Average rents in prime central London fell 13 per cent in the year to January as over-supply still dominated the market, according...
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04 February 2021
From: Breaking News

The 60-branch London focussed agency chain Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward is the latest agency to invest in Zero Deposit. The firm joins Andrews,...
28 January 2021
From: Breaking News

Higher levels of supply and weaker demand have dominated prime London lettings markets this month says Knight Frank. This meant that average...
23 December 2020
From: Breaking News

One of the largest players in the Build To Rent sector, Legal & General, says it’s to have a second significant...
17 December 2020
From: Breaking News

Knight Frank says it’s seeing tenants in the prime London niche reflecting the same trends as those in the wider property...
03 December 2020
From: Breaking News

Staying on top of the numbers and figures in a constantly changing industry can be stressful. Changing property prices can be...
28 October 2020
From: Proptech & Innovation

Deposit alternative service Zero Deposit has revealed significant new investment as its founder - ex-Zoopla commercial director Jon Notley - takes a...
13 October 2020
From: Breaking News

Rents continue to fall in Prime Central London according to agency Knight Frank. After September’s data is taken into account the annual...
09 October 2020
From: Breaking News

Data from Knight Frank suggests that average rental values in prime central London fell one per cent last month, taking the...
14 September 2020
From: Breaking News

Knight Frank says one week in August saw the lettings market in London and the Home Counties hit a 10 year...
02 September 2020
From: Breaking News

Uncertainty around the start of the academic year and pressure on corporate budgets means lettings activity has been lower than normal...
07 August 2020
From: Breaking News

Another agent reports huge surge in supply of London properties to let Yesterday Chestertons reported a large rise in the supply of...
08 July 2020
From: Breaking News

Knight Frank is the latest agency to produce evidence that the lettings sector has rebounded in the four weeks since the...
11 June 2020
From: Breaking News

Demand in the prime London lettings market is catching up with supply, reducing short-term downwards pressure on rental values. That’s the view...
05 June 2020
From: Breaking News

High-end lettings agency Knight Frank says the lettings market “could explode quite quickly” when the lockdown ends. The agency says that in...
20 April 2020
From: Breaking News

New and newly-refurbished properties are letting more readily as virtual viewings become more widespread during the lockdown. That’s the view of Knight...
16 April 2020
From: Breaking News

Knight Frank is predicting that the number of tenancies agreed in the prime markets across London and the Home Counties in...
06 April 2020
From: Breaking News

Hello and here’s the latest daily update to help the industry through these unprecedented times. If you have any appropriate advice you...
03 April 2020
From: Breaking News

Knight Frank is reporting that tenants in high-value London markets are agreeing deals that allow them to delay the start of...
31 March 2020
From: Breaking News

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? My name is Jon Notley and I am the co-founder...
12 March 2020
From: 60 Second Interview

Labour’s London Mayor, Sadiq Khan, has put his call for powers to control private rents at the heart of his campaign...
04 March 2020
From: Breaking News

Growing demand and a shrinking supply of rental properties in prime central London has led to a 50 per cent surge...
02 March 2020
From: Breaking News

Knight Frank has released its latest rental market summary for London, and it paints a mixed picture. Firstly the number of properties...
04 February 2020
From: Breaking News

A huge survey of students, seeking their views on accommodation, has ended with a question mark over the value for money...
03 January 2020
From: Breaking News

Knight Frank forecasts cumulative rental growth of 11 per cent in prime outer London and 10 per cent in prime central...
30 December 2019
From: Breaking News

Knight Frank says the supply of new lettings properties in prime central London is likely to slow - and as a...
07 November 2019
From: Breaking News

A new report from Knight Frank shows how the country’s most expensive lettings market - prime central London - has boomed. The...
31 October 2019
From: Breaking News

Property development and investment firm SevenCapital has released a top 10 league table of UK cities which it claims will perform...
18 October 2019
From: Breaking News

Uncertainty around the UK's planned departure from the EU and the stability of the government is causing the super-rich to rent instead...
09 October 2019
From: Breaking News

High end London estate agency Chestertons has signed up with Zero Deposits, one of the deposit replacement services expanding across the...
26 September 2019
From: Breaking News

Rents across prime central London have been roughly flat over the past year - although yields are up as a result...
06 September 2019
From: Breaking News

Cobbletons - a portal dedicated to advertising only prime off-market properties - has teamed up with the lettings division of high...
03 September 2019
From: Breaking News

Knight Frank says the number of new prospective tenants registering for prime central London properties in the second quarter of this...
31 July 2019
From: Breaking News

