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![London sees sharp uplift in first-time buyer activity](/upload/images/shutterstock_1197102829(3).jpg)
This year has seen a two-decade high of 181,000 first time buyers secure their first foot on London’s housing ladder, marking...
28 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Airbnb and Short Let Boom may be over says agency chief](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews1-400x310.png)
A lettings agency director is suggesting the short lets boom may be over. Marc von Grundherr, director of Benham and Reeves, says...
19 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Agent pleads with landlords to believe in buy to let](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Buy-to-let-2-400x310.png)
The director of a London lettings agency says buy to let landlords are entitled to feel downtrodden but claims it’s still...
07 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Agent demands end of bizarre rule making tenants pay stamp duty](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/StampDuty1_400x310.png)
A prominent lettings agent is calling for an end to what he calls the “archaic” system under which some tenants end...
22 March 2024
From: Breaking News
![Shock figures put interest rate cut on the back burner](/upload/images/shutterstock_2148997377.jpg)
There are growing fears that the hoped-for Bank of England base rate cut this spring - the first off possibly several...
18 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![Agent’s Affordability Warning - not all tenants will really benefit](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/AgentsWorking-400x310.png)
A prominent lettings agent says there’s been a definite improvement in rental affordability in most areas - but he doubts all...
21 November 2023
From: Breaking News
![Agents warn of time bomb after lettings agency report](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews1-400x310.png)
Propertymark has urged the government to take the potential Help to Buy ‘timebomb’ seriously. The news comes as London lettings agent Benham...
13 October 2023
From: Breaking News
![Buy to let income up despite rising costs and red tape](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Buy-to-let-400x310.png)
Landlords in England and Wales have seen their rental portfolio income increase by 8.7 per cent in the past year. That’s according...
20 September 2023
From: Breaking News
![Indian investors to be wooed by London agency-developer partnership](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Recruitment-400x310.png)
A London-focused lettings agency is partnering with Barratt London to encourage Indian investors. Barratt London, with 40 years’ experience in the capital...
08 September 2023
From: Breaking News
![Agents told to set ‘tracker’ rents that rise with interest rates](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/MortgageRatesIncrease_400x310.png)
Two letting agents have been quoted in a newspaper report as saying landlord clients have instructed them to create ‘tracker’ rents...
04 September 2023
From: Breaking News
![Renters Forever - the Guppies have Given Up on Property](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/BTR%20and%20affordable%20housing%20-%20By%20Andy%20Jones%20Property%20Investor%20Today%20BuildToRent-400x310.png)
A personal finance expert has revealed that a new group which he calls Guppies are reconciled to possibly renting forever. Alan Davison,...
16 August 2023
From: Breaking News
![Figures lift lid on growing foreign investment in UK property](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/ForeignMoney-400x310.png)
A lettings agency claims foreign homeowners are sitting on £84.2 billion worth of property across England and Wales - but with...
14 July 2023
From: Breaking News
![Values plummet in Canary Wharf as fears grow for rental sector](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/UnhappyTenants-400x310.png)
Canary Wharf was once seen as the future of London - now it’s the location that’s seen the greatest loss in...
04 July 2023
From: Breaking News
![Hot Air? Agency warns emissions tax could hurt capital values](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/TaxMan-400x310.png)
A prominent lettings agency says capital values could be damaged if a controversial emissions scheme goes ahead in London. Research by Benham...
21 June 2023
From: Breaking News
![Agent says London rents are far higher than official figures](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Flags%20%26%20Locations/London1-400x310.png)
A London-focused lettings agency says actual rents in the capital are far greater than official average figures produced by the government. Benham...
28 April 2023
From: Breaking News
![PropTech tool helps agents nab landlords quitting sector - claim](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/PropTech/PropertyFind-400x310.png)
A new PropTech tool says it will help agents maximise their chances of handling the sales of properties being disposed of...
24 March 2023
From: Breaking News
![Plunging Pound means foreign investors bag buy to let bargains](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Buy-to-let-400x310.png)
Overseas investors have bagged an effective bonus of £40,000 off the purchase of a UK buy to let, according to leading...
14 March 2023
From: Breaking News
![Agents’ hopes rise for a soft landing for sales](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/HousePrices_pound-400x310.png)
“Optimism has survived another difficult month” says business consultancy Hargreaves Lansdown in response to the latest house price index. Indeed, the industry...
