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Uncertainty around the start of the academic year and pressure on corporate budgets means lettings activity has been lower than normal...

The lettings agency Portico is partnering with Goodlord to offer a new insurance policy to its landlords. Portico landlords can now benefit...

Strutt and Parker says the low level growth in the lettings market seen in prime central London in 2019 is being...

High-end London agency chain Chestertons has snapped up an independent lettings agency in the east of the capital. Morgan Randall operated across Canary...

New data from Zoopla shows that a two-speed rental market is operating across the UK, with London in particular hitting major...

The average rent in the UK has risen 1.5 per cent in just a month, but it is still a fraction...

Which? is warning prospective renters to beware scam lettings agencies and scam landlords following a case where £5,600 was conned out...

The huge backlog of eviction and other cases anticipated in the coming months will be helped by the creation of a...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has postponed its conference - for a second time. Back in March it was postponed until...

A survey of 34 world cities suggests that London ranks sixth when it comes to the cost of renting. The study, by...

The Local Government Association, which represents almost all councils in England, is calling on the government to scrap section 21. The call comes...

Two London landlords and their lettings agents will have to pay tens of thousands of pounds after a home they were letting...

Leading housing lawyer David Smith has become the legal counsel for the new National Residential Landlords Association. Smith is a partner at...

There’s a warning this morning that the consequences of the Coronavirus crisis mean that rents will fall at least five per...

New tenancies recorded by The Deposit Protection Service suggests the market is back almost to its pre-pandemic levels of activity. Data in...

A lettings agent comparison website, Rentround, says the stamp duty holiday has spurred existing and would-be landlords to search for new...

Coronavirus lockdowns and travel restrictions imposed by the UK and other governments have hit the London rental market badly, an agency...

New data from Hamptons International reveals that in June the average rent on a newly let property in Britain dipped 0.6...

The average rental asking price outside of London has hit an all-time high says Rightmove - whereas inside the capital, the...

Room rents in the capital have dropped seven per cent in the past three months as the Coronavirus crisis saps demand...

London Mayor Sadiq Khan, has told the government of “illegal evictions by letting agents” - without specifying the incidents he refers...

Property consultancy CBRE claims that Build To Rent is likely to be the most resilient sector of the UK property industry...

Average rents in most regions of the UK have fallen slightly in the past month according to the latest HomeLet market...

The research department of Countrywide’s Hamptons International brand says the stamp duty holiday introduced yesterday on homes selling for £500,000 or...

Four buy to let investors have each been fined £10,000 for letting out unlicensed HMOs. The unlicensed properties , all in the...

Another agent reports huge surge in supply of London properties to let Yesterday Chestertons reported a large rise in the supply of...

One of the capital’s largest lettings agencies says business is recovering well, although ironically rents are down 10% and increased activity...

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

The latest snapshot of the lettings market from PropTech firm Goodlord suggests that activity is much stronger now than a year...

A council in London, where landlords yields and margins are already tight, says it wants to charge £550 for a renewed...

A new league table has been produced listing locations where a mix of rental yield and capital growth have given buy...

London Fire Brigade’s deputy assistant commissioner for fire safety has praised the new safety regulations which have now come in to...

A prominent economist who has called for a raft of measures to protect tenants during the Coronavirus crisis is now calling...

The number of rental deposit disputes lodged with one of the government-authorised deposit schemes has fallen 15 per cent across England...

A property built without planning consent and then illegally let to a family has been knocked down by Ealing council in...

A lettings agency is launching a service that allows landlords to list their properties on Rightmove, Zoopla and OnTheMarket for just...

New research has produced a series of league tables to identify where in Britain the best rental yields can be found. The...

The director of renters’ campaign group Generation Rent says the long-running scandal of a planning decision made by the Housing Secretary...

A new Labour group - Labour Tenants United - has issued a four-prong attack on the current private rental sector including...

Average room rents in the capital have dipped seven per cent compared to this time last year according to a flat-sharing...

New figures show that typical capital gains for buy to let investors are on the way down. Hamptons International says that landlords...

Rents on renewed tenancies across Great Britain fell 1.6 per cent in May, the third consecutive monthly fall.   Data from Hamptons International...

