Truth Check/5 October 2026

“the first period of quarterly price growth (+0.3%) in prime central London for four years”

The claim as it travelled: Knight Frank, September 2026 index, 2 Oct 2026.

The sentence is on Knight Frank's September index note, with the +0.3% quarterly figure and the 2% annual fall beside it.

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Prime central London prices rose 0.3% in the quarter to September, the first quarterly rise in four years, Knight Frank says; still down 22% on the 2015 peak

Knight Frank's September index: prices 2% lower over the year, the smallest annual fall in 18 months; exchanges 2.5% down on the year against 14% down in March; 121 sales above £10 million, level with the year before, with total spend up 14% to £2.4 billion. The Budget on 28 October is the next test.

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