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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...

A leading property industry figure says Airbnb is attempting to persuade traditional buy to let landlords into going down the short-let...

Politicians from several parties say they want their local council in Bristol to have the powers to regulate the number and...

The controversial tenants union Acorn has set up a web page where disgruntled renters can lodge complaints about letting agents. In the...

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

A huge US property investment firm valued at over $10 billion is entering the UK’s purpose build student accommodation sector. Chicago-based CA...

An independent previously known as Adams Estate Agents has rebranded as Hunters as the franchise giant’s expansion programme continues. The office is...

A Labour council which has become famous for its critical approach to the private rental sector has now been given almost £200,000...

Two tenants who campaign against lettings fees are claiming victory after refusing to pay charges for renewing their tenancies.  The agency was...

An online room-letting platform claims rents have risen up to eight per cent in wake of the Tenant Fee Act. ideal flatmate...

An activists’s group which in the past has held protests immediately outside letting agents’ offices is appealing for £10,000 to develop...

New research shows that some buy to let investors in London could typically lose over £19,000 a year if Berlin-style rent...

A buy to let investor has been fined £4,800 and ordered to pay £2,200 in costs for failing to keep his...

The 24 year old head of an online lettings platform called Bunk says it’s up to letting agents to show they...

A think tank is blaming high rents for apparently stopping Millennials moving to better paying parts of the country. A report from...

The Association of Residential Lettings Agents says it backs a new Trading Standards-led body which will enforce the Fees Ban starting  on...

One of the most pro-licensing local authorities in the country has extended its own scheme to include the entire centre of...

The average rent across England and Wales in February was a mere 0.4 per cent higher than the same point a...

A survey of 500 buy to let landlords suggests that well over a third are planning to increase the size of...

A postgraduate’s study of people who live in cars and vans on Bristol’s streets says they make the choice to do...

Bristol is the best city for house shares, according to new research by specialist rental sector broadband and utilities provider Glide. The...

A new study suggests that rental properties now account for 40 per cent of the available housing stock.  Looking at the final...

Home ownership rates for families aged 25 to 34 are rising for the first time in 30 years but high barriers...

LAT recently carried a story of a lettings agency diversifying by renting out parking spaces for landlord owners - and now...

The Leaders Romans Group has revealed its acquisition of yet another independent agency - Property Concept. Based in Clifton, Bristol, Property Concept is...

A former City marketing executive is suing a lettings agency for £1.4m in a row over alleged harassment in 2010. Agent Caroline...

A branch of The Property Franchise Group’s CJ Hole brand in Bristol has snapped up an independent lettings agency elsewhere in...

The head of a lettings agency has refused to sign a pledge document put to him by a protest group - and...

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...