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A leading brand in the fast-growing and heavily-funded Lomond Group has snapped up another independent agency.  Linley & Simpson has added another...

Foxtons has this morning announced the acquisition of two smaller agencies to expand its lettings portfolio. It has bought Gordon & Co...

Demand for pied a terres from those working in offices for only three days of the week is fuelling demand for...

Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward, one of London’s largest independent property services groups, has appointed an experienced figure to oversee the company’s...

Crossrail rental values have climbed by 15 per cent on average in the last year alone - before this week’s opening...

A mortgage lender specialising in working with ex-pat and foreign buy to let investors says the city apartment and house remain...

The largest operator in London for the niche co-living sector has doubled the size of its portfolio in the east of...

A senior lettings chief says the supply drought is making the rental market as overheated now as at any time in...

A prominent lettings agency chief says the lifecycle of a typical tenancy has been transformed in recent years, as a result...

New figures show that post-pandemic rental prices are on the rise across the majority of the capital but that some rents...

A new study has compiled a league table of the best cities in the UK for investment in student accommodation. CIA Landlord...

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

London-focussed agency Foxtons says the tenancy renewal numbers seen by the company this year are “unprecedented”. Gareth Atkins, lettings managing director at...

A new market snapshot puts the average rental rise across the UK at a remarkable 18 per cent over the past...

London rents are rising at a record pace with growth being driven by tenants returning from outside the capital.   That’s the suggestion...

The massive Belvoir franchise network has signed up 360 of its franchisees to the PropTech service Kamma.  The franchisees include those under...

The cost of living crisis may be changing tenants’ preferences to such a degree that bills-inclusive properties are becoming increasingly popular. That’s...

The number of HMOs in England has fallen as a result of government intervention in the market. In 2018 new regulations were...

A London agency says properties in its patch let in just five days.  Draker Lettings in Fulham has just 22 available instructions...

Agents have voiced their reservations over aspects of the widespread rental sector reform announced by the government in the Queen’s Speech. Yesterday...

Rental values in prime areas of London are now nine per cent higher than they before the pandemic, with Knight Frank...

The government is widely expected to announce that Section 21 eviction powers will be scrapped in new legislation coming to Parliament...

Just over 7,000 households in London have been threatened with homelessness in the past three years alone after being issued with...

Rents in prime areas of London are nine per cent higher today than before the pandemic according to Knight Frank.  The high...

The small number of rental properties listed on websites and portals as Price on Application have now been deemed illegal by...

A leading lettings sector commentator believes today’s local elections may not directly change the private rental sector but could have a...

The average rent in the UK has hit another record high of £1,091 after a 1.2 per cent increase in the...

London lettings platform Rentd says a property rented with bills included may be convenient but it will also be expensive. Rentd says...

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

One of the best-known names in lettings in London and the south east has renewed its partnership with PropTech supplier Goodlordfor a...

An agency has opened its 10th residential lettings office in south west London. The new Savills branch, which will also handle sales,...

The launch of a new collection of high end homes aimed at renters aged 60-plus has triggered enthusiastic responses from agents. Developer...

Average UK rents have increased for the sixth consecutive quarter - but some tenants are paying above the going rate to...

An activist at the centre of a controversy involving a London letting agent has used a left-wing website to explain how...

The mainstream media today is reporting that a group of anti-landlord/anti-agent activists called an agent a “w*****” at a protest. This apparently prompted...

Foxtons has reported to its shareholders that its lettings revenue in the first quarter of this year was a stunning 21...

The number of properties available for let in prime central parts of the capital has consistently trended down from the peak...

Annual rental yields in England and Wales have dipped but tenant demand is set to stay strong for the rest of...

The continuing shortage of supply in the lettings market is not only producing record high asking rents, but is also pushing demand...

Winkworth has told its shareholders that the rental market is to boom - a lot. “In lettings we anticipate that prices will...

New data from Connells-owned brand Hamptons shows that the average cost of a new let in Britain rose to £1,115 pcm,...

