Rental growth across prime London slowed again in January, with average rents falling on a monthly basis for the third time...
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16 February 2024
From: Breaking News
A prominent lettings agency is advising landlords to fit out homes in prime locations to the same high specification as if...
01 February 2024
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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...
29 December 2023
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Glasgow’s lettings market is the strongest it’s been in up to 10 years, with a shortage of rental flats driving demand...
17 November 2023
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There are growing fears of yet another Bank of England base rate rise next month following the surprise inflation figure released...
19 October 2023
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Husband-and-wife team John and Shirley Ounsworth have completed on the acquisition of Osprey Lettings. The couple - who run a Northwood franchise...
10 October 2023
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Financial support from family members - not just parents - is expected to help fund 318,400 housing transactions in 2023, according...
01 September 2023
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The post-Covid prime lettings market in London has seen remarkable growth, an agency says. The latest data from Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices London...
24 July 2023
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Letting agents say the latest review of how Right To Rent has been carried out demonstrates “a knowledge gap” by landlords. This...
15 February 2023
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A statement to shareholders by the Savills lettings and estate agency admits that it under-estimated how strong the high end prime...
13 January 2023
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House prices in York - where the local MP is leading an onslaught on the proliferation of short lets - have...
03 January 2023
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The rental market across Prime London continues to suffer from a combination of low supply and rapidly rising rents, according to...
08 August 2022
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Two senior agents are joining the Propertymark Qualifications board to bring a combined 64 years of experience. Jan Hytch - residential and...
28 July 2022
From: Breaking News
Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Bekki Leaves, Director What is FCC Paragon and what services...
27 July 2022
From: 60 Second Interview
Rental growth continues to roar ahead across prime areas of London, according to Savills. Prime London rental values increased a further 3.3...
07 July 2022
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The Deposit Protection Service claims the single largest reason why private tenants move is to find properties accepting pets. Around a thousand...
15 June 2022
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Zoopla is warning that the recent sharp rise in rents has stretched affordability with the average rent now accounting for 37...
17 May 2022
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The appeal of city living has been reignited across Scotland with new figures showing a surge in demand and rents for...
13 May 2022
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PRS, one of the two official redress services for the lettings and sales agency sectors, says it’s seen an increase in...
28 April 2022
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A prominent industry supplier has hit out at what he calls “the merry go round of housing ministers” following yet another...
22 March 2022
From: Breaking News
An eye-watering annualised rent rise in Greater London of 27.3 per cent has helped pushed the all-UK total yearly hike to...
17 March 2022
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Am umbrella platform supporting Build To Rent developers says a survey suggests BTR tenants regard the sector as offering good value...
17 March 2022
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The owner of a Belvoir lettings franchise has fulfilled a lockdown ambition to write and publish her book ‘Landlords, what’s holding...
16 March 2022
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The number of prospective tenants asked to provide guarantors ahead of renting has risen by a huge 36 per cent over...
14 February 2022
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Rental values in London and the Home Counties have climbed to five per cent above their pre-pandemic level in March 2020,...
11 February 2022
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Lettings franchisees under the Belvoir banner delivered the group an additional 10 per cent management service fees last year according to...
01 February 2022
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There’s still some way to go for the lettings market to return to its pre-pandemic best according to Knight Frank -...
18 January 2022
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While the number of companies set up by individual landlords to hold buy to lets reached a record high last year,...
17 January 2022
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A senior Welsh politicians has urged anyone who has fallen behind in paying rent because of the pandemic to contact their...
14 January 2022
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An agency owned by Foxtons says there’s been a 120 per cent surge in demand for pet-friendly rental properties since the...
10 January 2022
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MPs and the wider public have been presented with a lengthy report on the growth of Airbnb and similar platforms across...
07 January 2022
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There’s been a slump in demand for rental properties as a result of tenants staying put in the latter part of...
07 January 2022
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Home offices are already the most-demanded must have from prospective tenants says James Hay, director at Surrey lettings agency, The Home...
30 December 2021
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Home, the property website that publishes an authoritative market snapshot for lettings and sales each month, says the long-standing supply drought...
