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OnTheMarket has launched a new report giving details of real-time lettings activity in local markets across the country. OTM says that there;’s...
15 August 2024
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An insurance firm’s analysis of official figures show there are now no fewer than 760,821 vacant properties in England, Scotland and...
02 July 2024
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Property data consultancy LonRes has named five winners in its so-called ‘Let Of The Year’ awards. The London-focussed consultancy has revealed the...
25 June 2024
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Londoners looking to buy a home can expect to spend 42% more on monthly mortgage payments than tenants pay on rent,...
16 May 2024
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Boutique Knightsbridge estate agency Nicolas Van Patrick (NVP) has acquired Chelsea lettings and management company HLR. HLR was established in 1986, growing...
09 May 2024
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A boutique agency with branches in prime central and south west London has expanded its lettings operation by acquiring two agencies...
25 March 2024
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Knight Frank has appointed Louna Del Barrio as lettings associate in a key London office. Del Barrio comes to Knight Frank following...
20 February 2024
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New research shows there are 36,210 long-term vacant homes across London - that’s around one in every 100 properties. The borough in...
26 January 2024
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Rents across the UK continue to retreat from their 2023 highs, falling by 2.9 per cent over the last three months,...
16 January 2024
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An agency which currently has £350m of property under management and boasts a 98 per cent client retention rate, has opened...
09 January 2024
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A series of lenders have slashed their buy to let mortgage rates in a bid to win business. These include: - LendInvest Mortgages...
08 January 2024
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Low-income renters will get a boost next spring - but a pressure group wants more government help for this sector. The Chancellor’s...
12 December 2023
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Knight Frank’s Marylebone residential office has welcomed Luke Hewens as Head of Lettings. Hewens began his property career as lettings negotiator in...
09 November 2023
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One of the players in the controversial Deposit Alternative field is stepping up its case for this kind of service to...
25 October 2023
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Tenants in Bristol are paying 41 per cent more for a rental property than they did just five years ago, it...
05 October 2023
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Property consultancy Knight Frank is beefing up its super prime lettings team. Amy Pritchard has joined as Senior Lettings Negotiator in the...
29 September 2023
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Knight Frank has appointed a temporary head of lettings in what it calls its “strategically important” Chelsea office in London. Willow Bushnell...
22 August 2023
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Professional cleaning firm Prompt Cleaners has created a league table of regions and local authorities where renting is cheapest and dearest. The...
16 August 2023
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The long-awaited supply increase in the prime London lettings market is underway, says high-end agency Knight Frank. The agency says the underlying...
09 August 2023
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A lettings agency claims foreign homeowners are sitting on £84.2 billion worth of property across England and Wales - but with...
14 July 2023
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London letting agents and landlords have so far been hit with more than £900,000 in fines in the first half of...
05 July 2023
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The story of low supply in the prime London lettings market appears to be coming to an end, says Knight Frank. The...
30 June 2023
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Moneyfacts, the respected independent mortgage market monitor, is warning that lenders have been withdrawing buy to let fixed deals. Within the buy...
31 May 2023
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A London-focused lettings agency says actual rents in the capital are far greater than official average figures produced by the government. Benham...
28 April 2023
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Agency launches dedicated lettings team for rejuvenated London area Savills has launched a dedicated residential lettings office in an area of prime...
31 January 2023
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A young family have started 2023 in their new permanent home after a London council recovered the property from an illegal...
20 January 2023
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A new analysis by agency and property consultancy JLL has revealed which borough within Prime Central London has the highest concentration...
12 January 2023
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The number of long-term empty homes has risen in every region of the UK during 2022 according to new government figures. The...
24 November 2022
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Foxtons has issued a welcome statement to its new chief executive as it seeks to return to past glories. Guy Gittins -...
06 September 2022
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Prime London agency Russell Simpson has announced Ed Woolgar as its new head of lettings, after 18 years of work in...
24 August 2022
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Buy to let and other investors hoping for a rapid recovery in the prime central London market are likely to be...
05 August 2022
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A high profile London lettings agency says some owners of properties in prime areas of the capital have seen capital appreciation...