An independent agency in London has ditched its company cars and gone over to e-bikes instead when it’s representatives attend viewings. Taylor...

There’s been a big rise in rents and a large drop in voids in the past month according to PropTech supplier...

The average HMO is worth a third more than a comparably sized house according to new research. The typical HMO now costs...

New research claims to show the rent gap between lets in London and those in suburbs up to an hour from the...

High end agency Knight Frank has made two key lettings appointments in recent weeks. Oliver Hepplewhite, already an associate within the firm,...

An activist group in London has launched a scathing attack on councils which it claims have been ineffective in regulating rogue...

A fast-expanding PropTech business has opened a new office in London to serve a growing client base in the capital and...

A lettings agency has identified where tenant demand is strongest right now - and where demand is lower than some agents...

Two more London boroughs are consulting about licensing schemes which will require landlords or their agents to pay hundreds of pounds...

London-based lettings payment platform Yorlet has launched a new PropTech partnership with Canopy, TDS and Alan Boswell. The platform offers automated workflows,...

A leading lettings agency says increasing numbers of tenants are seeking pet-friendly homes to rent. Chestertons claims up to 35 per cent...

Build To Rent operator Avanton has pledged to build hundreds of new homes in two London hotspots under its A:Living brand. They...

The Property Investor Show is back for its 20th year with 100 property sector experts and exhibitors in London this week. The...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I’m Alex Gibbs, Co-Founder and Director of Built Asset Management...

Rental affordability is deteriorating in parts of England. The research by rental platform Rentd looked at the current average income of a...

The monthly costs for a first time buyer are some 13 per cent lower than that of a similar renter -...

Rental portal Rentd says the pandemic-long decline in the London rental market is now “reversing at speed”. Rental values are climbing annually...

A London council is urging letting agents and landlords to sign a pledge to encourage tenants to use the local recycling...

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 costs of upgrading properties to meet new energy efficiency standards are likely to be passed on to tenants via higher...

The Labour Mayor of Bristol has spoken out about the threat to the mainstream rental sector posed by the proliferation of...

Connells-owned lettings agency Hamptons is warning that the record-breaking rental growth of the past year has seen tenants pay a rocketing...

A new player in the Build To Rent sector says it’s targeting locations in the London commuter belt with chronic supply...

Major London agency Dexters has acquired the lettings business Howsy, which handles the property management of 6,000 units across the country. Dexters...

A PropTech supplier to the lettings industry that has just signed a deal with OnTheMarket has come out in support of...

Rental market stock levels have plummeted further - even to below the pre-pandemic levels of late 2019. New research shows that in...

New data reveals that over 80 per cent of renters spend more than 30 per cent of their take home pay...

The TrustedStays platform, where users can book short let accommodation, is linking with business-centric service London & Partners. London & Partners’ role...

Foxtons has appointed Gareth Atkins as Managing Director – Lettings.  He will succeed Ed Philips who is leaving the business after 20...

The latest lettings market snapshot from PropTech supplier Goodlord suggests that voids are reducing in almost all regions but that rents...

A player in the rental insurance field is warning that the growing cost of living crisis makes it more important than...

The success of Foxtons’ lettings division has directly attributed to the London-focussed agency’s strong performance in the past year. A trading statement...

Presenter, broadcaster and former Sky Sports anchor Kirsty Gallacher has been confirmed as the presenter of The Guild of Property Professional’s...

Winkworth has expanded its presence in London with the opening of a new Maida Vale office following the acquisition of an...

A lettings company has been caught up in a case where rental accommodation has been described as “atrocious” and a landlord...

A platform that says it wants to help reduce letting agents’ reliance on traditional portals such as Rightmove and Zoopla has...

New research shows that despite tax and regulatory changes restricting buy to let returns, this remains a far healthier investment than...

Another prominent Labour politician has thrown his weight behind rent controls. And Mark Griffin - who is the party’s housing spokesman in...

