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During the last year, the industry has experienced a rollercoaster of highs and lows as agents experienced rental peaks, stock shortages,...

Alto, the Zoopla-owned cloud-based software for agents, has unveiled what it calls “its next generation of functionality.” New features include an enhanced...

The desire for more living space, a key feature of the pandemic, has driven up rents on larger properties faster than...

New figures show how effective the stamp duty holiday was in stimulating buy to let - and how similar measures could...

Results have been released of an analysis of over 20,000 Build To Rent tenants in over 15,000 homes across the UK...

A PropTech firm says Open Banking could help to transform the lettings industry for the better if it is fully embraced.  And...

New figures from the Ministry of Justice show a dramatic long-term decline in the number of possessions in the private rental...

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

The private rental sector is already attempting to improve its EPC results according to research from Shawbrook Bank.  From 2025 new rules...

Rental growth in prime areas of London has climbed to multi-year highs according to new data from Knight Frank.  While only a...

Data from central London lettings agency Bective shows returning tenant demand in the capital. The agency’s analysis of new lettings applicants shows...

Labour has joined with campaign groups Generation Rent and Shelter in calling for the speediest possible ending of Section 21 eviction...

Why CRMs should not be relied upon for contract creation and management. Customer relationship management platforms (CRMs) are useful tools that...

New figures from the National Home Building Council suggests the popularity of detached properties has soared during the pandemic - prompting...

Two recent calls for the introduction of a national mandatory landlord register in England have been rebuffed by agents’ trade body...

The Build to Rent sector is being targeted by criminals with a 364 per cent rise in fraudulent tenant applications in...

Travel Chapter, which owns the high profile Holidaylettings brand, is to float on the London Stock Exchange's junior AIM market. Devon-based Travel...

New figures provide further evidence of the difficulties first time buyers have getting on the property ladder - and why as...

The room-letting sector known as co-living, now growing in London, has seen occupancy levels bounce back since some Covid restrictions have...

Independent Liverpool-based agency LPS Real Estate has acquired another indie - Maison Lettings. As part of the acquisition, LPS will take over...

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

Pressure continues to build on letting agents to play a greater role in the adoption of smart meters across the private...

As energy efficiency becomes increasingly key for the private rental sector and owner occupiers alike, new data from PropTech firm Sprift...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Alexander Siedes, CEO and Founder of Homeppl What is Homeppl and...

Data consultancy LonRes says a dramatic fall in prime London rental stock is forcing rents to rise at last.   The number of...

A PropTech chief says there’s substantial opportunity for letting agents to earn more revenue - so long as they understand their...

Data from property investment consultancy London Central Portfolio suggests foreigners are returning to the UK capital as travel restrictions ease -...

Average annual rental growth across Britain hit 8.0 per cent in September, the third fastest annual rate of growth recorded this...

Agents’ marketing platform BriefYourMarket has announced a new integration live and ready to install on Reapit’s AppMarket. BriefYourMarket first integrated with Reapit’s...

The telecoms solutions company behind "Phone-in-a-Phone" (PiP) now brings property professionals the UK's first mobile-only business phone system in an app...

A high profile and respected lettings sector legal expert is inviting questions from agents at a webinar next week - and he’ll...

A PropTech company says it will support agents left in the lurch by the collapse of ARPM. Ash Residential Property Management -...

New data from Rightmove reveals that the imbalance of supply and demand for rental properties in suburban and rural areas has...

With house prices at an all-time high, showing no signs of waning, the age of first-time buyers is on the rise...

A PropTech company says virtual tours should now be made to abide by GDPR regulations to increase privacy for landlords and...

More buy to let properties are being put on the sales market, despite the strength in the lettings sector, says Zoopla. In...

Rik Smith, Head of Tenant Services at Goodlord, outlines in this tips piece how agents can support tenants with rising energy...

Propertymark is telling politicians to stop demonising letting agents and landlords. The unusualy bluntl message has come in response to the latest...

An international residential platform which manages 200,000 properties in 29 countries across Europe - including the UK - has signed an...

