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London agency Chestertons is warning that it’s going to be “another difficult year for the lettings market” in 2021. It says that...
31 December 2020
From: Breaking News

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...
10 December 2020
From: Breaking News

A renters’ union in Scotland claims a proposal to cap rents in the country doesn’t go far enough. The Scottish Parliament’s Local...
09 December 2020
From: Breaking News

A PropTech lettings platform is reporting that the level of income required to cover the cost of renting has increased across...
18 November 2020
From: Breaking News

PropTech company Goodlord has partnered with a credit reference firm, claiming it will help letting agents to secure more accurate info...
17 November 2020
From: Breaking News

Agents on Rightmove can now start using the portal’s new appointment booking tool, Viewings Manager, which has just completed its test...
13 November 2020
From: Breaking News

Staying on top of the numbers and figures in a constantly changing industry can be stressful. Changing property prices can be...
28 October 2020
From: Proptech & Innovation

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,...
27 October 2020
From: Breaking News

Hamptons International has given a rental market forecast for 2021 - and it doesn’t make for happy reading. The agency says the rental...
28 September 2020
From: Breaking News

A new product aims to improve tenant referencing by shifting the emphasis to the renters themselves. LegalforLandlords has just launched its new...
03 September 2020
From: Breaking News

Can technology bring about the lasting change needed to the property industry? The industry has felt the effect of lockdown and...
28 July 2020
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Grainger, one of the biggest forces in the UK’s Build To Rent sector, says it has proved the resilience of the...
15 May 2020
From: Breaking News

The government’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme will be essential to keeping payments flowing through the rental sector, according to a leading...
21 April 2020
From: Breaking News
23 March 2020
From: Breaking News

A PropTech platform claims that an area where the average rent is 50 per cent of less of an average salary...
16 March 2020
From: Breaking News

There’s a claim this morning that the average rent in the UK has increased only five per cent since 2014. Research by...
02 March 2020
From: Breaking News

Home ownership is increasingly out of reach for British consumers, who say the market has become expensive and inaccessible and that...
04 February 2020
From: Breaking News

A leading trade body is voicing concern over yet another council private rental sector licensing scheme - with particular worry over...
29 January 2020
From: Breaking News

New research claims that one in every 50 homes in the capital is let on a short-term platform like Airbnb or...
24 January 2020
From: Breaking News

New investment in private rented housing has fallen since 2016 as some private landlords have dipped out of the sector in...
22 January 2020
From: Breaking News

A trade body has come out against a council’s HMO licensing scheme, claiming that its consultation period was too short -...
21 January 2020
From: Breaking News

Unusual research undertaken by an alternative deposit scheme suggests that women pay a substantially higher proportion of their salary than men,...
13 December 2019
From: Breaking News

Controversial housing charity Shelter claims that private renters are collectively paying out £11 billion more a year – around £425 a...
27 November 2019
From: Breaking News

A leading agent is the latest industry figure to speak out against rent controls, which continue to be advocated by Labour...
13 November 2019
From: Breaking News

Rent controls similar to those demanded by Labour in London and other major cities in the UK do not work, and...
29 October 2019
From: Breaking News

A statement from Hackney council in north east London says those who break its licensing provisions for the private rental sector...
21 October 2019
From: Breaking News

Property development and investment firm SevenCapital has released a top 10 league table of UK cities which it claims will perform...
18 October 2019
From: Breaking News

UK-wide rental prices are up 2.0 per cent annually to £876 – a three-year high – according to a new quarterly...
16 October 2019
From: Breaking News

Rental platform Canopy, which allows tenants to rent without a deposit, has announced a new partnership which will allow agents and...
08 October 2019
From: Breaking News

New research has thrown light for the first time on the gap between the rental affordability of male and female workers...
20 September 2019
From: Breaking News

A lettings platform has analysed the current average annual rental cost of different parts of the UK and how that relates...
05 September 2019
From: Breaking News

One of the suppliers in the fiercely competitive world of deposit alternatives has introduced an ‘unlocking deposits’ option. From today, Zero Deposit...
23 August 2019
From: Breaking News

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors wants the government to implement recent recommendations to regulate the agency industry, starting with the...
22 August 2019
From: Breaking News

Average rents dropped in five of the eight UK regions monitored by property technology company Goodlord. The biggest drop was recorded in...
09 August 2019
From: Breaking News

