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Interest rates are expected to stay high despite good inflation news likely to be announced this week. The Office for Budget Responsibility...

Respected energy industry consultancy Cornwall Insight says the price cap for the April to June period this year - to be...

Knight Frank has revised its housing market forecasts for 2024, just two weeks into the new year. It’s done this on the...

Winkworth’s first trading statement of 2024 reveals that it saw a five per cent rise in rental revenues in 2023 -...

Residential buy to let in the North West of England, London industrial property and retail warehouses are set to be the...

UK Finance has published its housing and mortgage market forecasts for 2024 and 2025 together with projections for 2023 full year numbers. Key figures for 2023 In...

Strutt & Parker’s London New Homes staff attribute 50 per cent of their market this year as dollar-based - 30 per...

Rightmove has released its annual league table of busiest rental locations. Wrexham is this year’s busiest, with each home available to rent...

There were 3.7 new prospective tenants for every rental property listed in prime London postcodes last month says Knight Frank. The figure,...

It looks as if the rental market is set to stay strong for some years to come. That’s because lending for house...

Next year will see “a strong resurgence” in the rental market, a leading agent predicts. Nicky Stevenson, Managing Director of Fine &...

An agency has issued its rental market forecast for 2024. Chestertons says rents are forecast to have increased by 6.5 per cent...

One of the first forecasts for the rental market for 2024 suggests that strong growth will continue. Property consultancy JLL says that...

New data reveals a 68 per cent surge in reports of meter tampering and energy theft during winter. The data - revealed...

A leading lettings agency and property consultancy has revealed that it anticipate stronger-than-expected rental growth this year and next in prime...

Some prospective buy to let landlords may be about to use their equity to snap up investment properties at discounted rates,...

The Autumn Statement on November 22 is the traditional vehicle for the Chancellor to introduce tax change - but now you...

Section 21 evictions are set to soar even higher, a property association leader forecasts - because of the threat to abolish...

A respected measure of investor confidence says it’s on the rise as a result of growing optimism over UK inflation figures...

Buy to let mortgages have seen the largest interest rate increase of any mortgage category according to new research. Barrows and Forrester...

A trading statement from Belvoir reveals that the franchise giant is on the look out for “good quality complimentary acquisitions”. A strong...

The UK Association of Letting Agents says a survey of its members suggests that 2023 will be a tough year for...

The number of first-time buyers is estimated to have fallen by nine per cent in 2022, Yorkshire Building Society says. Analysis by...

A buy to let investment site has used Artificial Intelligence to identify 10 top property investment opportunities in 2023.  Based on analysis...

The next Budget, setting out government tax and spending plans, will be held on March 15 next year. Chancellor Jeremy Hunt says...

Rightmove forecasts average asking prices will drop two per cent in 2023 - meaning they will remain higher than after the...

UK banks are closing client accounts held by established letting agents and refusing to open accounts for new businesses. The Problem A growing...

Investment buyers will snap up a higher proportion of homes in 2022 than they did in 2021, the Hamptons agency forecasts.   So...

A short trading statement from Stock Market-listed London agency chain Winkworth shows just how vital the lettings sector is to its...

Agents should look to lettings to protect themselves when the sales market is hit by the coming recession and drop in...

Mortgage experts appearing before a committee of MPs have given an especially gloomy forecast for the buy to let sector in...

The current supply demand imbalance across the UK rental market looks set to endure as fewer households move across into owner...

A prominent research chief at a leading agency has repeated his claim that average UK house prices are set to drop...

The National Audit Office has made scathing criticisms of government efforts to build more affordable housing. The public spending watchdog says the...

The latest lettings market snapshot from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors suggests tenant demand is rising further with a net...

A Labour MP says the government should introduce emergency rent controls as part of a package of measures to combat the...

Capital appreciation over the next five years amongst properties in prime areas of cities and countryside will be strongest in the...

Low supply has kept rental growth high - and it’s unlikely to slow any time soon. Knight Frank says it expects stock...

A senior lettings chief says the supply drought is making the rental market as overheated now as at any time in...

A leading lettings sector commentator believes today’s local elections may not directly change the private rental sector but could have a...

The latest market sentiment survey of the lettings market from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors suggests that rent rises will...

The latest forecast for the UK lettings market this year is that there will be a four per cent rise in...

Homes headed by a person over the age of 45 will account for at least half of all privately renting households...