A statement from ARLA Propertymark has hinted that it believes politicians may be out of touch with the reality of how...

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

As a letting agent in the UK, you might think what happens in China has no bearing on your work here....

It’s an exciting time when prospective tenants show an interest in your listed property. However, it's important not to let that...

Rental stock has dropped as landlords seek to profit from the staycation boom, Rightmove claims. Data from the portal suggests seaside towns...

Portfolio landlords can be the key to running a successful lettings agency. That is the latest claim from lead generation software provider...

New data released by franchise agency Winkworth showed that the rental market so far this year has been divided between house...

A PropTech supplier claims letting agents can now register deposits at the click of a button thanks to a new integration...

A new trend developing in prime central London suggests that tenants are demanding smaller properties - and that’s despite the pandemic...

Data from Leaders Romans Group shows that lettings attracted 5,941 requests for viewings in June – an average of 42 per...

New data from Rightmove shows that demand for pet friendly rental properties has increased by 120 per cent compared to last...

As the summer begins to draw to a close and the letting market regains its stride, attention is turning to the...

Demand for private rental housing is now at a five year high according to the National Residential Landlords Association. In the association’s...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I’m Heidi Shackell, CEO of The Lettings Hub. How has your...

The tide is turning for the London rental market at last according to data from the Benham and Reeves lettings agency. In...

Baroness Alicia Kennedy, director of the Generation Rent campaign, says rents in Wales, Scotland and South West England have soared thanks...

New data from Connells-owned agency Hamptons shows that nationally the rate of annual rental growth moderated slightly last month. Rents across Britain rose...

The niche co-living portion of the private rental sector has been boosted by the pandemic according to one operator. Built Asset Management...

There has still been no formal response to a government consultation on the database of rogue agents and landlords, 25 months...

Agents will be aware that demand for rental property is high right now - so a property consultancy has worked out...

The lettings market in London and the Home Counties continued its journey back towards normality in July according to data from...

The average rent in the UK is now at a record high of £1,029, up 6.6 per cent on the same time last year,...

The Association of Residential Managing Agents and The Institute of Residential Property Management have informed their respective memberships that they are pondering combining forces. The...

Student rent has increased almost 20 per cent over the last year.  In data released as part of the 2021 NatWest Student...

Two PropTech companies say tenant fraud - reported to be a growing problem in buy to let - is now an...

The latest rental market snapshot released by ARLA Propertymark shows a little of the heat coming out of the rental market...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? My name is Maxine Fothergill and for the past ‘almost’...

A new web-based listing management platform for small estate agencies is being launched in the UK, claiming to allow modest firms...

The independent Chancellors agency chain has signed an exclusive contract to use The Lettings Hub pre-tenancy platform BOX for the next...

A leading private rental trade body says only bespoke financial help can ensure the private rental sector meets government energy efficiency...

There’s a new warning the rental fraud could be on the rise. Due diligence firm Homeppl says the combination of possible job...

The capital appreciation of the past year proves that there’s no better investment than bricks and mortar, according to an agency...

There may be bad news for agencies with reliance on office workers who rent - a new survey suggests 10 per...

Agents say not enough is being done to help tenants with Covid-related problems - and that’s despite the issue repeatedly being...

Across Great Britain the pace of rental growth continued to climb in June, with rents rising 8.5 per cent year-on-year. The data...

The latest English Housing Survey shows a dramatic rise in the energy efficiency of private rental property. Some 38 per cent of...

Average rents in London declined during the second quarter of 2021, according to the latest market snapshot from the  Deposit Protection...

A pet referencing service is being launched next month - but it expects agents and landlords to pay to see the...

The average UK rent now stands at a record £1,007 per calendar month - the highest ever, according to HomeLet. It’s up...

Demand continues to build in prime lettings markets in London and the Home Counties, with Knight Frank data showing the number...

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

Tomorrow sees the start of a three-day debate over the extension of the eviction ban in Scotland - and Propertymark appears...

The prime London rental market is still in the doldrums but the rent falls are less pronounced than before.  Knight Frank says...

