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The rush for space to work and relax at home will still dominate the rental market for the short term at...

The letting agents’ trade body has issued a warning to landlords that short lets may provide quick profits - but they...

Campaign group Generation Rent, led by former Labour Baroness Alicia Kennedy, has renewed its call for the scrapping of Section 21...

A statement from ARLA Propertymark has hinted that it believes politicians may be out of touch with the reality of how...

Tenants are paying almost £70bn of rent to landlords a year, research claims. Buy-to-let specialist Sequre Property Investment has found the best...

Landlords in Wales have been told that rules giving tenants six months’ notice to vacate a property will remain in place...

The former home of The Yorkshire Post has been turned into a new build-to-rent property by Grainger. The building, one of Leeds’...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I’m Vince Demilio, Sales Director of The Lettings Hub What services...

The lettings arm of a leading Edinburgh-based property portal has reported a surge of Edinburgh properties being rented on the same...

An industry poll has revealed that tech is now so important in our lives that a fifth of UK tenants say...

It’s been announced that UK Sotheby’s International Realty has secured tenants for 20 apartments in record time at Embassy Gardens, a...

Private tenants and landlords across the country face a cliff edge as the end of furlough coincides with cuts to benefit...

An estate and lettings agent has analysed how the level of rental arrears has grown between each wave of the pandemic. The...

Build to rent providers are taking the lead against private rental sector homes by advertising developments as pet-friendly.  Research by furnishings provider...

A £360 million wall of rental debt built up during the pandemic, combined with cuts to Universal Credit, threatens to leave...

The end of the stamp duty holiday, which was introduced in July 2020, is now only a few weeks away. The upcoming...

It’s an exciting time when prospective tenants show an interest in your listed property. However, it's important not to let that...

Propertymark has called for a return of mortgage interest relief and a review of landlord taxes to boost the rental sector. The...

New laws to limit rent increases to once a year in Northern Ireland have moved a step closer and lettings agents...

Agents are being invited to take part in a free online wellbeing programme. PropTech company Rlet has partnered with wellbeing experts to...

Almost half of renters in England have been victims of illegal behaviour from landlords or lettings agents, Shelter claims. The stark allegations...

The chancellor Rishi Sunak has been urged to make it more attractive for landlords to invest in the private rental sector. Sunak...

One in four homes in the UK has a potentially dangerous gas appliance, new research claims. Analysis of inspection figures by Gas...

Landlords are being reminded of their responsibilities for gas safety checks on properties being rented to tenants. Gas Safety Week runs from...

One of the country’s largest commercial and retail landlords - Capital & Regional - is to expand is current programme of...

The farcical implementation of the government’s Green Homes Grant scheme has been sharply criticised by Propertymark. Timothy Douglas, the organisation’s policy and...

A PropTech platform which uses Open Banking to help with tenant due diligence has raised another £1m in funding. Homeppl - which...

Rents in some of the most popular locations of the country have risen 25 per cent in the past year according...

Does this photo drive you mad? Do you see it everywhere (including on Letting Agent Today stories)?  Who are these people and...

A new idea put forward by a student-focussed Build To Rent operator is likely to increase the momentum behind campaigners wanting...

The lettings market continues to boom, with HomeLet’s latest index showing average UK rents at a record high for the third...

A new trend developing in prime central London suggests that tenants are demanding smaller properties - and that’s despite the pandemic...

Leaders Romans Group has completed the purchase of Dewhurst Lettings in Swindon - the latest in its acquisition programme announced earlier...

A council has just launched it own publicly-funded lettings agency and wants private landlords to sign up. The 'Your Choice' lettings agency,...

Pressure is growing to amend the 2019 Tenant Fees Act to allow charging additional deposits and insurance to cover pets in private rental...

The agency My Property Box has completed the acquisition of established North Yorkshire letting agent WardHorne – its sixth such deal...

Let Tech Solutions, a PropTech firm which now works with more than half of all property managers in Scotland, is expanding...

An agency says its bizarre list of items left behind by departing tenants shows how many renters actually appear to keep pets. A...

A council has written to Housing Minister Chris Pincher calling for a new approach to the short lets issue. Oxford council leader...

