Lettings

Sales transactions in prime central London rocketed by 21% in Q2 compared to Q1 of this year, says JLL, but levels are still 32% down year-on-year. See how this compares to LonRes' Q2 findings here

Rents have risen by 2.5% across Great Britain in the last 12 months, and by 3.8% in London, according to the last Private Housing Rental Index from the Office of National Statistics.

Prime rents have risen by 1.5% in London in the last 12 months, after a +0.

Harrods Estates has hired Sam Wright to head up the lettings department of its new office on Kensington Church Street.

John D Wood has launched a new "Staged in a Day" package for clients who need help dressing and styling a property before hosting an open day.

"Buyers are ready" says Douglas & Gordon as the estate agency reports a 50% year-on-year jump in the number of new applicants, but vendors are playing it very cool, with 33% fewer new instructions in June…

Formerly the poor neighbour of Mayfair, Knightsbridge, Belgravia and Chelsea, Marylebone has undergone a seismic transformation over the last few years.

As stamp duty reforms, tighter lenders and a rising pound put the kibosh on major growth in the sales market, rental values look to have been surging across pretty much every postcode in town.

JLL's South East operation is apparently rattling through six sales a week at the moment, which is pretty good going for the height of summer. Lawes

Covering the heartlands of Battersea Park, Battersea, Balham, Clapham, East Putney, West Putney, Southfields & Earlsfield, Hammersmith, Shepherd’s Bush, Pimlico & Westminster and Fulham, the D&G Emerging…

Nearly half (47%) of new tenancies sorted out by Knight Frank in the Home Counties between April and June were to international tenants, as the firm's latest rental index shows Home Counties rents rising…

A swanky new scheme has just been unveiled on the formerly-forgotten-about eastern section of Oxford Street.