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28 October 2020
From: Proptech & Innovation

Research from franchise giant Belvoir is the latest to show what may be rapidly changing aspirations from private tenants. “The results confirm...
17 June 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

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

Nearly four out of 10 landlords believe that tenant demand will rise this year, according to a study by high-profile buy...
19 February 2020
From: Breaking News

Almost three quarters of Belvoir’s lettings franchisees anticipate rent increases this year. In a survey of the franchise firm’s offices across the...
18 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

Plans to end the freeze on housing benefits will still leave many tenants unable to afford rent say landlords. Following the announcement...
15 January 2020
From: Breaking News

Knight Frank forecasts cumulative rental growth of 11 per cent in prime outer London and 10 per cent in prime central...
30 December 2019
From: Breaking News

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has given a brief but optimistic assessment of the private rental market for next year. “As...
24 December 2019
From: Breaking News

Labour has given shocking new details of its proposals for the private rental sector including £100.000 fines if properties are deemed...
25 November 2019
From: Breaking News

As the battle of political policies continues ahead of next month’s General Election, now Labour has unveiled a raft of initiatives...
22 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

The appeal by Labour’s Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, to be given powers to introduce rent controls have been dealt a...
15 November 2019
From: Breaking News

Many buy to let investors are still badly bruised by the government’s wave of fiscal and regulatory assaults on the private...
30 October 2019
From: Breaking News

Average UK rents continued to rise between July and September, but failed to keep up with inflation, according to The Deposit...
11 October 2019
From: Breaking News

There’s a warning from a leading agent that the unregulated proliferation of Airbnb-style short lets will lead to mainstream rent rises...
30 September 2019
From: Breaking News

Rents have reached an all time high across the UK according to HomeLet. Its latest index says the average rent in the...
13 September 2019
From: Breaking News

There should be open-ended tenancies with reduced rent for long-term contracts and any rent increase tied only to inflation. This dramatic reform...
21 August 2019
From: Breaking News

Data published by the Office for National Statistics shows private rental prices paid by tenants in the UK rising by 1.3...
16 August 2019
From: Breaking News

If you want a barometer of a stable lettings market, this appears to be it - rents are now rising at...
13 August 2019
From: Breaking News

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

A property management chief is arguing that rent controls would restrict mortgage loans to buy to let investors and drive existing...
04 June 2019
From: Breaking News

Rental growth remains in positive territory - just - but on average it’s still well below the general level of inflation...
09 April 2019
From: Breaking News

Rent rises in the year to the end of February, as released by the government’s Office of National Statistics, show growth...
21 March 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

Renting became more affordable in 2018 thanks to a combination of a once-in-a-decade fall in annual rents and wage inflation, according...
24 January 2019
From: Breaking News

The average UK rental values continued to grow towards the end of last year according to data with the average rent now...
11 January 2019
From: Breaking News

Edinburgh has been identified as having the UK’s fastest growing rents with the average annual sum rising by 4.63 per cent...
27 December 2018
From: Breaking News

The charity Shelter, which regularly campaigns against lettings agencies and landlords, is bracing itself for a strike next week - and...
07 December 2018
From: Breaking News

So-called ‘real rents’ - those adjusted for inflation - have fallen by 2.2 per cent since October 2008. This means that the...
12 November 2018
From: Breaking News

New research may explain why the government and Labour appear to be competing with each other to attack landlords and letting...
11 October 2018
From: Breaking News

A new study shows that 43 per cent of tenants want the system of private rental deposits to be dropped and...
18 September 2018
From: Breaking News
17 September 2018
From: Breaking News

Generation Rent, the controversial pressure group campaigning alongside Shelter and others for the scrapping of landlords’ rights to evict under Section...
29 August 2018
From: Breaking News

Rent rises in the private rental sector have merely tracked inflation and the Retail Price Index over the past five years...
13 August 2018
From: Breaking News