The government has updated its formal guidance to letting agents and landlords on Right To Rent. This sets out the continuation of online...

A lettings agent has taken the unorthodox approach of advising tenants to take their landlords to court in a bid to...

Data from Leaders Romans Group shows that lettings attracted 5,941 requests for viewings in June – an average of 42 per...

Virtual Right To Rent checks by agents, which were to have been illegal from just next week, are now permissible until...

As the summer begins to draw to a close and the letting market regains its stride, attention is turning to the...

The value of the Private Rented Sector in England, Wales and Scotland grew by 5.8 per cent to a jaw dropping...

A part of the country which has seen a severe long term rental stock shortage as a result of switches from...

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

One HMO had 78 viewings while in the same city a £7,000 rental property was let after just one day of...

New rules out for consultation concerning block management aim to improve professionalism across the sector, root out rogue agents, and increase...

Demand for private rental housing is now at a five year high according to the National Residential Landlords Association. In the association’s...

Senior managers in the lettings and sales side of independent chain Spicerhaart are reducing their carbon footprint by taking up the...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I’m Heidi Shackell, CEO of The Lettings Hub. How has your...

The tide is turning for the London rental market at last according to data from the Benham and Reeves lettings agency. In...

How up to date is your knowledge on notice periods, pets in rentals, electrical safety inspections and lodgers? This year we’ve...

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

A survey of some 600 agents and landlords by the Tenancy Deposit Scheme has revealed the most popular cause of deposit...

An analysis of new government legislation on energy efficiency suggests it may lead to chaos in the private rental sector. Geospatial technology...

One of the largest new additional licensing schemes for HMOs anywhere in the country is set to come into force in...

A housing market analyst is warning of "one heck of a dark cloud on the horizon for the lettings market” as...

A study by Hamptons shows that so far this year 10 per cent of new tenancies have been taken by someone...

New data from Connells-owned agency Hamptons shows that nationally the rate of annual rental growth moderated slightly last month. Rents across Britain rose...

Another index is showing that a scarcity of rental properties has prompted a rise in every single region of Britain -...

The Property Ombudsman and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors are seeking views of agents, landlords and tenants on a new...

Agents and landlords are being warned that the Fire Safety Act 2021 will make a huge impact on their responsibilities -...

Prop Home, a new online property management and lettings agency, pledges to “transform the way rented homes are managed on behalf...

Over a quarter of lettings and estate agents say sustainability is just a box-ticking exercise and only one in nine have...

The Furnished versus Unfurnished debate in the rental sector has been going on for years but new research attempts to quantify...

A consultation is to begin next month regarding the designation of an entire city as a Short Term Let Control Area. If...

Flats, so long the favourite of buy to let investors, still constitute 15 per cent of all homes purchased according to...

A lettings agent who has made a series of outbursts against landlords and councils, has now turned his anger on proposed...

A new £40m Build To Rent scheme has opened in Leeds city centre. The Headline, from Grainger, features 242 new homes and...

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

Agents will be aware that demand for rental property is high right now - so a property consultancy has worked out...

The lettings market in London and the Home Counties continued its journey back towards normality in July according to data from...

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

The average rent in the UK is now at a record high of £1,029, up 6.6 per cent on the same time last year,...

Student rent has increased almost 20 per cent over the last year.  In data released as part of the 2021 NatWest Student...

Barbon Insurance Group, which already owns Let Alliance and HomeLet, has now acquired PropTech platform Rent4sure. Luke Burton, Rent4sure’s chief operating officer,...

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

Agents using Reapit now have access to tenant due diligence and guarantee firm Homeppl, which will assist in combating rental fraud. Homeppl...

A buying agency says it’s seen what it calls “a huge uptake in furnished lettings requests” following recent floods in London,...

A Labour council leader has hit after being attacked for his support for buy to let and property investment. Last week we...

There’s a warning today that office-to-resi conversions - popular with landlords in recent years - are at an increased risk of...

London-based buy to let purchasers in the first half of the year have looked outside the capital in high numbers according...

The Merthyr Tydfil branch of sales and lettings agency Martin & Co has completed a second acquisition in 12 months –...

Two PropTech companies say tenant fraud - reported to be a growing problem in buy to let - is now an...