A flat-sharing website has created a league table of average rents in locations surrounding the top-ranked universities in the United Kingdom....
09 August 2019
From: Breaking News

Manchester is becoming a buy to let investment hotspot according to the boss of a leading property management firm. David Alexander of...
29 July 2019
From: Breaking News

Goodlord has expanded its offering to enable corporate lets to be processed through its platform. The move means agents who process both...
17 July 2019
From: Breaking News

A PropTech supplier specialising in rent passports and tenancy deposit replacement has launched an advanced version of its primary product, on...
16 July 2019
From: Breaking News

Average rents performed strongly across many parts of the country last month, but floundered in London and the South East. Goodlord's Rental...
05 July 2019
From: Breaking News

Competition between various deposit alternative providers continues apace, with one of the earliest companies - Reposit - naming a new agency...
01 July 2019
From: Breaking News

An average of 34 per cent of a tenant’s typical salary is spent on rent across the UK, according to an...
26 June 2019
From: Breaking News

A PropTech product is claiming a breakthrough for letting agents who can now access same-day referencing on prospective tenants. LetAlliance claims that...
11 June 2019
From: Breaking News

The latest rental market snapshot from PropTech firm Goodlord shows that average rent increased in four of the eight regions of...
06 June 2019
From: Breaking News

A property management chief is arguing that rent controls would restrict mortgage loans to buy to let investors and drive existing...
04 June 2019
From: Breaking News

With the Tenant Fee Ban obliterating a key income stream, letting agents should be looking at ways they can increase the...
16 May 2019
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New data from Proptech firm Goodlord suggests that the average void period for England and Wales is just 21 days. The longest...
07 May 2019
From: Breaking News

There will be less buy to let remortgaging in future as landlords consolidate rather than expand their portfolios. The prediction comes from...
11 April 2019
From: Breaking News

The latest lettings sector index suggests that monthly rents increased from February to March in six of the eight regions of...
05 April 2019
From: Breaking News

Buy to let may have been in the doldrums in recent years thanks to new taxes and stricter regulations but there’s...
26 February 2019
From: Breaking News

London lettings agency Benham and Reeves has produced figures showing, indirectly at least, exactly why buy to let and property investment...
22 February 2019
From: Breaking News

Belvoir says a survey of its franchisees shows that Brexit is having what it calls “a significant impact” on the rental...
19 February 2019
From: Breaking News

Over half of the Millennials consulted in a survey say they want to get away from renting so badly they would...
19 February 2019
From: Breaking News

You may be forgiven for thinking that rent takes up an ever-greater proportion of tenants’ income - but new figures out...
14 February 2019
From: Breaking News

Today’s vote in the House of Commons on Theresa May’s Brexit withdrawal deal may be dominating the headlines but it’s the...
15 January 2019
From: Breaking News
08 January 2019
From: Breaking News

The government says it will not reveal an implementation date for the banning on agents’ fees on tenants in England until...
02 January 2019
From: Breaking News
21 December 2018
From: Breaking News

Most tenants believe they will never be able to own a home because of the burden of saving for a deposit...
14 December 2018
From: Breaking News

Former owner occupiers who want to be ‘chain-free’ if they buy again are pouring into the private rental sector according to...
13 December 2018
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An angry lettings agent has emailed Cabinet minister James Brokenshire to show his disgust at the government’s U-turn over deposit caps. In...
06 December 2018
From: Breaking News

Agents and landlords have united against what is being seen as the latest attack on the private rental sector by the...
05 December 2018
From: Breaking News

Rent increases seen in London this year are likely to continue in 2019 because of the diminishing supply of homes to...
05 December 2018
From: Breaking News

There has been widespread Industry anger at news of a possible U-turn by the government over the proposed cap on security...
04 December 2018
From: Breaking News

A survey by specialist lender Landbay reveals that tenants outside of London typically spend 33 per cent of their monthly pay,...
09 November 2018
From: Breaking News

One of the country’s leading buy to let experts has given her reasoning behind the surge in the number of people...
08 November 2018
From: Breaking News

The lettings director at Urban, the online agency recently snapped up by Emoov, says the rental market is faced with significant...
14 September 2018
From: Breaking News

A leading letting agent argues that the UK housing market is not prepared to deal with a growing number of lifetime...
05 September 2018
From: Breaking News

The House of Commons has published a briefing paper on tenancy deposit schemes ahead of the Report Stage of the Tenant...
04 September 2018
From: Breaking News

