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First the good news - investors are still purchasing buy to let properties; the less good news is that it’s a...

Belvoir, the UK’s largest high street franchised agency network, has made major changes to its top table with promotions for two...

Almost one in five landlords intend to remain in the buy to let market indefinitely according to a new survey.  Research for...

SDL Group is celebrating its 2,000th tenant in the new but fast-growing Build To Rent sector.  SDL works with developer Sigma Capital Group...

The campaign group Generation Rent is back on the warpath in opposition of Section 21, which it describes as “the leading...

A new analysis of the buy to let market forecasts more bad news for agents, landlords and investors over the next...

The ownership of buy to let property is much more evenly split between women and men than amongst other forms of...

Legal & General has exchanged contracts on the West Tower in Manchester’s Deansgate, bringing the firm’s total of BTR units in...

Over a third of London investors no longer view property as a good investment, according to a survey of over 1,000...

Two independent agencies have joined forces in a bid to minimise damage caused by next year’s ban on fees levied on...

The rental market is being warned of the dangers from unsafe gas and electricity supplies caused by meter-tampering.  Research undertaken by the Grosvenor...

A Build To Rent operator is marking its 2,000th new-build home - an indication of how the sector is starting to...

Speculation is growing that three year tenancies for private renters - long favoured by the government - could be announced as...

The council behind a controversial private rental sector licensing scheme is trying to justify its introduction on health and safety grounds. On...

One of the lettings industry’s senior figures has welcomed the introduction of mandatory five yearly inspections of electrical installations in private...

The lettings sector is in the midst of a summer slowdown with no pick up in activity expected until next month,...

Airbnb, the short lets platform that has received substantial criticism from the buy to let sector over its largely unregulated status,...

There’s more evidence today that the largest buy to let investment yields are coming from the north of England and the...

The Rent Recognition Challenge, an initiative to use technology to help share renters' payment histories with lenders and credit reference agencies,...

The Scottish Government’s private rental reforms are shaking up the sector according to new data, which reveals rental property sales have...

A series of acquisitions by The Property Franchise Group this year has added over 3,000 managed properties to its portfolio this year...

LetsBid, a digital online auction service for lettings and sales, has extended its pre-screening service for agents with a new agreement...

A Luton lettings agency and its director, plus a landlord, have all been found guilty of offences related to a breach...

The Leaders Romans Group has snapped up yet another small independent agency - GPS Property Management based at Ravenshead in Nottinghamshire. For...

The chief executive of mydeposits has hit back at a Which? report calling for reform - or possibly even replacement -...

Agents and others wishing to respond to the official consultation on government proposals for longer tenancies have only until late evening...

The latest figures produced by Countrywide show a slow rise in rents across most of the country with the notable exception of...

The government has outlined increases in powers it wants to give social housing tenants - but no details of increases in social housing building. The...

A buy to let investor has been fined £20,000 after a kitchen fire that occurred in May last year at a...

Just under a third of people moving from one privately rented property to another in the past two years had to...

Rent rises in the private rental sector have merely tracked inflation and the Retail Price Index over the past five years...

Agents and landlords are being advised to check the status of their HMO licenses in the London Borough of Harrow following...

The proportion of landlords of British buy to let properties who are themselves based overseas has fallen to a record low...

A leading trade body says EU citizens living in the UK run the risk of losing their rental homes without swift...

One of the country’s largest independent property management firms says it’s seeing a clear shift within the rental sector from traditional...

You may have spotted a particularly entertaining ad yesterday for lettings property management firm ARPM - it’s the one that featured...

The emerging Proptech platform BestAgent has announced its latest partnership - this one is with InventoryBase, a software supplier which has...

The government’s controversial Right To Rent policy is to be challenged in the High Court just before Christmas. It was announced in...

Rents are expected to surge 15 per cent over the next five years thanks to increasing demand and limited supply following...

The Residential Landlords Association has told another council that its plans to introduce selective licensing in areas of its town are...

A local authority has taken the unusual step of naming seven buy to let landlords prosecuted in the past month in...

There are now only eight weeks left for agents to apply to join a new statutory register which comes into effect...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents says it’s asking its member to get behind Gas Safety Week which takes place from...

