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Knight Frank: prime outer London rents rise 3%
Knight Frank says prime outer London rents rose 3 percent in the year to September as new listings fell 6.4 percent and tenant competition intensified.
Knight Frank says prime outer London rents rose 3 percent in the year to September as new listings fell 6.4 percent and tenant competition intensified.
Foxtons’ August index records 24 London renters per new instruction, its highest competition reading of 2026, after activity spread across July and August.
Beauchamp Estates found prime central London house rents averaged £4,177 a week in H1 2026, up 67.15 percent on 2025.
Lloyds Living has agreed 182 private rental homes across three East Midlands developments, with family houses making up most of the new stock.
RICS reports landlords expect UK rents to rise about 3% over the next year after its August survey recorded tenant demand up and rental supply down.
Hello Neighbour says viewing requests have more than halved since 2023 as tenant affordability, not migration, now limits how far advertised rents can rise.
IFS says rent controls would likely shrink the number of homes available to let and could push more landlords to sell, after fresh analysis examined how caps tend to affect rental supply and investment.
Propertymark says an average of nine tenants chased each available rental home in June, with fresh Housing Insight data showing demand still running far ahead of supply.
ONS says average UK private rents rose 3.7% to £1,393 in the year to July 2026, with the North East leading at 6.3% as landlord supply and affordability pressures continue to shape the market.
TwentyCi says 834,800 landlord-owned homes have left the private rented sector over the past decade, even as June 2026 delivered the first year-on-year rise in available rental stock for five years.
Rightmove says advertised rents hit new records in London and across Great Britain outside the capital in Q2, while available rental supply fell 1 percent below last year for the first time since 2022.
UK build-to-rent investment reached £3 billion in the first half of 2026, making it the second-strongest start to a year on record, according to new…
RICS says tenant demand strengthened in June while landlord instructions stayed at -18 percent, adding to the rental supply pressure that is still keeping rent expectations elevated.
SpareRoom says flatshare room supply fell 3.2 percent in Q2 2026 while room rents hit record highs in six UK regions, sharpening the supply squeeze in shared housing.
Savills says England is on course to miss the government’s 1.5 million homes target by 662,500 over the next five years, a fresh warning for landlords facing a prolonged supply squeeze.