PropTech lettings platform Herddle has announced two new senior hires. Hurdle describes itself as the tech-enabled lettings and property management agency that...

Knight Frank is the latest agency to produce evidence that the lettings sector has rebounded in the four weeks since the...

Harrow council in north London has launched a formal consultation on its plan to renew its landlord licensing scheme in the...

The current restriction on Airbnb-style short lets to 90 nights a year in London could spread to other cities - and...

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

Demand in the prime London lettings market is catching up with supply, reducing short-term downwards pressure on rental values. That’s the view...

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

A group of activists in London claim as many as 2,500 tenants are on a rent-strike during the Coronavirus crisis. The number is...

Independent London agency chain Dexters says it’s seen a 200 per cent jump in enquiries from this time last year, and...

Rents in London have dropped by between 10 and 15 per cent as fewer people are willing or able to move...

The buy-to-let market has grown significantly in recent years as long-term renting becomes more popular and investors continue to see the...

A document outlining options for the future regulation of Airbnb and other short let platforms in the UK is to be...

A London council has sent an open letting to its buy to let landlords urging them to show understanding to tenants...

Marsh & Parsons, the LSL-owned London chain, has appointed a litigation firm for Covid-19 support to its Lettings team. A statement from...

** This Bank Holiday Monday both Letting Agent Today and Estate Agent Today look at how agencies have modified offices and protocols...

An online agency has denied a claim that it is allowing High Street agents to use its platform to avoid paying...

The possibility of an extended mortgage holiday being introduced, for landlords as well as home owners, has been sharply criticised by...

Rental property website SearchSmartly is thought to be the first in the world to display air quality ratings on every listing. In...

The number of new rental listings reaching the market has soared as much as 44 per cent in some areas following...

Activists in a body called the London Renters Union has returned to the theme of calling for tenants to not pay...

Repairs and maintenance management software provider Fixflo is hosting a webinar later this week to debate how letting agents can find...

A mailing list operated by the left wing activists’ group Momentum has been used to win support for a rent strike...

A foundation which receives substantial funding from trade unions and a charity linked to the Nationwide is calling for rents to...

A specialist mortgage broker is suggesting that this is the right time for buy to let investors to bag bargain properties,...

Three groups of rental activists have demanded the government scrap all rent payments immediately and cancel all arrears - but mystery...

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...

Labour’s proposal to extend the current ban on private rental sector evictions could end up with some landlords in financial ruin.  Landlord...

A group of private rental activists says Labour proposals to give tenants two years to repay arrears accrued during the virus...

Have you heard of Psych? No, me neither - but that’s our loss according to the London team of Auction House.  The...

An economist who previously suggested tenants should live rent-free for three months during the Coronavirus crisis has revised his thinking -...

Winkworth says its London offices are reporting significant numbers of landlords who used to advertise on Airbnb and similar short-let platforms...

The latest market snapshot by PropTech firm Goodlord suggests that while new and completed tenancy volumes dropped rapidly in the first...

The consumer group Which? claims some agents and landlords are not honouring break clauses and therefore not allowing tenants to move...

A surge in rental activity has encouraged a London-focussed agency to un-furlough some of its staff ahead of an expected relaxation...

The Property Ombudsman has announced the expulsion of eight agencies, all for contravening TPO codes of practice. Most of the expulsions were...

The typical rent for a London property makes it “the undefeated number one most expensive city in Europe” despite increases slowing...

London-focussed agency Chestertons has become the latest business to use the teclet platform to manage tenancy, renewal and management processes. Around 40...

Several local authorities at different stages of implementing rental licensing schemes have put their proposals on ice until the Coronavirus crisis...

The Labour head of a special ‘taskforce’ looking at London housing issues in the light of the Coronavirus crisis says he...

Tenants paid a UK average monthly rent of £775 during the first quarter of this year according to the Deposit Protection...

A former estate agent who has set up an online platform giving information on property values for London renters and buyers...

A new analysis reveals three key figures that suggest the rental market will bounce back from the lockdown and the Coronavirus...

Seven out of 10 tenancies that were due to end in March were renewed according to Hamptons International - the highest...