Connells-owned lettings agency Hamptons is warning that the record-breaking rental growth of the past year has seen tenants pay a rocketing...

A PropTech supplier to the lettings industry that has just signed a deal with OnTheMarket has come out in support of...

Home offices are already the most-demanded must have from prospective tenants says James Hay, director at Surrey lettings agency, The Home...

UK Finance, the umbrella group representing major mortgage lenders, says there will have been a massive 83 per cent surge in...

Propertymark chief executive Nathan Emerson has given his prediction as to what the big issues will be in the 2022 lettings...

The long term undersupply of rental properties across the country is expected to support rental growth into 2022, says Zoopla. In addition,...

With house prices at an all-time high, showing no signs of waning, the age of first-time buyers is on the rise...

The rapid pace of growth in the rental market will slow in 2022 but the enduring rate of increase should still...

The lettings market in London and the Home Counties continued its journey back towards normality in July according to data from...

The rental sector bounce back in London and the Home Counties is now underway according to Knight Frank. The agency forecasts rental...

An assessment by Savills suggests capital values - including those for properties in the lettings sector - are likely to soar...

Build To Rent completions are estimated to double by 2025, a property company forecasts. Between 2017 and 2018, the number of new...

If you think 2020 has been complicated, just wait until 2021: that’s the claim of a rental guarantor service which warns...

Staying on top of the numbers and figures in a constantly changing industry can be stressful. Changing property prices can be...

The short lets market aimed at international travellers may be in for a difficult time - even the co-founder and chief...

Private rents are expected to fall across the UK in the coming three months, but stabilise over the course of the...

Once the worst of the Coronavirus crisis passes there’s likely to be much more regulation of parts of the rental sector...

The government’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme will be essential to keeping payments flowing through the rental sector, according to a leading...

The prime London lettings market has returned to growth after three years of falling rents, according to new five-year forecasts from...

Investment into the purpose-built Build To Rent sector in the UK dropped significantly last year. Some £273.8m was invested in the fourth...

Knight Frank forecasts cumulative rental growth of 11 per cent in prime outer London and 10 per cent in prime central...

New analysis by Direct Line for Business reveals a surge in the number of police investigations into the theft of electricity,...

The private rented sector would shrink by 20 per cent if Section 21 ‘no-fault’ evictions are abolished, according to an economic...

The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Housing and Care for Older People has sharply criticised the PRS as being ill-equipped to cater...

Savills says some 120,000 buy to let mortgages have been redeemed since the launch of the additional homes stamp duty surcharge...

A specialist broker says the costs of most fixed rate buy to let mortgages are beginning to rise.  Property Master warned last...

Hunters says it’s opened seven new branches this year so far - well ahead of the three it had launched at...

Rental values in prime London show early signs of bottoming out, says Savills, with the annual rate of falls now at...

The UK’s student accommodation sector is still booming according to Knight Frank, despite Brexit creating uncertainty over the future of foreign...

A new analysis of the buy to let market forecasts more bad news for agents, landlords and investors over the next...

Spring – the season of rebirth, revitalisation and regeneration – is now upon us, and it’s a time of the year...

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

A pullback in the buy to let market is threatening to reduce sale prices further in London and parts of the...

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

Knight Frank says average rents are to rise by 14 per cent between the start of next year and the end...

The pressure group Generation Rent - often identified with highlighting issues concerning young tenants - is now warning of a massive...

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

Letting agents need to modernise and digitise to prepare for a surge in the size of the private rental sector according...

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

"A large proportion of 25 to 45 year olds will be permanent tenants rather than buyers" a senior economist has predicted.   Tony...

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

Belvoir Lettings, which operates over 210 outlets across the UK, has seen its pre-tax profit surge beyond £2m at Belvoir Lettings. In...

Landlords’ confidence in the buy to let sector has collapsed to an all-time low and is now “worse than levels witnessed...

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

The scores are in - we have asked 20 senior agents and analysts for their forecasts for capital values the 2016...

The National Landlords’ Association insists that some media forecasts of the impact of the new three per cent stamp duty surcharge...

Savills says mainstream UK rents are likely to rise by an average of 16.5 per cent by the end of 2020...

The Build To Rent movement, whereby financial and other institutions fund the construction of purpose-built rental accommodation and go on to...

Gareth Styles of Grants Independent Estate Agents, Woking writes: When considering opening a new office in Woking Surrey I met with several...