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Student accommodation booking platform Housemates is expanding overseas. The expansion will cover several major Canadian cities including Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal. Currently Housemates...

A Manchester-based company which runs what it calls “an instant booking student accommodation marketplace” has joined forces with Norwegian tech firm...

Latest data from London-focussed lettings agency Chestertons confirms that the traditionally busy ‘summer season’ has kicked off. In June some 19 per...

Investors looking to add to their portfolios in 2023 should be urged to consider student housing opportunities, according to a Newcastle...

Knight Frank has made a candid observation about the prime London lettings market, saying it remains “a long way from normality.”  While...

HMOs rented by students can be up to £30 a week cheaper than purpose built student accommodation in halls of residence. That’s...

The first six months of 2022 saw 171 per cent more enquiries from tenants looking for properties in London compared to...

Research by the UK’s largest student accommodation search platform shows a 3.7 per cent uplift in London’s Purpose-Built Student Accommodation bed...

Cluttons has given its latest lettings market snapshot for London, with an upbeat assessment of current and future demand. The agency say...

An agent in one major university city says it’s faced with 50 students applying for each available property. Edinburgh residential property lettings,...

Research by a student accommodation search platform suggests that the sector may rely too heavily on the apparent year-on-year growth in...

The number of new prospective tenants registering with Knight Frank in August was 73 per cent higher than the same month...

London’s rental market gathered momentum in June as tenants anticipated a return to the office with 24 per cent more tenancies...

A Manchester agency says there’s been a 400 per cent increase in enquiries from international students. This huge number of enquiries for...

Knight Frank says the plummeting rents in prime central London have at least managed to attract a surge in the number...

Another major agency operating in central London confirms that the fall-out from the pandemic continues to produce a glut of units...

London agency Chestertons is warning that it’s going to be “another difficult year for the lettings market” in 2021. It says that...

Higher levels of supply and weaker demand have dominated prime London lettings markets this month says Knight Frank. This meant that average...

Rents continue to fall in Prime Central London according to agency Knight Frank. After September’s data is taken into account the annual...

Hamptons International has given a rental market forecast for 2021 - and it doesn’t make for happy reading. The agency says the rental...

The private rental sector dedicated to student accommodation in London could see a 24 per cent drop in income in the...

A new student accommodation property platform has been launched which aims to deliberately by-pass letting agents.  Housemates is for students, landlords and...

Coronavirus lockdowns and travel restrictions imposed by the UK and other governments have hit the London rental market badly, an agency...

One of the capital’s largest lettings agencies says business is recovering well, although ironically rents are down 10% and increased activity...

High-end lettings agency Knight Frank says the lettings market “could explode quite quickly” when the lockdown ends. The agency says that in...

Student bodies want letting agents to acknowledge that many students have lost their incomes and have been forced to return to...

A lettings agency and its director have pleaded guilty to renting out an overcrowded house in the first case brought to...

A lettings sector trade group says lavish additional services are being offered by landlords who are nervous that Brexit will lead...

A huge survey of students, seeking their views on accommodation, has ended with a question mark over the value for money...

Landlords’ confidence in their lettings business has slumped to an all-time low, according to research by the National Landlords Association. In a...

The Association of Residential Lettings Agents is urging member agents and the industry to ensure it is up to date with...

A family-run hybrid based in the North East has secured the £300,000 contract to manage a new student accommodation development in...

A lettings agency has teamed up with a university to give young students an insight into how small businesses operate. Priestley’s, a...

A rent guarantor service based in London and previously aiming itself at the UK market is expanding into the Republic of...

Right To Rent is encouraging discrimination against international students according to a student lts online service.    Government figures marking the first anniversary...

A short-let platform says overseas students may be a new market sector for agents who handle Airbnb-style bookings on behalf of...

A London agency has reported that its lettings revenues increased by a fifth during August. ludlowthompson's lettings revenue increased by 20% year-on-year...

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

The 107,000 overseas students using London’s burgeoning private rental market contribute some £600m annually to landlords, according to research by agency...

Rents in prime central London are rising again after a prolonged period of stagnation, according to property advisers London Central Portfolio. “The...

Forget those ideas that even posh students live in digs or shared houses - prime central London agency Napier Watt has...