A top London letting agent working for Knight Frank has commented on the 'irony' that the government's series of tax changes...
31 August 2018
From: Breaking News

If you’re a landlord who owns a buy to let property or perhaps a portfolio and need to raise money against...
28 August 2018
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The chief executive of mydeposits has hit back at a Which? report calling for reform - or possibly even replacement -...
14 August 2018
From: Breaking News

Rent rises in the private rental sector have merely tracked inflation and the Retail Price Index over the past five years...
13 August 2018
From: Breaking News

The growth of the private rental sector has slowed thanks to government intervention and economic uncertainty - but it will expand...
15 June 2018
From: Breaking News

A prominent campaigner for alternatives to traditional rental sector deposits is welcoming the government’s commitment to consider the issue in the...
15 May 2018
From: Breaking News

A trade body has stepped up its calls on government to help the lettings industry do more for older renters. Responding to...
14 May 2018
From: Breaking News

A new survey released this morning gives an insight into how tenants manage rental payments and their willingness - in some...
17 April 2018
From: Breaking News

Specialist funding platform Property Partner has conducted a survey which suggests that 54 per cent of landlords are selling all or some...
12 April 2018
From: Breaking News

The trend towards reducing or eliminating deposits at the same time as edging towards a ban on letting agents’ fees on...
01 February 2018
From: Breaking News

Almost three-quarters of buy to let mortgage transactions made by landlords operating via limited companies in the final quarter of last...
19 January 2018
From: Breaking News

Virtual Staging is about presenting a property in the most appealing way to potential buyers. Many consider virtual staging is deceiving...
16 January 2018
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The government's plan to cap tenancy deposits at six weeks rent threatens to cost Britain’s renters an average of £1391 –...
13 November 2017
From: Breaking News

Consumer organisation Which? says a handful of buy to let mortgage lenders have found a way of helping so-called ‘portfolio landlords’...
24 October 2017
From: Breaking News

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...
16 October 2017
From: Breaking News

The increasing number of renters and low interest rates for existing home owners mean that the total rent bill is now...
04 October 2017
From: Breaking News

Latest data from Your Move’s rental indices suggest that rents are growing, with the average in England and Wales now £904,...
29 September 2017
From: Breaking News

A respected letting agency research head says Build To Rent could be a significant step towards solving the overall shortage of...
08 September 2017
From: Breaking News

Equity release specialist Retirement Advantage has launched a range of products specifically for owners of Buy To Let properties. These products will...
24 August 2017
From: Breaking News

Skipton is the latest lender to confirm that it will continue lending to so-called portfolio landlords after new Bank of England...
16 August 2017
From: Breaking News

NatWest Intermediary Solutions has announced a major overhaul of its buy to let mortgage offer, but it is bucking the trend...
10 August 2017
From: Breaking News

Buy to let mortgage competition is showing no signs of stopping, thus giving one of the few pieces of good news...
01 August 2017
From: Breaking News

Over half the value of buy to let lending in the second quarter of this year was provided to limited companies...
05 July 2017
From: Breaking News

Rents fell in June by 0.3 per cent when compared to the same time last year, the second successive month in...
05 July 2017
From: Breaking News

Rented housing in London is at its least affordable levels for 10 years after typical rent rises of 47 per cent...
05 July 2017
From: Breaking News

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...
19 June 2017
From: Breaking News

The proportion of households living in the Private Rented Sector (PRS) will rise to 24% over the next four years, according...
13 June 2017
From: Breaking News

One of the biggest lenders to the buy to let community, Santander, is to lower its affordability assessments from next Wednesday. It...
13 April 2017
From: Breaking News

The range and pricing of buy to let mortgage products for limited companies has never been better according to a survey...
05 April 2017
From: Breaking News

The substantial majority of landlords who now use letting agents will continue to do so even if they see their premiums...
21 March 2017
From: Breaking News

New lettings data from Agency Express supports the belief that the rental market may be slowing down across much of the...
20 March 2017
From: Breaking News

The government’s Housing White Paper may have made many broad pledges aimed at the private rental sector, but it still remains...
08 February 2017
From: Breaking News

The head of MartinCo, the country’s largest franchise agency group, says the government’s buy to let tax changes and lettings fee...
03 February 2017
From: Breaking News

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...
25 January 2017
From: Breaking News

