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The Prime Central London lettings market is returning to normality, a prominent agency says. JLL says average rents fell 1.4% between Q4...

Houses in Multiple Occupation are making up an increasing percentage of buy-to-let business, according specialist lender Shawbrook.  In both 2022 and 2023,...

Labour must build “a new generation of New Towns” if it gets into government, according to a parliamentary candidate linked to...

Legal & General’s suburban Build To Rent business, called LGSBTR, has exchanged on 41 new BTR homes in St Neots, Cambridgeshire.   Consisting...

Promising figures from the latest house price index doesn’t mean underlying problems in the market have been solved, warns Propertymark. UK house...

Prime London rental values ticked up 0.3% over the first three months of 2024, according to Savills, as the market continues...

A boutique agency with branches in prime central and south west London has expanded its lettings operation by acquiring two agencies...

England’s county councils want the next government to set out a long-term plan for housing, as a new report claims there’s...

Co-living specialist Built Asset Management has snapped up a fourth rival operator in three years.  ProCo-Living joins the BAM business portfolio with...

Owners of vacant properties are being offered an improved incentive to bring their house back into use. Plymouth council is re-launching its...

Propertymark has again urged the UK government to continue with its target of building 300,000 new homes in England a year...

Knight Frank has taken the unusual step of suggesting a government proposal for the housing market is high-risk and could even...

There’s been a surge in enthusiasm for energy efficient homes according to research from heat pump advocates OVO. It says that a...

A new report suggests that past impressions of Build To Rent and other institution-funded rental units as expensive and concentrating on...

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

A council that is buying private properties in second home hotspots to let to local people has struck a new agreement...

Propertymark has called on the UK Government to prevent a mass exodus of student landlords.   The news comes as a poll conducted...

Labour leader Sir Kier Starmer has confirmed that Awaab’s Law - putting a strict timescale on urgent repairs being done -...

While most agents remain relatively tight lipped about party politics, the chief executive of Purplebricks has said the Tories should take...

Legal & General senior executive David Reid has been named as the chair of an influential committee driving forward Build To...

The government has done a U-turn on its original policy to relax HMO regulations on private rental properties used by asylum...

A wealthy landlord who set up a fake lettings agency in Hull has been jailed for 11 years for allowing ‘ghost tenants’ to...

New analysis by insurance giant Aviva reveals that one in every 13 new homes built in England in the last decade...

Savills says prime rental growth across London and the country has stalled for the first time in almost three years. In prime...

New research shows there are 36,210 long-term vacant homes across London - that’s around one in every 100 properties. The borough in...

Winchester council is setting up its own agency to let and manage privately rented homes. Venta Living pledges to provide “high quality,...

Controversy surrounds a government idea - floated over the weekend - to allow renters to secure mortgages with just one per...

Labour is using a Bill currently going through Parliament as a backdoor method to introduce the regulation of lettings, estate and...

The letting agents’ trade body Propertymark says one of the UK governments should go further in ensuring the safety of tenants...

Rhodri Evans, director of land and new homes at Andrews Property Group, has been named as one of several industry figures...

Agents, landlords and others’ views are being sought in a consultation on proposals to introduce a borough-wide additional licensing scheme for...

A council is considering borrowing £50m to buy properties to rent on the private market and for affordable housing. West Norfolk council...

Online rental platform Lettingaproperty is telling landlords to take a strategic approach to property management in 2024, to help navigate legislative...

Propertymark has stepped into the row over a bank chief’s comments on first time buyers. Sir Howard Davies, chairman of NatWest, responded...

A historic former school and hospital building in Glasgow City Centre will be restored as part of a plan to create...

Residential buy to let in the North West of England, London industrial property and retail warehouses are set to be the...

Owner occupiers have been competing with landlords in the battle to purchase smaller properties, new figures show. Smaller properties are often preferred...

A prominent housing market commentator says Labour would introduce a tougher version of the Renters Reform Bill if it forms the...

Agents’ trade body Propertymark says the current debate on the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill is another example of how agent...

Plans for leasehold reform face a major early stumbling block as analysis shows plans to retrospectively introduce a cap on ground...

Former housing minister Rachel Maclean - the victim of a shock sacking by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak last month - has...

Berriman Eaton has reported a 30 per cent rise in its dedicated lettings business since 2020, with more than 420 properties...

A Labour-run London council is consulting on a new licensing scheme for private rented property.  If it goes ahead it will be...

Almost two in five UK owners - landlords and homeowners - now consider improving the energy efficiency of their property an...

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

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

Propertymark has called on the government to retain the option of fixed-term tenancies in the private rental sector where it is...

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

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

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

Letting agents are currently managing 25 email and phone enquiries on average for every property they have to let across Britain,...

Two massive new rental licensing schemes are set to be approved in Brighton - and part of the reason is “uninterested...

Labour’s new shadow Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Secretary, Angela Rayner, says she will put council Housing at the heart of...

A lettings agency has removed a video of an apartment where a murder took place, following an approach by a national...

