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Since the Tenant Fees Act ban came into force, agents have been responsible for covering tenancy referencing costs, whether that’s by...

The most recent interest rate rise has swung the balance making it cheaper to rent than to buy, according to lettings...

A new national lettings-only portal is planning to launch this October with a pledge to revolutionise the rental sector. Its aim is...

Zoopla is warning that the recent sharp rise in rents has stretched affordability with the average rent now accounting for 37...

One of the most high profile members of the Welsh Parliament has hit back at calls from the controlling Labour and...

Propertymark is the latest part of the lettings sector to fight back against criticism and claims of extreme evictions made by...

ARLA Propertymark is the latest rental industry organisation to hit out at what it calls the “tenant-centred approach” being taken to...

The chief executive of ARLA Propertymark has made an outspoken attack on the UK government, accusing it of a “blatant disregard...

Tax experts say that an attempt to levy higher purchase tax on holiday lets and second homes in one part of...

New research claims to show the rent gap between lets in London and those in suburbs up to an hour from the...

One of the country’s most outspoken advocates of rent controls has been told why agents and landlords oppose them. Propertymark has hosted...

Rental affordability is deteriorating in parts of England. The research by rental platform Rentd looked at the current average income of a...

New data reveals that over 80 per cent of renters spend more than 30 per cent of their take home pay...

A radical overhaul of the private rental sector is underway in Scotland and agents’ body Propertymark says it wants all sides...

The imposition of rent controls - urged by a growing number of politicians and pressure groups in different parts of the...

A rental platform has revealed the wide disparity in rents to the north and south of the Thames in London, and...

New data from Zoopla suggests that lettings demand has now recovered across the central districts of all  major cities including Birmingham,...

A major holiday let company in one of the country’s prime tourist destinations says more affordable homes should be built to...

A lettings agency says renters must pay an average of up to 77 per cent of their monthly household income to...

The government’s new Levelling Up White Paper, revealed this morning, includes a radical reshaping of the private rental sector. Section 21 eviction...

A report from the House of Lords has condemned the private rental sector as being ”increasingly unaffordable” as well as being...

A survey by PropTech firm Moveable suggests that over a third of those renting in London are doing so only while...

ARLA Propertymark has launched a radical programme of reform for the private rental sector - getting in before the government’s own...

A prominent consultancy advising the Build To Rent sector has identified one British city as the prime location for investment in 2022. BNP...

Results have been released of an analysis of over 20,000 Build To Rent tenants in over 15,000 homes across the UK...

PropTech platform Lavanda says urban property is changing thanks to the pandemic, and it tells agents, landlords and other providers to...

Propertymark has told the government that imposing the same solution to the Net Zero challenge on all of the private rental...

New figures provide further evidence of the difficulties first time buyers have getting on the property ladder - and why as...

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

Propertymark has called for a return of mortgage interest relief and a review of landlord taxes to boost the rental sector. The...

Rents in some of the most popular locations of the country have risen 25 per cent in the past year according...

The value of the Private Rented Sector in England, Wales and Scotland grew by 5.8 per cent to a jaw dropping...

A part of the country which has seen a severe long term rental stock shortage as a result of switches from...

The rental sector bounce back in London and the Home Counties is now underway according to Knight Frank. The agency forecasts rental...

Wales’ Labour-led administration is to announce a three-pronged approach to affordability issues - and it looks likely to involve a clampdown...

A politician is stepping up his bid to ban buy to let purchasers acquiring any units at a 150-home scheme. ITV News...

Cornish MPs have spoken up in the House of Commons to highlight what they claim is the danger of having too...

Almost 40,000 people have signed a petition urging rent caps for private tenants and hefty tax rises for second home owners. The...

A major student accommodation platform says its local area has become a regeneration hotspot for proper investment. UniHomes says Sheffield has already...

Zoopla says rents outside London are rising at an average three per cent per year, the highest level since late 2018. However...

