News & Comment

Is residential property the Cinderella of the investment world?

Property is one of the four key components of a portflio, but in investment circles, property means commercial. Residential, like Cinderella, is seldom invited to the investment allocation ball, perhaps because it is not seen as investment grade.

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UCIS - Don't throw out the baby with the bath water

Advisers don’t like to be linked with ‘miss selling’ scandals, and quite rightly so. Miss selling is when an adviser incorrectly positions a product to an inappropriate investor in order to make a ‘sale’.

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London residential property continues to offer a safe haven in the storm

The recent violent volatility of global stock markets has lead many investors, like financial refugees, to seek shelter in the safe ports of gold, cash and for some residential property.

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Savills Residential Research

An important combination of changes to the English higher education system, combined with market forces, has created a market where there are distinct winners and losers in the development and investment arenas.

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Knight Frank

Knight Frank's Prime Central London Sales Index has tracked the performance of London's luxury property market since 1976. Compiled monthly, the index is based on the valuation of a comprehensive basket of properties throughout our central London office network and is based on actual sales evidence.

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Research

Can residential property help hedge against inflation?

A research note exploring looking closely at the inflation hedging properties of direct commercial, residential investment along with equities.

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Did You Know

Residential property is the largest UK investment asset class?

At £4trillion it is almost double commercial property, equities and government bonds combined.