The classified ad website Gumtree is issuing an alert about what it claims is the growing threat of rental fraud. It says...

Franchise giant Winkworth is opening a new office in West Hampstead, extending its north London footprint from existing offices in neighbouring...

London-born property magnate Paul Kemsley, nicknamed PK, is the agent at the centre of a new TV property show starting this...

Almost a quarter of England and Wales will become less affordable to buyers by 2025, it’s been claimed. The findings - from...

A new analysis by Rightmove suggests it could take literally decades for the private rental sector to conform with stricter energy...

Landlords of more than 5,000 homes must register for a license and ensure their tenants have good quality housing or face...

A sales agency specialising in disposing of buy to let portfolios says it’s now received an averaged 240 enquires a month...

Tenants want letting agents, landlords and other property industry figures to more openly demonstrate their green credentials. That’s the message from a...

An agency is claiming a record for the sum at which it is letting a seven bedroom property in north London. Aston...

The Labour-run London Assembly says it is concerned about government plans to allow landlords to house asylum seekers for two years without...

New research from lettings agency Hamptons shows that since 2018, average service charges for flats across England and Wales have increased...

The Cambridge Building Society has selected two tenants by ballot to receive up to 70 per cent of their rent back...

Three property management companies and a landlord have been fined approaching £80,000 for health and safety failings. Mohammed Ali Abbas Rasool, Cadogan...

A seasoned property lawyer who has specialised in residential landlord and tenant law for 22 years says she is embarrassed at...

A Liberal Democrat council leader says all properties - even those in properly established lettings businesses - should be charged council...

A management company and a lettings agency involved in running a London HMO have been prosecuted for fire safety failures. Monsoon Properties...

A holiday lettings agency has come out fighting on behalf of its clients. Following calls by local leaders in Cornwall and Devon...

Propertymark says it’s going to send a briefing on behalf of letting agents to every MP and member of the House...

Tenant groups are cheering the proposed abolition of Section 21 eviction powers but there’s a legal warning that the reality may be...

A franchise network boss has sharply criticised both Labour and the Tories for their pro-tenant policies. Dominic Agace, chief executive of Winkworth,...

The Cambridge Building Society has opened applications for its unique Rent to Home scheme. Last month it announced that it had invested...

A trade body says inventories are set to play an increasingly important role in the private rental sector as fire regulations...

An activist group claims that 54 per cent of students are currently living with damp and mould. The group - Students Organising...

Average asking rents for new tenants outside of London have risen to yet another new record of £1,190 per calendar month. This...

Property portal Citylets says average rents in Scotland rose 12.4 per cent in the past year to £1,007 per month -...

The Cambridge Building Society has invested in two family-sized houses to expand its unique ‘Rent to Home’ rent-return housing scheme. The two...

London’s renters are most at risk from finding their homes either being un-lettable or their landlord selling up due to the...

Prime London rents picked up again over the first three months of this year, says Savills. Rental prices are up 1.4 per...

Leaders Romans Group's Suburban Build To Rent team has been appointed to jointly manage and maintain over 100 Build to Rent...

Speculation is growing that the deadline for the private rental sector to meet new Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards for new tenants...

A Conservative MP in a tourist region has blamed the switch of rental accommodation to Airbnbs for a shortage of places...

A clampdown on HMOs is to begin this week - and the council behind it is describing it as ‘preserving the...

The government must focus on measures in next week’s Budget that will boost significantly the supply of homes, according to lettings...

It’s been a busy start to the year for the Northwood brand, with three franchisees completing on acquisitions.  Northwood is part of...

A prominent lettings agent has criticised leading candidates for the leadership of the Scottish National Party for anti-holiday let policies. David Alexander,...

The chief executive of Propertymark is warning that interest rates are likely to rise at least one more time. The remarks by...

The availability of stock within the owner-occupied market is now back to a pre-pandemic norm, but the reverse is true for...

Jeffrey Ross, an independent lettings and sales agency in Cardiff, has acquired ACJ Sales and Lettings in Penarth. Jeffrey Ross has acquired...

The mismatch between demand and supply will keep the rental market strong in 2023 according to an agency chief. Nicky Stevenson, managing...

Legal & General - one of the country’s biggest Build To Rent players - has struck a deal with new build...

A prominent lettings agent has resumed his attack on politicians for failing to build sufficient numbers of social housing properties -...

An end-of-year assessment by Zoopla suggests the price of flats across the UK have underperformed the rest of the market and...

Zoopla has given details of its collaboration with homelessness charity Crisis following the announcement of a three-year partnership earlier this year. Crisis’s...

A lettings network is urging landlords to back a campaign to abolish council tax re-banding for shared houses. Platinum Property Partners says...

A new scheme offering landlords the opportunity to lease property through a local authority has been launched.   Leasing Scheme Wales: Gwynedd gives...

A Labour MP has written to letting agents in her constituency demanding they explain high rents and their student allocation policies. Mary...