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The chief executive of Hunters has told MPs there are 19 properties on its books which specify ‘No DSS’ - but...

Cornwall council has confirmed that it’s to use the Proceeds of Crime Act to try to win compensation for victims of...

Increased use of PropTech by lettings agencies should allow staff to be freed up to engage in all-important face-to-face contact with...

Student demand for places across the UK - and therefore for accommodation - is holding up well despite Brexit uncertainty, according...

The Mayor of London is calling on government to introduce a new registration system for anyone wishing to rent out a...

Senior lettings agency figures are amongst those who will this morning give evidence to a committee of MPs investigating so-called ‘DSS...

A Liberal Democrat activist is considering establishing a landlords’ group consisting of party members. Tony Harris, writing on the LibDem Voice website,...

The senior executive who has bought out the lettings side of a Glasgow agency business says increased use of PropTech is...

Location, Location, Location star Phil Spencer has launched a new podcast aimed at helping listeners through what he calls “the minefield”...

A national newspaper story suggests that a couple seeking an apartment to rent in Brixton were signed up to the wrong...

A rogue letting agent has been ordered to pay £42,596 in fines and costs of £10,626 after pleading guilty to a...

The official government consultation period on the scrapping of Section 21 eviction begins shortly, but now a leading lettings sector trade...

With the tenants’ fees ban just five weeks away focus is shifting to how agents can make up for lost income...

A husband and wife must pay joint fines, penalties and costs totalling over £8,000 after complaints about a bungalow they owned...

A senior lettings agent has raised the spectre of rental properties in future being German-style ‘empty shells’ - without even white...

The Association of Residential Lettings Agents says it backs a new Trading Standards-led body which will enforce the Fees Ban starting  on...

Figures calculated by Rightmove suggest that even when the Fees Ban and Deposit Caps kick in on June 1, some deposits...

Startling figures released this morning by Rightmove suggest that rents have risen 8.2 per cent in London in the past year...

One of the most vocal critics of lettings agents in recent years appears to be moving away from the property industry. Campbell...

A formal consultation process has started to consider government plans to extend Anti-Money Laundering from property sales to lettings as well. Unveiled...

The scrapping of Section 21 eviction powers has been welcomed by the London Assembly - but apparently it doesn’t go far...

A Freedom of Information request by The Guardian newspaper has produced the startling admission from government that not even one landlord...

Belvoir has snapped up another independent lettings agency in the south east.  Grey & Co, located at Wembley Park in north London,...

The scrapping of Section 21, as proposed by the government, shows that Whiteall has “a Dickensian view” of the buy to...

The head of a major property management firm says the controversial proposal to scrap Section 21 eviction powers for landlords is...

Rightmove has fallen in line with Zoopla and is banning the term ‘No DSS’ from its lettings agents’ listings from the...

The government’s wish to use a modified Section 8 as an alternative to Section 21 for landlords seeking possession of their...

A new utilities management platform for tenants says it will generate additional revenue streams for letting agents. Love Resident gives tenants online...

The government consultation process which fuelled its decision to axe Section 21 eviction powers and move towards longer tenancies received only...

The government says it wants to ban outright Section 21 'no fault' eviction powers in England and Wales. Instead landlords seeking to evict...

The government’s plan to scrap Section 21 is personally backed by the Prime Minister and will begin formal consultations today. If the...

Data from a Countrywide agency shows that 59 per cent of landlords who live in London purchased their buy to let...

The average cost of a new let in Great Britain is now £969 pcm as rental growth continues to rise.  Data from Hamptons...

A building expert is warning buy to let investors that they won’t enjoy unfettered rights to extend their properties upwards when...

A leading legal firm is warning that Right To Rent could become even more complicated for letting agents and landlords after...

A dispute concerning a ‘no deposit option’ put forward by a letting agency has reached the Daily Mail. The newspaper’s online service...

The Build To Rent sector continues to grow, albeit slowly - now volume house builder Crest Nicholson has teamed up with...

SDL Property Partners, which describes itself as the industry’s first property management franchising scheme, is pushing for new members. Its training has...

A buy to let investor has received a hefty fine “for endangering the lives of his tenants by failing to meet...

There will be less buy to let remortgaging in future as landlords consolidate rather than expand their portfolios. The prediction comes from...

Average monthly UK rent is now at its lowest level for three years according to the Deposit Protection Service. Average rent fell...