Propertymark has hit back at the latest demand by politicians for rent controls. The London mayor Sadiq Khan renewed his call for...

The imposition of rent controls - urged by a growing number of politicians and pressure groups in different parts of the...

Politicians across the UK appear to be growing more vocal in their support for rent controls. The Welsh nationalist party Plaid Cymru...

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...

The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan wants is introducing a new qualification and training for borough council housing enforcement officers to...

Letting agency growth experts are set to take to the virtual stage and use the latest tech to share their insights...

A rental platform has revealed the wide disparity in rents to the north and south of the Thames in London, and...

A lettings portal says it’s expanding across London and is offering agents free listings with no fixed-term contract, and the prospect...

Rents in prime areas of London are rocketing at an annual level of 22.5 per cent according to LonRes.  Despite the falls...

A developer says its new state-of-the-art sales centre in Hong Kong in set to boost Chinese investment in London. Galliard, the developer...

A new fixed-rate platform has been launched that says it will save landlords thousands of pounds in management fees. Rentd claims to...

New data from Zoopla suggests that lettings demand has now recovered across the central districts of all  major cities including Birmingham,...

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

The leader of one of Britain’s highest profile lettings agency operations has let rip at the government for what he calls...

The rental market continues to boom despite the growing cost of living crisis, with average rents rising at a 13 year...

Franchise estate agency chain Winkworth has expanded its presence in prime south west London with the opening of a new Wimbledon office. The new...

An agency has secured what it calls the fastest ever letting of a mansion on the legendary north London street, Bishops...

Westminster council wants central London to have the same powers as Paris and Amsterdam to stop anti-social behaviour caused by Airbnb...

A lettings agency says renters must pay an average of up to 77 per cent of their monthly household income to...

The latest lettings market snapshot from HomeLet suggests another record average UK monthly rent level of £1,064 pcm - up a...

A prominent London buying agent says her property management team is letting out homes in the capital in a matter of...

The government’s new Levelling Up White Paper, revealed this morning, includes a radical reshaping of the private rental sector. Section 21 eviction...

ARLA Propertymark is warning that new landlords must be drafted in to the private rental sector to replace those exiting in...

The integration of the lettings division of London agency Douglas & Gordon into the lettings wing of Foxtons will happen next...

Asking rents in Britain are now rising at their fastest ever rate according to Rightmove. Average asking rents hit annual growth of...

Birmingham, Bristol and Leicester are seeing the fastest growth in Buy To Let investment according to new figures from a business...

London-based lettings platform Yorlet has won £350,000 in seed funding to develop its payment Proptec solution. Yorlet was founded by friends Max...

Another report is talking up the Build To Rent niche in the British rental market. Sirius Property Finance has compiled BTR sector...

Average UK rents increased for the fifth consecutive quarter in Q4 2021 according to The Deposit Protection Service, as stock shortages...

Central London rents are now 7.5 per cent higher than pre-pandemic levels. A detailed analysis of just 100 properties by property consultancy...

Two agencies have been expelled from The Property Ombudsman scheme for failing to pay compensation awards. Thamlet Estates, based in east London,...

The trade body which serves as a cheer leader for Build To Rent says the niche sector is part of the...

A webinar being held tomorrow promises to demonstrate how letting agents who ask the right single question to their landlord clients...

Rents are rising at around twice the level of a year ago according to data from Connells-owned lettings agency Hamptons. Despite rental...

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

Agent Rainmaker is holding another of its ARX Mastery events, in a bid to promote growth in the lettings agency sector...

London-based block and facilities services provider SBA Property Management has acquired management agency Paul Samuel Associates. A specialist property management firm with...

A Trading Standards team is to carry out what it calls “unannounced inspections” of lettings agencies in one part of London...

A generally upbeat trading statement from franchise agency giant Winkworth reports that prime London’s rental market’s long term return to normality...

A little-known law may require tenants to pay stamp duty on the rental properties they do not actually own. London lettings agency...

