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

The Bank of England has cut base rate from 5.25% to 5.0% - its first cut in four years. It was a...

Leading property players and analysts suggest that the lacklustre housing market figures produced by the Halifax over the weekend owe more...

Knight Frank says the incoming Labour government faces a potential clash between what is politically desirable and economically possible, in terms...

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...

A prominent housing market analyst says people shouldn’t bother reading election literature but instead study interest rates if they want to...

Inflation figures are down - but not as much as many analysts expected. The basic Consumer Price Index figure fell from 3.2%...

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...

Propertymark is telling the Bank of England that now is the perfect time to cut base rate and trigger wider interest...

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

The Bank of England has kept its base rate at 5.25 per cent but markets forecast this will drop from the summer as...

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

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

Knight Frank has taken the unusual step of warning that Tory splits over Rwanda and immigration could force an early election...

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

A leading agency says the squeeze on tenants facing high rent rises is not going to end anytime soon. The comment -...

A prominent lettings and sales agency says there are four reasons why house prices won’t fall off a cliff, despite interest...

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

A prominent lettings agency has taken the unusual step of warning tenants that parties using the sector for political capital may...

The Bank of England has raised base rate by 0.25 per cent to 4.25 per cent - the highest level since...

“Optimism has survived another difficult month” says business consultancy Hargreaves Lansdown in response to the latest house price index.  Indeed, the industry...

Agents have spent the weekend insisting that the latest house price fall is not indicative of a crash - and may...

Just about every agency that has commented on yesterday’s Autumn Statement are in agreement - changes to Capital Gains Tax, Inheritance...

Knight Frank says it expects house prices to drop in the coming year - but only to those levels seen in...

A prominent research chief at a leading agency has repeated his claim that average UK house prices are set to drop...

The Knight Frank lettings and estate agency is warning that it expects house prices to fall in 2023. Tom Bill, its head...

Knight Frank is anticipating a “sprint for stock” in the lettings market as offices reopen and travel restrictions ease.  Tom Bill, Knight...

The number of international tenants searching for UK property has reached its highest level since before the pandemic. High end agency Knight...

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

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...

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...

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

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

Average rental values fell three per cent in the year to September 2017 according to Knight Frank.   This decline is the smallest...

The dramatic slump in the prime central London sales market is now leading to a reduction in rents being achieved in...

Falling demand from financial services sector employees has seen the annual rental value growth in prime central London ease back to...