Some £3.5 billion of investment was placed in the growing Build To Rent sector in 2020, despite concerns over the pandemic...

Rightmove has set out its innovation programme for the private rental sector. The portal has given over a substantial amount of its...

London agency Chestertons is warning that it’s going to be “another difficult year for the lettings market” in 2021. It says that...

London’s lettings market may never return to its pre-pandemic appearance according to a flat-sharing rental platform. SpareRoom says 49 per cent of...

A renters’ union in Scotland claims a proposal to cap rents in the country doesn’t go far enough. The Scottish Parliament’s Local...

A PropTech lettings platform is reporting that the level of income required to cover the cost of renting has increased across...

PropTech company Goodlord has partnered with a credit reference firm, claiming it will help letting agents to secure more accurate info...

Agents on Rightmove can now start using the portal’s new appointment booking tool, Viewings Manager, which has just completed its test...

Staying on top of the numbers and figures in a constantly changing industry can be stressful. Changing property prices can be...

A new PropTech tool for agents claims to help weed out time-wasters and reduce the viewing-to-offer ratio. Rental Passport, produced by LegalforLandlords,...

Hamptons International has given a rental market forecast for 2021 - and it doesn’t make for happy reading. The agency says the rental...

A new product aims to improve tenant referencing by shifting the emphasis to the renters themselves. LegalforLandlords has just launched its new...

Can technology bring about the lasting change needed to the property industry? The industry has felt the effect of lockdown and...

Grainger, one of the biggest forces in the UK’s Build To Rent sector, says it has proved the resilience of the...

The government’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme will be essential to keeping payments flowing through the rental sector, according to a leading...

The average rent for a newly let property rose 3.3 per cent in the year to the end of February -...

A PropTech platform claims that an area where the average rent is 50 per cent of less of an average salary...

There’s a claim this morning that the average rent in the UK has increased only five per cent since 2014. Research by...

Home ownership is increasingly out of reach for British consumers, who say the market has become expensive and inaccessible and that...

A leading trade body is voicing concern over yet another council private rental sector licensing scheme - with particular worry over...

New research claims that one in every 50 homes in the capital is let on a short-term platform like Airbnb or...

New investment in private rented housing has fallen since 2016 as some private landlords have dipped out of the sector in...

A trade body has come out against a council’s HMO licensing scheme, claiming that its consultation period was too short -...

Unusual research undertaken by an alternative deposit scheme suggests that women pay a substantially higher proportion of their salary than men,...

Controversial housing charity Shelter claims that private renters are collectively paying out £11 billion more a year – around £425 a...

A leading agent is the latest industry figure to speak out against rent controls, which continue to be advocated by Labour...

Rent controls similar to those demanded by Labour in London and other major cities in the UK do not work, and...

A statement from Hackney council in north east London says those who break its licensing provisions for the private rental sector...

Property development and investment firm SevenCapital has released a top 10 league table of UK cities which it claims will perform...

UK-wide rental prices are up 2.0 per cent annually to £876 – a three-year high – according to a new quarterly...

Rental platform Canopy, which allows tenants to rent without a deposit, has announced a new partnership which will allow agents and...

New research has thrown light for the first time on the gap between the rental affordability of male and female workers...

A lettings platform has analysed the current average annual rental cost of different parts of the UK and how that relates...

One of the suppliers in the fiercely competitive world of deposit alternatives has introduced an ‘unlocking deposits’ option. From today, Zero Deposit...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors wants the government to implement recent recommendations to regulate the agency industry, starting with the...

Average rents dropped in five of the eight UK regions monitored by property technology company Goodlord. The biggest drop was recorded in...

A flat-sharing website has created a league table of average rents in locations surrounding the top-ranked universities in the United Kingdom....

Manchester is becoming a buy to let investment hotspot according to the boss of a leading property management firm.  David Alexander of...

Goodlord has expanded its offering to enable corporate lets to be processed through its platform.  The move means agents who process both...

A PropTech supplier specialising in rent passports and tenancy deposit replacement has launched an advanced version of its primary product, on...

