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Political parties should stop bickering and instead work together to improve the private rental sector. That’s the view of the Lettings industry...
17 April 2024
From: Breaking News
Prime London rental values ticked up 0.3% over the first three months of 2024, according to Savills, as the market continues...
04 April 2024
From: Breaking News
A group founded eight years ago to represent the Build To Rent niche has now rebranded in a bid to win...
26 March 2024
From: Breaking News
Rents are approaching an affordability ceiling according to Savills - but the agency admits it doesn’t see substantial new supply on...
08 February 2024
From: Breaking News
The British Property Federation claims the time required for Build To Rent planning applications has significantly increased over the past decade...
07 February 2024
From: Breaking News
The latest Build To Rent report prepared by lettings agency Savills claims 2023 saw a total of £4.5 billion of investment...
01 February 2024
From: Breaking News
Savills says prime rental growth across London and the country has stalled for the first time in almost three years. In prime...
29 January 2024
From: Breaking News
High end lettings agency Savills has appointed a new head of residential lettings for its offices in Beaconsfield and Amersham. Daniel Spratley...
10 January 2024
From: Breaking News
Rhodri Evans, director of land and new homes at Andrews Property Group, has been named as one of several industry figures...
10 January 2024
From: Breaking News
Residential buy to let in the North West of England, London industrial property and retail warehouses are set to be the...
04 January 2024
From: Breaking News
New housing minister Lee Rowley has spoken out in favour of Build To Rent. At the inaugural Build To Rent Innovators conference...
08 December 2023
From: Breaking News
Savills is warning that despite strong income growth, rising rents are stretching the finances of those in the private rental sector. Savills...
28 November 2023
From: Breaking News
The latest annual report on Build To Rent in London again talks of issues with costs and delivery. A report from the...
10 November 2023
From: Breaking News
Savills has moved into a new office in Bath, occupying over 2,500 square feet in a prominent on a prominent shopping...
10 November 2023
From: Breaking News
Savills has appointed Marielle Papadopoullos as head of lettings in its key Hampstead office. Papadopoullos, who joins as a director, has over...
23 October 2023
From: Breaking News
The chief executive of Foxtons, who has been in the job exactly one year, now claims the company has enjoyed “incredible...
18 October 2023
From: Breaking News
Rental growth in prime regional markets has started to slow, following runaway growth over the past three years. That’s the view from...
09 October 2023
From: Breaking News
Prime London markets are proving more resilient to rising interest rates than their mainstream equivalents, says Savills. Prices in prime central London...
06 October 2023
From: Breaking News
The number of completed Build to Rent homes in the UK has increased 13 per cent in the past year to...
31 July 2023
From: Breaking News
Savills has announced a new head of its lettings department in its Bishops Park office in Fulham. Christina McLean steps into the...
28 July 2023
From: Breaking News
It appears almost certain that the Second Reading of the Renters Reform Bill - expected some weeks ago - will not...
14 July 2023
From: Breaking News
Prime London’s rental growth has started to slow on an annual basis, according to the latest Savills prime lettings index. But the...
11 July 2023
From: Breaking News
New research shows a 41 per cent reduction in the number of London properties available for private rent since the Covid-19...
06 July 2023
From: Breaking News
Retirement housing specialist Pegasus wants to become a big player in Build To Rent and has employed the Savills agency to...
17 April 2023
From: Breaking News
Prime London rents picked up again over the first three months of this year, says Savills. Rental prices are up 1.4 per...
12 April 2023
From: Breaking News
Upmarket lettings agency Savills has moved its 30-strong team in Reading into a prominent new office in the town centre. The firm’s...
20 March 2023
From: Breaking News
Figures out this morning from high end agency Savills shows a 5.1 per cent increase in capital appreciation on average across...
27 February 2023
From: Breaking News
Agency launches dedicated lettings team for rejuvenated London area Savills has launched a dedicated residential lettings office in an area of prime...
31 January 2023
From: Breaking News
Prime rental growth in London ended 2022 up 10.9 per cent on the year, according to Savills prime lettings index, as...
20 January 2023
From: Breaking News
A statement to shareholders by the Savills lettings and estate agency admits that it under-estimated how strong the high end prime...
13 January 2023
From: Breaking News
A warning letter signed by 330 major players in the private rental sector has been delivered to Housing Secretary Michael Gove. The...
03 January 2023
From: Breaking News
A prominent letting agent has written an open letter to Housing Secretary Michael Gove, calling for a halt on government attacks...
