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Landlords exiting the market because of tax and red tape have led to “an acute shortage of available properties to rent”...

The growth of the private rental sector has slowed thanks to government intervention and economic uncertainty - but it will expand...

Outsourcing has long been an effective strategy in business. It enables you to provide a new, improved or more streamlined service...

Multi-brand agency company Acorn Group says it has rolled out a no-deposit scheme to all 31 of its offices “with a...

An electrical testing equipment firm and an MP are setting up a national campaign to demand new laws on appliance testing...

A rent guarantor service based in London and previously aiming itself at the UK market is expanding into the Republic of...

There’s been a huge 15 per cent slump in the number of properties to let in prime central London over the...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents says it is seeing the highest number of landlords selling their buy to let properties...

Repair and maintenance management software firm Fixflo and emergency contractor supplier AXA Partners are rolling out a pilot scheme for lettings...

Over 70% of Conservative councillors and housing leads have indicated that £2 billion pledged for affordable housing is not enough to...

The introduction of a 3% stamp duty surcharge on the purchase of buy-to-let properties and the phasing out of buy-to-let mortgage...

There was a decline in both the number of To Let and Let By properties during April, according to the latest...

The latest major piece of research into the private rental sector is forecasting a huge surge in demand - meaning there...

A trade body has stepped up its calls on government to help the lettings industry do more for older renters. Responding to...

Buy to let sector confidence across a range of measures remained stable or increased in the first quarter of 2018 compared...

The lettings market remains steady with demand roughly unchanged in March compared to the previous month according to the latest figures...

MPs want a review of laws surrounding private rental standards, including councils having the right to confiscate buy to let properties...

An influential think tank is calling on government to radically reform the private rental sector because a generation of young people...

A leading lettings sector trade body has repeated its call on government to offer a range of incentives to landlords and...

The UK Association of Letting Agents has revealed where voids are at their worst in the rental sector - and where...

The number of buy to let investors in the UK has hit a record high of 2.5m in the latest tax...

A leading Conservative peer says the government should cut taxes for buy to let investors and regard them as part of...

A specialist buy to let lender is making changes to its lending conditions to ensure its residential and commercial borrowers conform...

A lettings trade body says a major house builder has blamed, in part, recent tax increases on private landlords as a...

The Bank of England has issued gloomy figures on buy to let lending, suggesting the clampdown on mortgage interest tax relief...

Knight Frank says prime central London rents have fallen on a quarterly basis for the 28th consecutive month - a record. The...

Average rental values in prime central London fell 2.1 per cent in the year to February according to Knight Frank -...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is reminding its members to tell landlord clients that they have only a month to...

The number of properties available to rent in London is now 46 per cent below the national average according to ARLA...

The online lettings agency Upad has launched what it describes as a “pay on success” option for landlord clients.  The company says...

ARLA Propertymark has issued a downbeat report on the lettings sector’s start to 2018.  Its report on the market's performance in January says...

Senior Labour MPs have spoken out about what they believe are the anti-social and detrimental effects of short lets on surrounding...

We’re grateful to The Property Group, an agency in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, for alerting us to an incident involving its Mayfair Town...

An online petition urging MPs to make it compulsory for privately let properties to be subject to independent inventory reporting is...

A range of factors - including fierce competition under the supplied housing market, rising property prices and political uncertainty – have...

Tenant demand edged up in the three months to January, according to RICS, but landlord instructions have fallen back - suggesting...

The National Landlords’ Association is reporting that around 16 per cent of its members in outer London have reduced rents over...

Specialist buy to let lender Commercial Trust claims at least two other regions of the UK are now vying with London...

The average number of properties managed by letting agents rose from 192 in November to 200 in December – the highest...

A lettings agency has written to MPs setting out an eloquent case for a cap on agents’ fees levied on tenants...

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

Loveitts Estate Agents says it is “extending its reach” with the opening of a new expanded office in Nuneaton. The move to...