Savills has launched a new residential lettings service in one of the country’s most successful buy to let and investment locations...

Tenant referencing, rent protection and insurance provider Rent4sure is to join other leading suppliers as an ESTAS partner for the 16th...

Buy to let investors are facing a double whammy as stagnating rents and reduced tax relief are hitting profitability. A study from...

Mother and daughter lettings agency fraudsters have been told to expect jail sentences after defrauding landlords and tenants of £266,000 over...

Connells Group has acquired the lettings business portfolio of an independent agency in a move it describes as “part of its...

The government has beefed up its support for councils identifying and prosecuting rogue landlords. Yesterday the Ministry of Housing Communities and Local...

The owner of a buy to let HMO has been found guilty of six offences but has received a fine of...

It’s been revealed that the Welsh version of the Tenants Fees ban will come into effect on September 1. “Agents need to...

The rapid growth of Airbnb-style short lets could lead to the loss of private rented homes and displacement of long-term residents...

Rental growth remains in positive territory - just - but on average it’s still well below the general level of inflation...

Agents and prospective buy to let investors keen to grab a slice of the capital’s growing lettings market now have a...

High end lettings agency Harrods Estates says it has seen a 10 per cent rise in tenancy renewals in the Knightsbridge...

A lettings sector trade body says EU citizens may face problems getting private rented accommodation after Brexit. And the body - the...

Flatfair, which describes itself as the UK’s fastest-growing tenancy deposit alternative, has been shortlisted in the Best Newcomer category of the...

A trade body has welcomed calls by a parliamentary committee for tax incentives for the buy to let sector to improve...

A PropTech firm says buy to let investors could earn in excess of double the eight per cent yield most aim...

One of the most pro-licensing local authorities in the country has extended its own scheme to include the entire centre of...

One of the country’s largest networks of franchised lettings agents says the impact of the Fees Ban coming into effect in...

The latest lettings sector index suggests that monthly rents increased from February to March in six of the eight regions of...

Two buy to let investors have been fined thousands of pounds after failing to carry out improvements to unfit rental properties. Adur...

The final - and some say most prestigious - shortlist for this year’s ESTAS awards has been revealed. The People Awards, sponsored...

Prospective tenants are being warned about a fraud scam that cons people into paying an advance fee to rent a property. The...

A PropTech lead generation app that dubs itself the ‘Uber for Lettings Agents’ has launched in Manchester. The app, from Movebubble, already...

London’s lettings sector is changing with tenants still wanting to buy but increasingly accepting they must rent for longer in the...

Tenancy Deposit Scheme is the latest player in the private rental sector to launch online tools to help letting agents cope...

A controversial new survey claims to have identified the best cities for millennials to live in based on factors such as...

A housing minister has pledged that more key reforms for the private rental sector will be revealed soon, despite Brexit political...

Lettings agency Northwood has been told by the Advertising Standards Authority to ensure that photographs of a specific property are updated...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has launched a 10-element tool kit for agents ahead of the fees ban on June...

Belvoir Lettings has continued its solid growth with a trading statement revealing a 40 per cent rise in pre-tax profit and...

A regional property developer and investment firm has unveiled a Build To Rent division with a target of building 2,500 homes. The...

The government has issued new guidance notes on the Tenant Fees Act, aimed at agents, landlords and tenants. The publications come ahead...

PropTech company Goodlord is the latest entrant in the deposit alternative field. Under Goodlord Deposit Replacement Insurance agents can provide landlords with...

Fergus Wilson, arguably Britain’s most controversial landlord and almost certainly the individual with the largest number of buy to lets in...

A buy to let investor has been hit with a £4,000 fine plus costs of over £5,000 after failing to license...

The mandatory Client Money Protection scheme membership that comes into effect today will protect landlords and tenants from letting agents that...

Buy to let mortgage costs remain stable with little movement recorded over the past three months according to a market snapshot...

Latest lettings market data from high-end agency Knight Frank shows that average rents in prime central London rose 1.1 per cent...

A new survey suggests that long-term renting could be substantially less expensive than a mortgage. The study, for Ocean Finance, has analysed...

There’s been a big boost to the movement towards deposit alternatives in the private rental sector following a survey released this...

Figures given through a Parliamentary answer have revealed just how bad councils in England are at policing and enforcement action against...

