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Letting agents are being urged to make better use of technology to try to meet growing demand for out-of-hours service, yet...

Demand for pied a terres from those working in offices for only three days of the week is fuelling demand for...

The pandemic has fuelled an appetite for working from home amongst those seeking employment at lettings agencies and other parts of...

A collection of rental experts in a body called The Lettings Industry Council have set out what they want to see...

Industry suppliers are linking up to host a webinar for agents this week outlining the growing risks of tenancy fraud. HomeLet, Let...

A mortgage lender specialising in working with ex-pat and foreign buy to let investors says the city apartment and house remain...

A senior lettings chief says the supply drought is making the rental market as overheated now as at any time in...

A new study has compiled a league table of the best cities in the UK for investment in student accommodation. CIA Landlord...

Zoopla is warning that the recent sharp rise in rents has stretched affordability with the average rent now accounting for 37...

London-focussed agency Foxtons says the tenancy renewal numbers seen by the company this year are “unprecedented”. Gareth Atkins, lettings managing director at...

A new market snapshot puts the average rental rise across the UK at a remarkable 18 per cent over the past...

The cost of living crisis may be changing tenants’ preferences to such a degree that bills-inclusive properties are becoming increasingly popular. That’s...

The latest sentiment survey amongst members of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors suggests that the rental market is strong -...

The appeal of city living has been reignited across Scotland with new figures showing a surge in demand and rents for...

The government is admitting that its rental reform agenda is aimed primarily at the north of England - which just happens...

A high end agency brand says pricing in the rental market continues to rise because of demand exceeding supply - and...

Rental values in prime areas of London are now nine per cent higher than they before the pandemic, with Knight Frank...

One of the most high profile members of the Welsh Parliament has hit back at calls from the controlling Labour and...

Rents in prime areas of London are nine per cent higher today than before the pandemic according to Knight Frank.  The high...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Clifford Thomas – Sales Director at The Letting Partnership What is...

Shocking figures have emerged regarding the long-running problems caused by banks demanding that agencies have a designated client account for each...

The average rent in the UK has hit another record high of £1,091 after a 1.2 per cent increase in the...

The chief executive of Propertymark says a warning from agents about rents rising and stock diminishing as a result of a...

The head of a prominent brand in a fast-expanding lettings and sales agency group has given a cautious welcome to government...

Airbnb is giving away £100 vouchers to anyone in the UK who shifts into the short lets sector for the first...

New research appears to be adding to the momentum to have more flexibility over pets in private rental accommodation.  Nearly one in...

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

The launch of a new collection of high end homes aimed at renters aged 60-plus has triggered enthusiastic responses from agents. Developer...

Average UK rents have increased for the sixth consecutive quarter - but some tenants are paying above the going rate to...

Airbnb, so often criticised for operating in the largely-unregulated short lets market, has called on the UK government to scrap Section...

Foxtons has reported to its shareholders that its lettings revenue in the first quarter of this year was a stunning 21...

The number of properties available for let in prime central parts of the capital has consistently trended down from the peak...

Annual rental yields in England and Wales have dipped but tenant demand is set to stay strong for the rest of...

The latest market sentiment survey of the lettings market from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors suggests that rent rises will...

Remote work could enable over 13m Britons to ultimately live and work outside the major cities, according to research by a...

The continuing shortage of supply in the lettings market is not only producing record high asking rents, but is also pushing demand...

Winkworth has told its shareholders that the rental market is to boom - a lot. “In lettings we anticipate that prices will...

The latest forecast for the UK lettings market this year is that there will be a four per cent rise in...

The appetite for qualifications in the lettings  sector is at a five-year high, says Propertymark Qualifications. The organisation - which is the...

A new analysis of prospective first time buyers suggests that the cost of their initial deposit has soared in the past...

There’s been a big rise in rents and a large drop in voids in the past month according to PropTech supplier...

A PropTech provider has launched a renter guarantor service after claiming there’s been a 10-fold rise in tenancy fraud in the...

Activists in the Acorn campaign group are lobbying a council in a bid to - in its words - “ban slum...

Fifteen years ago Take That’s ‘Shine’ was at number one in the charts, ‘Mr Bean’s Holiday’ drew crowds into cinemas and...

