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Acquisition is one of the most frequently used words in the lettings sector now as large numbers of agencies are snapped...

The most recent interest rate rise has swung the balance making it cheaper to rent than to buy, according to lettings...

Agents running their own businesses but attracted to the advantages of a corporate are being targeted by a new Business Integration...

Home set-up service Just Move In has announced a huge fund-raise of £4m. The service boasts Hamptons, Openrent, and Pickfords amongst and...

A specialist rental platform says its research shows a growing number of people intentionally renting long-term. Ocasa says the reason is the...

Greater regulation of lettings agents, and all other property professionals, is required to ‘finish the job’ of reforming the industry which...

A new survey gives an indication of how quickly properties with poor Energy performance Certificates are falling out of favour in...

A Labour MP says a surge in the number of stag and hen parties in her constituency - undertaken by people...

Propertymark says one lasting legacy of the Grenfell Tower tragedy is that agents letting properties in high rise blocks must engage...

One of the UK’s largest lettings groups has made an outspoken attack on the policies of a political party standing in...

The monthly costs for a first time buyer are some 13 per cent lower than that of a similar renter -...

The growing importance of virtual tours for properties to let and for sale during the pandemic shows little sign of easing,...

New research shows that despite tax and regulatory changes restricting buy to let returns, this remains a far healthier investment than...

Theresa Wallace, the chair of The Lettings Industry Council, has given her backing to compulsory changes to rental property listings introduced...

A major holiday let company in one of the country’s prime tourist destinations says more affordable homes should be built to...

A prominent London buying agent says her property management team is letting out homes in the capital in a matter of...

One of the leading lettings agencies in Liverpool has issued a warning about the city’s controversial new licensing scheme. The Labour council...

Only 15 per cent of adults are confident the housing crisis will be resolved in their lifetime. New research among 2,000 individuals...

Jersey is calling for views on whether the island’s estate agents should be subject to greater regulation.  The island’s Economic and International...

The once-popular idea of parents buying a property for their offspring to use while at university, and then letting it to other...

A brand within the fast-expanding Lomond Group has sealed its second acquisition within a fortnight, adding a further 200 properties to...

Foxtons is extensively praising the apparent benefits of Build To Rent, a sector in which the agency is keen to become...

The head of a lettings agency has drawn up a wish list for Chancellor Rishi Sunak to address in his Budget...

Six agencies have been expelled from The Property Ombudsman for failing to pay compensatory awards - five of them for offences...

A branch of Northwood has snapped up an independent agency. Bassets Lettings, which is based in Salisbury, was set up in 2002...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I’m Vince Demilio, Sales Director of The Lettings Hub What services...

An investment firm has flagged up the recently announced move by banking giant Lloyds to enter the private rented sector as...

A property app firm, which describes itself as a second-generation digital property management service, is aiming to raise a ‘significant six figure...

A lettings agent has expressed his amazement after an emotional LinkedIn post about paying himself a salary for the first time...

It is understood that Lloyds Bank may use local agencies to find tenants for new private rental sector activities. In recent weeks...

Two lettings agencies are amongst three property agents which have been fined by HM Revenue & Customs for breaching anti-money laundering...

A buying agency says it’s seen what it calls “a huge uptake in furnished lettings requests” following recent floods in London,...

London-based buy to let purchasers in the first half of the year have looked outside the capital in high numbers according...

An agency has marked its 30th anniversary by sealing a brace of acquisitions. The deals see Thornley Groves, the Lomond Group agency...

A supplier of virtual viewings claims each property’s physical viewings cost £233 of an agent’s time on average - and that’s...

Lloyds Bank says tenants will “within the next few weeks” move into the first of a series of new developments it...

A politician is stepping up his bid to ban buy to let purchasers acquiring any units at a 150-home scheme. ITV News...

The narrative from some activists and pressure groups is that private renting is some kind of ordeal endured by those who...

