Ryan Bembridge

2 days ago | propertywire.com | Ryan Bembridge

Two peers have proposed amending the Renters’ Rights Bill so it limits how much landlords can hike rents on their tenants. Baroness Janke, a Liberal Democrat Peer, tabled an amendment which would limit rent rises to the Bank of England Base Rate, with support from Baroness Jones of the Greens. Meanwhile Lord Best, a crossbench Peer and former chief executive of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, has tabled an amendment to limit rent rises to Consumer Price Inflation or wage growth, whatever is lower.

2 days ago | propertywire.com | Ryan Bembridge

Wealthy homeowners in London are leaving and renting out their properties ahead of April’s abolition of the non-dom tax regime, analysis from Garrington Asset Management has found. Rental values of flats in London’s most expensive postcodes have soared by 7.9% in the first three months of 2025. Meanwhile Land Registry data shows that average London home sold for 1.1% less in February than in January.

2 days ago | propertywire.com | Ryan Bembridge

March saw strong activity in Prime London, though this may be a temporary spike caused by lowering of the stamp duty thresholds from April. In Prime London new sales instructions rising by 14.6% year-on-year, analysis from property analysts LonRes shows. This also represents an increase of 29.8% from March in the pre-pandemic years between 2017 and 2019. At the end of March stock levels were 9.1% higher than a year earlier and 36.0% up on March 2020.

2 days ago | propertywire.com | Ryan Bembridge

Keystone Property Finance has launched a refurb to let range which provides short-term finance for landlords carrying out light refurb works before allowing investors to switch to a long-term loan. Investors can then switch onto a longer-term refurb exit fixed rate after refurbishment work is concluded, which could include installing a new kitchen or converting a standard property into an HMO with up to six occupants.

2 days ago | propertywire.com | Ryan Bembridge

By Tom Bill, head of UK residential research at Knight Frank The tariff turbulence has calmed for now but any downwards pressure on mortgage rates is not guaranteed to last. So, are we all feeling 46% calmer? If you were paying attention to global volatility indices last week, you might be. So-called ‘fear gauges’ have fallen after the tariff turbulence of early April, helped by the natural pause of the Easter break.