A lack of new rental properties coming to the market in London has helped push the annual rate of London asking...
26 July 2018
From: Breaking News
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Close examination of the consultation document on possible three year tenancies issued by the government suggest that it may want rent...
04 July 2018
From: Breaking News

The lettings industry has hit out at the Welsh Government’s proposals to ban agents’ fees levied on tenants. A Bill was put...
14 June 2018
From: Breaking News

Spicerhaart says that with the lettings agency industry under attack there is a danger of some within the sector focussing too...
16 May 2018
From: Breaking News
11 May 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

Rents have risen a negligible 0.9 per cent across the UK in the last 12 months according to HomeLet. The average monthly...
16 April 2018
From: Breaking News
09 March 2018
From: Breaking News

The Residential Landlords Association says Labour’s proposals to link rent increases to inflation would leave tenants worse off according to official...
15 February 2018
From: Breaking News

The average rent agreed on a new tenancy signed in December was £907 according to the insurance firm HomeLet, compared to...
23 January 2018
From: Breaking News

Latest data from HomeLet suggests that typical rents across the UK have fallen in real terms over the past 12 months. Average...
20 December 2017
From: Breaking News

It’s been discovered that a Capital Gains Tax measure buried in the small print of the Budget is likely to hit...
23 November 2017
From: Breaking News

The average UK rent increased just £11.55 or 1.51 per cent over the last year according to The Deposit Protection Service. The new DPS...
14 November 2017
From: Breaking News

Average rents across the UK rose a modest 0.9 per cent in the year to October, taking the country's average to...
09 November 2017
From: Breaking News

Rental growth is forecast to exceed house price growth in London, despite a glut of properties on the lettings market in...
03 November 2017
From: Breaking News

A leading accountancy and business advice consultancy says residential landlords who want to downsize their portfolios because of recent tax changes...
26 October 2017
From: Breaking News

Rents in the UK rose by an average of 2.1 per cent during September according to HomeLet. HomeLet says last month’s rise continues...
10 October 2017
From: Breaking News

Rents in the UK rose by an average of 2.4 per cent during August - the highest rate of annual growth...
18 September 2017
From: Breaking News

Rents are gently rising again after some months of small dips according to HomeLet. It says the average new tenancy signed during...
07 August 2017
From: Breaking News

A survey of letting and estate agencies suggest around half broadly back the changes to the private rental sector outlined in...
11 July 2017
From: Breaking News

Rents fell in June by 0.3 per cent when compared to the same time last year, the second successive month in...
05 July 2017
From: Breaking News

Average UK rents fell in May, according to the latest HomeLet Rental Index. The figures show that the average UK rent on...
06 June 2017
From: Breaking News

Conservative peer Lord Flight, a former shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, says the UK needs “a vibrant and growing private...
31 May 2017
From: Breaking News

The Liberal Democrats want a raft of additional controls on the private rented sector aimed at addressing what it describes as...
18 May 2017
From: Breaking News

The Labour Party has published its full manifesto for the upcoming General Election on June 8. Titled 'For the many not the...
17 May 2017
From: Breaking News

Rents on new tenancies in London fell by 1.2 per cent over the past 12 months to April - the first...
08 May 2017
From: Breaking News

New data from HomeLet shows that rental price inflation in the UK remained modest during March, increasing a small amount for...
24 April 2017
From: Breaking News

Prime Purchase, the buying arm of estate agency Savills, says renting may be “a more financially sound route” for some wealthy...
05 April 2017
From: Breaking News

Rents rose by a year-on-year average of 0.8 per cent at the end of last month - while inflation in the...
03 March 2017
From: Breaking News

Rents in the UK were an average of just 0.7 per cent higher last month than in January 2016, the latest...
03 February 2017
From: Breaking News

The cost of private rented housing is roughly mirroring changes in earnings across England - but in the social rented sector...
23 January 2017
From: Breaking News

New research claims that the financial benefits of renting rather than owning may have been under-rated. A financial researcher at the University...
12 January 2017
From: Breaking News

