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What does today’s auction market look like from both a commercial and residential perspective?

Richard Adamson sits down with David Margolis and Will Taylor to take stock of the market and compare what they are seeing on each side of the business. From the importance of getting pricing right to shifting investor preferences, they discuss the factors influencing activity and the types of property attracting attention.

The conversation also explores how different parts of the market are performing, the impact of financing costs and where there could be value for investors, before looking ahead to what may shape the auction market going forward.

In this episode:

• How investor priorities are changing
• Why pricing remains key to achieving a sale
• Which areas of the commercial and residential markets are attracting interest
• The impact of borrowing and financing costs
• Where value could be emerging
• The outlook for the property auction market

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In this episode of Allsop's PropChat, valuation partner Ed Dunningham hosts a discussion with Nick Pemberton and Chris Room experts from the West End and City markets respectively. The conversation begins with a brief review of the market conditions and deal volumes, impact of the economy and potential further interest rate rises and the outlook for the rest of the year.

Listeners can expect expert insights on market trends, challenges, and opportunities in the evolving landscape of commercial property investment. 

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In this episode:

The landlord exodus. Regulation (Renters' Reform, EPC requirements) is pushing out the smaller property investor, and even some private landlords that have accumulated real scale, with one current instruction a portfolio built up over twenty years.

Who's replacing them. Propcos with private equity behind them, professionalising management and needing larger lot sizes, alongside overseas UHNW capital treating the UK as a safe haven for medium to long term wealth preservation.

Where pricing has moved. Prime, peripheral and tertiary yields have all shifted out, and the gap between pricing expectations and the cost of money is doing the work. Jimmy and Mark put numbers on it.

Freehold trades, leasehold struggles. Straightforward freehold blocks and house portfolios hold demand; long leaseholds, broken portfolios and geographically scattered stock are far harder, with fire safety and cladding remedial costs having a material effect.

The regional case. Population, first-time buyer age, rental growth and ten-year capital growth in the major regional cities, and why the fundamentals rather than the sentiment are the argument.

Institutional appetite. PRS versus BTR, supported and social housing, and the aggregation play needed to get portfolios to pension-fund scale.

£5m, on air. Where would each of them put it, and why? Jimmy and Mark pick a strategy and a location, and they don't pick the same thing.

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In this episode of Allsop’s PropChat residential Managing Partner Richard Adamson hosts Chris Brady and Aman Parekh from Allsop’s recently established Planning team, for a tour of the policy changes reshaping what's consentable and where the value sits.

What's covered

• Meet the team - the remit spans early feasibility and land promotion through pre-applications, full applications and appeals, with cross-referrals across Allsop's other sectors
• Making sites work - viability strategies and meanwhile uses, from padel courts and self-storage to co-living, retrofit and student accommodation
• Housing delivery test, August results - roughly 93 of 330 English authorities now face the most severe measures, a 50% increase and what the presumption in favour of sustainable development means for how your application gets judged
• The National Scheme of Delegation - from late October, only the most significant applications go to committee. Chris and Aman discuss the thresholds: schemes up to 49 units sit in a smaller category, while c.1,500 units or more counts as strategically significant
• Draft London Plan - location-based affordable housing thresholds, mayoral call-in powers- and data centres now carrying their own policy that boroughs must recognise at plan-making stage
• Where to look - the 800m station radius (and what "well connected" actually means in policy terms, roughly four services an hour), green belt and grey belt, infill plots, previously developed land and renewables on lower-grade agricultural land
• Viability - NPPF wording that relaxes site-specific viability challenges, plus CIL phasing
• Appeals - the burden is time rather than cost, and there is real opportunity for those with the appetite for it

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In this episode of Allsop's PropChat, Residential Managing Partner Richard Adamson hosts a discussion with Allsop's Anthony Hart and Will Ramshaw - experts in the Student Housing sector - alongside Richard Ward, Head of Research at StuRents, the UK's largest student listings platform.

The conversation covers the journey the student housing sector has been on over the past decade: how it has matured, attracted a wider investor base and now faces a more complex set of challenges. Topics include the growing two-tier market between prime and secondary assets, the affordability crisis squeezing student budgets, the impact of international student demand (and China's shifting demographics), supply constraints that are reshaping the development pipeline and what the Renters Rights Act could mean for HMO landlords and investors alike.

Allsop’s inhouse offering in the sector is a comprehensive one, from sales and acquisitions to valuation work.  This episode offers a grounded, data-led view of where the market stands - and where the opportunities lie.

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In this episode of Allsop's PropChat, residential Managing Partner Richard Adamson hosts a discussion with Michael Linane & William Shoebotham - experts in the Residential Investment market. The conversation begins with a high-level introduction to the challenges the sector has faced over the past few years and how some buyers have seen the uncertainty as a great opportunity. Listeners can expect expert insights on market trends, current yield expectations and where pricing really sits . Allsop’s inhouse offering is a unique one that covers all parts of the residential sectors including HMO’s, PD Blocks, portfolios and PBSA. 

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In this episode of Allsop's PropChat, residential Managing Partner Richard Adamson hosts a discussion with Andy Pointon and Alex Masters - experts in the Build to Rent market. The conversation begins with a high-level introduction to the sector, including the differences between Multi-Family and Single-Family developments. Listeners can expect expert insights on market trends, challenges and opportunities in the evolving landscape of this highly sophisticated, institutionally focussed sector. Allsop’s inhouse offering is a unique one that covers all aspects of the sector from planning advice and sourcing to design consultancy, investment underwriting and eventual operation of the completed developments. 

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In this episode of Allsop's PropChat, valuation partner Ed Dunningham hosts a discussion with Nick Pemberton and Chris Room experts from the West End and City markets respectively. The conversation begins with a brief review of the market conditions and impact of the war – the team run through their analysis of transaction volumes before and after the start of the war on February 28th. There were approximately £1.9 Bn of investment transactions in Q1 in 48 deals – half by volume happened in March, after the war began on 28th February.

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2025 was a year that ended with one of the biggest residential auctions of all time, raising £77M and a long awaited cut to interest rates – this is typically the catalyst that the commercial market needs to drive demand. As we review last year we also make our informed predictions of what 2026 holds.

Both Auctioneers discuss the different forces driving the buyers and sellers, with a significant increase in Housing Associations and REITS selling last year, which is likely to continue and some new overseas buyers buying in to commercial assets for the first time. Is that a turning point in the market? There is a lot to cover.

“So much is moving in the wider Residential market”, says Seb Verity who reflects on his normal wide range of topics from the impact of rising obsolescence in all its forms, to what is holding back the Government’s new build targets.

The entire panel conclude the episode with their thoughts on how they would invest £5m in their markets and why.

In this episode of Allsop's PropChat, valuation partner Ed Dunningham hosts a discussion with John Banbury and Ryan Stanton - experts from the Business Rates Team. The conversation begins with a brief update of the impact of the Budget. Listeners can expect expert insights into the effect of the new multipliers and Rateable Values on business rates liabilities and how they may in turn create opportunities in the investment market.

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