Lettings
Right to Rent breaches human rights laws, rules the High Court
Right to Rent "does not merely provide the occasion or opportunity for private landlords to discriminate," said the High Court Judge, "but causes them to do so where otherwise they would not."
‘Renting remains more cost effective than buying’, says Winkworth
Estate agency's analysis argues that average rents in London have risen by just 2% since 2006, while sold prices have escalated by 55%.
Bumper start to 2019 for Chelsea stalwarts
Letting division of venerable PCL agency Russell Simpson reports busiest January in recent years, with deals up fourfold on 2018
Prime London rents show ‘early signs of bottoming out’
Rental values in the capital's prime resi markets have fallen by an average of 9.
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;
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...