The number of London landlords exiting the market last month was a whopping 125 per cent higher than the national average. The...

A leading accountancy firm has analysed buy to let taxation policies north and south of the border and claims that from...

Legal & General is to develop a Brighton industrial estate into the town’s first Build To Rent scheme. The work will go on...

It’s a vital time for letting agents to hammer home the benefits of buy to let and the dangers to landlords...

Changes to Capital Gains Tax which reach their full impact in the next 12 months could fuel property changing hands between...

A buy to let investor who hid families in windowless rooms after failing to get planning permission for a block of...

The Renting Homes (Fees etc) (Wales) Bill passed its final hurdle in the Welsh Assembly yesterday evening. This has similar policies to...

The number of agents seeing rent rises imposed on tenants hit 34 per cent in February, well up on the 26...

A lettings agent who stole over £350,000 is reported to have been told to pay back…£1. Local media in the south of...

The council for one of the wealthiest areas in the country says it will be “educating and advising letting agents” on...

New ‘best practice’ guidance to letting agents and landlords has been introduced ahead of the introduction of the tenants’ fees ban...

The average rent across England and Wales in February was a mere 0.4 per cent higher than the same point a...

Utilities and comparative platform Tenant Shop has linked up with Reposit to offer a security deposit alternative product for agents. Tenant Shop’s...

The government is back to business attacking the lettings sector with an extraordinary claim by a minister that many students are...

Fergus Wilson - the controversial buy to let landlord who with his wife once owned 1,000 homes - has named his...

A property management company is taking the unusual approach of suggesting to buy to let investors that they purchase properties with...

Lettings software provider teclet is launching its platform across the network of franchise agency Hunters. teclet has been working with Hunters on...

Large-scale buy to let investors are continuing to move to limited company status in a bid to limit their exposure to...

The PropTech firm CreditLadder is working with the Nationwide Building Society on a pioneering scheme to try to help tenants buy...

A survey of 500 buy to let landlords suggests that well over a third are planning to increase the size of...

Hamilton Fraser’s Academy programme has announced its next workshop, on May 14, to target how lettings agents can future-proof their business...

With the government already on the ropes over Brexit, there’s a call today for one of its flagship immigration policies to...

Leicester is the latest council to begin consultations on selective licensing in six parts of the city - with the threat...

A buy to let investment service says its podcasts are now downloaded over 200,000 times a month and it has an...

A postgraduate’s study of people who live in cars and vans on Bristol’s streets says they make the choice to do...

Another think-tank has come up with reforms which it wants the government to make to the private rental sector - and...

The Nationwide is the latest lender to say it will not insist its buy to let borrowers enforce a No DSS...

Rent rises in the year to the end of February, as released by the government’s Office of National Statistics, show growth...

The UK’s holiday lets sector could be a beneficiary of the current Brexit uncertainty and people not vacationing abroad because they...

The Tenancy Deposit Scheme has launched a series of events to educate letting agents and landlords on deposit protection. Starting next month...

The implementation and costs of landlord licensing schemes in Britain are a lottery. That’s the conclusion of a new analysis of licensing...

An online lettings service says it will pay existing tenants for finding replacements and handling viewings, in a bid to reduce...

A lettings agency has withdrawn a leaflet which featured a woman’s cleavage; the leaflet had been the subject of a complaint...

A trade body says a recent court case threatens the right of buy to let landlords to repossess their properties. The Residential...

Today the long-awaited Homes (Fitness For Human Habitation) Act comes into force, pioneered by Labour MP Karen Buck and giving people...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has asked the government for urgent clarification on how Right To Rent will work post-Brexit...

The JLL lettings agency is warning that the five week deposit cap enshrined in the Tenant Fees Act is likely to...

Property Franchise Group brand Martin & Co has snapped up West Yorkshire independent agent Red Box Residential. Martin & Co’s Saltaire branch, operated...

The average age of those buying investment property has fallen by more than three and a half years in the past...

A dawn raid on unlicensed HMOs in north London last week were the latest sign of a crackdown on rogue operators...

A crooked letting agent took £220,000 from tenants and landlords and has been exposed as buying a home in Florida, renting...

TrustMark, the government-backed quality kite mark scheme for tradespeople, is launching a pilot with Trading Standards to improve the quality and...

The proportion of landlords purchasing buy to let homes in London with cash rose from 33 per cent in 2017 to...

