Lettings
Surveyors record ‘a slow start to the year’ as supply, demand & deals continue to dwindle
Surveyors 'sense little prospect of a turnaround' in the short-term, says the RICS, 'as concerns over the potential impact of Brexit, alongside affordability constraints continue to cause buyers and sellers…
Mapped: Achieved prices across Prime London
Latest visual from LonRes shows the spread of rental and sales values across PCL, Prime London & Prime Fringe in 2018...
Queen signs off on Tenant Fees Bill
'Unfair' letting fees will be banned from 1st June 2019.
Carrington on Q4: Gauging the tipping point
Assuming a discount of about 20% against house prices at their peak, in 2014, the £2.
Uncertainty driving would-be buyers into the prime rental market
Stock levels are low and competition among prospective tenants is pushing up achieved rents, reports LonRes
Tenants spent less on rent in 2018 than in 2017; the first annual fall in a decade
Tenants in Britain spent a grand total of £59.1bn on rent in 2018, report Hamptons International and Countrywide, marking the first annual fall in more than ten years.
PCL prices fail to stabilise; volumes continue to slide
Prime Central London transaction levels are now almost 50% lower than they were five years ago, reports Strutt & Parker, while prices ended 2018 at the lower end of the forecast; agency manages to buck …
Canary Wharf lettings market ‘undimmed by Brexit’
The number of tenancies agreed in London's financial district was up 35% over the last 12 months, reports Knight Frank, the biggest increase in the capital...
Key trends and developments in the UK’s ‘£75bn’ private rented sector
Major new survey sheds some light on how the sector is changing, and where it will be in five years' time...
‘Sharp increase’ in time to sell as buyers hold off
Properties in London are taking three times longer to sell than they were a year ago, reports REalyse.
The property market’s #10yearchallenge: 2008 Vs 2018
Knight Frank has jumped on the hashtag bandwagon to look at how the UK's property market has changed in the last decade - from a 2008 in the grip of the global financial crisis to a 2018 on the brink of…
Institutional PRS investment reaches record levels
A surge in North American capital targeting the UK's private rented sector indicates that investment is set to continue to rise, reports CBRE