The London rental market stock surplus spurred by pandemic uncertainty has started to subside, with prime boroughs seeing some of the...

A report from the House of Lords has condemned the private rental sector as being ”increasingly unaffordable” as well as being...

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

Blockchain PropTech operator Coadjute is to continue as Headline Partner for The ESTAS for 2022 and 2023.  Coadjute - which took over...

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

The 7,000 units under SDL’s block management are now with rival HML Group following an acquisition deal which took place last...

The rental market appears not to have slowed down this winter - not even over the Christmas break. According to the latest...

Capital appreciation over the past decade has been driven more by the value of homes in the rental market than by...

A leading agency handling international investors and buyers says Russians will displace the Chinese as the main purchasers of buy to...

One of the UK’s first ever Build To Rent companies, Fizzy Living, has been sold to a global real estate company...

A survey by PropTech firm Moveable suggests that over a third of those renting in London are doing so only while...

A leading market forecaster has described the level of rent rises in one part of the country as “going ballistic”. “The London...

A London-focussed lettings agency group has paid £2,000 as a result of breaching the Tenant Fees Act. The issue relates to the...

New research by MoneySuperMarket reveals that dogs cause £1.5 billion of property damage per year. Labradoodles are the UK’s most destructive dog...

Voids are ending the year 25 per cent down on the position at the start of 2021 - an indicator of...

The Lomond Group, already reported to be in talks to buy London agency Chestertons, has revealed it’s snapped up another leading...

Rents in London are now rising as steeply as they were falling at the start of the year according to Knight...

One of the country’s oldest agencies may be under new ownership soon. The fast-expanding Lomond Group - which just last week announced...

A PropTech firm claims to have saved a client more than £160,000 by preventing a criminal from illegally renting one of...

Propertymark is telling its letting agent members that they have a role in helping solve the Afghan refugee crisis. It says some...

John D Wood & Co. Is the latest agency to go green with a move to making its fleet of company...

The London agency Bective says the prime areas of the capital have enjoyed an eight per cent uplift in rental values...

Three lettings agency bosses have been banned from being directors of companies for a total of over 13 years after being...

An agency that made a complete switch of its car fleet from petrol to electric has won the ‘Private Sector Car...

For the first time since January 2020, rents in Inner London rose on an annual basis - they were up 3.9...

A London property managing agent has been ordered to pay more than £80,000 for safety failings which “exposed a potentially large...

A new Buy To Let ‘tracker’ from a prominent buy to let mortgage lender has revealed what it considers to be...

A senior Labour politician in the capital claims that there’s been “a stark rise” in people losing their homes since the...

A fake lettings operation has been uncovered by a leading legitimate agency - and now the National Trading Standards Estate and...

A letting agency has been issued with penalty notices worth £3,000 for operating illegally. Back in 2014 it became a legal requirement...

The average number of new prospective tenants registered per branch fell in October to 71, from September’s figure of 83, according...

Stirling Ackroyd Group has acquired the south east London sales and lettings agency Beresford Residential.  It has bought the whole business including the...

There are fewer than 70 tickets left for December 7's rescheduled 25th ARLA Propertymark Conference and Exhibition. Originally due to take place in...

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

One of the largest private residential landlords in the Midlands has appointed Principle Estate Management to start collecting various ground rents...

A prominent consultancy advising the Build To Rent sector has identified one British city as the prime location for investment in 2022. BNP...

Council-imposed fines on letting agents and landlords that fall foul of licensing regulations have risen dramatically in the past month alone. Research...

Many young Britons allegedly live beyond their means, blaming high rents and “unforseen” agency charges as contributory reasons.  A home insurance company...

ARLA has made it clear to attendees at next month’s Propertymark Conference and Exhibition in London that they must show proof...

The desire for more living space, a key feature of the pandemic, has driven up rents on larger properties faster than...

The latest market snapshot from lettings agency Hamptons suggests that rents have risen, nationally, 7.9 per cent over the last 12 months. It...

