime central London, Farnaz Fazaipour talks to architect Nicholas Boyarsky about the upheaval in building control. The move to the Building Safety Regulator (BSR)  forced private approved inspectors to re‑register and many couldn't, and went into liquidation. The result: a growing BSR backlog of transitional cases and real delays for developers and homeowner...

Send us Fan Mail This week the property-tax debate stopped being theoretical and started showing up in prices. Reports put a £247,000 fall on Westminster values as the market absorbs the proposed High Value Property Surcharge — the £800-a-year homes tax — plus talk of a land value tax to replace council tax and stamp duty. Green Street News confirmed prime London is now around 25% below peak, with...

Send us Fan Mail Ten weeks in, and the Renters' Rights Act is no longer a debate — it's the operating reality. The headline change is simple: a landlord can no longer demand a year, six months, even three months upfront as the price of a tenancy. One month, then you're periodic. The abuse it was written to stop is real, and I've seen it. Not our tenants, not central London — a...

Send us Fan Mail   8. Podcast description (Spotify / Apple)   This week's London Property News Bulletin: why being asset-rich isn't the same as being able to pay. One in seven UK households now holds a net worth of £1m+, mostly locked in property and pensions — making a wealth tax on paper value a real risk for prime London owners. Plus landlord sales concentrated in London and the South...

Send us Fan Mail The people being forced to sell prime London right now are not who you think. Not developers. Not buy-to-let landlords. Highly-paid professionals who bought at the peak and can't refinance — facing surveyor downvaluations of 10–17% and prime central assets 40% below 2015 peaks. Farnaz Fazaipour, 30 years in prime central London, walks through who's selling, who's bu...

Send us Fan Mail Thirty years in prime central London, one independent view on the week's property news. This week: ground rent reform from the estate's side, rising rents as landlords exit, mansion tax speculation at £1.5m, a spike in inheritance tax investigations, the Renters' Rights Act reaching trusts, and tighter rules on short lets. A calm, considered read on what's chan...

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...