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Lettings franchise giant Hunters has struck a commercial deal with a geospatial technology firm. The partnership offers immediate access to Kamma’s full...

London rents climbed for the first time for over a year during Q1 2021 —although the rise was a mere £8...

The Home website has produced its latest rental market snapshot - and once again London is the odd region out compared...

Average rents in prime central London declined 14.3 per cent in the year to March - but one agency reckons that may be...

Buy to let investors are not cashing out of the private rental sector despite the restrictions and taxes imposed by government. Hamptons’...

Letting agents body ARLA Propertymark has joined the criticism of London Mayor Sadiq Khan who wants to be given the power...

Kevin Hollinrake, who until recently was the chairman of Hunters, has been named in an article about Tory MPs who have...

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

At least one lettings agency is on a list of targets for socially-distanced protests tomorrow by anti-eviction campaigners in the left...

Winkworth says its London rental activities have suffered because of a lack of international travel, and students and young professionals returning to...

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

Agents and other industry players have penned an open letter to government demanding a radical overhaul of targets for energy efficiency in the...

Average rents across the UK have risen for the fourth time in as many months according to the HomeLet index. Typical rent...

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

Some 39 agents and landlords have had banning orders over the past three years according to a report in The Guardian. Under the...

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

Latest figures from ARLA Propertymark suggest the rental market continues to perform strongly. Data for February - the latest available from the...

One of the London boroughs synonymous with wealth has revealed that 44 per cent of its housing stock is now actually...

Central London’s prime rental market is witnessing a wave of enquiries from tenants wanting to strike a deal according to a...

Rent controls are being discussed again as candidates prepare for May's local elections. In London Green Party mayoral candidate Sian Berry -...

There’s been a spectacular surge in demand for lettings properties as vendors take advantage of the stamp duty holiday by selling...

A new rentals platform claims to have signed up 150 London agencies prior to launch this spring. Findingaplace says it has signed up...

A London council has embarked on consultation over two new private rental licensing schemes - and says they are needed as...

Almost one year to the day since the first national lockdown began, Rightmove has analysed millions of data points to confirm...

A lettings agency in central London has been issued with a fine for not belonging to a Client Money Protection scheme. The...

An upbeat market snapshot for the lettings sector claims that one region of the UK has seen rent increases in excess...

Research by Hamptons suggests that the increased house prices caused by the stamp duty holiday sales surge has indirectly obliged more...

The head of a lettings agency says there are up to 60 enquiries for every rental property he lists - and those...

Foxtons has made no bones about how it sees future growth - it wants to acquire lettings books from other agencies. “There...

A head tenant who posed as a landlord has been taken to court by a London council. Sonia Nascimento rented a converted...

Some £3.5 billion of investment was placed in the growing Build To Rent sector in 2020, despite concerns over the pandemic...

ARLA Propertymark is warning politicians fighting elections this spring that rent controls should be firmly off the agenda. The organisation traditionally sets...

Rightmove says falling rents in central London have led to a surge in interest from prospective tenants. Rightmove has analysed over 23 million...

Knight Frank says the plummeting rents in prime central London have at least managed to attract a surge in the number...

The UK’s average rent is now £984, showing a three per cent increase on last year according to HomeLet. But there’s a...

A London agency says the lettings sector in the capital appears to be reacting positively to the government's roadmap out of...

Foxtons says the reason behind its purchase of rival London agency Douglas & Gordon was to get its lettings book. The deal, for...

February was another strong month for the lettings market according to the latest rental index from PropTech firm Goodlord. The average cost...

A survey of private rental sectors in major European cities suggests London is one of the tougher locations for tenants working...

A huge trading standards operation clamping down on lettings agents who fail to abide by Client Money Protection rules has been...

Rightmove is reporting a big rise in the proportion of properties listed with video content. It says rental listings with either a...

One of the first franchisees for a new business model put forward by the Century 21 UK agency is a buy...

A clampdown on letting agents who fail to safeguard landlords’ and tenants’ money is now underway.  A statement from the National Trading Standards...

A 24-year-old Chinese heiress has rented a property for what is said to be a record £1.55m a year.  The heiress, who...

A new agency is opening in the Home Counties and claims to offer vendors and landlords “a fresh, modern and energetic...

The National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agents Team is appealing to the industry to be eagle-eyed for scams. This follows the...

There’s been another fall in the proportion of new-builds sold off-plan. Data from Hamptons says 33 per cent of new home completions...

An analysis by investment consultancy London Central Portfolio suggests Asian students in particular favour London as a study location. The consultancy has...

The industrial dispute involving Goodlord has escalated with protests outside agency offices using the lettings platform, and the creation of a...