Propertymark has joined four so-called ‘action groups’ advocating housing policy changes including the setting up of a national landlord register and...

Principle Estate Management has won another major contract - completing the firm’s transformation from little more than a one man band...

A PropTech company has revealed what letting agent hate and love most about their work. On the plus side the RentProfile platform’s...

Flexible working for letting agents, so much a part of activities for the past 18 months, is here to stay according...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? My name is Maxine Fothergill and for the past ‘almost’...

A letter from a tenant’s union is demanding that a Labour councillor “publicly explain” his actions as an accountant advising investors...

A town with one of the UK’s heaviest concentrations of holiday homes is clamping down on future purchases by outsiders who...

A new report calls for large scale reform of the private rental sector, including a national landlord register and changes to...

A respected buy to let mortgage monitor is suggesting that investors in the sector may be more successful if they allow...

A leading private rental trade body says only bespoke financial help can ensure the private rental sector meets government energy efficiency...

The latest version of the government’s guidance to agents over how to operate during the continuing pandemic suggests that virtual viewings...

The franchisee of a new Martin & Co branch in his hometown has opened with the recruitment of five new staff. Hamza...

There’s a new warning the rental fraud could be on the rise. Due diligence firm Homeppl says the combination of possible job...

There’s a call for agents to free up valuable time by ensuring Right To Rent checks are automated rather than performed...

The capital appreciation of the past year proves that there’s no better investment than bricks and mortar, according to an agency...

A new £10m scheme to help renters with Covid-related arrears has been launched in Wales.  Called the Tenancy Hardship Grant, and introduced...

Californian PropTech firm Trov, specialising in digital insurance for tenants, has announced a deal with major UK rental companies.  The deal is...

There may be bad news for agencies with reliance on office workers who rent - a new survey suggests 10 per...

The rental sector bounce back in London and the Home Counties is now underway according to Knight Frank. The agency forecasts rental...

A Bill is being introduced into both Houses of Parliament this week which will ramp up the pressure on the private...

Last week the tax firm Blick Rothenberg advised John Lewis and Lloyds Bank to stay out of the private rental sector...

A 360-degree virtual tour supplier says there’s been a 600 per cent increase in use of the technology since late 2019...

A new estimate put the value of the UK private rental sector at almost £1.4 trillion. Buy to let and investment consultancy...

A controversial lettings agent who has set up a business to sell rental insurance has accused landlords of not taking their...

A prominent member of the House of Lords and a rental activist are calling for an immediate suspension of all Section...

Propertymark says new figures detailing the costs of energy efficiency improvements in the private rental sector show the need for a...

A supplier of virtual viewings claims each property’s physical viewings cost £233 of an agent’s time on average - and that’s...

Record tenant demand and record-fast lettings have combined to create an average asking rent above £1,000 per calendar month for homes...

Rapidly rising rents may trigger a new wave of investment buyers in London, helping to resuscitate the capital’s sales market in...

Supermarket chains like John Lewis and banks like Lloyds - both entering the private rental sector as large scale landlords -...

A lettings agency is using its latest podcast to explore the retail-to-resi trend in the housing market. Winkworth’s podcast under The Property...

New guidance has been issued to agents as the government confirms that most remaining Coronavirus restrictions are to be lifted from...

The UK Association of Letting Agents trade body is warning of “widespread evictions” unless government support is offered to tenants. UKALA chairman...

ARLA Propertymark has hit back at a demand from London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan that he be given the powers to...

Across Great Britain the pace of rental growth continued to climb in June, with rents rising 8.5 per cent year-on-year. The data...

Connells-owned high end agency Hamptons has declared the bottom of the rental market for Inner London, saying it’s now on the...

The latest English Housing Survey shows a dramatic rise in the energy efficiency of private rental property. Some 38 per cent of...

For the first time since the beginning of the pandemic rents across all prime London regions saw a return to positive...

There was much publicity this week for the efforts of the Welsh Government to deter the letting of second homes. Now it...

As we slowly ease out of lockdown and back to something closer to normality, some legacies of the pandemic will be...

Two well known PropTech providers to the lettings sector have announced they have now fully integrated their technology, meaning users of...

