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An influential Labour website says a raft of proposed reforms for the private rental sector will be unveiled next month -...

Propertymark is joining a growing chorus demanding an annual uprate of working age benefits and Local Housing Allowance. LHA rates have been...

Just four months after opening a fourth office of lettings agency Martin & Co in London, franchisee Michael van de Vyver...

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

Last week’s Autumn Statement - which fell short of expectations in terms of help for the private rental sector - is...

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has used his Autumn Statement to reveal measures affecting both the rental market and the wider property industry.  The Local Housing...

Councils have become increasingly hostile towards agents in recent times, with increased regulation and licensing of the private rental sector in...

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

Savills has announced a new head of its lettings department in its Bishops Park office in Fulham. Christina McLean steps into the...

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

New research shows a 41 per cent reduction in the number of London properties available for private rent since the Covid-19...

Propertymark has told a group of MPs that many benefit recipients are excluded from the private rented sector due to the...

A London-focused lettings agency says actual rents in the capital are far greater than official average figures produced by the government.  Benham...

It already looks like 2023 is on track to see licensing fines for agents and landlords reaching nearly double the 2022...

Propertymark has renewed its call for Local Housing Allowance  - which has remained static since 2020 - to be increased. It says...

The Labour Party is to launch a major review of the private rental sector, led by the head of a London...

Leaders Romans Group is unveiling what it claims is a new ‘sustainable’ branch office for its Portico brand in Fulham, London. The...

London faces a possible homelessness spike this winter due to the cost-of-living crisis and increases in private rents, a group of...

PropTech firm Kamma says total fines for agents and landlords have now topped £8m in London alone with a £238,000 increase...

A high profile London lettings agency says some owners of properties in prime areas of the capital have seen capital appreciation...

Samuel Estates, an agency based in south west London, has snapped up local independent Home Lets. Established in 2004 the first Samuel...

Historic agency Chestertons has appointed its long-serving lettings chief Richard Davies as its new chief executive. This follows the departure of high...

A London agency says properties in its patch let in just five days.  Draker Lettings in Fulham has just 22 available instructions...

An agency has secured what it calls the fastest ever letting of a mansion on the legendary north London street, Bishops...

A little-known law may require tenants to pay stamp duty on the rental properties they do not actually own. London lettings agency...

The London agency Bective says the prime areas of the capital have enjoyed an eight per cent uplift in rental values...

Council-imposed fines on letting agents and landlords that fall foul of licensing regulations have risen dramatically in the past month alone. Research...

Linley & Simpson, one of the North of England’s leading residential letting agents, has expanded its Sheffield operations just six months...

A buying agency says it’s seen what it calls “a huge uptake in furnished lettings requests” following recent floods in London,...

There’s a warning today that office-to-resi conversions - popular with landlords in recent years - are at an increased risk of...

One of the most pessimistic lettings operations about the London market during the pandemic says that at last the capital is...

Rental demand has started to return to the majority of major UK cities during the second quarter of this year, with...

A property investment platform has taken the unusual approach of accusing the government of driving up homelessness through its policy of...

At least one lettings agency is on a list of targets for socially-distanced protests tomorrow by anti-eviction campaigners in the left...

A senior buying agent is warning that new regulations over the length of notice given to tenants is having an unexpected...

With the Government announcement this week of another national lockdown across England amid the surging coronavirus infections, it once again puts...

Lettings agency Carter Jonas predicts the housing market - for both owner-occupiers and landlords - will become increasingly eco-focussed in 2021. It says...

Recent debate about urgent need for reform and better collaboration within the property industry, has once again come under the spotlight...

Samuel Estates, a south west London agency, has acquired its third independent local firm in 2020. The latest to be snapped up...

There’s widespread concern that a freeze on the Local Housing Allowance will worsen rental arrears. Although Chancellor Rishi Sunak failed to mention...

Generation Rent’s campaign for more public funds for private tenants continues unabated with a call on Chancellor Rishi Sunak to increase...

The Generation Rent campaign has renewed its call for public money to be allocated to clear at least some rent arrears...

It’s been an unexpected year for the property market, shaped by the effects of the pandemic. We didn’t quite anticipate the...

A pro-tenant campaign group has this morning kicked off its campaign to have the eviction ban - already extended until late...

More than a third of furloughed private renters are worried about being able to pay their rent when the coronavirus lockdown...

A leading trade body is backing calls by MPs for additional financial support to tenants during the Coronavirus crisis. The National Residential...

The Generation Rent pressure group, fiercely critical of agents and landlords in recent months, wants the government to implement a 12 month...

When it comes to good works, one frequently-featured agency is Chestertons in London - and again it’s come up trumps during...

Pressure group Generation Rent claims half of London’s councils did not fine any landlords for letting out unsafe homes in the...

A newspaper claims multiple councils are opening investigations into agents allegedly defying the tenant fees ban - and at least one...

London agency Draker Lettings is expanding its patch - and offering landlords a free service for six months. Draker, which is 10...

Plans to end the freeze on housing benefits will still leave many tenants unable to afford rent say landlords. Following the announcement...

Greater London rents have risen an average of four per cent in the past year - but some boroughs performing above-average...

Rents in London are rocketing but a leading market commentator says this is no reason to give in to a “Marxist dystopia”...

Local authorities are failing in their duty to prosecute criminal letting agents, the National Landlords Association (NLA) has warned. The NLA says...

A substantial study by university academics suggests that changes to the benefit system lie behind the long-term rise in homelessness from...

The lettings book of My London Home will be absorbed into the Stirling Ackroyd portfolio and rebranded this autumn. Consisting of nearly...

Average rents in London are £1,615, up 3.3 per cent on last year, according to HomeLet’s latest index. This is the first...

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

London landlords and letting agents could be missing out on up to £111 million of short-term rental revenue each year, according...

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...

A London letting agency is opening a new branch thanks to continued high demand from EU nationals looking for rental property...

Knight Frank has recruited Neil Cunningham to become head of South West London and Home Counties lettings, overseeing the performance of...

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

It seems prop-tech is exploding at a scary rate, and the latest brands are all trying to grab our attention by...

Annoying isn’t it. You take on a stunning property, agree a compelling asking price and your Vendor is desperate to get the...

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A London council has agreed to implement a new ‘standards charter’ for the private rental sector from next month - in...

A high street letting agent claims that the growth of online agents is a 'false economy'. Fran Mulhall, regional manager for GFW...

The key lies in improving your customer experience through technology For Agents, the tremendous growth in online estate agents highlights a strong...

Our latest infographic shows figures of how the majority of deposits are repaid at the end of tenancy and goes into...

Another local authority is aiming to set up its own ‘social’ lettings agency.   The proposal is one of five put forward by...

A firm which claims to be London's fastest growing letting agency has opened its fifteenth branch. Benham & Reeves Residential Lettings' latest...

A typical tenant in a two-bed property in England will have paid over £40,000 in rent in the past five years...

An inappropriate advert for a rental property has been removed from a flat-sharing website. The ad, featured on flatshare.com, was for a...

A letting agency chain is claiming to be London’s largest independent letting agent after opening its 13th office. Benham & Reeves Residential...

Letting agency GFW Lettings says new Green Deal targets to improve energy efficiency will have a challenging impact on private sector...