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![We Can’t Pay More! Affordability crisis dents London lettings market](/upload/images/shutterstock_769272595(1)(1).jpg)
London’s rental market has weakened in recent months according to the fledgling online service Hello Neighbour. Rents are 1% down compared to...
11 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Lettings agency chain in three year PropTech tenancy management deal](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/PropTech/PropTech2-400x310.png)
The 85 branches of Spicerhaart have signed a three-year partnership with The Lettings Hub to use its tenancy management platform. Spicerhaart also...
06 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Far cheaper to rent than to buy in London - new figures](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/BuyRent-400x310.png)
Londoners looking to buy a home can expect to spend 42% more on monthly mortgage payments than tenants pay on rent,...
16 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![Guilty! - Fraudster letting agents duped landlords and tenants](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Court-UK-400x310.png)
Two London agents who traded fraudulently through their lettings business and scammed victims out of over £24,000 have been sentenced. After a...
13 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![Agency flags growing worries over pets in lets](/upload/images/shutterstock_2367788609.jpg)
A prominent lettings agency says concern is growing in the private rental sector about the prospect of more pets in properties. A...
07 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![Chancellor reveals property tax change in Budget](/upload/images/shutterstock_214851442.jpg)
The Chancellor has used his Budget to confirm a 2p cut in National Insurance, from April 6. This will take it...
06 March 2024
From: Breaking News
![Property firm prepares to launch regional lettings branch network](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Acquisition-400x310.png)
Specialist property management firm Xenia Estates has announced a shake up ahead of entry into the residential lettings sector. Xenia currently looks...
22 February 2024
From: Breaking News
![Knight Frank names new lettings associate for key area](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/LettingAgent-400x310.png)
Knight Frank has appointed Louna Del Barrio as lettings associate in a key London office. Del Barrio comes to Knight Frank following...
20 February 2024
From: Breaking News
![Sadiq Khan’s rent controls dismissed as “well-meaning but naive”](/upload/images/shutterstock_1909455316.jpg)
Rents across the UK continue to retreat from their 2023 highs, falling by 2.9 per cent over the last three months,...
16 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![More tenants now shop around, says high profile agent](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/3%20CoupleMakingOffer-400x310.png)
A prominent London buying agent and property consultant says the slowly improving supply of rental property means more tenants are now...
11 December 2023
From: Breaking News
![Trading Standards reveal details of new Material Information requirements](/upload/images/shutterstock_2280558533(1).jpg)
Parts B and C of the process to improve material information disclosure in property listings are published today within comprehensive new guidance...
30 November 2023
From: Breaking News
![Eco-experiment with zero interest loans for ‘greener’ homes](/upload/images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/GreenEnvironment-400x310.png)
The Nationwide Building Society is embarking on an experiment - at first for owner occupiers only - which may be extended...
22 May 2023
From: Breaking News
![Agency fined for its role in illegal HMO letting](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Fine-400x310.png)
A London lettings agency has been ordered to pay over £12,000 in a fine and costs for its part in running...
11 April 2023
From: Breaking News
![Council brands lettings agency “dodgy” and issues big fine](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Fine-400x310.png)
The agency and landlord responsible for letting a two-bedroom flat in Dagenham have been found guilty in court for providing extremely...
21 March 2023
From: Breaking News
![The top 5 things to prepare for when selling your business](/upload/images/adv-2021/sponsored-content/Atomic%20Consultancy/LucyN_Atomic_360x280.png)
Atomic Consultancy, the specialist acquisition management business, believes that 2023 is likely to present significant opportunities for those looking to sell...
10 February 2023
From: Sponsored Content
![Landlord numbers up despite taxes, new laws and red tape](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/HappyLandlord-400x310.jpg)
Landlord numbers may have dropped in recent months but a longer term analysis shows the reverse. Total Landlord Insurance analysed the current...
12 September 2022
From: Breaking News
![Warning To Agents - compliance crackdown starting shortly](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/ComplianceStamp-400x310.jpg)
Fourteen Trading Standards authorities across a swathe of England are embarking on an enforcement project to check lettings agency compliance. The Central England...
15 July 2022
From: Breaking News
![App from Build To Rent operator aims to woo tech-savvy renters](/upload/images/PropTech%20%26%20Online/PropTech-TouchScreen-400x310.jpg)
A Build To Rent operator has created what it calls a one-stop app for tenants. The operator Apo says the new app...
