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London lettings agency Benham and Reeves has produced figures showing, indirectly at least, exactly why buy to let and property investment...

The lettings department of a central London independent agency is claiming its busiest January in some years. Russell Simpson, a family-run independent...

The Money Laundering Regulations require estate agents to risk assess their business relationships and apply an appropriate level of investigation to...

Foxtons has given a relatively upbeat assessment of the capital’s rental market in its survey of the sector in 2018. It says...

Over 250 new units constructed by Telford Homes are to be used for Build To Rent according to a deal announced...

More local authorities have announced that they want to increase the size of the areas covered by their existing selective licensing...

A buy to let investor who converted three family homes to HMOs without securing planning permission has been jailed for falsifying...

Rental values in prime London show early signs of bottoming out, says Savills, with the annual rate of falls now at...

Latest official figures show that private rental prices paid by tenants in the UK rose by 1.0 per cent in the...

A senior Labour politician claims that “unscrupulous” letting agents are hammering tenants with higher-than-usual charges between now and June 1 when...

You may be forgiven for thinking that rent takes up an ever-greater proportion of tenants’ income - but new figures out...

Countrywide’s upmarket lettings and sales brand, Hamptons International, has launched branded taxis in celebration of its 150th birthday.  The taxis will operate...

A lettings agency and its director have been fined a total of £30,000 for failing to licence HMOs and giving sham...

The average rent in the UK is now £932, which is a rise of 2.5 per cent on this time last...

Hounslow council wants its additional licensing scheme for HMOs - due to expire in May 2019 - to be extended for...

Throughout 2018 the number of homes available to rent in prime areas of London dropped 13 per cent. In particular, 80 per...

Private tenants in Britain in 2018 paid £59.1 billion on rent - that’s £1.9 billion less than in 2017 and the...

A flat-share website claims typical rents in some 38 per cent of London are now so high they render the areas...

A letting agent in east London has been fined £4,000 after apparently publishing the incorrect fees that it levies on tenants...

The latest index from specialist buy to let platform Landbay says the slowdown in London’s lettings market since the Brexit vote...

Council enforcement officers have raided a house in Wembley, north London, and found 19 tenants paying a landlord £1,000 a week. Brent council’s...

Sometimes, running a lettings agency can feel as if you’re losing control of client money. Recent cases of property management fraud such...

High-end lettings agency Strutt & Parker says the take-up of new rental tenancies decreased by 5.4 per cent over 2018 as...

The BBC’s Reality Check service, respected for giving a more realistic assessment of many politicians’ promises, has looked at London mayor...

The London-focussed lettings agency Portico is expanding its short-lets service Portico Host into Manchester and Liverpool - but it isn’t spending...

Rent controls of the kind which London mayor Sadiq Khan wishes to introduce will worsen what is already a huge exodus...

A leading landlord has hit out at a lettings agency’s portrayal of buy to let tax changes.  Rosalind Beck, a campaigning landlord...

The National Approved Lettings Scheme has taken the unusual step of commenting on, and welcoming, the outcome of a court case...

Knight Frank has given an upbeat snapshot of the lettings market in Prime Central London, based mostly on higher rental growth...

The latest rental market snapshot from YourMove suggests that typical rents rose 1.8 per cent across England and Wales in the...

The Property Ombudsman says agents can display weekly rents for homes they market - but they should be displayed alongside monthly...

London-focussed lettings agency ludlowthompson says buy to let landlords across the country claimed a record £17.7 billion in tax relief last...

The news this week that even individual private landlords must join a redress scheme is just the latest in an onslaught...

There’s been an angry reaction to the suggestion that London’s Labour mayor, Sadiq Khan, is seeking to introduce rent controls in...

We are used to stories of councils condemning letting agents and landlords - but now a London council is praising the...

A council accused of paying over £500,000 to a landlord it had already ruled as unfit to rent out property is...

A buy to let investor has lost possession of his flat after converting it into an Illegal House in Multiple Occupation...

The Labour party has expressed outrage at the news that London councils are spending over £22m each year renting back homes...

A new study suggests that rental properties now account for 40 per cent of the available housing stock.  Looking at the final...

Rents have risen over the past year but at a very low level according to new property consultancy Apropos.  Across Britain as...