The Advertising Standards Authority has banned an advertisement for a company that helps Airbnb hosts prepare and manage their properties for...

Average rents in London are £1,615, up 3.3 per cent on last year, according to HomeLet’s latest index. This is the first...

Negative media portrayals of the buy to let sector could help to tip Britain into a housing crisis, claims an online...

The government should be more ambitious when it comes to ensuring the private rented sector becomes increasingly energy efficient. That’s the message...

Opposition is growing fast to the threat of another stamp duty attack on the buy to let sector, rumoured to be...

A buy to let investor has been fined £1,750 because of his alleged “aggressive practices”.  Shafaqat Ali Sadiq, of Derby, has been...

A lettings agency has teamed up with a university to give young students an insight into how small businesses operate. Priestley’s, a...

A London council has agreed to a TV crew taking part in a raid on an overcrowded and unlicensed HMO. The surprise...

A newspaper in warning that the beleaguered buy to let sector may be under attack yet again with the government considering...

A letting agent who stole a reported £700,000 from clients has been jailed for five years and has been described by...

Controversial landlord Fergus Wilson has increased rents on all new tenancies in his property portfolio by £50 a week because of...

Rents in the UK, excluding London, are still increasing but at their slowest rate for five years. Figures from specialist lender Landbay...

A self-employed gas fitter has been sentenced to 16 months in prison after he carried out unsafe gas work while falsely...

The proportion of visitors to Edinburgh using Airbnb surged 70 per cent in 2017 compared to the previous year. Commercial agency Colliers,...

A date has been set for the next stage of the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Bill, which is being promoted...

A leading PropTech entrepreneur says lettings agents should be more vocal in providing the government with feedback on council rental licensing...

The latest Your Move rental tracker suggests that London’s lettings market has continued to cool with prices falling by 0.5 per...

Government plans aimed at stopping the abuse of the current Rent A Room tax perk may overcomplicate the system and deter...

A new online rental platform claims that landlords could save enough to afford an additional holiday this year if they signed...

Legal & General, one of the biggest players in the burgeoning Build To Rent sector, says it has pre-let 50 per...

More big fines have been handed out in recent legal action regarding buy to let investors who have not stuck by...

Data from Knight Frank’s lettings division suggests that rents in the troubled Prime Central London area have risen for the second...

A London landlord has been ordered to pay over £13,000 for breaching the conditions of his licence as a result of...

The government’s announcement that it will bring in mandatory electrical checks in the private rented sector has been welcomed - perhaps...

CityLets, Scotland’s largest online lettings listings service, says it’s business as usual for the market north of the border despite a...

The government has produced new guidelines on setting up client money protection schemes for the private rented sector. They are evidently aimed...

It appears that take-up of an apparently compulsory licensing scheme in one city has been shockingly low - and the scheme...

It’s been a difficult summer for Airbnb and other short-let platforms operating in the UK. Recently the European Commission gave Airbnb until the...

Chestertons has announced record lettings results for the first half of 2018, claiming growth in market share and increased productivity. The agency...

The former office manager of an estate agency in Scunthorpe conned her employer out of over £34,000, a court has heard. Local...

The government has announced that the Report Stage for the Tenants’ Fees Bill will be held on September 5, the day...

Online lettings agency LettingaProperty has moved into a new home and says it plans to double its staff by adding five...

London is back as the most popular part of the UK for buy to let investment according to an analysis undertaken...

No fewer than 93 per cent of landlords financing buy to let property chose a fixed rate mortgage in the second...

The Association of Independent Inventory Clerks says it still believes there is an opportunity for the government to introduce mandatory inventory...

The number of tenants experiencing rent hikes rose to 35 per cent in June, up from 28 per cent in May...

It’s a conundrum for many, especially those moving to the capital...but portal OnTheMarket claims it knows exactly where it is cheapest...

The ZPG-backed Zero Deposit service is to be used by growing lettings operation Nick Dunning Associates as an alternative to the...

The number of landlords with more than 10 Airbnb accommodations listed in London has risen by 8.4 per cent in the...

Connells Group says a growing number of small-scale landlords are likely to quit because of the tax and regulation red tape...

A lack of new rental properties coming to the market in London has helped push the annual rate of London asking...

