New research shows that while the wider London property market has struggled since Crossrail officially opened, locations with a Crossrail station...
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![Rental stock availability up 12.1% with London seeing biggest surge](/upload/images/24%2005%2002%20%2004.jpg)
The latest research by London lettings agency Benham and Reeves has shown that rental stock availability is up 12% year on...
02 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![Prime Demand Dips as London’s high end market remains challenging](/upload/images/24%2004%2011%2004.jpg)
The latest index by London agency Benham and Reeves shows that buyer demand for both prime (£2m+) and super prime homes...
11 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![Revealed - where investors buy additional homes to grab higher yields](/upload/images/__thumbs/23%2011%2016%201.jpg/23%2011%2016%201__400x266.jpg)
Investors are buying second homes in the North East and North West at an increased rate compared to the rest of...
16 November 2023
From: Breaking News
![UK Property Equity Hotspots Revealed](/upload/images/__thumbs/23%2011%2007%201.jpg/23%2011%2007%201__400x266.jpg)
What do the property markets in North Norfolk, Kensington and Chelsea and East Devon have in common? They are the only areas...
07 November 2023
From: Breaking News
![Buy To Let’s Low Yields - is it worth it?](/upload/images/__thumbs/23%2010%2026%2004.jpg/23%2010%2026%2004__400x267.jpg)
New research from lettings agency Benham and Reeves has shown that while net rental yields have increased over the last year,...
26 October 2023
From: Breaking News
![Invest near Crossrail? It’s not always a fast track to returns](/upload/images/3%20Property-Value_400x310.png)
It didn’t take long, but the gloss has already begun to come off the hugely expensive new Crossrail service in London. The...
13 July 2023
From: Breaking News
![Singapore nationals help to drive UK property market activity](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/House-pounds_400x310.png)
New research by Benham and Reeves, highlights that a supporting cast from Singapore is helping to drive UK market activity. The bonus of the...
02 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![Property investor outlines bold £50m vision for Kirkcaldy site](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Misc/TahirAliKircaldy-400x310.jpg)
The man who purchased The Postings Shopping Centre in Kirkcaldy for £320,000 from pension fund Columbia Threadneedle three years ago has revealed...
28 October 2022
From: Breaking News
![Property prices - home values predicted to rise by £14,000](/upload/images/library/Poundsign-400x310.png)
A new market analysis from Benham and Reeves shows that property prices remain on the incline. The lettings and estate agent...
02 September 2022
From: Breaking News
![Foreign homeowners sitting on £90.7bn worth of property](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/UK-Housing-1-400x310.jpg)
The total market value of foreign-owned homes in England and Wales currently stands at £90.7 billion, research from Benham and Reeves...
13 July 2022
From: Breaking News
![Right on track – Crossrail house prices up by as much as 215%](/upload/images/Transport%20(Crossrail%2C%20HS2%2C%20Tube)/CrossrailLogo-400x310.png)
Postcodes with stations due to benefit from Crossrail (CR) have seen house prices increase by 79% since the project was first...
18 May 2022
From: Breaking News
![Prime London homes remain discounted, but the figures start to drop](/upload/images/library/Central-London400x310.png)
London lettings and estate agent, Benham and Reeves, claim that although prime London properties are subject to discounts, this discount is starting...
15 April 2022
From: Breaking News
![Hong Kong buyers dominate 17 London boroughs, study shows](/upload/images/Locations/Central-London400x310.png)
Hong Kong buyers currently have the biggest property footprint within the London market, new research from Benham and Reeves shows. The agent’s...
18 March 2022
From: Breaking News
![Russian buyers account for £190m in London market value in 2021](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/uk-housing400x310.png)
Russian residential property purchases contributed an estimated £190 million in market value and £13.2 million in stamp duty tax last year,...
07 March 2022
From: Breaking News
![Brits spending up to 77% of income to cover rental costs – study](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/PayingBills-400x310.jpg)
UK renters are forking out up to 77% of their monthly household income to get by in the UK rental market,...
