Everything we publish, including the parts that cost us listings.
Quarterly market reports, neighbourhood guides, and essays by the partners on what the numbers do not show. Written for owners and buyers, not for search engines, and never ghostwritten.
Three markets, three different arguments about the same interest rate
London transactions fell nine per cent while prices held. Abuja plots rose on scarcity of clean title, not demand. Dubai absorbed forty thousand new units and barely moved. The report explains why the same borrowing cost produced three unrelated outcomes, and where we think each market is wrong about itself.
What you are actually buying on a garden square
Key rights, the committee that grants them, and the four squares where the key is worth more than the extra bedroom.
The eleven valuations last quarter where we said wait
Fifty-two valuations, eleven recommending no sale. What those houses had in common, and what it cost us to say so.
Title, not location, is the Abuja price driver
Two plots on the same road, forty per cent apart in price. The difference was a Certificate of Occupancy and nine months at the land registry.
Six towers, six reserve funds, one honest answer
We read the service charge accounts for six buildings on the same frond. Only two had reserves that would survive a chiller replacement.
Maitama, street by street, with the power supply mapped
Which roads sit on which feeder, how often each fails, and what a genuinely independent supply costs to install.
Why we refer away four deals a year
Dual agency is legal in all three of our regions and we still will not do it. The arithmetic of what that refusal costs.
Prime London, Q1: fewer buyers, better ones
Viewings down a fifth, offer-to-completion up eleven days, fall-through rate at a four-year low. What that combination usually precedes.
The four renovations that never return their cost
From two hundred valuations: the loft conversion that loses a bedroom, and three other improvements buyers price at nothing.
The fronds, ranked by what they actually cost to run
Service charge, cooling, and beach maintenance across eleven fronds, with the two we would buy on and the reason.
Thirty-five years, and the listing we handled worst
A house in Guildford, priced on sentiment, reduced twice. What we should have said at the valuation and did not.
The two failures we see most in buying from abroad
Paying before searches complete, and trusting a relative's inspection. Both are avoidable and both recur every quarter.
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