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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.
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The Week in Prime London , 18 August 2026: The Top of the Market Is Thinning 17.08.2026 5minSend 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 reforms are slowing the lettings market, with the student sector feeling it first; pl... -
Mansion Tax Fears, But Prime London Money Stays 11.08.2026 3minSend us Fan Mail Four 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 hunting for tax counsel as Beijing targets offshore trusts; and where the patient institutional money — Long H... -
Can You Still Make Money as a London Landlord? | Arbuthnot Latham's Angela Niering-Wren 05.08.2026 36minSend 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 Farnaz Fazaipour, londonproperty.co.uk Independent intelligence for serious London property o... -
Burnham's Tax Signals, Overseas Capital and a Cooling Prime Market , Tuesday Bulletin, 4 August 2026 04.08.2026 3minSend us Fan Mail This 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 decisions before anything is legislated → Why the Fairer Share model unsettles build-to-rent i... -
What Happened to Approved Inspectors? Nicholas Boyarsky on Building Safety Delays in London 29.07.2026 22minSend us Fan Mail With 30 years in prime central London, Farnaz Fazaipour talks to architect Nicholas Boyarsky about the upheaval in building control. The move to the Building Safety Regulator (BSR) forced private approved inspectors to re‑register and many couldn't, and went into liquidation. The result: a growing BSR backlog of transitional cases and real delays for developers and homeowners. The London Property Podcast Hosted by Farnaz Fazaipour, londonproperty.co.uk Independent... -
Westminster Feels It First: Prime London's Tax Reckoning Begins 28.07.2026 3minSend us Fan Mail This week the property-tax debate stopped being theoretical and started showing up in prices. Reports put a £247,000 fall on Westminster values as the market absorbs the proposed High Value Property Surcharge — the £800-a-year homes tax — plus talk of a land value tax to replace council tax and stamp duty. Green Street News confirmed prime London is now around 25% below peak, with two-thirds of luxury schemes since 2012 still unsold. The Financial Times found overpriced home... -
Renters' Rights Act: How the Upfront Rent Ban Is Reshaping Prime London Lettings and Sales 22.07.2026 28minSend us Fan Mail Ten weeks in, and the Renters' Rights Act is no longer a debate — it's the operating reality. The headline change is simple: a landlord can no longer demand a year, six months, even three months upfront as the price of a tenancy. One month, then you're periodic. The abuse it was written to stop is real, and I've seen it. Not our tenants, not central London — a single mother on a Tesco wage, three children, a landlord insisting on a full year in advance. She raised it through ... -
Asset-Rich, Cash-Poor: The Wealth Tax Trap for Prime London 21.07.2026 4minSend us Fan Mail 8. Podcast description (Spotify / Apple) This week's London Property News Bulletin: why being asset-rich isn't the same as being able to pay. One in seven UK households now holds a net worth of £1m+, mostly locked in property and pensions — making a wealth tax on paper value a real risk for prime London owners. Plus landlord sales concentrated in London and the South, a £24.4m private facility refinancing a Belgravia freehold as Gulf capital keeps deploying, prim... -
The New Owners of Prime London. The Keys Are Changing Hands. 15.07.2026 5minSend us Fan Mail The people being forced to sell prime London right now are not who you think. Not developers. Not buy-to-let landlords. Highly-paid professionals who bought at the peak and can't refinance — facing surveyor downvaluations of 10–17% and prime central assets 40% below 2015 peaks. Farnaz Fazaipour, 30 years in prime central London, walks through who's selling, who's buying, and why this correction is structurally different. The London Property Podcast Hosted by Farnaz Fazaipour,... -
London Property Market Update: Leasehold, Tax & Rising Rents | Weekly Bulletin 14.07.2026 4minSend us Fan Mail Thirty years in prime central London, one independent view on the week's property news. This week: ground rent reform from the estate's side, rising rents as landlords exit, mansion tax speculation at £1.5m, a spike in inheritance tax investigations, the Renters' Rights Act reaching trusts, and tighter rules on short lets. A calm, considered read on what's changing for prime London owners. The London Property Podcast Hosted by Farnaz Fazaipour, londonproperty.co.uk Independen... -
Policy first. Damage later. 30 years watching the same pattern repeat. 10.07.2026 4minSend us Fan Mail Farnaz Fazaipour has spent 30 years in prime central London, running an independent platform built on personal recommendation and serving 1,500 HNWI members. In this solo episode: why property is the irresistible political football, how one line in a stamp duty schedule stopped thousands of homes being built, and why the landlords who restructured ahead of the Renters' Rights Act are already asking the next question — what does a resilient portfolio look like when legislation... -
