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A company providing virtual tours insists the technology delivers “undeniable results” but is still not used universally by agents. Virtual tours became...

Airbnb is giving away £100 vouchers to anyone in the UK who shifts into the short lets sector for the first...

A student lettings platform now operating in seven cities is reported to have raised £700,000 in its first funding round. HYBR –...

A property management company has been fined for failing to repair an open sewer in the garden of a rental property. SRA...

Research by the UK’s largest student accommodation search platform shows a 3.7 per cent uplift in London’s Purpose-Built Student Accommodation bed...

One of the leading lettings agencies in Liverpool has issued a warning about the city’s controversial new licensing scheme. The Labour council...

Rental guarantor service Housing Hand has announced a new partnership with student accommodation provider Kexgill. The firms claim the arrangement will challenge...

A lettings platform set up by a 24 year old is today announcing an expansion from its Bristol start up to...

Independent Liverpool-based agency LPS Real Estate has acquired another indie - Maison Lettings. As part of the acquisition, LPS will take over...

Six agencies have been expelled from The Property Ombudsman for failing to pay compensatory awards - five of them for offences...

New research reveals that student property portfolios based in smaller university towns or cities typically generate the best returns. The findings, from...

Research by Paragon Bank has revealed the sector that has out-performed the rest of the private rental investment landscape - student...

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

Record tenant demand and record-fast lettings have combined to create an average asking rent above £1,000 per calendar month for homes...

British Land has announced one of the most prestigious Build To Rent schemes at Aldgate on the edge of the City...

Mistoria is opening its sixth office in the north west of England. The new branch in Cheadle follows Mistoria’s existing outlets in...

The Build to Rent market remains small in volume but it is making some inroads, leading to BTR rent rises predominantly...

Demand is still moving away from cities and towards suburbs and rural areas, according to Rightmove. “Areas around the North and South...

A quarterly index suggests that there’s been a sharp uplift in tenant demand for rental properties across the UK’s major cities...

A new lettings market snapshot from Rightmove suggests that asking rents in some major city centres have seen annual falls up...

A charity claims that young people under 25 in full-time work across England are unable to afford privately rented accommodation anywhere in the...

How did you get into property? My grandparents did some small property developments when I was growing up which always interested me,...

ARLA Propertymark has hit out at a growing number of local councils introducing licensing schemes, calling it “socially irresponsible” to do...

A controversial Labour council that locked horns with the government over landlord licensing is now submitting a new proposal for its...

Liverpool's mayor Joe Anderson has been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit bribery and witness intimidation. Anderson has been an outspoken...

The team behind Glasgow’s first major city centre Build to Rent housing development has announced another multi-million-pound BTR project. Kelvin Properties, which...

Much has been made of the backlog of court cases - including landlords’ possession attempts - and now the Ministry of Justice...

Striving for higher yields remains the holy grail for buy to let, and new research suggests investors could be attracted by...

A new student accommodation property platform has been launched which aims to deliberately by-pass letting agents.  Housemates is for students, landlords and...

The controversial Labour-led council in Liverpool has started a lengthy consultation process over its latest proposals for landlord licensing. The authority was...

The council in Liverpool is likely to propose a scaled-back private rental licensing scheme after its original suggestion was rejected by...

Deposits have risen as much as 24 per cent in the past year in some parts of the UK - according...

One bedroom properties provide the best returns to buy to let investors according to new research by a lettings management platform. Single...

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

An analysis of buy to let returns from mortgage lender Mojo has produced a league table with no London locations in...

A digital property management platform has gone live with a network of local agents covering some of the UK’s key cities.  Apropos has recruited a network of what it calls...

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

Research by the National Residential Landlords Association and the Which? consumer body has revealed that some 53 councils in England alone...

Liverpool’s Labour council, which was prevented by the government from extending its city-wide licensing scheme for another five years, is seeking...

The controversial Liverpool council licensing scheme is to be policed through the use of what the authority calls “cutting-edge big data...

The government has rejected a council’s bid to extend its licensing scheme for privately rented housing. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local...

