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![Almost No Reduction in Buy To Let Supply, insists think tank](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Buy-to-let-2-400x310.png)
There’s been at most a one per cent reduction in landlords in the buy to let sector, a think tank claims...
08 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![RICS Warning: rents still rising as landlords quit lettings sector](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/HousePrices_pound-400x310.png)
Today’s new market snapshot from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors shows tenant demand rising but at a rather more modest...
14 March 2024
From: Breaking News
![Emma Parsons, Head of Partnership Development at flatfair](/upload/images/adv-2021/60-second-interview/emma%20400%20by%20310%20.png)
Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Emma Parsons, Head of Partnership Development What is flatfair and what...
25 September 2023
From: 60 Second Interview
![Buying agent reports landlords willing to sell at a loss](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/HousingMarket_400x310.png)
Jo Eccles, director of London-focussed buying agency and property consultancy Eccord, says she is witnessing some landlords willing to quit the...
03 April 2023
From: Breaking News
![Arrears to rise as landlords quit sector - new survey of agents](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/ToLetBoard-400x310.png)
A survey of letting agents suggests arrears will rise this year, and yet more landlords will quit the private rental sector. The...
17 January 2023
From: Breaking News
![Agents Warn - tough year coming up for rental sector](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Estate_Agent1-400x310.png)
The UK Association of Letting Agents says a survey of its members suggests that 2023 will be a tough year for...
11 January 2023
From: Breaking News
![Agents tell Truss & Co - “get realistic” over EPC rental targets](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/EPC-3-400x310.png)
The agents’ trade body Propertymark says the government must “get realistic” over the difficulties involved in reaching Net Zero targets when...
17 October 2022
From: Breaking News
![Fixed term tenancies MUST stay, industry tells government](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/RentalMarketImage-1-400x310.jpg)
A team of experts has released a report that responds to government reform plans - and it insists that if Section...
27 September 2022
From: Breaking News
![Periodic Tenancies - new data shows threat to private renting](/upload/images/Tables%2C%20Graphs%2C%20Infographics/HousingMarket-7-400x310.jpg)
HMOs rented by students can be up to £30 a week cheaper than purpose built student accommodation in halls of residence. That’s...
04 August 2022
From: Breaking News
![More buy to lets being sold despite rental market strength - data](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/BTL400x310.png)
More buy to let properties are being put on the sales market, despite the strength in the lettings sector, says Zoopla. In...
30 September 2021
From: Breaking News
![Interview with Maxine Fothergill, ARLA President](/img/default/lat.png)
Who are you and what does it say on your business card? My name is Maxine Fothergill and for the past ‘almost’...
28 July 2021
From: 60 Second Interview
![Agents demand radical overhaul of eco-targets for rental sector](/img/default/lat.png)
Agents and other industry players have penned an open letter to government demanding a radical overhaul of targets for energy efficiency in the...
07 April 2021
From: Breaking News
![Half of buy to let investors considering selling - even before virus](/img/default/lat.png)
A survey of the buy to let market conducted by a bank before the latest acceleration in the Coronavirus outbreak suggests...
19 March 2020
From: Breaking News
![Shocking 12% drop in homes to let in parts of Britain in 2019](/img/default/lat.png)
Countrywide has calculated that with many landlords exiting the buy to let market, the number of homes available to rent has...
27 December 2019
From: Breaking News
![Fees Ban: record rent rises in response to Tenant Fees Act](/img/default/lat.png)
The Association of Residential Lettings Agents says there has been a record number of rent increases reported by its members. In a...
01 August 2019
From: Breaking News
![Sell off goes on with more landlords quitting as Fees Ban kicks in](/img/default/lat.png)
The Association of Residential Lettings Agents says the feared sell-off of private rental units is continuing apace on the eve of...
31 May 2019
From: Breaking News
![Consolidation of agencies is bad news for renters, says ARLA](/img/default/lat.png)
The Association of Residential Letting Agents says there is a record number of homes available to renters - but this does...
26 April 2019
From: Breaking News
![Buy to let sell-off is “snowballing” in London warns ARLA](/img/default/lat.png)
The number of London landlords exiting the market last month was a whopping 125 per cent higher than the national average. The...
29 March 2019
From: Breaking News
![Rents start to rise despite dip in demand, says ARLA](/img/default/lat.png)
The number of agents seeing rent rises imposed on tenants hit 34 per cent in February, well up on the 26...
28 March 2019
From: Breaking News
![Agency backs growth of Build To Rent, saying ”more is needed”](/img/default/lat.png)
High-end lettings agency Knight Frank is predicting that £75 billion of investment will be committed to the Build To Rent sector...
06 February 2019
From: Breaking News
![Shock as landlord exodus in one region is twice the UK average](/img/default/lat.png)
The number of landlords exiting the market in the East of England is 100 per cent higher than the national average...
27 December 2018
From: Breaking News
![Landlords ARE quitting buy to let - but fewer than feared](/img/default/lat.png)
Research by franchise lettings agency company Belvoir suggests that landlords are continuing to exit the property market, although not at the...
19 December 2018
From: Breaking News
!['Very large clouds over rental sector' warns Emoov-owned agency](/img/default/lat.png)
The lettings director at Urban, the online agency recently snapped up by Emoov, says the rental market is faced with significant...
14 September 2018
From: Breaking News
![Tax changes are making London rents less affordable, says top agent](/img/default/lat.png)
A top London letting agent working for Knight Frank has commented on the 'irony' that the government's series of tax changes...
31 August 2018
From: Breaking News
![Letting stock supply at highest level seen this year - ARLA](/img/default/lat.png)
The latest monthly report from the Association of Residential Letting Agents puts the number of rental properties managed by agents at...
02 July 2018
From: Breaking News
![Huge drop in number of homes to let across the UK](/img/default/lat.png)
Landlords exiting the market because of tax and red tape have led to “an acute shortage of available properties to rent”...