There has been a massive surge in the volume of lettings properties under construction for the burgeoning Built To Rent sector. Data...

A controversial Labour-controlled local authority which already has 91 per cent of its private rental properties inside licensing schemes is now...

A lettings market snapshot from Rightmove suggests asking rents in London are now increasing at an annual rate not seen for...

Landlords in London are possibly £1,806 worse off since the vote to leave the EU in June 2016, according to specialist...

Early bird tickets for this year’s ARLA Propertymark Conference, happening just days before the likely introduction of the ban on tenant...

Lettings agency Haart says it will return up to £20m in deposits to existing tenants if they sign up to a...

More than 50 councils across the country will share nearly £2.4m of extra government funding to crack down on rogue landlords. Among...

A report claims that England has just 825 homes for every 1,000 families as a result of two decades of house...

London lettings agency Sterling De Vere must pay a £167,000 fine and compensation of £740 to a renter for a misleading...

The average UK rental values continued to grow towards the end of last year according to data with the average rent now...

A holiday lettings company and a longer term private rental listings services have come together to try to optimise income for...

Zero Deposit, the firm set up by former Zoopla commercial director Jon Notley, says it now has around 850 offices using...

The latest market snapshot from LSL Property Services once again shows that buy to let investors in northern regions have enjoyed...

Three brothers and a property management company have received fines and a confiscation order, and must pay costs, following what a...

The Daily Mail has unveiled an extensive network of homes advertised on Airbnb but actually being sub-let by tenants who are...

A leading PropTech entrepreneur says letting agents must provide value for their landlord clients through technology, transparency and service if they...

Knight Frank has issued a relatively upbeat assessment of the prime London lettings market as the year draws to a close.  Firstly...

A property website says tenants and prospective renters in London are set to have ‘a torrid 2019’ because of a shortage of...

Home ownership rates for families aged 25 to 34 are rising for the first time in 30 years but high barriers...

Edinburgh has been identified as having the UK’s fastest growing rents with the average annual sum rising by 4.63 per cent...

A crooked lettings agent who illegally pocketed tenants’ deposits to pay for his gambling addiction and lavish lifestyle has been convicted...

A PropTech platform claims landlords can cut administration costs so much that they could afford to offer their lettings units furnished...

There are only a few days left for agents, brokers and suppliers to enter the ESTAS 2019 - closing date is...

A court has ordered a husband and wife pair of buy to let investors to pay back £322,282 in illegal income. A...

The proportion of homes let by an overseas based landlord has more than halved in the last eight years according to...

New data from online buy to let agency Yieldit claims to give an insight into which property types produce the best...

Rents in major regional cities are growing significantly faster than both London and the UK average, according to data from buy...

Former owner occupiers who want to be ‘chain-free’ if they buy again are pouring into the private rental sector according to...

Three letting agents who failed to return tenants’ deposits or pass on rent payments to landlords have been convicted of fraud...

Embattled London Labour mayor Sadiq Khan says he wants rent controls to be introduced in the capital’s private rental sector, but...

High end lettings agency Knight Frank says the proportion of properties listed for rent in prime London residential markets in October...

Increased use of PropTech by letting agents can cut rent arrears, minimise voids and reduce the financial and legal fall out...

HomeLet’s latest snapshot of the lettings market suggests that the average UK rent is now £918 pcm - that’s 1.5 per...

One of London’s most respected independent lettings agencies has given a hugely upbeat report on the capital’s lettings market performance throughout...

A couple from east London who illegally converted a town centre office block into 14 flats have been ordered to pay...

Some 79 per cent of landlords are only servicing the interest on their mortgages, not paying down their loans, according to...

An angry lettings agent has emailed Cabinet minister James Brokenshire to show his disgust at the government’s U-turn over deposit caps. In...

A notorious rogue landlord must pay £1.5m or risk spending up to nine years in prison after what is thought to...

Continued political and economic uncertainty is likely to fuel increased tenant demand in the private rented sector, says Haart.  The company’s latest...

Rent increases seen in London this year are likely to continue in 2019 because of the diminishing supply of homes to...

A London-focussed ‘rental brand’ called Residently has just secured £2.5m in funding.  Residently manages houses and flats for landlords, letting them directly...