Over the last 15 months (basically since the ‘c’ word entered our daily vocabulary) agent websites has become more crucial than...

It is now cheaper to rent a home than buy one - the first time this has been the case since...

TM Group and sales progression solution mio have signed up as partners for the 2021 ESTAS Forum & Awards, sponsored by...

The Canterbury branch of national sales and lettings agency Martin & Co has a new owner. Angie Collins has taken on the...

This afternoon's Budget has seen dramatic announcements from Chancellor Rishi Sunak referring to the private rental sector. For landlords buying properties, the stamp...

The new head of the Association of Residential Letting Agents admits that the organisation - within its parent body Propertymark - has “had...

A senior buying agent is warning that new regulations over the length of notice given to tenants is having an unexpected...

New research suggests even those renters who want to be owner occupiers are likely to remain in the lettings sector in the...

The architect of the Regulation of Property Agents working group - which has called for agents to be trained and licensed...

A lettings agency is marking its 15th anniversary with news that it now has over £100m worth of property in its portfolio. Berriman...

A prominent lettings agent and property management expert says the industry has been reluctant to recognise the increasing trend of consumers...

The long-running uncertainty over Brexit may lead to a glut of British expats returning home and renting rather than buying. That’s the...

Staying on top of the numbers and figures in a constantly changing industry can be stressful. Changing property prices can be...

Many have speculated, though much of it is anecdotal – how is the UK rental market coping with the fallout from...

Savills latest remote auction in 2020 saw £40m raised with 90 lots sold bringing the total value of property sold in 2020...

Government intervention, which in recent years has seen scores of legal and regulatory changes to the private rental sector, may be...

It appears lettings agents may have escaped the recommended demands for referral fees to be made more transparent to customers. A statement...

Nearly half of prospective home buyers have delayed their plans because of the Coronavirus crisis, a mortgage company says. Research by Aldermore...

Move iQ, the consumer-facing property service led by Phil Spencer, has teamed up with a lettings sector insurance provider which could...

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

A trade body is reminding new landlords tempted by the stamp duty holiday of the raft of health and safety measures they...

Now may be the time for buy to let investors to consider incorporation - putting their property portfolios into a limited...

The Irish government says it’s considering buying properties that were listed on Airbnb and other short-let platforms before the pandemic. In an...

The research department of Countrywide’s Hamptons International brand says the stamp duty holiday introduced yesterday on homes selling for £500,000 or...

Former Labour Baroness Alicia Kennedy, the new director of the campaign group Generation Rent, claims 500,000 renters are in arrears as...

A stamp duty cut could reinvigorate the buy to let market and the wider economy as the country comes out of...

Propertymark says it’s continuing to talk to government departments about making the furlough scheme flexible enough to meet agency industry needs.  A...

A pressure group representing private tenants wants government to help housing associations purchase buy to let properties “at knockdown prices.” A blog...

HSBC says its unable to accept any new buy to let mortgage applications during the Coronavirus crisis. The same applies to applications...

Hello and welcome to Conquering Corona, our bid to help agents through the crisis. If you have appropriate advice to share with...

A lender is now offering what it calls ‘instant decisions-in-principle’ for buy to let purchasers still buying property at the moment. Landbay...

Over 100,000 current or aspiring tenants have signed up to an education programme explaining how the rental sector works, run by...

Two bedroom properties produce the best yields for buy to let investors according to the latest research. Lettings management platform Howsy has...

One of the country’s leading buying agencies says buy to let is changing in prime central London, as corporate structures replace...

Home ownership is increasingly out of reach for British consumers, who say the market has become expensive and inaccessible and that...

  Zoopla says its new digital ‘guide’ programme has been a tremendous success and is evidence that the portal’s investment in new...

Some 26 per cent of buy to let investors plan to sell one or more of their properties in 2020 according...

One of the highest profile buy to let mortgage lenders predicts that 2020 will see increasing numbers of investors going into...

