150-fold rise in London homes listed on AirBnB as private landlords get in on the act

Rents in global prime cities have dropped a touch, says Knight Frank, although the rate of decline is slowing in the world's key financial centres...

The average weekly rent across Prime London increased by 1.6% (to £638 per week) in Q2, says Marsh & Parsons, but there were markedly different stories in the centre of town and the outer circle.

Prime central London property prices rose for the 34th month in a row in August, according to the latest from Knight Frank, with a 0.6% month-on-month increase taking that rise to 4.