Foxtons insists the London rental market may now be in recovery mode with 9.2 prospective tenants per property registered in the third...

One of the industry’s leading trade bodies wants the government to halt the Right To Rent programme after evidence shows some...

A fall in the supply of available rental properties suggests some landlords may be quitting the buy to let sector as...

Some 70 per cent of letting agents expect taxes on the rental sector to rise further next year according to research...

The rental market in Prime Central London has shown signs of recovery at the end of 2017, according to a new...

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

A man is reported to have launched “a campaign of harassment” against a lettings agent just an hour after signing a...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents says it is seeing a consolidation of agencies ahead of the ban on agents’ fees...

The number of properties that agents managed per branch fell to a 12-month low in October according to new figures released...

One of Britain’s best known and highest profile buy to let specialist lenders says the number of new BTL mortgages being...

Reporting software company InventoryBase has backed a campaign urging for inventories to be made mandatory in the lettings sector. The Association of...

A trade body says there are 15 formal government consultations going on within the private rental sector - and now it’s...

A survey has been undertaken of the top 25 UK postcodes in terms of yields for investors - and London and...

Student rents in some parts of the country have risen by as much as 18 per cent in the past year...

Agency groups have spoken in favour of the government’s call for letting agents to be trained as a mandatory part of...

Letting agents and landlords are being urged by a trade body to sign a petition calling on the government to make...

The Nationwide has set out a comprehensive study of how migrstion impacts on housing demand in the UK, especially in the...

The specialist property investment lender Together is diversifying its product range to cater for investors who want to let out their...

After several months of rising rent costs, the number of letting agents who saw landlords increasing prices for tenants fell substantially...

A leading legal firm is staging a free and interactive seminar on sub-letting, aimed at letting agents. The event takes place on...

Industry figures have broadly welcomed the latest consultations and proposed additional regulation for the lettings sector, announced by the government yesterday.   The...

Interest from prospective tenants edged up during September according to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.    Of agent members who responded to...

Average rental values fell three per cent in the year to September 2017 according to Knight Frank.   This decline is the smallest...

Rents in the UK rose by an average of 2.1 per cent during September according to HomeLet.   HomeLet says last month’s rise continues...

Rents outside of London have dropped by 0.2 per cent in the third quarter of this year according to new data...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has welcomed the government commitment to introduce regulation for agencies - but it is warning...

Latest data from Your Move’s rental indices suggest that rents are growing, with the average in England and Wales now £904,...

Trade groups have reacted angrily to Labour’s proposal to introduce rent controls if the party enters government.   The announcement, made by Labour...

A trade body says the expanding Build To Rent sector will never be large enough to meet tenant demand and as...

A leading figure in the buy to let broker industry has called for would-be ‘pension pot’ landlords to seek advice before...

  Agency Express says there has been a bounce in the number of new lettings listings across the UK.   Following unusually slow activity...

Some 61 per cent of chartered surveyors believe there will be a net exodus of landlords over the coming year thanks...

The local authority in Islington, north London, is attempting to close what it calls a loophole concerning private rental property and...

As applications from EU students to UK universities fall for the first time in six years, an over-supply of purpose-built student...

A respected letting agency research head says Build To Rent could be a significant step towards solving the overall shortage of...

Graduates sharing in London spend upwards of 45 per cent of their monthly take home pay on accommodation according to a...

A London letting agency is opening a new branch thanks to continued high demand from EU nationals looking for rental property...

A study by an online letting agent suggests that client demand and void periods are two of landlords' biggest concerns, and...

Your Move says a shrinking supply of properties, in part created by government measures against the lettings sector, has led to...

SDL Group - owner of the UK franchise for Century 21 lettings and estate agency branches - has been named as the...

Political uncertainty across the UK and increased restrictions on buy to let are leading many landlords to raise rents and review...

The number of letting agents who saw landlords increasing rent costs for tenants remained at 31 per cent in July -...

Prime Central London’s lettings market has improved gradually during the first two quarters of the year according to JLL.   It says transaction...