Finance companies have announced the development of a new 440-unit Build To Rent scheme in Birmingham. Harrison Street, an alternative real assets...

New figures show how effective the stamp duty holiday was in stimulating buy to let - and how similar measures could...

Results have been released of an analysis of over 20,000 Build To Rent tenants in over 15,000 homes across the UK...

It’s been revealed by a short lets trade body that the typical Airbnb day rate in London in September was £151.40...

Grainger, the UK’s largest listed residential landlord, has announced two new Build To Rent developments. The company has acquired Exmouth Junction in...

Staging a home during the selling process could boost a sale price by up to £47,000; meanwhile lettings asking prices could...

The long term undersupply of rental properties across the country is expected to support rental growth into 2022, says Zoopla. In addition,...

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

Cluttons has given its latest lettings market snapshot for London, with an upbeat assessment of current and future demand. The agency say...

After becoming the first large agency to move to electric BMW i3s in 2019, Chestertons is urging others in the industry to follow...

The London and South East property group Stirling Ackroyd - which recently rebranded from its former title, Nick Dunning Associates -...

New figures from the Ministry of Justice show a dramatic long-term decline in the number of possessions in the private rental...

A trading statement from franchise agency Winkworth has revealed that its network now derives 75 per cent of its revenue from...

The demand for London rental properties has increased by almost 60 per cent in the third quarter compared to the same...

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

Data from central London lettings agency Bective shows returning tenant demand in the capital. The agency’s analysis of new lettings applicants shows...

Labour has joined with campaign groups Generation Rent and Shelter in calling for the speediest possible ending of Section 21 eviction...

The next episode of the Channel 5 show Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords this evening features an agent offering a supposed guaranteed...

The latest rental market snapshot from PropTech supplier Goodlord shows the market cooling, but with year-on-year demand still high in comparison...

Foxtons is extensively praising the apparent benefits of Build To Rent, a sector in which the agency is keen to become...

Rents in much of London have not only bounced back from the pandemic but now exceed the levels reached in 2020. Research...

HomeLet says the average rent in the UK is now £1,059, down a modest 0.2 per cent from a month ago. However, the...

Property group Nick Dunning Associates, which includes the brands Townends and Regents, has rebranded to Stirling Ackroyd Group, effective from today.  All...

New figures from the National Home Building Council suggests the popularity of detached properties has soared during the pandemic - prompting...

All sides of the industry have expressed anger and frustration that yesterday’s Budget effectively ignored the private rental sector. ARLA Propertymark’s policy...

Confirming many Covid-related trends, it appears that outer city properties have seen their yields and rents grow to a greater degree...

The pandemic has brought with it a whole new way of working, with many businesses now offering a hybrid model, and...

ARLA Propertymark has released its latest lettings market snapshot showing demand reducing - but even so still being a record for...

Some 4,500 people and 90 exhibitors attended the Property Investor Show a few days ago - the first face-to-face event of...

Travel Chapter, which owns the high profile Holidaylettings brand, is to float on the London Stock Exchange's junior AIM market. Devon-based Travel...

Propertymark has told the government that imposing the same solution to the Net Zero challenge on all of the private rental...

A leading lettings agency wants next week’s Budget to unveil incentives to bolster supply in the long term rental sector. Richard Davies,...

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

A London lettings agent says it welcomes increasing moves towards allowing pets in rental properties - with some conditions.  Bective’s head of...

New research published by Build To Rent operator L&G reveals what it believes to be a crisis surrounding rental properties, affordable...

Research by a student accommodation search platform suggests that the sector may rely too heavily on the apparent year-on-year growth in...

A lettings agency with links to Saudi Arabian investors has produced a case study of how faith is returning to the long...

New research by the Benham and Reeves agency has revealed how a lack of London rental properties has pushed up the...

One of the local authorities with the tightest clampdowns on letting agents has issued a statement celebrating its successes. Tower Hamlets council in...

