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The UK government's long awaited Spring Budget announced some key changes for the property market in an effort to stimulate activity...

The so-called ‘Boris bounce’ in the housing market after the last General Election failed to materialise, an estate agency chain claims. Winkworth,...

Seasonality is returning to the prime London lettings market after three tumultuous years.  The pandemic meant the market was initially flooded with...

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

The average home in England and Wales bought within the last 20 years and sold in 2023 achieved £102,650 or 48...

Savills is warning that the average UK house price is projected to fall by a further 3.0 per cent in 2024...

A leading lettings agency and property consultancy has revealed that it anticipates 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...

A prominent buying agent operating at the high end of the prime London market has given an interesting insight into how...

A property management company is forecasting that Prime Central London’s short-lets summer is set to be record breaking. Glenfield Property Management says...

Overseas buyers - likely in many cases to be investors - have taken a bigger stake in the wealthy enclave of...

The flat is back in demand in Britain’s most expensive rental enclave, a lettings agency says.  Demand for apartments in prime central...

Prime Central London’s ultra-prime housing market for multi-millionaire and billionaire buyers has risen by 30 per cent according to a prominent...

Prime Central London will bounce back in 2023 according to national consultancy Carter Jonas - and it’s thanks to the poorly...

Rental value growth remains firmly in double-digits in prime London postcodes as demand continues to outstrip supply, according to Knight Frank. The...

The Bank of England has increased its base rate from 2.25 per cent to 3.0 per cent. This is the largest hike...

There’s mixed news for investors with properties in prime areas of London - although overall it appears demand to purchase property...

An upbeat report on the booming private rental market in Prime Central London has been released by investment consultancy London Central...

Capital values in Prime Central London have increased according to the latest market snapshot from investment service London Central Portfolio. House have...

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

Liverpool is a key investment hot spot for buy to let landlords according to a new report. It shows that, for example,...

A prominent agency has revised its market forecast for the rest of 2022 and says prices will rise more and for...

The strong fundamentals of a rental market with a chronic undersupply are attracting a growing amount of institutional capital says Knight...

Prime central London may not seem to most obvious part of the UK for buy to let investors but a leading...

There’s been a remarkable 15 per cent leap in average rents achieved in prime central London over the past year, according...

Knight Frank says landlords are in the driving seat in the prime rental market across London and the Home Counties. Low supply...

One of the most respected buying agents in London says buy to let in the capital is losing its appeal for...

Knight Frank has given an end of year assessment of the prime London lettings and says rents in the enclave are...

After two years in the doldrums and high levels of over supply, prime central London is at last a landlord’s rental...

Many agencies give their forecasts for the following year or years in the late autumn, but one of the most detailed...

Letting agency Knight Frank has identified an opportunity for landlords to cash in on a supply shortage - but only if...

High end lettings agency Strutt & Parker says the outlook for Prime Central London is improving slightly with more activity reported...

Estate agency Savills has upgraded its forecasts for the UK’s prime housing markets - good news for investors in this niche. The...

One of the most respected and experienced agents in Prime Central London has given an insight into the lettings market in...

The roll-out of a vaccine for Coronavirus could dramatically change the poor rental market performance in prime London in the coming...

The latest lettings market snapshot from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors suggests the vast majority of respondents expect rents in...

An analysis by a lettings management service has identified those parts of London with the strongest yields and capital growth in...

There’s more bad news for landlords and investors looking at prime London properties according to a market snapshot from Knight Frank. It...

Some London landlords are testing the water to see if they can downsize or sell their entire portfolios. Chestertons, a London-focussed high end...

Prime Central London rents fell by an average 2.3 per cent in the third quarter of 2020 according to Savills. In prime...

Viewing figures in the letting market in London and the Home Counties hit a 10-year high at the end of August,...

Rental market activity in prime London markets has been lower than normal this summer due to uncertainty around the start of...

There has been a noticeable increase in the supply of letting properties, placing downward pressure on rental values, according to Knight...

Knight Frank forecast that residential property sales will fall by 38% this year, amid the coronavirus pandemic. Based on the assumption that...

Rents in prime London and its commuter belt are expected edge higher this year due to the widening supply-demand imbalance in...

An increase in demand, coupled with the growing rental stock shortage, is placing upward pressure on rental values in prime London.  The...

There has been a significant increase in demand for London’s most expensive homes from wealthy buyers, including property investors, following last...

Rental price growth in prime London looks set to pick up to hit an annual rate of about 2% over the...

Rental prices in London are set to increase by an average of 15% over the next five years compared to 10%...

Demand for rental accommodation in prime London has jumped by almost a third over the past 12 months, according to the...

There has been a dramatic rise in demand for rental accommodation in prime London, underpinned by uncertainty in the sales market,...

