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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...

A software platform has been launched which allows Build To Rent units to be short-let on the likes of Airbnb during...

A buy to let investor who let out a converted attic room despite it being the subject of a council prohibition...

A warning has been issued to lettings agents to review tenancy agreements to see if they are fit for purpose when...

A leading PropTech exponent is supporting the government’s Housing Court initiative, suggesting it could make redress for agents, landlords and tenants...

A council accused of paying over £500,000 to a landlord it had already ruled as unfit to rent out property is...

A buy to let investor has lost possession of his flat after converting it into an Illegal House in Multiple Occupation...

One of the largest players in the Build To Rent sector has snapped up a site in a major city centre...

A mortgage firm claims the lettings industry is ripping off students by overcharging them. Mojo Mortgages says it has compared the rent...

The Labour party has expressed outrage at the news that London councils are spending over £22m each year renting back homes...

A new league table of worries for landlords shows exactly why letting agents are needed - and a lot of the...

A new study suggests that rental properties now account for 40 per cent of the available housing stock.  Looking at the final...

Rents have risen over the past year but at a very low level according to new property consultancy Apropos.  Across Britain as...

A lettings agency boss who says she is actually in favour of the agents’ fees ban nonetheless admits there will be...

There has been a massive surge in the volume of lettings properties under construction for the burgeoning Built To Rent sector. Data...

An online agency specialising in the sale of investment properties with tenants in situ claims the average time for a tenanted...

A regional lettings agency claims it’s seen a 26 per cent surge in tenant and prospect views on properties listed as...

A controversial Labour-controlled local authority which already has 91 per cent of its private rental properties inside licensing schemes is now...

English letting agencies could lose over £60,000 each in the next two years alone as a result of the Tenant Fees...

East Midlands estate and lettings agency John German has revealed that it’s snapped up an independent based in Derby - Sowter...

A lettings market snapshot from Rightmove suggests asking rents in London are now increasing at an annual rate not seen for...

ARLA says it can help agents understand the intricacies of the Tenants Fees Ban, which completed its third reading in the...

Landlords in London are possibly £1,806 worse off since the vote to leave the EU in June 2016, according to specialist...

CGT Lettings Limited has acquired Gloucestershire based residential lettings company All About Property. All About Property has been run by Darren Loftus...

Early bird tickets for this year’s ARLA Propertymark Conference, happening just days before the likely introduction of the ban on tenant...

Lettings agency Haart says it will return up to £20m in deposits to existing tenants if they sign up to a...

The man who is arguably Britain’s most controversial landlord - Fergus Wilson - is likely to be issuing up to 90...

More than 50 councils across the country will share nearly £2.4m of extra government funding to crack down on rogue landlords. Among...

Today’s vote in the House of Commons on Theresa May’s Brexit withdrawal deal may be dominating the headlines but it’s the...

Councils have been accused of routinely pursuing the most serious enforcement option open to them if they find a local licensing...

Mystery surrounds the whereabouts of a letting agent who appears not to be in any redress scheme, is being investigated by...

The lettings industry has welcomed news that reforms to Universal Credit will include a new online system for private landlords to...

A report claims that England has just 825 homes for every 1,000 families as a result of two decades of house...

A council has prosecuted a buy to let investor for not making necessary improvements to his property. The landlord, Balwinder Singh Chandi,...

The UK’s largest property franchise business, Belvoir Lettings, says it beat its own ambitious target for its franchisees’ Assisted Acquisitions programme...

London lettings agency Sterling De Vere must pay a £167,000 fine and compensation of £740 to a renter for a misleading...

Online letting agency MakeUrMove has launched a new subscription model which it claims will ”ready landlords for the incoming tenant fee...

The average UK rental values continued to grow towards the end of last year according to data with the average rent now...

The Tenancy Deposit Scheme - which was hit by a serious fire at its Hemel Hempstead headquarters last evening - has appointed...

Hunters has announced its first business expansion of 2019 with the acquisition of what it calls “a significant lettings book.” The acquisition...

