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The head of a prominent brand in a fast-expanding lettings and sales agency group has given a cautious welcome to government...

An activist group claims that homeless cases arising from Section 21 evictions are now at their highest level since records began...

A new investment league table has been drawn up to show best aggregate rent and capital appreciation income for those in...

A PropTech provider has launched a renter guarantor service after claiming there’s been a 10-fold rise in tenancy fraud in the...

The Property Franchise Group says that in the past year the number of managed properties it handles has risen from 58,000...

A business consultancy is warning that buy to let sellers in the current market are likely to be squeezed - and...

A PropTech supplier to the lettings industry that has just signed a deal with OnTheMarket has come out in support of...

The UK’s rental market is now the world’s fourth largest by total volumes of privately rented properties according to research from...

Politicians across the UK appear to be growing more vocal in their support for rent controls. The Welsh nationalist party Plaid Cymru...

The leader of one of Britain’s highest profile lettings agency operations has let rip at the government for what he calls...

ARLA Propertymark is warning that new landlords must be drafted in to the private rental sector to replace those exiting in...

Buy To Let lending is set to fall back this year, after a hectic 2021. That’s the forecast from the Intermediary Mortgage...

Capital appreciation over the past decade has been driven more by the value of homes in the rental market than by...

Lloyds Banking Group, which is known to be investing huge sums in the UK private rental sector, has published the results...

A new Buy To Let ‘tracker’ from a prominent buy to let mortgage lender has revealed what it considers to be...

A prominent consultancy advising the Build To Rent sector has identified one British city as the prime location for investment in 2022. BNP...

New figures show how effective the stamp duty holiday was in stimulating buy to let - and how similar measures could...

The once-popular idea of parents buying a property for their offspring to use while at university, and then letting it to other...

Propertymark has told the government that imposing the same solution to the Net Zero challenge on all of the private rental...

New figures provide further evidence of the difficulties first time buyers have getting on the property ladder - and why as...

A new call has come for government action to stop the hemorrhage of properties shifting from long term rental to Airbnb...

With house prices at an all-time high, showing no signs of waning, the age of first-time buyers is on the rise...

More buy to let properties are being put on the sales market, despite the strength in the lettings sector, says Zoopla. In...

There’s been a 21 per cent rise in demand for properties from buy to let investors according to a new analysis...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Research by Hamptons suggests that the increased house prices caused by the stamp duty holiday sales surge has indirectly obliged more...

An assessment by Savills suggests capital values - including those for properties in the lettings sector - are likely to soar...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents says it’s disappointed the Budget failed to address the funding of the private rental sector.  “Extending...

The latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors study suggests tenant demand has increased over the past quarter but at a slowing...

London lettings agency Benham and Reeves has drawn up a league table of which boroughs in the capital have had their...

Putting fingers to keyboard to create blogs and articles isn’t always the easiest job for agents, particularly when meetings, viewings and...

Zoopla has revealed its top 10 hotspots for buy to let investors seeking high rental yields.  The analysis is based on rental returns...

A high profile former estate agent who was a major figure on the London sales market for over three decades has...

A new league table has been produced listing locations where a mix of rental yield and capital growth have given buy...

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

A former estate agent who has set up an online platform giving information on property values for London renters and buyers...

The Property Academy’s latest webinar, to be held this afternoon, is to be addressed by a behavioural economist and frequent contributor...

Families living in private rented accommodation are more exposed to the economic shock of the Coronavirus than homeowners, which could mean...

There’s growing concern across the lettings sector about the buy to let mortgage market seeing lenders pull product ranges, tighten lending...

There’s a claim this morning that the average rent in the UK has increased only five per cent since 2014. Research by...

The typical landlord’s income from property has plummeted by a fifth in under a decade according to the National Landlords’ Association. Its...

Another housing market snapshot suggests demand and confidence are improving as a result of the new political and economic landscape following...

Home ownership is increasingly out of reach for British consumers, who say the market has become expensive and inaccessible and that...

Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick has rejected a bid by Labour-controlled Liverpool council to extend its licensing scheme for five years. Government approval...

Haart is trying to shift the mood music around the private rental sector from challenging to celebratory, saying there is plenty...

There’s been an upbeat assessment of how the private rental sector will fare in the next five years from a leading...