One of London’s most enthusiastic councils for additional and selective licensing has pushed back the date for enforcement action against landlords...

Letting Agent Today can reveal that the agency at the centre of the scandal over alleged charges for viewings has been...

London agency giant Kinleigh Folkard and Hayward is the latest to offer its tenant clients a no-deposit service.  It's going to use...

The BBC claims that a lettings agency has been demanding hundreds of pounds in payment before prospective tenants are allowed to...

The first-ever pet think tank has launched to address what is claimed to be a lack of pet-friendly rental accommodation in...

OnTheMarket, which is beginning to undertake occasional property research, has released data identifying what proportion of tenants’ salaries are spent on...

Rents are rising very gently across almost all of England and Wales with only London and East Anglia showing falls in...

A pressure group that in the past has protested outside letting agency branches has staged more direct action - this time against...

We regularly carry stories about fines for landlords and letting agents who have apparently broken council or national laws - but...

Private landlords have to wait an average of over five months to regain possession of a property when applying to the...

More landlords will leave the private rented sector in the next year as annual rental price growth has been flat or...

A landlord is almost £42,000 worse off after repeatedly ignoring council orders to stop illegally letting so called “beds in sheds”...

Tenant deposit protection scheme TDS will be in London in February to host a ‘hands-on’ half-day workshop for agents and landlords. Part...

LAT recently carried a story of a lettings agency diversifying by renting out parking spaces for landlord owners - and now...

A London property firm must repay no less than £60,000 in rent after a council obtained a Rent Repayment Order against...

Local press reports say that one of the country’s most controversial buy to let licensing schemes has seen thousands of applications...

The take up of new rental tenancies across prime central London decreased by no less than 12.7 per cent in the...

A rental management firm has launched a new home-sharing platform which it says is aimed at everyone wanting a place to...

The average rent in the UK is now £928 per calendar month, up by 2.1 per cent on the same time...

Manchester’s rental market is rising higher than in any other UK city according to property consultancy Cushman & Wakefield.  Rents were up...

The online agency Home Made, which says it’s London’s only premium online platform for the rental sector, has raised a further...

The number of lettings listings in prime central London fell 18 per cent in the year to September, says Knight Frank. The...

So-called ‘real rents’ - those adjusted for inflation - have fallen by 2.2 per cent since October 2008.   This means that the...

A survey by specialist lender Landbay reveals that tenants outside of London typically spend 33 per cent of their monthly pay,...

The LonRes data consultancy says the lettings market in prime areas of the capital is now characterised by increasing rents and...

Figures drawn up for the London region of the GMB union claim that across the capital’s 33 boroughs private rents have...

A former City marketing executive is suing a lettings agency for £1.4m in a row over alleged harassment in 2010. Agent Caroline...

The industry’s first property management franchise scheme, SDL Property Partners, has been given a presentation on how members could be key...

An analysis of 30,000 tenancies by PropTech firm Goodlord suggests that the upcoming ban on tenants’ fees could impact most on...

A property investment company operating a Ponzi scheme based on claims of capital appreciation and rental income has been shut down...

Two lettings agencies have been expelled from The Property Ombudsman scheme for failing to pay awards. One is OJ Residentials Limited trading...

Some broadly good news to end the week - rents are predicted to grow 13.7 per cent in the next five...

A property management firm is launching with a claim that its charges are under a third of some rivals.  Online service ManageMyHome...

The heavy-handed administration of selective licensing schemes is driving out buy to let investors. That’s the claim from David Kirwan of Kirwans...

The agency industry has reacted in a broadly downbeat way at the relatively few housing-related proposals that were announced in yesterday’s...

Two property companies which failed to follow a local council’s lettings sector licensing scheme have been fined a combined £32,000. Owners of...

Rightmove is reporting that average asking rents outside London have topped £800 per month for the first time, fuelled by a...

Havering council in London has issued £261,750 in penalty notices to what it calls ‘criminals’ operating in the private rental sector.  Between...

The area of staffing can be a very uncomfortable one, but as the future of the lettings industry crystalises, it’s clear...

After reporting record summer figures from its lettings division, Chestertons says it’s on the acquisition trail and looking for agencies to...

