The man behind the Ideal Flatmate rental platform has now set up a Build To Rent portal called Your Place. All properties...
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![Major PropTech deal heralds expansion of insurance to tenants](/upload/images/PropTech%20%26%20Online/OnlinePropertySearch-3-400x310.jpg)
Californian PropTech firm Trov, specialising in digital insurance for tenants, has announced a deal with major UK rental companies. The deal is...
21 July 2021
From: Breaking News
![Website claims 40 per cent of tenants can’t afford to pay full rent](/img/default/lat.png)
A lettings sector website claims 40 per cent of tenants have seen their ability to pay full or in some cases...
15 April 2020
From: Breaking News
![Ex-LSL lettings expert snapped up by London PropTech start-up](/img/default/lat.png)
A former director at LSL’s Build To Rent division has today been named as head of business development at a London...
09 January 2020
From: Breaking News
![Flat-sharing PropTech platform raises £2m for expansion plans](/img/default/lat.png)
Flat-sharing website Ideal Flatmate has raised £2m in a funding round in order to expand to seven new cities in the...
20 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Fees Ban: no evidence it’s hit room rental costs, says PropTech chief](/img/default/lat.png)
A co-founder of a room rental PropTech service says there’s no clear evidence yet that the fees ban introduced in April...
18 October 2019
From: Breaking News
![Redundancy rumour hits another online lettings service](/img/default/lat.png)
In addition to the apparent collapse of Upad at the weekend, there has been unconfirmed speculation about redundancies at a second...
14 October 2019
From: Breaking News
![Revealed - how the rental market puts women at a disadvantage](/img/default/lat.png)
New research has thrown light for the first time on the gap between the rental affordability of male and female workers...
20 September 2019
From: Breaking News
![Revealed: best university towns for rents and yields](/img/default/lat.png)
A flat-sharing website has created a league table of average rents in locations surrounding the top-ranked universities in the United Kingdom....
09 August 2019
From: Breaking News
![Industry rages against Labour’s “laughable” rent control plan](/img/default/lat.png)
Calls by Labour’s London Mayor Sadiq Khan to secure powers to implement private sector rent controls are facing increasing opposition. Business organisation...
22 July 2019
From: Breaking News
![Room rents up 8% since the Tenant Fees Act, claims online platform](/img/default/lat.png)
An online room-letting platform claims rents have risen up to eight per cent in wake of the Tenant Fee Act. ideal flatmate...
11 July 2019
From: Breaking News
![Disaster for buy to let investors if Berlin-style rent freeze happens](/img/default/lat.png)
New research shows that some buy to let investors in London could typically lose over £19,000 a year if Berlin-style rent...
19 June 2019
From: Breaking News
![London room rents already rising just two months into 2019](/img/default/lat.png)
Demand for room rentals in London is so high their average charge has risen two per cent in 2019 already, claims...
01 March 2019
From: Breaking News
![Over a third of London uninhabitable for renters - claim](/img/default/lat.png)
A flat-share website claims typical rents in some 38 per cent of London are now so high they render the areas...
11 February 2019
From: Breaking News
![Generation rent booms as flatsharing site passes £1m funding milestone](/img/default/lat.png)
Flatsharing website Ideal Flatmate has passed the seed funding milestone of £1 million. The website - which includes former Green & Co...