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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...

The average rental household in London has 2.1 rent-paying tenants, each paying £775 per month, equating to an average property rent...

A warning has come from a campaigning letting agent that London’s landlords agents could be costing themselves tenants by requiring them...

A new Build To Rent scheme being launched shortly in Greenwich offers tenants an on-site concierge-style ‘host’, a lounger, co-working space...

A couple who illegally converted an office block into 14 flats have been found guilty for disregarding planning laws - and...

Airsorted, which describes itself as “the world’s largest hosting management service” says it has secured £5m in funding to expand.  Airsorted provides...

Spotahome, a London-based student lettings platform, has acquired another platform aimed at students, Erasmusu, in a bid to expand its international...

The average landlord who sold their rental property in 2017 did so for £86,651 more than they paid for it, having...

Rents in the UK grew by an average, and tiny, 0.69 per cent in the year to the end of February,...

The British Property Federation is calling upon more councils to support Build To Rent following the government’s recognition of the sector in...

Knight Frank says prime central London rents have fallen on a quarterly basis for the 28th consecutive month - a record. The...

Average rental values in prime central London fell 2.1 per cent in the year to February according to Knight Frank -...

The number of properties available to rent in London is now 46 per cent below the national average according to ARLA...

Three head tenants who sub-let a three bedroom house to 35 men have been hit with over £23,000 in fines. Gheorghe-Valentin Lingurar...

The latest figures from LSL Property Services suggest that rents have increased across the UK by an average 2.5 per cent in the...

The head of a major PropTech company serving the lettings sector says he want to see the introduction of a database...

Senior Labour MPs have spoken out about what they believe are the anti-social and detrimental effects of short lets on surrounding...

An ambitious PropTech startup has raised £2.8 million to fund its bid to 'reinvent the London renting experience'. Homie, a search platform...

A housing charity has called for the government to build more affordable social homes for rent to help families 'trapped' in...

Brent Council has confirmed that the government has approved its request to extend the local selective licensing scheme. The local authority, which...

A third of UK property professionals are set to expand their portfolios in 2018 despite a backdrop of increased challenges in...

The Residential Landlords Association says Labour’s proposals to link rent increases to inflation would leave tenants worse off according to official...

The government has given the go ahead to what will be one of the UK’s largest selective licensing scheme outside of...

It is being reported that the Labour mayor of Newham council - that’s the authority which has introduced stricter controls on...

Rents in the UK rose by an average of 2.4 per cent in the year to the end of January according...

A London council is marking 125 successful prosecutions against agents, landlords and sub-letting tenants since 2016. The authority, Brent, says the convictions...

For the second month running, rental growth in London has outstripped the rest of the country according to data released today...

High end agency Strutt & Parker is warning that older properties in prime central London are getting harder to let, with...

The average cost of renting a home is now rising across every UK region for the first time in almost two...

Tenant demand edged up in the three months to January, according to RICS, but landlord instructions have fallen back - suggesting...

The National Landlords’ Association is reporting that around 16 per cent of its members in outer London have reduced rents over...

Specialist buy to let lender Commercial Trust claims at least two other regions of the UK are now vying with London...

A lettings agency apparently trying to get around HMO regulations has been prosecuted for licensing and housing offences.  Easy Let Agency let...

One of the many firms that has sprung up to manage Airbnb-style short let accommodation says it backs the Labour Party’s...

High London rents - with the average now running at £1,280 - are driving tenants into sharing according to an online...

A London council has been the first in the country to use the Proceeds of Crime Act for a breach in...

The Residential Landlords Association has reiterated its opposition to Right To Rent, and is backing two legal challenges to the measure. Letting...

A fake agent who made thousands from letting out rooms that didn’t exist has been arrested - a month after being...

Savills is urging its landlord clients to be more flexible in order to meet the new expectations of younger renters in...

Politicians in London and Scotland are looking at new controls which could be imposed on home owners letting out their properties...

Research by NALS has revealed extensive increases in the cost of licensing of lettings properties and landlords by local authorities in...

Analysis of the latest English Housing Survey data reveals that the private rental sector provides homes to a fifth of the population,...

The average number of properties managed by letting agents rose from 192 in November to 200 in December – the highest...

