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The latest market snapshot from lettings agency Hamptons suggests that rents have risen, nationally, 7.9 per cent over the last 12 months. It...

New research published by Build To Rent operator L&G reveals what it believes to be a crisis surrounding rental properties, affordable...

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

Tenants are paying almost £70bn of rent to landlords a year, research claims. Buy-to-let specialist Sequre Property Investment has found the best...

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

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

Flats, so long the favourite of buy to let investors, still constitute 15 per cent of all homes purchased according to...

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

A new estimate put the value of the UK private rental sector at almost £1.4 trillion. Buy to let and investment consultancy...

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

South East of England sales and lettings agency Parkers is continuing to expand across Berkshire with the opening of a new...

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...

The ESTAS Awards ceremony is traditionally held each May but no prizes for guessing why this year, as with 2020, things...

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

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

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 government is asking bailiffs not to enforce court possession orders in areas with the highest Coronavirus restrictions.  So although evictions can...

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

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

The so-called King and Queen of Buy To Let, the controversial husband and wife team of Fergus and Judith Wilson, are...

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

Rental growth in Great Britain picked up throughout 2019 according to Countrywide.   In an analysis of the market released under the name...

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

One of the north east of England’s higher profile estate agencies has restructured and merged with a rival ahead of what...

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

Many buy to let investors are still badly bruised by the government’s wave of fiscal and regulatory assaults on the private...

Rental growth continues to accelerate, reaching the highest level since April 2016 according to data from Hamptons International, part of Countrywide.   The...

A lettings agency is believed to be the first to offer landlords a year's rent in advance in one lump sum...

The corner may have turned for the London rental market as prices grew between April and May, according to the latest...

An average of 34 per cent of a tenant’s typical salary is spent on rent across the UK, according to an...

The average cost of a new let in Great Britain has risen to £977 per calendar month.  That’s a 2.6 per cent...

New figures out this morning show that the over-50s are becoming a larger part of the rental market.  So far this year...

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has been put on the spot by the person many consider to be the country’s most...

The latest Your Move lettings index for England and Wales shows the average rent stagnating - rising just 0.5 per cent...

New data from specialist mortgage firm Commercial Trust suggests that London’s buy to let sector turned a corner in the first...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card?  My name is Daniel and I’m a director at...

An agency in the north east of England is moving its HQ off the High Street and into an office block...

Rents across England and Wales have not moved in the last 12 months, according to Your Move.  The agency says the typical...

The average rent across England and Wales in February was a mere 0.4 per cent higher than the same point a...

New research from Zoopla suggests that parking sits firmly at the top of requirements for renters - but with pet-friendly facilities...

Rent controls of the kind which London mayor Sadiq Khan wishes to introduce will worsen what is already a huge exodus...

The latest rental market snapshot from YourMove suggests that typical rents rose 1.8 per cent across England and Wales in the...

The latest market snapshot from LSL Property Services once again shows that buy to let investors in northern regions have enjoyed...

Another online lettings agency launches in March with a claim that it “will streamline and automate the majority of admin tasks...

The number of landlords exiting the market in the East of England is 100 per cent higher than the national average...

Former owner occupiers who want to be ‘chain-free’ if they buy again are pouring into the private rental sector according to...

More landlords will leave the private rented sector in the next year as annual rental price growth has been flat or...

Just one region of England and Wales saw rents fall in the year to September 2018, according to the latest Your...

HomeLet says the average rent in the UK is now £947, up 0.9 per cent on last year - or up...

The latest Your Move rental tracker suggests that London’s lettings market has continued to cool with prices falling by 0.5 per...

Rents in London rose by 0.1 per cent in the 12 months to June - it’s the first annual rental increase...

A new analysis of rental yields across all of the UK’s local authorities has revealed exactly where the best places are for...

A trade body says it has evidence that families take up the least amount of property management time when compared to...

Rental growth in England, excluding London, was just 1.18 per cent over the last year, the slowest annual rate since April...