Just one region of England and Wales saw rents fall in the year to September 2018, according to the latest Your...

One of London’s most respected lettings agencies says it’s recorded its best-ever quarter for business - defying claims from some that...

Since one London local authority introduced private rental sector licensing in 2013 an extra £5,002,203 in council tax has been collected...

JLL says its London offices saw increased demand in the third quarter of the year, underpinned by the student sector. Lonres data...

A property management company which kept up to 23 adults in overcrowded conditions has been fined £7,500 by a council in...

A managing agent who used ‘ghost tenants’ as a front so that she could cram 16 people into one overcrowded house...

A London agency has been fined for the second time in 11 months. Local media in Barking, east London, report that Primelodge...

The growth in tenancies agreed in London’s super-prime sector has slowed sharply from 20 per cent earlier this year to just...

New data from Countrywide’s luxury brand agency Hamptons International says the average price of a home bought by a landlord in...

Countrywide says landlords spent £12.1 billion buying rental properties in the first half of this year - a full 30 per...

Croydon council is reported to have become the first local authority to back the scrapping of Section 21 of the 1988...

A new investment company has launched offering what it calls “opportunities to invest in key residential and commercial developments across the...

A salary of £51,200 a year is required to rent a one bedroom home in London according to research conducted by...

Knight Frank says the annual rental value growth has returned to prime central London due to declining supply levels - the...

The Bedford Estate, which covers part of Covent Garden and includes Bloomsbury, has linked up with one of the growing number...

A major property platform says London’s rental and sales market may well be on the road to recovery - but that...

A London local authority which is part way through its five year additional HMO licensing scheme wants lettings agents to give their...

A row appears to be brewing over the decision of a Labour MP to attend next week’s Conservative conference to discuss...

Three London lettings sub-markets performed relatively weakly according to data just released by Knight Frank. Wimbledon’s rental values fell 1.5 per cent...

The Labour-led local authority in Hackney has issued a statement pledging fines or even bans if landlords fail to get appropriate...

Two private landlords have been found guilty of managing Houses in Multiple Occupation with dangerous and sub-standard conditions, following a successful...

Latest government figures show that private rents paid by tenants in Great Britain rose by 0.9 per cent in the 12...

The number of available properties to rent is falling at an alarming rate, particularly in Greater London, according to property platform...

A two bedroom furnished flat can cost up to 21 per cent more to rent than a comparable property that’s unfurnished. Research...

Two more lettings agencies have been expelled from The Property Ombudsman as a result of unpaid awards following disputes involving landlords...

An overcrowded property let by an unlicensed company with inadequate fire precautions and unheated rooms has led to a £46,620 fine...

A lettings agent described as ‘rogue’ by a London council, along with two lettings companies, have been heavily fined for operating...

Rent-to-rent operator Residently says area with high volumes of tech company employees are leading the lettings market’s growth in London. The firm...

A gloomy report from The Deposit Protection Service says the UK’s rental market is in recession for the first time since...

HomeLet says the average rent in the UK is now £947, up 0.9 per cent on last year - or up...

Another short let management firm, set up in the wake of an explosion of Airbnb-style renting by amateurs and professionals, is...

A lettings agent who let a tiny room behind a kitchen in a property in London has been ordered to pay...

Trading Standards departments in London are asking renters to name and shame letting agents who are not complying with the law...

An investment trust has been launched and looks likely to be competing for individual investors who may see it as an...

The lettings book of My London Home will be absorbed into the Stirling Ackroyd portfolio and rebranded this autumn. Consisting of nearly...

The average rent in the UK increased by 0.13% last month - the highest level of monthly growth recorded since April...

The UK's second city Birmingham takes top spot when it comes to student property returns for buy-to-let investors. Analysis by online letting...

A survey has revealed that 44% of landlords are looking to sell properties as a challenging market takes its toll. Octopus Choice,...

A London council has fined a letting agency over £10,000 for failing to install smoke alarms in a rental property. Waltham Forest...

A top London letting agent working for Knight Frank has commented on the 'irony' that the government's series of tax changes...

OneSavings Bank, the parent organisation of specialist buy to let lender Kent Reliance, has given a warning on the possible impact...

A London lettings agency is warning landlords who let out their properties via Airbnb or similar short let platforms to ensure...