London agency Chestertons reports that despite the lockdown it’s registered 2,369 new tenants needing to move, conducted 3,432 virtual viewings, received...

A pro-Build To Rent online platform is hosting a webinar to discuss whether the sector will emerge from the Coronavirus crisis...

The new National Residential Landlords Association has backed calls from the Labour Mayor of London to ensure the benefits system covers...

A new renovation start-up is working with letting agents and landlords to allow key workers to use empty rental properties for...

Rental demand has dropped significantly across London and other major UK cities as a result of the pandemic. When comparing current levels...

There’s been a 12 per cent increase in the number of Built To Rent homes across the UK that have been...

One of London’s largest lettings agencies is warning its landlord clients to only use mortgage payment holidays offered by lenders as a...

A leading London lettings agency is reporting only a very low rent default rate so far, despite fears that the Coronavirus...

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

High-end lettings agency Knight Frank says the lettings market “could explode quite quickly” when the lockdown ends. The agency says that in...

The director of the website Home says that investment in buy to let will look like a highly attractive safe haven...

A London council has pressed ahead with the launch of a borough-wide additional licensing scheme despite the lockdown and uncertainty created...

New and newly-refurbished properties are letting more readily as virtual viewings become more widespread during the lockdown. That’s the view of Knight...

The Generation Rent pressure group, fiercely critical of agents and landlords in recent months, wants the government to implement a 12 month...

The developers behind the prestigious Television Centre scheme and its nearby White City Place development in west London are showing support...

Home offices aren’t all about laptops and wifi routers….they’re about gorgeous views too. So thanks to Marc Morrish, a director and auctioneer...

The proportion of homes bought last month by buy to let investors plummeted to a record low of just eight per...

A leading supplier says the current market standstill is an opportunity for the industry to rethink how short lets can be...

New tenant data has revealed that the average age of renters living in shared properties in London has risen five years...

Demand for rental properties with gardens or other outdoor space has soared in terms of portal listings - perhaps no surprise...

A campaign group is urging its members to write to landlords asking them to “suspend” rent demands until the Coronavirus crisis...

Knight Frank is predicting that the number of tenancies agreed in the prime markets across London and the Home Counties in...

Demand for rental properties has predictably plummeted thanks to the lockdown. Data from PropTech company Goodlord shows that while a surge for...

Hello and welcome to our latest update… we’re probably not yet getting used to these unusual times but we hope this...

Airbnb and similar platforms have seen a collapse of business since the start of the Coronavirus crisis with some 70 per...

When it comes to good works, one frequently-featured agency is Chestertons in London - and again it’s come up trumps during...

Knight Frank is reporting that tenants in high-value London markets are agreeing deals that allow them to delay the start of...

Hello and welcome to the latest edition of Conquering Corona, our daily update helping the industry cope with the current crisis. If...

Paul Shamplina, the founder of Landlord Action and star of a Channel 5 programme on evictions, says he fully backs the...

A lettings agency in central London is setting an example to the industry by offering help to its landlords and tenants...

There are few silver linings to today’s Coronavirus crisis but there’s a heroic effort being made by a short let accommodation...

Hello: so much has happened since the last Conquering Corona column on Friday. Before we get on with it, a reminder...

There’s been a sharp drop in rental churn since the Coronavirus outbreak worsened according to a flat-sharing website. SpareRoom says that across...

New research suggests the damage to the private rental sector in terms of non-payment of rent could be a remarkable £15...

The average rent for a newly let property rose 3.3 per cent in the year to the end of February -...

Not-for-profit accreditation service safeagent says the government should ensure councils delay the introduction of all new private rental sector licensing schemes...

The growing number of companies offering support services to hosts and agencies that operate short lets on Airbnb and similar platforms...

Hello - here we are with Friday’s help and advice.  A reminder, if you need it, that we want to share your...

We imagine many agencies have encountered acts of kindness from their clients in recent days - and agents themselves are going...

It’s easy to forget in the Coronavirus frenzy but from tomorrow, Friday March 20, all tenancies are to become subject to...

Tomorrow’s National Landlord Investment show, scheduled for London’s Olympia, has been postponed because of the Coronavirus crisis. The organisers say they reached...

