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Private rents have continued to soar in Scotland according to DJ Alexander, the largest lettings agency in the country.  It says rental...

Airbnb is launching a UK campaign this month aimed at luring first-time customers. It’s part of a local campaign that launched last...

Fine & Country holds its international conference on March 10 and according to the agency it will be attended by representatives...

A lettings agency chief has listed how rent controls have failed across the world. Writing in The Scotsman, David Alexander - chief...

An Austrian-based property management PropTech service, which already has links to Knight Frank, is now launching in the UK. iDWELL, which describes...

There’s been a big rise in the number of private rental properties on the past decade, despite sweeping tax and regulation...

The UK’s rental market is now the world’s fourth largest by total volumes of privately rented properties according to research from...

Foxtons is extensively praising the apparent benefits of Build To Rent, a sector in which the agency is keen to become...

International research suggests that short lets - Airbnb and similar platforms - cause housing shortages and push up private rents. Research by...

Rental platform Canopy, which allows tenants to rent without a deposit, has announced a new partnership which will allow agents and...

An analysis of rental properties in Scotland to discover the most numerous overseas landlords has discovered, perhaps surprisingly, that they come...

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

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

Labour says it will introduce new ‘indefinite’ tenancies for private tenants, based on rules currently in place in Germany. It claims German...

The BBC’s Reality Check service, respected for giving a more realistic assessment of many politicians’ promises, has looked at London mayor...

Fergus Wilson, frequently labelled Britain’s biggest individual landlord, says he is stopping letting out properties because of a shortage of East...

  The think tank IPPR has called for increased tenant-power within the private rental sector to give renters the kind of clout...

New research suggests the UK is on the brink of a large-scale, commercially developed, owned and operated Build To Rent sector. A...

Speculation is mounting that other European cities including London could follow the example of Berlin in effectively banning short-lets through online...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has teamed up with 62 other property bodies to launch “a global consultation on ethics...

Labour MP David Lammy and Kevin Hollinrake, the founder of Hunters - and now a Conservative MP - have clashed online...

Private rents in the UK are the highest in Europe despite having amongst the least secure tenancies - that it the...

The National Landlords Association has issued a briefing note which it says is a warning to Labour’s leadership and deputy leadership...