A London local authority is looking for the landlord of a bungalow which had two bedrooms but was home to 15...

First the good news - investors are still purchasing buy to let properties; the less good news is that it’s a...

The campaign group Generation Rent is back on the warpath in opposition of Section 21, which it describes as “the leading...

The ownership of buy to let property is much more evenly split between women and men than amongst other forms of...

Over a third of London investors no longer view property as a good investment, according to a survey of over 1,000...

The council behind a controversial private rental sector licensing scheme is trying to justify its introduction on health and safety grounds. On...

The chief executive of mydeposits has hit back at a Which? report calling for reform - or possibly even replacement -...

The latest figures produced by Countrywide show a slow rise in rents across most of the country with the notable exception of...

Agents and landlords are being advised to check the status of their HMO licenses in the London Borough of Harrow following...

The proportion of landlords of British buy to let properties who are themselves based overseas has fallen to a record low...

Average rents in London are £1,615, up 3.3 per cent on last year, according to HomeLet’s latest index. This is the first...

A London council has agreed to a TV crew taking part in a raid on an overcrowded and unlicensed HMO. The surprise...

A letting agent who stole a reported £700,000 from clients has been jailed for five years and has been described by...

Rents in the UK, excluding London, are still increasing but at their slowest rate for five years. Figures from specialist lender Landbay...

The latest Your Move rental tracker suggests that London’s lettings market has continued to cool with prices falling by 0.5 per...

Data from Knight Frank’s lettings division suggests that rents in the troubled Prime Central London area have risen for the second...

A London landlord has been ordered to pay over £13,000 for breaching the conditions of his licence as a result of...

It appears that take-up of an apparently compulsory licensing scheme in one city has been shockingly low - and the scheme...

Chestertons has announced record lettings results for the first half of 2018, claiming growth in market share and increased productivity. The agency...

London is back as the most popular part of the UK for buy to let investment according to an analysis undertaken...

It’s a conundrum for many, especially those moving to the capital...but portal OnTheMarket claims it knows exactly where it is cheapest...

The ZPG-backed Zero Deposit service is to be used by growing lettings operation Nick Dunning Associates as an alternative to the...

The number of landlords with more than 10 Airbnb accommodations listed in London has risen by 8.4 per cent in the...

A lack of new rental properties coming to the market in London has helped push the annual rate of London asking...

The number of lettings transactions in Prime Central London in the second quarter of this year slumped 15 per cent compared...

One of London’s leading letting agencies says in the current neutral rental market, buy to let owners must work hard to...

From August 1 Nottingham council is introducing a new selective licensing regime covering an estimated 32,000 privately rented homes. This is an...

A tenant who was ripping off other tenants in an overcrowded bungalow "death trap" has been fined tens of thousands of...

Prime central London lettings agency Draker has teamed up with a luxury interiors retailer and interior designer to launch what it...

A new analysis reveals that it takes an average of 118 days for court-appointed bailiffs to remove tenants from private homes...

Airbnb, which is facing tough local restrictions in many of the largest cities in which it operates, says its new link...

Some 18 per cent of properties let in the first half of 2018 were registered in the name of a company...

Air Agents, a London Airbnb Management company, has signed what it calls “a significant investment deal” with BBC Dragon’s Den entrepreneur...

Average UK rents have risen 1.8 per cent in the last year, equating to a typical £16 monthly hike. That’s the view...

The three-branch London agency Kay & Co has been named the Smaller Managing Agent of the Year at the ARMA ACE...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has heaped praise on a local authority which has fined 27 lettings and managing agents...

A gas safety engineer has pleaded guilty with a landlord of falsifying gas safety certificates for a string of private rental...

Yet another leading lettings agent has hit out at the government over its proposals for three year tenancies being the norm...

One of the most respected buying agencies, Black Brick, says the collapse in demand for buy to let is the most...

The British Property Federation says there are now 124,037 Build To Rent homes complete, under construction and in planning across the...

Two senior London politicians are backing a campaign to scrap the powers of agents and landlords to evict tenants under Section...

Rents in London rose by 0.1 per cent in the 12 months to June - it’s the first annual rental increase...