The National Landlords Association is urging buy to let investors to consider remortgaging in the very near future ahead of new...

The boss of a lettings agency in London says there is a need for the private rental sector to become more professional...

The number of tenants entering the market across the UK has risen by 7.3 per cent on the month - but...

Foxtons reports that average rents continued to fall across many parts of the capital in the second quarter of this year,...

Allsopp & Allsopp, an agency operating across Warwickshire, has launched a lettings division and has immediately scored big thanks to its...

Skipton is the latest lender to confirm that it will continue lending to so-called portfolio landlords after new Bank of England...

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

A survey of almost 3,000 landlords suggests more than one in five plans to sell at least one of their investment...

Property investment platform LendInvest has raised £50m thanks to the over-subscription of its first retail bond, launched on the London Stock...

Rents are gently rising again after some months of small dips according to HomeLet.    It says the average new tenancy signed during...

New data from a survey of tenants suggests demand for the private rental sector looks set to be high for the...

Prime central London is seeing the rise of the micro-apartment, according to new research, as squeezed accommodation budgets have seen singles...

Campaigning charity Shelter - which last week suggested landlords were more likely to quit buy to let because they grew old...

The number of letting agents reporting rent rises over the past month is the highest for over a year according to...

It is being reported that one of the major providers of purpose-built student accommodation to let - Unite - could temporarily...

With a host of changing regulations hitting the private rental sector, some landlords may be put off using letting agents, but...

Activity in the super prime London market, where tenants are prepared to pay £5,000 or more per week for a home,...

A specialist student lettings agency says the drop in the number of applicants for UK higher education courses this year threatens...

Purpose-built and professionally-managed Build To Rent - until now seen as a primarily London phenomenon - appears on the march in Scotland...

Bristol council is resuscitating a so-called ‘rental standard’ which it expects local letting agents to meet. Back in January 2016 Letting Agent...

Asking rents outside London continue to hold up despite the market having more available properties, according to Rightmove.   Prices rose 2.8 per...

Rents fell in June by 0.3 per cent when compared to the same time last year, the second successive month in...

Rented housing in London is at its least affordable levels for 10 years after typical rent rises of 47 per cent...

The Residential Landlords’ Association says recent fiscal changes hitting the private rented sector are hurting tenants but failing to achieve their...

Knight Frank is warning that changes to regulatory supervision of the European Central Bank could, if they went the wrong way,...

Rents in prime central London have dropped 4.4 per cent in the past year - although that annual drop is not...

Stoke-on-Trent has been named as the UK's buy-to-let 'sweet spot'. Analysis of data from Home.co.uk by property crowdfunding plaform Property Partner shows...

The pace of decreasing rental values in Prime Central London (PCL) has slowed, according to the latest data from Knight Frank. Average...

High street operator Metro Bank has announced that it is entering the consumer buy-to-let market and will now accept consumer applications...

The proportion of households living in the Private Rented Sector (PRS) will rise to 24% over the next four years, according...

Who are you? Rebecca Johnston What does it say on your business card? Managing Director (TDS Custodial) What is TDS Custodial? TDS Custodial is a government-approved...

The prospect of today's General Election as well as ongoing uncertainty surrounding Britain's exit from the European Union is having a...

Property marketplace TheHouseShop.com has announced a partnership with home services marketplace Plentific. Users of TheHouseShop will now be able to use Plentific’s...

The latest analysis of buy to let trends by letting agency franchise chain Belvoir has identified a specific lack of rental...

A new report says buy to let will continue to provide good investment opportunities but requires an increasingly professional approach.   The report,...

ARLA Propertymark says the number of properties managed per member increased marginally last month, from 183 to 185 - but there was...

The Residential Landlords’ Association is demanding that the new government improves the “slow, complex, and underfunded” system which means that it...

An analysis by investment specialists London Central Portfolio reveals that in areas of central London swamped with new builds coming to...