There has been a significant increase in demand for rental accommodation in prime London, according to the latest report from Knight...

With the slump in house price growth in London slowing, a growing number of property investors believe that now is a...

Rental values in London’s super prime rental market dropped by 0.5% in the year to July on the back of a...

There was an 11% rise in the number of tenancies agreed in prime central London and prime outer London in the...

The rental market in prime central London has proved resilient this year despite the impact of political uncertainty surrounding Brexit negotiations,...

Activity in London’s the super prime rental market has hit a five-year high as more people opt to rent rather than...

Rents increased by 2.6% in prime London and prime central London during the first quarter of year compared to Q1 2018,...

The soaring cost of renting property in prime central London has once again come under the spotlight following WikiLeaks founder Julian...

Overseas investors snapped up more than half of all properties for sale in prime London in the second half of 2018...

Rental values in prime London increased by 1.9% in the fourth quarter of 2018 on the back of greater demand from...

There has been increased demand for buy-to-let property in prime central London in recent months and this trend looks set to continue...

The average rental yield achieved in prime central London in December was 3.35% - the highest level seen since April 2012...

Rents in London are expected to increase further in 2019 due to the widening supply-demand imbalance in the capital’s rental market,...

Renters in central London now face having to bid against each other, pushing rents up in the process, as a result...

Rents in London’s prime property market have increased further, rising by 1.1% in the 12 months to September, as more people...

Growth in demand for super-prime properties in prime central London has slowed significantly, fresh data shows. According to Knight Frank, the number...

Rents in London’s prime property market rose again in August as market conditions in the capital improved to levels not seen...

Rental yields in prime central London are typically among the lowest in the UK, but that does not mean that there...

Throughout September, Draker in partnership with Vue Cinemas will be offering two free cinema tickets to all the letting agency’s landlords. There...

Take up of new rental tenancies in prime central London in the second quarter of this year was up 27.7% compared...

While the UK weather continues to defy all expectation, with scorching temperatures raging across the country, the rental market in London...

Imagine if you could make the properties that you are currently trying to let look larger, brighter, cleaner, warmer, more homely,...

Rents in London’s prime property market have moved into positive territory for the first time since January 2016, increasing by 0.8%...

A drop in the number of properties coming onto the private rented market in prime central London (PCL) has begun to...

Rents in prime central London increased by 0.2% between February and March, the first monthly rise since September 2015, according to...

Average rents in the prime central London (PCL) residential lettings market fell 2.1% in the year to February 2018, the same...

Rental values in prime London increased by 2.5% in the final quarter of 2017, up 1.2% on the corresponding period in...

Average rents in prime central London recorded a fall of 3.1% over the course of 2017, but the rate of decline...

London continued to be the worst performing region in Britain when it comes to house prices, with values falling by 0.8%...

Uncertainties over Brexit will continue to hit property investor sentiment in prime central London (PCL), according to a leading letting agent. While...

There are growing signs of recovery in the prime central London buy-to-let market as rental values dipped by just 0.1% in...

Activity levels in prime central London’s buy-to-let sector remains relatively sluggish, despite a pick up in the wider housing market in...

There has been a notable decline in the proportion of overseas based landlords in the UK as a growing number of...

The rental market in prime central London is showing signs of improvement, as reflected by the latest data from Knight Frank...

Investec Private Banking is hoping to attract more high-net-worth individuals actively looking to invest in the buy-to-let market with the launch...

Rental prices continued to fall across prime central London during the fourth quarter of last year, but values are expected to...

Prime rents in the Home Counties dropped by an average of 0.8% last year, as a higher number of homes available...

The key to a successful long-term buy-to-let investment is securing solid rental yields for income returns and the potential for capital...

Asset manager, LCP, is set to launch a new Sharia-compliant fund with a view to investing in the mainstream private rented...

With significantly more properties to choose from, tenants are firmly in control when it comes to the private rented market in...

London’s super-prime landlords appear to be benefitting from higher stamp duty costs and Brexit uncertainty, as reflected by a rise in...

Buy-to-let landlords in London have not resorted to panic-selling as a consequence of the Brexit vote and are sensibly opting not...

Rental values in prime central London fell in the second quarter of the year as stock levels increased while demand from...

Rental yields in London are now among the lowest in the country, but take a closer look at the market and...

Rental values have increased across prime central London over the past three months fuelled by greater demand from people looking to...

Annual rental value growth in prime central London continued to fall in June, down 3%, despite a rise in the level...

London Central Apartments III (LCA III), the latest property investment fund to invest in prime central London’s private rented sector (PRS)...

Demand for rental properties in prime central London has increased in recent months as would-be buyers become cautious prior to the EU...

The private rental market in prime central London (PCL) has weakened in recent weeks as tenants take advantage of growing uncertainty...