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Interest rates are expected to stay high despite good inflation news likely to be announced this week. The Office for Budget Responsibility...

Hamptons is linking with retirement rental specialist provider Birchgrove, pledging to offer “a unique proposition for those seeking quality senior rental...

There’s growing anger over restrictions on private homeowners using their properties via Airbnb and other short let platforms. Earlier this week Housing...

Respected energy industry consultancy Cornwall Insight says the price cap for the April to June period this year - to be...

The trade body representing short lets providers and support companies has reacted angrily to government proposals for a radical shake up. Housing...

Prime London rental values fell closer to their longer-term average in January, as supply continued to increase - but worries about...

A new networking service for letting agents and all other property insiders, including landlords and investors, is being launched today by...

Knight Frank has revised its housing market forecasts for 2024, just two weeks into the new year. It’s done this on the...

Winkworth’s first trading statement of 2024 reveals that it saw a five per cent rise in rental revenues in 2023 -...

An agency which currently has £350m of property under management and boasts a 98 per cent client retention rate, has opened...

Residential buy to let in the North West of England, London industrial property and retail warehouses are set to be the...

The president elect of ARLA Propertymark has created a comprehensive list of female experts in different property disciplines. Angharad Trueman, Group Lettings...

The head of a major supplier insists the Renters Reform Bill provision making it easier for tenants to keep pets is...

UK Finance has published its housing and mortgage market forecasts for 2024 and 2025 together with projections for 2023 full year numbers. Key figures for 2023 In...

Strutt & Parker’s London New Homes staff attribute 50 per cent of their market this year as dollar-based - 30 per...

The next phase of Rightmove’s 'believe it’ marketing push begins on Boxing Day, to coincide with the post-Christmas and New Year...

A new survey of 4,000 landlords has identified the three qualities they look for in a letting agent. Whereas trust and liveability...

Rightmove has released its annual league table of busiest rental locations. Wrexham is this year’s busiest, with each home available to rent...

There were 3.7 new prospective tenants for every rental property listed in prime London postcodes last month says Knight Frank. The figure,...

It looks as if the rental market is set to stay strong for some years to come. That’s because lending for house...

Berriman Eaton has reported a 30 per cent rise in its dedicated lettings business since 2020, with more than 420 properties...

Next year will see “a strong resurgence” in the rental market, a leading agent predicts. Nicky Stevenson, Managing Director of Fine &...

A new rental website which claims to list “all available homes for young people in one place” has raised well over...

An agency has issued its rental market forecast for 2024. Chestertons says rents are forecast to have increased by 6.5 per cent...

New research has identified locations with the largest volume of available rental stock, based on those units at or below the...

One of the first forecasts for the rental market for 2024 suggests that strong growth will continue. Property consultancy JLL says that...

New data reveals a 68 per cent surge in reports of meter tampering and energy theft during winter. The data - revealed...

Rent levels and voids held steady over the past month with strong demand keeping annual price growth at nearly eight per...

A leading lettings agency and property consultancy has revealed that it anticipate stronger-than-expected rental growth this year and next in prime...

Some prospective buy to let landlords may be about to use their equity to snap up investment properties at discounted rates,...

The Autumn Statement on November 22 is the traditional vehicle for the Chancellor to introduce tax change - but now you...

The historic Cluttons agency has moved its London office HQ to what it calls “a new prime trophy building.” It’s taken a...

Section 21 evictions are set to soar even higher, a property association leader forecasts - because of the threat to abolish...

A hate campaign against AirBnb appears to have been launched in a Welsh village. Newspaper reports say a sticker reading 'Death to...

A respected measure of investor confidence says it’s on the rise as a result of growing optimism over UK inflation figures...

Buy to let mortgages have seen the largest interest rate increase of any mortgage category according to new research. Barrows and Forrester...

An attempt to introducing statutory licensing for Airbnbs and some other tourist accommodation has got a frosty reception. The Welsh Government -...

What objections are you hearing when you try and convert let-only landlords to fully-managed? Because the latest figures show just 18 per...

Two thirds of pet owning tenants have faced challenges finding a place to rent - at least according to a survey...

Agents are being urged to sign a new petition has been launched on the UK Parliament website to reverse the move...

Two cities have been identified as the UK’s highest-growth cities across multiple property sectors over the next 10 years, according to...

I was surprised the other day to read statistics from the English Housing Survey about how many landlords use letting agents. In...

A trading statement from Belvoir reveals that the franchise giant is on the look out for “good quality complimentary acquisitions”. A strong...

Lettings agency Hamptons, now part of Connells, has hired a former Strictly Come Dancing and Countryfile star to front a property...

An agent has spoken out about a proposal to allow huge council tax rises on second homes and empty properties. New Scottish...

A Build To Rent operator has struck a deal with Lloyds Pharmacy to offer a so-called Health Concierge Service allowing tenants...

London-focussed agency chain Dexters says it now has some 10,000 enquiries a year for its rental relocation service. It has 30,000 landlords...

The UK Association of Letting Agents says a survey of its members suggests that 2023 will be a tough year for...

The number of first-time buyers is estimated to have fallen by nine per cent in 2022, Yorkshire Building Society says. Analysis by...