07 February 2022
From: Breaking News
![Super savings – London buyers saved more than £1bn during stamp duty break](/upload/images/Locations/London400x310.jpg)
London homebuyers managed to save over £1 billion since the stamp duty holiday first launched in July 2020. The latest analysis by...
26 November 2021
From: Breaking News
![London bounces back – rents set to rise 5.5% in 2022](/upload/images/library/BPS-LondonAerial-400x310.jpg)
Rental values across the capital have not only bounced back compared to the pandemic dip in 2020, but they have also...
03 November 2021
From: Breaking News
![Commercial to resi – a market boom from Leeds to Staines](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/Homes-MaginifyingGlass-400x310.jpg)
In the fourth and final part of our series on the fast-growing commercial to resi trend, we check in on schemes...
20 October 2021
From: Breaking News
![Foreign buyer return could boost London house prices by £134k](/upload/images/Locations/LondonMap400x310-min.png)
A return of foreign buyer demand could increase property values by £134,000 in some areas of the capital according to the latest...
10 September 2021
From: Breaking News
![On the right track - DLR only line to buck the Underground's rental decline](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/housing-market400x310.png)
New research by London lettings and estate agent, Benham and Reeves, reveals that all but one line on the London Underground has...
06 September 2021
From: Breaking News
![London rental market ‘in full swing’ as rents rise and stock levels drop](/upload/images/library/BPS-LondonAerial-400x310.jpg)
The property market has suffered greatly as a result of the pandemic, and the rental market, even more so. Dwindling demand due...
23 August 2021
From: Breaking News
![Golden homes - properties in UK Olympic boroughs more likely to increase in value](/img/default/pit.png)
The Tokyo Olympics is on track to becoming one of the biggest events of the year. Last year, due to the...
26 July 2021
From: Breaking News
![Cladding claim - developers could face tax on profits as high as £50m](/img/default/pit.png)
The UK’s 10 biggest developers could each face a potential average tax bill of £25 million per year if the government...
28 May 2021
From: Breaking News
![Crossrail boom – house price premium climbs to 17% as testing begins](/img/default/pit.png)
The latest research by London lettings and estate agent Benham and Reeves has revealed that house prices surrounding Crossrail stations are...
21 May 2021
From: Breaking News
![How lockdown has changed the way we live: boosting the BTR trend](/img/default/pit.png)
The rental sector has doubled in size in the past 20 years, with an estimated 19% of households (11 million people)...
19 May 2021
From: Breaking News
![From landlord to landlord-developer - the top investment strategy?](/img/default/pit.png)
Is property investment still a good long-term strategy, or has the taxation and regulatory reforms over the past five years made...
05 May 2021
From: Breaking News
![Insight - how can we repurpose retail assets with lasting relevance?](/img/default/pit.png)
One of the big questions that has become even more stark during the pandemic – which has devastated the already struggling...
21 April 2021
From: Breaking News
![Webinar roundup – what do new-builds offer to property investors?](/img/default/pit.png)
Last week, two of the UK’s biggest housebuilders – Barratt and Berkeley – held webinars aimed at investors. While new-build developments have traditionally...
24 March 2021
From: Breaking News
![Cladding roundup – BTR re-cladding and the declining appeal of flats](/img/default/pit.png)
LaSalle Investment Management has become the first institutional investment landlord in the UK to complete re-cladding at a cost in excess...
05 March 2021
From: Breaking News
![Off the rails – tube house prices fall 11% since start of Covid](/img/default/pit.png)
House prices surrounding London’s tube stations have fallen by an average of 2% since the start of the pandemic as the...
08 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![Rental trends: flood of urban stock as tenants flee cities](/img/default/pit.png)
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has led to a rise in city centre rental stock and dropping asking rents, according...
