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The London rental market stock surplus spurred by pandemic uncertainty has started to subside, with prime boroughs seeing some of the...
12 January 2022
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A London-focussed lettings agency group has paid £2,000 as a result of breaching the Tenant Fees Act. The issue relates to the...
23 December 2021
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The London agency Bective says the prime areas of the capital have enjoyed an eight per cent uplift in rental values...
16 December 2021
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Council-imposed fines on letting agents and landlords that fall foul of licensing regulations have risen dramatically in the past month alone. Research...
25 November 2021
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Home, the property website that publishes an authoritative market snapshot for lettings and sales each month, says the long-standing supply drought...
16 November 2021
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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
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A London council has secured banning orders against rogue property agents who were previously fined over £70,000 for letting an unlicensed...
28 May 2021
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Knight Frank is this year’s headline sponsor of the LandAid Sleep Out, one of the causes many in the industry support. This...
02 April 2021
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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...
18 November 2020
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London lettings agency Benham and Reeves has drawn up a league table of which boroughs in the capital have had their...
17 November 2020
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Rents are higher for Londoners living near busy high streets - for the moment at least. Research by rental platform Spotahome has...
01 September 2020
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Coronavirus lockdowns and travel restrictions imposed by the UK and other governments have hit the London rental market badly, an agency...
22 July 2020
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A leading supplier says the current market standstill is an opportunity for the industry to rethink how short lets can be...
08 April 2020
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A lettings agency and its director have pleaded guilty to renting out an overcrowded house in the first case brought to...
17 March 2020
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A newspaper claims multiple councils are opening investigations into agents allegedly defying the tenant fees ban - and at least one...
03 March 2020
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A London council says nearly half of the Airbnb-style short let properties available in its patch last year exceeded their legal...
21 February 2020
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A room-finding portal, along with the owners of a London lettings agency and management firm, must pay over £100,000 for letting...
12 February 2020
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A judge has ordered two landlords to pay a total of £14,858 for illegally renting out an unlicensed house without working...
30 January 2020
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A London council tenant who for a period of seven years failed to disclose that he owned three houses, has been...
29 January 2020
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Greater London rents have risen an average of four per cent in the past year - but some boroughs performing above-average...
13 September 2019
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Rents in London are rocketing but a leading market commentator says this is no reason to give in to a “Marxist dystopia”...
07 August 2019
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Demand for room rentals in London is so high their average charge has risen two per cent in 2019 already, claims...
01 March 2019
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A lettings agency and its director have been fined a total of £30,000 for failing to licence HMOs and giving sham...
13 February 2019
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A flat-share website claims typical rents in some 38 per cent of London are now so high they render the areas...
11 February 2019
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OnTheMarket, which is beginning to undertake occasional property research, has released data identifying what proportion of tenants’ salaries are spent on...
28 November 2018
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A London property firm must repay no less than £60,000 in rent after a council obtained a Rent Repayment Order against...
20 November 2018
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A London local authority which is part way through its five year additional HMO licensing scheme wants lettings agents to give their...
02 October 2018
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A lettings agent described as ‘rogue’ by a London council, along with two lettings companies, have been heavily fined for operating...
19 September 2018
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Average rents in London are £1,615, up 3.3 per cent on last year, according to HomeLet’s latest index. This is the first...
08 August 2018
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The controversial Right To Rent regime whereby agents and landlords are expected to check the immigration status of would-be tenants is...
04 June 2018
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Two rogue letting agents in London have been fined thousands of pounds as part of a council campaign to clean up...
17 May 2018
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A warning has come from a campaigning letting agent that London’s landlords agents could be costing themselves tenants by requiring them...
20 March 2018
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The Residential Landlords Association has reiterated its opposition to Right To Rent, and is backing two legal challenges to the measure. Letting...
02 February 2018
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Barratt Homes’ London division is offering what it describes as ‘free property management’ on new-builds purchased at selected schemes and then...
16 November 2017
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PropTech firm PayProp has welcomed the latest measures to clamp down on rogue elements within the lettings industry - but warns...
11 October 2017
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A London council has won its appeal against Foxtons using the term “administration fees” in its lettings charges. Back in 2015 Camden...
15 September 2017
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Letting agents who have broken the law are set to be ‘named and shamed’ by the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan,...
27 April 2017
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MNY Property Management Ltd has been fined £3,390 for offences under the Housing Act - specifically, failing to buy a licence...
06 March 2017
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The owner of a house in multiple occupation in the leafy Hampstead area of north London has been hit with a...
06 March 2017
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A BBC investigation claims that people living in the private rental sector spend more than a third of their disposable income...
08 August 2016
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London politician Sian Berry - who was the Green Party candidate for the Mayoral elections in the capital in May -...
15 July 2016
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A London estate and letting agency has announced the appointment of 19 new members of staff as a result of a...
03 June 2016
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A letting agent and four landlords face bills totalling more than £20,000 after being prosecuted by Islington Council for operating unlicensed...
06 May 2016
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A typical tenant in a two-bed property in England will have paid over £40,000 in rent in the past five years...
04 March 2016
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A London local authority has taken court action against one of its own councillors who has admitted failing to carry out...
19 January 2016
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Two letting agencies in the London borough of Camden have lost their appeal against fines for failing to join a redress...
01 December 2015
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The PRS, one of three authorised redress schemes, is backing a ‘Fair Lettings’ campaign being introduced by Camden council in London. It...
19 October 2015
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Unitary local authorities where trading standards and environmental health teams work to the same objectives are more successful at clamping down...