Last summer, we wrote about the boom in the UK residential property market and its prerequisites. Today we will talk about the results of 2021 and what has changed by the beginning of 2022. UK and London After a slight decline in December, in early 2022, the demand for housing in the UK shot up again. The influx of buyers in January was 49% higher than the average for the same period of 2018-2021,...

Nearly two weeks on, we asked prime property insiders – including those who specialise in Russian clients – about what effect anti-war sanctions are really having on the London property market, and how their businesses are being affected… It’s been nearly two weeks since the UK, EU, US and many other nations imposed a first tranche of economic sanctions against Russia, in response to the...

The book “From Moscow to London. Notes on happiness and business” by a new Russian-British author Alisa Zotimova launched in Moscow in December last year. A non-fiction hardcover was published in Russia by Alpina Pro (part of the prominent Alpina Publisher family) and came out simultaneously in e-book and audiobook. London, England, 2021. The protagonist (also the author as it’s an autobiography)...

Melissa Curran CEO and Founder of the Modern Mind Group is in Season 2 of the podcast which is all about Emotioneering Business Results. Her guest today is Alisa Zotimova CEO of AZ Real Estate In this episode Alisa talks about building her team, what leadership has taught her in the 9 years she has been running AZ Real Estate. She moved from Moscow to London 15 years ago and has now written a...

The year is coming to its end and what a year it’s been! Following the uncertainty of 2020 when the property market froze for several months, 2021 became the year of new opportunities. Residential sales and prices hit new records driven by Stamp Duty Holiday and its extension. It was followed by the boom in the rental market in summer and autumn. The retail real estate market continued to surprise us...

Last week we hosted The Brilliant Breakfast. There was a series of such charity breakfasts that was going on in the UK to raise funds that will be used to help women from the unprivileged background. We invited like-minded women for a relaxed business networking and our founder Alisa Zotimova read a chapter from her new book. Thank you The Office Group for helping us organize this...

Published 5 October 2021 Summer and September 2021 turned out to be the busiest period for us in the history of our company. The rental market is more complicated than ever, but even in the current conditions, we manage to find properties for our clients. This year we helped to move the record number of students and families relocating to the UK. 45 people in three months! Clients who came to us...

Published 5 October 2021 At the end of Summer 2021, London residential rental market ran hot and boiled up. Good quality properties within the price range of £2000-£3000 per month in Central London, especially around university campuses, go off like hotcakes. There are more and more those looking to rent and less and less rental stock. The number of landlord instructions decreased by 30% compared to...

We are 9! Nine years of growth, achievements and victories! During this time we grew from individual businesswoman Alisa Zotimova to full-cycle Property Consultants and Real Estate Agents. We helped our clients to buy £10m houses and to invest in £100K projects. We found offices and retail spaces, as well as land plots, and even sold a house online! Our total deals’ amount surpassed...

In July, our founder and CEO Alisa Zotimova was featured by Humans of Fuzia – the international women talent project. Read Alisa's full profile below. Meet Alisa Zotimova, Founder and CEO at AZ Real Estate, a company that services private clients looking to buy, rent or invest in UK residential and commercial property in London A Russian national by birth, Alisa Zotimova, is now a top real...