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Some of the richest people on the world, who use London as one of their bases, are choosing to rent rather...

Knight Frank has set out its forecast for the rental sector for the rest of 2024 - notwithstanding political uncertainty. In the...

Just as the prospect of tax rises in the Budget is causing uncertainty in the prime London sales market, so Labour’s...

Property consultancy JLL says there’s been a noticeable rise in prime Central London lettings activity.  Average rents rose 0.9% from Q1 to...

High end lettings agency Hamptons has launched a new international department to woo overseas investors and tenants seeking rental properties in...

Knight Frank says tenancies agreed in June for properties asking over £1,000 per week were at a level below the asking...

Knight Frank is suggesting that a growing degree of uncertainty is hitting the rental market, particularly the high-end sector in the...

Knight Frank says the normalisation of supply and demand in Prime London has happened more quickly than anticipated, forcing it to...

Rental growth in prime London postcodes has narrowed to levels last seen in the summer of 2021, says Knight Frank.  Average rents...

The Prime Central London lettings market is returning to normality, a prominent agency says. JLL says average rents fell 1.4% between Q4...

A seasoned lettings expert has been taken on to boost the success of an agency branch in Surrey. James Clarke, with 25...

It feels as though the UK housing market is waiting for something to happen. The prevailing mood is one of anticipation with...

Supply has continued to build while demand remained steady, which increased downwards pressure on rents in the first quarter of 2024...

Prime London rental values fell closer to their longer-term average in January, as supply continued to increase - but worries about...

A prominent lettings agency is advising landlords to fit out homes in prime locations to the same high specification as if...

Savills says prime rental growth across London and the country has stalled for the first time in almost three years. In prime...

An agency which currently has £350m of property under management and boasts a 98 per cent client retention rate, has opened...

Strutt & Parker’s London New Homes staff attribute 50 per cent of their market this year as dollar-based - 30 per...

There were 3.7 new prospective tenants for every rental property listed in prime London postcodes last month says Knight Frank. The figure,...

A prominent London buying agent and property consultant says the slowly improving supply of rental property means more tenants are now...

Knight Frank has bolstered its prime offering across north London with a new head of lettings in its Hampstead office. Jared Kilgarriff...

Strutt & Parker has announced a new National head of lettings. Anna Ambrose brings with her 18-years’ experience within the sector, including...

Prime London rents are still rising - but that growth is slowing, says Knight Frank. And the number of new prospective tenants...

Rental growth in prime regional markets has started to slow, following runaway growth over the past three years. That’s the view from...

Prime London markets are proving more resilient to rising interest rates than their mainstream equivalents, says Savills. Prices in prime central London...

A leading lettings agency and property consultancy has revealed that it anticipate stronger-than-expected rental growth this year and next in prime...

Property consultancy Knight Frank is beefing up its super prime lettings team.  Amy Pritchard has joined as Senior Lettings Negotiator in the...

Rental value growth in prime London postcodes declined further in August as supply built and demand cooled.  That’s the view of high...

Knight Frank has appointed a temporary head of lettings in what it calls its “strategically important” Chelsea office in London. Willow Bushnell...

A prominent figure in the London property world says landlords under increasing financial pressure are being more selective about the letting...

The long-awaited supply increase in the prime London lettings market is underway, says high-end agency Knight Frank.  The agency says the underlying...

London-focussed lettings and sales agency Chestertons has announced its second acquisition in six weeks and third of the year, having snapped...

A lettings agency dealing primarily with Prime Central London is reporting that tenancy renewal volumes are shooting upwards as renters stay...

The story of low supply in the prime London lettings market appears to be coming to an end, says Knight Frank. The...

Prime London’s housing market lacks its usual seasonal spring bounce with prices flat and transactions down, admits property data consultancy LonRes. And...

One of the high end lettings agencies dominating the prime London rental landscape says there’s no end in sight to the...

The number of lettings instructions in London has dropped since the start of the year.  Knight Frank says that compared to the...

The supply of lettings property is finally increasing says Knight Frank. The agency says that in London and elsewhere, mortgage rates and...

Agency launches dedicated lettings team for rejuvenated London area Savills has launched a dedicated residential lettings office in an area of prime...

London-focussed agency chain Dexters says it now has some 10,000 enquiries a year for its rental relocation service. It has 30,000 landlords...

A new analysis by agency and property consultancy JLL has revealed which borough within Prime Central London has the highest concentration...

New figures released after Christmas by Knight Frank show that the number of new prospective tenants is 26.7 per cent above...

The latest high end agency to predict the mainstream market next year is Strutt & Parker - and it’s less downbeat...

Savills is the latest agency to suggest significant house price falls next year - although in its long-range forecast it says...

Knight Frank’s latest market report for Prime London locations suggests that stock levels remain low by historical standards, with the number...

Prime London rental growth reached 14.0 per cent in the year to the end of September according to Savills, but the...

Knight Frank has appointed Sofia Lira Salas as head of lettings in its Hyde Park office in Prime Central London. Salas joined...

Prime London agency Russell Simpson has announced Ed Woolgar as its new head of lettings, after 18 years of work in...