08 March 2023
From: Breaking News
![Reverse The Tax Threat - major agency backs petition](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/TaxRefund-400x310.png)
A high profile lettings agency has backed a petition demanding the reinstatement of tax relief for landlords. Benham and Reeves says it...
11 January 2023
From: Breaking News
![Tax Grabs - might Tories lose support because of CGT penalties?](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/TaxCoins-400x310.png)
A second agency chief has warned the Conservatives of the possible electoral consequences of higher taxes aimed at the private rental...
21 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![Interest rates up as agent warns public to “wake up and smell the coffee”](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/MortgageCalculated_400x310.png)
The Bank of England has increased its base rate from 2.25 per cent to 3.0 per cent. This is the largest hike...
03 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![Agents welcome Hunt tax change - but who knows what’s coming?](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/TaxCoins-400x310.png)
Propertymark’s chief executive Nathan Emerson has welcomed the dramatic government U-turn on taxes - but most importantly has retained the stamp...
18 October 2022
From: Breaking News
![Price shock for renters renewing tenancies, warns agency](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/Tenancy-Agreement-400x310.png)
London-focussed lettings agency Benham and Reeves says renters who secured bargain properties during the pandemic now face huge rent rises when...
28 July 2022
From: Breaking News
![Some buy to let investors get £800 capital appreciation PER DAY - claim](/upload/images/Back-link-images/calculator_hand.png)
A high profile London lettings agency says some owners of properties in prime areas of the capital have seen capital appreciation...
21 July 2022
From: Breaking News
![Tenancy lifecycle transformed by pandemic - top agent](/upload/images/Back-link-images/AdobeStock_426273191.jpeg)
A prominent lettings agency chief says the lifecycle of a typical tenancy has been transformed in recent years, as a result...
18 May 2022
From: Breaking News
![Platform to wean agents off Rightmove and Zoopla gets cash boost](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/UK-Cash-NEW-400x310.jpg)
A platform that says it wants to help reduce letting agents’ reliance on traditional portals such as Rightmove and Zoopla has...
24 February 2022
From: Breaking News
![Buy To Let returns far better than ISAs, research shows](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/BTL400x310.png)
New research shows that despite tax and regulatory changes restricting buy to let returns, this remains a far healthier investment than...
23 February 2022
From: Breaking News
![Agency spares a thought for tenants’ affordability problems](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/TenantStressed-400x310.jpg)
A lettings agency says renters must pay an average of up to 77 per cent of their monthly household income to...
04 February 2022
From: Breaking News
![HMRC shock for tenants - some may have to pay stamp duty](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/StampDuty-2020-400x310.jpg)
A little-known law may require tenants to pay stamp duty on the rental properties they do not actually own. London lettings agency...
12 January 2022
From: Breaking News
![Staged properties fetch more in lettings and sales markets](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/HousingMarket-400x310.jpg)
Staging a home during the selling process could boost a sale price by up to £47,000; meanwhile lettings asking prices could...
18 November 2021
From: Breaking News
![Lettings platform matching agents with tenants seeks funds to expand](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/UK-Cash-20-400x310.jpg)
Lettings platform Findingaplace, a matching service between tenants and agents launched last year, is seeking to raise £250,000 - and possibly...
10 November 2021
From: Breaking News
![Rents bounce back with a vengeance in London](/upload/images/Locations/LondonMapPins-400x310.jpg)
Rents in much of London have not only bounced back from the pandemic but now exceed the levels reached in 2020. Research...
02 November 2021
From: Breaking News
![Rents rise across London as stock shortage takes its toll](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/RisingRents-400x310.jpg)
New research by the Benham and Reeves agency has revealed how a lack of London rental properties has pushed up the...
20 October 2021
From: Breaking News
![Rogue tenants – how long has it taken to evict them during Covid?](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/UK-Cash-20-400x310.jpg)
The latest research by lettings agency Benham and Reeves has analysed how the pandemic has affected the UK rental market when...
17 September 2021
From: Breaking News
![London lettings market back with a bang, says leading agency](/upload/images/Locations/LondonMap400x310-min.png)
The tide is turning for the London rental market at last according to data from the Benham and Reeves lettings agency. In...