Rental demand has started to return to the majority of major UK cities during the second quarter of this year, with...

Average rents in London declined during the second quarter of 2021, according to the latest market snapshot from the  Deposit Protection...

Yet another buy to let lender has released new products aiming to push the sector into more environmentally-friendly properties.  The Foundation Home...

London’s rental market gathered momentum in June as tenants anticipated a return to the office with 24 per cent more tenancies...

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

A firm creating an app showing live streams of properties to let or for sale claims one agency attracted 18 offers...

The John Lewis Partnership has released more details of an ambitious plan to build and furnish private rental properties. In a bid...

The average UK rent now stands at a record £1,007 per calendar month - the highest ever, according to HomeLet. It’s up...

A politician is stepping up his bid to ban buy to let purchasers acquiring any units at a 150-home scheme. ITV News...

Demand continues to build in prime lettings markets in London and the Home Counties, with Knight Frank data showing the number...

A fund instituted by Airbnb to help compensate for the effects of short let accommodation should be extended, local politicians say. In...

It doesn’t seem that long ago that 2D floorplans were considered cutting edge – but it’s safe to say they’re now...

A new £10m grant will be introduced in part of the UK to help private rented tenants struggling to pay rent...

Deposit alternative firm flatfair has teamed up with an accommodation service to supply short lets. Users who find short lets through the...

The narrative from some activists and pressure groups is that private renting is some kind of ordeal endured by those who...

A lettings agent who wants tenants to take out policies to fund complaints against agencies and landlords has branded the social...

The government has launched an online checker in a bid to avoid disputes between landlords and tenants over the entitlement for...

The man behind a PropTech supplier of virtual tours says he wants to get every listing in the UK’s lettings and...

The Leaders Romans Group has identified four locations which it says have come into their own since the working-from-home craze started...

High profile London lettings agency Chestertons says there’s been an increase in Hong Kong residents looking to rent a home in...

Cornish MPs have spoken up in the House of Commons to highlight what they claim is the danger of having too...

A politician in one of the poorest parts of the UK wants his local authority to declare a ‘housing emergency’. Cornish councillor...

A proposal for one of the country’s largest ever private rental sector licensing schemes has gone out to consultation. Manchester’s Labour council...

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

ESTAS has announced that SDL Property Auctions has become an executive partner for the 2021 Forum and Awards sponsored by Coadjute. In...

Over the last 15 months (basically since the ‘c’ word entered our daily vocabulary) agent websites has become more crucial than...

The man behind an early version of deposit replacement for the private rental sector has now set up a service encouraging...

A PropTech company says sloppy referencing by agents and landlords effectively means that around a third of prospective tenants are discriminated...

Tomorrow sees the start of a three-day debate over the extension of the eviction ban in Scotland - and Propertymark appears...

The government has extended the ‘special arrangements’ for Right To Rent checks - these will now be in force until September...

Almost 40,000 people have signed a petition urging rent caps for private tenants and hefty tax rises for second home owners. The...

Baroness Alicia Kennedy has accused the government of hypocrisy over its diverging approach to evictions for commercial and residential tenants. On Wednesday...

ARLA Propertymark says letting agents have a vital role to play in highlighting the rights of private rental sector tenants. The comment...

Ringley Group has secured the UK’s largest apartment complex to be managed by leaseholders as a franchisee client.  The Century Wharf Estate...

There’s a large scale recovery underway in London’s rental sector according to the website Home. The site says that while average rents...

Propertymark has joined forces with the likes of Generation Rent and Shelter to step up the campaign for the provision of...

Police were called to a protect outside a lettings firm in Oxfordshire after a crowd picketed the office over a dispute...

A PropTech firm that manufactures virtual tours claims the feature can increase the asking rents of properties listed. Digital company U-See Homes...

PropTech firm Goodlord is to offer illness and injury insurance to tenants  via a link with Legal & General.  Goodlord already sells...

Rental growth accelerated in May to reach a new record high according to Connells-owned lettings agency Hamptons.   Last month the average cost...

A property investment platform has taken the unusual approach of accusing the government of driving up homelessness through its policy of...

It is now cheaper to rent a home than buy one - the first time this has been the case since...