The Residential Landlords Association has given its backing to Zoopla’s ban on agents and landlords advertising properties to rent as ‘No...

There’s a claim today that around one million amateur and professional landlords in the new short lets sector are not adequately...

Zoopla says it’s introducing new measures to minimise the presence of what it calls “blanket restrictions” imposed on tenants who receive...

Rent in London is the most expensive in Europe for expats, new research shows. The UK capital’s rent averages US$7,189 - that’s...

A PropTech firm says buy to let investors should not respond to the slowing market by selling up, but should instead...

The ban on tenants’ fees beginning on June 1 presents an opportunity to overhaul the private rental sector, says a property...

A Scottish mediation company and the SafeDeposits Scotland Trust are to create eight workshops aiming to improve relationships between agents, landlords,...

There is a warning that the HMRC’s Let Property campaign, which received huge publicity and attention for some years, has so...

Labour’s proposal to introduce indefinite tenancies along the lines in a bid to emulate the German model reveals the party’s “fundamental...

A new study claims one in three Britons would be happy renting for the rest of their lives - but the...

The best suppliers to the estate and letting agent sector for customer service have been announced by the ESTAS in the...

One of Britain’s most experienced lettings experts has condemned the government for “almost singlehandedly destroying the traditional lettings market.” Lisa Simon -...

The government says it is still considering applications to operate Client Money Protection schemes from April, despite approving five schemes so...

Hull council has won a legal case in the High Court against a local trade body, the Humber Landlords Association. The claim...

A lettings sector trade body is demanding that the government brings forward tax measures to address what it calls “the scourge...

An 18 month probe by different authorities has led to a £4,000 fine for an HMO owner in the Highlands. The local...

Income tax paid by buy to let landlords now exceeds £3.8 billion annually – that’s more than double Tesco’s entire annual...

An accreditation scheme has been launched for the fast-growing sector of short lets and home sharing.  The UK Short Term Accommodation Association,...

Haringey council is the latest local authority in the capital to create a borough-wide additional licensing scheme for HMOs. It claims the...

The London-focussed rental app Movebubble has revealed major new investment from Build To Rent developer Quintain, which is taking a 10...

Labour says it will introduce new ‘indefinite’ tenancies for private tenants, based on rules currently in place in Germany. It claims German...

The average rent in the UK is now £940 per month, up 3.8 per cent on this time last year. When London’s...

Numerous regional independent agency chains have joined Zero Deposit, one of several rental deposit replacement schemes to have appeared in recent...

Two landlords have been ordered to pay more than £30,000 for breaching fire safety and over-occupancy licence conditions at their House...

A landlord has been convicted of three offences relating to his failure to comply with fire safety requirements in a privately...

More than a third of landlords are looking to cut their annual spending - and many of them are considering ending...

A leading trade body says the argument that councils have insufficient powers to tackle rogue operators isn’t supported by the facts...

Independent inventory reporting is the perfect complement to the government’s proposed housing reforms. That’s the view of the UK’s largest provider of...

New research from Zoopla suggests that parking sits firmly at the top of requirements for renters - but with pet-friendly facilities...

A rogue lettings agent has been fined over £72,000 after being found guilty of 15 separate offences relating to three illegally established houses...

A lettings agency that has analysed HMRC data says rental income for buy to let landlords has leaped 15 per cent...

The Home Office says it will reassess the Right To Rent scheme following last week’s decision by the High Court that...

The government has issued guidelines for the implementation of the new Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act which comes into effect...

Lettings automation service teclet has revealed that the Tenant Shop is the latest partner integrated into its platform. Tenant Shop provides energy,...

A new index for the lettings sector in England and Wales by PropTech company Goodlord gives a clean bill of health...

Data from Knight Frank shows that annual rental values actually grew in parts of prime outer London last month for the...

An independent letting agency in the north of England is offering landlords two free cinema tickets when they book a valuation...

A buy to let investor has been landed with a fine and costs of over £20,000 because he failed to apply...

A programme of nine new educational workshops takes place next month, some of which target new agents with little or no experience of deposits...

Momentum is building in the campaign to end ‘No DSS’ discrimination against private rental sector tenants in receipt of housing benefit. Late...

The gap between the cost of buying and renting is down 59 per cent to its lowest level in nine years...

