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One of the country’s largest Build To Rent operators, Legal & General, has acquired a new scheme from volume housebuilders Countryside....

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

Airbnb has issued a lengthy statement in response to a recent raft of criticisms about the effects of soaring numbers of...

A council is offering free training to letting agents, via online courses starting next Monday. Dorset council says it wants to work...

A Manchester-based lettings agency has won a long-term deal with one of the UK’s most prominent Build To Rent operators.  Ascend Properties...

Winkworth says its London rental activities have suffered because of a lack of international travel, and students and young professionals returning to...

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

The fall out from Coronavirus is forcing the rental market into a once in a lifetime change as tenants reassess priorities. This...

A series of leading lettings agents have warned that the rental sector is set for significant change as the Coronavirus pandemic...

Another local authority is considering a clampdown on the spread and condition of HMOs. Bath and North East Somerset Council, which is...

One of the country’s major lettings agency chiefs says there is a “massive” change in tenant priorities underway. Michael Cook, national lettings...

A council has won a planning appeal banning the use of a property for short lets - considered a landmark case...

There are few silver linings to today’s Coronavirus crisis but there’s a heroic effort being made by a short let accommodation...

Build To Rent developer Simple Life has launched 28 new BTR family homes in Newhall Harlow, Essex.  Part of a larger development of...

A local authority in Manchester is pioneering a ban to prevent buyers of homes at a new development from selling them to private...

An investment company has revealed that it’s acquired land in the north of England to create a Build To Rent scheme. Godwin...

A tenant pretending to be landlord has been ordered to pay more than £21,000 after he carved up five family homes...

Savills has launched a new residential lettings service in one of the country’s most successful buy to let and investment locations...

Another London local authority is proposing to insist HMOs require planning permission in future.  Currently in Croydon multi-bedroom properties can be converted...

A buy to let investor who converted three family homes to HMOs without securing planning permission has been jailed for falsifying...

There’s been a strong start to the year for Build To Rent with news that a real estate investment trust dedicated...

The agency industry has reacted in a broadly downbeat way at the relatively few housing-related proposals that were announced in yesterday’s...

SDL Group is celebrating its 2,000th tenant in the new but fast-growing Build To Rent sector.  SDL works with developer Sigma Capital Group...

A Build To Rent operator is marking its 2,000th new-build home - an indication of how the sector is starting to...

Two more student houses in Brighton have been ordered to close by a government planning inspector. There have now been four such...

A local authority is considering introducing measures to prevent landlords turning family homes in one of its conservation areas into HMOs.  Reading...

Rents are rising faster for three bedroom homes than for any other property type. They show a rise of 4.6 per cent...

Urban regeneration specialist Sigma Capital is the latest firm to announce it is entering the Build To Rent sector, seeking to...

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