Vesper Homes, a high-end London property management firm, has developed an Alexa Skill which will mean landlords and tenants can receive...

The government has been accused by a lettings sector trade body of skewing the market to encourage more short-lets.  The claim comes...

The average rent in England and Wales was £850 in December 2017, an increase of 2.3 per cent in the last...

The average rent agreed on a new tenancy signed in December was £907 according to the insurance firm HomeLet, compared to...

The How To Rent guide - the document which has to be given to new tenants by letting agents or landlords...

An agency operating in London and Essex has launched an online petition to oppose the ban on credit and debit card...

Private rental prices paid by tenants in Great Britain rose by 1.2 per cent in the 12 months to December according...

The Private Members’ Bill that has won government backing - and which would give tenants the right to sue landlords over...

Letting Agent Today understands that Foxtons has been asked to appear at a hearing staged by a London council to prove...

Last year saw a significant drop in the number of homes bought by landlords according to data released this morning by...

Rental growth across Great Britain picked up in 2017 according to data released today by Countrywide.   Last year rents rose by an...

The average asking rent across the UK - excluding London - rose by just 0.7 per cent in 2017 according to...

Surrenden Invest, which specialises in selling off-market new-build properties to buy to let investors, has opened an office in the north...

The UK’s army of buy to let landlords will still benefit from £16.7 billion worth of tax relief even after the...

UK rents grew by a tiny 0.56 per cent in 2017 according to specialist lender Landbay. However, in a special exercise, the...

The Communities and Local Government committee of MPs will on Monday hear their first oral evidence of the year for the...

Crooked letting agents and landlords have raided close to £1m from tenancy deposit accounts in 2017, new figures show. Campaigning agent Ajay Jagota,...

The lettings director of high-end London lettings agency Russell Simpson says he expects the capital’s rentals market to blossom next year...

So here it is … a very Merry Christmas from Letting Agent Today and Angels Media, with our very best wishes...

A buy to let property owner has received a four month prison sentence for letting out a property he had already...

The new online database identifying rogue letting agents and landlords will save lives according to the London Fire Brigade. We wrote about...

The local authority at Brent in north London has secured what it calls “an important court victory” after “appalling conditions” were...

The first London boroughs are now rolling out the Greater London Authority’s ‘Rogue Landlord and Agent Checker’ - allowing tenants to...

Latest data from HomeLet suggests that typical rents across the UK have fallen in real terms over the past 12 months. Average...

Latest lettings findings from franchise agency Belvoir shows that in the third quarter of this year average rents were just £3 a...

Foxtons insists the London rental market may now be in recovery mode with 9.2 prospective tenants per property registered in the third...

Lomond Capital has announced its second acquisition in two weeks by acquiring south Manchester lettings and sales agency Hallmark Residential.  The deal...

A pullback in the buy to let market is threatening to reduce sale prices further in London and parts of the...

Millennials renting an average-sized property outside of London, who begin their tenancy at age 21, will spend an average of £110,830...

Former deputy prime minister Nick Clegg is one of the keynote speakers for the 2018 conference of the Association of Residential...

A new team of investigative council officers are hitting the streets of the capital to tackle unlawful nightly letting using websites like...

Rents across the UK began to shrink for the first time in over half a decade toward the end of 2017,...

The annual rate of rental growth picked up in November, with the cost of a new let across Great Britain rising...

The rental market in Prime Central London has shown signs of recovery at the end of 2017, according to a new...

Countrywide says one in every 12 homes that came on to the rental market in 2017 was for sale at some...

Lomond Capital has acquired independent Brighton letting agency Tanat-Jones & Company. The deal marks Lomond’s second acquisition in the city since purchasing...

There has been a record number of new student accommodation bed spaces delivered in 2017, with possible consequences for future buy...

Average rents in prime central London fell 2.4 per cent year-on-year in November, which was the most modest decline recorded in...

Knight Frank says average rents are to rise by 14 per cent between the start of next year and the end...

The selective licensing scheme operated by Newham council in London is reported to have won government backing to be extended until...

The search arm of Knight Frank, The Buying Solution, has a new recruit to handle both rental and sales clients in...

Foxtons has been fined £35,000 for failing to prove to a local council that a house it was letting was safe...