A grace period for Right To Rent changes following Britain’s exit from the EU expires at the end of this month. And...

ARLA Propertymark has thrown its weight behind a call for HMRC to extend the time limit for the payment of Capital...

Areas of the country which appear to have had a surplus of rental stock in the past is now reporting a...

A survey of property professionals and IT experts across a range of industries has revealed that better remote working technology is...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? That's very retro - I have not had one of...

Spicerhaart is restructuring its lettings activities to include more working-from-home, mirroring what it’s done to its sales side in the past...

A new Lancashire estate agency, Jusa Homes, has opened new premises thanks to a £10,000 local council grant.  Julie Hardy and Sarah...

The prime London rental market is still in the doldrums but the rent falls are less pronounced than before.  Knight Frank says...

The latest rental market snapshot produced by HomeLet shows average rents outside of London soaring to higher levels and dropping in the capital itself.  The...

The online lettings platform Mashroom has set out a list of guidelines it’s offering to prospective tenants to avoid them falling...

Some low-cost energy efficiency improvements to a property could boost its EPC rating according to an analysis undertaken by Rightmove. The portal...

The increasingly strong rental market is set to last throughout summer and beyond according to the latest analysis by PropTech platform...

A branch of The Property Franchise Group’s Martin & Co brand is stopping potential tenants from booking a physical tour of...

We’re only a little over a week away from the Euros, happening at last a year later than scheduled because of...

Labour’s Lucy Powell, the party’s new housing spokesperson, says she wants to work with the Conservatives to scrap Section 21 eviction...

A global ban on parties in Airbnb properties, started back in August last year, has been extended until the end of...

The president of the Law Society of England and Wales says tenants facing eviction as a result of the ban being...

A council is offering free training to letting agents, via online courses starting next Monday. Dorset council says it wants to work...

A London council has secured banning orders against rogue property agents who were previously fined over £70,000 for letting an unlicensed...

An outspoken property investor has launched an online petition on the government website to oppose the threat of rent controls. YouTube influencer...

A major student accommodation platform says its local area has become a regeneration hotspot for proper investment. UniHomes says Sheffield has already...

There are just two weeks left for letting agents to register with HM Revenue & Customs if they want to be...

Campaign group Generation Rent has set out a 10-point plan for reform of the private rental sector in favour of tenants. Its...

Another report by the campaigning charity Shelter is critical of the quality of Britain’s private rental sector - and indeed the...

Research by the British Property Federation shows that 6,937 new Build To Rent homes won full planning permission in the first...

After a recent incident involving an Estate Agent based in Devon in which a property virtual tour they published revealed a...

Landlords spend an estimated £839m each year upgrading newly purchased rental property before letting it out to tenants, helping to drive-up...

Hunters - now subsumed into The Property Franchise Group - has opened a new branch in Bicester.  The new branch follows a...

North London agency Home Minders has acquired independent lettings and sales business Alan Goldin Estates. This transaction is Home Minder’s third acquisition,...

The Home Staging Association has launched a course for agents on how to dress and prepare properties for maximum effect when...

There’s been a huge 263 per cent increase in the value of fraudulent tenant applications in just three months, it’s been...

Propertymark has produced new guidance for letting agents in the wake of the latest step on the roadmap out of Covid restrictions. It says:...

Fresh data from Knight Frank shows how uncertainty continues to dog the lettings market in some parts of central London. There appears...

PropTech start up Halo claims that what it calls a new “tenant engagement platform” will streamlines the rental onboarding process. The firm...

A referencing service provider has launched a portal designed to improve commission-based revenue streams for letting agents.  Vouch says its Home Move...

TM Group and sales progression solution mio have signed up as partners for the 2021 ESTAS Forum & Awards, sponsored by...

Lettings agency Hamptons says there’s been “an unprecedented fall” in the number of rental homes on the market, leading to double-digit...

The five years since the introduction of the three per cent stamp duty surcharge on additional homes has led to a...

The Home Office has told agents and landlords that Right To Rent checks can continue to be conducted via video calls...

Halo.rent, a proptech startup from the UK, announces the launch of its tenant engagement platform that streamlines the entire rental onboarding...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card?  Bal Arora – Managing Director In your experience, what is the...