The government has been accused of not helping thousands of landlords who may have inadvertently granted assured tenancies instead of the...

One of the buy to let sector’s main mortgage lenders, Paragon, has refreshed its range of mortgages with new products which...

The UK’s largest provider of inventory services says the creation of an MOT certificate system for properties in the rental sector...

A holiday lettings company and a longer term private rental listings services have come together to try to optimise income for...

A lettings agency has agreed to amend its website after a complaint to the Advertising Standards Authority over its use of...

The Residential Landlords Association’s membership has hit a new high of 35,000.  Established in 1998 the not-for-profit association - which describes itself...

The Daily Mail has reported on a massive buy to let fiddle which involved a £10.8m property empire, rents totalling £500,000...

The number of people renting a home aged between 35 and 54 has risen by 15 per cent in the last...

Most buy-to-let fixed rate mortgages are currently cheaper than they were a year ago - some by as much as £29...

The stamp duty surcharge - which across the rest of Britain is currently three per cent on additional homes such as...

A new property management portal is being launched with the familiar aim of revolutionising the lettings industry - and it will...

Zero Deposit, the firm set up by former Zoopla commercial director Jon Notley, says it now has around 850 offices using...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is reminding members of tax changes ahead - a timely intervention with the deadline for...

The latest market snapshot from LSL Property Services once again shows that buy to let investors in northern regions have enjoyed...

Another online lettings agency launches in March with a claim that it “will streamline and automate the majority of admin tasks...

LSL Property Services has acquired LetCo Homes, a lettings and property management specialist based at Whiteley in Hampshire.  LetCo, which operated chiefly...

Oxfordshire sales and lettings agency Parkers - one of the brands of The Property Franchise Group - has snapped up the...

Three brothers and a property management company have received fines and a confiscation order, and must pay costs, following what a...

There’s been a strong start to the year for Build To Rent with news that a real estate investment trust dedicated...

The Daily Mail has unveiled an extensive network of homes advertised on Airbnb but actually being sub-let by tenants who are...

A leading PropTech entrepreneur says letting agents must provide value for their landlord clients through technology, transparency and service if they...

Agents have under three weeks left to respond to the government’s proposals to introduce a Housing Court to settle disputes in...

Agents who want to go the extra mile for their landlord clients may want to point them to assistance for the...

The government says it will shortly respond to over 8,700 responses it received about its suggestions for longer standard tenancies in...

The government says it will not reveal an implementation date for the banning on agents’ fees on tenants in England until...

There’s been a broad welcome from the industry to new guidance on room sizes on rented homes. The guidance was released just...

A landlord and building contractor have been fined after quantities of asbestos fibres were released from the demolition of a conservatory...

The government has made the controversial claim that the ban on the levying of fees on tenants will not produce “significant...

A local authority has taken the unusual step of issuing a celebratory press release stating that it issued penalty notices adding...

Knight Frank has issued a relatively upbeat assessment of the prime London lettings market as the year draws to a close.  Firstly...

As 2018 ticks away and 2019 beckons, it’s time for everyone at Letting Agent Today to wish you, your family and...

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has revealed that it will shortly choose which local authority will be the...

A lettings agency has been banned from running an Airbnb let in a residential block. It relates to a block in Glasgow...

A property website says tenants and prospective renters in London are set to have ‘a torrid 2019’ because of a shortage of...

Home ownership rates for families aged 25 to 34 are rising for the first time in 30 years but high barriers...

Edinburgh has been identified as having the UK’s fastest growing rents with the average annual sum rising by 4.63 per cent...

The number of landlords exiting the market in the East of England is 100 per cent higher than the national average...

In an announcement made just hours before much of the industry started its Christmas break, the government has clarified its guidance...

A crooked lettings agent who illegally pocketed tenants’ deposits to pay for his gambling addiction and lavish lifestyle has been convicted...

A trade body has spoken out about the lack of detail in government plans for Right To Rent, as contained in...

Everyone at Letting Agent Today wishes all our readers, agents and suppliers to the industry, a peaceful and loving Christmas. If at any...

