Lettings

Prime Outer London has seen less significant price drops than central areas, reports Knight Frank.

HNWI are increasingly opting to rent their ultra-prime residences instead of buying them, according to this report by the venerable society magazine...

Landlords accounted for one in every six agreed sales last month, as investors rush to take advantage of the Stamp Duty holiday in a small-scale re-run of 2016.

Propertymark reports that 2020 saw more home-buyers register and more sales agreed per estate agency branch than any other year of the last decade.

The pace of property demand growth "does appear to be losing a bit of steam and slowing", reports the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors, as house prices continue to rise.

Prime London Market Snapshot: The latest data on PCL and POL from Knight Frank.

Following a flurry of activity in Q3, the number of new £5,000-plus per week listings is at its lowest level since Q1 2017.

Average rents in the countryside have risen by 5.5% in the last year, reports Hamptons, while city rents have fallen by 5.3%.

Strong demand continued to drive sales activity in October, according to the latest survey of Chartered Surveyors. But things are likely to turn as 2021 progresses...

Estate agency Strutt & Parker has revised its 2020 forecasts for the UK's property market after a "mini-boom" in transactions in the last few months

“The split in the rental market caused by Covid-19 has now crystallised and we are seeing the two-speed market firmly entrenched," says Gráinne Gilmore, Zoopla’s Head of Research.

But the majority of October's property exchanges in prime London still originated in deals done before the first national lockdown, says Knight Frank.