The Residential Landlords’ Association says proposals from Great Yarmouth council to introduce selective licensing in one part of the town contains...

The number of lettings transactions in Prime Central London in the second quarter of this year slumped 15 per cent compared...

Britain’s most controversial landlord, Fergus Wilson, says the recent changes in buy to let legislation means that if he was starting...

An insurer is launching a new referral scheme for letting agents to market to landlords and tenants as a way of...

The concept of deposit alternatives is gathering pace and now one PropTech firm closely involved in it - Reposit - has...

Britain’s most controversial buy to let investor, Fergus Wilson, has hit back and given his side of events on a series...

Buy to let is still an attractive investment compared to other asset classes but to make the best of the opportunity...

One of London’s leading letting agencies says in the current neutral rental market, buy to let owners must work hard to...

An investor has been fined £2,525 after failing to licence her property and allegedly providing inadequate living conditions for her tenants. Adeola...

Which?, the consumer body that appears to be taking an increasingly-aggressive line against letting agents and landlords, has now issued a...

From August 1 Nottingham council is introducing a new selective licensing regime covering an estimated 32,000 privately rented homes. This is an...

A tenant who was ripping off other tenants in an overcrowded bungalow "death trap" has been fined tens of thousands of...

Campaigning group Generation Rent has secured over 20,000 signatures for a petition it says will “end unfair evictions”. The petition, on the...

Newspapers in Kent are reporting that controversial buy to let multi-millionaire Fergus Wilson has evicted four single mothers from his properties...

All privately-let homes must have electrical installations checked every five years under new rules announced by the Ministry of Housing, Communities...

A letting agent responsible for a property in Huddersfield which caught fire and killed two young boys has been jailed for...

The lettings agency Elet, based in Harrogate, has appointed liquidators.  A Letting Agent Today reader spotted an announcement about the move in...

Councillors in Stockton-on-Tees are under pressure to rethink plans to introduce Selective Licensing of private rented housing in two areas of...

A lender has launched a new product which is thought to be the first mortgage explicitly aimed at borrowers who propose...

An online lettings agency is the latest to voice opposition to the government’s proposed three year standard tenancies for the private...

Prime central London lettings agency Draker has teamed up with a luxury interiors retailer and interior designer to launch what it...

A trade body is backing a call by a parliamentary committee for the government to fund certain fire safety improvements in...

Which?, the consumer organisation which this week revealed details of an undercover investigation of 30 viewings of properties marketed by lettings...

The latest LendInvest buy to let report, which ranks 105 postcode areas around England and Wales based on a combination of...

Letting agents and landlords have been warned to expect a possible rise in arrears in the coming months if conditions in...

Airbnb is facing more attempts to regulate its short lets, this time with the European Commission calling on the platform to...

Crooked letting agents and landlords have so far this year been convicted of illegally pocketing over £900,000 of tenant’s cash – and there’s...

Fixflo is launching its fifth annual Rental Repairs Survey for lettings professionals  The survey, supported by ARLA Propertymark, gauges the opinions of...

A new analysis reveals that it takes an average of 118 days for court-appointed bailiffs to remove tenants from private homes...

Airbnb, which is facing tough local restrictions in many of the largest cities in which it operates, says its new link...

The pressure group Generation Rent has joined forces with other critics of the private rental sector to demand an end to...

Some 18 per cent of properties let in the first half of 2018 were registered in the name of a company...

A third of tenants are happy to rent long-term and have no plans to purchase a property in the future, new...

Air Agents, a London Airbnb Management company, has signed what it calls “a significant investment deal” with BBC Dragon’s Den entrepreneur...

There are now well over 125 pieces of legislation and regulations - most introduced in modern times - governing the private...

A large majority of private sector tenants, 84 per cent, are satisfied with their housing according to the English Housing Survey...

The Leaders Romans Group has acquired Upp Property Lettings in Oakham and Stamford. The acquisition will see the existing Leaders branch in...

An online agency selling only buy to let units to would-be investors says it’s experiencing “positive growth” despite the challenges of...

High-profile buy to let mortgage lender LendInvest says it’s going to allow applicants to prove their ID online via photographs. It’s working...

A trade body says the country faces a net loss of 133,000 homes for private rent over the next year -...