19 August 2021
From: Breaking News
![Revealed - London postcodes still in favour with investors and buyers](/img/default/lat.png)
London lettings and estate agency Benham and Reeves has calculated a league table of the most popular postcodes in the capital...
07 April 2021
From: Breaking News
![Rental platform claims 150 London agents have signed up](/img/default/lat.png)
A new rentals platform claims to have signed up 150 London agencies prior to launch this spring. Findingaplace says it has signed up...
25 March 2021
From: Breaking News
![Many more agencies now listing properties with video content](/img/default/lat.png)
Rightmove is reporting a big rise in the proportion of properties listed with video content. It says rental listings with either a...
25 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![More evidence of Central London rental over-supply](/img/default/lat.png)
Another major agency operating in central London confirms that the fall-out from the pandemic continues to produce a glut of units...
28 January 2021
From: Breaking News
![Massive over-supply in Central London now, admits leading agent](/img/default/lat.png)
A prominent agent says a huge over-supply of available rental property is now flooding the central London market, just as demand...
27 January 2021
From: Breaking News
![Retail Future? Debenhams store to become 338 flats to rent](/img/default/lat.png)
One of the biggest commercial property operators in the country is to build 338 apartments to rent on the site of...
09 December 2020
From: Breaking News
![More London woe - new reports of falling demand, rents and yields](/img/default/lat.png)
London lettings agency Benham and Reeves has drawn up a league table of which boroughs in the capital have had their...
17 November 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
![Tenants in arrears should have alternative homes by now - top agent](/img/default/lat.png)
A vocal London lettings agent says it isn’t the responsibility of agents or their landlord clients to take the financial hit...
21 August 2020
From: Breaking News
![Coronavirus is reshaping tenant demands, says lettings agency](/img/default/lat.png)
Research by a lettings agency suggests the pandemic has radically reshaped tenants’ demands. - and the process is still going on. Benham...
06 August 2020
From: Breaking News
![Rent takes 75% of income in some areas, admits agency](/img/default/lat.png)
A lettings agency admits that the proportion of net income required to cover rent has hit 75 per cent in some...
16 January 2020
From: Breaking News
![Leaders Romans Group selects new PropTech lettings platform](/img/default/lat.png)
Leaders Romans Group has selected a new PropTech platform after a competitive tendering process. The winning company was PropCo, which already services...
09 January 2020
From: Breaking News
![Rogue tenants can cost £40,000 to £100,000 to evict, warns top agent](/img/default/lat.png)
Research by London agency Benham and Reeves says the cumulative cost of a landlord suffering a bad tenant and then evicting...
15 August 2019
From: Breaking News
![Industry rages against Labour’s “laughable” rent control plan](/img/default/lat.png)
Calls by Labour’s London Mayor Sadiq Khan to secure powers to implement private sector rent controls are facing increasing opposition. Business organisation...
22 July 2019
From: Breaking News
![Fake rental applications on the rise as fraudsters up their game](/img/default/lat.png)
The number of fake or fraudulent rental applications is on the rise, with landlords and letting agents being fooled by a...
05 July 2019
From: Breaking News
![Top agent blasts government for going to war on buy to let](/img/default/lat.png)
A senior London lettings agent has accused the government of “going to war” on buy to let investors. The director of Benham...
02 July 2019
From: Breaking News
![Unfurnished London lets take 30% longer to find tenants, says agent](/img/default/lat.png)
One of London’s best known lettings agents says unfurnished properties can take 30 per cent longer to let than a furnished...
30 April 2019
From: Breaking News
![This is why buy to let looks a good investment for many years to come...](/img/default/lat.png)
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
![Stable rents show that buy to let is still sound, says leading agent](/img/default/lat.png)
Latest official figures show that private rental prices paid by tenants in the UK rose by 1.0 per cent in the...
15 February 2019
From: Breaking News
![Records broken by London lettings agency for new lets and renewals](/img/default/lat.png)
One of London’s most respected independent lettings agencies has given a hugely upbeat report on the capital’s lettings market performance throughout...
10 December 2018
From: Breaking News
![Crisis? What crisis? London lettings agency reports busiest-ever quarter](/img/default/lat.png)
One of London’s most respected lettings agencies says it’s recorded its best-ever quarter for business - defying claims from some that...
