Secondary Recommendation

Savills - Estate agent well placed to exploit property upturn

October 2013

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Barely a week seems to go by without a positive story on the UK housing market and with the Bank of England expecting interest rates to stay at 0.5% for up to three more years it's hardly surprising that shares in estate agents have soared recently. One beneficiary of this improving sentiment is FTSE-250 rated, Savills, an international real estate advisory services business with around 500 offices in four main regions. Savills originally made its name through advising on the sale and purchase of high value property and farmland within the UK residential market, a highly volatile business given the violent swings often seen in the economic cycle and the fact that it only gets paid when a transaction is made. However, while many ri ...

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