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An activist group claims that homeless cases arising from Section 21 evictions are now at their highest level since records began...
04 May 2022
From: Breaking News

A new investment league table has been drawn up to show best aggregate rent and capital appreciation income for those in...
13 April 2022
From: Breaking News

A PropTech provider has launched a renter guarantor service after claiming there’s been a 10-fold rise in tenancy fraud in the...
06 April 2022
From: Breaking News

The Property Franchise Group says that in the past year the number of managed properties it handles has risen from 58,000...
06 April 2022
From: Breaking News

A business consultancy is warning that buy to let sellers in the current market are likely to be squeezed - and...
15 March 2022
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A PropTech supplier to the lettings industry that has just signed a deal with OnTheMarket has come out in support of...
11 March 2022
From: Breaking News

The UK’s rental market is now the world’s fourth largest by total volumes of privately rented properties according to research from...
02 March 2022
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Politicians across the UK appear to be growing more vocal in their support for rent controls. The Welsh nationalist party Plaid Cymru...
17 February 2022
From: Breaking News

The leader of one of Britain’s highest profile lettings agency operations has let rip at the government for what he calls...
10 February 2022
From: Breaking News

ARLA Propertymark is warning that new landlords must be drafted in to the private rental sector to replace those exiting in...
01 February 2022
From: Breaking News

Buy To Let lending is set to fall back this year, after a hectic 2021. That’s the forecast from the Intermediary Mortgage...
11 January 2022
From: Breaking News

Capital appreciation over the past decade has been driven more by the value of homes in the rental market than by...
06 January 2022
From: Breaking News

Lloyds Banking Group, which is known to be investing huge sums in the UK private rental sector, has published the results...
10 December 2021
From: Breaking News

A new Buy To Let ‘tracker’ from a prominent buy to let mortgage lender has revealed what it considers to be...
07 December 2021
From: Breaking News

A prominent consultancy advising the Build To Rent sector has identified one British city as the prime location for investment in 2022. BNP...
25 November 2021
From: Breaking News

New figures show how effective the stamp duty holiday was in stimulating buy to let - and how similar measures could...
19 November 2021
From: Breaking News

The once-popular idea of parents buying a property for their offspring to use while at university, and then letting it to other...
11 November 2021
From: Breaking News

Propertymark has told the government that imposing the same solution to the Net Zero challenge on all of the private rental...
22 October 2021
From: Breaking News

New figures provide further evidence of the difficulties first time buyers have getting on the property ladder - and why as...
22 October 2021
From: Breaking News

A new call has come for government action to stop the hemorrhage of properties shifting from long term rental to Airbnb...
06 October 2021
From: Breaking News

With house prices at an all-time high, showing no signs of waning, the age of first-time buyers is on the rise...
04 October 2021
From: Breaking News

More buy to let properties are being put on the sales market, despite the strength in the lettings sector, says Zoopla. In...
30 September 2021
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There’s been a 21 per cent rise in demand for properties from buy to let investors according to a new analysis...
26 August 2021
From: Breaking News

The value of the Private Rented Sector in England, Wales and Scotland grew by 5.8 per cent to a jaw dropping...
25 August 2021
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The capital appreciation of the past year proves that there’s no better investment than bricks and mortar, according to an agency...
22 July 2021
From: Breaking News

A new estimate put the value of the UK private rental sector at almost £1.4 trillion. Buy to let and investment consultancy...
20 July 2021
From: Breaking News

Baroness Alicia Kennedy has accused the government of hypocrisy over its diverging approach to evictions for commercial and residential tenants. On Wednesday...
18 June 2021
From: Breaking News

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? That's very retro - I have not had one of...
08 June 2021
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A leading banking and wealth management company says a growth area for the rental sector in the years to come will...
12 May 2021
From: Breaking News

Research by Hamptons suggests that the increased house prices caused by the stamp duty holiday sales surge has indirectly obliged more...
15 March 2021
From: Breaking News

An assessment by Savills suggests capital values - including those for properties in the lettings sector - are likely to soar...
10 March 2021
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The Association of Residential Letting Agents says it’s disappointed the Budget failed to address the funding of the private rental sector. “Extending...
04 March 2021
From: Breaking News

The latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors study suggests tenant demand has increased over the past quarter but at a slowing...
12 February 2021
From: Breaking News

London lettings agency Benham and Reeves has drawn up a league table of which boroughs in the capital have had their...
17 November 2020
From: Breaking News