Connells Group is backing this week’s National Apprenticeship Week and has launched a new head office programme giving around 100 existing...

Gregory Property Group has announced forward funding and the start of work on one of the country’s largest purpose-built student blocks.  It’s...

The government says it wants “an immediate change” in the policy of some letting agents and landlords who advertise ‘No DSS’...

There’s been general support for last week’s judgment by the High Court that the government’s Right To Rent policy breaches human...

The government has announced that over £19.5m is to be spent on paying deposits or paying the first month’s rent for...

Property management firm Mcilroy Smith has launched a mental health policy for its employees - possibly the first company in the...

The High Court has ruled that the government’s Right to Rent scheme breaches human rights law. Under the Right to Rent landlords are...

A regional fire service says a tragic anniversary is a good opportunity for agents and landlords to remember their legal obligations...

Rents over three prime London areas rose by 1.9 per cent in the final quarter of 2018 according to property data...

Demand for room rentals in London is so high their average charge has risen two per cent in 2019 already, claims...

Brexit is not a good reason for delaying buy to let investment, insists a mortgage chief. Andrew Turner is chief executive at...

A council in the west country has launched a grading system for property agents which it says is designed to be...

New figures from a leading trade body suggest that councils across England have cut by a quarter the amount they are...

North Wales agency Dafydd Hardy has snapped up small independent Smith & Wypler as part of a new growth strategy.  Smith &...

Doncaster council has paid £100,000 to a private landlord who threatened to take it to court over alleged slander.  Local media outlets say...

Propertymark’s Money Shield service and the National Approved Letting Scheme have each received government approval to operate Client Money Protection schemes. From...

PropTech company teclet has announced it will this year once again be a main category partner at The ESTAS estate and...

Another London local authority is proposing to insist HMOs require planning permission in future.  Currently in Croydon multi-bedroom properties can be converted...

A new free online training course which guides letting agents through the key principles of disputes has been released by The...

The head of a Hertfordshire lettings agency has pleaded guilty to managing a brothel, according to a statement from the police. He’s...

An online platform says its management service for landlords can vary depending on individual client needs - a vital response to...

Buy to let may have been in the doldrums in recent years thanks to new taxes and stricter regulations but there’s...

More tenants are seeing rent increases, according to the latest market snapshot delivered by the Association of Residential Letting Agents. It says...

Just when you thought there could not be any more rival licensing or accreditation systems in the private rental sector, a...

Another controversial scheme licensing landlords who let their homes out may face legal challenge. Middlesbrough council’s formal consultation on the introduction of...

Northwood, which is part of the Belvoir group, is launching a new TV advertising campaign to highlight its Guaranteed Rent Scheme. “We...

Letting agents and property firms are being invited to take part in the inaugural Property & Construction leg of an event...

London lettings agency Benham and Reeves has produced figures showing, indirectly at least, exactly why buy to let and property investment...

A local authority in the Midlands has admitted what many people have believed for some time - despite a slew of...

Some 24 per cent of landlords have considered letting out their properties on a short let Airbnb-style basis - but only...

The Dispute Service, which operates the Tenancy Deposit Scheme, has been ranked among the Sunday Times’ 100 best not-for-profit companies to...

Short lets on Airbnb and similar platforms are causing increasing irritation for owners in residential blocks, according to a property management...

Another client money protection scheme has been given approval to launch itself before regulations go live on April 1.  From that date...

The lettings department of a central London independent agency is claiming its busiest January in some years. Russell Simpson, a family-run independent...

New research on private renting and mental health in Wales has concluded that more support is required.  The research was undertaken for...

Sub-standard homes remain a key weakness in the private rental sector, which needs to get its house in order in the...

Client Money Protect has gained formal government approval to operate a client money protection scheme when the regulations go live on...

Foxtons has given a relatively upbeat assessment of the capital’s rental market in its survey of the sector in 2018. It says...

Connells-owned Gascoigne Halman - the agency at the centre of the long-running legal dispute with OnTheMarket - has acquired the Rowcliffes...

Over 250 new units constructed by Telford Homes are to be used for Build To Rent according to a deal announced...

More local authorities have announced that they want to increase the size of the areas covered by their existing selective licensing...

Belvoir says a survey of its franchisees shows that Brexit is having what it calls “a significant impact” on the rental...

A landlord who left his tenant homeless after changing the locks while he was on holiday has been hit with a...