Data from Agency Express suggests that the lettings market is wobbling with a sharp decline in its usual measure - the...

Rental growth in London remained relatively stable during the first quarter of 2017, according to Benham & Reeves Residential Lettings. The firm's...

A letting agency is urging landlords to respond to the consultations for three selective licensing schemes in its local area. homes4u, which...

A seven per cent fall in the number of EU students seeking places at UK universities, matched with a 4.3 per...

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

Greenwich council in London is the latest to announce an extension to its HMO licensing policy. The council is already legally obliged...

Hybrid agency Purplebricks has given details of a mystery shopping exercise it has undertaken across over 280 letting agencies throughout the...

Letting agents have reporting an average of four landlords per branch selling up and quitting the buy to let sector in...

The number of people committing to tenancies for two years or more is declining according to new data released by Foxtons.   In...

New data from HomeLet shows that rental price inflation in the UK remained modest during March, increasing a small amount for...

The number of prospective new tenants in the Home Counties over the first three months of the year has risen 15...

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

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

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

The fall in rents across prime central London’s lettings market are slowing according to Knight Frank. It claims rents have dropped 4.9...

The range and pricing of buy to let mortgage products for limited companies has never been better according to a survey...

What does it say on your business card? Luke Burton Sales and Marketing Director, Rent4sure Who is Rent4sure? Rent4sure, is an established tenant referencing company. We provide...

A survey of students in Birmingham has discovered that over 44 per cent of respondents claim to have paid what the...

New lettings data from Agency Express supports the belief that the rental market may be slowing down across much of the...

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

The number of new landlords instructing agents is at its lowest for two years - and with worse to come thanks...

A 27 year old father of two has secured over 140,000 signatures for an online petition demanding that rent payments be...

Figures from the Association of Residential Letting Agents, now formally known as ARLA Propertymark, suggest there has been a surge in...

Tenant demand for private rented accommodation is continuing to rise according to a market report from specialist lender Paragon Mortgages.    While a...

Professional independent inventories can save money for landlords at a time when tax changes threaten to make private letting for expensive...

A trade magazine and a national newspaper are reporting anger amongst landlords, tenants and housing groups following the discovery of a...

A campaigning lettings agent is demanding action over what he suggests is a tenancy deposit system that is in need of...

There were 26 prospective tenants registered at each member branch of the Association of Residential Letting Agents - the lowest level...

The Residential Landlords Association has been quick off the mark to issue what it calls a seven point wish list to...

The National Landlords Association is making only three demands on the government for its next Budget, because it recognises further reforms...

The Bank of England's decision to keep the base interest rate at the record low of 0.25% has kept buy-to-let headline...

A buy to let mortgage lender claims that five out of six areas affected by the long-running spate of strikes on...

The central London rental market is beginning to show signs of topping out as tenant demand slides and landlords look to...

A property investment financing specialist says an increasing number of buy to let investors are converting properties into Houses in Multiple...

Despite what many in the industry believe to be an upsurge in specialist student accommodation construction in recent years, one student...

Some 80 per cent of letting agents say they expect rents to rise next year.   In the latest market survey by the...

Martin & Co claims to have identified the 10 key factors that influence local rental markets in terms of tenant numbers...

The average London rent in November was 0.7 per cent lower than last year - not an enormous fall but nonetheless...

The latest market survey by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors suggests rents will rise in 2017 for one simple reason...

The Leeds Building Society is the latest buy to let mortgage lender to amend its criteria for borrowers ahead of new...

Tenants are becoming increasingly eco-conscious according to a new survey.   Some 80 per cent of those questioned agree that landlords or their...

The managing director of one of the most prominent letting agencies in Edinburgh and Glasgow - where agents’ fees on tenants...

Phillip Hammond has delivered his first Autumn Statement, tackling amongst other things, what he called “the housing challenge.” The speech made no...

In a sign of how prominent Build To Rent has become, this niche sector has now triggered a company to set...

