Haringtons Property Buying Agency

Property Search and Acquisition - London and Country

What a difference a day makes

Simone Signoret, the great French actress once said “Nostalgia is just not what it used to be” and it’s all too easy to get into the mindset that things today are not as good as they once were. When I sit down to write our market comments, I try very hard to focus on property - and property alone – … [Read more...]

Clear as Mud

A year ago, I wrote a piece titled “London Gravity” where we talked about how it felt as if we had rung a bell to signal the bottom of the market for London residential property, and the big question was how long it would take before the excess supply got mopped up and prices firmed up … [Read more...]

Swimming in Treacle

Ever since the Stamp-duty hikes of 2015, the British country house market has been overshadowed by the increase in stamp duty (SDLT) and this has resulted in a fall in the number of transactions and a partial paralysis of the market. We are often asked if the Brexit vote has been the problem and … [Read more...]

London Gravity

Perhaps it’s a function of age, but increasingly I look around and am struck by a strong sense of deja-vu; conversations that seem familiar, houses that I’m certain I’ve seen before, and cycles of the property market that come around over and over again – rather like a distant relation at … [Read more...]