A London council describes two new licensing schemes as ‘making renting fairer’ - even though they are launched during the pandemic. Islington’s Labour...

Two landlords - one of them an agent - have been given fines totalling £135,000 and must pay costs for failing to...

The rate of rental growth picked up for the sixth month running according to lettings agency Hamptons.  Across Great Britain rents rose 4.3...

A trades union claims that lettings software provider Goodlord is slashing some staff salaries by a quarter - that’s £6,000 per...

The latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors study suggests tenant demand has increased over the past quarter but at a slowing...

Chestertons in London says it wants to become the country’s greenest estate agency and has taken a first step by being...

Foxtons says it staged 300,000 virtual viewings last year as the pandemic’s lockdowns and temporary market closure severely restricted physical viewings. Chief operating...

There’s a been a slight fall in the size of the private rental sector in England according to government figures.  Latest data...

Letting agents should help landlords through a blizzard of red tape and regulation cause by local licensing schemes, a PropTech entrepreneur...

The fall out from Coronavirus is forcing the rental market into a once in a lifetime change as tenants reassess priorities. This...

The biggest awards event in the residential property sector, The ESTAS, has confirmed an autumn date for its main 2021 ceremony.  Traditionally...

A senior buying agent is warning that new regulations over the length of notice given to tenants is having an unexpected...

Average rents in prime central London fell 13 per cent in the year to January as over-supply still dominated the market, according...

Build To Rent completions are estimated to double by 2025, a property company forecasts. Between 2017 and 2018, the number of new...

The latest market snapshot for the private lettings sector shows rents holding steady into 2021 but voids increasing across the board. The...

London lettings network Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward has been appointed to manage and let a huge new portfolio of around 3,000...

The takeover of Hunters by The Property Franchise Group means the combined operations will manage over 70,000 tenanted properties across the...

The latest rental market snapshot from ARLA Propertymark suggests that only 30 per cent of tenants experienced rent increases in December...

Another major agency operating in central London confirms that the fall-out from the pandemic continues to produce a glut of units...

An online lettings agency that claims to have analysed the costs of “a selection” of 12 High Street agencies has accused...

The 60-branch London focussed agency chain Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward is the latest agency to invest in Zero Deposit. The firm joins Andrews,...

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

A prominent agent says a huge over-supply of available rental property is now flooding the central London market, just as demand...

A series of leading lettings agents have warned that the rental sector is set for significant change as the Coronavirus pandemic...

It’s been reported that a London council is considering spending £10m on purchasing 25 former council homes it previously sold off...

London’s mass transit service, Transport for London, has won consent for 853 homes at a huge scheme in the west of the...

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

Data from PropTech platform SpareRoom suggests that London’s typical room rent has dropped further, this time in response to the new...

EweMove - one of several agency titles owned by The Property Franchise Group - has incorporated three High Street operations run by...

The number of tenants that moved home in London in December was double that of December 2019, according to an agency...

Lambeth council is consulting agents, landlords and others on its latest licensing proposals for Houses in Multiple Occupation. The new proposals would...

A Build To Rent scheme of 322 flats will include a 34 storey tower, it’s been revealed. Developer and property management firm...

Research by Countrywide agency Hamptons shows that during 2020 some 41,700 new buy to let limited companies were formed. That’s a record...

The rate of rental growth accelerated sharply in December according to Countrywide agency brand Hamptons. Its research department shows that over the...

A rental market snapshot says the UK-wide lettings picture is dragged down by Greater London's excess of supply, and by the...

Unite Students, one of the UK's leading student accommodation providers, is giving tenants a rent reduction. Students will be able to apply...

The annual ARLA Propertymark conference and exhibition, which wasn’t held at all last year because of Coronavirus, has been pushed back...

Activists from a range of pressure groups have reacted angrily to what they call a half-baked eviction ban announced by the...

The average rent in the UK, measured just before the turn of the year, is £979, showing a 2.7 per cent...

London agency Chestertons is warning that it’s going to be “another difficult year for the lettings market” in 2021. It says that...

Lettings agency Carter Jonas predicts the housing market - for both owner-occupiers and landlords - will become increasingly eco-focussed in 2021. It says...

Higher levels of supply and weaker demand have dominated prime London lettings markets this month says Knight Frank. This meant that average...

Entrants for the 2021 ESTAS Customer Service Awards have only until December 31 to sign up. Founder Simon Brown says: “The bounce...

Rental growth expectations remain “slightly positive” across most of the UK according to the latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors market...

Weekend statements from the government and Housing Secretary have made it clear that the rental market remains open for business even...