The supply of lettings property has begun to increase in higher price brackets in prime central London, leading rents to fall...
25 July 2019
From: Breaking News

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
From: Breaking News

A new white-labelled outsourced lettings management service is launching today, claiming to undercut all rivals. F%ur - a brand from 4percentproperty -...
15 July 2019
From: Breaking News

The chairman of Hunters estate agency, who is also a Conservative MP, has hit out at the government over its handling...
12 July 2019
From: Breaking News

Despite criticism from some within the industry about the effects of short lets, the high-end agency Knight Frank has spoken of...
20 June 2019
From: Breaking News

A record number of tenancies have been agreed above £5,000 per week in London during the first four months of the...
11 June 2019
From: Breaking News

Student demand for places across the UK - and therefore for accommodation - is holding up well despite Brexit uncertainty, according...
25 April 2019
From: Breaking News

Latest lettings market data from high-end agency Knight Frank shows that average rents in prime central London rose 1.1 per cent...
01 April 2019
From: Breaking News

Data from Knight Frank shows that annual rental values actually grew in parts of prime outer London last month for the...
06 March 2019
From: Breaking News

Knight Frank’s student accommodation partner has given the thumbs up to new figures suggesting a surge in overseas and domestic students...
08 February 2019
From: Breaking News

High-end lettings agency Knight Frank is predicting that £75 billion of investment will be committed to the Build To Rent sector...
06 February 2019
From: Breaking News

Knight Frank has given an upbeat snapshot of the lettings market in Prime Central London, based mostly on higher rental growth...
31 January 2019
From: Breaking News

There’s been a big rise in the volume of purpose-built student accommodation in the UK, suggesting that the market may be...
29 January 2019
From: Breaking News

A leading PropTech entrepreneur says letting agents must provide value for their landlord clients through technology, transparency and service if they...
03 January 2019
From: Breaking News

Knight Frank has issued a relatively upbeat assessment of the prime London lettings market as the year draws to a close. Firstly...
31 December 2018
From: Breaking News

The UK’s student accommodation sector is still booming according to Knight Frank, despite Brexit creating uncertainty over the future of foreign...
17 December 2018
From: Breaking News

High end lettings agency Knight Frank says the proportion of properties listed for rent in prime London residential markets in October...
12 December 2018
From: Breaking News

The number of lettings listings in prime central London fell 18 per cent in the year to September, says Knight Frank. The...
13 November 2018
From: Breaking News

The growth in tenancies agreed in London’s super-prime sector has slowed sharply from 20 per cent earlier this year to just...
16 October 2018
From: Breaking News

Knight Frank says the annual rental value growth has returned to prime central London due to declining supply levels - the...
04 October 2018
From: Breaking News

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...
27 September 2018
From: Breaking News

More independent lettings agencies - Anthony Pepe, Let Leeds and Alexander & Co (formerly kaleidoscope Group) - have signed up to...
11 September 2018
From: Breaking News

A top London letting agent working for Knight Frank has commented on the 'irony' that the government's series of tax changes...
31 August 2018
From: Breaking News

High end agency Knight Frank is reorganising a regional lettings division in a bid to create a ‘hub’ system which should...
30 August 2018
From: Breaking News

Data from Knight Frank’s lettings division suggests that rents in the troubled Prime Central London area have risen for the second...
01 August 2018
From: Breaking News

There’s been a huge 15 per cent slump in the number of properties to let in prime central London over the...
04 June 2018
From: Breaking News

A newly built, boutique development of eight luxury Build To Rent apartments has come to the market in uber-fashionable Shoreditch, east...
04 May 2018
From: Breaking News

Knight Frank says prime central London rents have fallen on a quarterly basis for the 28th consecutive month - a record. The...
07 March 2018
From: Breaking News

Average rental values in prime central London fell 2.1 per cent in the year to February according to Knight Frank -...
05 March 2018
From: Breaking News

The ZPG-backed Zero Deposit scheme, one of a number now existing putting forward an alternative to traditional deposits, has announced four...
01 March 2018
From: Breaking News

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
From: Breaking News

Knight Frank says average rents are to rise by 14 per cent between the start of next year and the end...
06 December 2017
From: Breaking News

The search arm of Knight Frank, The Buying Solution, has a new recruit to handle both rental and sales clients in...
05 December 2017
From: Breaking News

A report on progress into the Suzy Lamplugh Trust’s new code - introduced precisely a year ago - suggests more still...
17 November 2017
From: Breaking News