23 October 2018
From: Breaking News
![London buy to let owners must work to protect investment, says agency](/img/default/lat.png)
One of London’s leading letting agencies says in the current neutral rental market, buy to let owners must work hard to...
24 July 2018
From: Breaking News
![Government blasted by another top agent over three year tenancies](/img/default/lat.png)
Yet another leading lettings agent has hit out at the government over its proposals for three year tenancies being the norm...
10 July 2018
From: Breaking News
![Crooked ex-lettings agent conned five other agencies into releasing keys](/img/default/lat.png)
A former lettings agent stole thousands of pounds worth of cash and personal items from homes after conning other agents into...
06 October 2017
From: Breaking News
![There is no ‘buy-to-let famine’ in the capital, reports agent](/img/default/lat.png)
Rental growth in London remained relatively stable during the first quarter of 2017, according to Benham & Reeves Residential Lettings. The firm's...
12 May 2017
From: Breaking News
![Agency runs 'largest ever survey' to debunk lettings sector myths](/img/default/lat.png)
London agency Benham & Reeves Residential Lettings has surveyed its tenants and, based on 1,400 responses - a third of the...
11 April 2017
From: Breaking News
!['Don't raise rents - try to keep tenants' letting agent tells landlords](/img/default/lat.png)
Benham & Reeves Residential Lettings says it is encouraging its London landlords to avoid rent rises and instead focus on retaining...
20 January 2017
From: Breaking News
![Agency says rents flat-lining in London, falling in prime areas](/img/default/lat.png)
Rents have flat-lined across most of the capital according to Benham & Reeves Residential Lettings, which says it is advising its...
21 October 2016
From: Breaking News
![Student rents rise at twice the rate of mainstream rents](/img/default/lat.png)
London agency Benham & Reeves Residential Lettings says student rents have risen by 55.5 per cent over the past 20 years,...
25 August 2016
From: Breaking News
![Brexit could help London lettings market claims leading agent](/img/default/lat.png)
A leading London lettings agency chief suggests that Brexit may - against the expectations of many - actually be a good...
12 July 2016
From: Breaking News
![London's 'fastest growing' letting agent opens 15th office](/img/default/lat.png)
A firm which claims to be London's fastest growing letting agency has opened its fifteenth branch. Benham & Reeves Residential Lettings' latest...
23 May 2016
From: Breaking News
![Are developers 'downsizing' flats to appeal to buy to let investors?](/img/default/lat.png)
Developers of major London developments, including Battersea Power Station, may be considering 'downsizing' apartments that can't sell to make them more suitable...
09 May 2016
From: Breaking News
![Leading lettings agency takes cautious line on landlord incorporation](/img/default/lat.png)
One of London’s major letting agencies is urging landlords to take a cautious approach to whether they should incorporate in a...
12 April 2016
From: Breaking News
![Rent rises will outstrip buy to let tax rises, predicts letting agency chief](/img/default/lat.png)
George Osborne has done more for the rental market than any other chancellor in history claims Marc von Grundherr, lettings director...
21 January 2016
From: Breaking News
![New London office is letting agency's 14th - and another is on the way](/img/default/lat.png)
Benham & Reeves Residential Lettings, London’s largest independent letting agency, has opened its 14th office. It's in Surrey Quays and is the agency’s...
14 January 2016
From: Breaking News
![Senior agent urges caution over setting-up buy to let limited companies](/img/default/lat.png)
One of Britain’s most senior letting agency bosses is warning landlords to take care if considering setting up a limited company...
17 December 2015
From: Breaking News
![London rental sector benefits from sales market woe says letting agency](/img/default/lat.png)
The struggling London sales market is provoking a boom in the capital’s rental sector according to data from Benham & Reeves...
16 October 2015
From: Breaking News
![Letting agent plays down impact of buy to let tax change](/img/default/lat.png)
A London letting agency is playing down the impact of Chancellor George Osborne’s proposed changes to buy to let tax breaks,...
18 August 2015
From: Breaking News
![Some PCL rents up 11% in just three months says agent](/img/default/lat.png)
The central London sales market dip of recent weeks has directly led to a surge in the lettings sector according to...