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Rightmove says it’s now cheaper to buy than rent in each of Great Britain’s biggest cities, highlighting why many determined first-time...

Data from in-the-news agency Foxtons reveals rental applicant demand has increased 9% from February, yet is now still 14% lower year...

A new guide from Propertymark explains the rights which private rental tenants have - and sets out how they can challenge...

The government’s failure to act on the Regulation of Property Agents (RoPA) working party - chaired by Lord Richard Best and...

The chief executive of one of Britain’s largest franchise agency chains is warning that rents may no longer be able to...

Interest rates are expected to stay high despite good inflation news likely to be announced this week. The Office for Budget Responsibility...

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

The Guild of Property Professionals is launch a new Ezine system for members to market properties to let and for sale. According...

Curchods is making a bid to expand its activities in the high end Surrey market with a rebrand of its latest...

There’s been at most a one per cent reduction in landlords in the buy to let sector, a think tank claims...

Propertymark has batted away any possible market pessimism as a result of a downbeat price index result from the Halifax  Just before...

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

Agents have expressed their anger at permanent rent controls proposed by the SNP and Green Party politicians running the Scottish Government. The...

For first time buyers, renting is cheaper than buying in most of the UK according to new data from the Halifax.  London, the...

Propertymark is telling the Bank of England that now is the perfect time to cut base rate and trigger wider interest...

Average UK private rents increased by 9.0% in the 12 months to February 2024 according to the Office for National Statistics. This...

February saw significant improvements in activity across the prime London lettings market, and annual rental growth also increased slightly after four...

Propertymark has urged the Scottish Government to resolve the country’s ongoing housing emergency. The news comes as Scottish Labour MSP Mark Griffin...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has launched a new Residential Retrofit Standard in a bid to help the housing industry...

A former housing minister responsible for the sell off of huge numbers of social homes has told the Prime Minister he...

Latest inflation figures are announced on Wednesday and the Bank of England makes its next base rate decision on Thursday. The Office...

Today’s new market snapshot from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors shows tenant demand rising but at a rather more modest...

Asking rents continue to show pos­itive annualised growth in all regions except Greater London and Scotland.  That’s according to respected property website...

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

A survey from property portal Share to Buy suggests that over three quarters of buyers believe they cannot afford to purchase...

The PropTech sector has mostly agreed with the rest of the industry in its view on yesterday’s Budget - that it...

The Chancellor has used his Budget to confirm a 2p cut in National Insurance, from April 6. This will take it...

Nationwide has taken the unusual step of using its buy to let lending arm - The Mortgage Works - to make...

A network uniting so-called ‘ethical agents’ launches today with a promise to be different from the rest of the industry. The Ethical...

The chief executive of Propertymark has made an outspoken attack on the government in response to its latest attempt to extract...

Just weeks after announcing that it was launching a new residential lettings and property management division, regional agency Dacre, Son &...

A prominent property expert who runs a buying and property management service for high end clients says London still attracts international...

The letting agents’ trade body Propertymark has made the unexpected move of calling on banks to cut mortgage rates. Rates are typically...

Aldermore has named Bristol, as the best city for landlords to invest in for 2024.  Manchester, Coventry, Brighton and London make up...

A lettings industry supplier claims one in nine renters use foodbanks. A survey of tenants, commissioned by Zero Deposit, found that just...

Renters are less financially resilient than recent remortgagers according to an analysis by business consultants Hargreaves Lansdown. It says over two thirds...

New figures from lenders trade body UK Finance show a massive fall in buy to let loans for those aged 55...

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

The trade body representing short lets providers and support companies has reacted angrily to government proposals for a radical shake up. Housing...

Agency software service Alto has announced a new integration with Zero Deposit.  Research by Zero Deposit shows that 65 per cent of...

Long-standing lettings franchisee Kevin Hall has snapped up a third independent agency in his town. Hall, who has run the Ashford branch...

Propertymark wants the Bank of England to cut interest rates following data showing soaring mortgage arrears and repossessions. Lenders trade body UK...

Shelter is warning that the government’s failure to abolish Section 21 evictions will backfire and that “renters will remember who stood...

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

Rents are approaching an affordability ceiling according to Savills - but the agency admits it doesn’t see substantial new supply on...

The British Property Federation claims the time required for Build To Rent planning applications has significantly increased over the past decade...

New data released by insurance firm HomeLet claims that average rents have fallen now for three months on the bounce. The past...

A buying agent claims that rents could finally be tailing off despite some indices showing rises still taking place. According to Rightmove,...

A trades union has slammed the Bank of England over its decision to keep base rate at 5.25 per cent, saying...

Rents have risen seven per cent in the past year while voids have lengthened in the past month - although remain...

The Building Research Establishment - which undertakes research, advice, training, testing, certification and standards-setting for the housing sector - is calling...

