Lettings

Super-rich renters are setting new records in the capital's top neighbourhoods, reports boutique agency.

London's average weekly rent fell 4% last month, says Foxtons. But rental prices are still 14% higher than at this time last year.

JLL's Prime Central London index for Q1 2023 tells of a 4.3% annual decline in achieved sold prices, and a 5.5% increase in achieved rents.

Buying agents are de rigeur at the top-end of the sales market, but increasing numbers of HNW tenants are retaining specialists to find their next home and streamline the moving process, says DDRE Global's Alex…

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Hamptons estimates that around 140,000 landlords retired in 2022, accounting for nearly three-quarters (73%) of all landlord sales.

Chestertons has nearly a third more rental stock on its books now than at this time last year - but tenant demand is still running hot.

The government is pressing on with plans to regulate the holiday rental market, suggesting a new planning use class for short-term rentals, and a register of to keep track of them.

Surveyors expect the weak sales market to continue for 'a while longer', before more stability returns.

The frenetic conditions of the last 18 months look to be calming down, but rental growth is still high by historical standards.

'Short-term lets have been widely abused - when you have one residential block renting out more rooms than the Ritz every night, you know the system needs reform,' says the leader of Westminster City Council.