London tenants cross the M25 in record numbers

'2022 has been a record-breaking year for rental growth,' says Hamptons. 'But even so, rents have failed to keep pace with wider inflation, and indeed landlords’ rising costs.'

City of London, Kensington & Chelsea, and Richmond have the highest proportion of landlords to general population in the country.

"Renting becomes more accepted as a tenure model in the super-prime market", says Knight Frank