Prominent property lawyer David Smith - recently in the news for his guidance for agents and landlords over the eviction ban...

After a recent incident involving an Estate Agent based in Devon in which a property virtual tour they published revealed a...

Data from a property consultancy suggests that two thirds of renters who use virtual viewings sign tenancies without actually visiting their chosen...

Fresh data from Knight Frank shows how uncertainty continues to dog the lettings market in some parts of central London. There appears...

The Build to Rent market remains small in volume but it is making some inroads, leading to BTR rent rises predominantly...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents says agents should continue to help landlords and tenants during the Coronavirus crisis. Although the vaccine...

Prominent industry software supplier Reapit and specialist repairs and maintenance service Fixflo have announced a new integration.  This allows Fixflo’s software and...

Despite rent controls being a vote-catching policy for some local election candidates next week, the reality is that asking rents in...

A leading figure in the lettings sector says the government’s new Housing Possession Mediation Scheme can help agencies and landlords recover...

ARLA Propertymark says there should be a long term appropriately funded strategy to help the private rental sector and home owners...

Virtual tour suppliers have been keen to reassure agents that there need be no repeat of problems which befell a Devon agent. Fowlers,...

Lettings franchise giant Hunters has struck a commercial deal with a geospatial technology firm. The partnership offers immediate access to Kamma’s full...

Demand is still moving away from cities and towards suburbs and rural areas, according to Rightmove. “Areas around the North and South...

London rents have started to fall again - just as every other region of Britain is showing significant annual increases. Figures for...

Average rents across the UK have risen for the fourth time in as many months according to the HomeLet index. Typical rent...

Some 39 agents and landlords have had banning orders over the past three years according to a report in The Guardian. Under the...

Latest figures from ARLA Propertymark suggest the rental market continues to perform strongly. Data for February - the latest available from the...

The popularity of buy to let mortgage products offering exclusive rates for higher value loans is a sign of optimism in...

There’s been a spectacular surge in demand for lettings properties as vendors take advantage of the stamp duty holiday by selling...

Agents must be ready for an influx of new business according to outsourced telephone and live chat service Moneypenny. Its latest figures...

Almost one year to the day since the first national lockdown began, Rightmove has analysed millions of data points to confirm...

Real estate as an industry has remained unchallenged throughout all of these years. For the industry worth more than 217 trillion...

Propertymark is reminding all agents and suppliers, including sole traders, that they must register with the Information Commissioner’s Office if they...

The long-established agency marketing and services supplier ehouse has been bought by CoreLogic UK, the domestic arm of a global property...

Many months on from its call for evidence, an influential committee of MPs has still to report on whether it considers...

As we emerge out of the pandemic there is a growing need for agents to reflect on how the lettings business...

Rightmove says falling rents in central London have led to a surge in interest from prospective tenants. Rightmove has analysed over 23 million...

An assessment by Savills suggests capital values - including those for properties in the lettings sector - are likely to soar...

A landlord who persistently broke residential lettings rules has been banned from operating in a landmark legal ruling. Julie Stoddern, of Camborne,...

A survey of private rental sectors in major European cities suggests London is one of the tougher locations for tenants working...

There’s been another fall in the proportion of new-builds sold off-plan. Data from Hamptons says 33 per cent of new home completions...

An analysis by investment consultancy London Central Portfolio suggests Asian students in particular favour London as a study location. The consultancy has...

A PropTech firm claims agents will win a “competitive edge” through the data it provides via its platform. Sprift says its interactive...

Property data service Homesearch is to host digital conferences each month through the rest of the year.  They’re to be held via...

Government data suggests that scare stories talking of a glut of evictions if the current ban is lifted are simply unfounded. Data...

There’s a been a slight fall in the size of the private rental sector in England according to government figures.  Latest data...

Lettings management service Ringley Group has teamed up with a utility broker, 001 Ltd. It says this sources and identifies economies of...

Letting agents should help landlords through a blizzard of red tape and regulation cause by local licensing schemes, a PropTech entrepreneur...

Rightmove’s analysis of its own listings for January suggests demand in the rental market is 14 per cent up on a year...

