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An influential Labour website says a raft of proposed reforms for the private rental sector will be unveiled next month -...

Just four months after opening a fourth office of lettings agency Martin & Co in London, franchisee Michael van de Vyver...

Councils have become increasingly hostile towards agents in recent times, with increased regulation and licensing of the private rental sector in...

Professional cleaning firm Prompt Cleaners has created a league table of regions and local authorities where renting is cheapest and dearest. The...

Savills has announced a new head of its lettings department in its Bishops Park office in Fulham. Christina McLean steps into the...

A lettings agency claims foreign homeowners are sitting on £84.2 billion worth of property across England and Wales - but with...

A London-focused lettings agency says actual rents in the capital are far greater than official average figures produced by the government.  Benham...

It already looks like 2023 is on track to see licensing fines for agents and landlords reaching nearly double the 2022...

The Labour Party is to launch a major review of the private rental sector, led by the head of a London...

Leaders Romans Group is unveiling what it claims is a new ‘sustainable’ branch office for its Portico brand in Fulham, London. The...

PropTech firm Kamma says total fines for agents and landlords have now topped £8m in London alone with a £238,000 increase...

A high profile London lettings agency says some owners of properties in prime areas of the capital have seen capital appreciation...

Historic agency Chestertons has appointed its long-serving lettings chief Richard Davies as its new chief executive. This follows the departure of high...

A London agency says properties in its patch let in just five days.  Draker Lettings in Fulham has just 22 available instructions...

A little-known law may require tenants to pay stamp duty on the rental properties they do not actually own. London lettings agency...

The London agency Bective says the prime areas of the capital have enjoyed an eight per cent uplift in rental values...

Council-imposed fines on letting agents and landlords that fall foul of licensing regulations have risen dramatically in the past month alone. Research...

A buying agency says it’s seen what it calls “a huge uptake in furnished lettings requests” following recent floods in London,...

Rental demand has started to return to the majority of major UK cities during the second quarter of this year, with...

At least one lettings agency is on a list of targets for socially-distanced protests tomorrow by anti-eviction campaigners in the left...

A senior buying agent is warning that new regulations over the length of notice given to tenants is having an unexpected...

Lettings agency Carter Jonas predicts the housing market - for both owner-occupiers and landlords - will become increasingly eco-focussed in 2021. It says...

When it comes to good works, one frequently-featured agency is Chestertons in London - and again it’s come up trumps during...

Pressure group Generation Rent claims half of London’s councils did not fine any landlords for letting out unsafe homes in the...

A newspaper claims multiple councils are opening investigations into agents allegedly defying the tenant fees ban - and at least one...

London agency Draker Lettings is expanding its patch - and offering landlords a free service for six months. Draker, which is 10...

Greater London rents have risen an average of four per cent in the past year - but some boroughs performing above-average...

Rents in London are rocketing but a leading market commentator says this is no reason to give in to a “Marxist dystopia”...

Local authorities are failing in their duty to prosecute criminal letting agents, the National Landlords Association (NLA) has warned. The NLA says...

The lettings book of My London Home will be absorbed into the Stirling Ackroyd portfolio and rebranded this autumn. Consisting of nearly...

Average rents in London are £1,615, up 3.3 per cent on last year, according to HomeLet’s latest index. This is the first...

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

London landlords and letting agents could be missing out on up to £111 million of short-term rental revenue each year, according...

A warning has come from a campaigning letting agent that London’s landlords agents could be costing themselves tenants by requiring them...

Rokstone has launched a new lettings division, operating out of the firm’s existing Marylebone offices and covering both short and long term...

A London letting agency is opening a new branch thanks to continued high demand from EU nationals looking for rental property...

Knight Frank has recruited Neil Cunningham to become head of South West London and Home Counties lettings, overseeing the performance of...

Draker, which describes itself as the largest lettings-only agency in Kensington and Chelsea, has now expanded by opening a new office...

A London council has agreed to implement a new ‘standards charter’ for the private rental sector from next month - in...

Another local authority is aiming to set up its own ‘social’ lettings agency.   The proposal is one of five put forward by...

A firm which claims to be London's fastest growing letting agency has opened its fifteenth branch. Benham & Reeves Residential Lettings' latest...

A typical tenant in a two-bed property in England will have paid over £40,000 in rent in the past five years...

An inappropriate advert for a rental property has been removed from a flat-sharing website. The ad, featured on flatshare.com, was for a...

A letting agency chain is claiming to be London’s largest independent letting agent after opening its 13th office. Benham & Reeves Residential...