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As the Liberal Democrats slide gently backwards from their ‘Mansion Tax’ proposals, the prospect of a Council Tax  revaluation, incorporating higher value tax bands (adding J...

A year ago, our blog ‘what value are house price forecasts’ followed an ebullient rash of predictions from the key national agencies.  We are not surprised...

We were amused by this recent article in the Telegraph, highlighting how much things have changed for house finder. With as many as nine out of...

Critics of Labour’s imposition of a mansion tax on owners of £2m+ properties point to the gap between their assertion that it will raise enough to...

The shortage of country houses emerging onto the market so far this year across the South East has been no better exemplified than in the pages...

The last 12 months have seen a definite increase in concern on the part of our clients, at the ‘revenue’ costs of a owning a house...

An interesting little book published in 1947 entitled ‘The Purchase of House Property’ came in our Christmas stocking;  what especially caught our eye was this section:...

‘Tis the season to be jolly’, that time of year when national estate agencies forecast property price movements. When considering their headline grabbing predictions, what strikes...

A year ago we were, by and large, ‘on the button’ with our predictions of the likely shifts in values for the country house market for...

Recent press reports of a ‘surge’ in house prices followed the latest RICS monthly survey (‘house prices are rising at their fastest rate since 2006’) –...