Rents are likely to rise 2.5 per cent in 2019, then 3.0 per cent in 2020 and a further 2.0 per...

The Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Bill has achieved Royal Assent, meaning that it will soon become an act of Parliament. Put...

The automated lettings payment platform PayProp has revealed that it comes from charitable roots. PayProp is part of Humanstate, a private technology...

A buy to let investor has been fined more than £5,000 and ordered to pay a further £4,000 after HMO offences.  John...

A rental campaigner claims the amount of money stolen this year by crooked lettings agents and landlords has topped the £1.3m...

Online lettings platform HomeRenter says its property listings are now more detailed and more compelling thanks to a new ‘property creation flow’...

It’s the lull before the storm for private tenants according to the Association of Residential Lettings Agents. In its market snapshot looking...

JLL has been appointed by Aberdeen Standard Investments to manage Aireside, a Build To Rent scheme of 107 apartments in Leeds. The...

Research by franchise lettings agency company Belvoir suggests that landlords are continuing to exit the property market, although not at the...

A PropTech platform claims landlords can cut administration costs so much that they could afford to offer their lettings units furnished...

There are only a few days left for agents, brokers and suppliers to enter the ESTAS 2019 - closing date is...

A Private Members’ Bill which will allow private rental sector tenants to sue over the conditions of their properties will today...

The High Court today begins a Judicial Review of the government’s controversial Right to Rent scheme. The scheme began operating nationwide in...

A court has ordered a husband and wife pair of buy to let investors to pay back £322,282 in illegal income. A...

The owner of a buy to let property already shut by police has been fined by a court in Devon.  In June...

Buy to let investor Changhaiz Ishaq has been ordered to pay a £8,510 fine for defying a prohibition order on his...

A local authority claims that a court decision may set a legal precedent for other councils across the UK using the...

The proportion of homes let by an overseas based landlord has more than halved in the last eight years according to...

New data from online buy to let agency Yieldit claims to give an insight into which property types produce the best...

The UK’s student accommodation sector is still booming according to Knight Frank, despite Brexit creating uncertainty over the future of foreign...

A Private Members’ Bill which will allow private rental sector tenants to sue over the conditions of their properties is just...

Rents in major regional cities are growing significantly faster than both London and the UK average, according to data from buy...

Most tenants believe they will never be able to own a home because of the burden of saving for a deposit...

Two PropTech suppliers are claiming their new products will help lettings agents in the future, especially in the light of the...

Zoopla is withdrawing its lettings listings from Facebook Marketplace, only three months after putting them on. Officially the withdrawal takes place this...

A lettings company’s management director has been disqualified for failing to protect thousands of pounds of tenants’ deposits. Kari Jade Ridout from...

Famous buy to let landlord Judith Wilson has been fined £10,000 and ordered to pay almost £15,000 costs for failing to...

Former owner occupiers who want to be ‘chain-free’ if they buy again are pouring into the private rental sector according to...

Newton Property, a lettings management company in Scotland, is spending £100,000 on installing electric car charging points in properties it manages.  It...

Three letting agents who failed to return tenants’ deposits or pass on rent payments to landlords have been convicted of fraud...

Embattled London Labour mayor Sadiq Khan says he wants rent controls to be introduced in the capital’s private rental sector, but...

Five homeless people will have a roof over their heads this Christmas thanks to a kind-hearted PropTech chief. Mike Georgeson, founder of...

We hope you’ve found time to look at the huge number of Christmas agency pictures we’ve been running on Estate Agent...

High end lettings agency Knight Frank says the proportion of properties listed for rent in prime London residential markets in October...

Labour claims it was the driving force behind the government’s decision to cap tenants’ security deposits from six weeks to five...

Increased use of PropTech by letting agents can cut rent arrears, minimise voids and reduce the financial and legal fall out...

The number of tenants saying they are using letting agents to find a place to live has increased 12 per cent...

HomeLet’s latest snapshot of the lettings market suggests that the average UK rent is now £918 pcm - that’s 1.5 per...