A lettings agency and its director have pleaded guilty to renting out an overcrowded house in the first case brought to...

A lettings market snapshot conducted before the worst effects of the Coronavirus were known suggests the rental market is relatively strong...

A massive £250m has been raised from a Swedish pension fund towards UK Build To Rent projects. Property development firm Oxford Properties...

Leaders Romans Group has made another acquisition of a multi-office independent agency. It’s snapped up six-branch Outlook Property, which has offices across...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has postponed its conference until September. In a statement to registered attendees last evening ARLA says: “After...

One of the major deposit alternative operators has announced 31 new letting agency branches have signed up, from three high-profile brands. Zero...

The latest lettings market snapshot by HomeLet shows that average rents across the UK are still not breaking through the £1,000...

The chief executive of a new lettings sector trade body is to address his first conference next month, giving an indication...

Pressure group Generation Rent claims half of London’s councils did not fine any landlords for letting out unsafe homes in the...

It’s steady-as-she-goes in the rental market according to the latest market snapshot produced by PropTech firm Goodlord.  Void periods dropped slightly in...

Labour’s London Mayor, Sadiq Khan, has put his call for powers to control private rents at the heart of his campaign...

Hostmaker, a property management firm working with properties listed on Airbnb and other short-let platforms, has ceased trading with its parent...

A newspaper claims multiple councils are opening investigations into agents allegedly defying the tenant fees ban - and at least one...

Foxtons has snapped up a lettings agency in suburban London. It’s bought London Stone Properties Limited and its subsidiary company London Stone...

The leaseholder of a council property in central London has been found guilty of advertising it on Airbnb and the Booking.com...

Growing demand and a shrinking supply of rental properties in prime central London has led to a 50 per cent surge...

A landlord has been ordered to pay back no less than £190,000 - equivalent to nine years’ rent - after he...

Arun - which has the brands of Douglas Allen in East London and Essex, Ward & Partners in Kent, Cubitt &...

London agency Draker Lettings is expanding its patch - and offering landlords a free service for six months. Draker, which is 10...

Shelter, which routinely criticises lettings agents and landlords, has been slammed for the huge amount of public funding it receives -...

For a cool £1,153 a week you would expect a flat, even in pricey central London, to come with some perks. A...

A London council says nearly half of the Airbnb-style short let properties available in its patch last year exceeded their legal...

The Property Ombudsman has expelled five agencies, mostly for failures to honour awards: four of them are lettings operations and one...

Two bedroom properties produce the best yields for buy to let investors according to the latest research. Lettings management platform Howsy has...

Grainger, one of the biggest names in Build To Rent, has agreed to buy a proposed 348 home-scheme in central Nottingham. The...

An online lettings agency has accused High Street rivals of being “inefficient” and making voids longer than necessary.  Home Made, which operates...

The government’s official index for the private rental sector has shown that rents rose by 1.5 per cent in the 12...

One of the country’s largest Build To Rent developers says it is specifically targeting certain tenant types for one of its...

London agency Keatons has acquired a nearby independent rival, JD Property. JD Property’s staff have already been relocated into Keatons existing office in Deptford.  This is Keatons' third acquisition in three years and now...

A resident who was unable to access an emergency escape route during a fire was found standing on a windowsill hanging...

The government has given the green light to a council’s huge licensing scheme, set to cover 18 of its 20 wards...

Another housing market snapshot suggests demand and confidence are improving as a result of the new political and economic landscape following...

One of the country’s leading buying agencies says buy to let is changing in prime central London, as corporate structures replace...

Zoopla says it’s now in what it calls “a clear, market-leading position” in terms of rental properties in the capital. In a...

Yorkshire-based property management firm Barnsdales has acquired a Nottingham independent for an undisclosed sum. Marriotts Commercial, an arm of Marriotts estate agency,...

A room-finding portal, along with the owners of a London lettings agency and management firm, must pay over £100,000 for letting...

The latest lettings market snapshot provided by HomeLet shows that the average rent across the UK as a whole is now...

One of Ed Sheeran’s first massive hits was Lego House. And now, not many years later, it’s been revealed that he’s...

