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Rents across the UK continue to retreat from their 2023 highs, falling by 2.9 per cent over the last three months,...

Low-income renters will get a boost next spring - but a pressure group wants more government help for this sector. The Chancellor’s...

One of the players in the controversial Deposit Alternative field is stepping up its case for this kind of service to...

Tenants in Bristol are paying 41 per cent more for a rental property than they did just five years ago, it...

Professional cleaning firm Prompt Cleaners has created a league table of regions and local authorities where renting is cheapest and dearest. The...

A lettings agency claims foreign homeowners are sitting on £84.2 billion worth of property across England and Wales - but with...

London letting agents and landlords have so far been hit with more than £900,000 in fines in the first half of...

Some parts of London have recorded over 50 per cent of sales as second or additional properties. Research by lending firm Octane...

A rental platform has revealed the wide disparity in rents to the north and south of the Thames in London, and...

The London rental market stock surplus spurred by pandemic uncertainty has started to subside, with prime boroughs seeing some of the...

A leading market forecaster has described the level of rent rises in one part of the country as “going ballistic”. “The London...

Home, the property website that publishes an authoritative market snapshot for lettings and sales each month, says the long-standing supply drought...

Propertymark has told the government that imposing the same solution to the Net Zero challenge on all of the private rental...

Rapidly rising rents may trigger a new wave of investment buyers in London, helping to resuscitate the capital’s sales market in...

One of the London boroughs synonymous with wealth has revealed that 44 per cent of its housing stock is now actually...

A lettings agency in central London has been issued with a fine for not belonging to a Client Money Protection scheme. The...

The average cost of renting in England is almost unchanged from five years ago - although that masks significant localised variations.  The...

Zoopla has revealed its top 10 hotspots for buy to let investors seeking high rental yields.  The analysis is based on rental returns...

New research suggested that yields across the UK rental market are remaining broadly unchanged despite the Coronavirus crisis. The current average sits...

New research shows that some buy to let investors in London could typically lose over £19,000 a year if Berlin-style rent...

Rental growth remains in positive territory - just - but on average it’s still well below the general level of inflation...

A flat-share website claims typical rents in some 38 per cent of London are now so high they render the areas...

A rental management firm has launched a new home-sharing platform which it says is aimed at everyone wanting a place to...

Rents in London rose by 0.1 per cent in the 12 months to June - it’s the first annual rental increase...

A new analysis of rental yields across all of the UK’s local authorities has revealed exactly where the best places are for...

Landlords exiting the market because of tax and red tape have led to “an acute shortage of available properties to rent”...

Some 43 per cent of all stamp duty comes from buy to let investors and holiday home purchasers - and almost...

A warning has come from a campaigning letting agent that London’s landlords agents could be costing themselves tenants by requiring them...

Rokstone has launched a new lettings division, operating out of the firm’s existing Marylebone offices and covering both short and long term...

Draker, which describes itself as the largest lettings-only agency in Kensington and Chelsea, has now expanded by opening a new office...

Pastor Real Estate, a long-standing agency operating in Mayfair and Monaco, is expanding its London activities.   The boutique agency, which covers lettings and sales as...

Two board members of Shelter who have links with the Grenfell Towers fire tragedy have resigned, according to a report in...

Stoke-on-Trent has been named as the UK's buy-to-let 'sweet spot'. Analysis of data from Home.co.uk by property crowdfunding plaform Property Partner shows...

The landlord of a west London property, described by a judge as a "deathtrap" and an "accident waiting to happen", has...

A property management service claims there has been an “explosion” in the number of short lets undertaken through Airbnb and similar...

The landlord of an overcrowded flat which lacked proper fire precautions and had a dangerous boiler has been fined £162,000. Abbas Rasul...

A London landlord who failed to comply with an Improvement Notice to maintain his property for his tenants has a £4,000-plus...

A BBC investigation claims that people living in the private rental sector spend more than a third of their disposable income...

Data from London agency Portico suggests rents dipped 1.7 per cent during the May to July period, covering six weeks leading up...

A prime central London letting agency says there has been a rise in the number of subletting scams in that part...

A landlord who did not have the required licence for the number of tenants living in his property, and who also...