19 December 2022
From: Breaking News
Rightmove says yesterday’s Bank of England base rate rise to 3.5 per cent - the ninth hike in as many Bank...
16 December 2022
From: Breaking News
Savills has promoted Sophie Candlin, a negotiator in its south west London Teddington office, to become its head of lettings. She takes...
05 December 2022
From: Breaking News
A senior Savills figure, who chairs the trade body known as The Lettings Industry Council, has issued a warning to the...
29 November 2022
From: Breaking News
As energy prices have increased 70 per cent in the UK this year, so more homeowners have fitted small-scale solar panel...
17 November 2022
From: Breaking News
Savills, which at the end of last week released a gloomy forecast predicting a 10 per cent price drop for average...
07 November 2022
From: Breaking News
Savills is the latest agency to suggest significant house price falls next year - although in its long-range forecast it says...
04 November 2022
From: Breaking News
There seems to be an industry-wide sigh of relief that Rishi Sunak has become Prime Minister. His coronation marks the end of...
25 October 2022
From: Breaking News
The advocates of Build To Rent have made another ambitious target for the sector’s growth. Research from the British Property Federation and...
25 October 2022
From: Breaking News
Propertymark’s chief executive Nathan Emerson has welcomed the dramatic government U-turn on taxes - but most importantly has retained the stamp...
18 October 2022
From: Breaking News
Prime London rental growth reached 14.0 per cent in the year to the end of September according to Savills, but the...
03 October 2022
From: Breaking News
Increased demand and investor appetite for purpose built Single Family Rental schemes have seen this niche market grow at scale, according...
28 September 2022
From: Breaking News
The Times says some Build to Rent investment has been paused as a result of the rent freeze imposed by the...
22 September 2022
From: Breaking News
London faces a possible homelessness spike this winter due to the cost-of-living crisis and increases in private rents, a group of...
05 September 2022
From: Breaking News
Savills London has promoted Charlotte Whitmarsh to head of lettings in the Wimbledon office. She steps into her new position with seven...
19 August 2022
From: Breaking News
Capital appreciation over the next five years amongst properties in prime areas of cities and countryside will be strongest in the...
08 August 2022
From: Breaking News
Buy to let and other investors hoping for a rapid recovery in the prime central London market are likely to be...
05 August 2022
From: Breaking News
27 July 2022
From: Breaking News
House price growth in prime country and coastal locations is beginning to plateau after two years of runaway growth, with urban...
12 July 2022
From: Breaking News
Rental growth continues to roar ahead across prime areas of London, according to Savills. Prime London rental values increased a further 3.3...
07 July 2022
From: Breaking News
The Shepherd’s Bush office has the largest lettings portfolio of all the Winkworth offices across the capital - and now it...
27 June 2022
From: Breaking News
New research by Savills suggests that on-street car parking could increase both the capital values and rental potential of properties. The agency...
14 June 2022
From: Breaking News
An agency has opened its 10th residential lettings office in south west London. The new Savills branch, which will also handle sales,...
28 April 2022
From: Breaking News
Rightmove’s April webinars for agents continue today with Daryl Mcintosh, Policy Manager at Propertymark, giving a legal and compliance update for...
06 April 2022
From: Breaking News
A PropTech supplier to the lettings industry that has just signed a deal with OnTheMarket has come out in support of...
11 March 2022
From: Breaking News
The Lettings Industry Council - which arguably has a low profile with agents - has become an industry partner of another...
21 February 2022
From: Breaking News
Franchise estate agency chain Winkworth has expanded its presence in prime south west London with the opening of a new Wimbledon office. The new...
09 February 2022
From: Breaking News
The trade body which serves as a cheer leader for Build To Rent says the niche sector is part of the...
20 January 2022
From: Breaking News
Savills says an increase in the number of new builds bought for buy to let and other property investment will help...
19 October 2021
From: Breaking News
The rush for space to work and relax at home will still dominate the rental market for the short term at...
28 September 2021
From: Breaking News
ARLA Propertymark has hit back at a demand from London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan that he be given the powers to...
12 July 2021
From: Breaking News
For the first time since the beginning of the pandemic rents across all prime London regions saw a return to positive...
09 July 2021
From: Breaking News
London’s Labour Mayor, Sadiq Khan, has made a new call for power to cap private rents. He’s claimed that rents in the...
08 July 2021
From: Breaking News
An estate agency has sponsored an eco-art exhibition that involves 100 life-sized elephant sculptures in a central London park. Savills has sponsored...