24 June 2022
From: Breaking News
![London’s sharp rent variations laid bare by new research](/upload/images/Locations/LondonMap400x310-min.png)
A rental platform has revealed the wide disparity in rents to the north and south of the Thames in London, and...
16 February 2022
From: Breaking News
![Barking mad? BTR developers are luring private tenants with pet friendly homes](/upload/images/Pets/DogInHome(1)-400x310-min.jpeg)
Build to rent providers are taking the lead against private rental sector homes by advertising developments as pet-friendly. Research by furnishings provider...
20 September 2021
From: Breaking News
![Another new London Build To Rent scheme wins funding](/upload/images/Locations/GreaterLondon-400x310.jpg)
Specialist property lender Castle Trust Bank has agreed a £13.2m development loan for a Build To Rent scheme within a mixed...
02 September 2021
From: Breaking News
![Eviction court process should be simplified in reform package - call](/img/default/lat.png)
A leading buy to let mortgage expert has backed the government’s pledge to issue a White Paper and additional consultation before...
14 May 2021
From: Breaking News
![Revealed - where rental demand is strongest across the UK](/img/default/lat.png)
A rental demand league table produced by a lettings management platform shows the winners and losers across the UK - and...
02 October 2020
From: Breaking News
![A huge degree of pain - London student lettings sector to take 24% hit](/img/default/lat.png)
The private rental sector dedicated to student accommodation in London could see a 24 per cent drop in income in the...
23 September 2020
From: Breaking News
![Revealed - where to find the best yields, according to Zoopla](/img/default/lat.png)
Zoopla has revealed its top 10 hotspots for buy to let investors seeking high rental yields. The analysis is based on rental returns...
10 September 2020
From: Breaking News
![Commuter location yields not always better than in-London yields](/img/default/lat.png)
New research by lettings management platform Howsy shows which major London commuter hubs make the most attractive potential for buy to...
14 August 2020
From: Breaking News
![Six lettings agencies expelled from TPO for not paying awards](/img/default/lat.png)
The Property Ombudsman has announced the expulsion of eight agencies, all for contravening TPO codes of practice. Most of the expulsions were...
04 May 2020
From: Breaking News
![Agency creating “the city’s most luxurious student accommodation”](/img/default/lat.png)
A lettings agency has marked six months in business by embarking on a £100,000 project to create what it calls its...
26 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Former Labour councillor jailed after years of housing fraud](/img/default/lat.png)
A former Labour councillor and solicitor Muhammad Harun has been jailed for 16 months after pleading guilty to two counts of...
20 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Absolute Rubbish: agent fined over six-foot mound of garbage](/img/default/lat.png)
An east London lettings agency must pay more than £2,500 after a six-foot-high pile of waste was found fly-tipped on land...
21 October 2019
From: Breaking News
![Online lettings agency at heart of money laundering crimes](/img/default/lat.png)
Three criminals have been sentenced after pleading guilty to money laundering involving an online lettings agency. The sentences follow an investigation spearheaded...
18 October 2019
From: Breaking News
![Yet More Licensing: councils want more freedom to expand schemes](/img/default/lat.png)
An umbrella organisation representing councils is calling for greater freedom to introduce more and larger rental sector licensing schemes, without the...
01 October 2019
From: Breaking News
![Fees: Lettings agent fined for the third time in as many years](/img/default/lat.png)
A lettings agent in London has been fined for the third time in as many years – this time for failing...
14 August 2019
From: Breaking News
![Death Trap: fine for tenant who converted home without owner’s consent](/img/default/lat.png)
A tenant pretending to be landlord has been ordered to pay more than £21,000 after he carved up five family homes...
31 July 2019
From: Breaking News
![Managing agent and landlords in court for 25 HMO offences](/img/default/lat.png)
A managing agent and several landlords have been fined almost £5,000 after forcing tenants to live in unacceptable conditions in a...
24 June 2019
From: Breaking News
![Jailed - buy to let investor who illegally converted flats](/img/default/lat.png)
A landlord who illegally converted a London home into two flats without planning permission has been given a prison sentence after...
20 June 2019
From: Breaking News
![Disaster for buy to let investors if Berlin-style rent freeze happens](/img/default/lat.png)
New research shows that some buy to let investors in London could typically lose over £19,000 a year if Berlin-style rent...
19 June 2019
From: Breaking News
![Government backs Labour council’s ‘unique’ licensing scheme](/img/default/lat.png)
The government has agreed that a council in London where all 51 councillors are Labour should go ahead with a five...