29 January 2021
From: Breaking News
![Season’s greetings – after a year like no other](/img/default/pit.png)
At the start of this year, you would have got very, very long odds on the prospect of UK-wide lockdowns, mandatory...
23 December 2020
From: Breaking News
![Retail to resi – rising number of conversion applications are being rejected](/img/default/pit.png)
One of the biggest property investment trends of the year, driven by the pandemic and the devastation this has caused for...
18 December 2020
From: Breaking News
![Investors - is housing the future of the high street?](/img/default/pit.png)
On PIT, we’ve asked this question quite a lot in recent months, with John Lewis entering the Build to Rent market...
09 December 2020
From: Breaking News
![Part 2: retail to residential – will the high street need to change forever?](/img/default/pit.png)
In Part 1, we asked whether other major retailers will follow John Lewis’s lead in moving into the world of building...
30 October 2020
From: Breaking News
![Help for investors – webinars to assist people through the crisis](/img/default/pit.png)
Throughout the property industry, in response to the challenges posed by Covid-19, various webinars have been held offering top tips, guidance,...
27 April 2020
From: Breaking News
![A leap of faith – 2020 homebuyers could benefit from leap year house price boost](/img/default/pit.png)
The latest research by Benham and Reeves has looked at house price performance in previous leap years and what it could...
02 March 2020
From: Breaking News
![Will the government be introducing a mansion tax on high value homes?](/img/default/pit.png)
It was revealed over the weekend that Boris Johnson is considering introducing a mansion tax for high value homes. The Telegraph, which...
14 February 2020
From: Breaking News
![Income required to rent in parts of England – a 20-year review](/img/default/pit.png)
The amount of net income required to cover the cost of renting has increased 16.8% in the last two decades to...
22 January 2020
From: Breaking News
![Revealed – the biggest house price jumps since the last white Christmas](/img/default/pit.png)
There’s something magical about Christmas, especially with UK house prices jumping by 38.9% since the last ‘widespread’ white Christmas in December...
23 December 2019
From: Breaking News
![Still on track - house prices aren’t derailed by Crossrail delays](/img/default/pit.png)
With Londoners facing further delays with Crossrail, London letting and sales agent Benham and Reeves analysed house prices along the route...
29 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![The most in-demand prime London streets revealed](/img/default/pit.png)
Benham and Reeves has revealed the capital’s prime and super-prime streets where buyer activity remains strong despite a wider market ‘freeze’...
27 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Transactions and prices drop in London’s prime postcodes](/img/default/pit.png)
The number of prime London transactions dipped by 7% in the first half of 2019 when compared to the same period...
02 October 2019
From: Breaking News
![To furnish or not to furnish? That is the question…answered by local estate agent](/img/default/pit.png)
With Brexit causing hesitance amongst non-UK tenants within the rental sector, independent lettings and sales agent, Benham and Reeves, has looked...
27 September 2019
From: Breaking News
![Buy-to-let choice for first-time landlords hits record high](/img/default/pit.png)
Despite several changes in the buy-to-let market, 73% of prospective investors considered property to be the best, least volatile long-term investment,...
05 July 2019
From: Breaking News
![BTL investors stand by the sector despite ‘detrimental’ changes](/img/default/pit.png)
Some 73% of buy-to-let investors considered property as the best, least volatile long-term investment when compared to all other asset classes,...
03 July 2019
From: Breaking News
![The best buy-to-let investment postcodes revealed](/img/default/pit.png)
Recent research by London sales and letting agent Benham and Reeves has highlighted which areas across London and the UK offer...
27 March 2019
From: Breaking News
![Battersea Power Station sees rents on the rise](/img/default/pit.png)
Battersea Power Station continues to attract high-end professionals, resulting in healthy buy-to-let rentals, rising rents and low void periods. This is according...
07 December 2018
From: Breaking News
![Prime London rental market cools](/img/default/pit.png)
The rental market in prime central London is starting to slow following a year of record breaking growth with rents either...