Over half of the Millennials consulted in a survey say they want to get away from renting so badly they would...

A buy to let investor who converted three family homes to HMOs without securing planning permission has been jailed for falsifying...

Rental values in prime London show early signs of bottoming out, says Savills, with the annual rate of falls now at...

March 19 has been set as the next date for the Welsh equivalent of the Tenant Fees Ban Bill to be...

Bristol is the best city for house shares, according to new research by specialist rental sector broadband and utilities provider Glide. The...

A legal firm has renewed its criticism of local authority licensing schemes, accusing them of “persecuting” landlords. David Kirwan, managing partner at...

A survey of mortgage experts conducted by one of the largest specialist buy to let lenders suggests that Brexit is hitting...

Latest official figures show that private rental prices paid by tenants in the UK rose by 1.0 per cent in the...

A landlord has been ordered to pay over £5,000 in fines and costs in a licensing dispute with a local council.  Almas...

A senior Labour politician claims that “unscrupulous” letting agents are hammering tenants with higher-than-usual charges between now and June 1 when...

You may be forgiven for thinking that rent takes up an ever-greater proportion of tenants’ income - but new figures out...

Ambitious regional chain Linley & Simpson has opened a new branch in the Yorkshire market town of Pudsey after snapping up...

Countrywide’s upmarket lettings and sales brand, Hamptons International, has launched branded taxis in celebration of its 150th birthday.  The taxis will operate...

The Tenants’ Fees Bill has now become law, receiving formal Royal Assent yesterday afternoon - and within minutes, the government issued...

ARLA Propertymark is warning members to be diligent in how they promote the letting agents’ code of practice.  ARLA has issued a statement...

Online agency Upad has made another change to its charging structure. It has recently introduced revised packages for landlords, payment via Direct...

A lettings agency and its director have been fined a total of £30,000 for failing to licence HMOs and giving sham...

The latest property completed in the ever-growing Build To Rent sector is a 44 storey tower standing at 141 metres tall. The...

The average rent in the UK is now £932, which is a rise of 2.5 per cent on this time last...

Hounslow council wants its additional licensing scheme for HMOs - due to expire in May 2019 - to be extended for...

A free-to-use ‘Housing Early Prevention Service’ runs by a council on the south coast has been deemed such a success it...

Throughout 2018 the number of homes available to rent in prime areas of London dropped 13 per cent. In particular, 80 per...

Private tenants in Britain in 2018 paid £59.1 billion on rent - that’s £1.9 billion less than in 2017 and the...

With good news in the buy to let sector in short supply, here’s a promising start to the week - a...

A flat-share website claims typical rents in some 38 per cent of London are now so high they render the areas...

A lettings sector trade body has put the blame firmly on government for the scale of poverty amongst those who privately...

A letting agent in east London has been fined £4,000 after apparently publishing the incorrect fees that it levies on tenants...

The latest index from specialist buy to let platform Landbay says the slowdown in London’s lettings market since the Brexit vote...

Council enforcement officers have raided a house in Wembley, north London, and found 19 tenants paying a landlord £1,000 a week. Brent council’s...

Knight Frank’s student accommodation partner has given the thumbs up to new figures suggesting a surge in overseas and domestic students...

The Residential Landlords Association says the government’s changes to Universal Credit don’t go far enough to prevent rent arrears. The RLA says...

The Let Leeds agency has completed on the acquisition of another firm in the city, Milnes Walker - and the purchase...

High-end lettings agency Strutt & Parker says the take-up of new rental tenancies decreased by 5.4 per cent over 2018 as...

A student accommodation search engine is introducing an automated feeds service for letting agents and landlords with large property portfolios. The service,...

Another major franchise agency says its preparation work ahead of the June 1 tenants fees ban mean the impact of the...

One of the existing two government-authorised redress schemes governing estate and letting agents has called on landlords to voluntarily join, ahead...

The BBC’s Reality Check service, respected for giving a more realistic assessment of many politicians’ promises, has looked at London mayor...

High-end lettings agency Knight Frank is predicting that £75 billion of investment will be committed to the Build To Rent sector...

The London-focussed lettings agency Portico is expanding its short-lets service Portico Host into Manchester and Liverpool - but it isn’t spending...

The tenants’ fees ban coming into effect from June 1 could help traditional lettings agents keep their place on High Streets,...

