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New research has identified locations with the largest volume of available rental stock, based on those units at or below the...

Glasgow’s lettings market is the strongest it’s been in up to 10 years, with a shortage of rental flats driving demand...

Long established property business Newton Letting is rebranding as Rosevale Letting, following the conclusion of a licensing period. Former Newton employee, Riccardo...

The classified ad website Gumtree is issuing an alert about what it claims is the growing threat of rental fraud. It says...

Scotland’s largest letting agent had almost 40,000 viewing requests during July for rental properties in Edinburgh and Glasgow alone. DJ Alexander Ltd...

Rightmove is to provide agents with local market data and easier access to training at a series of Propertymark regional events. Rightmove...

One in eight tenants admit to letting out part or all of their rented property - and that rises to a...

Strathspey Capital is to become Scotland’s largest factoring business after acquiring Glasgow-based Speirs Gumley. Factoring is the term commonly used in Scotland...

Typical UK rents now account for 28.3 per cent of average pre-tax earnings - slightly above the 10-year average of 27...

A buyer has been announced for part of the lettings portfolio of Purplebricks, it has been announced today. The deal, finalised for...

A seminar is to be held to look at the impact of rent controls on the burgeoning Build To Rent sector. Private...

London has continued to dominate the list of the most attractive cities for buy to let investment for the second year...

The largest lettings agency in Scotland, DJ Alexander Ltd, has opened new premises in Glasgow.  It employed 20 people and lettings director...

New data from flatshare site SpareRoom reveals that rents reached an all-time high in Q4 2022, with the average UK room...

A lettings agency which describes itself as “ethical” has been honoured with an award linked to the United Nations. Homes For Good...

A prominent businessman has told the Scottish media that the country’s rent freeze policy has led to two major housing schemes...

The Lomond Group has strengthened its position in Scotland by acquiring two more independent agencies and adding some 600 properties to...

A property management chief has been disqualified as a director for 12 years after using his firms to take out £135,000...

A Labour peer who was to have invested £1 billion in affordable homes has halted his scheme because of the threat...

The Times says some Build to Rent investment has been paused as a result of the rent freeze imposed by the...

The acquisition machine that is the Lomond Group has snapped up the lettings book of another independent agency. Lomond has taken over...

The average rent in the UK has increased by £115 per month since last year, reaching £1,051 per calendar month according...

New research claims students in the UK are currently paying as much as £16,500 per year in living costs - a...

The fast-growing Lomond Group of agencies has acquired a major online lettings service. But it's going to manage the properties through physical...

Property prices in Birmingham are expected to rise more than any other city in the UK following the Commonwealth Games, it’s...

A prominent brand in the Lomond Group - Linley & Simpson - has expanded its portfolio by over 600 properties in...

One of Britain’s largest cities wants to regulate Airbnb and other short let platforms. The proposed scheme in Glasgow follows legal changes...

A leading brand in the fast-growing and heavily-funded Lomond Group has snapped up another independent agency.  Linley & Simpson has added another...

A company providing virtual tours insists the technology delivers “undeniable results” but is still not used universally by agents. Virtual tours became...

Many of the country’s leading letting agency brands have joined forces with Propertymark to deliver a training and development strategy for...

The appeal of city living has been reignited across Scotland with new figures showing a surge in demand and rents for...

Airbnb is giving away £100 vouchers to anyone in the UK who shifts into the short lets sector for the first...

A prominent agent says the shortage of rental property is now so acute, and like to get still worse, that those...

The Lomond Group, already reported to be in talks to buy London agency Chestertons, has revealed it’s snapped up another leading...

A new Buy To Let ‘tracker’ from a prominent buy to let mortgage lender has revealed what it considers to be...

A lettings agency’s research has revealed that rental demand has continued to climb across most major UK cities during the third quarter...

Rent controls are to be introduced into part of the UK as a result of a deal between two political parties. The...

A new survey suggests Airbnb owners are charging over 300 per cent more to stay at their properties during major events...

If agents want to emphasise the green credentials of their local area, then a new league table may be of help. An...

A lettings company has paid an undisclosed sum - described only as “a six figure deal” - to acquire a large...

Scottish commercial property firm Bowman Rebecchi has announced an expansion into the residential letting sector with the Glasgow-based agency Newton Letting. Bowman...

The team behind Glasgow’s first major city centre Build to Rent housing development has announced another multi-million-pound BTR project. Kelvin Properties, which...

The investment arm of the Big Issue street newspaper is putting £3m into a new form of lettings agency.  Homes for Good was...

A rental demand league table produced by a lettings management platform shows the winners and losers across the UK - and...

A major player in the Build To Rent sector has announced another large scheme - 346 units - on a major...

Zoopla has revealed its top 10 hotspots for buy to let investors seeking high rental yields.  The analysis is based on rental returns...

A deposit scheme has launched a new service designed to help tenants and landlords who have experienced issues with rent arrears as...

A league table has been drawn up to show which large cities in the UK have the highest demand for investment...

A property management firm says there’s been a big surge in rentals with the majority of deals being completed using virtual...

