At the end of the first quarter of 2020 in London recorded the highest sales in the segment of luxury homes (valued from £ 10 million, or 923 million rubles), follows from the materials of Knight Frank, arrived in edition “Tapes.ru”.
in Just three months, had sold 28 properties in this price category is the highest since 2017. “The volume of transactions has increased markedly after the elections (parliamentary — ed. “Of the tape.ru”) held in the background of the risks of Brexit, which greatly affects the buyers, analysts say. In London the planned tax increase on the purchase of real estate in the mid-2020 and to be able to acquire the properties before the tax increase, buyers were willing to enter into transactions involving credit”.
Experts point out that the demand for expensive housing is in the throes of coronavirus London is not yet implemented: the vast majority of buyers remain willing to transactions and conclude them as soon as they lifted the restrictive measures imposed because of the spread COVID-19.
According to Knight Frank, prices for Prime property in Central London rose 0.2 percent in the first quarter. In the most prestigious areas price tags over the same period increased by 0.5 per cent, the highest figure for the last four years.
According to the official information of the British government, to the 14th of April in the country revealed almost 94 thousands infected with the coronavirus. More than 12 thousand infected died. In the British capital entered quarantine regime.