Rent increases across the UK are now running at an average that is less than half the level of a year...
11 January 2017
From: Breaking News

Northern Ireland, where rents were 6.4 per cent higher in December than in the same month of 2015, saw the strongest...
11 January 2017
From: Breaking News

Rents in London rose by just 1.6 per cent over the year to the end of November - the lowest increase...
16 December 2016
From: Breaking News

Government figures from the Office for National Statistics show average rents in privately let homes across Britain rose by an average...
31 October 2016
From: Breaking News

The rate of rental growth has dipped to its lowest annual rate this year - prices are up three per cent...
14 October 2016
From: Breaking News

Rents for new tenants across the UK continued to rise during August and now stand at an average of £913 a...
07 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

Research by HomeLet shows that rents on new tenancies outside London over the three months to March were on average 4.9...
13 April 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

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

The government’s initiatives to try to increase house building and owner occupation will not stop demand for rented homes rising by...
03 February 2016
From: Breaking News

Rents across England and Wales rose by an average of 3.4 per cent in 2015 - the fastest annual growth rate...
22 January 2016
From: Breaking News

The governor of the Bank of England has ruled out an immediate rise in interest rates because of the turmoil in...
20 January 2016
From: Breaking News

Dorian Gonsalves, director of commercial and franchising at Belvoir, is urging the government to dramatically increase the availability of social housing...
07 January 2016
From: Breaking News

Almost half of landlords are set to increase their rents in 2016 in a bid to counteract tax changes and higher...
31 December 2015
From: Breaking News

Rents across England and Wales have fallen between September and October, according to data from the Your Move and Reeds Rains...
20 November 2015
From: Breaking News

Franchise letting agency giant Winkworth is warning that London’s tenants face higher rents as some landlords sell investment properties in the...
13 November 2015
From: Breaking News

Stephen Moss, CEO of based Pring.co.uk the UK’s leading property investment search engine, takes a look at the impact of ‘Corbynmania’...
28 October 2015
From: Sponsored Content

Buy to let investors in England and Wales have seen their returns rise to around 10 per cent in the past...
20 October 2015
From: Breaking News

Rents in the private sector have been falling in real terms according to an independent study just published. The research, commissioned by...
09 October 2015
From: Breaking News

A long-established letting agency and a campaign group have joined forces to analyse a UK government's private rental sector reform proposals...
08 October 2015
From: Breaking News

One of Britain’s senior letting agents says the people likely to be hit hardest by changes of the buy to let...
13 July 2015
From: Breaking News

Campaigning charity Shelter appears for the first time to have acnowledged that rent caps may backfire and end up harming tenants...
07 July 2015
From: Breaking News

One of five people vying for selection as Labour’s candidate in the 2016 London Mayoral election says private sector rents can...
06 July 2015
From: Breaking News

Debate over spending cuts and taxation is increasingly asking whether landlords should continue to receive an estimated £10 billion - or...
22 June 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

Ian Wilson, the head of Martin & Co, recently threw his hat into the ring regarding Labour’s stated intention to cap...
06 May 2015
From: Features

Property industry figures opposed to Labour plans to impose three year tenancies and rent caps should lobby candidates in a bid...
30 April 2015
From: Breaking News

While much of the lettings industry protests against Labour proposals for rent controls and three year tenancies, an influential pressure group...
29 April 2015
From: Breaking News

There are “advantages all round” in the certainty that three-year tenancies and even rent controls can offer, according to the head...
28 April 2015
From: Breaking News

The Labour party’s proposals to cap rent rises with inflation and insist on three year tenancies in the private rental sector...
28 April 2015
From: Breaking News

Labour’s onslaught on the private rental sector continues, with the party now setting out how it will implement its rent controls...
27 April 2015
From: Breaking News

There has been widespread criticism of Labour's proposals for the private rental sector. The policies will “backfire” according to the National Landlords’ Association. "We understand...