A new concept of co-living is being offered on a rental basis at a new purpose-built development in west London. The firm...

Enfield council in London has confirmed that it will introduce borough-wide additional licensing. It is also seeking consent from the government to...

The latest market snapshot produced by PropTech firm Goodlord suggests that even in the south west of England - where renters...

Grainger, one of the biggest names in Build To Rent in the UK, says its current BTR pipeline stands at 24...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Catherine Shinerock - ARO Account Manager What is your ‘company name’...

Generation Rent - an outspoken organisation sharply critical of lettings agents and many aspects of the private rental sector - is...

A London Labour council wants to introduce rent controls to its borough. The South London Press reports that Lambeth councillors have voted through...

Knight Frank has released its latest rental market summary for London, and it paints a mixed picture. Firstly the number of properties...

A landlord has ended up with fines totalling over £90,000 after repeatedly ignoring a council’s selective licensing regime. Stephen Ige pleaded guilty...

Nearly half a million properties could be removed from the long-term lettings market as disenchanted landlords move to short-lets. A survey by...

London’s asking rents hit a new record average of £2,119 per calendar month as the ongoing shortage of property for tenants...

It’s back - the five-a-side football tournament which made its successful debut last year with teams from the agency and property...

The prime London lettings market has returned to growth after three years of falling rents, according to new five-year forecasts from...

A prominent member of the House of Lords has given a surprising insight into how the fiscal and regulatory clampdown on...

A judge has ordered two landlords to pay a total of £14,858 for illegally renting out an unlicensed house without working...

The Property Franchise Group, which has a string of major agency brands, has reported a strong performance in 2019 despite the...

A London council tenant who for a period of seven years failed to disclose that he owned three houses, has been...

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has backed a five year extension for a massive London council landlord licensing...

A London council has caught out a rogue lettings agency for illegally operating two properties, with issues ranging from gas safety...

A third of all landlords live in Greater London and the South East according to data collated by a property management...

New research claims that one in every 50 homes in the capital is let on a short-term platform like Airbnb or...

A London company that has previously had an ad banned by the Advertising Standards Authority has announced a change of name. The...

New investment in private rented housing has fallen since 2016 as some private landlords have dipped out of the sector in...

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

The average cost of a rental home in Great Britain rose to £999 pcm in December according to figures just released...

Technology has completely transformed the lettings landscape over the past decade, but perhaps not in the way many expected it would. Letting...

Investment into the purpose-built Build To Rent sector in the UK dropped significantly last year. Some £273.8m was invested in the fourth...

A lettings agency admits that the proportion of net income required to cover rent has hit 75 per cent in some...

London courts are failing to cope with the volume of landlord repossession cases according to a trade body. New figures show the...

A rental management platform has compiled a league table of where tenant demand is strongest for homes to let - and...

A leading property industry figure says Airbnb is attempting to persuade traditional buy to let landlords into going down the short-let...

A former director at LSL’s Build To Rent division has today been named as head of business development at a London...

The rental market is stable as it enters 2020 according to the latest index from PropTech company Goodlord.  Five out of the...

London rents increased by an average of 3.5 per cent in 2019 according to a European lettings monitor called HousingAnywhere. While this...

There’s been an upbeat prediction on the lettings market given by leading market commentator Lucian Cook, head of residential research at...

One of the leading providers in the hyper-competitive deposit alternative niche has made a bid for support from London tenants by...

Knight Frank forecasts cumulative rental growth of 11 per cent in prime outer London and 10 per cent in prime central...

Countrywide has calculated that with many landlords exiting the buy to let market, the number of homes available to rent has...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has given a brief but optimistic assessment of the private rental market for next year. “As...

The latest lettings market snapshot by referencing firm HomeLet shows the average rent in the UK is now £947. This is up...

Campaigning charity Shelter claims 135,000 children in Britain are homeless and living in temporary accommodation this Christmas - the highest number...

The ESTAS, the national customer service awards recognising the best agents, brokers and suppliers, closes for entry at the end of...

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

London as a whole has seen rental stock plummet by 22 per cent in just one year according to a market...

Three lettings agencies have been expelled from TPO - in each case the agency failed to honour a payment as instructed...

