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The Prime Central London lettings market is returning to normality, a prominent agency says. JLL says average rents fell 1.4% between Q4...

A seasoned lettings expert has been taken on to boost the success of an agency branch in Surrey. James Clarke, with 25...

The UK's rental market is experiencing a slowdown says a lettings chief. Nicky Stevenson, Managing Director of Fine & Country notes that...

It feels as though the UK housing market is waiting for something to happen. The prevailing mood is one of anticipation with...

Curchods is making a bid to expand its activities in the high end Surrey market with a rebrand of its latest...

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 ticked up 0.3% over the first three months of 2024, according to Savills, as the market continues...

A boutique agency with branches in prime central and south west London has expanded its lettings operation by acquiring two agencies...

A prominent lettings agent is calling for an end to what he calls the “archaic” system under which some tenants end...

February saw significant improvements in activity across the prime London lettings market, and annual rental growth also increased slightly after four...

A former housing minister responsible for the sell off of huge numbers of social homes has told the Prime Minister he...

The Chancellor has used his Budget to confirm a 2p cut in National Insurance, from April 6. This will take it...

A prominent property expert who runs a buying and property management service for high end clients says London still attracts international...

Data released today from Foxtons has found that the number of new instructions in January 2024 was 25 per cent higher...

Rental growth across prime London slowed again in January, with average rents falling on a monthly basis for the third time...

A pressure group unhappy about lack of progress on the Renters Reform Bill wants MPs to be bombarded with complaint emails.  Over...

The government has done a U-turn on its original policy to relax HMO regulations on private rental properties used by asylum...

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

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

Savills says prime rental growth across London and the country has stalled for the first time in almost three years. In prime...

Rents across the UK continue to retreat from their 2023 highs, falling by 2.9 per cent over the last three months,...

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

High end lettings agency Savills has appointed a new head of residential lettings for its offices in Beaconsfield and Amersham. Daniel Spratley...

The UK rental market is experiencing a gradual easing in demand, marking a shift from the peak levels witnessed in recent...

Self employed agency brand Harding Green, which majors on London and prime country markets, says it’s grown significantly in the lettings...

An agency which currently has £350m of property under management and boasts a 98 per cent client retention rate, has opened...

Lomond has more than doubled its footprint spanning the South Coast after a major deal involving a 10 branch agency, Beal's. Beal’s employs...

Newspaper report claims some 710 properties have been put into the private rental market by the government - and they are...

Lomond has announced one more acquisition in the North West of England - the 17th it has completed in the region...

Strutt & Parker’s London New Homes staff attribute 50 per cent of their market this year as dollar-based - 30 per...

LonRes says rents in prime London are still rising but the rate of rental growth has slowed to two-year low. That took...

Former housing minister Rachel Maclean - the victim of a shock sacking by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak last month - has...

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

Next year will see “a strong resurgence” in the rental market, a leading agent predicts. Nicky Stevenson, Managing Director of Fine &...

A prominent London buying agent and property consultant says the slowly improving supply of rental property means more tenants are now...

More multi-millionaires and billionaires are choosing to rent super-prime homes in London, rather than purchase, reveals a new wealth report Beauchamp Estates’...

Savills is warning that despite strong income growth, rising rents are stretching the finances of those in the private rental sector.  Savills...

Lomond has consolidated its growing foothold in the lettings sector after sealing its biggest acquisition to date in the Midlands. In what...

Affordability limits have been reached in several regions of the UK, the Home property website suggests. While some regions are still recording...

Knight Frank has bolstered its prime offering across north London with a new head of lettings in its Hampstead office. Jared Kilgarriff...

Annual rental growth across prime London slowed slightly to 8.1 per cent in October according to property data firm LonRes.  However, rents...

Inflation figures for the year to October are out this week and are expected to have fallen to 4.8 per cent. That’s...

Strutt & Parker has announced a new National head of lettings. Anna Ambrose brings with her 18-years’ experience within the sector, including...

Knight Frank’s Marylebone residential office has welcomed Luke Hewens as Head of Lettings. Hewens began his property career as lettings negotiator in...

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

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says the Renters Reform Bill will be mentioned in today’s King’s Speech - and is part of...

Leaders Romans Group claims the pessimistic mood which many say surrounds the private rental sector is exaggerated. It has surveyed its landlord...

The Renters Reform Bill is to get its long awaited Second Reading on Monday, October 23. The claim comes from today’s Financial...

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

Labour deputy leader and shadow housing secretary Angela Rayner has given her party’s conference an outline of future policy plans. She says:...