An activist group in London has launched a scathing attack on councils which it claims have been ineffective in regulating rogue...

A key figure at Propertymark has joined popular lettings agency supplier The Lettings Partnership as commercial director. Sarah Davies’ role at Propertymark...

A lettings agency has identified where tenant demand is strongest right now - and where demand is lower than some agents...

New research from holiday lettings agency Classic Cottages shows that 2021 was a record year in one of the country’s staycation...

A leading lettings agency says increasing numbers of tenants are seeking pet-friendly homes to rent. Chestertons claims up to 35 per cent...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I’m Alex Gibbs, Co-Founder and Director of Built Asset Management...

The activist group Acorn is lobbying a local council to deny people the right to buy a second home or let...

The great imbalance between tenant demand and available stock continues, according to the latest market snapshot from ARLA Propertymark. In February, Propertymark...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Sarah Davies, Commercial Director at The Letting Partnership What is The...

A major think tank is calling for a radical reform of the private rental sector. A report from the cross-party independent Social...

Rental portal Rentd says the pandemic-long decline in the London rental market is now “reversing at speed”. Rental values are climbing annually...

An eye-watering annualised rent rise in Greater London of 27.3 per cent has helped pushed the all-UK total yearly hike to...

Rental market stock levels have plummeted further - even to below the pre-pandemic levels of late 2019. New research shows that in...

Lettings agency Galbraith reports that landlords are now returning to the residential lets sector from holiday lets after several years without...

The latest lettings market snapshot from PropTech supplier Goodlord suggests that voids are reducing in almost all regions but that rents...

The increasingly shrill anti-landlord rhetoric from some politicians is making it harder for tenants, claims a leading industry spokesman. John Blackwood, chief...

The rental market shows no signs of slowing with ongoing high demand, fuelled in part by the pandemic, creating a buoyant...

New financial incentives are needed to bring thousands of empty homes back into use and give a much-needed boost to the...

A PropTech supplier claims that increased automation can help letting agents meet the demands of the government’s Levelling Up agenda. Openview –...

The Lomond Group - which has ambitions to become a national operation - has announced two further acquisitions for one of...

Propertymark has hit back at the latest demand by politicians for rent controls. The London mayor Sadiq Khan renewed his call for...

The imposition of rent controls - urged by a growing number of politicians and pressure groups in different parts of the...

New research commissioned by the landlords’ trade body shows that the UK needs almost 230,000 new private rented homes a year...

Politicians across the UK appear to be growing more vocal in their support for rent controls. The Welsh nationalist party Plaid Cymru...

Rents in prime areas of London are rocketing at an annual level of 22.5 per cent according to LonRes.  Despite the falls...

The number of prospective tenants asked to provide guarantors ahead of renting has risen by a huge 36 per cent over...

New data from Zoopla suggests that lettings demand has now recovered across the central districts of all  major cities including Birmingham,...

Rental values in London and the Home Counties have climbed to five per cent above their pre-pandemic level in March 2020,...

The leader of one of Britain’s highest profile lettings agency operations has let rip at the government for what he calls...

A finance chief is warning that the threat of possible rises in Capital Gains Tax should be dismissed by the government to...

The rental market continues to boom despite the growing cost of living crisis, with average rents rising at a 13 year...

Franchise estate agency chain Winkworth has expanded its presence in prime south west London with the opening of a new Wimbledon office. The new...

A suite of new ‘pet-let’ products is to be offered by The Lettings Hub, which already has some 1,000-plus agents on...

In this tips piece, Blake Richmond, managing director of referencing at Goodlord, sets out how agents can combat fraud in the lettings process.  Over...

The latest lettings market snapshot from HomeLet suggests another record average UK monthly rent level of £1,064 pcm - up a...

The Property Franchise Group now manages in excess of 74,000 rental properties on behalf of landlords, according to a new trading...

ARLA Propertymark is warning that new landlords must be drafted in to the private rental sector to replace those exiting in...

Propertymark has entered the debate about whether buy to let landlords should be amongst those receiving help from the government in...

Lettings franchisees under the Belvoir banner delivered the group an additional 10 per cent management service fees last year according to...

A new trade body is being set up which describes itself as a national network of property managers, specialising in the...