Channel 4’s hit comedy Stath Lets Flats shows the funny side of running a lettings agency but one of the country’s...

Average UK rents have risen 1.8 per cent in the last year, equating to a typical £16 monthly hike. That’s the view...

The three-branch London agency Kay & Co has been named the Smaller Managing Agent of the Year at the ARMA ACE...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has heaped praise on a local authority which has fined 27 lettings and managing agents...

A gas safety engineer has pleaded guilty with a landlord of falsifying gas safety certificates for a string of private rental...

A specialist buy to let mortgage lender says buy to let investors should act now - even if it means borrowing...

The government has issued a new How To Rent guide - a key document which agents or landlords managing their properties...

The major legislative changes introduced in Scotland’s letting sector are a major turning point but should not be feared, says one...

The government has suggested that it is at least considering changing the terms of its Rent A Room system which could...

Yet another leading lettings agent has hit out at the government over its proposals for three year tenancies being the norm...

ARLA Propertymark has launched a new database to help its agent members keep abreast of compliance issues in the lettings sector.  The...

A respected property lawyer says she wants a change in the law to prevent unscrupulous landlords from offering accommodation in return for sex.  Liz...

One of the most respected buying agencies, Black Brick, says the collapse in demand for buy to let is the most...

The British Property Federation says there are now 124,037 Build To Rent homes complete, under construction and in planning across the...

A Tory activist has made an outspoken attack on the government’s policies towards the private rental sector on the pages of...

Online accommodation platform Student.com has linked with mental health charity Student Minds in a bid to prioritise mental health awareness amongst...

There has been strong support for an e-petition calling for the scrapping of the stamp duty surcharge on buy to let...

Two senior London politicians are backing a campaign to scrap the powers of agents and landlords to evict tenants under Section...

Rents in London rose by 0.1 per cent in the 12 months to June - it’s the first annual rental increase...

Well-respected London lettings agent and former ARLA president Lucy Morton is the latest key figure to pour cold water on government...

A petition has appeared on the government’s e-petition website calling for a review of a city council’s newly-introduced selective licensing system. Nottingham...

Legal & General, one of the biggest players in Britain’s burgeoning Build To Rent market, has exchanged contracts on its largest...

The cost of buy to let mortgages remain at record lows and - with little movement in costs and rates over...

Close examination of the consultation document on possible three year tenancies issued by the government suggest that it may want rent...

Three agencies have been heavily fined after a property in London was being used for multiple occupation with 11 people living...

Rural landlords say the government’s idea of making three year tenancies the norm across the private rental sector would damage the...

The independent mortgage market monitor Moneyfacts says there is now a record number of mortgage deals for those entering the buy...

A local authority has started a one-year trial of a ‘social lettings agency’ which aims to match those at risk of...

A consumer group which conducted 30 undercover viewings in five different UK cities claims letting agents are showing potential tenants around...

Buy to let landlords are welcoming proposals being considered by the government to provide financial incentives for those offering longer tenancies. In...

The next phase of the government’s Rent Recognition Challenge takes place this week, as six short-listed PropTech companies know which will...

Connells Group brand Fox & Sons has added a lettings portfolio in Salisbury to its network after completing the acquisition of...

The Zoopla-backed Zero Deposit scheme has launched what it calls “a heavyweight advertising campaign” - and unsurprisingly, it’s across the Zoopla...

Arguments have already started over the government’s proposals to make three year tenancies the norm in the private rental sector. Letting Agent...

A private equity company has made a £10m investment in Yorkshire estate agency Linley & Simpson to fund further expansion. Founded by...

Essex-based Balgores Property Group, which operates across that county and in Kent, has snapped up Woollens estate agents in Dagenham. Woollens has...

The latest monthly report from the Association of Residential Letting Agents puts the  number of rental properties managed by agents at...

A buy to let mortgage firm says it’s likely that there will be a spike in refinancing enquiries as landlords meet...

Leaks from government sources to at least two mainstream news outlets today suggest that radical proposals on longer tenancies and possible...

A new analysis of rental yields across all of the UK’s local authorities has revealed exactly where the best places are for...

The National Approved Letting Scheme has unveiled a new specialist training course for letting agents. The NALS Level 3 Award in Letting...

