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A seasoned lettings expert has been taken on to boost the success of an agency branch in Surrey. James Clarke, with 25...

A five year old consumer reviews website has been acquired by Rightmove. Homeviews was set up in 2019 and at the time...

The gap between typical City rents and Country rents is closing according to an analysis of Countrywide properties by the company’s...

Research by Hamptons International shows that since the end of the spring lockdown and the reopening of the rental market, affluent...

Hamptons International has given a rental market forecast for 2021 - and it doesn’t make for happy reading. The agency says the rental...

New research from Countrywide brand Hamptons International suggest tenants are joining vendors in a trend towards leaving cities and heading for more...

One in eight homes coming onto the rental market in inner London since May has previously been an Airbnb or other...

New data from Hamptons International reveals that in June the average rent on a newly let property in Britain dipped 0.6...

The research department of Countrywide’s Hamptons International brand says the stamp duty holiday introduced yesterday on homes selling for £500,000 or...

New figures show that typical capital gains for buy to let investors are on the way down. Hamptons International says that landlords...

Rents on renewed tenancies across Great Britain fell 1.6 per cent in May, the third consecutive monthly fall.   Data from Hamptons International...

The buy-to-let market has grown significantly in recent years as long-term renting becomes more popular and investors continue to see the...

Rents on renewed tenancies fell for the second month in a row according to data from Hamptons International.   In April the average...

A consumer charity has been blasted by a landlords' trade body for making “irresponsible” claims about tenants and the Coronavirus crisis. Research...

Seven out of 10 tenancies that were due to end in March were renewed according to Hamptons International - the highest...

A new renovation start-up is working with letting agents and landlords to allow key workers to use empty rental properties for...

The proportion of homes bought last month by buy to let investors plummeted to a record low of just eight per...

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

Cynics who rejected claims that landlords would quit the buy to let sector because of increasing bureaucracy and higher taxes may...

It’s back - the five-a-side football tournament which made its successful debut last year with teams from the agency and property...

The average cost of a rental home in Great Britain rose to £999 pcm in December according to figures just released...

Research from Hamptons International suggests that millennials are paying a lower proportion of the total rental burden in Britain than a...

Countrywide has calculated that with many landlords exiting the buy to let market, the number of homes available to rent has...

Rental growth in Great Britain picked up throughout 2019 according to Countrywide.   In an analysis of the market released under the name...

The average rent of a newly let property in Great Britain rose to £999 pcm in October according to data from...

The proportion of homes in Great Britain let by overseas based landlords is 11 per cent, up from seven per cent...

Countrywide’s high-end Hamptons International brand says it’s growing its lettings business “ethically and sustainably, regardless of market conditions.” It has ended the...

Countrywide’s monthly rental index - based on achieved rather than advertised rents on newly let properties - says the average rent...

In addition to the apparent collapse of Upad at the weekend, there has been unconfirmed speculation about redundancies at a second...

Data from Countrywide estate agents analysed by Hamptons International reveals that the average rent of a newly-let property in the UK...

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

With the recent introduction of the Tenant Fees Act – which bans upfront fees charged by letting agents and caps security...

If you want a barometer of a stable lettings market, this appears to be it - rents are now rising at...

It took an average of just 20 days to let a home between January and July this year according to a...

Rental growth continues to accelerate, reaching the highest level since April 2016 according to data from Hamptons International, part of Countrywide.   The...

Some 12 per cent of homes to let are operated by a ‘company landlord’ according to an analysis by Countrywide high-end...

The average cost of a new let in Great Britain has risen to £977 per calendar month.  That’s a 2.6 per cent...

New figures out this morning show that the over-50s are becoming a larger part of the rental market.  So far this year...

A number of industry experts have warned letting agents and landlords to prepare for a surge in tenants moving property once...

The typical landlord who sold a rental property in England and Wales made a gross gain of £79,770 before tax last...

Data from a Countrywide agency shows that 59 per cent of landlords who live in London purchased their buy to let...

The average cost of a new let in Great Britain is now £969 pcm as rental growth continues to rise.  Data from Hamptons...

The proportion of landlords purchasing buy to let homes in London with cash rose from 33 per cent in 2017 to...

Countrywide’s upmarket lettings and sales brand, Hamptons International, has launched branded taxis in celebration of its 150th birthday.  The taxis will operate...

Private tenants in Britain in 2018 paid £59.1 billion on rent - that’s £1.9 billion less than in 2017 and the...

Rents are likely to rise 2.5 per cent in 2019, then 3.0 per cent in 2020 and a further 2.0 per...

The proportion of homes let by an overseas based landlord has more than halved in the last eight years according to...

So-called ‘real rents’ - those adjusted for inflation - have fallen by 2.2 per cent since October 2008.   This means that the...

New data from Countrywide’s luxury brand agency Hamptons International says the average price of a home bought by a landlord in...

Countrywide says landlords spent £12.1 billion buying rental properties in the first half of this year - a full 30 per...

HomeLet says the average rent in the UK is now £947, up 0.9 per cent on last year - or up...

The latest figures produced by Countrywide show a slow rise in rents across most of the country with the notable exception of...

The proportion of landlords of British buy to let properties who are themselves based overseas has fallen to a record low...

Startling figures from the Countrywide high-end brand Hamptons International show how tough it is for young people to buy. The agency says...

Data from Countrywide’s Hamptons International agency suggests that the number of second homes that were rented rather than purchased last year...

The latest major piece of research into the private rental sector is forecasting a huge surge in demand - meaning there...

There are now five per cent fewer homes to let now than two years ago, says Countrywide in its rebranded Hamptons...

Countrywide’s Hamptons International is to work with a PropTech firm to try out a no-deposit lettings scheme in four of its offices. Hamptons’...

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

One of Countrywide’s high-end brands, Hamptons International, is launching its first app to give landlords and tenants “a single integrated point...

Only just over a week remains before the end of the formal consultation on the government’s proposal to ban letting fees...

Twenty agency groups have backed a call by the Association of Residential Letting Agents urging the government to extend or scrap its...

Movebubble, a firm which has in the past offered renters a service where someone attends viewings on their behalf - has...

Hamptons International and Day Morris have been appointed as joint lettings agents for London’s first bespoke Build To Rent scheme.   Vantage Point...

Kate Eales has been appointed by Strutt & Parker as its new national head of lettings, moving across from Hamptons International...

A buy to let investment search portal has produced an interactive map based on a pull-together of research into the lettings market...

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

Louise Griffiths, currently a board member on the Association of Residential Letting Agents, has joined Romans as director of the agency’s...

Future demand for rental property looks secure if Hamptons International's latest research is accurate - it says a typical single Londoner...

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