Semi-detached houses have overtaken terraced homes as the preferred property type landlords plan to buy, reflecting growing tenant demand for larger...

Asking rents in Britain are now rising at their fastest ever rate according to Rightmove. Average asking rents hit annual growth of...

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

A prominent agent says the shortage of rental property is now so acute, and like to get still worse, that those...

Average UK rents increased for the fifth consecutive quarter in Q4 2021 according to The Deposit Protection Service, as stock shortages...

There’s still some way to go for the lettings market to return to its pre-pandemic best according to Knight Frank -...

EU citizens with settled status in the UK, but who have stayed in their native countries during the pandemic, are likely...

The London rental market stock surplus spurred by pandemic uncertainty has started to subside, with prime boroughs seeing some of the...

A report from the House of Lords has condemned the private rental sector as being ”increasingly unaffordable” as well as being...

Buy To Let lending is set to fall back this year, after a hectic 2021. That’s the forecast from the Intermediary Mortgage...

An agency owned by Foxtons says there’s been a 120 per cent surge in demand for pet-friendly rental properties since the...

There’s been a slump in demand for rental properties as a result of tenants staying put in the latter part of...

A leading lettings agent has warned tenants against using social media to find rental properties.  David Alexander - head of DJ Alexander,...

The rental market appears not to have slowed down this winter - not even over the Christmas break. According to the latest...

A former Conservative councillor has used a leading party website to call on the government to restrict the purchase of buy...

Home offices are already the most-demanded must have from prospective tenants says James Hay, director at Surrey lettings agency, The Home...

A leading market forecaster has described the level of rent rises in one part of the country as “going ballistic”. “The London...

A report prepared by housing experts in Manchester shows a massive surge in the number of Airbnbs in the city -...

A London-focussed lettings agency group has paid £2,000 as a result of breaching the Tenant Fees Act. The issue relates to the...

Voids are ending the year 25 per cent down on the position at the start of 2021 - an indicator of...

Propertymark says arrears in the private rental sector are rising once again as the Omicron variant continues to push across the...

Rents in London are now rising as steeply as they were falling at the start of the year according to Knight...

The London agency Bective says the prime areas of the capital have enjoyed an eight per cent uplift in rental values...

ARLA Propertymark has launched a radical programme of reform for the private rental sector - getting in before the government’s own...

For the first time since January 2020, rents in Inner London rose on an annual basis - they were up 3.9...

The latest market snapshot from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors suggests that rents are to increase “firmly” in the near...

A new Buy To Let ‘tracker’ from a prominent buy to let mortgage lender has revealed what it considers to be...

Void periods dropped across England during November as demand for rental properties continued apace.  According to the latest Goodlord rental index some...

Belvoir Group has given yet another upbeat trading report to shareholders. It says in the 10 months to the end of October...

A think tank says it would take a major policy change to fulfil Boris Johnson’s goal to turn generation rent into...

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

There’s been an increase in demand for rental properties with electric charging points for cars, according to ARLA Propertymark. The news has...

The long term undersupply of rental properties across the country is expected to support rental growth into 2022, says Zoopla. In addition,...

Home, the property website that publishes an authoritative market snapshot for lettings and sales each month, says the long-standing supply drought...

Cluttons has given its latest lettings market snapshot for London, with an upbeat assessment of current and future demand. The agency say...

An agent in one major university city says it’s faced with 50 students applying for each available property. Edinburgh residential property lettings,...

A north of England lettings agency is claiming an all-time record for enquiries relating to student accommodation - and the biggest...

The demand for London rental properties has increased by almost 60 per cent in the third quarter compared to the same...

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

A new bank called Monument is aiming at property investors and established buy to let landlords seeking to grow their portfolios. Its...

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

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

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...

The latest rental market snapshot from PropTech supplier Goodlord shows the market cooling, but with year-on-year demand still high in comparison...

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

PropTech platform Fixflo has launched what it calls a self-service training academy. It has already had a soft launch with 90 per...

Rents in much of London have not only bounced back from the pandemic but now exceed the levels reached in 2020. Research...

HomeLet says the average rent in the UK is now £1,059, down a modest 0.2 per cent from a month ago. However, the...