Rendall & Rittner, a major operator in the residential block management sector, has completed its purchase of Braemar Estates from the...

The owner of a property firm who reportedly misled tenants and let an illegally converted property has been jailed for 155...

Research by independent fact-checking organisation Full Fact has revealed that there are 12 local authority areas in the UK where a...

Training for Agents Giving’s Strictly Come Dancing event is now entering its final two weeks - and Letting Agent Today readers have...

Rental prices in most areas of England and Wales have grown over the past 12 months with the East of England...

Stamp duty reform for first time buyers has taken pride of place in the Budget speech of Chancellor Phillip Hammond.   From today,...

A complaint to the Advertising Standards Authority says a flyer from an estate agency suggesting that a property was to let...

Fast-expanding property group Lomond Capital has announced a restructure of its top tier as it prepares to make long-awaited acquisitions in...

A report on progress into the Suzy Lamplugh Trust’s new code - introduced precisely a year ago - suggests more still...

A survey has been undertaken of the top 25 UK postcodes in terms of yields for investors - and London and...

Barratt Homes’ London division is offering what it describes as ‘free property management’ on new-builds purchased at selected schemes and then...

Latest figures suggest that there are almost 100,000 Build To Rent units either completed, under construction or awaiting planning permission across the...

A London council is inviting letting agents in its boundaries to a briefing session tomorrow morning ahead of the introducing of an...

The government's plan to cap tenancy deposits at six weeks rent threatens to cost Britain’s renters an average of £1391 –...

The annual rate of rental growth slowed between September and October according to Countrywide. The cost of the average new let in...

Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward has been appointed joint agent and sole lettings manager for Britannia Point, a 182 unit Build To Rent...

The story of falling sale prices in prime central London has become familiar in the past year; now Knight Frank reports...

Average rents across the UK rose a modest 0.9 per cent in the year to October, taking the country's average to...

A Mayfair lettings agency has taken on two new rental properties with an unusual perk for the tenant - private club...

A buy to let investor has been fined over £12,000 for illegally renting out a basement underneath an outbuilding at his...

Student rents in some parts of the country have risen by as much as 18 per cent in the past year...

London’s Labour Mayor, Sadiq Khan, has repeated his criticism of the government’s decision to cap security deposits at the level of...

Rental growth is forecast to exceed house price growth in London, despite a glut of properties on the lettings market in...

London Bishops have written to housing minister Alok Sharma calling on him to do more to protect vulnerable private tenants. The Bishops...

The Nationwide has set out a comprehensive study of how migrstion impacts on housing demand in the UK, especially in the...

The private rental sector is likely to benefit as a result of first time buyers’ lack of understanding of the timings,...

In the past 20 years the UK private rental sector has exploded! The sector has grown from under 10% of housing...

The Law Society Gazette has given more details of a Parliamentary Bill in preparation to give more powers to tenants to...

Almost 60 per cent of councils across Britain have not prosecuted any landlord for any offence in the past year according...

A campaigning letting agent says that at the start of this financial year the total cash value of deposits held in...

It’s been reported that Theresa May and her husband Philip jointly own a London apartment which is now let out and...

A leading legal firm is staging a free and interactive seminar on sub-letting, aimed at letting agents. The event takes place on...

The typical rent of a prime Home Counties property rose by 1.2 per cent in the third quarter of this year,...

Build To Rent developer Be says it is moving to a no-fees model for its development at Hayes in west London....

London lettings agency Portico is working with a trade body to organise a seminar on what it admits is the “challenging”...

Newham council in London has published the UK’s first ever ratings scheme for letting agents, in which firms receive anything from...

The BBC says Right To Rent legislation is fuelling a burgeoning market in fake IDs - in some cases creating access...

Online lettings and sales agency Vesper Homes says the £100,000 investment secured via crowdfunding will create “a significantly enhanced user experience...

Humberts, the country agency which raised eyebrows earlier this year by announcing it was to open an office in prime central...

A campaigning lettings agent says proposals to allow renters to transfer tenancy deposits between properties are to be welcomed – but...

A London letting agency with connections to Westminster council is now being investigated by the same council’s trading standards department. CityWest Homes...

Countrywide says a record 64,672 tenants left London over the last 12 months with an unusually-high proportion going on to rent elsewhere. Some...