Well-respected London lettings agent and former ARLA president Lucy Morton is the latest key figure to pour cold water on government...

Legal & General, one of the biggest players in Britain’s burgeoning Build To Rent market, has exchanged contracts on its largest...

Three agencies have been heavily fined after a property in London was being used for multiple occupation with 11 people living...

A new analysis of rental yields across all of the UK’s local authorities has revealed exactly where the best places are for...

A PropTech company chief is backing the controversial idea of spot checks on private rental sector properties in a bid to...

We’re all for an optimistic interpretation of events but a new tool from comparison website GoCompare lists the UK’s top buy...

Buy to let landlords are on the way out and Build To Rent will dominate the sector in the foreseeable future.  That’s...

Startling figures from the Countrywide high-end brand Hamptons International show how tough it is for young people to buy. The agency says...

The lettings market is looking distinctly healthier now than a month ago according to data just released by board company Agency...

Sourced, which describes itself as the largest property investment platform in the UK, has secured its 25th franchise some 10 months...

A TV station has gone public on revealing what it calls “the world’s worst lettings agency” - but it may not...

A PropTech firm has analysed London’s rental market and its results again spell bad news for those in the sector in...

A collection of rental sector protest organisations is getting together to campaign against S21 powers under which landlords or agents on...

Landlords exiting the market because of tax and red tape have led to “an acute shortage of available properties to rent”...

The growth of the private rental sector has slowed thanks to government intervention and economic uncertainty - but it will expand...

The average rent in the UK is now £919, up two per cent on the same time last year according to...

Data from Countrywide’s Hamptons International agency suggests that the number of second homes that were rented rather than purchased last year...

New research nearly two out of five landlords will use limited companies to buy properties over the next year compared to...

A council leader in London, so outraged after a bust of a rogue lettings property, has asked: “What kind of monster...

Rental growth in England, excluding London, was just 1.18 per cent over the last year, the slowest annual rate since April...

The chief of what is described as Britain’s largest lettings agency has told an influential group of MPs that the proposed...

A prominent PropTech startup is questioning whether long-term tenants need to go through the traditional referencing process when moving between rental...

Airsorted, one of a number of management services that have sprung up to cater for hosts using Airbnb and similar platforms,...

A rent guarantor service based in London and previously aiming itself at the UK market is expanding into the Republic of...

The GMB trades union has waded in to the debate over whether rents in the private rental sector in London are...

The controversial Right To Rent regime whereby agents and landlords are expected to check the immigration status of would-be tenants is...

There’s been a huge 15 per cent slump in the number of properties to let in prime central London over the...

Two million tenants will this year be hit with rent rises totalling a combined £46m a month according to an online...

A Build To Rent company that scrapped deposits for tenants a year ago says it has saved renters almost £3m in...

Telford Homes says some of its massive 35 per cent growth in pre-tax profits over the past year is down to...

A high-profile landlord says the upcoming ban on letting agent fees 'can't come soon enough'. Writing a column in the Evening Standard's...

As part of SAFEagent Awareness Week, which finishes today, letting agents have been provided with a free webinar covering compliance. The webinar...

This week marks a major milestone in Mayor of London Sadiq Khan's efforts to crack down on the capital's rogue letting...

A London council has launched its own online letting agency with the aim of creating a buzz in the 'London property...

London landlords and letting agents could be missing out on up to £111 million of short-term rental revenue each year, according...

There was a decline in both the number of To Let and Let By properties during April, according to the latest...

LonRes, the data and agent network business specialising in central London, is entering into a strategic partnership with rental services provider...

The Build To Rent provider Grainger has reported a 23 per cent rise in profits and says it is looking for...

Two rogue letting agents in London have been fined thousands of pounds as part of a council campaign to clean up...

An online lettings service which says it’s aiming to triple its level of business in the next 12 months claims it’s...

There are now five per cent fewer homes to let now than two years ago, says Countrywide in its rebranded Hamptons...

Grainger says it’s ready to respond to the growing need for longer tenancies for families and older renters - the latter...

Time to put the gloom and doom about buy to let to one side - a new analysis shows that a...

Specialist mortgage broker Commercial Trust says there was an increase in buy to let purchase activity in London during the first...

Strutt & Parker says the take up of new rental tenancies in prime central London in the first quarter of this...