Haart is trying to shift the mood music around the private rental sector from challenging to celebratory, saying there is plenty...

The sales market in London continues to wreak havoc with agencies, as yesterday’s Foxtons story revealed, but one lettings agency is...

A mortgage lender’s new Buy to Let City Tracker tool has calculated the best cities in the UK for buy to...

An industry supplier says letting agents should respond supportively to the growing eco-consciousness shown by younger people who are likely to...

A trade body suggests that the votes of private landlords could decide the results in over 100 constituencies in next week’s...

The Black Brick agency, which operates with high net worth clients, is forecasting that 2020 will see the arrival of a...

A short lets firm that describes itself as an “Airbnb management service” is launching an advertising campaign to woo landlords away...

A dawn raid by enforcement officers from a London council has discovered 17 men sleeping on mattresses in a three bedroom...

More details have emerged of the long-term scheme to site Build To Rent homes at Transport for London tube stations and...

The London Airbnb property management company previously known as AirAgents, has rebranded as Nestor. Established in 2015, AirAgents went on to win...

A new PropTech app-based service claiming to reduce paperwork in property management is rolling out in London and the south east. Herddle...

There’s been a steep rise in the costs of landlord joining a compulsory licensing scheme operated by Labour-controlled Nottingham city council. The...

The Property Franchise Group has issued an upbeat trading statement indicating that it’s mitigated much of the financial impact of the...

Another survey of private landlords show a majority feeling less confident about the market than they were three months ago. Last week...

The pressure group Generation Rent, which in the past has been highly critical of letting agents and other aspects of the...

A rogue landlord and the property company he ran have been fined £22,000 for dishing out ‘sham licences’ to tenants in...

A former Labour councillor and solicitor Muhammad Harun has been jailed for 16 months after pleading guilty to two counts of...

Flat-sharing website Ideal Flatmate has raised £2m in a funding round in order to expand to seven new cities in the...

A controversial private rental licensing regime that has already made the headlines for the wrong reasons has now been branded a...

Registration has opened for the 2020 ARLA Propertymark Conference, with an early bird discount available to members until January 24. The event,...

The latest lettings market snapshot by insurance firm HomeLet says the average rent across the UK is now £953, up 2.7...

The appeal by Labour’s Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, to be given powers to introduce rent controls have been dealt a...

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

Another think tank has come up with proposals to scrap Section 21 eviction powers and cap rents - and it also...

Canary Wharf is the latest prime area of London to secure a Build To Rent scheme.  10 George Street, by Canary Wharf...

The growing chorus of calls to professionalise the short lets sector has won influential backing from a senior PropTech entrepreneur. Neil Cobbold...

A leading agent is the latest industry figure to speak out against rent controls, which continue to be advocated by Labour...

The average rent of a newly let property in Great Britain rose to £999 pcm in October according to data from...

The proportion of homes in Great Britain let by overseas based landlords is 11 per cent, up from seven per cent...

It looks likely that the Conservative party is set to formally oppose rent controls when it publishes its manifesto, probably in...

London’s Labour Mayor, Sadiq Khan, has returned to his campaign to win powers which would allow him to impose rent controls. Khan...

A leading London lettings agent wants increased regulation over Airbnb in a bid to deter criminal activity and anti-social behaviour. Martin Bikhit, managing...

The latest rental index from PropTech firm Goodlord shows some regions enjoying lower void periods with others slower to stabilise.  Specifically, the...

Knight Frank says the supply of new lettings properties in prime central London is likely to slow - and as a...

Three of the country’s most senior agents have told a PropTech supplier how they use technology to aid their compliance work...

A collective of activist renter groups has set out a manifesto of what it wants from the winner of next month’s...

A new report from Knight Frank shows how the country’s most expensive lettings market - prime central London - has boomed. The...

Many buy to let investors are still badly bruised by the government’s wave of fiscal and regulatory assaults on the private...

The growing deposit alternative sector continues to be ultra-competitive with 15-branch agency Kings Lettings signing up to Zero Deposit. Kings Lettings operates...

Rent controls similar to those demanded by Labour in London and other major cities in the UK do not work, and...

The government is being urged to speed up the release details of the future it sees for selective licensing following revelations...

