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Developer Beech Holdings has secured planning permission for its luxury development of Build To Rent apartments in Sheffield. Sheffield Gardens will include...

Aldermore has named Bristol, as the best city for landlords to invest in for 2024.  Manchester, Coventry, Brighton and London make up...

Glasgow has been revealed as the UK city with the biggest rise in the number of buy to let properties in...

A severe shortage of properties to rent, fierce competition to secure the homes that are available, and rising rental prices led...

It’s all change for a regional agents’ group which has announced a new chair and new directors. Cornwall-based former estate agent Steve...

Low-income renters will get a boost next spring - but a pressure group wants more government help for this sector. The Chancellor’s...

Some 48 per cent of tenants are currently living with one or more housing disrepair issues, it’s being claimed. The problems include...

Reapit has inked a deal with fast-expanding PropTech service Kamma to automate information about private rental sector council licensing. This year is...

A Bristol estate agent has hit the acquisition trail, snapping up a local independent. Bristol Property Centre Estate Agents, which is situated...

Tenants in Bristol are paying 41 per cent more for a rental property than they did just five years ago, it...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Emma Parsons, Head of Partnership Development What is flatfair and what...

A lettings agency has removed a video of an apartment where a murder took place, following an approach by a national...

Leaders Romans Group has made three internal promotions at a senior level to beef up its property management team. Karen Shepherd, George...

Belvoir has snapped up a regional mortgage provider for £1m. It’s acquired MAB (South West) Ltd and follows the earlier acquisition of...

Professional cleaning firm Prompt Cleaners has created a league table of regions and local authorities where renting is cheapest and dearest. The...

A prominent provider of student rental accommodation has appointed an international property consultancy to consider growth options. Study Inn Group has a...

A newspaper is reporting that almost 1,500 homes which could be used for long-term mainstream rentals have been ‘lost’ to short...

A franchise lettings agency is reported to have agreed to stop potential tenants bidding against each other to secure rental properties. The...

Two cities have been identified as the UK’s highest-growth cities across multiple property sectors over the next 10 years, according to...

A news service claims that in many UK cities there are now more entire homes listed on Airbnb than there are...

Cornwall is the hottest spot in the rental market, not only home to the highest level of tenant demand, but also...

CJ Hole, part of The Property Franchise Group, has expanded with the acquisition of an independent firm in Bristol. CJ Hole owner...

The anti-agent pro-renter group Acorn has protested outside some agents’ offices in Bristol demanding an end to rival bids for properties...

London has continued to dominate the list of the most attractive cities for buy to let investment for the second year...

A landlord has pleaded guilty to four offences which involved the creation of fake letting agencies in order to help him...

There will be up to six new branches opened this year for the franchise brand Winkworth. The agency made its announcement in...

The way to solve the rental sector supply shortage is through Build To Rent, a leading agency claims.  Leaders Romans Group says...

A campaign group has protested outside letting agencies in Bristol, protesting against what they describe as “bidding wars” between rival tenants. The...

Winkworth is expanding in the south west with a new office opening in the Bishopston area of Bristol, tapping into a...

Keller Williams UK - which has seen market centre closures in recent months - insists that its lettings business KW Move...

A new survey has been launched to gather views from people in a major English city on the idea of introducing...

Propertymark says letting agents should have clear policies and priorities to help ensure properties are kept to the highest standards possible.  The...

Investment in the Build To Rent sector has almost doubled year-on-year, according to new research. Property consultancy Cushman & Wakefield says that...

Letting Agent Today has been approached by researchers at the University of York and University of Bristol doing a study on...

The average rent in the UK has increased by £115 per month since last year, reaching £1,051 per calendar month according...

New research claims students in the UK are currently paying as much as £16,500 per year in living costs - a...

HMOs rented by students can be up to £30 a week cheaper than purpose built student accommodation in halls of residence. That’s...

Voids hit what has been described as an historic low in recent weeks, according to PropTech firm Goodlord. It says the average...

A lettings agency is celebrating winning the obstruction to let and manage a 63 unit Build To Rent scheme for students...

A new study has compiled a league table of the best cities in the UK for investment in student accommodation. CIA Landlord...

Airbnb is giving away £100 vouchers to anyone in the UK who shifts into the short lets sector for the first...

A student lettings platform now operating in seven cities is reported to have raised £700,000 in its first funding round. HYBR –...

A lettings agency has identified where tenant demand is strongest right now - and where demand is lower than some agents...

The Labour Mayor of Bristol has spoken out about the threat to the mainstream rental sector posed by the proliferation of...

One of the country’s major regional newspapers has launched a campaign for the urgent introduction of rent controls. The Bristol Evening Post,...

Another prominent Labour politician has thrown his weight behind rent controls. And Mark Griffin - who is the party’s housing spokesman in...

Propertymark has hit back at the latest demand by politicians for rent controls. The London mayor Sadiq Khan renewed his call for...

Politicians across the UK appear to be growing more vocal in their support for rent controls. The Welsh nationalist party Plaid Cymru...