The rental market in parts of prime central London is becoming increasingly dominated by well-funded overseas students, according to a leading...

Wear and tear can be a highly contentious issue for many tenants and landlords; many arguments have arisen because of unclear definitions...

The fast-expanding Nick Dunning Associates - which acquired London agency Stirling Ackroyd over the summer - has strengthened its leadership team...

PropTech firm PayProp has welcomed the latest measures to clamp down on rogue elements within the lettings industry - but warns...

PropTech firm teclet has been announced as a main category partner for the 15th annual ESTAS Estate and Letting Agent Awards...

Average rental values fell three per cent in the year to September 2017 according to Knight Frank.   This decline is the smallest...

Rents in the UK rose by an average of 2.1 per cent during September according to HomeLet.   HomeLet says last month’s rise continues...

Rents outside of London have dropped by 0.2 per cent in the third quarter of this year according to new data...

A former lettings agent stole thousands of pounds worth of cash and personal items from homes after conning other agents into...

Greenwich is the latest council to make it compulsory for planning consent to be given before converting homes into Houses in...

The increasing number of renters and low interest rates for existing home owners mean that the total rent bill is now...

A property company and a landlord have been fined over £200,000 after being accused of putting tenants’ lives in danger by...

A letting agent named in a case concerning a rat-infested House in Multiple Occupation in Leytonstone, East London, has been fined...

Trading Standards says representatives from 15 departments will today visit lettings and property management firms across London in a bid to...

A survey of 1,000 tenants in blocks of flats conducted on behalf of London Fire Brigade reveals that almost 40 per...

A new report into student accommodation has found that private student rent remains at an average of £100 to £119 a...

  Agency Express says there has been a bounce in the number of new lettings listings across the UK.   Following unusually slow activity...

Greenwich is licensing all Houses in Multiple Occupation from October 1 - just the latest London council to tighten its private...

A dawn raid on a home in north London has discovered 35 men bedding down on mattresses in every room except...

Labour's housing spokesman has called on the government to give councils greater powers over the regulation of the private rental sector.   In...

Rents in the UK rose by an average of 2.4 per cent during August - the highest rate of annual growth...

A London council has won its appeal against Foxtons using the term “administration fees” in its lettings charges.    Back in 2015 Camden...

The buy to let market risks becoming a car crash following the changes of lending rules for so-called portfolio landlords with...

According to recent government figures, the average letting agent’s fee is £223 and 4.3 million householders pay this amount or thereabouts...

The local authority in Islington, north London, is attempting to close what it calls a loophole concerning private rental property and...

Rokstone has launched a new lettings division, operating out of the firm’s existing Marylebone offices and covering both short and long term...

Carter Jonas has reported a record quarter across its lettings business in the period to August 2017. In London turnover was up...

A buy to let investor who kept 24 adults and children in what a local council calls “appalling conditions” has a...

Average rents for newly-let property across Great Britain rose to £954 per month in August, reflecting a 1.6 per cent annual...

A respected letting agency research head says Build To Rent could be a significant step towards solving the overall shortage of...

Graduates sharing in London spend upwards of 45 per cent of their monthly take home pay on accommodation according to a...

A landlord who was found guilty of illegally converting a hotel into 26 flats has been given three months to pay...

Changes to buy-to-let lending criteria being introduced at the end of this month could encourage a surge of rental stock as...

A London letting agency is opening a new branch thanks to continued high demand from EU nationals looking for rental property...

Belvoir has told shareholders and the City that it now has 57,637 lettings units under management following the addition of 1,310...

Over the past few months, hundreds of agents across the UK have been improving their photography skills by taking part in...

An attempt by a Labour council to encourage letting agencies to get ahead of the curve and scrap fees for tenants...

This month’s prosecution of a letting agency for issuing ‘sham licences’ that suggested occupiers had no right to challenge eviction and...

Political uncertainty across the UK and increased restrictions on buy to let are leading many landlords to raise rents and review...

A new Build To Rent scheme from specialist developer Get Living is to charge from £410 a week for units at...

More landlords are quitting conventional letting and resorting to holiday lets or, increasingly, Airbnb-style short lets.    The move is particularly acute in...