Hybrid agency EweMove is claiming massive growth for its branch in south Manchester, which it says has seen its lettings and...

The government should scrap the tax on new homes which is punishing those in need of a home to rent, the...

A PropTech company chief is backing the controversial idea of spot checks on private rental sector properties in a bid to...

We’re all for an optimistic interpretation of events but a new tool from comparison website GoCompare lists the UK’s top buy...

A specialist buy to let broker is urging landlords to tread with caution before jumping feet first into incorporating their property...

A students’ union is the latest body to partner a review platform allowing renters to give their verdict on dealing with...

Tenants, landlords and buy to let investors are the targets for new online rental guides introduced by the Ministry of Housing,...

A newspaper in Northumbria says local police are treating a fire at a lettings agency as a deliberate arson attack. Police are...

The Mistoria Group has opened its third office in the north of England - it now has a branch in Bolton...

Landlords are most likely to have invested in a boiler upgrade in the last 12 months to boost the energy efficiency...

Another Build To Rent scheme has been unveiled, this time in Berkshire. Crest Nicolson and M&G Real Estate have joined forces to...

Property expert Kate Faulkner says the massive surge in new regulations, legislation and fiscal measures aimed at the private rental sector...

Buy to let landlords are on the way out and Build To Rent will dominate the sector in the foreseeable future.  That’s...

The conclusions of a new think tank analysing the private rental sector are “fundamentally wrong” according to a trade body.  The Residential...

A landlord has been prosecuted for failing to comply with Improvement Notices on her property and failing to licence her house...

Mortgage lenders and brokers have been too quiet over changes to buy to let lending, according to a trade body. The National...

The chief executive of franchise giant Belvoir says government interference in the lettings sector will be to blame for higher rent...

Startling figures from the Countrywide high-end brand Hamptons International show how tough it is for young people to buy. The agency says...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has provided a check-list for so-called accidental landlords. The association says that with 145 pieces of...

Two lettings agencies have been expelled from The Property Ombudsman scheme. The first is Bower & Bower (B&B), a sales and lettings...

The lettings market is looking distinctly healthier now than a month ago according to data just released by board company Agency...

A head tenant who changed the locks on a property that was illegally sublet to no fewer than 35 men has...

Sourced, which describes itself as the largest property investment platform in the UK, has secured its 25th franchise some 10 months...

Letting agents and others in the private rental sector have responded to the latest government intervention - a review into how...

A TV station has gone public on revealing what it calls “the world’s worst lettings agency” - but it may not...

It’s been revealed that a church is amongst those owed thousands of pounds by a letting agent who has gone to...

Propio, another crowdfunding platform, has launched with the ambitious claim of expecting returns from residential investments of between six and 15...

The government has announced a review to assess how selective licensing is used and find out how well it is working...

A trade body says it has evidence that families take up the least amount of property management time when compared to...

A city council is to investigate the impact of Airbnb and other short let online platforms on the local housing market...

One of the biggest and earliest companies investing in Britain’s fast-growing Build To Rent sector has expanded its partnership with one...

Investors in buy to let in the UK are losing thousands of pounds in income - and it’s their own fault...

The Independent online newspaper says Conservative MP Gary Streeter will tomorrow meet with Prime Minister Theresa May and urge her to...

Countrywide is introducing the ARLA Level 2 qualification throughout its branch network.  All customer-facing lettings staff who joined the business on or...

The government has written to two senior MPs in a bid to clarify two detailed provisions in the Tenants Fees Bill,...

A PropTech firm has analysed London’s rental market and its results again spell bad news for those in the sector in...

A regional newspaper claims that a lettings agency has collapsed, its boss has gone to ground, and thousands of pounds are...

An analysis of over 580,000 properties has produced a league table of Britain’s best and worst buy to let postcodes in...

A collection of rental sector protest organisations is getting together to campaign against S21 powers under which landlords or agents on...

Norfolk-based estate agency Sowerbys is the latest to announce that it is offering its landlords the opportunity to use a deposit-free...

Landlords exiting the market because of tax and red tape have led to “an acute shortage of available properties to rent”...

The growth of the private rental sector has slowed thanks to government intervention and economic uncertainty - but it will expand...

Figures from UK Finance show there were 5,000 new buy to let house purchase mortgages completed in April - the latest data...