Research by the UK’s largest student accommodation search platform shows a 3.7 per cent uplift in London’s Purpose-Built Student Accommodation bed...

A developer says its new state-of-the-art sales centre in Hong Kong in set to boost Chinese investment in London. Galliard, the developer...

Birmingham, Bristol and Leicester are seeing the fastest growth in Buy To Let investment according to new figures from a business...

Bristol council has approved plans to introduce licensing in more parts of the city. Additional Licensing and Selective Licensing schemes will be...

Bristol-based lettings management company Iletpro Ltd has been ordered to pay a total of £2,700.06 in fines and costs for failing...

A new Buy To Let ‘tracker’ from a prominent buy to let mortgage lender has revealed what it considers to be...

A lettings platform set up by a 24 year old is today announcing an expansion from its Bristol start up to...

A prominent consultancy advising the Build To Rent sector has identified one British city as the prime location for investment in 2022. BNP...

Research by a student accommodation search platform suggests that the sector may rely too heavily on the apparent year-on-year growth in...

A lettings agency’s research has revealed that rental demand has continued to climb across most major UK cities during the third quarter...

Rental demand has started to return to the majority of major UK cities during the second quarter of this year, with...

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

A branch of The Property Franchise Group’s Martin & Co brand is stopping potential tenants from booking a physical tour of...

Real estate fund management company Moorfield has teamed up with PropTech company Bricklane to buy a portfolio of 2,000 homes to...

An agency has been hit with a £330,000 bill after being found guilty of poor management of an HMO. Magistrates have found...

The head of a lettings agency says there are up to 60 enquiries for every rental property he lists - and those...

Letting agents and landlords in a major city have been requested to see if there is a ‘spare’ four bedroom property that...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I’m David Hackett, Head of Business Development for The DPS    What...

A council says it’s looking for lettings agencies that worked with a rogue landlord who's been issued with a four year banning order. Bristol...

The takeover of Hunters by The Property Franchise Group means the combined operations will manage over 70,000 tenanted properties across the...

A new lettings market snapshot from Rightmove suggests that asking rents in some major city centres have seen annual falls up...

A survey by a personal finance service has identified the traditional premium for a city centre rental property, and attempts to...

Build To Rent giant Grainger has purchased the rights to a 231-home development in Bristol for around £63m. In a statement to...

Activists are attempting to build rent strike momentum amongst students who rent property across the country. ‘Rent Strike” is a national network...

The average cost of renting in England is almost unchanged from five years ago - although that masks significant localised variations.  The...

It appears the much-hyped exodus of people from London to the country doesn’t apply to the rental market. Despite rents falling in...

A new free-to-list ‘lifestyle’ app that aims to be bigger than Rightmove says it will pay lettings agents when renters switch...

Trading Standards in one region of the UK is staging Twitter quizzes aimed at students, and asking about agents’ fees surrounding...

A rental demand league table produced by a lettings management platform shows the winners and losers across the UK - and...

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

Much has been made of the backlog of court cases - including landlords’ possession attempts - and now the Ministry of Justice...

One of the most outspoken campaign groups against the end of the eviction ban has staged a series of so-called ‘boot...

A league table has been drawn up to show which large cities in the UK have the highest demand for investment...

The anti-letting agent group ACORN is to stage protests in 10 to 15 UK cities this weekend according to an activists’...

Deposits have risen as much as 24 per cent in the past year in some parts of the UK - according...

Two Bristol landlords have been ordered to repay nearly £5,000 following investigations by the council’s so called rogue landlord unit. One, Lucy...

The extension to the evictions ban will compound the suffering of victims of domestic violence and anti-social behaviour. That’s the view of...

There’s been a surge in Google searches for issues concerning renters’ rights during the Coronavirus crisis. Research by heating company Boiler Plan...

An online lettings agency says landlords should take up mortgage holiday offers and be willing to accept reduced rent during the...

A group of private rental activists says Labour proposals to give tenants two years to repay arrears accrued during the virus...

Labour wants tenants running up arrears during the Coronavirus crisis to have two years to repay them, as part of a...

Demand for rental properties with gardens or other outdoor space has soared in terms of portal listings - perhaps no surprise...

The commercial arm of Countrywide is urging landlords currently facing huge void periods because students have been ordered home, to reconfigure...

The average rent for a newly let property rose 3.3 per cent in the year to the end of February -...

A buy to let investor has been found guilty of letting out poor quality living accommodation that was said to pose...

A landlord has been ordered to pay nearly £6,000 in fines and costs after pleading guilty to harassing and financially exploiting...

A council’s intervention has stopped a landlord forcing his private tenants to use an external staircase to enter their home -...

A seminar roadshow has been announced for letting agents considering quitting the sector.  LegalforLandlords says it’s organised the six events after discovering...

A former letting agent has been censured over the handling of tenancy deposits following an investigation by a local council. Andrew Rhys...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Catherine Shinerock - ARO Account Manager What is your ‘company name’...

A campaign group that has held protests outside letting agents’ branches and has been fiercely critical of fees, says it’s seen a...

A rental management platform has compiled a league table of where tenant demand is strongest for homes to let - and...