PropTech platform Lavanda says urban property is changing thanks to the pandemic, and it tells agents, landlords and other providers to...

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...

ARLA Propertymark has released its latest lettings market snapshot showing demand reducing - but even so still being a record for...

A lettings agency in Manchester has received over 10,000 rental enquiries in just one month. Manchester Apartments says it received some  21,000...

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

A lettings agency with links to Saudi Arabian investors has produced a case study of how faith is returning to the long...

Savills says an increase in the number of new builds bought for buy to let and other property investment will help...

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

Tenant demand continues to rise and is now way beyond the long term average according to the latest market snapshot by...

A lettings agency says a new HMO licensing regime in one of London’s highest profile boroughs will reduce the number of rental properties. This...

Rents for detached homes increased twice as fast as the average for all UK properties during Q3 2021 says the Deposit...

Tenants returning to the office and city centres has triggered strong rental growth in the largest urban centres. Rightmove’s Quarterly Rental Trends...

‘Room wanted’ ads are currently outnumbering ads for ‘rooms available’ on flatshare site SpareRoom for only the third time in six...

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

ARLA Propertymark is calling on the government to properly fund local authorities so they can combat rogue operators in the private...

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

A prominent industry supplier is warning the government not to damage the private rental sector in its push to promote ever-more...

A lettings agency’s research has revealed that rental demand has continued to climb across most major UK cities during the third quarter...

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

After 10 days of reports of soaring energy costs, PropTech supplier Goodlord has produced a series of tips for letting agents...

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...

There’s been a sharp reduction in average void periods this year - a sign of how strong the rental market has...

Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves has told the Labour Party conference that if her party wins the next General Election she will...

The rush for space to work and relax at home will still dominate the rental market for the short term at...

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

Record demand and low levels of supply have pushed the number of tenants experiencing rental increases to new highs, lettings agents...

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

The lettings arm of a leading Edinburgh-based property portal has reported a surge of Edinburgh properties being rented on the same...

We may still be some months off 2022, but property experts are already beginning to make their predictions for next year...

It’s been announced that UK Sotheby’s International Realty has secured tenants for 20 apartments in record time at Embassy Gardens, a...

Knight Frank is anticipating a “sprint for stock” in the lettings market as offices reopen and travel restrictions ease.  Tom Bill, Knight...

Drone technology has come on a long way in recent years, with different use cases across various industries. New developments in...

Propertymark has called for a return of mortgage interest relief and a review of landlord taxes to boost the rental sector. The...

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

A lettings agent who sold his business to Chestertons last year has claimed the sector has come to the “end of...

The number of new prospective tenants registering with Knight Frank in August was 73 per cent higher than the same month...

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

Rents in some of the most popular locations of the country have risen 25 per cent in the past year according...

The number of international tenants searching for UK property has reached its highest level since before the pandemic. High end agency Knight...

The lettings market continues to boom, with HomeLet’s latest index showing average UK rents at a record high for the third...

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

ARLA Propertymark has voiced its concern over rent controls to a politicians who is leading the charge to introduce them to...

Specialist property lender Castle Trust Bank has agreed a £13.2m development loan for a Build To Rent scheme within a mixed...

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

A senior lettings agent and property management company owner has set out how rent controls could work in very specific circumstances...

Propertymark is alerting agents to ever-more sophisticated fraudulent documents being used in the private rental sector. The organisation recently requested agents to...

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

There’s been a 21 per cent rise in demand for properties from buy to let investors according to a new analysis...

The scale of demand in the private rental sector is now the highest on record according to ARLA Propertymark.  The average number...

The value of the Private Rented Sector in England, Wales and Scotland grew by 5.8 per cent to a jaw dropping...

Recovery in the UK is being channeled towards regional cities, says a leading investment expert.  Martha Peyton, managing director and head of...

A part of the country which has seen a severe long term rental stock shortage as a result of switches from...

Rent controls are to be introduced into part of the UK as a result of a deal between two political parties. The...

One HMO had 78 viewings while in the same city a £7,000 rental property was let after just one day of...

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

Industry growth specialist Christopher Watkin is to offer letting agents his secrets to attracting new landlords in a live webinar hosted...

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...

Another index is showing that a scarcity of rental properties has prompted a rise in every single region of Britain -...

