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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...

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

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

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...

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

One of the country’s leading buying agencies says buy to let is changing in prime central London, as corporate structures replace...

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

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...

The sales market in London continues to wreak havoc with agencies, as yesterday’s Foxtons story revealed, but one lettings agency is...

The Black Brick agency, which operates with high net worth clients, is forecasting that 2020 will see the arrival of a...

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...

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

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...

A relatively new firm in the crowded central London buying agency market is expanding into property management. Aykroyd & Co was launched...

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

High end lettings agency Harrods Estates says it has seen a 10 per cent rise in tenancy renewals in the Knightsbridge...

Latest lettings market data from high-end agency Knight Frank shows that average rents in prime central London rose 1.1 per cent...

High-end lettings agency Strutt & Parker says the take-up of new rental tenancies decreased by 5.4 per cent over 2018 as...

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

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

The take up of new rental tenancies across prime central London decreased by no less than 12.7 per cent in the...

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

The LonRes data consultancy says the lettings market in prime areas of the capital is now characterised by increasing rents and...

One of London’s most respected lettings agencies says it’s recorded its best-ever quarter for business - defying claims from some that...

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...

A major property platform says London’s rental and sales market may well be on the road to recovery - but that...

The UK's second city Birmingham takes top spot when it comes to student property returns for buy-to-let investors. Analysis by online letting...

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

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

The number of lettings transactions in Prime Central London in the second quarter of this year slumped 15 per cent compared...

Prime central London lettings agency Draker has teamed up with a luxury interiors retailer and interior designer to launch what it...

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

Strutt & Parker says the take up of new rental tenancies in prime central London in the first quarter of this...

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 -...

High end agency Strutt & Parker is warning that older properties in prime central London are getting harder to let, with...

The lettings director of high-end London lettings agency Russell Simpson says he expects the capital’s rentals market to blossom next year...

The rental market in Prime Central London has shown signs of recovery at the end of 2017, according to a new...

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...

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

Humberts, the country agency which raised eyebrows earlier this year by announcing it was to open an office in prime central...

The rental market in parts of prime central London is becoming increasingly dominated by well-funded overseas students, according to a leading...

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

Rokstone has launched a new lettings division, operating out of the firm’s existing Marylebone offices and covering both short and long term...

Prime Central London’s lettings market has improved gradually during the first two quarters of the year according to JLL.   It says transaction...

The agent behind London’s newest letting opportunity says it’s the most luxurious property in the capital’s most presigious neighbourhood - and...

Prime central London is seeing the rise of the micro-apartment, according to new research, as squeezed accommodation budgets have seen singles...

Countrywide says the rapid growth in the size of the private rental sector in recent years is not down to a...

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...

Pastor Real Estate, a long-standing agency operating in Mayfair and Monaco, is expanding its London activities.   The boutique agency, which covers lettings and sales as...

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...

JLL has made three new director-level appointments to its prime London lettings team.   Andrew Keelan has joined as associate director and manages...

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

Prime Purchase, the buying arm of estate agency Savills, says renting may be “a more financially sound route” for some wealthy...

The central London rental market is beginning to show signs of topping out as tenant demand slides and landlords look to...

Benham & Reeves Residential Lettings says it is encouraging its London landlords to avoid rent rises and instead focus on retaining...

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

Figures from investment company London Central Portfolio suggest that re-lets of older properties to new tenants showed a fall in rents...

The surge in properties to let which came on to the prime central London market after the April 1 stamp duty...

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

There’s a new player in prime London’s burgeoning lettings sector - Quintessentially Estates.  The new division is to be led by Quintessentially...

Property data company LonRes is the latest to report that the supply of property available to let in prime central London...

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 -...

Rents have flat-lined across most of the capital according to Benham & Reeves Residential Lettings, which says it is advising its...

The landlord of an overcrowded flat which lacked proper fire precautions and had a dangerous boiler has been fined £162,000. Abbas Rasul...

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

The investment firm London Central Portfolio says the volume of prime central London rental stock has increased dramatically in recent months...

There have been falls in rents in some price ranges in London thanks to an oversupply of stock, according to lettings...

New data from LonRes suggests achieved rental values rose 0.9 per cent in prime central London over the second quarter of...

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

Prime central London’s letting sector appears to be thriving despite the uncertainty leading up to, and since, the shock referendum result.   “Relocation...

The high-end agency Pastor Real Estate is marketing what it believes may be the capital’s smallest grade II listed duplex apartment - it...

Rent increases in Prime Central London have slowed due to uncertainty surrounding next month's EU Referendum, according to a new report. London...

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

An apartment is to let in prime central London at £1.17m per year - it is believed to be one of...

The additional homes stamp duty surcharge is contributing to a slowdown in the central London development market according to JLL. The number...

One of the capital’s most high profile agents say prime central London’s rental market may be an indirect beneficiary of the...

A property company managing an HMO in prime central London has been £47,900. The fine is in relation to 24 charges under...

Prime Central London rents across the capital fell for the first time in two years during the final quarter of 2015...

Buying agency Black Brick says investment in prime London’s lettings sector remains buoyant despite the imminent three per cent stamp duty...

Investment advice company London Central Portfolio says the proposed three per cent stamp duty surcharge on the purchase of buy to...

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

There’s been an angry reaction from letting agents and landlords to the shock news that an additional three per cent stamp...

Prime central London’s sales market has been in the doldrums for some time - now at least one high-end lettings agency...

A prominent buying agent active in prime central London says the capital’s high end buy to let market will become less...

The sales market in Prime Central London may be in the doldrums but the lettings sector is on the rise with...

The struggling London sales market is provoking a boom in the capital’s rental sector according to data from Benham & Reeves...

A London letting agency says a huge rise in the number of tenants with dogs, combined with a lack of supply...

A prime central London letting agency says there has been a rise in the number of subletting scams in that part...

The 107,000 overseas students using London’s burgeoning private rental market contribute some £600m annually to landlords, according to research by agency...

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

Average rental values across prime London are now 7.4 per cent higher than they were this time last year.  LonRes says that...

The central London sales market dip of recent weeks has directly led to a surge in the lettings sector according to...

There has been a 94 per cent increase in prime central London tenancies year-on-year claims Lucy Morton of W A Ellis,...

Rents in prime central London are rising again after a prolonged period of stagnation, according to property advisers London Central Portfolio. “The...

Forget those ideas that even posh students live in digs or shared houses - prime central London agency Napier Watt has...

Some 45 per cent of letting agents expect average rents in prime central London to rise over the course of 2015...

Rents in Prime Central London have risen 7.4 per cent over the course of the past year despite being unbchanged for...