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Another new Build To Rent scheme has been announced by Grainger. Launching next month, the 158-unit Gilders Yard scheme sits on the...

The TrustedStays platform, where users can book short let accommodation, is linking with business-centric service London & Partners. London & Partners’ role...

The Lomond Group - which has ambitions to become a national operation - has announced two further acquisitions for one of...

Westminster council wants central London to have the same powers as Paris and Amsterdam to stop anti-social behaviour caused by Airbnb...

Rental guarantor service Housing Hand has announced a new partnership with student accommodation provider Kexgill. The firms claim the arrangement will challenge...

Lloyds Banking Group - which this year announced its intention to become a private landlord through the acquisition of new build...

A politician is raising the possibility that people who live in private blocks and let out their apartments via Airbnb or...

The desire for more living space, a key feature of the pandemic, has driven up rents on larger properties faster than...

Finance companies have announced the development of a new 440-unit Build To Rent scheme in Birmingham. Harrison Street, an alternative real assets...

It’s been revealed by a short lets trade body that the typical Airbnb day rate in London in September was £151.40...

A lettings agency in Manchester has received over 10,000 rental enquiries in just one month. Manchester Apartments says it received some  21,000...

A lettings agency with links to Saudi Arabian investors has produced a case study of how faith is returning to the long...

Data from property investment consultancy London Central Portfolio suggests foreigners are returning to the UK capital as travel restrictions ease -...

Campaigners against letting agents and landlords appear to suggest that the issue of rising rents is uniquely confined to the UK...

The rush for space to work and relax at home will still dominate the rental market for the short term at...

We may still be some months off 2022, but property experts are already beginning to make their predictions for next year...

It’s been announced that UK Sotheby’s International Realty has secured tenants for 20 apartments in record time at Embassy Gardens, a...

It is understood that Lloyds Bank may use local agencies to find tenants for new private rental sector activities. In recent weeks...

Specialist property lender Castle Trust Bank has agreed a £13.2m development loan for a Build To Rent scheme within a mixed...

Planners have given the go-ahead for a 23-storey Build To Rent development in Sheffield. The scheme, from Godwin Developments, will have 336...

A new £40m Build To Rent scheme has opened in Leeds city centre. The Headline, from Grainger, features 242 new homes and...

Principle Estate Management has won another major contract - completing the firm’s transformation from little more than a one man band...

London’s short lets sector has bounced back from the Covid shutdowns and is now stronger than hotels and serviced apartments. That's the result...

British Land has announced one of the most prestigious Build To Rent schemes at Aldgate on the edge of the City...

A private agency and management firm that says it’s grown from a one man band into a large team of 35...

It’s been reported that the Lloyds Banking Group is set to buy its first property as it seeks to become a...

Ringley Group has secured the UK’s largest apartment complex to be managed by leaseholders as a franchisee client.  The Century Wharf Estate...

A Manchester agency says there’s been a 400 per cent increase in enquiries from international students. This huge number of enquiries for...

Research by the British Property Federation shows that 6,937 new Build To Rent homes won full planning permission in the first...

Rents in London have risen an average six per cent this year, a leading agency claims - and some areas are...

A lettings agency director has been disqualified for seven years after he emptied its bank account following its liquidation. Ghanshyam Sarup Batra, from...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card?  Bal Arora – Managing Director In your experience, what is the...

A Build To Rent operator say it is promoting the concept of private tenants being allowed pets - and it takes a...

Central London’s prime rental market is witnessing a wave of enquiries from tenants wanting to strike a deal according to a...

Unite Students, the UK’s largest owner, manager and developer of purpose-built student accommodation, has been granted planning approval for a new...

Airbnb and other short let operators will be the first part of the rental sector to recover once the pandemic eases, it’s...

A series of leading lettings agents have warned that the rental sector is set for significant change as the Coronavirus pandemic...

A Build To Rent scheme of 322 flats will include a 34 storey tower, it’s been revealed. Developer and property management firm...

A regional lettings agency says its better-than-expected 2020 performance is down at least partly to having what it calls a unique...

One of the largest players in the Build To Rent sector, Legal & General, says it’s to have a second significant...

One of the biggest commercial property operators in the country is to build 338 apartments to rent on the site of...

A lettings agency specialising in managing Build To Rent developments says it’s collected 99 per cent of all invoiced rent during...

Rental operators specialising in short lets are signing up to a tracking study to assess the sector’s size and significance.  The exercise...

The team behind Glasgow’s first major city centre Build to Rent housing development has announced another multi-million-pound BTR project. Kelvin Properties, which...

London Central Portfolio, an investment consultancy, says the capital’s prime central area is seeing a demographic change as younger British tenants...

A lettings management company has been selected by a Far Eastern developer to manage units on a new 756 home scheme...

Asking rents outside London have hit a new high according to Rightmove’s latest market snapshot. The pressure comes from record demand from...

A major player in the Build To Rent sector has announced another large scheme - 346 units - on a major...

One of the country’s first specialist residential property fund managers has named the agency to handle its latest Build To Rent...