Tenant demand for private rental property has risen for the fifth consecutive quarter according to the latest market snapshot from the...

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...

A tenant who says his former rental property has been turned into an Airbnb has set up a petition demanding Chancellor...

Upcoming changes to Right To Rent procedures make the case for increased automation of the process to save agents from additional...

Barbon Insurance Group, which already owns Let Alliance and HomeLet, has now acquired PropTech platform Rent4sure. Luke Burton, Rent4sure’s chief operating officer,...

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

Voids are at their lowest level since August 2019 while rents are on the rise, according to the latest Goodlord snapshot...

A Labour council leader has hit after being attacked for his support for buy to let and property investment. Last week we...

One of the most pessimistic lettings operations about the London market during the pandemic says that at last the capital is...

Last month says the largest rental demand in the last three years across London according to Foxtons.  The agency says the gradual...

A letter from a tenant’s union is demanding that a Labour councillor “publicly explain” his actions as an accountant advising investors...

A town with one of the UK’s heaviest concentrations of holiday homes is clamping down on future purchases by outsiders who...

A new report calls for large scale reform of the private rental sector, including a national landlord register and changes to...

A new service has been launched to charge prospective tenants £30 - potentially even more - just to view a property...

The rental sector bounce back in London and the Home Counties is now underway according to Knight Frank. The agency forecasts rental...

Last week the tax firm Blick Rothenberg advised John Lewis and Lloyds Bank to stay out of the private rental sector...

A prominent member of the House of Lords and a rental activist are calling for an immediate suspension of all Section...

Propertymark says new figures detailing the costs of energy efficiency improvements in the private rental sector show the need for a...

The Generation Rent campaign group and Labour are again uniting to argue in favour of rent controls in London. Just last week...

Record tenant demand and record-fast lettings have combined to create an average asking rent above £1,000 per calendar month for homes...

ARLA Propertymark has hit back at a demand from London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan that he be given the powers to...

Connells-owned high end agency Hamptons has declared the bottom of the rental market for Inner London, saying it’s now on the...

For the first time since the beginning of the pandemic rents across all prime London regions saw a return to positive...

London’s Labour Mayor, Sadiq Khan, has made a new call for power to cap private rents. He’s claimed that rents in the...

Propertymark has given its broad support to a new Private Members Bill introduced into the Northern Ireland assembly, aimed at improving...

Rental demand has started to return to the majority of major UK cities during the second quarter of this year, with...

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

London’s rental market gathered momentum in June as tenants anticipated a return to the office with 24 per cent more tenancies...

There’s good news for the buy to let sector today as an independent mortgage market monitor reports a 15-month high in...

It’s been yet another strong month for the rental market as reported in the latest statistics from PropTech supplier Goodlord. Voids dropped...

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

Agents need more clarity and transparency about the future of Right to Rent checks post-pandemic and post-Brexit, according to the UK’s...

The Dogs Trust campaign ‘lets with pets’ states: “Landlords and letting agencies who exclude pet owners from their properties are missing out...

There’s still no sign of a lettings market slowdown according to the latest report from ARLA Propertymark. It says that the average...

The Leaders Romans Group has identified four locations which it says have come into their own since the working-from-home craze started...

High profile London lettings agency Chestertons says there’s been an increase in Hong Kong residents looking to rent a home in...

A politician in one of the poorest parts of the UK wants his local authority to declare a ‘housing emergency’. Cornish councillor...

London’s rental market is witnessing a strong recovery in spite of the pandemic, according to the latest analysis by lettings agency...

There’s a large scale recovery underway in London’s rental sector according to the website Home. The site says that while average rents...

Propertymark has joined forces with the likes of Generation Rent and Shelter to step up the campaign for the provision of...

Rental growth accelerated in May to reach a new record high according to Connells-owned lettings agency Hamptons.   Last month the average cost...

Areas of the country which appear to have had a surplus of rental stock in the past is now reporting a...

The latest lettings market snapshot by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors suggests little easing of the strong tenant demand and...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? That's very retro - I have not had one of...

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

The Association of Residential Letting Agents’ wing of Propertymark is demanding to see the results of a mediation project initiated by...

The latest rental market snapshot produced by HomeLet shows average rents outside of London soaring to higher levels and dropping in the capital itself.  The...

