Overseas property buyers are sensing an opportunity as the UK says au revoir to the European Union
With the UK still struggling to grasp the full repercussions of Brexit and prime minister Boris Johnson’s leadership, its UK property market is looking increasingly attractive to foreign investors thanks to the country’s weak currency—and the prospect of snapping up some Brexit bargains has not escaped the attention of high-net-worth Hong Kong buyers.
“We’ve seen a huge influx of enquiries and an increase in super and prime London deals being done from Hong Kong and China,” says Mark Elliott, head of international residential for Savills.
A recent Savills study calculated that a Hong Kong buyer purchasing a London property that would have cost £5 million at the peak of the market in 2014, before changes to stamp duty rates, could now buy at a discount of 33 per cent, thanks to the divergence between the pound and the US dollar, to which the Hong Kong dollar is pegged.
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We have seen a huge influx of enquiries and an increase in super and prime London deals being done from Hong Kong and China