A buy to let investor has been hit with a bill of almost £9,500 after being accused of allowing a tenant...

A seminar roadshow has been announced for letting agents considering quitting the sector.  LegalforLandlords says it’s organised the six events after discovering...

Liverpool’s Labour mayor says he is confident that the city will, after all, be able to renew its city-wide licensing scheme. Housing...

Another Labour council wants to introduce a city-wide landlord licensing scheme - a proposal that would require government approval to implement. Last...

A newspaper in Liverpool has sharply criticised the government for refusing to allow the city council to continue a huge landlord...

Manchester lettings agency Ascend says it’s had a record year in 2019, bolstered by its new Build To Rent involvement. The company...

The fallout continues over the government’s shock refusal to allow Liverpool council to continue its huge landlord licensing scheme. Yesterday we reported that...

Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick has rejected a bid by Labour-controlled Liverpool council to extend its licensing scheme for five years. Government approval...

A league table has been drawn up revealing the UK’s possession order hotspots - just as the government seems keen to...

Reports from China suggest that property investors from that country - a staple in the buy to let market in many...

The property management platform Apropos, scheduled to launch early next year, says it’s signed up 25 business partners ahead of schedule. The...

A north of England letting agent who conned home owners out of thousands of pounds has been ordered to pay it back...

A long-term legal critic of selective licensing is warning that letting agents could be held jointly accountable with the landlords, -...

Property development and investment firm SevenCapital has released a top 10 league table of UK cities which it claims will perform...

The Leaders Romans Group has announced an acquisition to mark further expansion into the corporate lettings and block management market. The agency...

London-focussed lettings agency Portico, which has expanded into the north of England, has identified part of Liverpool as the area where...

A flat-sharing website has created a league table of average rents in locations surrounding the top-ranked universities in the United Kingdom....

Manchester-based agency Ascend has revealed it’s now taken over the management of a Build To Rent fund’s portfolio of almost 1,000...

A London lettings agency is launching a service to enable landlords to invest in mainstream buy to let or Airbnb-style short...

A platform which works with independent lettings agents and Build To Rent operators says it is linking them to provide mutual...

An online room-letting platform claims rents have risen up to eight per cent in wake of the Tenant Fee Act. ideal flatmate...

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

Competition between various deposit alternative providers continues apace, with one of the earliest companies - Reposit - naming a new agency...

As competition hots up between different deposit replacement scheme providers, three new Build To Rent sign-ups have been announced by one...

Revenue raised by landlord licensing schemes should be used to enforce rental sector regulation, according to PayProp. It says that the money...

A PropTech firm says buy to let investors could earn in excess of double the eight per cent yield most aim...

A survey of 500 buy to let landlords suggests that well over a third are planning to increase the size of...

The implementation and costs of landlord licensing schemes in Britain are a lottery. That’s the conclusion of a new analysis of licensing...

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

A legal firm has renewed its criticism of local authority licensing schemes, accusing them of “persecuting” landlords. David Kirwan, managing partner at...

The London-focussed lettings agency Portico is expanding its short-lets service Portico Host into Manchester and Liverpool - but it isn’t spending...

Home ownership rates for families aged 25 to 34 are rising for the first time in 30 years but high barriers...

Five homeless people will have a roof over their heads this Christmas thanks to a kind-hearted PropTech chief. Mike Georgeson, founder of...

Research released this morning reveals that university cities offer some of the highest buy to let yields in the country. The Free...

LAT recently carried a story of a lettings agency diversifying by renting out parking spaces for landlord owners - and now...

A Manchester lettings agency has teamed up with a bank to fund entry into the Build To Rent management sector.  Two new...

The party conferences of the two main political parties threw up some interesting developments with regards to housing and the rental...

The heavy-handed administration of selective licensing schemes is driving out buy to let investors. That’s the claim from David Kirwan of Kirwans...

A new investment company has launched offering what it calls “opportunities to invest in key residential and commercial developments across the...

Two more lettings agencies have been expelled from The Property Ombudsman as a result of unpaid awards following disputes involving landlords...

