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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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Prime London Property Update: Tax, Gulf Buyers & the Budget 2026 29.09.2026 3минSend us Fan Mail There 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 by £18m. The direction of travel on how prime property is taxed is clear. And yet internation... -
Mansion Tax at £1.5m, Britons Back in Chelsea, and a Two-Speed Market 22.09.2026 4минSend us Fan Mail There 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 charge as values rise. On the market, a clear split. Prime central London now sits around ... -
Tax Out, Capital In: The Week London's Money Moved 14.09.2026 3минSend 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 accommodation regulation, London super-rich leaving UK, prime London property tax changes, fami... -
Mansion Tax Assessments, £40k-a-Week Renters and the Duke's Listed-Building Win: This Week in Prime London 31.08.2026 3минSend us Fan Mail The 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 single shift framed this week's bulletin. Alongside it: super-prime tenants reportedly paying u... -
Younger money, new taxes, moving rules. this week in property news 25.08.2026 3минSend us Fan Mail The £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-value homes directly — The short autumn window for commonhold — HMRC tightening the paperwork on Secti... -
The Week in Prime London , 18 August 2026: The Top of the Market Is Thinning 17.08.2026 5минSend 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 3минSend 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 36минSend 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 3минSend 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 22минSend 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 3минSend 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 28минSend 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 4минSend 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 5минSend 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 4минSend 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 4минSend 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 4минSend 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 2минSend 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 4минSend 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 4минSend 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...
