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Baroness Alicia Kennedy, director of the Generation Rent campaign, says rents in Wales, Scotland and South West England have soared thanks...

The Furnished versus Unfurnished debate in the rental sector has been going on for years but new research attempts to quantify...

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

The John Lewis Partnership has released more details of an ambitious plan to build and furnish private rental properties. In a bid...

Targeting the specialist student rental market can be rewarding for letting agents and landlords if they take the right approach. The current...

The government’s much-vaunted ‘tax day’ produced few challenges to the status quo - but holiday lets are under scrutiny. Currently the holiday let...

A call has gone out for the longer-term buy to let rental sector to have a similar tax regime as the largely-unregulated...

A London agency has won the instruction for a particularly prestigious let - a four bedroom apartment in the capital, once...

A home being pet-friendly is the most desirable attribute in a rental property, according to research by a specialist mortgage lender.  The...

There’s more evidence today that pet-friendly properties are becoming increasingly popular with tenants.  A study by specialist lender Landbay quizzed 2,000 tenants...

A holiday lets and short-term lettings market boom can be put down to a combination of four reasons, according to specialist...

One of London’s best known lettings agents says unfurnished properties can take 30 per cent longer to let than a furnished...

A senior lettings agent has raised the spectre of rental properties in future being German-style ‘empty shells’ - without even white...

The UK’s holiday lets sector could be a beneficiary of the current Brexit uncertainty and people not vacationing abroad because they...

Rent in London is the most expensive in Europe for expats, new research shows. The UK capital’s rent averages US$7,189 - that’s...

Labour’s proposal to introduce indefinite tenancies along the lines in a bid to emulate the German model reveals the party’s “fundamental...

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

Some 24 per cent of landlords have considered letting out their properties on a short let Airbnb-style basis - but only...

A mortgage firm claims the lettings industry is ripping off students by overcharging them. Mojo Mortgages says it has compared the rent...

A PropTech platform claims landlords can cut administration costs so much that they could afford to offer their lettings units furnished...

An advertisement on a property management firm’s website suggesting that rental income would be guaranteed to landlords has been banned by...

Three London lettings sub-markets performed relatively weakly according to data just released by Knight Frank. Wimbledon’s rental values fell 1.5 per cent...

A two bedroom furnished flat can cost up to 21 per cent more to rent than a comparable property that’s unfurnished. Research...

Government plans aimed at stopping the abuse of the current Rent A Room tax perk may overcomplicate the system and deter...

A new website called Vesta has launched aiming to sell investment properties with tenants in place.  The team behind the site describe...

An accountancy trade body, the Association of Accounting Technicians, is advising the government to investigate what it calls “the questionable tax...

The government has published long-awaited guidelines for the implementation of Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards in the private rental sector.   The hefty 95-page...

A US firm that is believed to want a slice of the UK’s growing short-lets market has made a key business...

One of the world’s largest ‘temporary furnished accommodation’ specialists is reported to have £20m to spend on renting property to re-let...

Tenants are becoming increasingly eco-conscious according to a new survey.   Some 80 per cent of those questioned agree that landlords or their...

An experiment by an online agency and an interiors firm suggests professionally shot pictures of a furnished flat will generate six...

Any lingering hope that the buy to let sector might have of a rethink by the new Chancellor over restructuring mortgage...

The Advertising Standards Authority has banned an ad from high-end letting agency Hamptons International because of an apparent lack of clarity...

Two professional property investors are giving away a Manchester flat valued at £110,000 in a protest against Chancellor George Osborne’s attacks...

It's more important than ever that letting agents stand out with their marketing messages. The British rental market is more crowded than...

HM Revenue and Customs has published the responses it has received to its 12 week consultation on changing the Wear and...

The Chancellor’s proposed change to wear and tear tax allowance in the rental sector will hit rural lettings particularly hard, according...

While almost every lettings organisation has been up in arms at the raft of tax changes for landlords suggested by Chancellor...

A letting agent in London has ditched the usual euphemisms and gone for the blunt approach by describing rooms to let...

The rise and rise of Airbnb - the global online short-lets system that could be used by landlords to short-circuit letting...

Around 47 per cent of landlords will be affected by changes to the annual wear and tear allowance. That’s the result of...

The Residential Landlords Association has launched a new campaign ‘toolkit’ to enable opponents of the proposed buy to let tax changes...

A couple from Cambridgeshire have been fined £10,000 and ordered to hand over in excess of £75,000 after repeatedly renting out...

HMRC has revealed the scope of its proposed changes to the wear and tear allowance, as announced in George Osborne’s Budget...

Hamptons International has been appointed sole agent for two of the latest private Build To Let schemes in the capital. Hamptons will...