03 June 2019
From: Breaking News
![Jailed! Man who forged agency papers 'giving HMO planning consent'](/img/default/lat.png)
A buy to let investor who converted three family homes to HMOs without securing planning permission has been jailed for falsifying...
18 February 2019
From: Breaking News
![Over a third of London uninhabitable for renters - claim](/img/default/lat.png)
A flat-share website claims typical rents in some 38 per cent of London are now so high they render the areas...
11 February 2019
From: Breaking News
![Agency hit with fine after failing to give fees, redress and CMP information](/img/default/lat.png)
A letting agent in east London has been fined £4,000 after apparently publishing the incorrect fees that it levies on tenants...
08 February 2019
From: Breaking News
![Rental flat repossessed after being converted into illegal HMO](/img/default/lat.png)
A buy to let investor has lost possession of his flat after converting it into an Illegal House in Multiple Occupation...
22 January 2019
From: Breaking News
![Buy to let couple have a choice - pay £150,000 or imprisonment](/img/default/lat.png)
A couple from east London who illegally converted a town centre office block into 14 flats have been ordered to pay...
10 December 2018
From: Breaking News
![Lettings league table claims London rents up 17% in six years](/img/default/lat.png)
Figures drawn up for the London region of the GMB union claim that across the capital’s 33 boroughs private rents have...
07 November 2018
From: Breaking News
![Agency fined twice in a year - once over fees, once over licensing](/img/default/lat.png)
A London agency has been fined for the second time in 11 months. Local media in Barking, east London, report that Primelodge...
16 October 2018
From: Breaking News
![Five-figure fine for breaching conditions of London lettings licence](/img/default/lat.png)
A London landlord has been ordered to pay over £13,000 for breaching the conditions of his licence as a result of...
01 August 2018
From: Breaking News
![London rents up - but it's not exactly a large increase...](/img/default/lat.png)
Rents in London rose by 0.1 per cent in the 12 months to June - it’s the first annual rental increase...
06 July 2018
From: Breaking News
![Trio of lettings agencies fined in overcrowding and sub-letting scandal](/img/default/lat.png)
Three agencies have been heavily fined after a property in London was being used for multiple occupation with 11 people living...
04 July 2018
From: Breaking News
![Average London tenant now requires £3,000 deposit, claims agent](/img/default/lat.png)
A warning has come from a campaigning letting agent that London’s landlords agents could be costing themselves tenants by requiring them...
20 March 2018
From: Breaking News
![Couple face having rental income confiscated after planning offence](/img/default/lat.png)
A couple who illegally converted an office block into 14 flats have been found guilty for disregarding planning laws - and...
15 March 2018
From: Breaking News
![London Bishops call for greater protection for private sector tenants](/img/default/lat.png)
London Bishops have written to housing minister Alok Sharma calling on him to do more to protect vulnerable private tenants. The Bishops...
03 November 2017
From: Breaking News
![Councils accused of inadequately policing private rental sector](/img/default/lat.png)
Almost 60 per cent of councils across Britain have not prosecuted any landlord for any offence in the past year according...
31 October 2017
From: Breaking News
10 July 2017
From: Breaking News
![Massive £235,000 bill for agency boss letting out illegal bedsits](/img/default/lat.png)
An east London landlord, who was also director of a letting agency, has been forced to pay out over £235,000 for...
21 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![Buy to let investor may have to repay rent from seven illegal flats](/img/default/lat.png)
A landlord who illegally converted a property into seven flats and rented them out without planning permission faces having to repay...
03 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![Rip-off landlords are scourge of London says Labour politician](/img/default/lat.png)
A senior Labour politician in a London borough has branded so-called ‘rip off landlords’ as “the scourge of London.” Councillor Laila Butt,...
03 February 2017
From: Breaking News
![Council sets up Right To Invest as alternative to Right To Buy](/img/default/lat.png)
A London council has set up a system to allow council tenants to buy into a shared ownership scheme which it...
20 October 2016
From: Breaking News
![Highest yields still found in the north - and mostly in 'EU leave' towns](/img/default/lat.png)
New research by an online property lending company reveals that those towns which were strongest in voting ‘Leave’ in the EU...
28 July 2016
From: Breaking News
![Proposal unveiled for first 'commuter town' Build To Rent development](/img/default/lat.png)
International development firm Westrock has given details of what it calls “the first homes designed specifically for rent in a key...
08 April 2016
From: Breaking News
![Raid on unlicensed buy to lets finds 70 people in four properties](/img/default/lat.png)
Enforcement officers from Barking and Dagenham council, one of the most active in chasing up private rental sector issues, has discovered...