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![Shelter backs Labour eviction and housing policies](/upload/images/shutterstock_1690158259.jpg)
Shelter has spoken out in favour of what it calls “bold” commitments by Labour on the private rental sector and house...
14 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![TV Property Guru to give keynote speech at Propertymark One](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/shutterstock_192595709.jpg)
TV property guru and Move iQ founder Phil Spencer to be a keynote speakers at Propertymark One this year, the trade...
18 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![Build More Homes! Agents in new desperate plea to government](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Developments/1%20RVG%20announces%20%C2%A32bn%20plan%20to%20build%205000%20new%20homes%20-%20PIT%20Construction-400x310.png)
Propertymark has again urged the UK government to continue with its target of building 300,000 new homes in England a year...
26 February 2024
From: Breaking News
![Rents soar as new demographics change face of renting in Britain](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/House-pounds_400x310.png)
The total amount of rent paid by tenants in Great Britain this year will hit £85.6 billion - over twice the...
12 December 2023
From: Breaking News
![Phil Spencer - agents prepare for older tenants and landlords](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Special%20Logo's/Phil%20Spencer.png)
TV property guru Phil Spencer is urging lettings agents to prepare for a surge in the number of older tenants and...
07 August 2023
From: Breaking News
![Dramatic increase in pension-age renters coming soon](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Rent-Mobile-400x310.png)
After a decade of steady growth, the number of older renters is poised to increase rapidly over the next 10 years...
17 July 2023
From: Breaking News
![Over 20% of households now in Private Rental Sector](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Estate-Agent-400x310.png)
Demographic data from the latest Census suggests that the Private Rental Sector now provides homes for 20.3 per cent of the...
06 January 2023
From: Breaking News
![Larger homes taking bigger share of Build To Rent market - new figures](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/uk-housing400x310.png)
Increased demand and investor appetite for purpose built Single Family Rental schemes have seen this niche market grow at scale, according...
28 September 2022
From: Breaking News
![Boomtime for lettings market as big student room shortfall predicted](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/Studentsimage400x310.jpg)
Rising numbers of young people going to university and a relatively low supply of new student housing means that by 2025...
22 August 2022
From: Breaking News
![Young adults lie behind growing rental demand, analysis shows](/upload/images/BTR%2C%20PBSA%2C%20Co-living/StudentResearch-400x310.jpeg)
Tenants’ bills are expected to hit a record £63 billion this year - and much of it is down to the...
19 July 2022
From: Breaking News
![Middle-aged now fastest growing demographic in private rental sector](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/HouseViewing-10-400x310.jpg)
The number of middle-age and later life tenants living in privately rented homes has accelerated faster than those under the age...
15 July 2022
From: Breaking News
![Silver Renters - over-60s seen as growing lettings market](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/RetirementLiving-1-400x310.jpg)
The launch of a new collection of high end homes aimed at renters aged 60-plus has triggered enthusiastic responses from agents. Developer...
27 April 2022
From: Breaking News
![Number of elderly renters likely to rise, claims sector supplier](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/RetirementLiving-1-400x310.jpg)
The head of a retirement rentals brand says the phenomenon of the elderly tenant is on the increase. Jamie Turnbull, business director...
20 April 2022
From: Breaking News
![Tenants getting older - dramatic demographic changes on the way](/upload/images/Miscellaneous/old%20people.png)
Homes headed by a person over the age of 45 will account for at least half of all privately renting households...
29 March 2022
From: Breaking News
![Revealed - the city tipped for rental expansion by property experts](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/RentalMarketImage-1-400x310.jpg)
A prominent consultancy advising the Build To Rent sector has identified one British city as the prime location for investment in 2022. BNP...
25 November 2021
From: Breaking News
![Urban renting changing thanks to pandemic, says PropTech platform](/upload/images/Coronavirus/Coronavirus3-400x310-min.jpeg)
PropTech platform Lavanda says urban property is changing thanks to the pandemic, and it tells agents, landlords and other providers to...
29 October 2021
From: Breaking News
![Smart renting - fifth of UK renters would pay over £1k more for tech-led homes](/upload/images/PropTech%20%26%20Online/SmartHome-Utilities-400x310.jpg)
An industry poll has revealed that tech is now so important in our lives that a fifth of UK tenants say...
22 September 2021
From: Breaking News
![Regional cities surviving Covid and Brexit best, says investment firm](/upload/images/Brexit/BrexitEgg-400x310.jpg)
Recovery in the UK is being channeled towards regional cities, says a leading investment expert. Martha Peyton, managing director and head of...
25 August 2021
From: Breaking News
![Foxtons lifts lid on rents and demographics in London rental market](/upload/images/Locations/LondonMap400x310-min.png)
Last month says the largest rental demand in the last three years across London according to Foxtons. The agency says the gradual...