The Liberal Democrats is the first of the major parties to release its party manifesto for the December 12 manifesto, and...

Higher housing costs - including private sector rents - have reduced incomes and increased inequality as the poorest families have borne...

Rent controls similar to those demanded by Labour in London and other major cities in the UK do not work, and...

Property development and investment firm SevenCapital has released a top 10 league table of UK cities which it claims will perform...

UK-wide rental prices are up 2.0 per cent annually to £876 – a three-year high – according to a new quarterly...

The majority of the UK’s private renters don’t want to purchase a home according to new research, coming just as the...

An influential think tank says Capital Gains Tax on buy to let properties and second homes should be levied at the...

The government has been criticised yet again for what is described as its “incoherent” approach to the private rental sector. David Miles,...

Manchester is becoming a buy to let investment hotspot according to the boss of a leading property management firm.  David Alexander of...

Rents are rising at the fastest rate since 2017, pushing the average yield on residential property to 4.5 per cent, its...

The operations director of letting agency haart has told landlords not to 'stress too much' over Brexit. Paul Sloan says it's easy...

A controversial new survey claims to have identified the best cities for millennials to live in based on factors such as...

A lettings agency that has analysed HMRC data says rental income for buy to let landlords has leaped 15 per cent...

Brexit is not a good reason for delaying buy to let investment, insists a mortgage chief. Andrew Turner is chief executive at...

London lettings agency Benham and Reeves has produced figures showing, indirectly at least, exactly why buy to let and property investment...

Belvoir says a survey of its franchisees shows that Brexit is having what it calls “a significant impact” on the rental...

A survey of mortgage experts conducted by one of the largest specialist buy to let lenders suggests that Brexit is hitting...

The number of people renting a home aged between 35 and 54 has risen by 15 per cent in the last...

Home ownership rates for families aged 25 to 34 are rising for the first time in 30 years but high barriers...

Most tenants believe they will never be able to own a home because of the burden of saving for a deposit...

The agency industry has reacted in a broadly downbeat way at the relatively few housing-related proposals that were announced in yesterday’s...

Brexit is causing concern among landlords, according to HomeLet. The initial results of HomeLet’s annual landlord survey says nine out of 10...

A major property platform says London’s rental and sales market may well be on the road to recovery - but that...

The Haart agency is calling on the government to give the private rental sector a break in the autumn Budget, as...

HomeLet says the average rent in the UK is now £947, up 0.9 per cent on last year - or up...

OneSavings Bank, the parent organisation of specialist buy to let lender Kent Reliance, has given a warning on the possible impact...

A newspaper in warning that the beleaguered buy to let sector may be under attack yet again with the government considering...

A new analysis of rental yields across all of the UK’s local authorities has revealed exactly where the best places are for...

We’re all for an optimistic interpretation of events but a new tool from comparison website GoCompare lists the UK’s top buy...

The conclusions of a new think tank analysing the private rental sector are “fundamentally wrong” according to a trade body.  The Residential...

The growth of the private rental sector has slowed thanks to government intervention and economic uncertainty - but it will expand...

Time to put the gloom and doom about buy to let to one side - a new analysis shows that a...

The government has been told is should simply adopt some Labour rental policies or risk losing the next General Election -...

Belvoir has published what it calls ‘a decade of data’ tracking the changes in the private rental sector since 2008, when...

Rightmove has revealed that the 10 year average growth in asking rents across London has been 25 per cent, and over...

The average landlord who sold their rental property in 2017 did so for £86,651 more than they paid for it, having...

A pullback in the buy to let market is threatening to reduce sale prices further in London and parts of the...

A cocktail of tax reform and tighter regulation is slowing growth across the private rental sector, despite its value hitting a new...

A survey has been undertaken of the top 25 UK postcodes in terms of yields for investors - and London and...

What is believed to be the first-ever study of Airbnb’s effects on house prices - not just rents - suggests the...

Some 61 per cent of chartered surveyors believe there will be a net exodus of landlords over the coming year thanks...

Consumer group Which? says ‘micro-apartments’ - which have proliferated in recent years - may not be good investments.    The group has focussed...

A league table drawn up by a rental sector insurance specialist claims private rental accommodation in university locations can produce yields...

