With the looming possibility of a socialist government in a few weeks’ time, how will it affect the residential property market?

Well, well, well, who would have ‘thunk’ it?  In December 2019, when Boris Johnson came storming in on a white charger, with an 80-seat majority, in statistical terms, it looked as though the Tories should have been in power for not just one, but two electoral terms.

After four and a half years and three Prime Ministers later, having squandered this golden opportunity, the Tories are looking down the barrel of a shotgun which is primed, cocked and ready for ritual slaughter at the hands of Sir Kier Starmer. Not only does he not need to play on the pitch, nor don his football kit, but just has to turn up at the ground, to win the match.

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Californian oligarchs are the new uber clients buying in London today… who would have ‘thunk’ it?

At Glentree we have traversed the Residential Property Market from the dark days of 1976 to the present.

We have presided over the transformation of London from a souvenir city, rich in culture and heritage (as Paris is today), into a financial colossus and Brexit and the Non-Dom fiscal changes will not serve to diminish this trend.

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Prime Minister, note to oneself, if you enter a stupid contest… don’t try and come first

What on earth is our esteemed, well intentioned, perfectly decent, Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, up to now…, bless him?  Everyone knows that he was always a better ‘No 2 man’ and was elevated, by circumstance, to the top job, perhaps beyond his station and in a General Electoral context was always destined to generate galloping indifference from the Electorate.   Why on earth did he not take the good advice from his electioneering guru, Isaac Levido and wait for an autumn Election?

It does appear that instead the PM surrounds himself with a cabal of ‘wet behind the ears’ border line Millennials, who have convinced him to ‘go for broke’ on July 4th and in doing so, attempt to ambush the Labour Party with this surprise attack!

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