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Travel Chapter, which owns the high profile Holidaylettings brand, is to float on the London Stock Exchange's junior AIM market. Devon-based Travel...

The short lets sector - already receiving political and community criticism for eroding the wider private rental sector - needs better...

Rental stock has dropped as landlords seek to profit from the staycation boom, Rightmove claims. Data from the portal suggests seaside towns...

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

Airbnb has issued a lengthy statement in response to a recent raft of criticisms about the effects of soaring numbers of...

A tenant who says his former rental property has been turned into an Airbnb has set up a petition demanding Chancellor...

A Conservative MP says he is to declare a “state of housing emergency” in his constituency because of the loss of...

The rate at which holiday let businesses is being set up has more than doubled during the pandemic according to the...

Wales’ Labour-led administration is to announce a three-pronged approach to affordability issues - and it looks likely to involve a clampdown...

A lettings management platform is hitting out at the government over the uncertainty surrounding travel restrictions, because of its impact on...

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 lettings agency in the growing Lomond Group has purchased a rental portfolio on the south coast.  Brand Vaughan has bought the lettings...

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

Councillors from a town council in Wales are to be given an audience with the country’s First Minister to discuss the...

A council with a large number of short let properties within its boundaries is urging owners to convert them to traditional...

Some buy to let mortgages are now more expensive than before for borrowers, despite the recent fall in the Bank of...

Generation Rent - an outspoken organisation sharply critical of lettings agents and many aspects of the private rental sector - is...

[Letting Agent Today was ‘off air’ for some of Wednesday and most of Thursday thanks to technical problems - we apologise to...

Labour is backing new guidelines which ban adverts which can be interpreted as encouraging landlords and home owners to flout restrictions...

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

A holiday lettings company says it’s seen a 23 per cent increase in its portfolio over the past year as owners...

A local authority has written to purchasers of former council houses and apartments warning them against illegally letting them out -...

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

There is a warning that the HMRC’s Let Property campaign, which received huge publicity and attention for some years, has so...

If you’re a landlord who owns a buy to let property or perhaps a portfolio and need to raise money against...

A lender has launched a new product which is thought to be the first mortgage explicitly aimed at borrowers who propose...

The holiday lets market is just starting to pick up and new research shows that 80 per cent of those who...

A leading Conservative peer says the government should cut taxes for buy to let investors and regard them as part of...

The government has been accused by a lettings sector trade body of skewing the market to encourage more short-lets.  The claim comes...

The specialist property investment lender Together is diversifying its product range to cater for investors who want to let out their...

More landlords are quitting conventional letting and resorting to holiday lets or, increasingly, Airbnb-style short lets.    The move is particularly acute in...

Labour MP Karen Buck has introduced a 10-minute Rule Bill in the House of Commons to highlight the dangers of Airbnb-style...

No fewer than 14 ‘pop up brothels’ have been discovered in one seaside town in six months, with all of them...

Local authorities appear to be at the forefront of identifying abuses of the Airbnb short-let platform and have called executives from...

A landlords’ group says the widespread letting of homes in London on Airbnb and similar platforms is worsening the shortage of...

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