The head of the tenants’ campaign group Generation Rent has condemned the government as “reckless” for ending the eviction ban on May...

The city centre rental market, considered to be one of the industry’s losers during the worst of the pandemic, is beginning...

The government’s pledge to introduce a lifetime deposits concept, theoretically making it easier and cheaper for tenants to move, has been...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Jack Reid Founding Director of Orlando Reid  In your experience,...

The most vocal campaign group for tenants, Generation Rent, has warned government that renters have already been waiting two years for...

London lettings agency Kalmar is thought to be the first to use the increasingly-fashionable social media platform TikTok to let and...

A leading banking and wealth management company says a growth area for the rental sector in the years to come will...

The government has confirmed that reform of the private rental sector will be a priority for the coming session of Parliament. A...

Today’s Queen’s Speech, setting out the government’s legislative programme for the next year, is expected to include rental reform. It’s thought one...

A prominent London Conservative MP has made a scathing attack on the current rental sector’s structure, saying it is skewed in...

Even before the pandemic, the estate agency sector was evolving considerably as a younger generation started buying, selling and letting homes,...

A scheme being proposed in Northern Ireland has been branded as a threat to letting agents. The Northern Ireland Executive is considering...

The latest HomeLet market index shows that the average rent in the UK is now at a record high of £996...

The highest profile agency in the big-spending Lomond Group has sealed a trio of deals in the first week of April...

An agency which has for the past 11 years specialised in south west London is now expanding with a new office...

Labour’s candidate for London Mayor wants to control private rents - and he wants the capital to be a template for...

Propertymark has waded in to the debate over flood prevention measures in the UK:il it wants insurance for homeowners and landlords faced...

The first short lets sector trade bodies’ conference since 2019 is to be held in London on September 14. The conference -...

A new analysis of the private rental sector suggests it was reducing in size for some years before the pandemic. Nationwide’s specialist...

A lettings agency director has been issued with a Criminal Behaviour Order for unlawfully evicting a tenant back in 2019. CFDP Ltd, trading as...

Yorkshire’s Verity Frearson lettings and sales company has unveiled a new fleet of electric vehicles, and says it is the first agency...

Affordable homes provider Auxesia Homes has appointed residential management firm Touchstone to handle its entire mixed tenure portfolio.  Auxesia offers affordable shared...

Councils are failing to protect tenants in three out of four cases where they discover rental homes are unsafe, according to...

The managing director of Fixflo, Rajeev Nayyar, says the pandemic has changed the context in which agents should view tenants’ complaints. In...

Crowdhaus, which describes its product as a property discovery app, has secured almost £200,000 to take the next step forward following...

A letting agent in Cornwall has told local TV how she finds herself in ”heartbreaking” situations because of the lack of...

A Manchester-based lettings agency has won a long-term deal with one of the UK’s most prominent Build To Rent operators.  Ascend Properties...

A block management company owned by the Leaders Romans Group has been awarded over £6.5m in government building safety funds to...

Real estate fund management company Moorfield has teamed up with PropTech company Bricklane to buy a portfolio of 2,000 homes to...

ARLA Propertymark says there should be a long term appropriately funded strategy to help the private rental sector and home owners...

The State Opening of Parliament will take place on Tuesday May 11, with many expecting this to be when the government confirms...

A leading veterinary body - the National Office of Animal Health, or NOAH - wants pets to be allowed in private rental...

The Canterbury branch of national sales and lettings agency Martin & Co has a new owner. Angie Collins has taken on the...

The two letting agents’ trade groups have backed a call for more upfront information to be given to prospective renters. The National...

Letting agents are not required to conduct retrospective Right to Rent verification on tenants who had a Covid-adjusted check since March...

A property company and its director will have to shell out £10,000 after a blaze left six tenants homeless in the...

There’s a new driver in the lettings market - the need for a flexible location and property type. Market consultancy TwentyCi says...

Booming demand for homes in commuter zones and well-connected towns is causing a mini-boom in the lettings market. That’s the view of...

Greater Manchester’s Labour Mayor, Andy Burnham, says he wants to clamp down on the private rental sector. In his manifesto for next month’s...

