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The latest rental data from PropTech supplier Goodlord has shown that March rents are now up by over 6% year-on-year.  And looking...

Rental growth across prime London slowed again in January, with average rents falling on a monthly basis for the third time...

A prominent lettings agency is advising landlords to fit out homes in prime locations to the same high specification as if...

UK Finance has published its housing and mortgage market forecasts for 2024 and 2025 together with projections for 2023 full year numbers. Key figures for 2023 In...

Glasgow’s lettings market is the strongest it’s been in up to 10 years, with a shortage of rental flats driving demand...

There are growing fears of yet another Bank of England base rate rise next month following the surprise inflation figure released...

Husband-and-wife team John and Shirley Ounsworth have completed on the acquisition of Osprey Lettings. The couple - who run a Northwood franchise...

Financial support from family members - not just parents - is expected to help fund 318,400 housing transactions in 2023, according...

The post-Covid prime lettings market in London has seen remarkable growth, an agency says. The latest data from Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices London...

Letting agents say the latest review of how Right To Rent has been carried out demonstrates “a knowledge gap” by landlords. This...

A statement to shareholders by the Savills lettings and estate agency admits that it under-estimated how strong the high end prime...

House prices in York - where the local MP is leading an onslaught on the proliferation of short lets - have...

The rental market across Prime London continues to suffer from a combination of low supply and rapidly rising rents, according to...

Two senior agents are joining the Propertymark Qualifications board to bring a combined 64 years of experience. Jan Hytch - residential and...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Bekki Leaves, Director What is FCC Paragon and what services...

Rental growth continues to roar ahead across prime areas of London, according to Savills. Prime London rental values increased a further 3.3...

The Deposit Protection Service claims the single largest reason why private tenants move is to find properties accepting pets. Around a thousand...

Zoopla is warning that the recent sharp rise in rents has stretched affordability with the average rent now accounting for 37...

The appeal of city living has been reignited across Scotland with new figures showing a surge in demand and rents for...

PRS, one of the two official redress services for the lettings and sales agency sectors, says it’s seen an increase in...

A prominent industry supplier has hit out at what he calls “the merry go round of housing ministers” following yet another...

An eye-watering annualised rent rise in Greater London of 27.3 per cent has helped pushed the all-UK total yearly hike to...

Am umbrella platform supporting Build To Rent developers says a survey suggests BTR tenants regard the sector as offering good value...

The owner of a Belvoir lettings franchise has fulfilled a lockdown ambition to write and publish her book ‘Landlords, what’s holding...

The number of prospective tenants asked to provide guarantors ahead of renting has risen by a huge 36 per cent over...

Rental values in London and the Home Counties have climbed to five per cent above their pre-pandemic level in March 2020,...

Lettings franchisees under the Belvoir banner delivered the group an additional 10 per cent management service fees last year according to...

There’s still some way to go for the lettings market to return to its pre-pandemic best according to Knight Frank -...

While the number of companies set up by individual landlords to hold buy to lets reached a record high last year,...

A senior Welsh politicians has urged anyone who has fallen behind in paying rent because of the pandemic to contact their...

An agency owned by Foxtons says there’s been a 120 per cent surge in demand for pet-friendly rental properties since the...

MPs and the wider public have been presented with a lengthy report on the growth of Airbnb and similar platforms across...

There’s been a slump in demand for rental properties as a result of tenants staying put in the latter part of...

Home offices are already the most-demanded must have from prospective tenants says James Hay, director at Surrey lettings agency, The Home...

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

Rental growth in prime areas of London has climbed to multi-year highs according to new data from Knight Frank.  While only a...

Campaigning charity Shelter says new official figures show evictions since the lifting of the ban have created a surge in homelessness. Shelter...

The room-letting sector known as co-living, now growing in London, has seen occupancy levels bounce back since some Covid restrictions have...

Data consultancy LonRes says a dramatic fall in prime London rental stock is forcing rents to rise at last.   The number of...

Rents for detached homes increased twice as fast as the average for all UK properties during Q3 2021 says the Deposit...

More and more people are committing tenancy fraud and it’s having a massive impact on the industryAs a lettings agency, you...

The lettings arm of a leading Edinburgh-based property portal has reported a surge of Edinburgh properties being rented on the same...

An industry poll has revealed that tech is now so important in our lives that a fifth of UK tenants say...

The latest research by lettings agency Benham and Reeves has analysed how the pandemic has affected the UK rental market when...

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

Agents are being invited to take part in a free online wellbeing programme. PropTech company Rlet has partnered with wellbeing experts to...

Portfolio landlords can be the key to running a successful lettings agency. That is the latest claim from lead generation software provider...

One of the industry’s leading surveys comes out next week - and a preview suggests it’s going to show increasing optimism...

Rents in some of the most popular locations of the country have risen 25 per cent in the past year according...