Number 10 briefings to the national media suggest that the scrapping of Section 21 - long talked about by the previous...

Reports from China suggest that property investors from that country - a staple in the buy to let market in many...

Some 45 per cent of those who don’t yet own a home think they never will, according to a new report.  While...

A lettings agency that launched just two years ago has snapped up an independent firm in the same city in a...

Labour’s controversial proposal to oblige landlords to sell their buy to let properties to tenants who wished to purchase them, unveiled...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents and the National Association of Estate Agents have issued their manifesto for next month’s General...

A trade body says the private rental sector is facing a major crisis - more landlords are selling properties than buying...

Contrary to the impressions given in some quarters, no fewer than 75 per cent of tenants are happy to rent, and...

UK-wide rental prices are up 2.0 per cent annually to £876 – a three-year high – according to a new quarterly...

A lettings agent jailed in March for taking £220,000 from tenants and landlords is now in trouble over her legal representation. Heather...

Property investors are concerned that Brexit could deter international buyers from purchasing property in the UK, which could in turn weaken...

Uncertainty around the UK's planned departure from the EU and the stability of the government is causing the super-rich to rent instead...

A fifth of buy-to-let landlords claim they have reduced the number of properties in their portfolios due to a range of...

The majority of the UK’s private renters don’t want to purchase a home according to new research, coming just as the...

Rents have reached an all time high across the UK according to HomeLet. Its latest index says the average rent in the...

A specialist lettings agency claims it is the first in the UK to only use renewable energy in the accommodation it...

Lettings professionals should do more to raise awareness of the need to reduce moving stress for tenants and landlords. Industry supplier Tenant...

The comparison website MoneySuperMarket suggests that renters spend an average of £670 in additional costs when they move, on top of...

New research shows more than half of landlords plan to use limited companies to buy properties in the year ahead.  The study...

A lettings group says the high-profile struggle performers at the Edinburgh Fringe now face to find affordable short-term accommodation was entirely...

A man who claimed he needed a council house but was actually a landlord has been ordered to pay back more...

A local authority in Manchester is pioneering a ban to prevent buyers of homes at a new development from selling them to private...

Zillios looking to become the leading portal for international property listings, appealing to property owners, estate agents, and property hunters alike....

A relatively new firm in the crowded central London buying agency market is expanding into property management. Aykroyd & Co was launched...

A rental provider specialising in property for older tenants has attacked what he calls “hidden costs” involved when people buy purpose-built...

A new survey by one of the sector’s most respected lenders, Paragon, suggests large scale landlords are now a bigger force...

A specialist student accommodation lettings and property management company says it’s preparing to grow through a series of strategic acquisitions. Bankers have...

One of the country’s youngest lettings franchise holders has opened a second branch by acquiring an independent agency. Kuljeet Aujla, owner of...

Recent figures suggesting that nearly £1 billion was withdrawn by over-55s through equity release in the first three months of 2019...

A new report by a leading lettings sector expert cautions parents who are considering entering the Buy To Let sector by...

Figures calculated by Rightmove suggest that even when the Fees Ban and Deposit Caps kick in on June 1, some deposits...

Data from a Countrywide agency shows that 59 per cent of landlords who live in London purchased their buy to let...

There will be less buy to let remortgaging in future as landlords consolidate rather than expand their portfolios. The prediction comes from...

High end lettings agency Harrods Estates says it has seen a 10 per cent rise in tenancy renewals in the Knightsbridge...

A controversial new survey claims to have identified the best cities for millennials to live in based on factors such as...

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

The average age of those buying investment property has fallen by more than three and a half years in the past...

A crooked letting agent took £220,000 from tenants and landlords and has been exposed as buying a home in Florida, renting...

Momentum is building in the campaign to end ‘No DSS’ discrimination against private rental sector tenants in receipt of housing benefit. Late...