For most letting agents the last year has been a challenging one which has focused attention on dealing with the immediate,...

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

Data from PropTech platform SpareRoom suggests that London’s typical room rent has dropped further, this time in response to the new...

Propertymark has responded to the official consultation on the government proposals called Energy Performance of Privately Rented Homes in England and...

Research from independent financial service market monitor Moneyfacts shows a small but encouraging increase in the number of buy to let mortgages...

HomeLet and Let Alliance have announced what they call a market first with a rent guarantee providing cover until vacant possession...

With the Government announcement this week of another national lockdown across England amid the surging coronavirus infections, it once again puts...

The average rent in the UK, measured just before the turn of the year, is £979, showing a 2.7 per cent...

Rent arrears in the private sector have actually dipped from their pandemic peak over the past two months - but they...

Rental growth expectations remain “slightly positive” across most of the UK according to the latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors market...

A property company has analysed Google Search Data from the past year to reveal what movers were looking for in 2020...

Letting agents say the number of tenants experiencing rent increases fell for the third month in a row. The latest ARLA Propertymark...

An agency comparison website has released information on landlord preferences and activities which it says can help agents market more effectively.  Rentround...

Recent debate about urgent need for reform and better collaboration within the property industry, has once again come under the spotlight...

A new assessment of legislation and council rules surrounding the private rental sector suggests a severe crackdown may be coming in...

The latest rental market snapshot from PropTech supplier Goodlord shows the November lockdown creating a subdued picture - but with early...

A late-year surge in the number of Build To Rent applications has been forecast by a market commentator. Alex Blagden, senior researcher...

A newspaper claims a lettings agency is battling allegations of overcharging customers and using fake companies to carry out maintenance work. The Daily Record...

PropTech provider Canopy is linking with a legal protection service which it says could enhance agents’ offer to landlords. If the tenant does...

A new app claims to make it easier for agents to create virtual tours and instantly embed them in property portal...

Tell us about Airthings, why it was established, the products and what problem they were coming to solve? Airthings was established in...

Two PropTech suppliers have announced their products will integrate in order to, in their words, “dramatically reduce reporting and end of tenancy...

Letting agencies should review banking and payment systems in the light of rule changes and the ongoing challenge of the pandemic. This advice...

The PropTech platform Plentific has acquired X-Tag, formerly known as Gas Tag. X Tag works with over 50 lettings agencies, property managers, councils and...

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

A PropTech lettings platform is reporting that the level of income required to cover the cost of renting has increased across...

The gap between typical City rents and Country rents is closing according to an analysis of Countrywide properties by the company’s...

An exercise by PropTech company Goodlord has given an insight into what the lettings market may look like in parts of...

Viewber has linked with the PropTech property management service PlanetRent. Viewber offers agents access to an online database of vetted viewing assistants,...

The latest Build To Rent snapshot up to late summer shows the number of BTR homes in stages of planning across...

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 report from the Nationwide and campaigning charity Shelter puts letting agents in the dock over the standards in the...

Letting agents and landlords have faced huge change and uncertainty this year, with Covid-19 the major driver. But even before the...

The number of tenants experiencing rent increases fell by almost a fifth in the year to the end of September according...

Agents spend their whole careers telling vendors and landlords why they will be able to achieve a better sale price or...

The property market, and therefore, estate agents have been accused of being the 'weak link' in the UK’s money laundering defences. This...

Rental operators specialising in short lets are signing up to a tracking study to assess the sector’s size and significance.  The exercise...

Independent agent uses innovative ‘feet up’ campaign to win business. An independent letting agency has invited landlords to put their ‘feet up’...

Generating leads is a crucial and age-old part of estate agency. Before the internet, lead generation was just as important to...

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

Here at The ValPal Network, we know that there are other options available when considering to use a valuation tool, so...

It’s been an unexpected year for the property market, shaped by the effects of the pandemic. We didn’t quite anticipate the...

A new nationally recognised letting agent qualification is being launched by a landlord body. The Managing Property and Residential Lettings Level 3...