New research has produced a series of league tables to identify where in Britain the best rental yields can be found. The...

One bedroom properties provide the best returns to buy to let investors according to new research by a lettings management platform. Single...

An analysis of buy to let returns from mortgage lender Mojo has produced a league table with no London locations in...

The number of new rental listings reaching the market has soared as much as 44 per cent in some areas following...

New research suggested that yields across the UK rental market are remaining broadly unchanged despite the Coronavirus crisis. The current average sits...

A project called NHS Homes, run by a number of suppliers within the short lets sector, has now made available some...

The average rent for a newly let property rose 3.3 per cent in the year to the end of February -...

High-profile property management firm DJ Alexander is set for expansion following a £7m investment from Santander.  The capital funding package will be...

A long-established lettings company in Scotland has acquired a three year old independent with a small portfolio of 45 properties. Riccardo Giovanacci...

A lettings agency that launched just two years ago has snapped up an independent firm in the same city in a...

A landlord who made a perverted request to take photographs of a teenager in her underwear has had his request for...

A huge US property investment firm valued at over $10 billion is entering the UK’s purpose build student accommodation sector. Chicago-based CA...

Young adults aged 20 to 29 spend up to a third of their pre-tax income on rent for a room according...

An online room-letting platform claims rents have risen up to eight per cent in wake of the Tenant Fee Act. ideal flatmate...

Institutional investment in the Build to Rent (BTR) sector reached a record high last year, according to fresh research from Bidwells.  The...

Two housing organisations have come together to fund a major research programme to improve standards in the private rental sector. They are...

A slow rental market in London is weighing down on growth across the rest of the UK, according to the latest...

Northwood has snapped up two independent agencies - Northwood Warminster have successfully completed on the acquisition of Wilsons of Westbury while...

The senior executive who has bought out the lettings side of a Glasgow agency business says increased use of PropTech is...

A controversial new survey claims to have identified the best cities for millennials to live in based on factors such as...

A programme of nine new educational workshops takes place next month, some of which target new agents with little or no experience of deposits...

One of the country’s major Build To Rent providers has signed a deal to deliver 324 flats in a major city...

A new study suggests that rental properties now account for 40 per cent of the available housing stock.  Looking at the final...

A lettings agency has been banned from running an Airbnb let in a residential block. It relates to a block in Glasgow...

The Scottish private lettings sector is on the march again with the latest index suggesting a 2.2 per cent annual rise,...

New figures show that the Scottish rental market returned to growth in September with average growth of 0.1 per cent across...

One of Scotland’s top lettings agents is warning of “an air of criminality” in the rental industry north of the border. His...

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

A new analysis of rental yields across all of the UK’s local authorities has revealed exactly where the best places are for...

A letting agency says it is on course to manage 1,000 properties before it marks its tenth anniversary next year.  Tay Letting,...

An agent has been banned from letting properties under ‘fit and proper person’ legislation in Scotland, following an incident in which...

Build To Rent provider Get Living has revealed plans to invest up to £180m in 756 units in Leeds. Acquired by Get...

Rents in Scotland continue to grow but the rate is slowing according to the latest data from Your Move. The average rental...

Build To Rent developer and operator PLATFORM_ has announced its first scheme in Scotland and an expansion of an existing development...

Rightmove has revealed the locations where prospective tenants have searched for properties on its portal in 2017 - and the winning...

There has been a record number of new student accommodation bed spaces delivered in 2017, with possible consequences for future buy...

The Scottish rental market continued to perform strongly in the year to the end of October with the average property let for £572 on...

A respected letting agency research head says Build To Rent could be a significant step towards solving the overall shortage of...

Purpose-built and professionally-managed Build To Rent - until now seen as a primarily London phenomenon - appears on the march in Scotland...

Uber and a Build To Rent developer have announced a PropTech deal which will see the transport company getting involved in...

A Build To Rent operator with properties in London and Glasgow is scrapping tenants’ deposits from the middle of next month,...

As the end of the academic year approaches, one deposit protection scheme is urging student tenants to reclaim their deposits.  SafeDeposits Scotland...

Scotland’s rental market swings to extremes, suggests the latest figures from website Citylets.   On the one hand the Scottish average rent has...

Average private rents in Scotland at the national level recorded an uncharacteristic dip in the final quarter of 2016, down 0.9...

The managing director of one of the most prominent letting agencies in Edinburgh and Glasgow - where agents’ fees on tenants...

Specialist Build To Rent developer Moda has announced a large scheme on the site of a former police headquarters in Scotland...

Rents are rising faster in northern cities than those in the south, narrowing the divide between the two halves of the...

The BBC is claiming that vulnerable families are being exploited by rogue landlords in Glasgow - including in the constituency for...

Data produced by Scottish lettings agency DJ Alexander Lettings appears to show a growing trend towards long-term letting over buying. The agency,...

The head of a lettings company who kept tenants' deposits worth almost £7,000 has been barred from renting out homes by...

Police in Scotland are clamping down on what they call “gangster landlords” who are using the lettings sector for money laundering.  A...