A branch of The Property Franchise Group’s Martin & Co brand is stopping potential tenants from booking a physical tour of...

There’s now an unprecedented level of demand from tenants for properties, according to the latest survey findings from ARLA Propertymark. The survey...

There’s been another upbeat trading statement from franchise giant the Belvoir Group. The company - which held its AGM yesterday - says...

Campaign group Generation Rent has set out a 10-point plan for reform of the private rental sector in favour of tenants. Its...

Now is the ideal time for agents to consider their PropTech needs, as lockdown restrictions ease significantly and firms draw up...

Research by the British Property Federation shows that 6,937 new Build To Rent homes won full planning permission in the first...

Last week’s bid by PropTech referencing firm Goodlord to draw a line under its long-running ‘fire and rehire’ industrial dispute has...

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

Lettings agency Hamptons says there’s been “an unprecedented fall” in the number of rental homes on the market, leading to double-digit...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card?  Bal Arora – Managing Director In your experience, what is the...

The city centre rental market, considered to be one of the industry’s losers during the worst of the pandemic, is beginning...

The most vocal campaign group for tenants, Generation Rent, has warned government that renters have already been waiting two years for...

Zoopla says rents outside London are rising at an average three per cent per year, the highest level since late 2018. However...

A leading banking and wealth management company says a growth area for the rental sector in the years to come will...

A prominent London Conservative MP has made a scathing attack on the current rental sector’s structure, saying it is skewed in...

High-end lettings agency Knight Frank says there’s been a huge loss of houses available for renters in prime London in the...

Propertymark has waded in to the debate over flood prevention measures in the UK:il it wants insurance for homeowners and landlords faced...

A bank has seen a surge in Honk Kong residents purchasing UK buy to let properties. Skipton International, the Guernsey-licensed bank, says...

A new analysis of the private rental sector suggests it was reducing in size for some years before the pandemic. Nationwide’s specialist...

Activists from the Acorn renters' campaign group have held a protest outside a branch of Chancellors in Oxford. The group says the...

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

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

The managing director of Fixflo, Rajeev Nayyar, says the pandemic has changed the context in which agents should view tenants’ complaints. In...

A third of buy to let investors would change the way they voted in the EU referendum if they could. That’s the...

One year on from the beginning of the pandemic, London’s reversal of fortunes in the rental market continues according to the...

Rents across the wider London commuter belt continued to rise in the first three months of the year, according to a...

There’s a new driver in the lettings market - the need for a flexible location and property type. Market consultancy TwentyCi says...

Booming demand for homes in commuter zones and well-connected towns is causing a mini-boom in the lettings market. That’s the view of...

London rents climbed for the first time for over a year during Q1 2021 —although the rise was a mere £8...

The Home website has produced its latest rental market snapshot - and once again London is the odd region out compared...

A survey by a comparison website suggests landlords are evenly split about how they find letting agents. Some 28 per cent favour physically searching...

Average rents in prime central London declined 14.3 per cent in the year to March - but one agency reckons that may be...

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

A lettings management platform is hitting out at the government over the uncertainty surrounding travel restrictions, because of its impact on...

It’s not just the owner occupier whose property demands have changed radically because of the pandemic - a new survey suggests...

A quarterly index suggests that there’s been a sharp uplift in tenant demand for rental properties across the UK’s major cities...

Agents and other industry players have penned an open letter to government demanding a radical overhaul of targets for energy efficiency in the...

Letting agency My Property Box is moving into property sales as part of a significant expansion of its business. The decision follows...

With Prime Minister Boris Johnson confirming the next phase of the roadmap out of lockdown, a PropTech firm has reflected on...

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

Lettings agency Intus Lettings has announced the opening of a new Sheffield office — its first base in Yorkshire. The Sheffield office...

Central London’s prime rental market is witnessing a wave of enquiries from tenants wanting to strike a deal according to a...

A charity is calling for a new national body to oversee the private rental sector. Citizens Advice makes this one of three...

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

The lettings book of one of the UK’s oldest property and law companies has been snapped up by a firm in the...

Rightmove has revealed its new TV advertisement, which it claims will reach 59 per cent of the UK during its campaign...

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