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There is a heavy coating of dust on the windows of Jardine House in the eastern parts of London City, and it is interrupted with crude graffiti. A note scribbled on some tape and stuck to the door announces that security is now conducting patrols of the unoccupied building. Owned by the Libyan Investment Authority, this once-bustling office building is now decaying, serving as a warning to affluent Russians. Since hundreds of Vladimir Putin’s associates have frozen their assets in Britain, their prime London property may suffer the same fate. Since 2011, when Britain sanctioned Moammar Qaddafi’s dictatorship, Jardine House

Assura, a healthcare real estate investment trust worth £3 billion, is looking to capitalize on the downturn, according to its CEO. According to The Standard, the chief executive officer of a £3 billion healthcare property trust believes that a downturn in the property market might help London make up for the lost time in investing in NHS infrastructure. According to Jonathan Murphy of Assura, the city of London has “the worst healthcare estates of anywhere in the country,” partly because of a method for evaluating land valuations agreed upon by the industry and the NHS. This method is more effective

On this day in history, November 21st, Reuters reports that: According to a Reuters survey of property market experts, German home prices are expected to decrease by 3.5% next year due to the impact of the cost of the living problem and rising borrowing rates on consumers. However, the likelihood of a complete market collapse is low. While the European Central Bank has been raising interest rates at a time when the union is likely going into recession, the harmonized consumer price inflation in Europe’s largest economy was 11.6% last month. The average German home price would drop 3.5% in

House prices in Tunbridge wells may soon stop soaring after a prominent estate agent predicted an 11% drop in local home values by the end of 2019. Savills made its forecasts after the Bank of England (BoE) implemented the highest increase in interest rates in a generation, increasing mortgage payments for millions. UK base interest rate increased by 0.75 percentage points on Thursday, November 3; this is the most significant increase in the rate since 1989. The Bank of England estimates that this will result in an annual increase of roughly £3,000 in mortgage payments for families due to renewing

Favorable currency rates, the present need to diversify portfolios, and the perceived safety of the British market have all contributed to a rise in interest from American investors in excellent London property. According to Nest Seekers International, interest in luxury properties in London among American buyers increased by half last month. The international real estate agency has just hired two new Americans, Shelby Coleman on the East Coast and Natalie Hernandez on the West Coast, who will be responsible for connecting the American and British real estate markets throughout the year 2023. Because of the changes in the market, Nest

More contracts were signed throughout the first nine months of 2022 than in any year from 2015 to 2020. According to a survey released by Savills on Tuesday, London’s luxury real estate market has had its most significant year on record due to the city’s appeal to wealthy homebuyers. There were 461 house sales in the city between January and September for £5 million (US$5.73 million) or more. According to Savills, this is more sales than any entire year from 2015 through 2020 combined, and it’s the biggest for the first nine months of any year since the real estate