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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...

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

Knight Frank is the latest agency to produce evidence that the lettings sector has rebounded in the four weeks since the...

Demand in the prime London lettings market is catching up with supply, reducing short-term downwards pressure on rental values. That’s the view...

High-end lettings agency Knight Frank says the lettings market “could explode quite quickly” when the lockdown ends. The agency says that in...

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...

Hello and here’s the latest daily update to help the industry through these unprecedented times.  If you have any appropriate advice you...

Knight Frank is reporting that tenants in high-value London markets are agreeing deals that allow them to delay the start of...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? My name is Jon Notley and I am the co-founder...

Labour’s London Mayor, Sadiq Khan, has put his call for powers to control private rents at the heart of his campaign...

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

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

A huge survey of students, seeking their views on accommodation, has ended with a question mark over the value for money...

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

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...

Property development and investment firm SevenCapital has released a top 10 league table of UK cities which it claims will perform...

Uncertainty around the UK's planned departure from the EU and the stability of the government is causing the super-rich to rent instead...

High end London estate agency Chestertons has signed up with Zero Deposits, one of the deposit replacement services expanding across the...

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

Cobbletons - a portal dedicated to advertising only prime off-market properties - has teamed up with the lettings division of high...

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...

The number of film-related enquiries for short lets received by Knight Frank in the year to May has shown a rise...

A new white-labelled outsourced lettings management service is launching today, claiming to undercut all rivals. F%ur - a brand from 4percentproperty -...

The chairman of Hunters estate agency, who is also a Conservative MP, has hit out at the government over its handling...

Despite criticism from some within the industry about the effects of short lets, the high-end agency Knight Frank has spoken of...

A record number of tenancies have been agreed above £5,000 per week in London during the first four months of the...

Student demand for places across the UK - and therefore for accommodation - is holding up well despite Brexit uncertainty, according...

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’s student accommodation partner has given the thumbs up to new figures suggesting a surge in overseas and domestic students...

High-end lettings agency Knight Frank is predicting that £75 billion of investment will be committed to the Build To Rent sector...

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

There’s been a big rise in the volume of purpose-built student accommodation in the UK, suggesting that the market may be...

A leading PropTech entrepreneur says letting agents must provide value for their landlord clients through technology, transparency and service if they...

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

The UK’s student accommodation sector is still booming according to Knight Frank, despite Brexit creating uncertainty over the future of foreign...

High end lettings agency Knight Frank says the proportion of properties listed for rent in prime London residential markets in October...

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

The growth in tenancies agreed in London’s super-prime sector has slowed sharply from 20 per cent earlier this year to just...

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

Three London lettings sub-markets performed relatively weakly according to data just released by Knight Frank. Wimbledon’s rental values fell 1.5 per cent...

More independent lettings agencies - Anthony Pepe, Let Leeds and Alexander & Co (formerly kaleidoscope Group) - have signed up to...

A top London letting agent working for Knight Frank has commented on the 'irony' that the government's series of tax changes...

High end agency Knight Frank is reorganising a regional lettings division in a bid to create a ‘hub’ system which should...

Data from Knight Frank’s lettings division suggests that rents in the troubled Prime Central London area have risen for the second...

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

A newly built, boutique development of eight luxury Build To Rent apartments has come to the market in uber-fashionable Shoreditch, east...

Knight Frank says prime central London rents have fallen on a quarterly basis for the 28th consecutive month - a record. The...

Average rental values in prime central London fell 2.1 per cent in the year to February according to Knight Frank -...

The ZPG-backed Zero Deposit scheme, one of a number now existing putting forward an alternative to traditional deposits, has announced four...

Average rents in prime central London fell 2.4 per cent year-on-year in November, which was the most modest decline recorded in...

Knight Frank says average rents are to rise by 14 per cent between the start of next year and the end...

The search arm of Knight Frank, The Buying Solution, has a new recruit to handle both rental and sales clients in...

A report on progress into the Suzy Lamplugh Trust’s new code - introduced precisely a year ago - suggests more still...

The story of falling sale prices in prime central London has become familiar in the past year; now Knight Frank reports...

The typical rent of a prime Home Counties property rose by 1.2 per cent in the third quarter of this year,...

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

Knight Frank has recruited Neil Cunningham to become head of South West London and Home Counties lettings, overseeing the performance of...

Activity in the super prime London market, where tenants are prepared to pay £5,000 or more per week for a home,...

Letting agents need to modernise and digitise to prepare for a surge in the size of the private rental sector according...

Knight Frank is warning that changes to regulatory supervision of the European Central Bank could, if they went the wrong way,...

Rents in prime central London have dropped 4.4 per cent in the past year - although that annual drop is not...

Rents in prime central London are down 4.8 per cent in the past year according to Knight Frank - a slightly...

The pace of decreasing rental values in Prime Central London (PCL) has slowed, according to the latest data from Knight Frank. Average...

The proportion of households living in the Private Rented Sector (PRS) will rise to 24% over the next four years, according...

A property described as Europe’s largest rental co-living block, The Collective Old Oak in London’s Paddington, is up for sale with bids...

Only just over a week remains before the end of the formal consultation on the government’s proposal to ban letting fees...

Twenty agency groups have backed a call by the Association of Residential Letting Agents urging the government to extend or scrap its...

The number of prospective new tenants in the Home Counties over the first three months of the year has risen 15...

The fall in rents across prime central London’s lettings market are slowing according to Knight Frank. It claims rents have dropped 4.9...

Organisers of the Future:PropTech2017 conference on May 4 have revealed new sponsors involved with the event - including Angels Media, publisher...

Prime rents in the Home Counties dipped 0.8 per cent last year, but with the speed of fall appearing to be...

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

Rents have fallen in prime central London for every month for the past year and tenants now have the whip hand,...

There has been a 25 per cent rise in the number of prime central London tenancies according to Knight Frank -...

New data produced by Knight Frank shows that the number of tenancies agreed in August this year was the highest on...

Data from London agency Portico suggests rents dipped 1.7 per cent during the May to July period, covering six weeks leading up...

The chief executive of a new organisation servicing the fast-growing British Build To Rent sector says he hopes in time BTR...

Institutional investment in purpose built student accommodation has 'polarised' the market, according to Knight Frank's head of student housing. James Pullen says...

VanHan, the prime London agency run by Rory Penn and Thomas van Straubenzee, has set up a lettings and management division...

Knight Frank says Britain’s fast-developing Build To Rent sector may be worth £50 billion by 2020. BTR - which is an umnbrella...

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

The scores are in - we have asked 20 senior agents and analysts for their forecasts for capital values the 2016...

Funding by large-scale investors into Britain’s burgeoning Build To Rent sector is set to triple by 2020 according to Knight Frank.  The...

One of the biggest surveys of tenants in the private rental sector shows that a narrow majority favour a six month...

The private rented sector is becoming an increasingly diverse place. Its growth into the UK's second largest form of housing has...

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

An interesting point of view from a young sales negotiator working for Spicerhaart, whose chief executive Paul Smith recently wrote an...

It seems like every day there’s a new article about On The Market. Usually it consists something Zoopla have said, followed...