London’s Keatons agency has acquired another East London independent, Royal Docks Property Services. Keatons describes the result as “a great fit” because the two...

There is mounting evidence that rental growth is picking up steam, according to the latest analysis by Countrywide brand Hamptons. Average rents...

A London agency says it’s doubled its rental deals over an eight week period, helped by adopting a virtual tours app. Paramount,...

London’s lettings market may never return to its pre-pandemic appearance according to a flat-sharing rental platform. SpareRoom says 49 per cent of...

Activists are attempting to build rent strike momentum amongst students who rent property across the country. ‘Rent Strike” is a national network...

The rental market is recovering fast from the Coronavirus crisis and still has a strong ‘offer’ for investors - but it’s...

It’s a case of London versus The Rest when it comes to the rental market, according to HomeLet. Its latest market snapshot shows...

Samuel Estates, a south west London agency, has acquired its third independent local firm in 2020. The latest to be snapped up...

Knight Frank says it’s seeing tenants in the prime London niche reflecting the same trends as those in the wider property...

A new assessment of legislation and council rules surrounding the private rental sector suggests a severe crackdown may be coming in...

The latest rental market snapshot from PropTech supplier Goodlord shows the November lockdown creating a subdued picture - but with early...

A London lettings agency has described a £3,600 charge to a tenant as “entirely reasonable and legal.” The i newspaper has featured a...

Foxtons has acquired a London lettings agency and along with it a lettings book comprising 689 tenancies. The deal is worth £2.2m. In...

Some 90 per cent of branches from franchise giant Belvoir believe house rents will rise or at least stay static in 2021,...

A London council has been found to have operated an unpublicised consultation exercise for a licensing proposal - and is now...

One of Britain’s largest purpose built student accommodation providers says there’s been a 10 per cent slump in the number of...

London’s Westminster council - with 43 per cent of housing stock in the private rental sector - has launched a consultation on...

The first part of a massive Build To Rent scheme from developer Lendlease is nearing completion at Elephant Park in the...

International investors dominate the high end London market says a new survey. Aston’s, a residency and citizenship consultancy, has analysed sold price records...

The average cost of renting in England is almost unchanged from five years ago - although that masks significant localised variations.  The...

A PropTech lettings platform is reporting that the level of income required to cover the cost of renting has increased across...

London lettings agency Benham and Reeves has drawn up a league table of which boroughs in the capital have had their...

The gap between typical City rents and Country rents is closing according to an analysis of Countrywide properties by the company’s...

The government is urging agents and landlords to be “considerate” when deciding whether to accept tenants on the basis of their...

The latest Build To Rent snapshot up to late summer shows the number of BTR homes in stages of planning across...

One of the country’s major lettings agency chiefs says there is a “massive” change in tenant priorities underway. Michael Cook, national lettings...

It appears the much-hyped exodus of people from London to the country doesn’t apply to the rental market. Despite rents falling in...

Labour claims over 350 households in London alone were issued with a Section 21 notice during the first lockdown in spring...

Another market snapshot from HomeLet suggests that there was a 2.2 per cent average rent increase across the UK in the...

A London council has dropped plans to restrict the creation of HMOs, a full 12 months after a consultation on the...

The This Is Money website is carrying a story of a London rental property where the front door was left open...

The absence of traditional holiday and business users of short let accommodation has prompted a trade body to introduce a discount...

The 2021 ESTAS Customer Service Awards are to be held on Friday June 11. For the first time the awards will host...

Three lettings agents who kept tenants’ rent instead of passing it to the landlords have been ordered to pay almost £100,000...

Foxtons has posted what many consider to be disappointing lettings figures for the third quarter of the year. The company’s lettings-related revenue...

Rental operators specialising in short lets are signing up to a tracking study to assess the sector’s size and significance.  The exercise...

Deposit alternative service flatfair has been named as one of the top 50 start-ups to work for in London. Recruitment platform Tempo...

The government is asking bailiffs not to enforce court possession orders in areas with the highest Coronavirus restrictions.  So although evictions can...

Pressure appears to be building for more pet-friendly lettings properties with two Build To Rent operators promoting animal-friendly tenancies. BTR operator Fizzy Living...

A fake lettings agent has been caught trying to cheat prospective tenants out of £1,500 which she claimed was a deposit...

Several pet charities are supporting an attempt by an MP to reform lettings regulations to permit more pets in private rental...

London Central Portfolio, an investment consultancy, says the capital’s prime central area is seeing a demographic change as younger British tenants...

The Ringley Group has launched a new estate and block management division targeting high-end London instructions. Ringley Group already has over 12,000...

The fledgling trade association representing short lets companies wants public cash and other forms of aid to help the sector through winter. Merilee...