21 July 2022
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Some parts of London have recorded over 50 per cent of sales as second or additional properties. Research by lending firm Octane...
01 July 2022
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Labour’s Sadiq Khan wants an increase in Capital Gains Tax for some buy to let investors. The London Mayor made his response...
31 May 2022
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A new market snapshot puts the average rental rise across the UK at a remarkable 18 per cent over the past...
16 May 2022
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A rental platform has revealed the wide disparity in rents to the north and south of the Thames in London, and...
16 February 2022
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Central London rents are now 7.5 per cent higher than pre-pandemic levels. A detailed analysis of just 100 properties by property consultancy...
21 January 2022
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London-based block and facilities services provider SBA Property Management has acquired management agency Paul Samuel Associates. A specialist property management firm with...
17 January 2022
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A little-known law may require tenants to pay stamp duty on the rental properties they do not actually own. London lettings agency...
12 January 2022
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The London rental market stock surplus spurred by pandemic uncertainty has started to subside, with prime boroughs seeing some of the...
12 January 2022
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A leading market forecaster has described the level of rent rises in one part of the country as “going ballistic”. “The London...
24 December 2021
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The London agency Bective says the prime areas of the capital have enjoyed an eight per cent uplift in rental values...
16 December 2021
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Home, the property website that publishes an authoritative market snapshot for lettings and sales each month, says the long-standing supply drought...
16 November 2021
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The demand for London rental properties has increased by almost 60 per cent in the third quarter compared to the same...
10 November 2021
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Propertymark has told the government that imposing the same solution to the Net Zero challenge on all of the private rental...
22 October 2021
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Rapidly rising rents may trigger a new wave of investment buyers in London, helping to resuscitate the capital’s sales market in...
15 July 2021
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Rents in London have risen an average six per cent this year, a leading agency claims - and some areas are...
21 May 2021
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Fresh data from Knight Frank shows how uncertainty continues to dog the lettings market in some parts of central London. There appears...
19 May 2021
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Knight Frank is this year’s headline sponsor of the LandAid Sleep Out, one of the causes many in the industry support. This...
02 April 2021
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One of the London boroughs synonymous with wealth has revealed that 44 per cent of its housing stock is now actually...
01 April 2021
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Central London’s prime rental market is witnessing a wave of enquiries from tenants wanting to strike a deal according to a...
30 March 2021
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A lettings agency in central London has been issued with a fine for not belonging to a Client Money Protection scheme. The...
17 March 2021
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The fall out from Coronavirus is forcing the rental market into a once in a lifetime change as tenants reassess priorities. This...
09 February 2021
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Data from PropTech platform SpareRoom suggests that London’s typical room rent has dropped further, this time in response to the new...
21 January 2021
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The average cost of renting in England is almost unchanged from five years ago - although that masks significant localised variations. The...
18 November 2020
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Overseas and domestic students have returned to the Central London lettings market 'in force' so far this month, according to Dexters. The...
16 September 2020
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Zoopla has revealed its top 10 hotspots for buy to let investors seeking high rental yields. The analysis is based on rental returns...
10 September 2020
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Average room rents in the capital have dipped seven per cent compared to this time last year according to a flat-sharing...
22 June 2020
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New research suggested that yields across the UK rental market are remaining broadly unchanged despite the Coronavirus crisis. The current average sits...
11 May 2020
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Pressure group Generation Rent claims half of London’s councils did not fine any landlords for letting out unsafe homes in the...
06 March 2020
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Campaigning charity Shelter claims 135,000 children in Britain are homeless and living in temporary accommodation this Christmas - the highest number...
19 December 2019
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A trade body suggests that the votes of private landlords could decide the results in over 100 constituencies in next week’s...
03 December 2019
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The Property Ombudsman has announced a slew of expulsions after six agents failed to comply with redress rules. They failed to abide...
12 August 2019
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The number of film-related enquiries for short lets received by Knight Frank in the year to May has shown a rise...
22 July 2019
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New research shows that some buy to let investors in London could typically lose over £19,000 a year if Berlin-style rent...