With no clear end in sight and conflicting Government advice as to whether we should work from home or go to...

New research from Countrywide brand Hamptons International suggest tenants are joining vendors in a trend towards leaving cities and heading for more...

A series of fake scams allegedly advertising apartments to rent have appeared on Zoopla and other property websites. The Edinburgh Live news...

The Irish government says it’s considering buying properties that were listed on Airbnb and other short-let platforms before the pandemic. In an...

Winkworth says its London offices are reporting significant numbers of landlords who used to advertise on Airbnb and similar short-let platforms...

The typical rent for a London property makes it “the undefeated number one most expensive city in Europe” despite increases slowing...

A leading London lettings agency is reporting only a very low rent default rate so far, despite fears that the Coronavirus...

Birmingham agent Bobby Singh, who runs the Love Your Postcode agency, epitomises the heart of the industry right now.  He has created...

There are few silver linings to today’s Coronavirus crisis but there’s a heroic effort being made by a short let accommodation...

A lettings agent has completed a £2.6million property acquisition plan in one city on behalf of investors, and will go on...

A survey by lettings agency Carter Jonas has revealed what the firm calls the top priorities for tenants as the 2020s...

The Yorkshire agency Linley & Simpson has revealed more acquisitions of independent agencies as it tightens its grip on the regional...

One of Ed Sheeran’s first massive hits was Lego House. And now, not many years later, it’s been revealed that he’s...

A new concept of co-living is being offered on a rental basis at a new purpose-built development in west London. The firm...

Grainger, one of the biggest names in Build To Rent in the UK, says its current BTR pipeline stands at 24...

McCarthy & Stone, long associated with retirement properties only available to buy, has introduced a renting option at a number of...

The London Airbnb property management company previously known as AirAgents, has rebranded as Nestor. Established in 2015, AirAgents went on to win...

A lettings agency has marked six months in business by embarking on a £100,000 project to create what it calls its...

Canary Wharf is the latest prime area of London to secure a Build To Rent scheme.  10 George Street, by Canary Wharf...

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has launched his party’s General Election campaign with an attack on what he describes as “dodgy landlords.” He...

An independent letting agency has reported its success in helping two large Build to Rent (BTR) developments to successfully let properties...

A PropTech platform devised by Build To Let specialist Grainger is to be used in a bid to differentiate the company from...

The weekly economic and financial research magazine The Economist has made a scathing attack on rent controls. The publication says rent controls...

A local authority has written to purchasers of former council houses and apartments warning them against illegally letting them out -...

The Build To Rent sector continues to grow, albeit slowly - now volume house builder Crest Nicholson has teamed up with...

Rents over three prime London areas rose by 1.9 per cent in the final quarter of 2018 according to property data...

The latest property completed in the ever-growing Build To Rent sector is a 44 storey tower standing at 141 metres tall. The...

A new Build To Rent developer brand, Core Living, has been launched by development and investment company Godwin Group. Godwin is targeting...

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

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

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

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

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

A lettings agency in Oxford has diversified into marketing car parking spaces as well as apartments and houses. Scottfraser Summertown has told...

An agency has been expelled from The Property Ombudsman after receiving over 100 separate complaints, and failing to pay over £419,000...

A family-run hybrid based in the North East has secured the £300,000 contract to manage a new student accommodation development in...

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

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

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

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

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

Grainger says it’s ready to respond to the growing need for longer tenancies for families and older renters - the latter...

A newly built, boutique development of eight luxury Build To Rent apartments has come to the market in uber-fashionable Shoreditch, east...

Research by a prominent letting agency suggests that the majority of renters in his city would be happy to sign tenancy...

Build To Rent operator and long-term volume landlord organisation Grainger says it is pioneering five-year leases “in a bid to overhaul...

A Derby-based agency says it’s on the acquisition trail and seeking lettings operations to take over. Birchover Sales and Lettings - led...

A new Build To Rent scheme being launched shortly in Greenwich offers tenants an on-site concierge-style ‘host’, a lounger, co-working space...

Build To Rent developer and operator PLATFORM_ has announced its first scheme in Scotland and an expansion of an existing development...

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

A Mayfair lettings agency has taken on two new rental properties with an unusual perk for the tenant - private club...

The typical rent of a prime Home Counties property rose by 1.2 per cent in the third quarter of this year,...

A Scarborough buy to let investor has been found guilty of two offences under the Housing Act 2004 for non-compliance with...

Consumer group Which? says ‘micro-apartments’ - which have proliferated in recent years - may not be good investments.    The group has focussed...

A former tenant is the subject of a major investigation by a London newspaper after she claimed to have spent eight...

If you think Airbnb and similar platforms have received a rough ride from some UK letting agencies and the hospitality industry,...

Prime central London is seeing the rise of the micro-apartment, according to new research, as squeezed accommodation budgets have seen singles...

A Build to Rent scheme in Salford is launching this week with tenants moving in to purpose-built rental accommodation at 'The...

An analysis by investment specialists London Central Portfolio reveals that in areas of central London swamped with new builds coming to...