ARLA Propertymark is backing a cross-industry call for more information to be provided to politicians who go on to make housing...

PropTech service The Depositary is extending its existing partnership with the Tenancy Deposit Scheme, aiming to fully integrate with the TDS...

Rents continue to fall in Prime Central London according to agency Knight Frank. After September’s data is taken into account the annual...

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

The huge disruption of the Coronavirus crisis to the UK's university education does not alter the sector’s long-term fundamentals, a specialist lettings...

A new PropTech tool called Lettings Intelligence is being launched this week with the claim that it is “revolutionising the way that lettings...

The number of new prospective tenants is at its highest level ever according to data just released by ARLA Propertymark. The association’s...

North of England lettings agency Matthew & Evans Rentals has been kicked out of the Property Redress Scheme, one of the two...

The government has accused campaign group Generation Rent of peddling “unreliable and misleading” figures about potential evictions in the private rental...

A London council has launched a strategy it claims will protect private tenants and ensure they live in good quality and...

A Liberal Democrat Baroness says she is to make a last-ditch bid in the House of Lords tomorrow to stop evictions...

Data from Knight Frank suggests that average rental values in prime central London fell one per cent last month, taking the...

Be proactive, have a plan, and keep prospecting.  After the easing of lockdown measures, it’s safe to say the property market picked...

Management software provider Goodlord has added Reapit to its list of integrations, with a preview for customers being available on a...

The rental market is heading into the normally-quieter autumn period with strength but increasing void periods. Data from PropTech firm Goodlord, which...

ARLA Propertymark is holding a webinar later this month to discuss the impact of Coronavirus on the private rental sector. It will...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Stewart McRae, Sales Director at CoreLogic UK What is ‘company name’...

A series of fake scams allegedly advertising apartments to rent have appeared on Zoopla and other property websites. The Edinburgh Live news...

The largest survey yet conducted about rent payments during the pandemic shows the claims of pressure groups about widespread evictions are unfounded. Over...

The lettings agency Portico is partnering with Goodlord to offer a new insurance policy to its landlords. Portico landlords can now benefit...

Rogue landlords have been accused of tax evasion which could cost the Treasury as much as £1.73 billion a year. The accusation...

New data from Zoopla shows that a two-speed rental market is operating across the UK, with London in particular hitting major...

Which? is warning prospective renters to beware scam lettings agencies and scam landlords following a case where £5,600 was conned out...

The number of new prospective tenants has risen markedly according to figures from ARLA Propertymark. In June - the latest data available...

A Liberal Democrat bid is underway to accelerate the government timetable to scrap Section 21. The Renters’ Rights Bill put forward by government...

New tenancies recorded by The Deposit Protection Service suggests the market is back almost to its pre-pandemic levels of activity. Data in...

A specialist buy to let mortgage broker is urging prospective investors to buy sooner rather than later if they want to...

New data from Hamptons International reveals that in June the average rent on a newly let property in Britain dipped 0.6...

PropTech companies teclet and Canopy are forming a partnership to allow their services to be bought by agents on the one...

Room rents in the capital have dropped seven per cent in the past three months as the Coronavirus crisis saps demand...

There’s been another increase in the proportion of private tenants saying they are satisfied with their housing according to data published...

In what is claimed to be an industry first, PropTech platform Goodlord has signed the Race Fairness Commitment. This commits Goodlord to...

Another agent reports huge surge in supply of London properties to let Yesterday Chestertons reported a large rise in the supply of...

The volume of UK home-hunters searching for pet-friendly rental properties has jumped since the start of lockdown, according to a rental platform. Searches for homes...

Automated lettings and management platform teclet has announced a new inventory solution with No Letting Go and its Kaptur inventory app. Kaptur...

David Smith - a solicitor specialising in residential property, agency and regulatory law - today launches a book advising property professionals...

A new league table has been produced listing locations where a mix of rental yield and capital growth have given buy...

London Fire Brigade’s deputy assistant commissioner for fire safety has praised the new safety regulations which have now come in to...

Deposit alternative system and rental financial services platform Canopy has raised over £2m in a funding round that was oversubscribed within...

