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The House of Commons Library, an independent body not controlled by government, has published a detailed history of the many measures...

New laws to limit rent increases to once a year in Northern Ireland have moved a step closer and lettings agents...

The lettings market continues to boom, with HomeLet’s latest index showing average UK rents at a record high for the third...

Reluctance to move during the pandemic is thought to be a key reason for a sharp drop in tenancy disputes between...

Northern Ireland’s Department for Communities is extending the regulations for the period of notice a landlord must give a tenant before...

There’s been a 21 per cent rise in demand for properties from buy to let investors according to a new analysis...

A new estimate put the value of the UK private rental sector at almost £1.4 trillion. Buy to let and investment consultancy...

Propertymark has given its broad support to a new Private Members Bill introduced into the Northern Ireland assembly, aimed at improving...

There’s still no sign of a lettings market slowdown according to the latest report from ARLA Propertymark. It says that the average...

The Home Staging Association has launched a course for agents on how to dress and prepare properties for maximum effect when...

A scheme being proposed in Northern Ireland has been branded as a threat to letting agents. The Northern Ireland Executive is considering...

The ESTAS Awards ceremony is traditionally held each May but no prizes for guessing why this year, as with 2020, things...

Average rents across the UK have risen for the fourth time in as many months according to the HomeLet index. Typical rent...

Latest figures from ARLA Propertymark suggest the rental market continues to perform strongly. Data for February - the latest available from the...

The National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agents Team is appealing to the industry to be eagle-eyed for scams. This follows the...

A leading property law expert says there is now pressure on Chancellor Rishi Sunak to raise stamp duty on buy to...

Letting agents say the number of tenants experiencing rent increases fell for the third month in a row. The latest ARLA Propertymark...

A new online platform for students to search for and book accommodation has been launched, claiming to be “the fastest, simplest and...

As lockdown – Season 2, the sequel no one asked for – gets underway in England, landlords, tenants and agents will...

A property company that owns and manages premises occupied by a politician has returned some £10,000 in furlough money received under...

A Green Party councillor has been refunded fees he and his partner were charged by a letting agency five years ago,...

The Chartered Institute of Housing claims there may be a “massive increase” in evictions in the near future. In a briefing paper the...

The latest monthly rental index produced by insurance provider HomeLet shows a four per cent surge in the all-UK average rent...

Activists from the controversial renters’ group Acorn have picketed the headquarters of a national rental firm in a dispute over a...

There have been changes to the Notice To Quit process in Northern Ireland. The Private Tenancies (Coronavirus Modifications) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020...

A group of Labour and Liberal Democrat MPs have together claimed that England could witness "a new wave of homelessness" when...

Room rents in the capital have dropped seven per cent in the past three months as the Coronavirus crisis saps demand...

Shelter is calling for stricter enforcement against letting agents in Northern Ireland which it claims are illegally charging tenants fees for...

A stamp duty cut could reinvigorate the buy to let market and the wider economy as the country comes out of...

The lettings market in Northern Ireland is resuming on Monday after its lockdown because of the Coronavirus crisis. Arlene Foster, first minister of...

Different guidelines have been issued for the rental sector in different parts of the British Isles as devolved administrations get to...

A Northern Ireland lettings agent is providing rent-free housing for NHS staff who have moved out of their own homes to...

The typical UK private rental deposit, often considered high in this country, is thought to be relatively low by international standards...

A third of all landlords live in Greater London and the South East according to data collated by a property management...

This month sees the launch of a new trade body for the lettings sector - the National Residential Landlords Association. It’s the...

A trade body suggests that the votes of private landlords could decide the results in over 100 constituencies in next week’s...

UK-wide rental prices are up 2.0 per cent annually to £876 – a three-year high – according to a new quarterly...

The cost of renting a room in the UK remained steady during Q3, according to SpareRoom. The country's biggest flatsharing site says...

A huge US property investment firm valued at over $10 billion is entering the UK’s purpose build student accommodation sector. Chicago-based CA...

The majority of the UK’s private renters don’t want to purchase a home according to new research, coming just as the...

Ben Beadle is to be the chief executive of the new National Residential Landlords Association, launching in January. The new body comes...

A lettings platform has analysed the current average annual rental cost of different parts of the UK and how that relates...

A council tenant has been fined £100,000 and evicted because he let out his flat via Airbnb.  The Times reports that Toby...

An analysis of rental properties in Scotland to discover the most numerous overseas landlords has discovered, perhaps surprisingly, that they come...

Data from rental insurance firm HomeLet suggests that the Tenant Fees Act may already be causing more movement amongst tenants. The firm...

A BBC investigation of 52 lettings agents has found that two thirds were levying charges on tenants, but it is uncertain...

An average of 34 per cent of a tenant’s typical salary is spent on rent across the UK, according to an...

Not-for-profit operator Tenancy Deposit Scheme says early intervention between landlords and tenants across the UK is resulting in many more deposit...

An analysis of the rental market in England has revealed a dramatic drop in the number of EU nationals taking up...

New data looking specifically at room rental rates suggest that across the UK rents rose by an average three per cent...

Student demand for places across the UK - and therefore for accommodation - is holding up well despite Brexit uncertainty, according...

The gap between the cost of buying and renting is down 59 per cent to its lowest level in nine years...

Latest official figures show that private rental prices paid by tenants in the UK rose by 1.0 per cent in the...

Renting became more affordable in 2018 thanks to a combination of a once-in-a-decade fall in annual rents and wage inflation, according...

