‘Ability to Buy’ better than in 2007, except in London

247,000 new rental households appeared in London last year alone, says CBRE, as "the emerging build-to-rent market is beginning to bear fruit."

The number of new homes being approved by the capital's planners accelerated by 73% in the first three months of the year, with 11,870 new residential units across 1,553 separate sites entering the pipeline…

Prime properties in London saw their values tick upwards by an average of 1.6% over the last three months, but they're still 0.7% below where they were at this point in 2014.