The story of falling sale prices in prime central London has become familiar in the past year; now Knight Frank reports...
10 November 2017
From: Breaking News

The typical rent of a prime Home Counties property rose by 1.2 per cent in the third quarter of this year,...
25 October 2017
From: Breaking News

Average rental values fell three per cent in the year to September 2017 according to Knight Frank. This decline is the smallest...
11 October 2017
From: Breaking News

Knight Frank has recruited Neil Cunningham to become head of South West London and Home Counties lettings, overseeing the performance of...
03 August 2017
From: Breaking News

Activity in the super prime London market, where tenants are prepared to pay £5,000 or more per week for a home,...
18 July 2017
From: Breaking News

Letting agents need to modernise and digitise to prepare for a surge in the size of the private rental sector according...
14 July 2017
From: Breaking News

Knight Frank is warning that changes to regulatory supervision of the European Central Bank could, if they went the wrong way,...
04 July 2017
From: Breaking News

Rents in prime central London have dropped 4.4 per cent in the past year - although that annual drop is not...
04 July 2017
From: Breaking News

Rents in prime central London are down 4.8 per cent in the past year according to Knight Frank - a slightly...
20 June 2017
From: Breaking News

The pace of decreasing rental values in Prime Central London (PCL) has slowed, according to the latest data from Knight Frank. Average...
16 June 2017
From: Breaking News

The proportion of households living in the Private Rented Sector (PRS) will rise to 24% over the next four years, according...
13 June 2017
From: Breaking News

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...
02 June 2017
From: Breaking News

Only just over a week remains before the end of the formal consultation on the government’s proposal to ban letting fees...
25 May 2017
From: Breaking News

Twenty agency groups have backed a call by the Association of Residential Letting Agents urging the government to extend or scrap its...
26 April 2017
From: Breaking News

The number of prospective new tenants in the Home Counties over the first three months of the year has risen 15...
24 April 2017
From: Breaking News

The fall in rents across prime central London’s lettings market are slowing according to Knight Frank. It claims rents have dropped 4.9...
06 April 2017
From: Breaking News

Organisers of the Future:PropTech2017 conference on May 4 have revealed new sponsors involved with the event - including Angels Media, publisher...
24 February 2017
From: Breaking News

Prime rents in the Home Counties dipped 0.8 per cent last year, but with the speed of fall appearing to be...
18 January 2017
From: Breaking News

The dramatic slump in the prime central London sales market is now leading to a reduction in rents being achieved in...
07 December 2016
From: Breaking News

Rents have fallen in prime central London for every month for the past year and tenants now have the whip hand,...
14 November 2016
From: Breaking News

There has been a 25 per cent rise in the number of prime central London tenancies according to Knight Frank -...
09 November 2016
From: Breaking News

New data produced by Knight Frank shows that the number of tenancies agreed in August this year was the highest on...
10 October 2016
From: Breaking News

Data from London agency Portico suggests rents dipped 1.7 per cent during the May to July period, covering six weeks leading up...
04 August 2016
From: Breaking News

The chief executive of a new organisation servicing the fast-growing British Build To Rent sector says he hopes in time BTR...
01 July 2016
From: Breaking News

Institutional investment in purpose built student accommodation has 'polarised' the market, according to Knight Frank's head of student housing. James Pullen says...
23 May 2016
From: Breaking News

VanHan, the prime London agency run by Rory Penn and Thomas van Straubenzee, has set up a lettings and management division...
18 May 2016
From: Breaking News

Knight Frank says Britain’s fast-developing Build To Rent sector may be worth £50 billion by 2020. BTR - which is an umnbrella...
13 January 2016
From: Breaking News

Falling demand from financial services sector employees has seen the annual rental value growth in prime central London ease back to...
04 January 2016
From: Breaking News

The scores are in - we have asked 20 senior agents and analysts for their forecasts for capital values the 2016...
16 December 2015
From: Breaking News

Funding by large-scale investors into Britain’s burgeoning Build To Rent sector is set to triple by 2020 according to Knight Frank. The...
09 December 2015
From: Breaking News

One of the biggest surveys of tenants in the private rental sector shows that a narrow majority favour a six month...
08 December 2015
From: Breaking News

The private rented sector is becoming an increasingly diverse place. Its growth into the UK's second largest form of housing has...
15 September 2015
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High-end estate agent Knight Frank is forecasting that rents will rise by between 12.1 per cent and 17.1 per cent by...
19 August 2015
From: Breaking News

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