Propertymark has become embroiled in a war of words with a Scottish politician who has made a series of anti-agent and...

A lettings agent has been banned from holding office in a company for 11 years for abusing Covid loans - but...

A buy to let investment site has used Artificial Intelligence to identify 10 top property investment opportunities in 2023.  Based on analysis...

The next Budget, setting out government tax and spending plans, will be held on March 15 next year. Chancellor Jeremy Hunt says...

Rightmove forecasts average asking prices will drop two per cent in 2023 - meaning they will remain higher than after the...

UK banks are closing client accounts held by established letting agents and refusing to open accounts for new businesses. The Problem A growing...

One of Connells’ high end branch, Hamptons, is releasing a TV advertisement on Boxing Day.  The advert, in 30 and 60 second...

Keller Williams UK - which has seen market centre closures in recent months - insists that its lettings business KW Move...

Investment buyers will snap up a higher proportion of homes in 2022 than they did in 2021, the Hamptons agency forecasts.   So...

A short trading statement from Stock Market-listed London agency chain Winkworth shows just how vital the lettings sector is to its...

Agents should look to lettings to protect themselves when the sales market is hit by the coming recession and drop in...

Mortgage experts appearing before a committee of MPs have given an especially gloomy forecast for the buy to let sector in...

The current supply demand imbalance across the UK rental market looks set to endure as fewer households move across into owner...

A prominent research chief at a leading agency has repeated his claim that average UK house prices are set to drop...

The National Audit Office has made scathing criticisms of government efforts to build more affordable housing. The public spending watchdog says the...

The latest lettings market snapshot from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors suggests tenant demand is rising further with a net...

The residential arm of global property consultancy Knight Frank - one of the highest profile lettings services in the UK -...

A Labour MP says the government should introduce emergency rent controls as part of a package of measures to combat the...

A PropTech platform that boasts 200 letting agents and landlords amongst its current clientele has won over £500,000 in additional funding...

Connells makes no reference about its lettings division in a terse statement about its business performance in the first half of...

Capital appreciation over the next five years amongst properties in prime areas of cities and countryside will be strongest in the...

Purplebricks has given its interpretation of how much its lettings sector compliance crisis has cost the company. Back in December the Daily...

Fine & Country has diversified its marketing to include podcasts and radio advertising.  Chief marketing officer Emilie Despois says: “We have always...

Low supply has kept rental growth high - and it’s unlikely to slow any time soon. Knight Frank says it expects stock...

A high profile former chief executive of Propertymark is discussing agency industry issues in a new podcast. The new service - from...

Home set-up service Just Move In has announced a huge fund-raise of £4m. The service boasts Hamptons, Openrent, and Pickfords amongst and...

Propertymark says it welcomes measures in the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill that will mean swifter action to get the hundreds...

A senior lettings chief says the supply drought is making the rental market as overheated now as at any time in...

A leading lettings sector commentator believes today’s local elections may not directly change the private rental sector but could have a...

One of the best-known names in lettings in London and the south east has renewed its partnership with PropTech supplier Goodlordfor a...

Another Belvoir franchise has acquired a local independent lettings agency.  Belvoir already has offices in Corby, Kettering and Coventry and is now...

The latest market sentiment survey of the lettings market from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors suggests that rent rises will...

The latest forecast for the UK lettings market this year is that there will be a four per cent rise in...

Homes headed by a person over the age of 45 will account for at least half of all privately renting households...

Connells-owned lettings agency Hamptons is warning that the record-breaking rental growth of the past year has seen tenants pay a rocketing...

A PropTech supplier to the lettings industry that has just signed a deal with OnTheMarket has come out in support of...

Belvoir, the franchise giant, has launched an official podcast and the first episode includes an in-depth interview with chief executive Dorian...

The rental market shows no signs of slowing with ongoing high demand, fuelled in part by the pandemic, creating a buoyant...

Rightmove says added functionality for its tenant referencing portal is now being tested and will be rolled out later this year. In...

A lettings portal says it’s expanding across London and is offering agents free listings with no fixed-term contract, and the prospect...

A new fixed-rate platform has been launched that says it will save landlords thousands of pounds in management fees. Rentd claims to...

PropTech supplier The Lettings Hub has launched a new Tenancy Compliance service through its pre-tenancy progression software, BOX.  The Lettings Hub says...

Wales and Scotland are ahead of the game when it comes to limiting the impact of short term lets on the...

Home offices are already the most-demanded must have from prospective tenants says James Hay, director at Surrey lettings agency, The Home...

UK Finance, the umbrella group representing major mortgage lenders, says there will have been a massive 83 per cent surge in...

Propertymark chief executive Nathan Emerson has given his prediction as to what the big issues will be in the 2022 lettings...

Shelter - so often critical of the private rental sector - has instead turned its fire on the government over what...

The long term undersupply of rental properties across the country is expected to support rental growth into 2022, says Zoopla. In addition,...

One of the local authorities with the tightest clampdowns on letting agents has issued a statement celebrating its successes. Tower Hamlets council in...

Grainger, the UK’s largest listed residential landlord, says its new Build To Rent scheme in Leeds has set a record for...

With house prices at an all-time high, showing no signs of waning, the age of first-time buyers is on the rise...