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Another short let management firm, set up in the wake of an explosion of Airbnb-style renting by amateurs and professionals, is...

Rents in the UK, excluding London, are still increasing but at their slowest rate for five years. Figures from specialist lender Landbay...

A lack of new rental properties coming to the market in London has helped push the annual rate of London asking...

The latest LendInvest buy to let report, which ranks 105 postcode areas around England and Wales based on a combination of...

Airsorted, one of a number of management services that have sprung up to cater for hosts using Airbnb and similar platforms,...

Local media in Bristol say politicians in the city are considering supporting a controversial website that allows tenants to rate and...

The local media in Bristol are reporting that landlords in the city are complaining that they face backruptcy if a hugely...

Bristol council is consulting on a licensing scheme which could see buy to let investors paying £1,660 for a five year...

Student accommodation specialist Unite is launching a new service, called Conker, which aims to replace deposits with insurance schemes for students...

A former councillor says letting agents should be responsible for ensuring student tenants know how to organise their bins in a...

Rightmove has revealed the locations where prospective tenants have searched for properties on its portal in 2017 - and the winning...

Rendall & Rittner, a major operator in the residential block management sector, has completed its purchase of Braemar Estates from the...

A senior housing official at Bristol city council says the increasing popularity of Airbnb has had the effect of taking “hundreds”...

A yellow minibus-style van parked in a residential street has been advertised on small ads site Gumtree as being to let for...

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

Bristol council is resuscitating a so-called ‘rental standard’ which it expects local letting agents to meet. Back in January 2016 Letting Agent...

Hunters says its franchise agents and offices may suffer less than other firms thanks to their sales operations.   Addressing the Hunters Group...

Legal & General has announced that its fifth Build to Rent scheme will be in Leeds. The site, Mustard Wharf, has permission...

The campaign group Acorn, which has in the past named individual letting agencies that it claims are charging unfairly high fees,...

A US firm that is believed to want a slice of the UK’s growing short-lets market has made a key business...

  Renters are spending half their wages keeping a roof over their head, are twice as likely as homeowners to have no...

Bath is to have a major Build To Rent scheme from Legal & General, believed to be the first development of...

A trade body is warning letting agents and landlords of the need to have detailed evidence to support any deduction made...

Bristol council has given consent to a 255 unit city centre Build to Rent scheme to be constructed and managed by...

A group of students in Bristol has won a court case after a lettings agency acting for a landlord deducted money...

Bristol lettings agency Livnlet has told the Advertising Standards Authority it is removing four testimonials from its website after a complaint...

Mark Clare, the former Barratt Developments chief executive, is to be the next chairman of Britain’s current largest listed landlord, Grainger,...

Airbnb’s new protocol seeking to stop London hosts short-letting their properties for more than 90 days a year without formal consent,...

A campaign group has been refocussed with the objective of making the government honour its Autumn Statement pledge to ban letting...

The fast-growing Build To Rent sector has seen another boost in investment from a major player - Legal & General.    Earlier this week...

A Birmingham letting agency and a landlord have been fined £5,590 for failing to obtain an HMO licence and for breaching...

Financial results from Grainger, which is already the UK’s largest listed residential landlord, reveals the potential profits to be made by...

A letting agency says the scale of confusion over letting agents’ fees is such that some tenants actually believe the deposit...

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

A review website called Marks Out Of Tenancy relaunches next month to provide what its creator calls a “trusted platform on...

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

A landlord has been ordered to pay more than £4,200 in fines and costs for not having a licence for his...

Three men have received prison sentences of up to 28 months after a nationwide lettings scam was unearthed by trading standards...

Agents and landlords in one of the country’s most politically-volatile cities are preparing to meet the local council to protest at...

The average UK tenant expects to remain part of the Private Rented Sector for a further decade, according to a new...

The newly-elected mayor of Bristol and the city’s council have endorsed a so-called ethical lettings charter created by a group known...

A company operating a number of buy to let properties has been ordered to pay more than £15,000 by magistrates for...

The campaign group ACORN, which has in the past organised protests outside letting agency offices, is up in arms that a...

Two private landlords have been found guilty of failing to obtain the appropriate licenses for their properties.   Jagtar and Jagdish Kandola, who...

A man who posed as a letting agent to swindle landlords and tenants has been jailed for just over two years.   Legal...

A new property tech startup is launching this month with the promise that it will “completely transform the way university students...

Average rents for single rooms across the UK increased at a faster rate than those in London, according to spareroom.co.uk. The rental...

Tenants spend an average of 18 months in a rented property before moving on, according to new research by insurer Direct...

An ‘ethical lettings charter’ set up over a year ago by a pressure group for improved private rental sector housing has...

A community group that has in the past staged protests at letting agents’ offices in Bristol has now organised a petition...

A typical tenant in a two-bed property in England will have paid over £40,000 in rent in the past five years...

The controversial campaign group ACORN, which has made headlines by protesting outside letting agency offices in Bristol, is launching a new...

A campaign group which last year held protests outside letting agents’ offices in Bristol is claiming victory in persuading the city’s...

Legal & General Capital, which last week announced its intention to work with a Dutch pension fund manager to build 3,000...

Countrywide has revealed that it has acquired 30 lettings businesses in the past year alone, expanding the firm’s rental sector headcount...

Legal & General Capital - which has recently made clear its intention to become a major Build To Rent player in...

New research from HomeLet reveals that Brighton, Bristol, Edinburgh and Newcastle recorded the largest increase in rents last year amongst the...

We’ve seen large numbers of local councils set up private rental accreditation systems, and a string of politicians from all major...

Countrywide has acquired Woods Estate Agents, a Bristol-based lettings and sales agency with five branches covering the city and north Somerset. Woods...

Estate Agency AllStars is to take its training nationwide next year.  The company runs courses on What is Estate Agency, Prospecting School,...

A series of raids on privately let properties in the westcountry appear to have taken place as a way of holding...

A so-called 'ethical lettings charter' established by a group that has campaigned against some letting agencies, is set to be adopted...

The office of a letting agency that urged its landlord clients to consider increasing rents has been the subject of an...

A London agency has announced the launch of an educational property investment seminar business.  RE/MAX London launched RE/MAX Why What Where last...

Three agents have been announced as winners of The ESTAS Agent of the Month competition for July.   Bristol Property Centre won...

Yet another ‘rental standard’ has been set up a a local council to create what it calls ‘a kitemark’ which can...

A student landlord has been sentenced to six months in prison and ordered to pay over £12,400 after pleading guilty to...

A landlord who overcrowded his property has had to pay over £4,500 after being prosecuted by his local council.  The property in...

A group of renters who have formed the Acorn group in Bristol - which has already held protests against letting agents...