Data from Your Move's England and Wales Rental Tracker shows that the number of tenants in arrears increased for the fourth...

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

A new survey released this morning gives an insight into how tenants manage rental payments and their willingness - in some...

Rents in the UK grew by an average, and tiny, 0.69 per cent in the year to the end of February,...

The average cost of renting a home is now rising across every UK region for the first time in almost two...

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 rent in England and Wales was £850 in December 2017, an increase of 2.3 per cent in the last...

The average rent agreed on a new tenancy signed in December was £907 according to the insurance firm HomeLet, compared to...

UK rents grew by a tiny 0.56 per cent in 2017 according to specialist lender Landbay. However, in a special exercise, the...

Latest data from HomeLet suggests that typical rents across the UK have fallen in real terms over the past 12 months. Average...

Rental prices in most areas of England and Wales have grown over the past 12 months with the East of England...

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

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...

Average rents for newly-let property across Great Britain rose to £954 per month in August, reflecting a 1.6 per cent annual...

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

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

The average rent in England and Wales is now £800 per month according to latest statistics from Your Move.   The area with...

  Renters are spending half their wages keeping a roof over their head, are twice as likely as homeowners to have no...

You may have noticed some subtle changes to Letting Agent Today in recent weeks, aimed at improving the ‘user experience’ we...

New figures from Your Move suggest the rental market performed strongly across England and Wales, with rents rising in eight of...

Average rents ended 2016 higher than they started it according to figures from Your Move relating to England and Wales.   The average...

Asking rents rose 3.0 per cent outside of London in 2016 - but will rise 4.0 per cent in 2017. That’s the...

Northern Ireland, where rents were 6.4 per cent higher in December than in the same month of 2015, saw the strongest...

Government figures from the Office for National Statistics show average rents in privately let homes across Britain rose by an average...

The rate of rental growth has dipped to its lowest annual rate this year - prices are up three per cent...

Some 21 per cent of buy to let investors are too embarrassed to admit what they do.   That is the result of a...

The average rent in England and Wales has reached an all-time high of £846 per month - a year-on-year increase of...

Failing to provide an energy certificate and not complying with an improvement notice has resulted in a landlord being ordered to...

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

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

The average rent paid by private tenants across Great Britain increased by 2.6% in the twelve months to April 2016, according...

Average rents are now rising at the fastest rate since last Autumn, bringing the average monthly rent in England and Wales...

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

International development firm Westrock has given details of what it calls “the first homes designed specifically for rent in a key...

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

Average rents are now rising on a monthly basis for the first time since September, up 0.1 per cent between January...

Rents in Greater London for new tenancies are rising at the slowest rate for almost two years.  Data from HomeLet shows rents...

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

Rightmove says tenants serious about wanting to buy could do themselves a favour by flatsharing - and save themselves £210 a...

The new three per cent stamp duty rate surcharge is the equivalent to 11 months income for the average mortgaged landlord,...

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

Rents across England and Wales have fallen between September and October, according to data from the Your Move and Reeds Rains...

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

Rightmove says rents across England and Wales, outside London, are up 1.3 per cent in the past three months according to...

A row has broken out between one of the north east’s most prominent letting agents and Zoopla over the worst place...

Rents across England and Wales have dipped by 0.1 per cent and now stand at an average of £803 per month. Annual...

Rent rises have moderated across the UK according to HomeLet.  In every region of the UK, the pace of rent rises slowed...

Rents continue to rise across the UK with many regions now keeping pace with or exceeding the pace of price increases...

Police say a man has been arrested on suspicion of fraud following the closure of east of England letting agency Kirby...

The National Approved Letting Scheme has acted about the mystery surrounding the future of east of England letting agency Kirby Property...

Mystery surrounds the fate of Kirby Property Management, a letting agency with offices at Cambourne, Cambridge and St Neots in the...

Private sector rents in England and Wales have grown 4.6 per cent year-on-year – the fastest rate of increase since November...