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Caerphilly council in Wales has bought privately owned properties to provide housing for families who would otherwise find themselves in temporary...

Rental growth across prime London slowed again in January, with average rents falling on a monthly basis for the third time...

A bizarre lettings start-up has launched - and isn’t taking rent in return for property.  KindRoom instead offers itself as a platform...

Tax experts say that an attempt to levy higher purchase tax on holiday lets and second homes in one part of...

A former president of the Association of Residential Letting Agents has lifted the lid on how buy to let came about,...

A petition calling on Chancellor Rishi Sunak to increase tax on holiday lettings has still not hit its 45,000-signature target. Former long...

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

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

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

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

Another agent reports huge surge in supply of London properties to let Yesterday Chestertons reported a large rise in the supply of...

A rental management platform has compiled a league table of where tenant demand is strongest for homes to let - and...

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

A PropTech platform devised by Build To Let specialist Grainger is to be used in a bid to differentiate the company from...

Private tenants are being disadvantaged because of the government’s focus on boosting homeownership. According to the latest figures from the Royal Institution...

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

A trade body has hit out at government policy following a think tank’s claims that young people are less mobile because of...

A new PropTech start-up that claims to make student house-hunting easier is offering free listings to lettings agents with London properties. Polygon...

Sub-standard homes remain a key weakness in the private rental sector, which needs to get its house in order in the...

Rent increases seen in London this year are likely to continue in 2019 because of the diminishing supply of homes to...

Rightmove is reporting that average asking rents outside London have topped £800 per month for the first time, fuelled by a...

Rightmove’s chief executive officer, Peter Brooks-Johnson, is joining the board of an offshoot of a global classified listings operation. He is to...

A trade body says the country faces a net loss of 133,000 homes for private rent over the next year -...

Landlords exiting the market because of tax and red tape have led to “an acute shortage of available properties to rent”...

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

A lettings trade body says a major house builder has blamed, in part, recent tax increases on private landlords as a...

A trade body says new figures released by the independent Office for Budget Responsibility show that the government’s recent tax increases...

Letting agents were amongst those duped by a Merseyside builder who rented 33 homes and then sub-let them to allow the...

The government has released more details on long-discussed proposals to tighten up licensing in the private rental sector. It wants landlords in...

Countrywide says one in every 12 homes that came on to the rental market in 2017 was for sale at some...

Trade groups have reacted angrily to Labour’s proposal to introduce rent controls if the party enters government.   The announcement, made by Labour...

The remaining overhand of last year’s buy to let buying surge by landlords means the annual rate of rent rises has...

A property firm has been fined £32,134 and ordered to pay costs of £260 and a victim surcharge of £170 after...

A new report suggests that institutional investment in the burgeoning Build To Rent sector could see the creation of 240,000 new...

The government has set out 29 key points in its Housing White Paper.   Introducing in the Commons this afternoon, Communities Secretery Sajid...

A building firm that carried out illegal building work to create homes to let has been hit with a £250,000 confiscation...

The dramatic slump in the prime central London sales market is now leading to a reduction in rents being achieved in...

Members of the Association of Residential Letting Agents predict a fall in the number of homes being available to let next...

Property data company LonRes is the latest to report that the supply of property available to let in prime central London...

There has been another market survey suggesting a significant rise in the number of homes available to rent.   There were 11.4 per...

Canterbury is the latest council to consider setting up its own letting agency. The authority hopes to tempt private landlords with promises...

One of Britain’s burgeoning group of Build To Rent operators has struck a deal for 249 of its new homes to...

Countrywide’s latest lettings index shows rental growth slowing in every region of Britain because of a glut of homes coming to...

Jeremy Corbyn’s plans for rent controls and “secure tenancies” in the private rented sector would spell disaster for tenants, reducing the...

The Residential Landlords Association is asking the Welsh Assembly to scrap the three per cent stamp duty surcharge imposed on buy...

There was an eight per cent surge in the number of homes available to rent in the second quarter of the...

Letting agencies Your Move and Reeds Rains claim rents have started to drop in many areas following the arrival of a...

Some 18 per cent of lettings properties are advertised with floorplans according to an analysis of Rightmove listings by a floorplan...

The frenzy of investor purchasing of buy to let units ahead of the stamp duty surcharge deadline has led to an...

The outgoing director of the Your Move chain of lettings agents says the new London mayor - whether Sadiq Khan or...

A council has asked agents in its area to tell landlords of additional planning powers taken by the authority which may...

The supply of rental accommodation is the lowest for at least a year according to the Association of Residential Letting Agents. After...

Agents acting for landlords replacing furniture and other domestic items in homes to let should be given detailed guidance from the...

The influencial cross-party Commons Treasury Committee says the whole economy could suffer is George Osborne’s fiscal measures against the private rental...

Legal & General Capital, which last week announced its intention to work with a Dutch pension fund manager to build 3,000...

People coming to work in Scotland from overseas are making up an increasing proportion of private sector tenants according to a...

A survey conducted for buy to let lender Landbay claims that a strong lettings market even in winter demonstrates “the shortage...

We look at a few of the best ways to make your property stand out from the crowd. In a market...

The rural agency team at Bidwells says it is concerned the Conservative government may - by accident or design - be...

- From April 2016 buy to let landlords and people buying second or holiday homes will have to pay an additional...

George Osborne has announced a shock additional 3.0 per cent stamp duty on second homes and buy to let properties. Details are...

While almost every lettings organisation has been up in arms at the raft of tax changes for landlords suggested by Chancellor...

It’s been a bad weekend for the image of the private rental sector with a series of reports and press stories...

The deputy mayor of London, with special responsibility for housing, says the enthusiasm of buy to let investors can boost housebuilding...

Tenant arrears are rising in Scotland, even though letting agents’ fees on tenants are banned. Agents’ fees on renters, which are legal in...

A kit explaining how homes to let can be made more secure and legally-compliant has been launched by the Residential Landlords...

The number of rental properties available for tenants decreased seven per cent between the end of April and end of May...

Two thirds of landlords plan to buy at least one further property in the next six months, according to Mortgages for...