A new survey suggests that the demise of the High Street for shopping could lead to a surge in the supply...

One of London’s most respected independent lettings agencies has given a hugely upbeat report on the capital’s lettings market performance throughout...

A couple from east London who illegally converted a town centre office block into 14 flats have been ordered to pay...

Some 79 per cent of landlords are only servicing the interest on their mortgages, not paying down their loans, according to...

New rules to protect rent paid by tenants to letting agents will fail to provide adequate protection for landlords, a trade...

Deposit protection provider The Dispute Service says it has seen a big rise in the number of deposits it protects in...

Tenants know very little about their rights and responsibilities as renters according to a new survey produced by TotallyMoney. Some 97 per...

The charity Shelter, which regularly campaigns against lettings agencies and landlords, is bracing itself for a strike next week - and...

An angry lettings agent has emailed Cabinet minister James Brokenshire to show his disgust at the government’s U-turn over deposit caps. In...

Shock figures released by an insurance company suggest that councils are woefully unable to police new regulations regarding mandatory HMO licensing. Figures...

A notorious rogue landlord must pay £1.5m or risk spending up to nine years in prison after what is thought to...

Continued political and economic uncertainty is likely to fuel increased tenant demand in the private rented sector, says Haart.  The company’s latest...

Agents and landlords have united against what is being seen as the latest attack on the private rental sector by the...

The National Approved Letting Scheme has published the latest version of its Effective Enforcement Toolkit - aimed at helping councils clamp...

A lettings agency says proposals for landlords to pay more council tax on homes they leave empty could indirectly help the...

Rent increases seen in London this year are likely to continue in 2019 because of the diminishing supply of homes to...

A London-focussed ‘rental brand’ called Residently has just secured £2.5m in funding.  Residently manages houses and flats for landlords, letting them directly...

The government has this afternoon confirmed that the amount tenants have to pay up front to secure a home will be...

There has been widespread Industry anger at news of a possible U-turn by the government over the proposed cap on security...

A lettings agency owner in Norfolk has been arrested on suspicion of fraud and theft following a newspaper probe. Earlier this year...

Thanks so much for your fantastic response to our call for Christmas videos and pictures to show how your office is...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has put together a brief summary of the 2018 rental market. In figures, the supply of...

One of London’s most enthusiastic councils for additional and selective licensing has pushed back the date for enforcement action against landlords...

Research released this morning reveals that university cities offer some of the highest buy to let yields in the country. The Free...

Online lettings agency Upad says it’s to offer landlords a proprietary system to collect rental payments via Direct Debit. Its system, called...

The average rent across Scotland is now running at £573 per calendar month - but that figure hides wide variations in...

The private rental sector in Wales could be offered incentives and other support to house those most in need, the Welsh...

Letting Agent Today can reveal that the agency at the centre of the scandal over alleged charges for viewings has been...

There’s been a large jump in the number of tenants successfully negotiating rent reductions according to the Association of Residential Letting...

It’s that time of year again - many offices will mark the start of December (that’s tomorrow) by putting up decorations....

London agency giant Kinleigh Folkard and Hayward is the latest to offer its tenant clients a no-deposit service.  It's going to use...

New figures show why the rental market is seeing such strong demand. The data shows that some 28 per cent of Britons...

The BBC claims that a lettings agency has been demanding hundreds of pounds in payment before prospective tenants are allowed to...

The website TheHouseShop says it aims to recruit some 30 per cent of the country’s letting agents by the end of...

Two thirds of local authorities in England and Wales brought no prosecutions against private landlords in 2017/18 according to research by the...

The first-ever pet think tank has launched to address what is claimed to be a lack of pet-friendly rental accommodation in...

The acquisition of popular rental sector utility provider Spark Energy will “significantly benefit the rental sector” according to the troubled company’s...

A new investment company says its latest tool, powered by Artificial Intelligence, helps buy to let investors search for the best...

Respected industry trainer and consultant Michael Day is joining the board of Glanty, the parent company of lettings PropTech firm teclet.  teclet...