Two lettings agencies have been expelled from The Property Ombudsman redress scheme.   As we reported when the story broke yesterday afternoon, one...

Two lettings agencies have this afternoon been expelled from The Property Ombudsman redress scheme. In one case, TPO expelled Lettings Solutions Ltd...

Airbnb, until now regarded as a platform used mainly by holidaymakers, is now preparing a tool that will identify apartments and...

Build To Rent operator Essential Living has won planning consent for 221 new homes in Brentford - part of the firm’s...

A BBC survey claims that private sector landlords are more likely to accept potential tenants who own pets than ones who...

L&G, one of the biggest firms involved in Britain’s Built To Rent sector, has named the agency it is appointing to...

Wembley Park in north London is to host Britain’s largest Build To Rent scheme yet after Quintain revealed a programme for...

Sigma Capital, one of the earliest investors in the UK Build To Rent sector, is creating a new brand called Simple...

One of the world’s largest ‘temporary furnished accommodation’ specialists is reported to have £20m to spend on renting property to re-let...

The couple believed to be the owners of Britain’s largest buy to let portfolio have defended sending letting agents an 11-point...

No fewer than 14 ‘pop up brothels’ have been discovered in one seaside town in six months, with all of them...

The largest Build To Rent deal in Bristol has been announced.  Grainger, the UK's largest listed residential landlord, will forward fund, acquire...

A landlord has been prosecuted and ordered to pay a £12,000 fine as well as over £12,000 in court costs, after...

Specialist Build To Rent developer Moda has announced a large scheme on the site of a former police headquarters in Scotland...

Research by data company Propcision has revealed that across London typical Airbnb rental rates for apartments are double that of long-term rental...

The average rent for two bedroom apartments has risen to more than a third of gross average earnings of tenants in...

Two complaints about an advertisement for a property have been upheld by a watchdog - which has now banned a letting...

Another 400 purpose-built Build To Rent apartments have been given the green light by planners in London.    Legal & General’s plans for...

A dramatic legal spat between New York’s civic leaders and online short-lets platform Airbnb escalated over the weekend in a dispute...

Local media in west London report that nine people have been rescued by firefighters after a fire above a letting and...

Airbnb has hit back at a claim by the Residential Landlords Association that lets promoted by the firm effectively worsened London’s housing...

A landlords’ group says the widespread letting of homes in London on Airbnb and similar platforms is worsening the shortage of...

London agency Benham & Reeves Residential Lettings says student rents have risen by 55.5 per cent over the past 20 years,...

Hamptons International and Day Morris have been appointed as joint lettings agents for London’s first bespoke Build To Rent scheme.   Vantage Point...

The Select Property Group has won planning permission for 506 residential apartments in a prime Manchester city centre location.   The two buildings...

Housing association Radian is to build a £27m scheme of 113 Build To Rent homes in Bournemouth - its fourth BTR...

Speculation is mounting that other European cities including London could follow the example of Berlin in effectively banning short-lets through online...

A firm which claims to be London's fastest growing letting agency has opened its fifteenth branch. Benham & Reeves Residential Lettings' latest...

Developers of major London developments, including Battersea Power Station, may be considering 'downsizing' apartments that can't sell to make them more suitable...

Countrywide - which has already acquired a string of letting agencies in recent months - continues to demonstrate its emphasis on...

A trio of criminals have been jailed for 18 years after using the cover of a lettings agency to allow them...

The UK Apartrment Association - which describes itself as the first organisation exclusively servicing this country’s Build To Rent sector -...

Data from the Halifax suggested that the average price of a flat has increased by £86,474 (£1,029 per month) since property prices...

A new online offering wants to allow people to let out what it calls ‘dead space’ - in other words, the...

A leading lettings expert says George Osborne’s proposed stamp duty surcharge of three per cent may be just weeks from implementation...

The research team at high-end lettings and estate agency Savills says the controversial three per cent ‘additional property’ stamp duty introduced...

The National Apartment Association, the organisation that represents the Build To Rent sector in the US, has just hosted a UK...

The Mirror has exposed what it believes is a scam letting agency website attempting to get would-be renters to part with...

Leeds company Morgans is expanding its lettings and sales operations - putting to bed once and for all the city’s former...

A London letting agency says a huge rise in the number of tenants with dogs, combined with a lack of supply...

The 107,000 overseas students using London’s burgeoning private rental market contribute some £600m annually to landlords, according to research by agency...

The broker Independent Mortgage Solutions - which until now has found loans for clients interested in residential sales, self-build and buy...

Rents in prime central London are rising again after a prolonged period of stagnation, according to property advisers London Central Portfolio. “The...

Whether you are single or a family, looking to invest in rental property or want to lay down roots of your...

Legal & General Capital (LGC) has announced that it is close to securing its second investment in the Build to Rent...

Hamptons International has been appointed sole agent for two of the latest private Build To Let schemes in the capital. Hamptons will...

About ten years ago, I was working as the branch manager of an estate agency based in an affluent part of...