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Sarah Ward has run her eponymous interior design company for more than 30 years, but now comes an exciting new chapter as she re-brands the firm to Ward & Co with her business partner of seven years – daughter Rosie.

The mother and daughter duo and their team deliver luxury finishes to prime residential and commercial properties for private clients and developers in the UK and abroad.

Art does wonderful things to the brain. It stimulates emotion, ignites conversation and arouses inspiration. Art can transform a house – you might walk into a sitting room and be greeted by the bright comic strip of a Roy Lichtenstein, or head out onto a balcony and spot the familiar bright red balloon shape of a Jeff Koons sculpture.

Welcome to part 2 of our series on investing in the Prime Central London property market. In part 1 we looked at how the PCL recession looks anomalous in terms of its length and in the context of vast amounts of quantitative easing.

The new Budget won’t be released until 3 March, but there has been much discussion this week around the potential plans for Stamp Duty. Chancellor Rishi Sunak is planning to raise taxes in an attempt to re-balance the deficit caused by coronavirus over the past year.