Putting fingers to keyboard to create blogs and articles isn’t always the easiest job for agents, particularly when meetings, viewings and...
28 October 2020
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Zoopla has revealed its top 10 hotspots for buy to let investors seeking high rental yields. The analysis is based on rental returns...
10 September 2020
From: Breaking News

A high profile former estate agent who was a major figure on the London sales market for over three decades has...
25 August 2020
From: Breaking News

A new league table has been produced listing locations where a mix of rental yield and capital growth have given buy...
02 July 2020
From: Breaking News

Some buy to let mortgages are now more expensive than before for borrowers, despite the recent fall in the Bank of...
12 May 2020
From: Breaking News

A former estate agent who has set up an online platform giving information on property values for London renters and buyers...
28 April 2020
From: Breaking News

The Property Academy’s latest webinar, to be held this afternoon, is to be addressed by a behavioural economist and frequent contributor...
21 April 2020
From: Breaking News

Families living in private rented accommodation are more exposed to the economic shock of the Coronavirus than homeowners, which could mean...
09 April 2020
From: Breaking News

There’s growing concern across the lettings sector about the buy to let mortgage market seeing lenders pull product ranges, tighten lending...
27 March 2020
From: Breaking News

There’s a claim this morning that the average rent in the UK has increased only five per cent since 2014. Research by...
02 March 2020
From: Breaking News

The typical landlord’s income from property has plummeted by a fifth in under a decade according to the National Landlords’ Association. Its...
19 February 2020
From: Breaking News

Another housing market snapshot suggests demand and confidence are improving as a result of the new political and economic landscape following...
17 February 2020
From: Breaking News

Home ownership is increasingly out of reach for British consumers, who say the market has become expensive and inaccessible and that...
04 February 2020
From: Breaking News

Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick has rejected a bid by Labour-controlled Liverpool council to extend its licensing scheme for five years. Government approval...
14 January 2020
From: Breaking News

Haart is trying to shift the mood music around the private rental sector from challenging to celebratory, saying there is plenty...
13 December 2019
From: Breaking News

There’s been an upbeat assessment of how the private rental sector will fare in the next five years from a leading...
28 November 2019
From: Breaking News

The Liberal Democrats is the first of the major parties to release its party manifesto for the December 12 manifesto, and...
21 November 2019
From: Breaking News

Higher housing costs - including private sector rents - have reduced incomes and increased inequality as the poorest families have borne...
11 November 2019
From: Breaking News

Rent controls similar to those demanded by Labour in London and other major cities in the UK do not work, and...
29 October 2019
From: Breaking News

Property development and investment firm SevenCapital has released a top 10 league table of UK cities which it claims will perform...
18 October 2019
From: Breaking News

UK-wide rental prices are up 2.0 per cent annually to £876 – a three-year high – according to a new quarterly...
16 October 2019
From: Breaking News

The majority of the UK’s private renters don’t want to purchase a home according to new research, coming just as the...
24 September 2019
From: Breaking News

An influential think tank says Capital Gains Tax on buy to let properties and second homes should be levied at the...
11 September 2019
From: Breaking News

The government has been criticised yet again for what is described as its “incoherent” approach to the private rental sector. David Miles,...
11 September 2019
From: Breaking News

Manchester is becoming a buy to let investment hotspot according to the boss of a leading property management firm. David Alexander of...
29 July 2019
From: Breaking News

Rents are rising at the fastest rate since 2017, pushing the average yield on residential property to 4.5 per cent, its...
12 July 2019
From: Breaking News

The operations director of letting agency haart has told landlords not to 'stress too much' over Brexit. Paul Sloan says it's easy...
13 May 2019
From: Breaking News

A controversial new survey claims to have identified the best cities for millennials to live in based on factors such as...
04 April 2019
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency that has analysed HMRC data says rental income for buy to let landlords has leaped 15 per cent...
07 March 2019
From: Breaking News

Brexit is not a good reason for delaying buy to let investment, insists a mortgage chief. Andrew Turner is chief executive at...
01 March 2019
From: Breaking News

London lettings agency Benham and Reeves has produced figures showing, indirectly at least, exactly why buy to let and property investment...
22 February 2019
From: Breaking News

Belvoir says a survey of its franchisees shows that Brexit is having what it calls “a significant impact” on the rental...
19 February 2019
From: Breaking News

A survey of mortgage experts conducted by one of the largest specialist buy to let lenders suggests that Brexit is hitting...
15 February 2019
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08 January 2019
From: Breaking News