An agency has been expelled from The Property Ombudsman after receiving over 100 separate complaints, and failing to pay over £419,000...

The Mistoria Group has opened its third office in the north of England - it now has a branch in Bolton...

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

An analysis of over 580,000 properties has produced a league table of Britain’s best and worst buy to let postcodes in...

Letting agents were amongst those duped by a Merseyside builder who rented 33 homes and then sub-let them to allow the...

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

Surrenden Invest, which specialises in selling off-market new-build properties to buy to let investors, has opened an office in the north...

Rightmove has revealed the locations where prospective tenants have searched for properties on its portal in 2017 - and the winning...

Rendall & Rittner, a major operator in the residential block management sector, has completed its purchase of Braemar Estates from the...

A council is seeking to prevent letting agents and landlords from letting homes to students in an area of a city...

A survey has been undertaken of the top 25 UK postcodes in terms of yields for investors - and London and...

A campaigning letting agent says that at the start of this financial year the total cash value of deposits held in...

Manchester city centre-based agency Ascend Properties has acquired local independent company Living Quarter. The deal will see Ascend’s number of managed properties...

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

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...

Government watchdog the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has upheld four complaints made against a Liverpool letting agency. The complaints were made against...

Uber and a Build To Rent developer have announced a PropTech deal which will see the transport company getting involved in...

A landlord who exposed tenants to “miserable” living conditions because of fire safety hazards has been prosecuted by a local authority.    The...

A Facebook group has been set up to name and shame so-called ‘tenants from hell’.   At the moment the page applies to...

A council is warning agents and landlords not to sit on long term vacant properties.   The warning, from Liverpool council, comes as...

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

Mark Clare, the former Barratt Developments chief executive, is to be the next chairman of Britain’s current largest listed landlord, Grainger,...

Airbnb’s new protocol seeking to stop London hosts short-letting their properties for more than 90 days a year without formal consent,...

The Northern Powerhouse agenda, increased infrastructure investment announced in the Autumn Statement and low entry prices make the north of England...

A plentiful supply of freehold properties in our cities may become a thing of the past as urban areas become increasingly...

Rents are rising faster in northern cities than those in the south, narrowing the divide between the two halves of the...

A lettings agency on Merseyside is one of the first in the UK to take part of an experiment which could...

A new £40m Build To Rent scheme has been given the go-ahead for Manchester city centre.   Moorfield, a UK real estate private...

A man who posed as a letting agent to swindle landlords and tenants has been jailed for just over two years.   Legal...

New research by an online property lending company reveals that those towns which were strongest in voting ‘Leave’ in the EU...

A landlord is to be sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court next week after pleading guilty to seven charges relating to fire...

Controversial licensing conditions for a city’s landlords have been changed following complaints from an industry group.    Liverpool council has modified the conditions...

Tenants spend an average of 18 months in a rented property before moving on, according to new research by insurer Direct...

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

Countrywide - which has already acquired a string of letting agencies in recent months - continues to demonstrate its emphasis on...

Liverpool council has completed only 648 of 39,100 licence applications by landlords in the first six months of its controversial scheme.  The...

The Residential Landlords Association has entered into a deal which gives its members a 50 per cent reduction if they sign...

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

Peer-to-peer lender Lendinvest, using data from Zoopla and the Land Registry, says Manchester, Liverpool, Cardiff, Coventry and Oldham produce the highest...

The ESTAS organisation has announced its latest Agent Of The Month award winners, with the two successful lettings category firms being...

Elgin Management letting agency in Liverpool is warning tenants following an incident when a bogus letting agent entered the home of...

Urban regeneration specialist Sigma Capital is the latest firm to announce it is entering the Build To Rent sector, seeking to...

Hundreds of To Let boards have been taken down in a suburb of south Liverpool as a result of a voluntary...

Manchester based Ascend Properties says it has smashed its 1,000-unit target within just one year of trading - and is now expanding across...

Sales and lettings agency Jones & Chapman - part of the Sequence network - has snapped up the Liverpool arm of...

A peer-to-peer lender says its study of 1,000 buy to let locations across the UK suggestsfour of the 10 highest yields...