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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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

New data shows that online agents have failed in their bid to replace traditional agencies - and that there are more...

A statement to shareholders by the Savills lettings and estate agency admits that it under-estimated how strong the high end prime...

There will be up to six new branches opened this year for the franchise brand Winkworth. The agency made its announcement in...

New figures released after Christmas by Knight Frank show that the number of new prospective tenants is 26.7 per cent above...

The latest market snapshot by London-focussed data company LonRes shows that a shortage of homes available to rent across all parts...

Knight Frank’s latest market report for Prime London locations suggests that stock levels remain low by historical standards, with the number...

The lack of homes available to rent continues to limit activity in the Prime London rental market, and while annual growth...

Prime London rental growth reached 14.0 per cent in the year to the end of September according to Savills, but the...

Chestertons has named a new lettings manager for its Chelsea branch. Jonathan James has been working in the industry for the past...

Low stock levels, high demand and increased renewals characterise prime London rental market according to property data firm LonRes. “The rental market...

As the new academic year gets underway, demand continues to far outweigh supply in the lettings market in London and the...

Knight Frank has appointed Sofia Lira Salas as head of lettings in its Hyde Park office in Prime Central London. Salas joined...

Prime London agency Russell Simpson has announced Ed Woolgar as its new head of lettings, after 18 years of work in...

Knight Frank has made a candid observation about the prime London lettings market, saying it remains “a long way from normality.”  While...

The rental market across Prime London continues to suffer from a combination of low supply and rapidly rising rents, according to...

A high profile London lettings agency says some owners of properties in prime areas of the capital have seen capital appreciation...

Knight Frank says the steep increases in rents seen in prime London recently are now calming down. Rental values hit their low point...

Rental growth continues to roar ahead across prime areas of London, according to Savills. Prime London rental values increased a further 3.3...

Knight Frank says a frustrating period for tenants looks likely to continue this summer in the prime London lettings market.  While supply...

Rents in Prime London are still rising rapidly and the number of new lettings is limited thanks to the lack of...

Demand for pied a terres from those working in offices for only three days of the week is fuelling demand for...

Rents in prime areas of London are nine per cent higher today than before the pandemic according to Knight Frank.  The high...

The number of properties available for let in prime central parts of the capital has consistently trended down from the peak...

Winkworth has expanded its presence in London with the opening of a new Maida Vale office following the acquisition of an...

Rents in prime areas of London are rocketing at an annual level of 22.5 per cent according to LonRes.  Despite the falls...

Rental values in London and the Home Counties have climbed to five per cent above their pre-pandemic level in March 2020,...

An agency has secured what it calls the fastest ever letting of a mansion on the legendary north London street, Bishops...

A generally upbeat trading statement from franchise agency giant Winkworth reports that prime London’s rental market’s long term return to normality...

A leading agency handling international investors and buyers says Russians will displace the Chinese as the main purchasers of buy to...

Rents in London are now rising as steeply as they were falling at the start of the year according to Knight...

The London agency Bective says the prime areas of the capital have enjoyed an eight per cent uplift in rental values...

Rental growth in prime areas of London has climbed to multi-year highs according to new data from Knight Frank.  While only a...

Data consultancy LonRes says a dramatic fall in prime London rental stock is forcing rents to rise at last.   The number of...

Data from property investment consultancy London Central Portfolio suggests foreigners are returning to the UK capital as travel restrictions ease -...

The rush for space to work and relax at home will still dominate the rental market for the short term at...

A new trend developing in prime central London suggests that tenants are demanding smaller properties - and that’s despite the pandemic...

The lettings market in London and the Home Counties continued its journey back towards normality in July according to data from...

For the first time since the beginning of the pandemic rents across all prime London regions saw a return to positive...

Demand continues to build in prime lettings markets in London and the Home Counties, with Knight Frank data showing the number...

The prime London rental market is still in the doldrums but the rent falls are less pronounced than before.  Knight Frank says...

High-end lettings agency Knight Frank says there’s been a huge loss of houses available for renters in prime London in the...

Knight Frank says the plummeting rents in prime central London have at least managed to attract a surge in the number...

Average rents in prime central London fell 13 per cent in the year to January as over-supply still dominated the market, according...

Higher levels of supply and weaker demand have dominated prime London lettings markets this month says Knight Frank. This meant that average...

Knight Frank says it’s seeing tenants in the prime London niche reflecting the same trends as those in the wider property...

Overseas and domestic students have returned to the Central London lettings market 'in force' so far this month, according to Dexters. The...

Data from Knight Frank suggests that average rental values in prime central London fell one per cent last month, taking the...

Strutt and Parker says the low level growth in the lettings market seen in prime central London in 2019 is being...

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

Knight Frank is predicting that the number of tenancies agreed in the prime markets across London and the Home Counties in...

The prime London lettings market has returned to growth after three years of falling rents, according to new five-year forecasts from...

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

Canary Wharf is the latest prime area of London to secure a Build To Rent scheme.  10 George Street, by Canary Wharf...

Knight Frank says the supply of new lettings properties in prime central London is likely to slow - and as a...

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

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

More efforts are being made to urge London homeowners to consider short-term lets which in some cases can routinely earn an...

A London lettings agency that has already acquired an independent has now received what is described as a “six figure” loan...

Prime London’s lettings market is growing but has seen fewer new lets over the second quarter of the year according to...

The supply of lettings property has begun to increase in higher price brackets in prime central London, leading rents to fall...

There’s been a dramatic 37 per cent rise in rental instructions for prime properties in the capital during the first quarter...

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...

Rents over three prime London areas rose by 1.9 per cent in the final quarter of 2018 according to property data...

Rental values in prime London show early signs of bottoming out, says Savills, with the annual rate of falls now at...

Throughout 2018 the number of homes available to rent in prime areas of London dropped 13 per cent. In particular, 80 per...

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

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