Home ownership rates for families aged 25 to 34 are rising for the first time in 30 years but high barriers...
27 December 2018
From: Breaking News

Most tenants believe they will never be able to own a home because of the burden of saving for a deposit...
14 December 2018
From: Breaking News

The agency industry has reacted in a broadly downbeat way at the relatively few housing-related proposals that were announced in yesterday’s...
30 October 2018
From: Breaking News

Brexit is causing concern among landlords, according to HomeLet. The initial results of HomeLet’s annual landlord survey says nine out of 10...
15 October 2018
From: Breaking News

A major property platform says London’s rental and sales market may well be on the road to recovery - but that...
03 October 2018
From: Breaking News

The Haart agency is calling on the government to give the private rental sector a break in the autumn Budget, as...
27 September 2018
From: Breaking News
17 September 2018
From: Breaking News

OneSavings Bank, the parent organisation of specialist buy to let lender Kent Reliance, has given a warning on the possible impact...
29 August 2018
From: Breaking News

A newspaper in warning that the beleaguered buy to let sector may be under attack yet again with the government considering...
06 August 2018
From: Breaking News

A new analysis of rental yields across all of the UK’s local authorities has revealed exactly where the best places are for...
29 June 2018
From: Breaking News

We’re all for an optimistic interpretation of events but a new tool from comparison website GoCompare lists the UK’s top buy...
28 June 2018
From: Breaking News

The conclusions of a new think tank analysing the private rental sector are “fundamentally wrong” according to a trade body. The Residential...
26 June 2018
From: Breaking News

The growth of the private rental sector has slowed thanks to government intervention and economic uncertainty - but it will expand...
15 June 2018
From: Breaking News
11 May 2018
From: Breaking News

The government has been told is should simply adopt some Labour rental policies or risk losing the next General Election -...
24 April 2018
From: Breaking News

Belvoir has published what it calls ‘a decade of data’ tracking the changes in the private rental sector since 2008, when...
20 April 2018
From: Breaking News

Rightmove has revealed that the 10 year average growth in asking rents across London has been 25 per cent, and over...
28 March 2018
From: Breaking News

The average landlord who sold their rental property in 2017 did so for £86,651 more than they paid for it, having...
12 March 2018
From: Breaking News

A pullback in the buy to let market is threatening to reduce sale prices further in London and parts of the...
18 December 2017
From: Breaking News

A cocktail of tax reform and tighter regulation is slowing growth across the private rental sector, despite its value hitting a new...
08 December 2017
From: Breaking News

A survey has been undertaken of the top 25 UK postcodes in terms of yields for investors - and London and...
17 November 2017
From: Breaking News

What is believed to be the first-ever study of Airbnb’s effects on house prices - not just rents - suggests the...
30 October 2017
From: Breaking News

Some 61 per cent of chartered surveyors believe there will be a net exodus of landlords over the coming year thanks...
15 September 2017
From: Breaking News

Consumer group Which? says ‘micro-apartments’ - which have proliferated in recent years - may not be good investments. The group has focussed...
22 August 2017
From: Breaking News

A league table drawn up by a rental sector insurance specialist claims private rental accommodation in university locations can produce yields...
16 August 2017
From: Breaking News

New data from a survey of tenants suggests demand for the private rental sector looks set to be high for the...
03 August 2017
From: Breaking News

Countrywide claims that the proportion of landlords paying in cash for a property reached 61 per cent in January, the highest...
13 February 2017
From: Breaking News

The latest demand by anti-letting agent pressure group Generation Rent is for the government to abolish the right of landlords or...
01 November 2016
From: Breaking News

Over 5.5m Britons think that they will never be able to own a home on the grounds of cost. A survey of...
30 September 2016
From: Breaking News

Lancashire town Blackburn has recorded the highest increase in average rental yield over the last year, according to LendInvest. The online mortgage...
27 September 2016
From: Breaking News

The average rent in England and Wales has reached an all-time high of £846 per month - a year-on-year increase of...
09 September 2016
From: Breaking News

"A large proportion of 25 to 45 year olds will be permanent tenants rather than buyers" a senior economist has predicted. Tony...
26 August 2016
From: Breaking News

No fewer than 86 per cent of renters - the equivalent of over six million households - have less than a...
05 August 2016
From: Breaking News

There has been another high-level prediction that mortgage lending for buy to let investors is likely to be restricted further in the...
18 July 2016
From: Breaking News

Agents have been giving their reaction to the shock Brexit referendum result - and their comments have ranged from the gloomy...
24 June 2016
From: Breaking News

