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More multi-millionaires and billionaires are choosing to rent super-prime homes in London, rather than purchase, reveals a new wealth report Beauchamp Estates’...

A new rental website which claims to list “all available homes for young people in one place” has raised well over...

Lloyds Banking Group, which announced back in 2020 that it was to become involved in the private rental sector, is buying...

Property portal Rightmove has increased its key revenue target in a bullish set of results which shows it has not been...

An agency has issued its rental market forecast for 2024. Chestertons says rents are forecast to have increased by 6.5 per cent...

A webinar is being held tomorrow, aimed to urging agents to get ahead of changes to the industry likely to be...

It looks like more politicians are preparing a U-turn on energy efficiency rules for the private rental sector. Media reports indicate there...

Propertymark has issued a strongly-worded statement aimed at politicians demanding rent controls. Labour Members of the Scottish Parliament have urged the declaration...

Propertymark has told politicians that an additional homes tax will not succeed in increasing housing supply. Timothy Douglas, head of policy and...

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

The prospect of a long-term eviction ban appears to have been lifted in one part of the UK. The Welsh Government is...

Lomond has consolidated its growing foothold in the lettings sector after sealing its biggest acquisition to date in the Midlands. In what...

There may be a substantial number of small-scale private landlords selling up right now, but no fewer than 88 per cent...

A prominent housing expert has told MPs that letting agents could be used to police the standards off homes made available...

Affordability limits have been reached in several regions of the UK, the Home property website suggests. While some regions are still recording...

Senior Labour MP Clive Betts says the party’s official house building policy won’t actually solve the shortage of homes. Labour deputy leader...

A revised code of practice for Right To Rent has been issued to agents and landlords. This sixth revision supersedes the previous...

A Belvoir franchisee has doubled the size of his business by buying out a local independent agency - his third acquisition...

Changes put forward to the Renters Reform Bill to crack down on rogue landlords, protect vulnerable residents and improve the safety of...

Connells has launched what it calls a “pioneering” Rent to Buy scheme to shift apartments in a 163-unit scheme. The agency likens...

Knight Frank has bolstered its prime offering across north London with a new head of lettings in its Hampstead office. Jared Kilgarriff...

Annual rental growth across prime London slowed slightly to 8.1 per cent in October according to property data firm LonRes.  However, rents...

The lettings market shows little sign of slowing as rents rose 11.7 per cent year-on-year across Britain in October, says the...

Husband and wife Daren and Susan Cope, alongside son James and daughter Annie, are bringing their different agencies under one roof. So...

Propertymark wants Housing Secretary Michael Gove to continue with ground rent reforms for leaseholders following the launch of a consultation into this...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Gary Wright - Chief Executive Officer. What is flatfair and what...

The share of homes sold by a landlord in Britain has fallen from 15.7 per cent last year to 14.0 per...

The latest annual report on Build To Rent in London again talks of issues with costs and delivery. A report from the...

Savills has moved into a new office in Bath, occupying over 2,500 square feet in a prominent on a prominent shopping...

The UK lettings market, after experiencing recent surges in prices, is now displaying signs of returning to its seasonal patterns.  This is...

Propertymark says it’s delivering a powerful message to the Scottish Government - despite losing a recent key legal case. The agents trade...

An industry supplier owned by the Leaders Romans Group says the government’s pledge to reform - not replace - leasehold should...

One of the first forecasts for the rental market for 2024 suggests that strong growth will continue. Property consultancy JLL says that...

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says the Renters Reform Bill will be mentioned in today’s King’s Speech - and is part of...

New figures have shown that 2,086 people were found to be sleeping on London’s streets for the first time between July...

An overwhelming number of letting and sales agents back the idea of more so-called Material Information on property details.  That’s according to...

HomeLet claims its new VISTA service will revolutionise the lettings industry by eliminating fraud through the use of detection technology and...

David Wilson Homes has launched a scheme where prospective buyers who can muster a 2.5 per cent deposit can reserve a...

The latest edition of the HomeLet Rental Index shows a near double-digit average annual rent rise across the UK. Renters can now...

The innovative lettings and estate agency Hat and Home has opened its fifth office - and once again it’s an unusual...

Introduction The lettings market is no stranger to the complexities and challenges that come with finding the right tenants for the right...

Average rents in Scotland for new tenancies in the private sector have risen by double digits for the fourth quarter in a...

The cheapest end of the rental market is under-supplied and overly competitive, a deposit alternative service claims. The provider - Zero Deposit...

Some 48 per cent of tenants are currently living with one or more housing disrepair issues, it’s being claimed. The problems include...

A council has launched its own social lettings agency to work with private sector landlords in tackling the record numbers living...

Older private renters must have their voices heard In support of the Renters Reform Bill. That’s the view of Joanna Elson, chief...

One of the players in the controversial Deposit Alternative field is stepping up its case for this kind of service to...

A business consortium is calling for bold measures to encourage landlords and owner occupiers to retrofit their homes, with the introduction...

Harlow council says it wants to take a harder line against agents and landlords who knowingly let unsafe and substandard properties...

A charity claims the Renters Reform Bill, which gets its Second Reading in the Commons next week, will help reduce homelessness. New...

