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Outlook worsens for prime London property

By Daniel Thomas, Property Correspondent

Published: January 31 2009 04:04 | Last updated: January 31 2009 04:04

A leading firm of estate agents has lowered its already gloomy predictions for upmarket London house prices, after reporting a steeper-than-expected drop in recent months.

Knight Frank now forecasts that the cost of prime London property will drop by at least 35 per cent from a 2008 peak to an expected mid-2009 trough. Previously, the agent had predicted that prices would fall 30 per cent.

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