A buy to let investor has ended up with a bill for thousands of pounds after being found guilty of breaching...

The lettings industry has hit out at the Welsh Government’s proposals to ban agents’ fees levied on tenants. A Bill was put...

A lettings agent says she is returning to a High Street franchise agency group to help her combat competition from online...

An online property platform that last year said tenants prefer to deal directly with landlords has returned to the theme with...

One in five UK landlords have entered buy to let without even planning to, finding themselves with a property ‘accidentally’ or...

A new lettings agency set up at Burnham-on-Sea in Somerset says it’s setting out to atone for the misdemeanours of nearby...

Letting agents and landlords could be missing out on £61m of rent every month because families in temporary and emergency accommodation...

The average rent in the UK is now £919, up two per cent on the same time last year according to...

A Bill which is likely to end up banning letting agents’ fees levied on tenants in Wales has been introduced into...

Letting agents and landlords will have to win planning consent to erect To Let signs in student areas of Leicester from...

A survey suggests that 40 per cent of tenants have ‘issues’ with their agents or landlords and when they check out...

Multi-brand agency company Acorn Group says it has rolled out a no-deposit scheme to all 31 of its offices “with a...

A Build To Rent business says investors in the private rental sector should be more flexible in their approach to private...

A Member of Parliament who says “the majority of agents” engage in “dirty tactics” when it comes to fees imposed on...

Data from Countrywide’s Hamptons International agency suggests that the number of second homes that were rented rather than purchased last year...

New research nearly two out of five landlords will use limited companies to buy properties over the next year compared to...

A trade body is advising landlords and agents acting on their behalf to take precautions to protect their investments if they...

A council leader in London, so outraged after a bust of a rogue lettings property, has asked: “What kind of monster...

The Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants is now crowdfunding to pay for the Judicial Review of the government’s controversial...

Rental growth in England, excluding London, was just 1.18 per cent over the last year, the slowest annual rate since April...

Lettings portal Ezylet has partnered with Revolut, a digital banking company.  Revolut’s product allows users to make free international ATM withdrawals and...

The government’s flagship immigration Right To Rent policy is under threat on two fronts. Firstly a cross-party group of MPs has written...

The chief of what is described as Britain’s largest lettings agency has told an influential group of MPs that the proposed...

A prominent PropTech startup is questioning whether long-term tenants need to go through the traditional referencing process when moving between rental...

A campaign opposing the government’s recent tax changes which have penalised buy to let investors has taken a leaf out of...

The High Court has this afternoon agreed to allow a judicial review of the government’s Right to Rent policy. Right to Rent...

The Residential Landlords Association has reiterated its support for a legal challenge to Right To Rent which is to be made...

An electrical testing equipment firm and an MP are setting up a national campaign to demand new laws on appliance testing...

Airsorted, one of a number of management services that have sprung up to cater for hosts using Airbnb and similar platforms,...

A rent guarantor service based in London and previously aiming itself at the UK market is expanding into the Republic of...

A leading PropTech entrepreneur has renewed his call for letting agents to use more technology to clean up their act when...

Knight Knox, a property consultancy specialising in investment, has launched an online platform, yieldit, which aims to simplify the sale and...

The GMB trades union has waded in to the debate over whether rents in the private rental sector in London are...

A council tax fraud totaling over £2,800 across three properties and over six years has resulted in the buy to let...

The controversial Right To Rent regime whereby agents and landlords are expected to check the immigration status of would-be tenants is...

There’s been a huge 15 per cent slump in the number of properties to let in prime central London over the...

The Nationwide has bucked the trend of many industry organisations by insisting that the private rental market is still in good...

An adjudicator with the Tenancy Deposit Scheme has given advice on how to avoid disputes over gardening this summer. Writing on the...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents says it is seeing the highest number of landlords selling their buy to let properties...

A trade body is claiming that armed service personnel who let out their homes whilst stationed away are being hit by...

Two million tenants will this year be hit with rent rises totalling a combined £46m a month according to an online...

Repair and maintenance management software firm Fixflo and emergency contractor supplier AXA Partners are rolling out a pilot scheme for lettings...

A Build To Rent company that scrapped deposits for tenants a year ago says it has saved renters almost £3m in...