22 June 2021
From: Breaking News
Rents across the wider London commuter belt continued to rise in the first three months of the year, according to a...
26 April 2021
From: Breaking News
Agents and other industry players have penned an open letter to government demanding a radical overhaul of targets for energy efficiency in the...
07 April 2021
From: Breaking News
Real estate as an industry has remained unchallenged throughout all of these years. For the industry worth more than 217 trillion...
19 March 2021
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An assessment by Savills suggests capital values - including those for properties in the lettings sector - are likely to soar...
10 March 2021
From: Breaking News
A new property identification system which has won the backing of ARLA Propertymark and substantial parts of the industry has said...
15 January 2021
From: Breaking News
High end agency Savills says it’s raised over £270m in nine auctions this year, with an average sold price of over...
22 December 2020
From: Breaking News
The latest Build To Rent snapshot up to late summer shows the number of BTR homes in stages of planning across...
12 November 2020
From: Breaking News
Staying on top of the numbers and figures in a constantly changing industry can be stressful. Changing property prices can be...
28 October 2020
From: Proptech & Innovation
Savills latest remote auction in 2020 saw £40m raised with 90 lots sold bringing the total value of property sold in 2020...
08 October 2020
From: Breaking News
A commission investigating affordable homes in the UK has called for annual private sector rent increases to be limited to a...
05 May 2020
From: Breaking News
Two lettings agencies have been vandalised by activists who defied the Coronavirus lockdown to damage property. Local media reports in Cheltenham say...
26 March 2020
From: Breaking News
We'd hoped it was good news but in fact it's just good-news-yet-to-come. The Savills office in Wuhan, the epicentre of the Coronavirus crisis in...
26 March 2020
From: Breaking News
The prime London lettings market has returned to growth after three years of falling rents, according to new five-year forecasts from...
31 January 2020
From: Breaking News
There’s been an upbeat prediction on the lettings market given by leading market commentator Lucian Cook, head of residential research at...
02 January 2020
From: Breaking News
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has given a brief but optimistic assessment of the private rental market for next year. “As...
24 December 2019
From: Breaking News
Welsh housing minister Julie James is to address agents, landlords and other property professionals at the Residential Landlord Association’s Future Renting...
05 November 2019
From: Breaking News
In recent days we’ve been running images and videos from Halloween-decorated offices over on our sister publication Estate Agent Today -...
31 October 2019
From: Breaking News
Research by the British Property Federation shows that there are now 148,046 build-to-rent homes complete, under construction or in planning across...
24 October 2019
From: Breaking News
A relatively new firm in the crowded central London buying agency market is expanding into property management. Aykroyd & Co was launched...
24 July 2019
From: Breaking News
A new white-labelled outsourced lettings management service is launching today, claiming to undercut all rivals. F%ur - a brand from 4percentproperty -...
15 July 2019
From: Breaking News
The concept of a so-called rental property passport would rapidly improve the quality of accommodation and landlords, and would be far...
12 July 2019
From: Breaking News
A holiday lets and short-term lettings market boom can be put down to a combination of four reasons, according to specialist...
05 July 2019
From: Breaking News
Savills says some 120,000 buy to let mortgages have been redeemed since the launch of the additional homes stamp duty surcharge...
24 June 2019
From: Breaking News
Savills has launched a new residential lettings service in one of the country’s most successful buy to let and investment locations...
11 April 2019
From: Breaking News
Rental values in prime London show early signs of bottoming out, says Savills, with the annual rate of falls now at...
18 February 2019
From: Breaking News
There has been a massive surge in the volume of lettings properties under construction for the burgeoning Built To Rent sector. Data...
18 January 2019
From: Breaking News
Some broadly good news to end the week - rents are predicted to grow 13.7 per cent in the next five...
02 November 2018
From: Breaking News
Savills has announced two acquisitions in the north west, one of an agency and one of an individual branch. The agency being...
12 October 2018
From: Breaking News
The British Property Federation says there are now 124,037 Build To Rent homes complete, under construction and in planning across the...
09 July 2018
From: Breaking News
The chief of a PropTech firm says letting agents should consider participating in the growing Build to Rent sector. Until now, many...
19 April 2018
From: Breaking News
New figures show a 30 per cent rise in the past year in the number of Build To Rent units planned,...
13 April 2018
From: Breaking News
Savills is urging its landlord clients to be more flexible in order to meet the new expectations of younger renters in...
31 January 2018
From: Breaking News
Stamp duty reform for first time buyers has taken pride of place in the Budget speech of Chancellor Phillip Hammond. From today,...