Countrywide - which is making the lettings sector a key part of its ‘back to basics’ programme - is proposing to...

The average rent in the UK is now £918, up by 1.5 per cent on the same time last year according...

A lettings agency has been fined over £20,000 for failing to licence an overcrowded semi detached house in London. The fine was...

One of the most respected buying agencies says it believes that with well under a year before the UK quits the...

A newly built, boutique development of eight luxury Build To Rent apartments has come to the market in uber-fashionable Shoreditch, east...

There’s been a huge 43 per cent rise in the number of London properties registered to be short let on Airbnb...

Private rental sector tenants have spent the year so far working only to pay for their accommodation, the BBC claims.  The broadcaster...

A second journalist at the London-based financial newspaper City AM has launched an attack on letting agencies - while the furore...

A leading property disputes solicitor has joined a growing chorus of criticism of how Right To Rent will cope with issues...

One of Britain’s best known lettings agents has hit back at a journalist’s claims that the industry is in danger of...

Some 42 per cent of tenants regard the eco-friendliness of a property as key when choosing whether or not to rent...

Central London agency Portico has removed a property listing from Rightmove after intervention by the Advertising Standards Authority. The ASA received a...

The JLL lettings team says it is now seeing competitive bidding now taking place on a number of developments in central London. The firm...

Belvoir has published what it calls ‘a decade of data’ tracking the changes in the private rental sector since 2008, when...

A TV show on Channel 5 this evening may well serve as a warning to letting agents about the dangers of...

Kay & Co, Carter Jonas and Druce have been appointed as joint sole letting agent for the entire Howard de Walden...

A new survey released this morning gives an insight into how tenants manage rental payments and their willingness - in some...

Airbnb has announced that it has teamed up with three hosting agencies in the UK in a bid to make the...

The average cost of a new let reached £951 per month in Great Britain in March - that’s up 1.7 per...

Rents have risen a negligible 0.9 per cent across the UK in the last 12 months according to HomeLet. The average monthly...

Council officers staged a dawn raid to uncover an unlicensed HMO in north London. The team discovered 10 men and women sleeping...

Build To Rent operator and long-term volume landlord organisation Grainger says it is pioneering five-year leases “in a bid to overhaul...

The new sole chair of the Association of Independent Inventory Clerks says he wants the service to be at the heart...

A property managing agent has been ordered to pay £40,000 following the death of a woman at a fire at a...

The UK Association of Letting Agents has revealed where voids are at their worst in the rental sector - and where...

Some 43 per cent of all stamp duty comes from buy to let investors and holiday home purchasers - and almost...

It’s less than two weeks before The ESTAS 2018 held in London on Friday April 20. It’s the biggest and best bash...

The number of buy to let investors in the UK has hit a record high of 2.5m in the latest tax...

The average UK rent outside London is now £761, with London’s average being £1,879 - meaning tenants across the country now...

The rapid growth in alternative non-deposit schemes for letting agents, landlords and tenants has hit the market. This one, from Blinc UK, claims...

Foxtons is warning that the private rental sector - traditionally a strong earner for the company even in times of challenging...

Letting agents have responded with enthusiasm to the government’s announcement over the Easter weekend that the industry would in future have...

Specialist buy to let lender LendInvest has looked at 105 postcodes across England and Wales to find the best (and worst)...

Academic research suggests tenants in England and Wales are missing out on £80m of interest to tenancy deposit schemes every single...

A property management company which ignored a series of housing safety regulations and flouted laws designed to protect tenants’ rights has...

Build To Rent provider Get Living has revealed plans to invest up to £180m in 756 units in Leeds. Acquired by Get...

Rightmove has revealed that the 10 year average growth in asking rents across London has been 25 per cent, and over...

A short lets management firm claims Londoners who let their homes over the upcoming Easter weekend could bag themselves a small...

Stirling Ackroyd, the six-branch estate and letting agency bought last summer by Nick Dunning Associates, has acquired the lettings book of...

The Property Ombudsman has released details of two letting agencies expelled over financial issues, and the extension of an expulsion period...

The Observer newspaper has published a story alleging that a London lettings agency “pressured” prospective tenants into accepting accommodation without viewing...