Follow the agents who follow the money
A few weeks ago I wrote a piece for the Financial Times about how the world's top end estate agencies are expanding their international networks to service the growing demand for luxury homes from HNWIs. These agencies spend a lot of time and money tracking capital flows around the world - Knight Frank has 20 researchers in London doing it assisted by overseas staff. The agents follow the money that fuels the markets. This got me thinking - wouldn't it be a good idea to start a regular Housing Hotspots Tracker that shows which agents are opening or expanding branches and where.
So, here it is - if you are thinking of buying a home and want to know where the agents believe the market is hotting up, then check out the Housing Hotspots Tracker. The Tracker will be updated monthly.
HOUSING HOTSPOTS TRACKER
Estate agency branch openings since January 2012 -
Savills - Gibraltar
Strutt & Parker - Westbourne Grove (London)
Haus Properties - Fulham (London) Expanding. Opened in November 2011.
Winkworth - Canterbury (Kent), Cheam (London), Worcester Park (London) and Grantham (Lincolnshire).
Sotheby's International Realty - Canford Cliffs (Dorset), Chelsea (London), Stratford upon Avon (Warwickshire)
If you know of any agency openings/expansions that could be added to this list, then please tweet me @richardgwarren or add them to the comments section below.
Thanks to Loubie Vaughan, Emma Ward-Hunt and James Trimble for being helpful eyes and ears.
If you want to read my piece on expanding estate agencies in the FT then copy and paste this link to the address bar, and click - http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/28b251d0-428d-11e1-93ea 00144feab49a.html#axzz1oRm1k1sC
A few weeks ago I wrote a piece for the Financial Times about how the world's top end estate agencies are expanding their international networks to service the growing demand for luxury homes from HNWIs. These agencies spend a lot of time and money tracking capital flows around the world - Knight Frank has 20 researchers in London doing it assisted by overseas staff. The agents follow the money that fuels the markets. This got me thinking - wouldn't it be a good idea to start a regular Housing Hotspots Tracker that shows which agents are opening or expanding branches and where.
So, here it is - if you are thinking of buying a home and want to know where the agents believe the market is hotting up, then check out the Housing Hotspots Tracker. The Tracker will be updated monthly.
HOUSING HOTSPOTS TRACKER
Estate agency branch openings since January 2012 -
Savills - Gibraltar
Strutt & Parker - Westbourne Grove (London)
Haus Properties - Fulham (London) Expanding. Opened in November 2011.
Winkworth - Canterbury (Kent), Cheam (London), Worcester Park (London) and Grantham (Lincolnshire).
Sotheby's International Realty - Canford Cliffs (Dorset), Chelsea (London), Stratford upon Avon (Warwickshire)
If you know of any agency openings/expansions that could be added to this list, then please tweet me @richardgwarren or add them to the comments section below.
Thanks to Loubie Vaughan, Emma Ward-Hunt and James Trimble for being helpful eyes and ears.
If you want to read my piece on expanding estate agencies in the FT then copy and paste this link to the address bar, and click - http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/28b251d0-428d-11e1-93ea 00144feab49a.html#axzz1oRm1k1sC
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