John Lewis Partnership, until now best known for its department stores and ownership of Waitrose, is to build homes for rent. The...

An organisation that wants rent controls, the scrapping of Section 21 and what it calls “indefinite tenancies” claims to have 4,000...

A London agency has won the instruction for a particularly prestigious let - a four bedroom apartment in the capital, once...

A Czech-based PropTech firm called Flatio says it’s entering the UK market and aims to have at least 10,000 properties listed...

Asking rents outside London have hit a new high according to Rightmove’s latest market snapshot. The pressure comes from record demand from...

The UK Short Term Accommodation Association, a new trade body representing the short-term rental sector, has added two new members to...

Rents continue to fall in Prime Central London according to agency Knight Frank. After September’s data is taken into account the annual...

Rents in the UK dropped in six of the eight regions monitored by PropTech supplier Goodlord.  During September, the average rent for...

The latest monthly rental index produced by insurance provider HomeLet shows a four per cent surge in the all-UK average rent...

The huge disruption of the Coronavirus crisis to the UK's university education does not alter the sector’s long-term fundamentals, a specialist lettings...

An agent has been banned from being a company director after tax offences involving hundreds of thousands of pounds, or possibly...

A rental demand league table produced by a lettings management platform shows the winners and losers across the UK - and...

A major player in the Build To Rent sector has announced another large scheme - 346 units - on a major...

Hamptons International has given a rental market forecast for 2021 - and it doesn’t make for happy reading. The agency says the rental...

A £5,000 fine has been handed to five landlords in London for failing to license HMOs.  One of the properties, a four-bedroom HMO in...

With no clear end in sight and conflicting Government advice as to whether we should work from home or go to...

A London council has launched a strategy it claims will protect private tenants and ensure they live in good quality and...

The private rental sector dedicated to student accommodation in London could see a 24 per cent drop in income in the...

Some 60% of London office workers who rent in the capital say the pandemic has made them reconsider their living situation,...

The National Residential Landlords Association (NRLA) has slammed London Mayor Sadiq Khan's call for a rent freeze in the capital. Yesterday, ahead...

Overseas and domestic students have returned to the Central London lettings market 'in force' so far this month, according to Dexters. The...

Prospective tenants are increasingly searching for properties outside of commuter hubs and urban areas, according to Rightmove. Its analysis of over 60 million...

New research from Countrywide brand Hamptons International suggest tenants are joining vendors in a trend towards leaving cities and heading for more...

Data from Knight Frank suggests that average rental values in prime central London fell one per cent last month, taking the...

Zoopla has revealed its top 10 hotspots for buy to let investors seeking high rental yields.  The analysis is based on rental returns...

Martyn Gerrard Estate Agent is the latest agency to partner with a deposit alternative supplier - in this case flatfair.  Tenants at...

The Momentum movement on the left wing of the Labour Party is joining forces with housing organisations to argue against private...

Long-standing industry figure Robin Paterson has described how a company has re-shaped its service post-pandemic to offer high quality short lets...

A private rental licensing consultancy has spotted that an additional licensing scheme run by a London borough council has now lapsed...

The rental market is heading into the normally-quieter autumn period with strength but increasing void periods. Data from PropTech firm Goodlord, which...

A new private rental licensing regime in a London borough is being described as “a major step forward in improving living...

The average rent across the UK is now £985 per calendar month, up some 2.1 per cent on four weeks ago...

Knight Frank says one week in August saw the lettings market in London and the Home Counties hit a 10 year...

Rents are higher for Londoners living near busy high streets - for the moment at least.  Research by rental platform Spotahome has...

A London council is telling its private rental sector residents to use a new tool to check whether they may be...

A specialist mortgage operator is warning letting agents and landlords to gear up for a winter of discontent as a result...

A high profile former estate agent who was a major figure on the London sales market for over three decades has...

A vocal London lettings agent says it isn’t the responsibility of agents or their landlord clients to take the financial hit...

A landlord taken to court by a council has ended up with a bill in excess of £20,000.  Dennis Goodwin of Highbury...

The anti-letting agent group ACORN is to stage protests in 10 to 15 UK cities this weekend according to an activists’...

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

One in eight homes coming onto the rental market in inner London since May has previously been an Airbnb or other...

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has been accused of causing needless fear for renters by claiming all those in arrears due to...

The latest house price index, produced by the website Home, gives a broadly optimistic outlook for landlords and other buy to...

New research by lettings management platform Howsy shows which major London commuter hubs make the most attractive potential for buy to...

Greenwich council in London has resuscitated a proposal to extend its existing selective licensing regime, put on ice during the Coronavirus...

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...