Hoping to be in your next home by Christmas? With property transactions taking months rather than weeks, October is the time to understand what’s realistic — and why it can still pay to get moving.

For more than twenty years I’ve advised estates, family holdings and portfolio clients across London, on assets from £5 million upwards. The most valuable thing I’ve learned is simple: the right advice and the advice clients want to hear are rarely the same.

Selective licensing is spreading to seven more Islington wards from 23 November 2026, and plenty of landlords haven't heard a thing. Here's which streets are affected, what it costs and how to get sorted in good time.

When we started Greater London Properties in 2003, we wanted to build the kind of agency we'd want to deal with ourselves. Straight advice, people who know the streets they work in, and clients who come back because we looked after them properly the first time, whether..