A Foxtons-owned lettings agency says 60 per cent of tenants and would-be buyers say they are not confident negotiating asking rents...

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

A lettings agency says a new HMO licensing regime in one of London’s highest profile boroughs will reduce the number of rental properties. This...

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

Tenants returning to the office and city centres has triggered strong rental growth in the largest urban centres. Rightmove’s Quarterly Rental Trends...

‘Room wanted’ ads are currently outnumbering ads for ‘rooms available’ on flatshare site SpareRoom for only the third time in six...

Data from property investment consultancy London Central Portfolio suggests foreigners are returning to the UK capital as travel restrictions ease -...

A leading agent and member of the Propertymark board says London’s letting agencies and private rental sector need government help -...

Average annual rental growth across Britain hit 8.0 per cent in September, the third fastest annual rate of growth recorded this...

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

A prominent industry supplier is warning the government not to damage the private rental sector in its push to promote ever-more...

A leading property lawyer is warning that a tribunal case between a London letting agent and a tenant - involving a...

A London lettings agency - that has now entered bankruptcy - has been cleared of any involvement in a rental scandal...

The latest rental index from PropTech platform Goodlord shows voids inching up - although still remaining much lower than the long-term...

With house prices at an all-time high, showing no signs of waning, the age of first-time buyers is on the rise...

More buy to let properties are being put on the sales market, despite the strength in the lettings sector, says Zoopla. In...

The rush for space to work and relax at home will still dominate the rental market for the short term at...

Campaign group Generation Rent, led by former Labour Baroness Alicia Kennedy, has renewed its call for the scrapping of Section 21...

The rapid pace of growth in the rental market will slow in 2022 but the enduring rate of increase should still...

Tenants are paying almost £70bn of rent to landlords a year, research claims. Buy-to-let specialist Sequre Property Investment has found the best...

A property app firm, which describes itself as a second-generation digital property management service, is aiming to raise a ‘significant six figure...

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

It’s been announced that UK Sotheby’s International Realty has secured tenants for 20 apartments in record time at Embassy Gardens, a...

An estate and lettings agent has analysed how the level of rental arrears has grown between each wave of the pandemic. The...

Knight Frank is anticipating a “sprint for stock” in the lettings market as offices reopen and travel restrictions ease.  Tom Bill, Knight...

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

The chancellor Rishi Sunak has been urged to make it more attractive for landlords to invest in the private rental sector. Sunak...

A lettings agent who sold his business to Chestertons last year has claimed the sector has come to the “end of...

One of the country’s largest commercial and retail landlords - Capital & Regional - is to expand is current programme of...

The number of new prospective tenants registering with Knight Frank in August was 73 per cent higher than the same month...

New data released by franchise agency Winkworth showed that the rental market so far this year has been divided between house...

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

The number of international tenants searching for UK property has reached its highest level since before the pandemic. High end agency Knight...

The lettings market continues to boom, with HomeLet’s latest index showing average UK rents at a record high for the third...

A new trend developing in prime central London suggests that tenants are demanding smaller properties - and that’s despite the pandemic...

Specialist property lender Castle Trust Bank has agreed a £13.2m development loan for a Build To Rent scheme within a mixed...

John D Wood - one of two high end brands formerly owned by Countrywide but recently acquired by Connells - is...

The UK’s largest ever additional licensing scheme for HMOs has come into effect over the long weekend.  Westminster council’s scheme will focus...

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

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

The scale of demand in the private rental sector is now the highest on record according to ARLA Propertymark.  The average number...

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

Plentific - the PropTech firm that offers block management agents and Build To Rent operators a cloud-based maintenance platform - has...

Recovery in the UK is being channeled towards regional cities, says a leading investment expert.  Martha Peyton, managing director and head of...

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...

Baroness Alicia Kennedy, director of the Generation Rent campaign, says rents in Wales, Scotland and South West England have soared thanks...

Two lettings agencies are amongst three property agents which have been fined by HM Revenue & Customs for breaching anti-money laundering...

