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One of the first Building To Rent schemes in Wales - a 22 storey tower - has seen its first residents...
29 February 2024
From: Breaking News
A new networking service for letting agents and all other property insiders, including landlords and investors, is being launched today by...
31 January 2024
From: Breaking News
The latest rental index from Goodlord shows average rents in England rose nearly nine per cent higher across 2023. In 2022, rents...
09 January 2024
From: Breaking News
Low-income renters will get a boost next spring - but a pressure group wants more government help for this sector. The Chancellor’s...
12 December 2023
From: Breaking News
The cheapest end of the rental market is under-supplied and overly competitive, a deposit alternative service claims. The provider - Zero Deposit...
27 October 2023
From: Breaking News
Professional cleaning firm Prompt Cleaners has created a league table of regions and local authorities where renting is cheapest and dearest. The...
16 August 2023
From: Breaking News
A letting platform says what it calls “the rental chaos” of the current market has now end in sight. New data from...
04 August 2023
From: Breaking News
July was a record breaking month for the rental market, claims a PropTech company. Goodlord analyses tens of thousands of completed tenancies...
02 August 2023
From: Breaking News
Crisis, the homelessness charity, has slammed the government over the growing gap between housing benefit levels and even the lower end...
28 July 2023
From: Breaking News
Rents continue to soar across the UK according to data released by flatshare website SpareRoom. It says average UK room rents were...
13 July 2023
From: Breaking News
The chief executive of a respected industry supplier is warning that the lack of supply is making the rental sector “more...
05 July 2023
From: Breaking News
A prominent housing journalist says Labour should fund councils to buy homes directly from private landlords to rapidly increase the size...
01 June 2023
From: Breaking News
Average monthly room rentals are at their most expensive ever according to lettings platform SpareRoom. It says in London the typical monthly...
03 August 2022
From: Breaking News
Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Sales & Marketing Director What is Glide and what does...
11 July 2022
From: 60 Second Interview
A new market snapshot suggests that the cost of renting just a room in London has reached an average of over...
07 July 2022
From: Breaking News
New details from a survey conducted by industry organisations concerning pets in rental properties show the extent of the problem. Some 537...
06 July 2022
From: Breaking News
Rents rose by an average of 2.8 per cent during June, taking the average cost of a rental property in England...
01 July 2022
From: Breaking News
Fresh data from PropTech supplier Goodlord shows the average cost of rent in England reached £1,020 per property in May, up...
06 June 2022
From: Breaking News
A new study has compiled a league table of the best cities in the UK for investment in student accommodation. CIA Landlord...
18 May 2022
From: Breaking News
The desire for more living space, a key feature of the pandemic, has driven up rents on larger properties faster than...
22 November 2021
From: Breaking News
Rents for detached homes increased twice as fast as the average for all UK properties during Q3 2021 says the Deposit...
14 October 2021
From: Breaking News
Rik Smith, Head of Tenant Services at Goodlord, outlines in this tips piece how agents can support tenants with rising energy...
29 September 2021
From: Recruitment & Business Matters
Voids are at their lowest level since August 2019 while rents are on the rise, according to the latest Goodlord snapshot...
03 August 2021
From: Breaking News
Some low-cost energy efficiency improvements to a property could boost its EPC rating according to an analysis undertaken by Rightmove. The portal...
03 June 2021
From: Breaking News
Data from PropTech platform SpareRoom suggests that London’s typical room rent has dropped further, this time in response to the new...
21 January 2021
From: Breaking News
Generation Rent’s campaign for more public funds for private tenants continues unabated with a call on Chancellor Rishi Sunak to increase...
25 November 2020
From: Breaking News
The Generation Rent campaign has renewed its call for public money to be allocated to clear at least some rent arrears...
23 November 2020
From: Breaking News
The property market, and therefore, estate agents have been accused of being the 'weak link' in the UK’s money laundering defences. This...
29 October 2020
From: Legislation & Compliance
Rents in the UK dropped in six of the eight regions monitored by PropTech supplier Goodlord. During September, the average rent for...
08 October 2020
From: Breaking News
Rents are higher for Londoners living near busy high streets - for the moment at least. Research by rental platform Spotahome has...
01 September 2020
From: Breaking News
A survey of 34 world cities suggests that London ranks sixth when it comes to the cost of renting. The study, by...
31 July 2020
From: Breaking News
Room rents in the capital have dropped seven per cent in the past three months as the Coronavirus crisis saps demand...
16 July 2020
From: Breaking News
More than a third of furloughed private renters are worried about being able to pay their rent when the coronavirus lockdown...
