In July we successfully closed a high-value deal for one of our commercial clients. It is an international investment company based in Moscow that is opening its first office in the UK. We found the new office space for them in Central London.  The client’s requirements included many criteria that not always can be easily combined in one office space altogether: Location within Mayfair or St...

Offices rental market in the UK is bouncing back: the demand for them gained 18% in the first five months of 2021 compared to the same period last year. 38% of businesses expect 75% of their workforce to return to the office.  Although the pandemic shattered the London offices market landscape, traditional and serviced operators remain its two core segments.  A traditional office is a...

About Us AZ Real Estate is a boutique real estate advisory company that offers residential property and property investment opportunities in London and UK for clients across the globe. Founded in 2012, our company has offices in London and Moscow with a portfolio across all the property sectors, including office, retail, residential sales, and lettings. Here are the words our team use to...

The residential property market is hitting new records. According to the Office of National Statistics (ONS) UK average house prices increased by 10% over the year to March 2021; this is the highest annual growth rate the UK has seen since August 2007. Both prices and the number of sales completions went up. According to Zoopla’s forecast, the number of completions will reach 1.5 million this...

AZ Real Estate offers this service to our clients for more than 5 years. In this piece we will tell you about some rules that every landlord should follow when letting a flat. Check out if your letting property complies with them. li{ list-style-position: inside; } If you are renting out a flat, it should meet safety requirements ensuring that it is okay for people to live there: Gas Safety...

Despite difficulties related to the pandemic, the retail real estate market continues to surprise us with new formats. One of the main events of the street retail this month was the opening of Amazon Fresh offline store without counters. It is located in Ealing (Western London) and is the first store of this kind outside the US! How does it work? To buy something, you need to open and install the...

.alignleft { margin-right: 2.5em!important; Expertise in commercial property is one of our strongest sides. In March we successfully closed the acquisition deal of a retail unit in Central London. In their brief, the client specifically stated the following criteria for the property: a retail unit in very specific postcodes of Central London, ground floor,1100-2200 sqft space. The...

Offices always held the top of the list for the most popular types of property investments in London. But the pandemic seriously shattered this sector. According to the report of EG Radius consulting group, the number of offices let in London, hit the record minimum twice in 2020. The volume of offices sales hardly reached £7.1 bn by the end of 2020, which is a third less than in 2019 and a half of the...

1️⃣ The end of 2020 proved that it’s useful to arrange tax holidays from time to time. The number of residential property transactions in Q4 2020 is 17% higher than in 2019 and 26% higher than the average number of transactions in the same period during the past 10 years! 2️⃣ The buyers’ preferences have also changed: the demand for country houses with gardens and flats with...

We have recently completed a residential property transaction in London suburbs. This transaction was unique due to the following reasons: ? Remote selling It was the first time for us when we didn’t even see the house before selling it. Usually it’s not the case. But this time, taking pandemic and distant location into account, we evaluated the property remotely, made high-quality photos and a...