A £1 billion institutional rental acquisition, small landlords selling up, overnight safety regulations, leasehold transparency reform, cautious overseas capital, and a possible Burnham government — this week’s six stories all point to the same structural shift in London property.
Stamp duty bills have risen 194% in a decade — four times faster than house prices. In prime London, that burden is quietly keeping people in properties that no longer suit them. This week’s bulletin covers six stories every serious owner and investor needs to know, from the government’s biggest home-buying shake-up in a generation to Morgan Stanley’s £1.05bn acquisition of London’s largest private rented sector portfolio.
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