Belvoir is launching a new TV advertising campaign on the ITV Hub, which is the ITV on-demand service.  The ad, which features...

A landlord who failed to comply with orders to improve the standard of a property has had to pay over £7,500...

The chief executive of a still-to-be-launched property portal says Christmas may have come early for letting agents because of the “huge...

A rental platform says it welcomes government plans to overhaul redress for tenants and others in the housing system but it...

The government has published an independent assessment of its Tenants Fees Bill proposal - the ban on fees levied by letting...

Rent controls of the kind which London mayor Sadiq Khan wishes to introduce will worsen what is already a huge exodus...

The Nottinghamshire branch of Martin & Co has snapped up the local independent agency SOLOS Residential. The family-run Martin & Co branches...

A leading landlord has hit out at a lettings agency’s portrayal of buy to let tax changes.  Rosalind Beck, a campaigning landlord...

Private rental sector tenants in England stay an average of 4.1 years in their property - casting doubt over the justification...

The National Approved Lettings Scheme has taken the unusual step of commenting on, and welcoming, the outcome of a court case...

Specialist student utilities and service provider Glide has launched a product it claims removes the admin and hassle traditionally associated with...

One of the country’s major Build To Rent providers has signed a deal to deliver 324 flats in a major city...

Almost the entire lettings industry has viewed the upcoming ban on tenants fees levied by agents in England and Wales as...

Belvoir has this morning told shareholders that the effect of the Fees Ban coming into effect in June will be less...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents says it backs the stricter rules on mandatory electricity checks in rental properties announced by...

Tenants are in for a rocky ride this year - and it’s chiefly the fault of government, says the chief executive...

Knight Frank has given an upbeat snapshot of the lettings market in Prime Central London, based mostly on higher rental growth...

New rules are to be introduced to ensure mandatory electrical inspections on private rental properties are carried out by competent and...

The government’s new redress system, announced last week and to be implemented later this year, must be free for renters to...

The latest rental market snapshot from YourMove suggests that typical rents rose 1.8 per cent across England and Wales in the...

The latest report for the rental sector by the TDS Charitable Foundation calls for greater cooperation between property professionals and tenants...

Lancasters Estate Agents on the Isle of Wight has been the subject of a complaint to the Advertising Standards Authority over...

The Property Ombudsman says agents can display weekly rents for homes they market - but they should be displayed alongside monthly...

Andrews lettings agency in Oxford has emerged as the hero in an episode which saw a family evicted from their home...

TV property pundit Phil Spencer, who now runs property advice site MoveIQ, says letting agents may introduce new administration fees on...

London-focussed lettings agency ludlowthompson says buy to let landlords across the country claimed a record £17.7 billion in tax relief last...

There’s been a big rise in the volume of purpose-built student accommodation in the UK, suggesting that the market may be...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is demanding 'property MOTs' to help landlords trying to meet new energy efficiency targets. The government’s...

The chief executive of the Citizens Advice consumer charity says she wants government “to do even more to strengthen the hand...

Collyers, an Experts in Property estate and lettings agency with two branches in North Devon, has hoovered up a lettings firm...

A Trading Standards team has prosecuted a landlord who allegedly 'knew' criminal activity was taking place in his buy to let...

The news this week that even individual private landlords must join a redress scheme is just the latest in an onslaught...

There’s been broad support from the lettings sector for the wide-ranging reform of the redress system announced yesterday by housing secretary...

A PropTech firm is offering landlords the opportunity to manage their portfolios from £35 a month, suggesting it could be a...

A new Build To Rent developer brand, Core Living, has been launched by development and investment company Godwin Group. Godwin is targeting...

Disrepair in communal areas of private blocks is to be tackled in a new series of seminars for letting agents and...

There’s been an angry reaction to the suggestion that London’s Labour mayor, Sadiq Khan, is seeking to introduce rent controls in...

Renting became more affordable in 2018 thanks to a combination of a once-in-a-decade fall in annual rents and wage inflation, according...

The Yeovil branch of hybrid agency EweMove now has over 200 managed properties following the acquisition of the lettings book of...

We are used to stories of councils condemning letting agents and landlords - but now a London council is praising the...

Another council has been given the go ahead to ban To Let boards in part of a city - with government...

The council at Brighton & Hove has won an extra £34,820 in public money from the government to help it build...