OnTheMarket, which is beginning to undertake occasional property research, has released data identifying what proportion of tenants’ salaries are spent on...

Rents are rising very gently across almost all of England and Wales with only London and East Anglia showing falls in...

The controversial landlord Fergus Wilson says he has purchased a Body Worn Camera for £75 in a bid to avoid at...

A leading PropTech entrepreneur says agents who accept that the lettings fee ban is coming and who plan positively for its...

The head of a lettings agency has launched a petition in opposition to a bid by a local council to extend...

The private rental sector can help reduce smoking according to a report from Action on Smoking and Health, a pressure group. The...

A pressure group that in the past has protested outside letting agency branches has staged more direct action - this time against...

A government minister says the phrase ”rogue landlord” is too “cuddly” and he wants buy to let investors who broke the...

We regularly carry stories about fines for landlords and letting agents who have apparently broken council or national laws - but...

Private landlords have to wait an average of over five months to regain possession of a property when applying to the...

Today sees the Second Reading in the House of the Lords for the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Bill, promoted by...

Nottingham council - which recently introduced one of the largest and most controversial selective licensing schemes in the country - now...

More landlords will leave the private rented sector in the next year as annual rental price growth has been flat or...

A PropTech company has won approval from the Financial Conduct Authority to go ahead with a scheme which offers tenants a...

Fewer than one per cent of private tenancies end in a dispute over the deposit - and the figure is this...

A buy to let investor has been forced to close down two rat infested homes he owns in Rotherham after they...

A landlord is almost £42,000 worse off after repeatedly ignoring council orders to stop illegally letting so called “beds in sheds”...

Tenant deposit protection scheme TDS will be in London in February to host a ‘hands-on’ half-day workshop for agents and landlords. Part...

An advertisement on a property management firm’s website suggesting that rental income would be guaranteed to landlords has been banned by...

LAT recently carried a story of a lettings agency diversifying by renting out parking spaces for landlord owners - and now...

Salford-based student-focussed lettings agency Student Haus has been acquired by the Mistoria Group, which runs Mistoria Estate Agents in the north...

A substantial study by university academics suggests that changes to the benefit system lie behind the long-term rise in homelessness from...

One of Britain's highest profile landlords is to be sentenced on December 11 - and she must show the court details of...

A London property firm must repay no less than £60,000 in rent after a council obtained a Rent Repayment Order against...

A growing number of tenants say they want to stay put in their rented home even if the landlord sells up. A...

The head of a buy to let specialist mortgage broker insists the sector remains a solid investment despite the slew of...

Luton landlord Mervyn Kupshik has been ordered to pay nearly £30,000 to the Local council - and if he doesn’t do...

Shelter is campaigning for the outlawing if default fees levied on tenants by agents in Wales. While the campaigning group welcomes the Renting...

A former lettings agent in Plymouth has finally admitted taking hundreds of thousands of pounds from tenants and landlords - the...

The latest data from Agency Express shows what the company calls “buoyant figures” for the UK lettings market in October.  Following a...

Local press reports say that one of the country’s most controversial buy to let licensing schemes has seen thousands of applications...

A Manchester lettings agency has teamed up with a bank to fund entry into the Build To Rent management sector.  Two new...

The take up of new rental tenancies across prime central London decreased by no less than 12.7 per cent in the...

A rental management firm has launched a new home-sharing platform which it says is aimed at everyone wanting a place to...

A controversial review website which says it can be used to identify “good (and bad) letting agents” has won the backing...

The average rent in the UK is now £928 per calendar month, up by 2.1 per cent on the same time...

Darlington lettings agency My Property Box has signed a new deal to let properties in the area on behalf of developer...

Manchester’s rental market is rising higher than in any other UK city according to property consultancy Cushman & Wakefield.  Rents were up...

A call has been made for the government to review the section 8 possession process as part of its call for...

The JLL lettings agency has launched a ‘virtual property manager’ for a small number of Build To Rent tenants, claiming it...