{"id":476979,"date":"2025-10-06T00:14:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T00:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/476979\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T00:14:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T00:14:12","slug":"prime-london-price-slump-makes-it-ripe-for-investment-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/476979\/","title":{"rendered":"Prime London price slump makes it ripe for investment &#8211; claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A leading buying agent says the with the budget looming, confidence in Prime Central London\u2019s property market has tanked.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Camilla Dell of Black Brick says prices in this rarified market are now no less than 24% below their peak of 11 years ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She cites Savills as blaming \u201cunprecedented levels of speculation\u201d about the possibility of tax hikes in next month\u2019s Budget for throwing the market into \u201ca state of suspended animation\u201d with prices dropping 1.8% in the third quarter of this year, contributing to an annual fall of 4.7%.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And she says that Knight Frank has revised its PCL forecast for 2026 from an original expectation of 3% growth, to zero.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dell herself, though, says there is a silver lining for investors.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She comments: \u201cWhile nerves are certainly getting the best of some prospective buyers, others clearly see the current situation as an opportunity not a crisis.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We are receiving calls from some clients who are saying now might actually be the right time. For the brave that are willing to transact, it could be a smart time to buy because it is certainly a buyers\u2019 market.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A leading buying agent says the with the budget looming, confidence in Prime Central London\u2019s property market has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,257,16,40170,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-476979","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-london","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-uk-property-market-analysis","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115324339244987082","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}