New research suggests the UK is on the brink of a large-scale, commercially developed, owned and operated Build To Rent sector. A...

There has been relief within the industry following an Appeal Court judgement that landlords are not responsible for paying the council...

Property data company LonRes is the latest to report that the supply of property available to let in prime central London...

There has been another market survey suggesting a significant rise in the number of homes available to rent.   There were 11.4 per...

There has been a 25 per cent rise in the number of prime central London tenancies according to Knight Frank -...

A leading mortgage industry spokesman says he hopes Theresa May's "more balanced approach" to housing policy will trigger government support for...

Property consultancy Dataloft has produced an index to monitor what it says are the four key factors behind buy to let investors'...

In an otherwise-downbeat set of predictions for 2017 and beyond, Savills says that rental growth is likely to outstrip sales price growth...

Who are you? Peter Grant, currently serving year 27 of my sentence in the property industry and still loving every moment of working...

Average rents across the UK are up eight per cent over the past 15 months according to Connells Group - but...

Buy to let landlords may be forced to raise rents or even sell their properties because of the government’s new tax...

The latest demand by anti-letting agent pressure group Generation Rent is for the government to abolish the right of landlords or...

Anyone who thought the buy to let sector’s recent anger at higher government taxes may have been misplaced may wish to...

Members of the Association of Residential Letting Agents are reporting stock at an 18 month high.  Members managed on average 193 properties...

Buyer enquiries from potential landlords and investors are now up 30 per cent since May according to Rightmove, suggesting that the...

New data produced by Knight Frank shows that the number of tenancies agreed in August this year was the highest on...

ARLA says its letting agent members have an average of 37 prospective tenants registered per branch – the highest number since...

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...

Across the UK as a whole there has been a slight increase in the number of tenants who agree to pay...

The news editor of London financial daily City AM has made an outspoken attack on the government’s fiscal assaults on the...

A firm has been fined £29,000 after a rental property was found to be - in the words of Nottingham city...

The typical deposit paid when a tenant moves to a new property in England and Wales is set to break the...

The number of rental properties on the market is at the highest level this year so far according to the Association...

The London division of Jackson-Stops & Staff has launched a new residential corporate services department for corporate tenants looking to relocate...

London agency Benham & Reeves Residential Lettings says student rents have risen by 55.5 per cent over the past 20 years,...

There have been falls in rents in some price ranges in London thanks to an oversupply of stock, according to lettings...

The local authority in Manchester is proposing to introduce a landlord licensing scheme in the north of the city and has...

Belvoir is calling on the government to reverse its punitive tax policies against buy to let and introduce incentives to make...

HM Revenue & Customs has launched a 12-week consultation on a proposal which it claims simplifies the tax demands levied on...

Another survey, this time from an online letting agency, reveals that as many as 70 per cent of tenants are concerned...

Countrywide’s latest lettings index shows rental growth slowing in every region of Britain because of a glut of homes coming to...

Belvoir says the majority of franchise owners in its 170-strong network are reporting a shortage of family housing as one opf...

The National Approved Letting Scheme says the most recent call to ban letting agent fees - in a demand made by...

A Birmingham MP is to put a Bill to the House of Commons after the summer in his bid to stop...

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

Almost half of letting agents say they have seen uncertainty from their landlord clients “which could cause waves in the rental...

The Residential Landlords Association is asking the Welsh Assembly to scrap the three per cent stamp duty surcharge imposed on buy...

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

The UK Apartment Association - the umbrella group of Build To Rent suppliers, including some developers and operators - is starting...

A leading London lettings agency chief suggests that Brexit may - against the expectations of many - actually be a good...

The chief executive of a new organisation servicing the fast-growing British Build To Rent sector says he hopes in time BTR...

Bexley council in south east London says it is going to announce what it describes as a “crackdown” on HMOs next...

Whatever the outcome of today’s EU Referendum, ARLA says its lettings agent members do not believe supply, demand or rental costs...