Average rents performed strongly across many parts of the country last month, but floundered in London and the South East. Goodlord's Rental...

Competition between various deposit alternative providers continues apace, with one of the earliest companies - Reposit - naming a new agency...

An average of 34 per cent of a tenant’s typical salary is spent on rent across the UK, according to an...

A PropTech product is claiming a breakthrough for letting agents who can now access same-day referencing on prospective tenants. LetAlliance claims that...

The latest rental market snapshot from PropTech firm Goodlord shows that average rent increased in four of the eight regions of...

A property management chief is arguing that rent controls would restrict mortgage loans to buy to let investors and drive existing...

New data from Proptech firm Goodlord suggests that the average void period for England and Wales is just 21 days. The longest...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A survey by specialist lender Landbay reveals that tenants outside of London typically spend 33 per cent of their monthly pay,...

One of the country’s leading buy to let experts has given her reasoning behind the surge in the number of people...

The lettings director at Urban, the online agency recently snapped up by Emoov, says the rental market is faced with significant...

A leading letting agent argues that the UK housing market is not prepared to deal with a growing number of lifetime...

The House of Commons has published a briefing paper on tenancy deposit schemes ahead of the Report Stage of the Tenant...

A top London letting agent working for Knight Frank has commented on the 'irony' that the government's series of tax changes...

If you’re a landlord who owns a buy to let property or perhaps a portfolio and need to raise money against...

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

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

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

A prominent campaigner for alternatives to traditional rental sector deposits is welcoming the government’s commitment to consider the issue in the...

A trade body has stepped up its calls on government to help the lettings industry do more for older renters. Responding to...

A new survey released this morning gives an insight into how tenants manage rental payments and their willingness - in some...

Specialist funding platform Property Partner has conducted a survey which suggests that 54 per cent of landlords are selling all or some...

The trend towards reducing or eliminating deposits at the same time as edging towards a ban on letting agents’ fees on...

Almost three-quarters of buy to let mortgage transactions made by landlords operating via limited companies in the final quarter of last...

Virtual Staging is about presenting a property in the most appealing way to potential buyers. Many consider virtual staging is deceiving...

The government's plan to cap tenancy deposits at six weeks rent threatens to cost Britain’s renters an average of £1391 –...

Consumer organisation Which? says a handful of buy to let mortgage lenders have found a way of helping so-called ‘portfolio landlords’...

Countrywide says a record 64,672 tenants left London over the last 12 months with an unusually-high proportion going on to rent elsewhere. Some...

The increasing number of renters and low interest rates for existing home owners mean that the total rent bill is now...

Latest data from Your Move’s rental indices suggest that rents are growing, with the average in England and Wales now £904,...

A respected letting agency research head says Build To Rent could be a significant step towards solving the overall shortage of...

Equity release specialist Retirement Advantage has launched a range of products specifically for owners of Buy To Let properties.    These products will...

Skipton is the latest lender to confirm that it will continue lending to so-called portfolio landlords after new Bank of England...

NatWest Intermediary Solutions has announced a major overhaul of its buy to let mortgage offer, but it is bucking the trend...

Buy to let mortgage competition is showing no signs of stopping, thus giving one of the few pieces of good news...

Over half the value of buy to let lending in the second quarter of this year was provided to limited companies...

Rents fell in June by 0.3 per cent when compared to the same time last year, the second successive month in...

Rented housing in London is at its least affordable levels for 10 years after typical rent rises of 47 per cent...

Stoke-on-Trent has been named as the UK's buy-to-let 'sweet spot'. Analysis of data from Home.co.uk by property crowdfunding plaform Property Partner shows...

The proportion of households living in the Private Rented Sector (PRS) will rise to 24% over the next four years, according...

One of the biggest lenders to the buy to let community, Santander, is to lower its affordability assessments from next Wednesday.   It...

The range and pricing of buy to let mortgage products for limited companies has never been better according to a survey...

