Are Americans coming to rescue London’s ailing property market?

Many Americans would have us know that they “saved” us from the Germans in the Second World War. As we approach the 75th anniversary of the Normandy Landings, I’ll leave that heated debate for another day. But now they might be coming to save us from something else: our sluggish property market. Buying agent Black Brick reports that there has been a big jump in the number of Americans wanting to buying property in the most expensive areas of central London, accounting for nearly one third of its clients in the year to June.