A high-end letting agency claims London's rental industry is becoming more pet-friendly - and reveals that One Hyde Park has the capital's most unusual policy on tenant's animals.
Research by Chestertons shows that although 77 per cent of private tenants think that having a pet will adversely affect their chances of renting a property, and 76 per cent think it would be hard to find a landlord who would be accepting of a pet, the reverse is becoming the norm in London.
Chestertons, Knight Frank, Belvoir and Winkworth letting divisons are now all members of the Dogs Trust Lets with Pets' scheme, and a manager of an upmarket apartment block in Notting Hill interviews' dogs before issuing a tenancy to the pet-owning tenant.
But the best tail or all - sorry, tale of all - comes from the Candy & Candy posh palace at One Hyde Park. Residents there are allowed up to two pets, as long as their aggregate weight does not exceed 40 kilograms.
If you think this dog of a story is the work of a PR campaign, you are right - but there is an estate agency connection. The findings appear in the London Magazine, a monthly glossy dropped in to homes in prime central London and connected with CLEA Ltd (Central London Estate Agents).
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