The Daily Telegraph - an outspoken critic of George Osborne’s fiscal changes aimed at extracting more money from the buy to...
22 June 2016
From: Breaking News

Deutsche Bank has issued a dire warning about the buy to let market in the UK, along with a broadside warning...
20 June 2016
From: Breaking News

It started off as an idea from Jeremy Corbyn’s campaign to become Labour leader but today it’s being backed by a...
13 June 2016
From: Breaking News

Rents across the UK continued to rise during May but at a decreasing rate, says HomeLet. Data shows that rents agreed on...
08 June 2016
From: Breaking News

Average price for a property paid by investors in April fell by 8.3 per cent from £194,000 a month earlier to...
16 May 2016
From: Breaking News

A buy to let index of returns compiled by a financial firm shows the greatest returns for investors are now to...
13 May 2016
From: Breaking News

Ian Wilson, chief executive officer of Martin & Co, has given David Cameron’s government a “two out of 10” score for...
11 April 2016
From: Breaking News

Around three quarters of young Britons believe they are unlikely to ever own their own property and will instead rent for...
22 March 2016
From: Breaking News

The proposed stamp duty surcharge on the purchase of second homes and buy-to-let properties will fail to deter landlords from expanding...
15 March 2016
From: Breaking News

A typical tenant in a two-bed property in England will have paid over £40,000 in rent in the past five years...
04 March 2016
From: Breaking News

The gap between average incomes and the pay of tenants who want to buy their first property has reached a post-recession...
03 March 2016
From: Breaking News

A new report from the independent Social Market Foundation think tank has found that almost two million more people have been...
22 February 2016
From: Breaking News

The total number of evictions last year reached a record high of 42,728 according to data from the Ministry of Justice. Whilst...
16 February 2016
From: Breaking News

L&Q has launched its programme to create 5,000 new homes for the Build To Rent sector in London and south east...
21 January 2016
From: Breaking News

A Conservative peer and former shadow chief secretary to the Treasury has become the first senior Tory to speak out against...
06 January 2016
From: Breaking News

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors is predicting that rents are likely to increase even faster than house prices in the...
23 December 2015
From: Breaking News

The Bank of England Governor Mark Carney is the latest influential figure to hint that there may soon be additional restrictions...
17 December 2015
From: Breaking News

Rents are set to sky-rocket by 27 per cent in the next decade according to research commissioned by the Association of...
17 December 2015
From: Breaking News

The scores are in - we have asked 20 senior agents and analysts for their forecasts for capital values the 2016...
16 December 2015
From: Breaking News

A new survey of mortgage approvals suggests first time buyers are continuing to lose out - and are thus likely to...
11 December 2015
From: Breaking News

It is not often that a national newspaper dedicates an article to praising buy to let - and even rarer for...
30 November 2015
From: Breaking News

A property investment search portal has launched an online petition via the UK Parliament website, calling for a national register of...
23 November 2015
From: Breaking News

In an unusual boost for the benefits of the private rental sector, new data suggests tenants routinely rent in more expensive...
13 October 2015
From: Breaking News

The private rented sector is becoming an increasingly diverse place. Its growth into the UK's second largest form of housing has...
15 September 2015
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One in four households in the UK will be privately renting by 2025 - that’s the conclusion of research by respected...
23 July 2015
From: Breaking News
17 July 2015
From: Breaking News

In case we didn’t learn the lesson last time around, we appear to be on the brink of a refresher course...
10 July 2015
From: Features

The UK Association of Letting Agents has teamed up with around 30 other European professional property bodies to consider how to...
03 July 2015
From: Breaking News

When do we really start to worry about rising rents and house prices? Despite an apparent slowdown in house price inflation...
19 June 2015
From: Features

The National Landlords Association has issued a briefing note which it says is a warning to Labour’s leadership and deputy leadership...
18 June 2015
From: Breaking News

Whether you are single or a family, looking to invest in rental property or want to lay down roots of your...
15 June 2015
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This week RICS reported a further drop in the number of people putting their homes up for sale; new instructions fell...
15 May 2015
From: Features

Poldark, a period drama recently on the BBC, has inspired a new trend dubbed the 'Poldark Effect'. Rather than an increase in...
15 May 2015
From: Features

So, a sigh of relief. Most agents will be pleased with the election result - even if they are not Tory supporters...
08 May 2015
From: Features

Gentrification is a divisive, provocative issue, but why are estate agents (especially Foxtons) appearing to bear the brunt of the public’s...