Research by the British Property Federation shows that there are now 148,046 build-to-rent homes complete, under construction or in planning across...

Contrary to the impressions given in some quarters, no fewer than 75 per cent of tenants are happy to rent, and...

Apprentice star Lord Alan Sugar has warned about the dangers of short let scams after an American family was apparently conned out...

Countrywide’s high-end Hamptons International brand says it’s growing its lettings business “ethically and sustainably, regardless of market conditions.” It has ended the...

A statement from Hackney council in north east London says those who break its licensing provisions for the private rental sector...

An east London lettings agency must pay more than £2,500 after a six-foot-high pile of waste was found fly-tipped on land...

Three criminals have been sentenced after pleading guilty to money laundering involving an online lettings agency. The sentences follow an investigation spearheaded...

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

A co-founder of a room rental PropTech service says there’s no clear evidence yet that the fees ban introduced in April...

A London-focussed lettings agency is hosting a seminar for landlords in association with a rental sector trade body. The key theme of...

New research from Rightmove shows almost a quarter of landlords are planning to sell at least one property from their current...

If you want to know why inventories are vital for agents and landlords, look no further than the high-profile dispute over...

UK-wide rental prices are up 2.0 per cent annually to £876 – a three-year high – according to a new quarterly...

Government plans to end so-called ‘no fault’ evictions may backfire and not improve tenants’ security at all. That’s the warning from Osbornes...

Research by safeagent - the new name for the National Approved Letting Scheme - has found over 130,000 unlicensed properties in...

In addition to the apparent collapse of Upad at the weekend, there has been unconfirmed speculation about redundancies at a second...

A senior Labour housing spokesman is urging the government to press on with plans to outlaw the use of Section 21...

Average UK rents continued to rise between July and September, but failed to keep up with inflation, according to The Deposit...

Agent and co-founder of new end of tenancy PropTech solution The Depositary, Kristjan Byfield, has spoken to Letting Agent Today about...

One of London's largest agencies, Chestertons, has reported a record month for revenues in September as well as its best ever...

Uncertainty around the UK's planned departure from the EU and the stability of the government is causing the super-rich to rent instead...

A new ethical letting agency has launched in partnership with a housing association and is promoting its low fee structure. Home Makers,...

The cost of renting a room in the UK remained steady during Q3, according to SpareRoom. The country's biggest flatsharing site says...

Well-known letting agent Kristjan Byfield has announced the details of his new product which aims to reduce the workload of the...

A rental market slump in September has led to a rise in average void periods across many parts of England and...

There has been a significant spike in activity in the East Hampshire lettings market, according to analysis from Zoopla. Over the last...

A call has been made for the best letting agencies and other rental sector professionals to show how they comply with...

A PropTech platform devised by Build To Let specialist Grainger is to be used in a bid to differentiate the company from...

An umbrella organisation representing councils is calling for greater freedom to introduce more and larger rental sector licensing schemes, without the...

Lettings platform teclet has announced its latest API partner - and says more will be revealed in the coming months. The partner...

High end London estate agency Chestertons has signed up with Zero Deposits, one of the deposit replacement services expanding across the...

High end agency JLL says it’s seen a consistent rise in London owners becoming landlords, with a 15.3 per cent increase...

The majority of the UK’s private renters don’t want to purchase a home according to new research, coming just as the...

The weekly economic and financial research magazine The Economist has made a scathing attack on rent controls. The publication says rent controls...

Two London agencies have been expelled from The Property Ombudsman scheme for failing to honour two compensation awards. The first is Chase...

Labour is backing new guidelines which ban adverts which can be interpreted as encouraging landlords and home owners to flout restrictions...

A leading lettings sector trade body says evidence shows the direct payment of benefit to landlords is the biggest possible contribution...

A rogue landlord who divided his three-bedroom home in central London into eight flats has ended up with a bill of...

A home being pet-friendly is the most desirable attribute in a rental property, according to research by a specialist mortgage lender.  The...

Last week’s revelation that approaching 50 per cent of letting agents surveyed in London were in breach of the law is...

A Labour councillor on Islington council - which is controlled by the party and has Jeremy Corbyn as a local member...