Lettings

Knight Frank's Henley office is getting its very own lettings department on the 12th November.

Prime estate agency John D Wood & Co. is all set to open its newest (and sixteenth) London office in Ladbroke Grove on 6th November.

The always engaging Lonres Autumn Market Report is out today and it paints a picture of a market in flux...

Institutional and professional investors will from today be able to track detailed rental pricing trends with the help of a new index, compiled in conjunction with an economist from the LSE.

Savills will officially open its brand new branch later this evening, slap bang on swanky Westbourne Grove, Notting Hill.

Demand for prime central London rental properties has slipped by a whopping 20 per cent since the heady days of summer, whilst corporate relocation budgets are being slashed, according to Cluttons. 

Completions are taking longer, despite demand continuing to move on up and an even more severe shortage of family homes than normal, according to Douglas & Gordon's latest London Barometer.

 Average rents in prime London have dropped over the last year, but there is scant uniformity across different boroughs. Savills report that Islington and Hampstead have dropped by 4.

Foxtons has just opened the doors to its 37th office.

All this talk of mansion tax is already prompting owners of £2m+ properties to sell up, reports WA Ellis, with an abnormally high number of these instructions recorded in September.

The capital's sales market is "chronically undersupplied", whilst the rental market is flooded with stock, according to Douglas & Gordon.

Grubby kitchens and bathrooms are the two biggest turn-offs for potential buyers, according to Rightmove's new research.