The gap between the cost of buying and renting is down 59 per cent to its lowest level in nine years...

Propertymark’s Money Shield service and the National Approved Letting Scheme have each received government approval to operate Client Money Protection schemes. From...

Over half of the Millennials consulted in a survey say they want to get away from renting so badly they would...

Most tenants believe they will never be able to own a home because of the burden of saving for a deposit...

The average rent across Scotland is now running at £573 per calendar month - but that figure hides wide variations in...

The party conferences of the two main political parties threw up some interesting developments with regards to housing and the rental...

More progress is expected today in the passage of a Bill which will allow good tenants’ rent records to count towards...

Countrywide says landlords spent £12.1 billion buying rental properties in the first half of this year - a full 30 per...

Savills has announced two acquisitions in the north west, one of an agency and one of an individual branch.  The agency being...

A new PropTech tool tells users how much it would cost to rent a house in various areas for a ‘lifetime...

A major property platform says London’s rental and sales market may well be on the road to recovery - but that...

A two bedroom furnished flat can cost up to 21 per cent more to rent than a comparable property that’s unfurnished. Research...

In our previous 2 blogs we have covered the definitions of the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations (CPRs) and what...

In our previous blog, we looked at the definitions outlined by the CPRs. In our next blog we’ll look at the...

The number of landlords with more than 10 Airbnb accommodations listed in London has risen by 8.4 per cent in the...

One of the most respected buying agencies, Black Brick, says the collapse in demand for buy to let is the most...

Property expert Kate Faulkner says the massive surge in new regulations, legislation and fiscal measures aimed at the private rental sector...

New research nearly two out of five landlords will use limited companies to buy properties over the next year compared to...

Time to put the gloom and doom about buy to let to one side - a new analysis shows that a...

A specialist insurance provider says there is substantial mis-buying of insurance products by buy to let investors.  A survey of 500 landlords...

One of the most respected buying agencies says it believes that with well under a year before the UK quits the...

A PropTech firm which uses so-called ‘sherpas’ to find lettings properties for would-be renters, is now seeking £250,000 through crowdfunding to...

The rapid growth in alternative non-deposit schemes for letting agents, landlords and tenants has hit the market. This one, from Blinc UK, claims...

The lettings director of high-end London lettings agency Russell Simpson says he expects the capital’s rentals market to blossom next year...

Millennials renting an average-sized property outside of London, who begin their tenancy at age 21, will spend an average of £110,830...

Larger scale landlords with 10 properties or more appear to be the most confident about the private rental sector, and are...

The search arm of Knight Frank, The Buying Solution, has a new recruit to handle both rental and sales clients in...

The pressure group Generation Rent - often identified with highlighting issues concerning young tenants - is now warning of a massive...

A record 65 per cent of landlord purchases over the last 12 months were made by cash buyers according to Countrywide. In the...

The private rental sector is likely to benefit as a result of first time buyers’ lack of understanding of the timings,...

Consumer organisation Which? says a handful of buy to let mortgage lenders have found a way of helping so-called ‘portfolio landlords’...

Countrywide says a record 64,672 tenants left London over the last 12 months with an unusually-high proportion going on to rent elsewhere. Some...

LSL Property Services, which owns Your Move and Reeds Rains lettings and estate agencies, is investing in an online buy to...

A tenant survey conducted by an online letting agent suggests that almost nine out of 10 tenants are not currently looking...

Giving clients reliable advice when they are buying, selling or letting a home lies at the core of every successful estate...

A league table drawn up by a rental sector insurance specialist claims private rental accommodation in university locations can produce yields...

The annual rate of rental growth across Britain doubled between June and July driven by a turnaround in the London market,...

Landlords continue to look for cheaper, higher-performing properties according to the results of an index produced by Mortgages for Business. An analysis...

A new app called UrbanCo is launched today in London as part of a buying agent-style service aimed at busy would-be renters.    A...