Yet another local authority looks likely to adopt a licensing scheme for private rental sector properties, described as a bid “to...

The number of people living in private rented accommodation in retirement has soared by more than 200,000 in the last four...

Buy to let investors face a ‘ticking timebomb’ that may force many of them to quit the sector in the long-term,...

A letting agent has launched its own management service for landlords organising short-term lets on Airbnb.  ACEProperty, an estate and letting agency...

The supply of rental properties fell by 5% during April when compared to the previous year, according to figures from the...

A removals firm has claimed it is currently dealing with more tenants moving between properties than home buyers.  Aussie Man & Van...

Rent increases in Prime Central London have slowed due to uncertainty surrounding next month's EU Referendum, according to a new report. London...

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

The Liberal Democrats are following in the footsteps of some Green and Labour politicians in calling for a ban on letting...

The supply of rental housing stock on letting agents’ books fell sharply in March, to the lowest level since the start...

Compulsory client money protection kitemark organisation SAFEagent says the lettings industry should be making public just how much is paid out...

Countrywide - which has already acquired a string of letting agencies in recent months - continues to demonstrate its emphasis on...

Independent comparison website Moneyfacts says mortgage lenders are slashing rates on products designed for landlords, in a bid to buoy up...

Demand for buy to let mortgages in the coming months is expected to fall "significantly" according to a Bank of England...

Countrywide says £28 billion worth of home sales were completed in March ahead of the stamp duty surcharge deadline, a 76...

Action is needed to tackle the scandal of ‘buy to leave’ investors who are denying Londoners the homes they need, according...

The managing director of the Association of Residential Letting Agents says urgent action is necessary “to make the prospect of being...

An industry body says proposals by the Bank of England to curb buy to let lending are “premature.” The Bank’s Prudential Regulation...

Future demand for rental property looks secure if Hamptons International's latest research is accurate - it says a typical single Londoner...

Property software firm VTUK has announced the appointment of a new sales director in response to 'increased demand for automation'. Ian Mclaughlin...

Some 66% of landlords predict more rental sector turbulence in this week's Budget, according to research by property crowdfunding platform The...

This evening at 9pm sees the start of a second season of Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords on Channel 5.  The 10-part series...

A survey suggests that the three facilities demanded most by student tenants are security, wi-fi and clothes washing.  The research, conducted amongst...

The internet classified listings service Gumtree will meet with the Residential Landlords Association to discuss scams in which fraudsters posing as...

Not one of the raft of buy to let rule changes being introduced by Chancellor George Osborne - ostensibly to help...

The supply of rental accommodation is the lowest for at least a year according to the Association of Residential Letting Agents. After...

Connells says there is still substantial room for additional agencies in the private lettings sector and that it intends to add...

Who are you? Jen Paice What does it say on your business card? Chief executive of SafeDeposits Scotland What does SafeDeposits Scotland do? We are...

A new report from the independent Social Market Foundation think tank has found that almost two million more people have been...

Returns from buy to let properties have risen to their highest level in over a year.  Data from Your Move and Reeds...

A leading lettings expert says George Osborne’s proposed stamp duty surcharge of three per cent may be just weeks from implementation...

The total number of evictions last year reached a record high of 42,728 according to data from the Ministry of Justice.  Whilst...

An automated rental transaction processing that has high-profile agency users around the world is set to launch in the UK later...

A legal expert is claiming that changes to S21 eviction procedures introduced back in October are not being adhered to by...

The government’s initiatives to try to increase house building and owner occupation will not stop demand for rented homes rising by...

Legal & General Capital - which has recently made clear its intention to become a major Build To Rent player in...

The lettings market is now enjoying ‘the calm before the storm’ according to the Association of Residential Letting Agents.  In its latest...

People coming to work in Scotland from overseas are making up an increasing proportion of private sector tenants according to a...

Britain's largest letting agency says rents grew by an average of 3.1 per cent in 2015, taking the average monthly rent...