In another sign of concern at the speed and volume of eviction cases once the ban is lifted at the end...

The latest market snapshot produced by agent data suggests that rent increases have hit a new low as the Coronavirus impacts on...

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

A new book from a prominent industry supplier aims to help lettings and estate agents modernise their business and futureproof it...

The number of rental deposit disputes lodged with one of the government-authorised deposit schemes has fallen 15 per cent across England...

A call has gone out for agents to offer extra support to landlords in the coming months as arrears may well...

Rents on renewed tenancies across Great Britain fell 1.6 per cent in May, the third consecutive monthly fall.   Data from Hamptons International...

PropTech lettings platform Herddle has announced two new senior hires. Hurdle describes itself as the tech-enabled lettings and property management agency that...

Government data shows that private renters spend a higher proportion of their budget on essential items that have not been cut...

Demand in the prime London lettings market is catching up with supply, reducing short-term downwards pressure on rental values. That’s the view...

An analysis of buy to let returns from mortgage lender Mojo has produced a league table with no London locations in...

PropTech firm Goodlord says there’s been “a remarkable bounce back” in the lettings sector since the market resumed. It’s been three weeks...

The buy-to-let market has grown significantly in recent years as long-term renting becomes more popular and investors continue to see the...

Government advice to local authorities to sit tight with new licensing proposals during the Coronavirus pandemic appears to have been ignored...

A document outlining options for the future regulation of Airbnb and other short let platforms in the UK is to be...

A new survey of tenants’ sentiment suggests that 54 per cent of renters feel confident to view a property with appropriate...

The return of the housing market has seen demand for rental property boom - and it’s a third higher now than...

Rental property website SearchSmartly is thought to be the first in the world to display air quality ratings on every listing. In...

Rents on renewed tenancies fell for the second month in a row according to data from Hamptons International.   In April the average...

The rental market effectively disintegrated in the early days of lockdown before showing signs of a rebound which are still active...

A new automated lettings platform claims to automate key processes around compliance, marketing, leasing and management for letting agents. Ringley Group, a...

The latest market snapshot by PropTech firm Goodlord suggests that while new and completed tenancy volumes dropped rapidly in the first...

New research claims to show that the lockdown could end up with higher rents as demand in the lettings sector outstrips...

Tenants paid a UK average monthly rent of £775 during the first quarter of this year according to the Deposit Protection...

One of the country’s largest Build To Rent players, Legal & General, says it’s to construct another 350 homes as part...

A former estate agent who has set up an online platform giving information on property values for London renters and buyers...

A new analysis reveals three key figures that suggest the rental market will bounce back from the lockdown and the Coronavirus...

There’s been a 12 per cent increase in the number of Built To Rent homes across the UK that have been...

Demand for homes to rent has surged back by some 30 per cent in the two weeks to April 14 according...

Veteran Countrywide figure John Hards has joined the board of still-to-launch property portal OpenBrix. In 2018 Hards rejoined Countrywide as national lettings...

An agency and its landlord clients have come to the aid of nurses who are in the frontline of the fight...

A short-lets rental platform says it has evidence to show that nights booked in April are down 90 per cent compared...

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

Lettings PropTech company teclet has announced that its partnership with the Mortgage Advice Bureau has been extended to offer mortgage and...

New and newly-refurbished properties are letting more readily as virtual viewings become more widespread during the lockdown. That’s the view of Knight...

Data from independent mortgage monitor Moneyfacts shows that there’s been a big drop in the choice of mortgage for buy to...

Hello and welcome to Wednesday’s update on what offers and advice are available to agents at this most difficult and challenging...

New tenant data has revealed that the average age of renters living in shared properties in London has risen five years...

Demand for rental properties has predictably plummeted thanks to the lockdown. Data from PropTech company Goodlord shows that while a surge for...

The government issued further guidance on the private rental sector over the weekend. The new 21 page document - a link to...

Hello and welcome to the latest Conquering Corona - our guide for agents to get through these challenging times. Please let us...

Hello and welcome to today’s Conquering Corona, our guide to the latest information to help agents and the rest of the...