Buy to let and other investors hoping for a rapid recovery in the prime central London market are likely to be...

Knight Frank says the steep increases in rents seen in prime London recently are now calming down. Rental values hit their low point...

Rental growth continues to roar ahead across prime areas of London, according to Savills. Prime London rental values increased a further 3.3...

The Prime Central London lettings market continues to see rents rise as stock levels remain low, says property consultancy JLL. The low...

Knight Frank says a frustrating period for tenants looks likely to continue this summer in the prime London lettings market.  While supply...

A senior lettings chief says the supply drought is making the rental market as overheated now as at any time in...

Rental values in prime areas of London are now nine per cent higher than they before the pandemic, with Knight Frank...

Rents in prime areas of London are nine per cent higher today than before the pandemic according to Knight Frank.  The high...

The small number of rental properties listed on websites and portals as Price on Application have now been deemed illegal by...

Rents in prime areas of London are rocketing at an annual level of 22.5 per cent according to LonRes.  Despite the falls...

Rental values in London and the Home Counties have climbed to five per cent above their pre-pandemic level in March 2020,...

A generally upbeat trading statement from franchise agency giant Winkworth reports that prime London’s rental market’s long term return to normality...

Rents in London are now rising as steeply as they were falling at the start of the year according to Knight...

A trading statement from franchise agency Winkworth has revealed that its network now derives 75 per cent of its revenue from...

Rental growth in prime areas of London has climbed to multi-year highs according to new data from Knight Frank.  While only a...

A lettings agency with links to Saudi Arabian investors has produced a case study of how faith is returning to the long...

A new trend developing in prime central London suggests that tenants are demanding smaller properties - and that’s despite the pandemic...

The lettings market in London and the Home Counties continued its journey back towards normality in July according to data from...

Demand continues to build in prime lettings markets in London and the Home Counties, with Knight Frank data showing the number...

The prime London rental market is still in the doldrums but the rent falls are less pronounced than before.  Knight Frank says...

High-end lettings agency Knight Frank says there’s been a huge loss of houses available for renters in prime London in the...

Average rents in prime central London declined 14.3 per cent in the year to March - but one agency reckons that may be...

Central London’s prime rental market is witnessing a wave of enquiries from tenants wanting to strike a deal according to a...

Knight Frank says the plummeting rents in prime central London have at least managed to attract a surge in the number...

A 24-year-old Chinese heiress has rented a property for what is said to be a record £1.55m a year.  The heiress, who...

A senior buying agent is warning that new regulations over the length of notice given to tenants is having an unexpected...

Average rents in prime central London fell 13 per cent in the year to January as over-supply still dominated the market, according...

Higher levels of supply and weaker demand have dominated prime London lettings markets this month says Knight Frank. This meant that average...

Knight Frank says it’s seeing tenants in the prime London niche reflecting the same trends as those in the wider property...

London Central Portfolio, an investment consultancy, says the capital’s prime central area is seeing a demographic change as younger British tenants...

Rents continue to fall in Prime Central London according to agency Knight Frank. After September’s data is taken into account the annual...

Data from Knight Frank suggests that average rental values in prime central London fell one per cent last month, taking the...

Knight Frank says one week in August saw the lettings market in London and the Home Counties hit a 10 year...

Uncertainty around the start of the academic year and pressure on corporate budgets means lettings activity has been lower than normal...

Strutt and Parker says the low level growth in the lettings market seen in prime central London in 2019 is being...

Another agent reports huge surge in supply of London properties to let Yesterday Chestertons reported a large rise in the supply of...

New and newly-refurbished properties are letting more readily as virtual viewings become more widespread during the lockdown. That’s the view of Knight...

Knight Frank is predicting that the number of tenancies agreed in the prime markets across London and the Home Counties in...

Growing demand and a shrinking supply of rental properties in prime central London has led to a 50 per cent surge...

One of the country’s leading buying agencies says buy to let is changing in prime central London, as corporate structures replace...

Knight Frank has released its latest rental market summary for London, and it paints a mixed picture. Firstly the number of properties...

The prime London lettings market has returned to growth after three years of falling rents, according to new five-year forecasts from...

Knight Frank forecasts cumulative rental growth of 11 per cent in prime outer London and 10 per cent in prime central...

The sales market in London continues to wreak havoc with agencies, as yesterday’s Foxtons story revealed, but one lettings agency is...

The Black Brick agency, which operates with high net worth clients, is forecasting that 2020 will see the arrival of a...

Knight Frank says the supply of new lettings properties in prime central London is likely to slow - and as a...

A new report from Knight Frank shows how the country’s most expensive lettings market - prime central London - has boomed. The...

Rents across prime central London have been roughly flat over the past year - although yields are up as a result...

Knight Frank says the number of new prospective tenants registering for prime central London properties in the second quarter of this...

The supply of lettings property has begun to increase in higher price brackets in prime central London, leading rents to fall...

A relatively new firm in the crowded central London buying agency market is expanding into property management. Aykroyd & Co was launched...

There’s been a dramatic 37 per cent rise in rental instructions for prime properties in the capital during the first quarter...