A head of a company providing hi-tech products to letting agents says technology is the answer to current rental industry challenges,...

The Queen’s Speech, outlining the government’s proposals for the next two years, has confirmed a pledge to introduce a ban on...

A trade body wants independent inventories to become mandatory across the lettings sector - and it pledges to mount a campaign...

A string of corporate letting agencies plus ARLA Propertymark have again called on the government to reconsider its proposed ban on agents’...

What does it say on your business card? Peter Mansfield, Group Chairman, The World Property Network, www.twpn.com  and TheWorldPropertyNetwork.com                             What is The World Property Network...

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

The remaining overhand of last year’s buy to let buying surge by landlords means the annual rate of rent rises has...

Steve Bolton, founder of investment consultancy Platinum Property Partners and one of two landlords who have led a campaign against restricting...

Prominent market commentator and buying agent Henry Pryor has been involved in a Twitter spat over whether the changes to mortgage...

Prime Purchase, the buying arm of estate agency Savills, says renting may be “a more financially sound route” for some wealthy...

The Chartered Institute of Taxation has issued a reminder to buy to let investors that the first phase of the restriction...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is keeping up its campaign against a ban on agents’ fees in England by showing...

It seems prop-tech is exploding at a scary rate, and the latest brands are all trying to grab our attention by...

The Middleton Advisors buying agency has launched a rental service triggered by growing demand for prime property rentals in London and...

The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) is writing to the Office for Budget Responsibility asking it to provide clarification on controversial tax...

Analysis of the government’s respected English Housing Survey suggests that the reality of the private rental sector is far from the...

MNY Property Management Ltd has been fined £3,390 for offences under the Housing Act - specifically, failing to buy a licence...

Letting Agent Today’s Conor Shilling was in the audience of The Great Buy To Let Debate - always one of the...

Countrywide claims that the proportion of landlords paying in cash for a property reached 61 per cent in January, the highest...

One of the world’s largest ‘temporary furnished accommodation’ specialists is reported to have £20m to spend on renting property to re-let...

The buy to let mortgage market has suffered something of a battering in recent months but now Post Office Money is...

New research claims that the financial benefits of renting rather than owning may have been under-rated.   A financial researcher at the University...

The government’s proposed ban on letting agency fees levied on tenants - and the possibility that they may instead fall on...

There’s a new player in prime London’s burgeoning lettings sector - Quintessentially Estates.  The new division is to be led by Quintessentially...

Another prominent mortgage chief has called on the government to show its support for the private rental sector by repealing some...

Lettings expert Kate Faulkner says yields - a traditional long-standing measure of success for buy to let landlords - are becoming...

LGIM Real Assets has announced the appointment of a former Countrywide fund manager as part of its Build to Rent (BTR)...

The Scottish Association of Landlords - which represents letting agents as well as landlords north of the border - has spoken...

One of the biggest players in the burgeoning Build To Rent sector says this new segment of the lettings market is...

The Residential Landlords Association has welcomed a report by the House of Lords that institutional investors behind the Build To Rent...

There was an eight per cent surge in the number of homes available to rent in the second quarter of the...

Mortgage firms insisting on landlords proving their rental income could cover 145 per cent of their monthly payments could lead to...

A London buying agent is forecasting that the Brexit vote will mean there will be “more and more would-be-buyers opting to rent”...

The Daily Telegraph - an outspoken critic of George Osborne’s fiscal changes aimed at extracting more money from the buy to...

Data produced by Scottish lettings agency DJ Alexander Lettings appears to show a growing trend towards long-term letting over buying. The agency,...

Deutsche Bank has issued a dire warning about the buy to let market in the UK, along with a broadside warning...

One of the country's largest franchise agencies has announced that it is opening nine new offices.  Belvoir has recently launched branches in...

VanHan, the prime London agency run by Rory Penn and Thomas van Straubenzee, has set up a lettings and management division...