16 November 2021
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Rental growth in prime areas of London has climbed to multi-year highs according to new data from Knight Frank. While only a...
05 November 2021
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Campaigning charity Shelter says new official figures show evictions since the lifting of the ban have created a surge in homelessness. Shelter...
29 October 2021
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The room-letting sector known as co-living, now growing in London, has seen occupancy levels bounce back since some Covid restrictions have...
22 October 2021
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Data consultancy LonRes says a dramatic fall in prime London rental stock is forcing rents to rise at last. The number of...
18 October 2021
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Rents for detached homes increased twice as fast as the average for all UK properties during Q3 2021 says the Deposit...
14 October 2021
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More and more people are committing tenancy fraud and it’s having a massive impact on the industryAs a lettings agency, you...
07 October 2021
From: Proptech & Innovation
The lettings arm of a leading Edinburgh-based property portal has reported a surge of Edinburgh properties being rented on the same...
23 September 2021
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An industry poll has revealed that tech is now so important in our lives that a fifth of UK tenants say...
22 September 2021
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The latest research by lettings agency Benham and Reeves has analysed how the pandemic has affected the UK rental market when...
17 September 2021
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Linley & Simpson, one of the North of England’s leading residential letting agents, has expanded its Sheffield operations just six months...
17 September 2021
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Agents are being invited to take part in a free online wellbeing programme. PropTech company Rlet has partnered with wellbeing experts to...
15 September 2021
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Portfolio landlords can be the key to running a successful lettings agency. That is the latest claim from lead generation software provider...
13 September 2021
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One of the industry’s leading surveys comes out next week - and a preview suggests it’s going to show increasing optimism...
10 September 2021
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Rents in some of the most popular locations of the country have risen 25 per cent in the past year according...
08 September 2021
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Data from Leaders Romans Group shows that lettings attracted 5,941 requests for viewings in June – an average of 42 per...
31 August 2021
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New data from Rightmove shows that demand for pet friendly rental properties has increased by 120 per cent compared to last...
26 August 2021
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The value of the Private Rented Sector in England, Wales and Scotland grew by 5.8 per cent to a jaw dropping...
25 August 2021
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Demand for private rental housing is now at a five year high according to the National Residential Landlords Association. In the association’s...
23 August 2021
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The tide is turning for the London rental market at last according to data from the Benham and Reeves lettings agency. In...
19 August 2021
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The niche co-living portion of the private rental sector has been boosted by the pandemic according to one operator. Built Asset Management...
16 August 2021
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Labour shadow housing secretary Lucy Powell has resuscitated the eviction ban, this time for furloughed workers whose government support ends in...
12 August 2021
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Flats, so long the favourite of buy to let investors, still constitute 15 per cent of all homes purchased according to...
11 August 2021
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The latest version of the government’s guidance to agents over how to operate during the continuing pandemic suggests that virtual viewings...
26 July 2021
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The government has updated its guidance for agents, landlords and tenants to explain the possession action process in the county courts...
22 July 2021
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A prominent member of the House of Lords and a rental activist are calling for an immediate suspension of all Section...
19 July 2021
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Leeds property investment agency ERE Property has undergone a company-wide rebrand in the UK and Hong Kong. No images have been released...
13 July 2021
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For the first time since the beginning of the pandemic rents across all prime London regions saw a return to positive...
09 July 2021
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Rental demand has started to return to the majority of major UK cities during the second quarter of this year, with...
07 July 2021
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A firm creating an app showing live streams of properties to let or for sale claims one agency attracted 18 offers...
06 July 2021
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A lettings agency that works closely with Build To Rent developers says half of the schemes allow pets. Pet rentals have been...
01 July 2021
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A proposal for one of the country’s largest ever private rental sector licensing schemes has gone out to consultation. Manchester’s Labour council...
22 June 2021
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The government has extended the ‘special arrangements’ for Right To Rent checks - these will now be in force until September...
21 June 2021
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Rental growth accelerated in May to reach a new record high according to Connells-owned lettings agency Hamptons. Last month the average cost...
