Lettings
UK house price growth ‘to halve’ over the next five years
Revised forecasts from Savills suggest UK prices will return to growth in 2019-20, but London looks to have run out of steam...
Watch: LonRes Q3 Lowdown
All the key sales and lettings stats from the last three months in little more than three minutes...
End of the Golden Age? UK housing market undergoing ‘structural shift’
JLL forecasts price growth of 2.5% pa for the next five years as UK transitions into 'new paradigm'; PCL to be weakest performing region in 2018...
Government publishes its Draft Tenants’ Fees Bill
Agents who try to charge fees to tenants could be hit with a £5,000 fine and criminal charges, says the draft bill, published today.
Price cuts jump in prime London
43% more properties in prime London had their asking prices cut in October, compared to the same month last year.
“The vision for Nine Elms is beginning to crystallise”
Life is finally being breathed into London's biggest regeneration zone, says JLL
Prime London property prices look to have bottomed-out
Cushman & Wakefield: "It is very possible that we have now seen a bottoming-out of capital values in the current cycle"
Buy-to-let landlords ‘sitting tight’ in prime London
“We see no signs of an exit,” says Knight Frank as re-lets rise by 10%
Gleaming Spires: International students & the PCL lettings market
It's become less expensive to live and study in London of late, and top agents are reporting a surge in applicants with money to learn...
“A continued surge of interest in the Home Counties lettings market”
Knight Frank has seen an 11% increase in corporate relocation enquiries in the prime Home Counties - and a massive rise in new tenant applications as renting becomes "the go-to approach for families moving…
Government calls for evidence to help improve the leasehold & property management system
The DCLG asks the industry if a new independent regulatory body is needed - and if separate bodies should be established for both leasehold and private rented management, and letting agents.
“Long Life Loose Fit”: Architectural design notes for the Private Rented Sector
Top architecture practice Liftschutz Davidson Sandilands outlines the design elements required to create high-quality & future-proofed rental properties.