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

Labour says the government should ban evictions for people who fall behind on their rent due to Coronavirus. John Healey, the shadow...

PropTech platform teclet is offering letting agents that list with OnTheMarket a three month trial offer of a digital inventory service. One...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Nick Lyons CEO What is No Letting Go and what does...

The controversial Liverpool council licensing scheme is to be policed through the use of what the authority calls “cutting-edge big data...

Pressure group Generation Rent claims half of London’s councils did not fine any landlords for letting out unsafe homes in the...

Growing demand and a shrinking supply of rental properties in prime central London has led to a 50 per cent surge...

Demand for rental properties in January increased to the highest level on record with 88 prospective tenants registered per lettings agency...

A London council says nearly half of the Airbnb-style short let properties available in its patch last year exceeded their legal...

The government has failed the private rental sector says the Residential Landlords Association. In a statement released even before the resignation of...

An analysis of HMRC data reveals that the number of small buy-to-let landlords has dropped for the first time in five...

The government’s hugely-publicised database for rogue letting agents and landlords has been running for almost two years and has…wait for it…just...

Enfield council in London has confirmed that it will introduce borough-wide additional licensing. It is also seeking consent from the government to...

Generation Rent - an outspoken organisation sharply critical of lettings agents and many aspects of the private rental sector - is...

London’s asking rents hit a new record average of £2,119 per calendar month as the ongoing shortage of property for tenants...

A judge has ordered two landlords to pay a total of £14,858 for illegally renting out an unlicensed house without working...

A lettings agency is calling on local councils to tackle the growing problem of long-term empty homes. My Property Box says that...

A third of all landlords live in Greater London and the South East according to data collated by a property management...

A council getting government cash for rental enforcement is using it to introduce a review service allowing tenants to comment on...

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

A former director at LSL’s Build To Rent division has today been named as head of business development at a London...

No date has been set by government for the second reading of the Renters' Reform Bill 2019-20. The Bill was announced in...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has given a brief but optimistic assessment of the private rental market for next year. “As...

Mortgage costs in the buy to let market have continued to fall over the last three months - a trend seen across...

New data from the Association of Residential Lettings Agents shows how the festive slowdown has hit the market. The number of tenants...

A prominent buy to let mortgage chief says lenders should be able to access the rogue landlord database launched last year. John...

A trade body suggests that the votes of private landlords could decide the results in over 100 constituencies in next week’s...

Canopy, a firm that says it wants to eliminate rental deposits in the next five years, has won a £50,000 cash...

Controversial housing charity Shelter claims that private renters are collectively paying out £11 billion more a year – around £425 a...

A pressure group that has spoken out against letting agents and landlords is urging private tenants to take part in a...

Lettings platform teclet has announced another API partner - the latest of many in recent months.  It’s the Product Care Repair or...

The pressure group Generation Rent, which in the past has been highly critical of letting agents and other aspects of the...

A controversial private rental licensing regime that has already made the headlines for the wrong reasons has now been branded a...

One might have thought that if private rental tenants were as badly treated as some people suggest, housing would be their...

The appeal by Labour’s Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, to be given powers to introduce rent controls have been dealt a...

A PropTech firm says lettings and sales agents are less efficient because software providers and the wider industry have done too...

Another think tank has come up with proposals to scrap Section 21 eviction powers and cap rents - and it also...

A Labour council is leading a trial by local authorities of a new digital platform that checks whether agents, landlords and...

Almost two thirds of landlords say their next buy to let purchase will be through a limited company, not by themselves...

The safeagent accreditation scheme says the next government should not scrap landlord licensing as some trade groups have requested, but should...

The average rent of a newly let property in Great Britain rose to £999 pcm in October according to data from...

The proportion of homes in Great Britain let by overseas based landlords is 11 per cent, up from seven per cent...

London’s Labour Mayor, Sadiq Khan, has returned to his campaign to win powers which would allow him to impose rent controls. Khan...

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

One of the industry’s leading trade bodies has revealed that the number of laws creating an obligation on landlords in the...