The Bank of England has kept its base rate at 5.25 per cent but markets forecast this will drop from the summer as...

Stamp duty receipts dipped four per cent to £2.4 billion in Q3 of last year - no less than 25 per...

A new networking service for letting agents and all other property insiders, including landlords and investors, is being launched today by...

A managing partner at a letting agency has given an insight into the unique forces which he says is “strangling” the...

A law professor has dismissed a Labour call for agents to have qualifications as “eye poppingly silly” and “snobby.” Labour’s shadow housing...

A Knight Frank survey of 50 house builders shows a staggering 70 per cent support for Labour to win the next...

A return of pent-up demand and mortgage rates falling below five per cent have boosted the start of the year for...

Foxtons’ unaudited end-of-year trading statement makes no bones about it - the lettings division saved the agency’s bacon in 2023. It suffered...

The UK government has taken an equity stake in the rental investment platform Shojin through the conversion of a pandemic-era loan...

Two former housing ministers are at war with each other after an attack on Rishi Sunak’s premiership in today’s Daily Telegraph. Sir...

Just under half of mortgage brokers expect to place more limited company buy-to-let business throughout the next 12 months, Paragon Bank...

Thousands of lettings and estate agencies, and other property businesses, are in ‘critical’ or ‘significant’ financial distress, it’s been claimed. The latest...

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

There are growing fears that the hoped-for Bank of England base rate cut this spring - the first off possibly several...

Property taxes in Scotland exceeded £600m over the last year according to analysis of the latest statistics by the country’s largest...

Knight Frank has revised its housing market forecasts for 2024, just two weeks into the new year. It’s done this on the...

A leading lettings agency says 2023 was a record-breaking year for rental growth.   The average rent on a newly let property in...

Letting agents’ body Propertymark is throwing its weight behind a mandatory licensing and registration scheme for short let landlords. Anyone who lets...

New rent control proposals put forward by politicians are unnecessary and too costly according to a leading property expert.  David Alexander -...

Winkworth’s first trading statement of 2024 reveals that it saw a five per cent rise in rental revenues in 2023 -...

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

A series of lenders have slashed their buy to let mortgage rates in a bid to win business. These include: - LendInvest Mortgages...

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

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

Lower mortgage rates - still falling in the days since the end of the festive break - may be persuading some...

Newspaper report claims some 710 properties have been put into the private rental market by the government - and they are...

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

UK Finance has published its housing and mortgage market forecasts for 2024 and 2025 together with projections for 2023 full year numbers. Key figures for 2023 In...

The Jackson-Stops agency is warning that the Renters Reform Bill is driving investors away - and making the market worse, not...

Repairs and maintenance supplier Fixflo is warning agents of a surge in demand for Electrical Installation Condition Reports in the short...

Propertymark has urged the government to do more to help the country’s most vulnerable citizens heat their homes.   Office for National Statistics...

All eyes are on HM Treasury this week ahead of the next inflation figures, to be released on Wednesday morning. Analysts suggest...

Propertymark has laid out its proposals to the Scottish Government ahead of its 2024-25 Budget next week. The letting agents’ trade body...

Private landlords are abandoning their property portfolios in unprecedented numbers, a group of surveyors claims. The Manchester-based chartered surveyors and auctioneers -...

There were 3.7 new prospective tenants for every rental property listed in prime London postcodes last month says Knight Frank. The figure,...

A survey of more than 1,000 landlords in the Deposit Protection Service shows the scale of change in the private rental...

It looks as if the rental market is set to stay strong for some years to come. That’s because lending for house...

Campaigning charity Shelter claims there’s a conspiracy amongst MPs, landlords and others in the private rental sector to water down the...

Long-standing activist investor Brett Stone has made a last-ditch bid to scupper a proposed takeover of OnTheMarket by US firm CoStar. CoStar...

Portsmouth and Southsea lettings agency Chinneck Shaw has been appointed to manage the first purpose-built Build to Rent project from Ravelin...

Leaders Romans Group is calling for a Landlords Reform Bill to balance the challenges and apparent disincentives now deterring landlords from...

The long-term shortage of rental accommodation is now addressed by a short-term clampdown on second homes and empty properties, a leading...

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

An agency has issued its rental market forecast for 2024. Chestertons says rents are forecast to have increased by 6.5 per cent...

The prominent independent advisor ISS - Institutional Shareholder Services - has publicly backed the OnTheMarket board and is recommending shareholders vote ‘for’...

A prominent housing expert has told MPs that letting agents could be used to police the standards off homes made available...

The London rental market is shifting towards equilibrium for the first time since the end of the pandemic, according to Foxtons. In...

Inflation figures for the year to October are out this week and are expected to have fallen to 4.8 per cent. That’s...

A deposit alternative service claims online searches by tenants reflect increased uncertainty over affordability. Deposit alternatives are under scrutiny at the moment...