The consumer organisation Which? has joined the chorus of concern that new mortgage restrictions may hit buy to let landlords. Since January...
16 January 2017
From: Breaking News

Rent increases across the UK are now running at an average that is less than half the level of a year...
11 January 2017
From: Breaking News

No fewer than 60 per cent of buy to let investors say they believe they will be hit by forthcoming changes...
04 January 2017
From: Breaking News

Specialist mortgage lender OneSavings Bank is the latest to announce that it is introducing stricter affordability assessments for all new buy...
21 December 2016
From: Breaking News

The dramatic slump in the prime central London sales market is now leading to a reduction in rents being achieved in...
07 December 2016
From: Breaking News

Industry groups have warned that the government’s ban on letting agency fees levied on tenants in England will backfire, with most...
24 November 2016
From: Breaking News

The government will today announce that it is banning letting agents’ fees levied on tenants - meaning the fees will instead...
23 November 2016
From: Breaking News

The Mortgage Works, the buy to let lending arm of the Nationwide, has seen a dip in the amount borrowed by...
21 November 2016
From: Breaking News

Average rents across the country have risen just three per cent in the past year and typical tenants are staying an...
14 November 2016
From: Breaking News

Affordability pressures in the private rental sector mean that far fewer tenants are now renting properties with spare bedrooms according to...
14 November 2016
From: Breaking News

Property consultancy Dataloft has produced an index to monitor what it says are the four key factors behind buy to let investors'...
07 November 2016
From: Breaking News

The rate of rental growth has dipped to its lowest annual rate this year - prices are up three per cent...
14 October 2016
From: Breaking News

Buy to let lending is well down according to data from the Council of Mortgage Lenders. Apparently contrary to an optimistic report...
13 October 2016
From: Breaking News

The average rent for a one-bedroom property was £1,010 in August, according to the latest Landbay Rental Index. Between July and August,...
13 September 2016
From: Breaking News

Latest figures from London lettings agency Portico suggest a slight fall in rents but the firm is now claiming that it...
18 August 2016
From: Breaking News

The new housing minister, Gavin Barwell, says he is behind the concept of longer tenancies for renters in the private sector. In...
09 August 2016
From: Breaking News

Mortgage firms insisting on landlords proving their rental income could cover 145 per cent of their monthly payments could lead to...
05 July 2016
From: Breaking News

Data produced by Scottish lettings agency DJ Alexander Lettings appears to show a growing trend towards long-term letting over buying. The agency,...
21 June 2016
From: Breaking News

A warning is being issued that the types of mortgages still being extended to buy to let investors risks them becoming...
10 May 2016
From: Breaking News

A buy to let lender says new underwriting rules from the Prudential Regulation Authority could trigger another rush to snap up...
29 April 2016
From: Breaking News

New licence fees for letting and managing agents have been announced by Rent Smart Wales, the Welsh Government’s registration and licensing scheme which...
23 March 2016
From: Breaking News

Countrywide says average rents across the UK are now at their highest-ever levels, some 12 per cent above their pre-recession peak. This...
15 February 2016
From: Breaking News

Rents in Greater London for new tenancies are rising at the slowest rate for almost two years. Data from HomeLet shows rents...
10 February 2016
From: Breaking News

Rents across England and Wales rose by an average of 3.4 per cent in 2015 - the fastest annual growth rate...
22 January 2016
From: Breaking News

Britain's largest letting agency says rents grew by an average of 3.1 per cent in 2015, taking the average monthly rent...
18 January 2016
From: Breaking News

Investment advice company London Central Portfolio says the proposed three per cent stamp duty surcharge on the purchase of buy to...
07 January 2016
From: Breaking News

The scores are in - we have asked 20 senior agents and analysts for their forecasts for capital values the 2016...
16 December 2015
From: Breaking News

Campaigning charity Shelter says it is setting a lettings sector ‘test’ for candidates vying to become the next Mayor of London. “Early...
11 December 2015
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24 November 2015
From: Breaking News

Savills says mainstream UK rents are likely to rise by an average of 16.5 per cent by the end of 2020...
06 November 2015
From: Breaking News

In an unusual boost for the benefits of the private rental sector, new data suggests tenants routinely rent in more expensive...
13 October 2015
From: Breaking News

Rightmove says rents across England and Wales, outside London, are up 1.3 per cent in the past three months according to...
09 October 2015
From: Breaking News

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