Income tax, VAT and national insurance are off limits. Everything else is under review. 08.07.2026 4minSend us Fan Mail News Bulletin — 8 July 2026. Six stories through the prime London property lens. This week: Burnham puts property tax on the table with a land value tax under consideration; Westminster debates a £5 million investor visa; Knight Frank's head of super prime says London offers the best buying opportunities in a decade; Gulf capital backs The Bay on Hyde Park's doorstep; Bank of England mortgage approvals fall to a two-and-a-half-year low; and a government consultation opens on... -
The £400M Problem With UK Conveyancing — And What To Do Before Reform Arrives 08.07.2026 2minSend us Fan Mail One in three UK property transactions never completes — costing consumers £400 million a year and the wider economy £1.5 billion. Drawing on 30 years in Prime Central London, Farnaz Fazaipour explains why conveyancing is broken by design, what the government's reform roadmap actually proposes, and the three practical moves to make before the safety net arrives: instruct specialist lawyers before you list, prepare your own upfront pack, and take the auction room seriously. The... -
Institutional Money Moves In: Six Stories Reshaping London's Property Market This Week 30.06.2026 4minSend us Fan Mail This week's bulletin covers six stories and together they point to one of the most consequential structural shifts in the market in a single quarter. Morgan Stanley acquiring 3,200 London rentals for over a billion pounds. Smaller landlords exiting. New housing safety regulations in force overnight. Leasehold transparency under fresh pressure. Overseas institutional money reassessing UK residential. And political risk back on the table with a possible Burnham government... -
London Property News: Home-Buying Reform, SDLT Surge & the £1bn PRS Deal 23.06.2026 4minSend us Fan Mail Six stories. Prime London lens. What matters to owners this week. Stamp duty bills have risen 194% over the past 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 also covers the government's biggest home-buying shake-up in a generation, Morgan Stanley's £1.05bn acquisition of London's largest PRS portfolio, returning international buyer appetite for prime London, Th... -
Could 67% of Your Pension Disappear in Tax? What Every London Property Owner Needs to Know Before April 2027 17.06.2026 32minSend us Fan Mail From April 2027, unspent pension pots will be subject to inheritance tax for the first time and for HNWI London property owners, the combined effect of IHT and income tax could leave families with as little as a third of what was saved. Farnaz Fazaipour is joined by Alan Kennedy, Managing Director of Trident Tax, to work through the numbers and the options: mirror wills, the 25% tax-free lump sum, property gifting strategies, the seven-year survival clock, deed of variation, ... -
What Happens When You Regulate the Market But Not the People Advising It? 12.06.2026 4minSend us Fan Mail For almost 30 years, the same structural problem has repeated: the government regulates property owners directly because the agents advising them carry no professional accountability. No licence. No exams. No liability. In this Friday Opinion, Farnaz Fazaipour makes the case that the compliance burden has been landing in the wrong place — and asks whether mandating agent regulation would genuinely ease that burden, or simply add another layer to a market that already has too ... -
Is Prime London Liquidity Tightening? Five Market Stories You Need to Watch This Week. 09.06.2026 4minSend us Fan Mail Five things worth knowing this week. 1. Prices dip, transactions drop. Halifax confirmed a 0.1% fall in UK house prices in May. London and the South East led the decline. Residential transactions fell 3% in April to just over 101,000. Higher inflation expectations are keeping borrowing costs elevated despite recent cuts. For prime London owners, the headline number is less important than the direction — when transactions fall, liquidity tightens, and liquidity is what protec... -
Safety Beats Tax 05.06.2026 6minSend us Fan Mail For 18 months, the dominant narrative out of prime London has been departure — non-doms leaving, capital relocating to the Gulf and beyond. Gary Hersham, with 40 years at the top of this market, is hearing something different: Gulf-based clients calling to come back, driven not by a change in tax policy but by a reassessment of personal safety. Farnaz Fazaipour discusses what this means for prime central London pricing, the trophy end, and owners still sitting at the 2007 and... -
Overseas Buyers Retreat 30%. Prime London Holds 02.06.2026 4minSend us Fan Mail Farnaz Fazaipour, founder of London Property, has spent 30 years in prime central London advising high-net-worth clients independently. This is her Tuesday Bulletin for 3 June 2026. Six stories this week: a 30% retreat by overseas buyers; an April 2027 IHT deadline that affects pension wealth directly; planning reforms against a backdrop of 7% target delivery; the lights-out Mayfair phenomenon and what it does to the market; Gen X overconcentration in property; and a question...