19 June 2019
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The fierce competition in the lettings market in parts of London means that some tenants will feel no benefit from the...
28 May 2019
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A portal called Oneandonlypro says it’s using Artificial Intelligence to try to identify the top 10 best areas in London for...
23 May 2019
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Figures calculated by Rightmove suggest that even when the Fees Ban and Deposit Caps kick in on June 1, some deposits...
18 April 2019
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Rental growth remains in positive territory - just - but on average it’s still well below the general level of inflation...
09 April 2019
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Demand for room rentals in London is so high their average charge has risen two per cent in 2019 already, claims...
01 March 2019
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The lettings department of a central London independent agency is claiming its busiest January in some years. Russell Simpson, a family-run independent...
21 February 2019
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A flat-share website claims typical rents in some 38 per cent of London are now so high they render the areas...
11 February 2019
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Edinburgh has been identified as having the UK’s fastest growing rents with the average annual sum rising by 4.63 per cent...
27 December 2018
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A rental management firm has launched a new home-sharing platform which it says is aimed at everyone wanting a place to...
16 November 2018
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The UK's second city Birmingham takes top spot when it comes to student property returns for buy-to-let investors. Analysis by online letting...
07 September 2018
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Rents in London rose by 0.1 per cent in the 12 months to June - it’s the first annual rental increase...
06 July 2018
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A new analysis of rental yields across all of the UK’s local authorities has revealed exactly where the best places are for...
29 June 2018
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A PropTech firm has analysed London’s rental market and its results again spell bad news for those in the sector in...
19 June 2018
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Landlords exiting the market because of tax and red tape have led to “an acute shortage of available properties to rent”...
15 June 2018
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London landlords and letting agents could be missing out on up to £111 million of short-term rental revenue each year, according...
22 May 2018
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There’s been a huge 43 per cent rise in the number of London properties registered to be short let on Airbnb...
01 May 2018
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Some 43 per cent of all stamp duty comes from buy to let investors and holiday home purchasers - and almost...
10 April 2018
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A warning has come from a campaigning letting agent that London’s landlords agents could be costing themselves tenants by requiring them...
20 March 2018
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Average rents in prime central London fell 2.4 per cent year-on-year in November, which was the most modest decline recorded in...
07 December 2017
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Humberts, the country agency which raised eyebrows earlier this year by announcing it was to open an office in prime central...
17 October 2017
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Rokstone has launched a new lettings division, operating out of the firm’s existing Marylebone offices and covering both short and long term...
14 September 2017
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A London letting agency is opening a new branch thanks to continued high demand from EU nationals looking for rental property...
05 September 2017
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Knight Frank has recruited Neil Cunningham to become head of South West London and Home Counties lettings, overseeing the performance of...
03 August 2017
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Draker, which describes itself as the largest lettings-only agency in Kensington and Chelsea, has now expanded by opening a new office...
14 July 2017
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Pastor Real Estate, a long-standing agency operating in Mayfair and Monaco, is expanding its London activities. The boutique agency, which covers lettings and sales as...
03 July 2017
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Two board members of Shelter who have links with the Grenfell Towers fire tragedy have resigned, according to a report in...
26 June 2017
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Stoke-on-Trent has been named as the UK's buy-to-let 'sweet spot'. Analysis of data from Home.co.uk by property crowdfunding plaform Property Partner shows...
19 June 2017
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The landlord of a west London property, described by a judge as a "deathtrap" and an "accident waiting to happen", has...
03 May 2017
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Kensington & Chelsea council in central London has set up a series of hotline services and a working party to investigate...
19 April 2017
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A property management service claims there has been an “explosion” in the number of short lets undertaken through Airbnb and similar...
26 October 2016
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The landlord of an overcrowded flat which lacked proper fire precautions and had a dangerous boiler has been fined £162,000. Abbas Rasul...
17 October 2016
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A London landlord who failed to comply with an Improvement Notice to maintain his property for his tenants has a £4,000-plus...
04 October 2016
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A BBC investigation claims that people living in the private rental sector spend more than a third of their disposable income...