15 June 2021
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Who are you and what does it say on your business card? That's very retro - I have not had one of...
08 June 2021
From: 60 Second Interview
The increasingly strong rental market is set to last throughout summer and beyond according to the latest analysis by PropTech platform...
03 June 2021
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The ban on bailiff-enforced evictions is now finally at an end and from today there is a change to the notice...
01 June 2021
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Now is the ideal time for agents to consider their PropTech needs, as lockdown restrictions ease significantly and firms draw up...
26 May 2021
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Rents in London have risen an average six per cent this year, a leading agency claims - and some areas are...
21 May 2021
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Hunters - now subsumed into The Property Franchise Group - has opened a new branch in Bicester. The new branch follows a...
21 May 2021
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A former employee at the Staines-upon-Thames office of lettings agency Martin & Co has returned – as the branch’s new owner. Doreen...
18 May 2021
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Rental guarantor service Housing Hand claims there’s been a rise in the number of universities enquiring about white label deals, as...
14 May 2021
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The head of the tenants’ campaign group Generation Rent has condemned the government as “reckless” for ending the eviction ban on May...
13 May 2021
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The government has announced changes to tenancy notice periods in line with the phased easing of the pandemic restrictions. Whilst some notice...
13 May 2021
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A prominent London Conservative MP has made a scathing attack on the current rental sector’s structure, saying it is skewed in...
11 May 2021
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A Build To Rent operator say it is promoting the concept of private tenants being allowed pets - and it takes a...
10 May 2021
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The latest rental market snapshot from PropTech company Goodlord shows rents holding steady across England but as lockdown restrictions ease voids...
06 May 2021
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A new analysis of the private rental sector suggests it was reducing in size for some years before the pandemic. Nationwide’s specialist...
04 May 2021
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The managing director of Fixflo, Rajeev Nayyar, says the pandemic has changed the context in which agents should view tenants’ complaints. In...
28 April 2021
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Rents across the wider London commuter belt continued to rise in the first three months of the year, according to a...
26 April 2021
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The extended stamp duty holiday is having a significant positive impact on the rental market, according to new research. In a survey...
23 April 2021
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A property company and its director will have to shell out £10,000 after a blaze left six tenants homeless in the...
20 April 2021
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A local estate agency network says it has hosted an extraordinary 96,524 virtual viewings during lockdown. The Miles & Barr agency -...
16 April 2021
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Demand is still moving away from cities and towards suburbs and rural areas, according to Rightmove. “Areas around the North and South...
14 April 2021
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London rents have started to fall again - just as every other region of Britain is showing significant annual increases. Figures for...
12 April 2021
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A lettings management platform is hitting out at the government over the uncertainty surrounding travel restrictions, because of its impact on...
09 April 2021
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A quarterly index suggests that there’s been a sharp uplift in tenant demand for rental properties across the UK’s major cities...
08 April 2021
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Franchise giant Belvoir has held its annual awards including the naming of the prestigious ‘franchise of the year’. The accolade went to...
08 April 2021
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London lettings and estate agency Benham and Reeves has calculated a league table of the most popular postcodes in the capital...
07 April 2021
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With Prime Minister Boris Johnson confirming the next phase of the roadmap out of lockdown, a PropTech firm has reflected on...
06 April 2021
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Knight Frank is this year’s headline sponsor of the LandAid Sleep Out, one of the causes many in the industry support. This...
02 April 2021
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There’s been great work by Auction House over the past year, working with local charities at the heart of communities thrown...
02 April 2021
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An influential group of MPs wants an end to repeated last minute extensions to the ban on evictions and instead wants financial support...
31 March 2021
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Paul Shamplina, the man behind Landlord Action and a Channel 5 show on handling rental crises, is warning that county courts...
31 March 2021
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An estimated 840,000 private tenants have arrears over the past year since the first eviction ban was announced, according to a...
29 March 2021
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Agents must be ready for an influx of new business according to outsourced telephone and live chat service Moneypenny. Its latest figures...