Connells says that between December 2014 and December 2015 the number of valuations conducted for buy-to-let properties soared by 86 per...

Benham & Reeves Residential Lettings, London’s largest independent letting agency, has opened its 14th office. It's in Surrey Quays and is the agency’s...

Q: What does it say on your business card?   Head of Indirect Sales & Partnership Products Q: What does your role involve? I head up...

Falling demand from financial services sector employees has seen the annual rental value growth in prime central London ease back to...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors is predicting that rents are likely to increase even faster than house prices in the...

Oxford-based agency Finders Keepers is opening a new office in the Headington area of the city.  The new branch marks a return...

We look at a few of the best ways to make your property stand out from the crowd. In a market...

Rents are set to sky-rocket by 27 per cent in the next decade according to research commissioned by the Association of...

A seasonal slowdown has hit the lettings sector with rents dipping 0.4 per cent in November to a UK monthly average...

The chairman of Berkeley Homes is warning that George Osborne’s latest three per cent stamp duty hike for buy to let...

A respected survey of the buy to let market says proposed tax changes and the increased stamp duty on additional homes...

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

The controversial three per cent stamp duty surcharge on buy to let and other second home purchases will cause conveyancing “mayhem”...

It is not often that a national newspaper dedicates an article to praising buy to let - and even rarer for...

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

SAFEagent is calling on the government to use the passage of the Housing Bill through Parliament to make a Client Money...

Fewer tenants are experiencing rent increases, according to the Association of Residential Letting Agents’ monthly market report. The number of letting agents...

Prime central London’s sales market has been in the doldrums for some time - now at least one high-end lettings agency...

A rogue landlord who illegally converted one house into a nine flats has been handed a maximum £20,000 fine after being...

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

JLL is forecasting that average rents across the UK will rise by 4.5 per cent next year, followed by a 4.0...

A new survey claims there is a serious shortfall of appropriate quality accommodation for students.  The research, conducted amongst 500 students and...

Tenants in the West Midlands are suffering the most from rent increases, according to the Association of Residential Letting Agents’ monthly...

Stephen Moss, CEO of based Pring.co.uk the UK’s leading property investment search engine, takes a look at the impact of ‘Corbynmania’...

Around 40 per cent of landlords are reporting an increase in tenant demand in their area in the past three months. A...

An Oxford landlord has been convicted of unlawfully evicting a tenant after “a campaign of sustained harassment”. Riasat Ali was ordered to...

The Resort Group, the developer of the all-suite Llana Beach Hotel and Spa, which is due to open in 2016, has...

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

The All Party Parliamentary Group for the Private Rented Sector has launched an inquiry into the energy efficiency of private rented...

A London letting agency says a huge rise in the number of tenants with dogs, combined with a lack of supply...

Average rents have risen for 10 months in a row according to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors - and there's...

Eviction specialists at Landlord Action are raising concerns as to whether there are sufficient resources, especially at local council level, to...

A prime central London letting agency says there has been a rise in the number of subletting scams in that part...

Two of Britain's most controversial landlords, Fergus and Judith Wilson, claim demand from prospective tenants is at a record high with...

The Trading Standards Service has issued a warning to agents, landlords and consumers after independent tests on CO carbon monoxide alarms...

The energy price comparison website recently acquired by Zoopla, uSwitch, is urging letting agents and landlords to do more to allow...

The average void period has dipped below 2.6 weeks per year according to a survey of the private rental sector by...

The publication of the Immigration Bill giving details of the government's expectations of letting agents and landlords to conduct checks on...

One of the UK letting industry’s leading agents says politicians should defer the new Right To Rent immigration checks until the start...

Who are you?     Michael Groves, Partner of Lomond Capital which is focused on bringing together good quality regional letting and estate...

The country’s biggest buy to let landlord is to raise rents by up to 33 per cent, and puts the blame...

London Mayor and Tory leadership wannabee Boris Johnson wants rogue operators in the private rental sectors to be banned with repeat...