29 July 2021
From: Breaking News
![Top agency wants to grab a slice of the Build To Rent market](/img/default/lat.png)
Leaders Romans Group is launching a consultancy and management service for Build To Rent developers - a bid to engage with institutions in...
06 April 2021
From: Breaking News
![Pressure on private rented sector to cater more for older and disabled](/img/default/lat.png)
A lettings trade body says the sector - and local councils - should do more to cater for the older and...
26 March 2021
From: Breaking News
![Help bring rental sector Health and Safety up to date, agents urged](/img/default/lat.png)
Letting agencies are being urged to help to shape the future of the rental sector by completing a survey as part...
19 March 2021
From: Breaking News
![Market snapshot: Voids reducing slightly, but rents dipping too](/img/default/lat.png)
The latest rental index from PropTech firm Goodlord shows some regions enjoying lower void periods with others slower to stabilise. Specifically, the...
07 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Rental sector must prepare for more older tenants, says top expert](/img/default/lat.png)
The rental sector needs to prepare for the demographic challenge of an increasingly older population, says the head of a high...
23 September 2019
From: Breaking News
![Family and older person rental markets ‘present agents with opportunities’](/img/default/lat.png)
Utilities management service Tenant Shop says demographic changes leading to more families and older individuals renting privately represent an opportunity for...
12 September 2019
From: Breaking News
![Rental demand from older tenants likely to increase in the future](/img/default/lat.png)
New research from an international law firm shows that the rental sector in major cities is now changing its demographic make-up...
10 September 2019
From: Breaking News
![Huge London Build To Rent scheme unveiled by Legal & General](/img/default/lat.png)
Legal & General has exchanged contracts on two adjacent sites in south London to deliver its largest Built To Rent scheme...
16 May 2019
From: Breaking News
![Landlords ‘must work with agents to understand new rental demographics’](/img/default/lat.png)
London’s lettings sector is changing with tenants still wanting to buy but increasingly accepting they must rent for longer in the...
04 April 2019
From: Breaking News
![Millennials’ top cities measured by rent, jobs - and Remainers...](/img/default/lat.png)
A controversial new survey claims to have identified the best cities for millennials to live in based on factors such as...
04 April 2019
From: Breaking News
08 January 2019
From: Breaking News
!['Be flexible over tenant demographics and aims' investors urged](/img/default/lat.png)
A Build To Rent business says investors in the private rental sector should be more flexible in their approach to private...
12 June 2018
From: Breaking News
![Here are four ways data can improve your business](/img/default/lat.png)
How can you use data to benefit and better your business? It’s something you’ll no doubt have asked yourself down the...
21 May 2018
From: Sponsored Content
![Huge surge in buy to let forecast for next seven years](/img/default/lat.png)
The latest major piece of research into the private rental sector is forecasting a huge surge in demand - meaning there...
17 May 2018
From: Breaking News
![Agency research lifts the lid on tenants' finances and demographics](/img/default/lat.png)
The average rental household in London has 2.1 rent-paying tenants, each paying £775 per month, equating to an average property rent...
20 March 2018
From: Breaking News
![Buy to let boost as younger people 'favour property over pensions'](/img/default/lat.png)
New figures appear to show that younger people may prefer investing in property over pensions - giving new hope to the...
26 January 2018
From: Breaking News
![Shelter insists age, not taxes, forces landlords to quit buy to let](/img/default/lat.png)
The reasons behind ‘landlord churn’ - when buy to let investors sell up - are more connected with personal circumstances than...
28 July 2017
From: Breaking News
![Almost half of tenants are aged over 46, study reveals](/img/default/lat.png)
Some 40% of private tenants are aged over 46, according to a study by Your Move. The agency researched 36,500 tenants and...
20 September 2016
From: Breaking News
![New research gives detailed profile of 'typical' buy to let investor](/img/default/lat.png)
Research undertaken by one of Britain’s leading rental sector experts and the Tenancy Deposit Scheme Charitable Foundation gives perhaps the most...
06 July 2016
From: Breaking News
![Revealed: huge rise in retirees living in private rental accommodation](/img/default/lat.png)
A survey by the National Landords’ Association reveals that the number of retired people living in private rented accommodation has soared...
04 July 2016
From: Breaking News
![Letting agency data shows trend towards long-term renting](/img/default/lat.png)
Data produced by Scottish lettings agency DJ Alexander Lettings appears to show a growing trend towards long-term letting over buying. The agency,...
21 June 2016
From: Breaking News
![Industry group says massive leap in retired renters of 200,000 since 2012](/img/default/lat.png)
The number of people living in private rented accommodation in retirement has soared by more than 200,000 in the last four...
20 June 2016
From: Breaking News
![Private rental sector to expand after 30 years of amazing growth](/img/default/lat.png)
The private rental sector could expand to cover 40 per cent of households and the UK population is likely to split...