Average price for a property paid by investors in April fell by 8.3 per cent from £194,000 a month earlier to...

The frenzy of investor purchasing of buy to let units ahead of the stamp duty surcharge deadline has led to an...

A buy to let index of returns compiled by a financial firm shows the greatest returns for investors are now to...

A business start-up service says the cost of joining a franchise lettings agency can range from £2,495 to a hefty £150,000...

Research by HomeLet shows that rents on new tenancies outside London over the three months to March were on average 4.9...

A Conservative peer has criticised the government's ongoing attacks on the private lettings industry saying that the Cameron administration should be...

The average tenant spends a total of £577.64 on letting agent fees, according to new research. The research, carried out by an...

The changes introduced to the tax and stamp duty levied on buy to let income and property appears not to have...

A survey suggests that almost 80 per cent of tenants want a lease between six months and two years, with just...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents wants the government to allocate more spending and greater political priority to housing, after new...

A lettings and sales agent has admitted to a court that he tried to cheat an elderly pensioner by buying her flat...

Buying agency Black Brick says investment in prime London’s lettings sector remains buoyant despite the imminent three per cent stamp duty...

Who are you? I am David d’Orton-Gibson What does it say on your business card? It says I am the Managing Director of an...

As agents, you know that there is so much more to the home-buying process than simply choosing a perfect home, but...

Prime Minister David Cameron has dismissed out of hand appeals and comments from Letting Agent Today readers to reconsider the recent...

Fleet Mortgages is telling clients to choose an efficient conveyancer if they are buying an investment property with a view to...

Dorian Gonsalves, director of commercial and franchising at Belvoir, is urging the government to dramatically increase the availability of social housing...

Investment advice company London Central Portfolio says the proposed three per cent stamp duty surcharge on the purchase of buy to...

The Council of Mortgage Lenders is warning of a possible slump for the buy to let market in the next two...

The new three per cent stamp duty rate surcharge is the equivalent to 11 months income for the average mortgaged landlord,...

The research team at high-end lettings and estate agency Savills says the controversial three per cent ‘additional property’ stamp duty introduced...

Existing and would-be landlords are set to go on a buy to let buying spree, snapping up homes before the three...

There’s been an angry reaction from letting agents and landlords to the shock news that an additional three per cent stamp...

- From April 2016 buy to let landlords and people buying second or holiday homes will have to pay an additional...

A prominent buying agent active in prime central London says the capital’s high end buy to let market will become less...

Savills says mainstream UK rents are likely to rise by an average of 16.5 per cent by the end of 2020...

Rightmove says letting agents are reporting “extraordinary demand” in many parts of the country, with an increasing number of tenants positively...

The chairman of Choices letting agency says the government is wrong to say its proposed tax changes will create a level...

The government’s response to the online petition against proposed tax changes for buy to let investors is “unfair, incoherent and missing...

The Halifax is the latest of many house price indices to show higher than expected house price growth - and yet...

There has been a huge increase in the number of investors acquiring Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs) in the North West...

A couple who modernised their home in a naturist village can stay in their home after winning a court battle against...

An analysis by Britain’s biggest letting agency, Countrywide, has thrown up a little known fact - with applications for school places...

Could this happen here? Airbnb, the hugely successful online rental platform, has linked with a US property portal to give prospective...

The Conveyancing Association (CA) has embarked on a mission to engage with the lender community with a view to initiating a...

A buying agent who find properties for affluent overseas purchasers says they are often surprised by letting agents charging them what...

So spring has sprung and the Hare is on the loose. After a very long gestation period, the Veyo leveret has...

Poldark, a period drama recently on the BBC, has inspired a new trend dubbed the 'Poldark Effect'.  Rather than an increase in...

“More than 1 in 3 agreed property deals in England & Wales fall through… Gazeal is a new system for property sales,...

Under new pension freedom reforms, people aged 55 and over can access as much of their savings from their defined contributions...