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London Property - Unlock Property Wealth

London Property - Home of Super Prime 360 Episodes Oct 20, 2026

The London Property Podcast, hosted by Farnaz Fazaipour, offers independent intelligence for serious London property owners and investors. Drawing on 30 years of prime London market experience, the show provides honest insights without estate agent spin or vested interests. Topics include prime and super-prime London, leasehold reform, IHT planning, rental market shifts, regeneration hotspots, and tax and legal changes. Trusted by over 1,500 HNWI members across the UK and internationally, new episodes are released every week.

Episodes

Prime London Property: Mortgage Cap Scrapped as Super-Rich Rent | Budget 2026
Prime London Property: Mortgage Cap Scrapped as Super-Rich Rent | Budget 2026 Oct 20, 2026 230 Send us Fan MailThere was a telling split in the London market this week: it is becoming cheaper to borrow, but dearer to own.On the lending side, the tide is turning. From 28 October the Bank of England removes the cap on high loan-to-income mortgages, giving lenders room to stretch borrowers further — and HSBC and NatWest both cut their rates in the same week. After years of tightening, credit i
Prime London Property Update: Is the Market Turning?  Budget 2026
Prime London Property Update: Is the Market Turning? Budget 2026 Oct 13, 2026 227 Send us Fan MailThis week in prime London, the quieter signals told the more encouraging story.After a long correction, the market is turning. The buying agency Black Brick calls the luxury end “off the critical list” — still soft, but stabilising, with the sharpest falls behind it. Vendors across prime central and prime outer London are finally pricing to the market rather than to memory, and exc
London Is the Black Sheep. Capital Isn't Leaving
London Is the Black Sheep. Capital Isn't Leaving Oct 7, 2026 227 Send us Fan MailPrime London has corrected. The question now is who moves while it has. Farnaz Fazaipour, founder of London Property, has spent 30 years in prime central London, independent of any estate agency, advising around 1,500 private clients.This week she covers the FT's verdict on London as property's black sheep, developers retreating from the capital, and Gulf and Asian buyers
Prime London Property Update: Tax, Gulf Buyers & the Budget 2026
Prime London Property Update: Tax, Gulf Buyers & the Budget 2026 Sep 29, 2026 238 Send us Fan MailThere were two forces pulling against each other in the London market this week.At home, the tax pressure built ahead of the Budget. A new report claims London homeowners underpay some £3.1bn a year under a council-tax system still pegged to 1991 values, reviving the case for a proportional property tax — and Labour MPs moved to close a loophole that had cut one billionaire’s bill
Mansion Tax at £1.5m, Britons Back in Chelsea, and a Two-Speed Market
Mansion Tax at £1.5m, Britons Back in Chelsea, and a Two-Speed Market Sep 22, 2026 253 Send us Fan MailThere were two stories in the London market this week, pulling in opposite directions.On tax, the net widened: the Chancellor is reported to be considering a cut to the mansion tax threshold to £1.5m. down from the £2m first floated,  more than doubling the number of homes caught. Beneath the headlines, the frozen inheritance-tax nil-rate band continues to pull more estates into ch
Tax Out, Capital In: The Week London's Money Moved
Tax Out, Capital In: The Week London's Money Moved Sep 14, 2026 238 Send us Fan Mail London property, prime central London, London property news, prime London property market, Farnaz Fazaipour, London Property podcast, UK property tax, autumn budget 2026 property, mansion tax UK, non-dom exodus London, The Holme Regent's Park, £190m London mansion sale, super prime London real estate, buy-to-let returns 2026, EU second homes ban Britons, purpose-built student
Mansion Tax Assessments, £40k-a-Week Renters and the Duke's Listed-Building Win: This Week in Prime London
Mansion Tax Assessments, £40k-a-Week Renters and the Duke's Listed-Building Win: This Week in Prime London Aug 31, 2026 207 Send us Fan MailThe mansion tax has moved from proposal to process.The government has begun sending assessors to inspect homes worth more than £2m ahead of the autumn budget, preparing to place them in a new, higher council tax band. For prime central London — where much of the stock sits above the threshold — the real question is not whether, but how each home will be valued, and by whom.That sin
Younger money, new taxes, moving rules. this week in property news
Younger money, new taxes, moving rules. this week in property news Aug 25, 2026 233 Send us Fan MailThe £20m buyer in prime London is getting younger — and buying differently.This week's bulletin reads six stories through a prime London lens:— Tech-founder money reshaping super-prime, ice baths where the home gym used to be— A widening north–south split, with London still the exception— Labour's proposed mansion tax, and a Valuation Office now preparing to price high-va
The Week in Prime London , 18 August 2026: The Top of the Market Is Thinning
The Week in Prime London , 18 August 2026: The Top of the Market Is Thinning Aug 17, 2026 314 Send us Fan Mail Six developments shaping the prime central London property market this week. New HMRC disposal data shows overseas owners stepping back from top-end UK residential property, with sales above £5m thinning as tax changes bite ahead of a two-point rise on property income in 2027. Elsewhere: falling values are allowing families to reclaim overpaid inheritance tax; the private-rented r
Mansion Tax Fears, But Prime London Money Stays
Mansion Tax Fears, But Prime London Money Stays Aug 11, 2026 193 Send us Fan MailFour London boroughs. Fifty-five per cent of the proposed mansion tax. This is where the Budget conversation starts.This week: why the mansion tax would fall on just four postcodes; how Grosvenor's spending across Mayfair and Belgravia shows the core still holding; what one hundred days of the Renters' Rights Act is doing to rental supply; why China's super-rich are
Can You Still Make Money as a London Landlord? | Arbuthnot Latham's Angela Niering-Wren
Can You Still Make Money as a London Landlord? | Arbuthnot Latham's Angela Niering-Wren Aug 5, 2026 2207 Send us Fan Mail Buy-to-let has become a profession, and the accidental landlords of the 80s and 90s are reaching the end of the road. Farnaz Fazaipour speaks with Angela Niering-Wren, Senior Commercial Banker at Arbuthnot Latham, about tighter lending, Renters' Rights, Building Safety, and what it now takes to borrow against property in prime London. The London Property Podcast Hosted by Far
Burnham's Tax Signals, Overseas Capital and a Cooling Prime Market , Tuesday Bulletin, 4 August 2026
Burnham's Tax Signals, Overseas Capital and a Cooling Prime Market , Tuesday Bulletin, 4 August 2026 Aug 4, 2026 234 Send us Fan MailThis week the market is being moved by a tax that does not yet exist. Speculation over how Andy Burnham will reshape property taxation is already doing the damage the reforms themselves have not. Buyers and sellers are hesitating, and prime London — where transactions are already thin — feels it first. In this week's bulletin: → The "uncertainty tax" freezing decisio

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