Virtual tour suppliers have been keen to reassure agents that there need be no repeat of problems which befell a Devon agent. Fowlers,...

A regional agency group is providing training courses free of charge to members “for the foreseeable future.” The training - usually heavily...

Lettings franchise giant Hunters has struck a commercial deal with a geospatial technology firm. The partnership offers immediate access to Kamma’s full...

More students would like to see utility charges integrated into the overall costs of their accommodation, according to a specialist lettings...

A group of rental campaign bodies have come together to claim that some 694,000 tenants apparently face eviction when the current...

The Home website has produced its latest rental market snapshot - and once again London is the odd region out compared...

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has issued updated guidance to include the recent extension of the bailiff enforcement...

Letting agents body ARLA Propertymark has joined the criticism of London Mayor Sadiq Khan who wants to be given the power...

Kevin Hollinrake, who until recently was the chairman of Hunters, has been named in an article about Tory MPs who have...

London rents have started to fall again - just as every other region of Britain is showing significant annual increases. Figures for...

Rent guarantees and upfront cash payments from local authorities are the most effective means of opening the private rented sector to...

Winkworth says its London rental activities have suffered because of a lack of international travel, and students and young professionals returning to...

As debate rages about whether pets should be allowed in more private rental properties, a senior house building figure has spoken up for...

It’s not just the owner occupier whose property demands have changed radically because of the pandemic - a new survey suggests...

The property market has performed strongly in recent months  as the impact of the pandemic has encouraged more people to move...

Agents and other industry players have penned an open letter to government demanding a radical overhaul of targets for energy efficiency in the...

Average rents across the UK have risen for the fourth time in as many months according to the HomeLet index. Typical rent...

London lettings and estate agency Benham and Reeves has calculated a league table of the most popular postcodes in the capital...

Letting agency My Property Box is moving into property sales as part of a significant expansion of its business. The decision follows...

Some 39 agents and landlords have had banning orders over the past three years according to a report in The Guardian. Under the...

Knight Frank is this year’s headline sponsor of the LandAid Sleep Out, one of the causes many in the industry support. This...

FirstPort, the residential property services provider, has teamed up with The Turing Trust to help equip a new computer lab at...

The government has told estate agents to ensure at least one Union Jack is present in properties during both physical and...

One of the London boroughs synonymous with wealth has revealed that 44 per cent of its housing stock is now actually...

Lettings agency Intus Lettings has announced the opening of a new Sheffield office — its first base in Yorkshire. The Sheffield office...

Targeting the specialist student rental market can be rewarding for letting agents and landlords if they take the right approach. The current...

An influential group of MPs wants an end to repeated last minute extensions to the ban on evictions and instead wants financial support...

Letting agents have been accused of creating confusion amongst renters when it comes to smart meters. A company promoting smart meters claims...

The government’s embarrassing axing of the Green Homes Grant means there must now be a replacement to help the private rental...

The initiative which the government hoped would transform energy efficiency in the private rental sector is being axed this week. The Green...

A charity is calling for a new national body to oversee the private rental sector. Citizens Advice makes this one of three...

An estimated 840,000 private tenants have arrears over the past year since the first eviction ban was announced, according to a...

There’s been a spectacular surge in demand for lettings properties as vendors take advantage of the stamp duty holiday by selling...

ARLA Propertymark is asking agent members to ensure the safety of lone workers in branches and on viewings. A statement from the association...

The government has revised its official guidance for the private rental sector and local authorities in the light of imminently-changing Coronavirus advice. The...

The lettings book of one of the UK’s oldest property and law companies has been snapped up by a firm in the...

The government’s much-vaunted ‘tax day’ produced few challenges to the status quo - but holiday lets are under scrutiny. Currently the holiday let...

Rightmove has revealed its new TV advertisement, which it claims will reach 59 per cent of the UK during its campaign...

Agents must be ready for an influx of new business according to outsourced telephone and live chat service Moneypenny. Its latest figures...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Hi, I’m Kersteen McConnell and I am a Business Development...

An influential group of MPs has called for the replacement of “outdated” Energy Performance Certificates with new ‘Building Renovation Passports’. Currently EPCs...