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

Over £100m has been invested into a new site that will offer purpose b built accommodation for 713 students beds in...

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...

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...

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

New figures show that post-pandemic rental prices are on the rise across the majority of the capital but that some rents...

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...

Despite rent controls being a vote-catching policy for some local election candidates next week, the reality is that asking rents in...

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

The developers behind the prestigious Television Centre scheme and its nearby White City Place development in west London are showing support...

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...

One of Ed Sheeran’s first massive hits was Lego House. And now, not many years later, it’s been revealed that he’s...

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...

A lettings market snapshot from Rightmove suggests asking rents in London are now increasing at an annual rate not seen for...

Rent-to-rent operator Residently says area with high volumes of tech company employees are leading the lettings market’s growth in London. The firm...

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...

The boss of a lettings agency in London says there is a need for the private rental sector to become more professional...

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

A buy to let expert says there should be stronger enforcement and streamlining of legislation in the private rental sector. In a...

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

The landlord of an overcrowded flat which lacked proper fire precautions and had a dangerous boiler has been fined £162,000. Abbas Rasul...

A London landlord who failed to comply with an Improvement Notice to maintain his property for his tenants has a £4,000-plus...

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

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

A landlord who did not have the required licence for the number of tenants living in his property, and who also...

Three multi-million pound deals will provide over 1,000 new homes specifically for private rent in London, under the government’s Build To...