The substantial majority of landlords who now use letting agents will continue to do so even if they see their premiums...

New lettings data from Agency Express supports the belief that the rental market may be slowing down across much of the...

The government’s Housing White Paper may have made many broad pledges aimed at the private rental sector, but it still remains...

The head of MartinCo, the country’s largest franchise agency group, says the government’s buy to let tax changes and lettings fee...

The Bank of England's decision to keep the base interest rate at the record low of 0.25% has kept buy-to-let headline...

The consumer organisation Which? has joined the chorus of concern that new mortgage restrictions may hit buy to let landlords.   Since January...

Rent increases across the UK are now running at an average that is less than half the level of a year...

No fewer than 60 per cent of buy to let investors say they believe they will be hit by forthcoming changes...

Specialist mortgage lender OneSavings Bank is the latest to announce that it is introducing stricter affordability assessments for all new buy...

The dramatic slump in the prime central London sales market is now leading to a reduction in rents being achieved in...

  Industry groups have warned that the government’s ban on letting agency fees levied on tenants in England will backfire, with most...

The government will today announce that it is banning letting agents’ fees levied on tenants - meaning the fees will instead...

The Mortgage Works, the buy to let lending arm of the Nationwide, has seen a dip in the amount borrowed by...

Average rents across the country have risen just three per cent in the past year and typical tenants are staying an...

Affordability pressures in the private rental sector mean that far fewer tenants are now renting properties with spare bedrooms according to...

Property consultancy Dataloft has produced an index to monitor what it says are the four key factors behind buy to let investors'...

The rate of rental growth has dipped to its lowest annual rate this year - prices are up three per cent...

Buy to let lending is well down according to data from the Council of Mortgage Lenders.    Apparently contrary to an optimistic report...

The average rent for a one-bedroom property was £1,010 in August, according to the latest Landbay Rental Index. Between July and August,...

Latest figures from London lettings agency Portico suggest a slight fall in rents but the firm is now claiming that it...

The new housing minister, Gavin Barwell, says he is behind the concept of longer tenancies for renters in the private sector.   In...

Mortgage firms insisting on landlords proving their rental income could cover 145 per cent of their monthly payments could lead to...

Data produced by Scottish lettings agency DJ Alexander Lettings appears to show a growing trend towards long-term letting over buying. The agency,...

A warning is being issued that the types of mortgages still being extended to buy to let investors risks them becoming...

A buy to let lender says new underwriting rules from the Prudential Regulation Authority could trigger another rush to snap up...

New licence fees for letting and managing agents have been announced by Rent Smart Wales, the Welsh Government’s registration and licensing scheme which...

Countrywide says average rents across the UK are now at their highest-ever levels, some 12 per cent above their pre-recession peak.  This...

Rents in Greater London for new tenancies are rising at the slowest rate for almost two years.  Data from HomeLet shows rents...

Rents across England and Wales rose by an average of 3.4 per cent in 2015 - the fastest annual growth rate...

Britain's largest letting agency says rents grew by an average of 3.1 per cent in 2015, taking the average monthly rent...

Investment advice company London Central Portfolio says the proposed three per cent stamp duty surcharge on the purchase of buy to...

The scores are in - we have asked 20 senior agents and analysts for their forecasts for capital values the 2016...

Campaigning charity Shelter says it is setting a lettings sector ‘test’ for candidates vying to become the next Mayor of London. “Early...

Only 26 per cent of people currently aged 20 to 39 in England will live in a home they own by...

Savills says mainstream UK rents are likely to rise by an average of 16.5 per cent by the end of 2020...

In an unusual boost for the benefits of the private rental sector, new data suggests tenants routinely rent in more expensive...

Rightmove says rents across England and Wales, outside London, are up 1.3 per cent in the past three months according to...

More evidence of a possible affordability issue in the private rental sector has been produced from a survey of Londoners earning...

Tenants trying to find cheaper and better value letting properties than those available in London are moving outside the capital -...