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Another short let management firm, set up in the wake of an explosion of Airbnb-style renting by amateurs and professionals, is...

The UK's second city Birmingham takes top spot when it comes to student property returns for buy-to-let investors. Analysis by online letting...

A leading letting agent argues that the UK housing market is not prepared to deal with a growing number of lifetime...

The Scottish Government’s private rental reforms are shaking up the sector according to new data, which reveals rental property sales have...

Rents in the UK, excluding London, are still increasing but at their slowest rate for five years. Figures from specialist lender Landbay...

The proportion of visitors to Edinburgh using Airbnb surged 70 per cent in 2017 compared to the previous year. Commercial agency Colliers,...

CityLets, Scotland’s largest online lettings listings service, says it’s business as usual for the market north of the border despite a...

Sourced, which describes itself as the largest property investment platform in the UK, has secured its 25th franchise some 10 months...

An analysis of over 580,000 properties has produced a league table of Britain’s best and worst buy to let postcodes in...

Airsorted, one of a number of management services that have sprung up to cater for hosts using Airbnb and similar platforms,...

The Scottish rental market performed solidly in the last year, with the average rent rising by 0.6 per cent to hit...

Rents in Scotland continue to grow but the rate is slowing according to the latest data from Your Move. The average rental...

Rightmove has revealed that the 10 year average growth in asking rents across London has been 25 per cent, and over...

As students begin their search for housing for the next academic year, a university has relaunched a dedicated lettings agency service The...

Politicians in London and Scotland are looking at new controls which could be imposed on home owners letting out their properties...

Liverpool and Nottingham are the UK’s best performing property investment locations, according to mortgage broker Private Finance.  Both cities enjoy average rental...

The government has been accused by a lettings sector trade body of skewing the market to encourage more short-lets.  The claim comes...

Research by the University of Sheffield is reported to show the apparent damage done by short lets on Airbnb and similar...

The Scottish rental market continued to perform strongly in the year to the end of October with the average property let for £572 on...

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

A report into the Scottish rental market by Your Move says letting agents north of the border are already preparing for...

Green Party politician Andy Wightman claims that £10.6m in taxes are being avoided this year due to the boom in private...

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

Uber and a Build To Rent developer have announced a PropTech deal which will see the transport company getting involved in...

Scotland’s rental market swings to extremes, suggests the latest figures from website Citylets.   On the one hand the Scottish average rent has...

A tenant has been tracked down after a year-long exercise and has now picked up the deposit he forgot to collect...

ARLA Propertymark representatives have met with Home Office officials in Cardiff and Edinburgh ahead of the government’s roll-out of Right To...

A Scottish agency group has announced that it has acquired a lettings business in order to move into the short-term lettings...

Average private rents in Scotland at the national level recorded an uncharacteristic dip in the final quarter of 2016, down 0.9...

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

The average rent for a UK property grew by a negligible 0.05 per cent in October, despite a tiny fall in...

The average UK tenant expects to remain part of the Private Rented Sector for a further decade, according to a new...

Data produced by Scottish lettings agency DJ Alexander Lettings appears to show a growing trend towards long-term letting over buying. The agency,...

Tenancy deposits in England and Wales are typically £100 dearer than the Scottish equivalent.  Between June 2015 and May 2016, the average...

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

Annual rent rises in Scotland hit a three-year low in April, according to new figures. Your Move's Scotland Buy-to-Let Index shows that...

Average asking rents in Scotland now stand at £767 per month, up 2.1 per cent over the past year.  The exception to...

Robert Watts Lettings has secured the latest Lettings Landlord award from the ESTAS.  Kate Watts, head of lettings of the agency based...

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

New research from HomeLet reveals that Brighton, Bristol, Edinburgh and Newcastle recorded the largest increase in rents last year amongst the...

One of Scotland’s largest independent letting agencies has entered into two deals adding over 600 properties to its inventory. The Edinburgh-based DJ...

With perhaps ironic timing, rents across some parts of Scotland are falling - just as the Scottish Government prepares to outline...

The shortage of rental accommodation in some university towns is so great that up to 22 people are competing for every...

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

David Alexander, managing director of the letting agency DJ Alexander, has come across some unusual requests in over 30 years doing business...

A Scottish agent has warned that government proposals to restrict landlord repossessions could negatively impact accommodation costs at the Edinburgh Festival. David...

A new director of The Property Ombudsman in Scotland and chief executive of one of that country’s major letting agencies ia...

Edinburgh is set to become the first local authority in Scotland to move into the private landlord business, building up to...