According to online estate agent HouseSimple.com, 16 of the Capital’s 32 boroughs have more estate agents then they did at the start of the year.

Barking & Dagenham and Southwark have both seen a 10.7% rise in agent numbers and almost a third of boroughs have more than 100 high street estate agents each.

Across all boroughs, the number of high street estate agents has increased by 0.5%, at close to 2,900. Westminster alone has 8.3% of all agent offices in London, with 241.

However, it is a mixed picture, with 13 boroughs seeing a drop in the number of high street agents. Barnet has seen a 7.2% fall in 2016 and Richmond has seen the number of offices fall by 5.9%.

Alex Gosling, HouseSimple.com chief executive, said: “Last year saw an explosion of estate agent offices opening across London hoping to take advantage of a booming property market. But after a strong start to 2016, the market has cooled, with stamp duty changes hitting super prime sales and the EU Referendum and US Election result putting some doubt in buyers’ minds.”

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He added: “Established high street agents might be able to absorb a slowdown in sales, but the opportunist agents who open to take advantage of a booming market quite often disappear from the high street as quickly as they arrive.”

Walthamstow has the highest concentration of estate agents within a quarter of a mile of a main tube station, with a total of 21. Canary Wharf has 19.

London Borough	Number of agents in borough – start of 2015	Number of agents in borough – start of 2016	Number of agents in borough – end of 2016	% rise/(fall) in agents since start of the year
Barking & Dagenham	25	28	31	10.7
Barnet	122	125	116	-7.2
Bexley	52	55	52	-5.5
Brent	60	64	64	0.0
Bromley	110	116	116	0.0
Camden	109	120	127	5.8
Croydon	98	103	108	4.9
Ealing	87	91	88	-3.3
Enfield	92	86	88	2.3
Greenwich	64	70	67	-4.3
Hackney	65	74	75	1.4
Hammersmith & Fulham	82	95	90	-5.3
Haringey	58	61	60	-1.6
Harrow	67	67	68	1.5
Havering	53	56	57	1.8
Hillingdon	69	73	69	-5.5
Hounslow	59	65	62	-4.6
Islington	88	111	112	0.9
Kensington & Chelsea	127	137	135	-1.5
Kingston upon Thames	58	64	62	-3.1
Lambeth	79	85	91	7.1
Lewisham	71	79	82	3.8
Merton	62	64	65	1.6
Newham	74	76	76	0.0
Redbridge	77	77	80	3.9
Richmond upon Thames	91	101	95	-5.9
Southwark	92	103	114	10.7
Sutton	46	50	49	-2.0
Tower Hamlets	131	135	136	0.7
Waltham Forest	61	62	67	8.1
Wandsworth	153	160	151	-5.6
Westminster	179	228	241	5.7
TOTAL	2,661	2,881	2,894	0.5

 

London Tube stations	Number of estate agents within a quarter of a mile of tube station
Walthamstow	21
Canary Wharf	19
Ealing Broadway	17
Borough	16
Wimbledon	16
Turnham Green	16
Balham	14
Notting Hill Gate	14
St John’s Wood	13
Camden Town	11