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Agents have reacted angrily to the way in which the government released a new set of rental documents updated to include...

A slow rental market in London is weighing down on growth across the rest of the UK, according to the latest...

A regional property developer and investment firm has unveiled a Build To Rent division with a target of building 2,500 homes. The...

Leicester is the latest council to begin consultations on selective licensing in six parts of the city - with the threat...

Bristol is the best city for house shares, according to new research by specialist rental sector broadband and utilities provider Glide. The...

A new Build To Rent developer brand, Core Living, has been launched by development and investment company Godwin Group. Godwin is targeting...

A new study suggests that rental properties now account for 40 per cent of the available housing stock.  Looking at the final...

An angry lettings agent has emailed Cabinet minister James Brokenshire to show his disgust at the government’s U-turn over deposit caps. In...

A buy to let investor that let at least eight people from six different families rent space in his three-storey property...

Sourced, which describes itself as the largest property investment platform in the UK, has secured its 25th franchise some 10 months...

Letting agents and landlords will have to win planning consent to erect To Let signs in student areas of Leicester from...

Specialist buy to let lender LendInvest has looked at 105 postcodes across England and Wales to find the best (and worst)...

Rents in the UK grew by an average, and tiny, 0.69 per cent in the year to the end of February,...

Liverpool and Nottingham are the UK’s best performing property investment locations, according to mortgage broker Private Finance.  Both cities enjoy average rental...

Four landlords have been fined and ordered to pay costs totalling £232,155.68 in the first prosecutions of its kind brought by...

A Leicestershire agency chain has acquired a rival Leicester-based independent.  Whitegates, which has offices in Loughborough, Mountsorrel and central Leicester, has acquired...

Consumer group Which? says ‘micro-apartments’ - which have proliferated in recent years - may not be good investments.    The group has focussed...

A local authority has clamped down on what it describes as illegal advertising boards, fining agencies thousands of pounds in the...

Manchester council is considering a city-wide ban on letting agents’ To Let boards.   The local authority says the plethora of boards in some...

Harrison Murray Lettings is holding a roadshow to showcase what it calls “its experienced and professional service for landlords and tenants.”   Over...

In the week that the government announced a ban on letting agents levying fees on tenants, one multi-office estate agency has...

The government is considering a ban on the display of To Let boards in parts of Leicester following a council bid...

An enterprising letting agency in the east Midlands is to stage a series of events under the title The Future of...

A buy to let investment search portal has produced an interactive map based on a pull-together of research into the lettings market...

It’s not been a happy Christmas for a Leicestershire landlord who has been banned from renting out a converted garage after...

Two agents are organising a week-long motivational speaking tour set within Dragons’ Den-style warehouse venues in a bid to show the...

Fast-growing agency chain Leaders has two new lettings and sales offices with the acquisition of Aidan J Reed's Leicestershire outlets in...

A letting agency has been ordered to pay more than £12,000 in fines and court costs after being convicted of seven...

A property being let out in Lincolnshire produced an unexpected surprise for the agent and landlord handling a routine inspection -...