05 June 2020
From: Breaking News
Average UK rents continued to rise between July and September, but failed to keep up with inflation, according to The Deposit...
11 October 2019
From: Breaking News
Two housing charities have called for the government to invest more in housing benefit so it rises in line with private...
10 October 2019
From: Breaking News
The cost of renting a room in the UK remained steady during Q3, according to SpareRoom. The country's biggest flatsharing site says...
07 October 2019
From: Breaking News
A flat-sharing website has created a league table of average rents in locations surrounding the top-ranked universities in the United Kingdom....
09 August 2019
From: Breaking News
In the last ten years Google's revenue, largely from pay per click ads (Adwords), has grown by 527% (Source: Statista). In...
03 July 2019
From: Sponsored Content
The latest Your Move lettings index for England and Wales shows the average rent stagnating - rising just 0.5 per cent...
22 May 2019
From: Breaking News
New data looking specifically at room rental rates suggest that across the UK rents rose by an average three per cent...
03 May 2019
From: Breaking News
Figures calculated by Rightmove suggest that even when the Fees Ban and Deposit Caps kick in on June 1, some deposits...
18 April 2019
From: Breaking News
Average monthly UK rent is now at its lowest level for three years according to the Deposit Protection Service. Average rent fell...
11 April 2019
From: Breaking News
The average rent across England and Wales in February was a mere 0.4 per cent higher than the same point a...
27 March 2019
From: Breaking News
Demand for room rentals in London is so high their average charge has risen two per cent in 2019 already, claims...
01 March 2019
From: Breaking News
London lettings agency Benham and Reeves has produced figures showing, indirectly at least, exactly why buy to let and property investment...
22 February 2019
From: Breaking News
An angry lettings agent has emailed Cabinet minister James Brokenshire to show his disgust at the government’s U-turn over deposit caps. In...
06 December 2018
From: Breaking News
New figures show that the Scottish rental market returned to growth in September with average growth of 0.1 per cent across...
31 October 2018
From: Breaking News
It’s a conundrum for many, especially those moving to the capital...but portal OnTheMarket claims it knows exactly where it is cheapest...
27 July 2018
From: Breaking News
The Scottish rental market performed solidly in the last year, with the average rent rising by 0.6 per cent to hit...
03 May 2018
From: Breaking News
There’s been a huge 43 per cent rise in the number of London properties registered to be short let on Airbnb...
01 May 2018
From: Breaking News
Rightmove has revealed that the 10 year average growth in asking rents across London has been 25 per cent, and over...
28 March 2018
From: Breaking News
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
From: Breaking News
A housing charity has called for the government to build more affordable social homes for rent to help families 'trapped' in...
20 February 2018
From: Breaking News
The average rent in England and Wales was £850 in December 2017, an increase of 2.3 per cent in the last...
24 January 2018
From: Breaking News
Rental prices in most areas of England and Wales have grown over the past 12 months with the East of England...
27 November 2017
From: Breaking News
The average rent in England and Wales is now £800 per month according to latest statistics from Your Move. The area with...
28 April 2017
From: Breaking News
An online letting agency has sharply criticised student accommodation branded as affordable yet costing, it claims, nearly twice the maximum maintenance...
28 March 2017
From: Breaking News
The average rental property was let for £830 a month in November according to Your Move - that means the average...
30 December 2016
From: Breaking News
Online estate agent Urban.co.uk says it has created a league table of fees that tenants are charged by agencies in different locations...
25 November 2016
From: Breaking News
The average rent for a new tenancy in London during August was £1,765 per month, according to data from the Tenancy...
20 September 2016
From: Breaking News
Average rents in some of the UK's most popular university locations have increased significantly over the last year, according to SpareRoom.co.uk. As...
16 September 2016
From: Breaking News
The typical deposit paid when a tenant moves to a new property in England and Wales is set to break the...
02 September 2016
From: Breaking News
Latest figures from London lettings agency Portico suggest a slight fall in rents but the firm is now claiming that it...
18 August 2016
From: Breaking News
Tenancy deposits in England and Wales are typically £100 dearer than the Scottish equivalent. Between June 2015 and May 2016, the average...
15 June 2016
From: Breaking News
Average rents for single rooms across the UK increased at a faster rate than those in London, according to spareroom.co.uk. The rental...
02 June 2016
From: Breaking News
It’s probably a question you’ve never asked yourself but one online flat sharing agency has calculated the most expensive and the...
14 January 2016
From: Breaking News
Many lenders are holding the equivalent of ‘mortgage January sales’ in order to kick-start the market for borrowers, according to a...