New data from a survey of tenants suggests demand for the private rental sector looks set to be high for the...

Countrywide claims that the proportion of landlords paying in cash for a property reached 61 per cent in January, the highest...

The latest demand by anti-letting agent pressure group Generation Rent is for the government to abolish the right of landlords or...

  Over 5.5m Britons think that they will never be able to own a home on the grounds of cost.   A survey of...

Lancashire town Blackburn has recorded the highest increase in average rental yield over the last year, according to LendInvest.  The online mortgage...

The average rent in England and Wales has reached an all-time high of £846 per month - a year-on-year increase of...

"A large proportion of 25 to 45 year olds will be permanent tenants rather than buyers" a senior economist has predicted.   Tony...

No fewer than 86 per cent of renters - the equivalent of over six million households - have less than a...

There has been another high-level prediction that mortgage lending for buy to let investors is likely to be restricted further in the...

Agents have been giving their reaction to the shock Brexit referendum result - and their comments have ranged from the gloomy...

The Daily Telegraph - an outspoken critic of George Osborne’s fiscal changes aimed at extracting more money from the buy to...

Deutsche Bank has issued a dire warning about the buy to let market in the UK, along with a broadside warning...

It started off as an idea from Jeremy Corbyn’s campaign to become Labour leader but today it’s being backed by a...

Rents across the UK continued to rise during May but at a decreasing rate, says HomeLet.  Data shows that rents agreed on...

Average price for a property paid by investors in April fell by 8.3 per cent from £194,000 a month earlier to...

A buy to let index of returns compiled by a financial firm shows the greatest returns for investors are now to...

Ian Wilson, chief executive officer of Martin & Co, has given David Cameron’s government a “two out of 10” score for...

Around three quarters of young Britons believe they are unlikely to ever own their own property and will instead rent for...

The proposed stamp duty surcharge on the purchase of second homes and buy-to-let properties will fail to deter landlords from expanding...

A typical tenant in a two-bed property in England will have paid over £40,000 in rent in the past five years...

The gap between average incomes and the pay of tenants who want to buy their first property has reached a post-recession...

A new report from the independent Social Market Foundation think tank has found that almost two million more people have been...

The total number of evictions last year reached a record high of 42,728 according to data from the Ministry of Justice.  Whilst...

L&Q has launched its programme to create 5,000 new homes for the Build To Rent sector in London and south east...

A Conservative peer and former shadow chief secretary to the Treasury has become the first senior Tory to speak out against...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors is predicting that rents are likely to increase even faster than house prices in the...

The Bank of England Governor Mark Carney is the latest influential figure to hint that there may soon be additional restrictions...

Rents are set to sky-rocket by 27 per cent in the next decade according to research commissioned by the Association of...

The scores are in - we have asked 20 senior agents and analysts for their forecasts for capital values the 2016...

A new survey of mortgage approvals suggests first time buyers are continuing to lose out - and are thus likely to...

It is not often that a national newspaper dedicates an article to praising buy to let - and even rarer for...

A property investment search portal has launched an online petition via the UK Parliament website, calling for a national register of...

In an unusual boost for the benefits of the private rental sector, new data suggests tenants routinely rent in more expensive...

The private rented sector is becoming an increasingly diverse place. Its growth into the UK's second largest form of housing has...

One in four households in the UK will be privately renting by 2025 - that’s the conclusion of research by respected...

There has been a sharp rise in rent arrears - they made up 8.7 per cent of all rent payable in...

In case we didn’t learn the lesson last time around, we appear to be on the brink of a refresher course...

The UK Association of Letting Agents has teamed up with around 30 other European professional property bodies to consider how to...

When do we really start to worry about rising rents and house prices? Despite an apparent slowdown in house price inflation...

The National Landlords Association has issued a briefing note which it says is a warning to Labour’s leadership and deputy leadership...

Whether you are single or a family, looking to invest in rental property or want to lay down roots of your...

This week RICS reported a further drop in the number of people putting their homes up for sale; new instructions fell...

Poldark, a period drama recently on the BBC, has inspired a new trend dubbed the 'Poldark Effect'.  Rather than an increase in...

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

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

Under new pension freedom reforms, people aged 55 and over can access as much of their savings from their defined contributions...