Data from Leaders Romans Group shows that lettings attracted 5,941 requests for viewings in June – an average of 42 per...

New data from Rightmove shows that demand for pet friendly rental properties has increased by 120 per cent compared to last...

The value of the Private Rented Sector in England, Wales and Scotland grew by 5.8 per cent to a jaw dropping...

Demand for private rental housing is now at a five year high according to the National Residential Landlords Association. In the association’s...

The tide is turning for the London rental market at last according to data from the Benham and Reeves lettings agency. In...

The niche co-living portion of the private rental sector has been boosted by the pandemic according to one operator. Built Asset Management...

Labour shadow housing secretary Lucy Powell has resuscitated the eviction ban, this time for furloughed workers whose government support ends in...

Flats, so long the favourite of buy to let investors, still constitute 15 per cent of all homes purchased according to...

The latest version of the government’s guidance to agents over how to operate during the continuing pandemic suggests that virtual viewings...

The government has updated its guidance for agents, landlords and tenants to explain the possession action process in the county courts...

A prominent member of the House of Lords and a rental activist are calling for an immediate suspension of all Section...

Leeds property investment agency ERE Property has undergone a company-wide rebrand in the UK and Hong Kong. No images have been released...

For the first time since the beginning of the pandemic rents across all prime London regions saw a return to positive...

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

A firm creating an app showing live streams of properties to let or for sale claims one agency attracted 18 offers...

A lettings agency that works closely with Build To Rent developers says half of the schemes allow pets. Pet rentals have been...

A proposal for one of the country’s largest ever private rental sector licensing schemes has gone out to consultation. Manchester’s Labour council...

The government has extended the ‘special arrangements’ for Right To Rent checks - these will now be in force until September...

Rental growth accelerated in May to reach a new record high according to Connells-owned lettings agency Hamptons.   Last month the average cost...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? That's very retro - I have not had one of...

The increasingly strong rental market is set to last throughout summer and beyond according to the latest analysis by PropTech platform...

The ban on bailiff-enforced evictions is now finally at an end and from today there is a change to the notice...

Now is the ideal time for agents to consider their PropTech needs, as lockdown restrictions ease significantly and firms draw up...

Rents in London have risen an average six per cent this year, a leading agency claims - and some areas are...

Hunters - now subsumed into The Property Franchise Group - has opened a new branch in Bicester.  The new branch follows a...

A former employee at the Staines-upon-Thames office of lettings agency Martin & Co has returned – as the branch’s new owner. Doreen...

Rental guarantor service Housing Hand claims there’s been a rise in the number of universities enquiring about white label deals, as...

The head of the tenants’ campaign group Generation Rent has condemned the government as “reckless” for ending the eviction ban on May...

The government has announced changes to tenancy notice periods in line with the phased easing of the pandemic restrictions.  Whilst some notice...

A prominent London Conservative MP has made a scathing attack on the current rental sector’s structure, saying it is skewed in...

A Build To Rent operator say it is promoting the concept of private tenants being allowed pets - and it takes a...

The latest rental market snapshot from PropTech company Goodlord shows rents holding steady across England but as lockdown restrictions ease voids...

A new analysis of the private rental sector suggests it was reducing in size for some years before the pandemic. Nationwide’s specialist...

The managing director of Fixflo, Rajeev Nayyar, says the pandemic has changed the context in which agents should view tenants’ complaints. In...

Rents across the wider London commuter belt continued to rise in the first three months of the year, according to a...

The extended stamp duty holiday is having a significant positive impact on the rental market, according to new research. In a survey...

A property company and its director will have to shell out £10,000 after a blaze left six tenants homeless in the...

A local estate agency network says it has hosted an extraordinary 96,524 virtual viewings during lockdown. The Miles & Barr agency -...

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

London rents have started to fall again - just as every other region of Britain is showing significant annual increases. Figures for...

A lettings management platform is hitting out at the government over the uncertainty surrounding travel restrictions, because of its impact on...

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

Franchise giant Belvoir has held its annual awards including the naming of the prestigious ‘franchise of the year’. The accolade went to...

London lettings and estate agency Benham and Reeves has calculated a league table of the most popular postcodes in the capital...

With Prime Minister Boris Johnson confirming the next phase of the roadmap out of lockdown, a PropTech firm has reflected on...

Knight Frank is this year’s headline sponsor of the LandAid Sleep Out, one of the causes many in the industry support. This...

There’s been great work by Auction House over the past year, working with local charities at the heart of communities thrown...

An influential group of MPs wants an end to repeated last minute extensions to the ban on evictions and instead wants financial support...

Paul Shamplina, the man behind Landlord Action and a Channel 5 show on handling rental crises, is warning that county courts...

An estimated 840,000 private tenants have arrears over the past year since the first eviction ban was announced, according to a...

Agents must be ready for an influx of new business according to outsourced telephone and live chat service Moneypenny. Its latest figures...