prime property in the capital<\/a> experienced a drop of 6.3% in 2016, with no recovery in sight in 2017. As the main reason, Knight Frank blamed high levels of stamp duty (about \u00a343,750 on a property of \u00a31million) rather than Brexit for the recent decrease. <\/p>\nTom Bill, Knight Frank\u2019s head of London residential research, said: \u201cWider economic sentiment has been overshadowed by the UK\u2019s decision to leave the European Union and the election of Donald Trump. However, the more mundane reality of fiscal policy remains the single biggest curb on demand in the prime London property market. In particular, higher rates of stamp duty are only now being more fully reflected in asking prices.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Forecasts suggest a possible price decline in London as well as economic slowdown putting a brake on the property market, the Guardian reports. House prices are set to increase between 1 and 4%, according to Halifax\u2019s annual forecast, indicating a noticeable deceleration from 2016. Why buyers from China and Hong Kong continue investing in UK… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":4565,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[79,11,13,37],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}