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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...

Rightmove says the number of available rental properties is currently 14% higher than this time last year, while tenant demand is...

The low supply of rental homes continues to put upward pressure on rents, reports Hamptons.   The average tenant paid £1,347 pcm to...

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...

London’s rental market has weakened in recent months according to the fledgling online service Hello Neighbour. Rents are 1% down compared to...

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

A third of homes currently for sale can be bought with a mortgage and monthly repayments that cost less than the...

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

The average gross rental yield reported by landlords has reached the highest level since the second quarter of 2018, according to...

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 return of pent-up demand and mortgage rates falling below five per cent have boosted the start of the year for...

Knight Frank has revised its housing market forecasts for 2024, just two weeks into the new year. It’s done this on the...

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

The lettings market shows little sign of slowing as rents rose 11.7 per cent year-on-year across Britain in October, says the...

Normality appeared on the horizon in the prime London rental market in October according to high end agency Knight Frank.  Average rents...

Annual rental growth across remained in double-digits during September, with the average cost of a new let up 11.7 per cent...

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

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

The average rate of annual rental growth on a newly let property in Britain hit 12.0 per cent in August, the...

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

There are few signs that the pace of rental growth is slackening, warns Hamptons. It says the cost of a new tenancy...

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

New research shows a 41 per cent reduction in the number of London properties available for private rent since the Covid-19...

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

A lettings agency claims eviction powers may actually increase - not reduce - thanks to the controversial Renters Reform Bill. Knight Frank...

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

Hamptons says rental growth across Britain in March posted its third ever double-digit increase since the agency records began almost a...

Rents across Great Britain hit another record high in February, averaging £1,230 pcm for a newly let home.   The figure - which...

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

Rents across Greater London are up 21 per cent year-on-year according to the Home property website, which prepares a mon they...

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

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

Annual rental growth strengthened for the third month running, with average rents up 7.9 per cent across Britain on the same...

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

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

Low supply has kept rental growth high - and it’s unlikely to slow any time soon. Knight Frank says it expects stock...

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

London rents are rising at a record pace with growth being driven by tenants returning from outside the capital.   That’s the suggestion...

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...

Winkworth has told its shareholders that the rental market is to boom - a lot. “In lettings we anticipate that prices will...

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

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

For the first time since January 2020, rents in Inner London rose on an annual basis - they were up 3.9...

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

Average annual rental growth across Britain hit 8.0 per cent in September, the third fastest annual rate of growth recorded this...

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

The rental sector bounce back in London and the Home Counties is now underway according to Knight Frank. The agency forecasts rental...

Record tenant demand and record-fast lettings have combined to create an average asking rent above £1,000 per calendar month for homes...

Connells-owned high end agency Hamptons has declared the bottom of the rental market for Inner London, saying it’s now on the...

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...

Despite rent controls being a vote-catching policy for some local election candidates next week, the reality is that asking rents in...

Booming demand for homes in commuter zones and well-connected towns is causing a mini-boom in the lettings market. That’s the view of...

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

London rents have started to fall again - just as every other region of Britain is showing significant annual increases. Figures for...

Winkworth says its London rental activities have suffered because of a lack of international travel, and students and young professionals returning to...

London lettings and estate agency Benham and Reeves has calculated a league table of the most popular postcodes in the capital...

The rate of rental growth picked up for the sixth month running according to lettings agency Hamptons.  Across Great Britain rents rose 4.3...

The fall out from Coronavirus is forcing the rental market into a once in a lifetime change as tenants reassess priorities. This...

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

A new lettings market snapshot from Rightmove suggests that asking rents in some major city centres have seen annual falls up...

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

There is mounting evidence that rental growth is picking up steam, according to the latest analysis by Countrywide brand Hamptons. Average rents...

It appears the much-hyped exodus of people from London to the country doesn’t apply to the rental market. Despite rents falling in...

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...

New data from Hamptons International reveals that in June the average rent on a newly let property in Britain dipped 0.6...

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

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

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

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

Latest lettings market data from high-end agency Knight Frank shows that average rents in prime central London rose 1.1 per cent...

Rent in London is the most expensive in Europe for expats, new research shows. The UK capital’s rent averages US$7,189 - that’s...

Data from Knight Frank shows that annual rental values actually grew in parts of prime outer London last month for the...

Knight Frank has given an upbeat snapshot of the lettings market in Prime Central London, based mostly on higher rental growth...

Knight Frank has issued a relatively upbeat assessment of the prime London lettings market as the year draws to a close.  Firstly...

The number of lettings listings in prime central London fell 18 per cent in the year to September, says Knight Frank. The...

Knight Frank says the annual rental value growth has returned to prime central London due to declining supply levels - the...

There’s been a huge 15 per cent slump in the number of properties to let in prime central London over the...

The National Landlords’ Association is reporting that around 16 per cent of its members in outer London have reduced rents over...

Graduates sharing in London spend upwards of 45 per cent of their monthly take home pay on accommodation according to a...

Political uncertainty across the UK and increased restrictions on buy to let are leading many landlords to raise rents and review...

Buy to let investors are losing confidence in their ability to rely on steady rental yields, according to recent figures from...

Asking rents rose 3.0 per cent outside of London in 2016 - but will rise 4.0 per cent in 2017. That’s the...

Rents are rising faster in northern cities than those in the south, narrowing the divide between the two halves of the...

Latest figures from London lettings agency Portico suggest a slight fall in rents but the firm is now claiming that it...

Much publicity has been given to the Resolution Foundation’s report into falling home ownership - but the flip side is that...

A buy to let index of returns compiled by a financial firm shows the greatest returns for investors are now to...

The Romans Group has moved into London’s zone 6 by acquiring Bennett Residential agency in Uxbridge. Established in 1988, Bennett Residential handles...

Peer-to-peer lender Lendinvest, using data from Zoopla and the Land Registry, says Manchester, Liverpool, Cardiff, Coventry and Oldham produce the highest...

Around 40 per cent of landlords are reporting an increase in tenant demand in their area in the past three months. A...

High-end estate agent Knight Frank is forecasting that rents will rise by between 12.1 per cent and 17.1 per cent by...