The latest edition of the Home housing index shows Conti suing close links between both the lettings and sales markets. The Home...

The Renters Reform Bill is to get its long awaited Second Reading on Monday, October 23. The claim comes from today’s Financial...

A prominent lettings agent has called for a wider reform of eviction rules. This follows a demand by a group of...

The National Audit Office says the government will soon have to take hard decisions on the future for the Homes For...

Landlords in the UK are paying 40 per cent more mortgage interest than in August 2022, forcing more of them to...

A new director of property has been named by the John Lewis Partnership, to lead its controversial Build To Rent initiative. Martin...

The government has changed the way shared ownership rents can be increased. This change will apply to the leases of new shared...

Government data shows that as of 2022 some 15.29 per cent of homes in England are privately rented, with 14.9 per...

UK consumers feel worse off than a year ago, but remain relatively optimistic about the property . That’s the conclusion of a...

Propertymark has urged the government to take the potential Help to Buy ‘timebomb’ seriously. The news comes as London lettings agent Benham...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Louis Musgrove – Group Managing Director   What is Southernbrook Lettings and...

Propertymark has called on the government to reintroduce the Empty Homes Programme following the latest news that England has a growing...

A Bristol estate agent has hit the acquisition trail, snapping up a local independent. Bristol Property Centre Estate Agents, which is situated...

A PR exercise has discovered that 89 per cent of UK MPs would not give priority to Build-to-Rent schemes in their...

Five councils are delivering what they call “a ground-breaking project” aimed at improving the experience and environment for landlords and tenants...

Landlords wanting to make a healthy return from their investment should target student properties in the North of England and Scotland,...

Propertymark has fired a broadside at Labour saying it must provide agents with a proper court system to handle evictions. Labour deputy leader...

Media reports in Brighton say that a lettings agency which serve tenants with illegal eviction notices and unjustified legal threats has...

Propertymark has urged Labour to licence letting agents under its plans to ‘fundamentally reform the private rented sector’. The trade body also...

Labour deputy leader and shadow housing secretary Angela Rayner has given her party’s conference an outline of future policy plans. She says:...

Rental growth in prime regional markets has started to slow, following runaway growth over the past three years. That’s the view from...

A new manifesto calling for rent controls and a raft of other measures is accusing the current rent rises of being...

Prime London markets are proving more resilient to rising interest rates than their mainstream equivalents, says Savills. Prices in prime central London...

Moving overseas can be an exciting yet stressful endeavour. As international removals experts who have been helping people emigrate abroad for...

At a time when the agency industry is being wooed by new self employed business models, a new survey suggests most...

Propertymark has cautiously welcomed the Nationwide’s house price index showing a 5.3 per cent fall in the year to September. It says...

Local media in one of Britain’s busiest cities for rentals says tenants have been left in tears as a result of...

A leading lettings agency and property consultancy has revealed that it anticipate stronger-than-expected rental growth this year and next in prime...

Spicerhaart is setting up a remote centralised lettings management service which it says will operate “from Cardiff to Colchester, and Birmingham...

An industry body - the Property Energy Professionals Association - has condemned the Prime Minister’s abandonment of Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards...

The Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities says a new How To Rent guide will be issued today, October 2. Letting...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors is launching its manifesto at this week’s Tory party conference - and improving the supply...

The lettings chief in a prominent regional agency says she’s delighted that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has done a dramatic U-turn...

Property consultancy Knight Frank is beefing up its super prime lettings team.  Amy Pritchard has joined as Senior Lettings Negotiator in the...

Young couples are delaying marriage and starting families until they get out of the rental sector, research by Yorkshire Building Society...

Housing Secretary Michael Gove will address the main Conservative party Conference on Tuesday morning next week - but perhaps his most...

A lettings service called Smarter Rent is partnering with agents and developers to provide what it calls ”“an innovative property rental...

An estimated seven million UK households are struggling to keep up with their rent or mortgage payments, Which? warns, with millions...

Airbnb has taken the unusual step of buying space on an influential Labour Party website, just ahead of the party’s conference. Amanda...

It’s getting worse - the supply-demand mismatch in the rental sector is now “drastic” says Propertymark. The number of new prospective tenants...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Emma Parsons, Head of Partnership Development What is flatfair and what...

Shelter has published what it calls a General Election manifesto with rent controls at its heart. Called The Way Home: a manifesto to...

A prominent agent has called on politicians to scrap the Renters Reform Bill . He says it’s “ill thought-through and would be...

Propertymark has given strong support to the government’s “flexible and affordable” approach to the green policy agenda,  Timothy Douglas, Head of Policy...

The Scottish Government is proposing to give local councils the discretion to charge Council Tax premiums of up to 100 per...

A leading agent has welcomed the dramatic U turn by the government on how it is to meet its net zero...

Fewer than one in five homeowners support the government’s plans to ban gas boilers in new homes by 2025, with 83...

The chief executive of Propertymark has reiterated his call for the government to make investment in buy to let attractive. Nathan Emerson says:...

The Times is reporting that a delay to the controversial ban on gas boilers is being considered by the government as...

The UK’s housing market is increasingly driven by older, affluent home owners with younger generations squeezed out.  That’s the view of data...