Most tenants believe they will never be able to own a home because of the burden of saving for a deposit...

Deposit protection provider The Dispute Service says it has seen a big rise in the number of deposits it protects in...

The average rent in the UK is now £928 per calendar month, up by 2.1 per cent on the same time...

The Republic of Ireland has adopted new policies requiring owners in 'high housing demand areas' to secure planning consent if they...

Urgent action is needed to tackle discrimination against benefit claimants by buy to let mortgage providers according to a leading trade...

With an average rental return of 7.69 per cent Ireland has been named as the top location in Europe for buy to...

The Home Office is to reconvene its private rental sector stakeholder panel on Right to Rent. This follows a controversial period for...

A leading trade body says EU citizens living in the UK run the risk of losing their rental homes without swift...

Average UK rents have risen 1.8 per cent in the last year, equating to a typical £16 monthly hike. That’s the view...

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

A rental market survey conducted for The Deposit Protection Service claims the average rent has fallen in the UK for the...

The average rent agreed on a new tenancy signed in December was £907 according to the insurance firm HomeLet, compared to...

Latest data from HomeLet suggests that typical rents across the UK have fallen in real terms over the past 12 months. Average...

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...

A trade body says the expanding Build To Rent sector will never be large enough to meet tenant demand and as...

Yields from buy to let in the UK are now amongst the worst in Europe according to a new league table drawn...

Rents in the UK rose by an average of 2.4 per cent during August - the highest rate of annual growth...

Letting agents across the UK must prepare now for a ban on fees charged to tenants says a PropTech company -...

A new report identifies in detail over 145 laws and regulations governing the private rental sector, varying across the four countries...

The average UK private rental tenancy is now 20 months, almost a fifth longer than in 2014 according to research from...

Rents are gently rising again after some months of small dips according to HomeLet.    It says the average new tenancy signed during...

A crowdfunding campaign for a legal challenge against the rollout of the Right to Rent scheme is nearing its funding target. With...

Immigration charity Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) has this week launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise funds for...

A buy to let expert says there should be stronger enforcement and streamlining of legislation in the private rental sector. In a...

A seven per cent fall in the number of EU students seeking places at UK universities, matched with a 4.3 per...

ARLA Propertymark representatives have met with Home Office officials in Cardiff and Edinburgh ahead of the government’s roll-out of Right To...

Poor communication, not being treated as a customer, and the time it takes to get property issues resolved have topped the...

A damning critique of the one-year-old Right To Rent legislation in England suggests that the government is largely unaware of its...

The Residential Landlords Association has been quick off the mark to issue what it calls a seven point wish list to...

Now Northern Ireland appears to be in the frame for substantial changes to the private rental sector according to the Association...

Properties let out via Airbnb in the Republic of Ireland may come under greater planning scrutiny.    It follows the news that a...

Northern Ireland, where rents were 6.4 per cent higher in December than in the same month of 2015, saw the strongest...

One of the UK’s largest local government pension schemes has committed £100m to invest in the fast-growing Build To Rent sector.   The...

The UK is only the 15th best place in Europe to enjoy high returns from buy to let according to currency...

Earlier this month we reported on Belfast council’s decision to open a public consultation on whether To Let boards should be...

A major survey has given a vote of confidence to buy to let despite the wave of fiscal, political and economic...

Buy to let landlords may be forced to raise rents or even sell their properties because of the government’s new tax...

An action group campaigning on behalf of landlords has confirmed that it is ready to begin legal action against the Bank...

Rents across the UK are still rising but the rate of growth continues to slow.   Data from HomeLet shows that rents agreed...

Letting agents and landlords operating in Northern Ireland are now being invited to go through an accredited training programme being operated...

Rents in Scotland are at a record high, after the fastest month-on-month growth on record.  Data from Your Move shows that average...

The Property 118 website - which last week won a notable victory in the Court of Appeal against a building society...

All regions of the UK will see falling owner-occupation levels and more private renting over the next decade, with particular rises...

A review of the private rental sector in Northern Ireland has been launched - but there is a tight deadline, with...

New research from HomeLet reveals that Brighton, Bristol, Edinburgh and Newcastle recorded the largest increase in rents last year amongst the...

Q: What does it say on your business card?   Head of Indirect Sales & Partnership Products Q: What does your role involve? I head up...

The Scottish Government is to announce today whether it is replicating the three per cent stamp duty hike on buy to...

PropertyPal, a portal covering Northern Ireland, has launched a new Android app which allows consumers to ‘draw’ a defined area in...

Up to 5,000 landlords are reported to be receiving licensing fee refunds as a result of legal advice given to the...

The latest survey of private sector rents by HomeLet shows very large regional differences with one area seeing a 4.9 per...

There has been a mixed response from the private rental industry following the announcement that Right To Rent checks will become mandatory...

After six months of annual rent price rises of 10 per cent plus the latest HomeLet index shows rent prices have...

Manchester-based estate and letting agency Ascend Properties claims it has secured lettings deals with clients in China, Kuwait, Canada and Ireland,...

It’s been revealed that Airbnb - the online informal lettings service which can be used to by-pass letting agents - passes details...

The National Landlords Association has issued a briefing note which it says is a warning to Labour’s leadership and deputy leadership...

A licensing system for private landlords and letting agents is the way forward for the Northern Ireland rental sector according to...

After a night of remarkable election results, it looks likely that much of the residential property industry - which was strongly...