One of the largest new additional licensing schemes for HMOs anywhere in the country is set to come into force in...

New data from Connells-owned agency Hamptons shows that nationally the rate of annual rental growth moderated slightly last month. Rents across Britain rose...

Another index is showing that a scarcity of rental properties has prompted a rise in every single region of Britain -...

If you haven’t been to the Agent Rainmaker LIVE event before, then it is pretty difficult to explain how this event...

Tenant demand for private rental property has risen for the fifth consecutive quarter according to the latest market snapshot from the...

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

Agents will be aware that demand for rental property is high right now - so a property consultancy has worked out...

The lettings market in London and the Home Counties continued its journey back towards normality in July according to data from...

A tenant who says his former rental property has been turned into an Airbnb has set up a petition demanding Chancellor...

A letting agency has appeared on a ‘name and shame’ list of companies which failed to pay staff the minimum wage. Tetsuo...

The average rent in the UK is now at a record high of £1,029, up 6.6 per cent on the same time last year,...

An analysis of the Mayor of London’s Rogue Landlord and Letting Agent Checker shows that since it was introduced in 2018...

Student rent has increased almost 20 per cent over the last year.  In data released as part of the 2021 NatWest Student...

Lettings income has played a major part in the upswing in income for the Belvoir Group, reported to shareholders in its...

A buying agency says it’s seen what it calls “a huge uptake in furnished lettings requests” following recent floods in London,...

Voids are at their lowest level since August 2019 while rents are on the rise, according to the latest Goodlord snapshot...

London-based buy to let purchasers in the first half of the year have looked outside the capital in high numbers according...

One of the most pessimistic lettings operations about the London market during the pandemic says that at last the capital is...

The latest rental market snapshot released by ARLA Propertymark shows a little of the heat coming out of the rental market...

Last month says the largest rental demand in the last three years across London according to Foxtons.  The agency says the gradual...

There’s a new warning the rental fraud could be on the rise. Due diligence firm Homeppl says the combination of possible job...

A ruling of the First Tier Property Tribunal has put a London property management firm in the clear following a dispute...

The capital appreciation of the past year proves that there’s no better investment than bricks and mortar, according to an agency...

The rental sector bounce back in London and the Home Counties is now underway according to Knight Frank. The agency forecasts rental...

A new estimate put the value of the UK private rental sector at almost £1.4 trillion. Buy to let and investment consultancy...

London’s short lets sector has bounced back from the Covid shutdowns and is now stronger than hotels and serviced apartments. That's the result...

A London lettings agency is exposed on TV this evening over what turns out to be a sham guaranteed rent scheme. Landlords...

The Generation Rent campaign group and Labour are again uniting to argue in favour of rent controls in London. Just last week...

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

Rapidly rising rents may trigger a new wave of investment buyers in London, helping to resuscitate the capital’s sales market in...

ARLA Propertymark has hit back at a demand from London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan that he be given the powers to...

Across Great Britain the pace of rental growth continued to climb in June, with rents rising 8.5 per cent year-on-year. The data...

Connells-owned high end agency Hamptons has declared the bottom of the rental market for Inner London, saying it’s now on the...

Women now make up 48 per cent of the 2.6m buy to let investors in the UK, according to London lettings...

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

London’s Labour Mayor, Sadiq Khan, has made a new call for power to cap private rents. He’s claimed that rents in the...

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

Average rents in London declined during the second quarter of 2021, according to the latest market snapshot from the  Deposit Protection...

London’s rental market gathered momentum in June as tenants anticipated a return to the office with 24 per cent more tenancies...

The average UK rent now stands at a record £1,007 per calendar month - the highest ever, according to HomeLet. It’s up...

It’s been yet another strong month for the rental market as reported in the latest statistics from PropTech supplier Goodlord. Voids dropped...

Demand continues to build in prime lettings markets in London and the Home Counties, with Knight Frank data showing the number...