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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Rupert Jones

Asking prices for newly listed homes in UK’s richest borough fall by £100k in one month

Colourful mews houses on a narrow cobbled street in Knightsbridge
Properties for sale in the borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London have undergone a sharp drop in listed asking prices. Photograph: UCG/Universal Images Group/Getty Images

The average price of a home coming up for sale in Britain’s richest borough has dropped by almost £100,000 in a month as fierce competition among sellers in many areas prompts some to slash their price expectations, data shows.

The property website Rightmove said that for Britain as a whole, average newly listed asking prices for homes had fallen by 2% over the past month, the largest August price drop in eight years.

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