A major Scottish property management firm says agents and landlords south of the border should prepare now for the likely agency...

There’s been a big rise in the proportion of landlords remortgaging according to one of the sector’s most prominent lenders, Paragon. In...

Telford Homes says some of its massive 35 per cent growth in pre-tax profits over the past year is down to...

A high-profile landlord says the upcoming ban on letting agent fees 'can't come soon enough'. Writing a column in the Evening Standard's...

Over 70% of Conservative councillors and housing leads have indicated that £2 billion pledged for affordable housing is not enough to...

A letting agency says it is on course to manage 1,000 properties before it marks its tenth anniversary next year.  Tay Letting,...

Figures from the Home Office show that as of the end of March, a total of 405 fines for non-compliance with...

The government has responded to a petition calling for it to abolish the 3% stamp duty surcharge and reintroduce full buy-to-let...

Buy-to-let lender Paragon says it has seen a 'marked shift' towards buy-to-let activity among professional investors. The organisation reports that this is...

A new study has revealed that the key reason tenants move between rental properties is to experience a different area. This is...

The chief executive of the UK's largest franchise agency, Belvoir, says the number of letting and estate agents will 'undoubtedly fall'...

The introduction of a 3% stamp duty surcharge on the purchase of buy-to-let properties and the phasing out of buy-to-let mortgage...

As part of SAFEagent Awareness Week, which finishes today, letting agents have been provided with a free webinar covering compliance. The webinar...

Data from Your Move's England and Wales Rental Tracker shows that the number of tenants in arrears increased for the fourth...

Letting agents - and anyone with ‘relevant expertise and experience or a special interest’ - have been invited to provide their...

An experienced agent claims that forgoing the services of a letting agent to save money is a false economy for landlords. In...

John Lewis has announced details of a partnership with rental app Canopy to provide employees with the opportunity to have their rent payments...

York's largest letting agency has completed the biggest acquisition in its 21-year history. Eleven-branch network Linley & Simpson - which operates across...

This week marks a major milestone in Mayor of London Sadiq Khan's efforts to crack down on the capital's rogue letting...

A London council has launched its own online letting agency with the aim of creating a buzz in the 'London property...

A national charity is calling on the government to tighten the 'default fees' clause which is part of the Tenant Fees...

The Leaders Romans Group has announced the details of two new acquisitions to further strengthen its huge network. Sales and lettings business...

Foxtons has lost an appeal against the £35,000 fine it was hit with at the end of last year.  The agency was...

London landlords and letting agents could be missing out on up to £111 million of short-term rental revenue each year, according...

Today Trading Standards teams across the country will highlight the work they do to protect landlords and tenants from rogue letting...

Flatsharing website Ideal Flatmate has passed the seed funding milestone of £1 million. The website - which includes former Green & Co...

An online petition which calls on the government to reintroduce full buy-to-let mortgage interest tax relief and abolish the 3% stamp...

MPs will today undertake the second reading of the Tenant Fees Bill which proposes to ban upfront tenant fees and introduce...

Consumers' money remains at risk until April 1 2019 is the key message of this year’s SAFEagent Awareness Week. Over the next...

The UK’s largest franchise agency has secured funding which it will use to strengthen its growth and acquisition strategy. Belvoir has secured...

There was a decline in both the number of To Let and Let By properties during April, according to the latest...

The government has announced that it is to formally consult on proposals for longer tenancies in the private rental sector. Although there...

LonRes, the data and agent network business specialising in central London, is entering into a strategic partnership with rental services provider...

A lettings agency that started life as an idea between two friends 15 years ago is now celebrating managing over £100m...

The Build To Rent provider Grainger has reported a 23 per cent rise in profits and says it is looking for...

The Property Ombudsman has issued its annual report for 2017 and it makes grim reading for the rental sector - there’s...

Two rogue letting agents in London have been fined thousands of pounds as part of a council campaign to clean up...

The latest major piece of research into the private rental sector is forecasting a huge surge in demand - meaning there...

A rental sector supplier claims huge numbers of tenants are extremely ignorant of the health and safety issues surrounding their rental...

A lettings trade body says 380,000 landlords may be about to sell at least one property - potentially flooding the sales market. The...