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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...

A new analysis reveals three key figures that suggest the rental market will bounce back from the lockdown and the Coronavirus...

Demand for homes to rent has surged back by some 30 per cent in the two weeks to April 14 according...

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

Another housing market snapshot suggests demand and confidence are improving as a result of the new political and economic landscape following...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Catherine Shinerock - ARO Account Manager What is your ‘company name’...

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

Belvoir, which describes itself as the UK’s largest property franchise, has just released figures showing its 23rd successive year of uninterrupted...

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...

A London-focussed lettings agency is hosting a seminar for landlords in association with a rental sector trade body. The key theme of...

Rents in London are rocketing but a leading market commentator says this is no reason to give in to a “Marxist dystopia”...

Foxtons has announced that it is officially freezing its fees to landlords. The move was previewed in Foxtons’ recent trading statement which...

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

A leading housing market analyst says the sales market is increasingly determined by the acts of buy to let and other...

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

It’s a vital time for letting agents to hammer home the benefits of buy to let and the dangers to landlords...

A PropTech firm says buy to let investors should not respond to the slowing market by selling up, but should instead...

A flat-share website claims typical rents in some 38 per cent of London are now so high they render the areas...

A property website says tenants and prospective renters in London are set to have ‘a torrid 2019’ because of a shortage of...

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

Some broadly good news to end the week - rents are predicted to grow 13.7 per cent in the next five...

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

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

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

York's largest letting agency has completed the biggest acquisition in its 21-year history. Eleven-branch network Linley & Simpson - which operates across...

A lettings trade body says 380,000 landlords may be about to sell at least one property - potentially flooding the sales market. The...

Foxtons is warning that the private rental sector - traditionally a strong earner for the company even in times of challenging...

At least one trade body has expressed an apparent scepticism about whether the rebranding of the Department of Communities and Local...

A pullback in the buy to let market is threatening to reduce sale prices further in London and parts of the...

A fall in the supply of available rental properties suggests some landlords may be quitting the buy to let sector as...

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

Countrywide says one in every 12 homes that came on to the rental market in 2017 was for sale at some...

Lomond Capital has acquired independent Brighton letting agency Tanat-Jones & Company. The deal marks Lomond’s second acquisition in the city since purchasing...

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

Fast-expanding property group Lomond Capital has announced a restructure of its top tier as it prepares to make long-awaited acquisitions in...

A Leicestershire agency chain has acquired a rival Leicester-based independent.  Whitegates, which has offices in Loughborough, Mountsorrel and central Leicester, has acquired...

The Bank of Mum and Dad isn’t just a phenomenon in the sales market - new research shows it’s a growing...

Foxtons reports that average rents continued to fall across many parts of the capital in the second quarter of this year,...

Allsopp & Allsopp, an agency operating across Warwickshire, has launched a lettings division and has immediately scored big thanks to its...

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

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

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

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

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,...

A major survey has given a vote of confidence to buy to let despite the wave of fiscal, political and economic...

"A large proportion of 25 to 45 year olds will be permanent tenants rather than buyers" a senior economist has predicted.   Tony...

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

A hospitality start-up company claims the Brexit vote adds to uncertainty in the sales market - and it wants vendors to...

A London buying agent is forecasting that the Brexit vote will mean there will be “more and more would-be-buyers opting to rent”...

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

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

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...

Flat fees, of the kind now offered by many online letting and sales agencies, will become the norm in the industry...

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...