Rental growth in prime regional markets has started to slow, following runaway growth over the past three years. That’s the view from...

Prime London markets are proving more resilient to rising interest rates than their mainstream equivalents, says Savills. Prices in prime central London...

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

An industry body - the Property Energy Professionals Association - has condemned the Prime Minister’s abandonment of Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards...

The lettings chief in a prominent regional agency says she’s delighted that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has done a dramatic U-turn...

Property consultancy Knight Frank is beefing up its super prime lettings team.  Amy Pritchard has joined as Senior Lettings Negotiator in the...

Propertymark has given strong support to the government’s “flexible and affordable” approach to the green policy agenda,  Timothy Douglas, Head of Policy...

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

Rightmove is launching a new marketing campaign which it calculates will reach 51m people - the overwhelming majority of the UK...

There are no signs of rental growth slowing in prime London lettings market, says LonRes. The property data firm says annual rental...

Franchise giant Winkworth is opening a new office in West Hampstead, extending its north London footprint from existing offices in neighbouring...

The historic Cluttons agency has moved its London office HQ to what it calls “a new prime trophy building.” It’s taken a...

London-born property magnate Paul Kemsley, nicknamed PK, is the agent at the centre of a new TV property show starting this...

Fine & Country has announced what it calls “a ground-breaking partnership” between licencees Jonathan Handford and Sean Newman and Jack Rees...

Knight Frank has appointed a temporary head of lettings in what it calls its “strategically important” Chelsea office in London. Willow Bushnell...

A prominent figure in the London property world says landlords under increasing financial pressure are being more selective about the letting...

Annual rental growth in July was 9.1 per cent across prime London according to LonRes.   This figure took rents to 28.4 per...

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

Savills has announced a new head of its lettings department in its Bishops Park office in Fulham. Christina McLean steps into the...

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has thrown his weight behind Housing Secretary Michael Gove’s proposals to delay deadlines for EPC improvements in...

Chester-based Residential Estates, established over 30 years ago, has been rebranded as Guestz.  The firm says it’s from a local lettings and...

The post-Covid prime lettings market in London has seen remarkable growth, an agency says. The latest data from Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices London...

London-focussed lettings and sales agency Chestertons has announced its second acquisition in six weeks and third of the year, having snapped...

Prime London’s rental growth has started to slow on an annual basis, according to the latest Savills prime lettings index. But the...

A lettings agency dealing primarily with Prime Central London is reporting that tenancy renewal volumes are shooting upwards as renters stay...

An agency is claiming a record for the sum at which it is letting a seven bedroom property in north London. Aston...

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

Lettings chain Fine & Country says rents are likely to steadily rise through the summer. Nicky Stevenson, managing director of Fine &...

The latest lettings market snapshot produced by London-focussed property data firm LonRes shows little change in the supply-constrained rental sector. However, figures...

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

Prime London’s housing market lacks its usual seasonal spring bounce with prices flat and transactions down, admits property data consultancy LonRes. And...

The latest data shows that while rents continue to climb, growth is starting to slow down.  According to Nicky Stevenson, managing director...

In a surprise move, Housing Secretary Michael Gove has given the stand-in leader of activist group Generation Rent a prime role...

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

A property management firm says it recently compiled a check-out report for a property which was 414 pages in total. The property...

Lettings agency Fine & Country believes that tenants will continue to feel the pressure this spring with rental growth expected to...

Annual staff turnover in the property industry is nearing 30 per cent according to a survey by online agency Nested.  The most...

Prime London rents picked up again over the first three months of this year, says Savills. Rental prices are up 1.4 per...

A proposal to introduce a national register of Airbnb hosts in a bid to curb rowdy behaviour by guests has been...

A Conservative MP in a tourist region has blamed the switch of rental accommodation to Airbnbs for a shortage of places...

The rental market in Prime London continues to suffer from a severe stock shortage according to recent data from property consultancy...

A council is introducing a service which it claims will help identify properties which cannon future be used as private rental...

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

The rate of rental growth in Prime London has started to ease and may even have levelled off, says data firm...

Price growth in the rental market is predicted to continue throughout 2023 but there are tentative signs that rent hikes are...

Three months after becoming an independent estate agency, North Residential has opened a second branch. The new office - in Pocklington, East...

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

Agency launches dedicated lettings team for rejuvenated London area Savills has launched a dedicated residential lettings office in an area of prime...

A leading agency says there are now clear indications that supply in the lettings market is growing and that rent levels...

Prime rental growth in London ended 2022 up 10.9 per cent on the year, according to Savills prime lettings index, as...