The sun shone once again on Estates Gazette’s annual Southampton Focus reception, held at the city’s yacht club last month. And it wasn’t just the weather that was making the 60 or so guests smile – the market is starting to pick up, with a little help from permitted development rights (listen to what some agents had to say about it in a podcast on the Focus blog, www.estatesgazette.com/blogs/focus ).
PDR is generating transaction work for agents and there are signs that the office demand is waking up from its long slumber.
Lambert Smith Hampton had extra reason to smile after collecting the EGi most active agent certificate, as did Andy Gibbs of Vail Williams, who was crowned dealmaker. Congratulations to both.
