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Data published by the Office for National Statistics shows private rental prices paid by tenants in the UK rising by 1.3...

Research by London agency Benham and Reeves says the cumulative cost of a landlord suffering a bad tenant and then evicting...

A London lettings agency that has already acquired an independent has now received what is described as a “six figure” loan...

PropTech supplier Movebubble claims that over 450,000 tenants use its app. Users can schedule viewings, share feedback with agents or landlords or...

A lettings agent in London has been fined for the third time in as many years – this time for failing...

Lettings professionals should do more to raise awareness of the need to reduce moving stress for tenants and landlords. Industry supplier Tenant...

If you want a barometer of a stable lettings market, this appears to be it - rents are now rising at...

The Property Ombudsman has announced a slew of expulsions after six agents failed to comply with redress rules. They failed to abide...

It took an average of just 20 days to let a home between January and July this year according to a...

Average rents dropped in five of the eight UK regions monitored by property technology company Goodlord. The biggest drop was recorded in...

A flat-sharing website has created a league table of average rents in locations surrounding the top-ranked universities in the United Kingdom....

Prime London’s lettings market is growing but has seen fewer new lets over the second quarter of the year according to...

A short lets management firm which was earlier this year at the centre of an advertisement controversy is now partnering with...

Rents in London are rocketing but a leading market commentator says this is no reason to give in to a “Marxist dystopia”...

The Mirror newspaper says eight members of the new Boris Johnson-led Cabinet are buy to let investors - and it accuses...

Lettings experts are being invited to the unveiling of a service described by its creators as “a revolutionary rental product.” It is...

Another local authority has announced that it wants to introduce another selective licensing scheme and designate its entire patch for HMO...

A rogue landlord who housed more than 25 tenants in a rundown property has been found guilty of serious housing and...

A London lettings agency is launching a service to enable landlords to invest in mainstream buy to let or Airbnb-style short...

A London council’s action against a property agent it has accused of “repeated negligence” has resulted in £37,000 of fines and...

Foxtons has announced that it is officially freezing its fees to landlords. The move was previewed in Foxtons’ recent trading statement which...

Knight Frank says the number of new prospective tenants registering for prime central London properties in the second quarter of this...

A tenant pretending to be landlord has been ordered to pay more than £21,000 after he carved up five family homes...

A council tenant has been fined £100,000 and evicted because he let out his flat via Airbnb.  The Times reports that Toby...

The right wing Adam Smith Institute is the latest organisation to voice its strong opposition to Labour’s proposed rent controls for...

The latest data from the Agency Express Property Activity Index, looking at the market’s performance in June, has revealed year on...

Manchester is becoming a buy to let investment hotspot according to the boss of a leading property management firm.  David Alexander of...

London is growing in its importance as a Build To Rent market according to new research released today. International property consultancy JLL...

A property education business says it’s targeting a major expansion with the launch of online additions to its nationwide courses in...

A platform which works with independent lettings agents and Build To Rent operators says it is linking them to provide mutual...

A surge in the lettings market has helped Chestertons post its best half-year profit level for the past five years. The London-focussed...

The supply of lettings property has begun to increase in higher price brackets in prime central London, leading rents to fall...

Rental growth continues to accelerate, reaching the highest level since April 2016 according to data from Hamptons International, part of Countrywide.   The...

Northwood, one of the Belvoir Group brand agencies, has acquired independent agency Daisy Lets in Forest Hill. “Daisy Lets is a great...

A relatively new firm in the crowded central London buying agency market is expanding into property management. Aykroyd & Co was launched...

The Advertising Standards Authority has stepped in following a complaint about an advertisement which claimed a flat was just a one...

The lettings establishment has sent its congratulations to Boris Johnson on his election as Tory leader and, from this afternoon, Prime...

Calls by Labour’s London Mayor Sadiq Khan to secure powers to implement private sector rent controls are facing increasing opposition. Business organisation...

Some 12 per cent of homes to let are operated by a ‘company landlord’ according to an analysis by Countrywide high-end...

The number of film-related enquiries for short lets received by Knight Frank in the year to May has shown a rise...

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has been told by a lettings industry body that he’ll lose votes if he introduces rent controls...

Data from Rightmove suggests that demand from tenants looking for a new home has soared seven per cent since the Tenants...

Data from a student accommodation specialist firm shows average rents across many cities are stuck at around a 20-year average of...

Rents are rising at the fastest rate since 2017, pushing the average yield on residential property to 4.5 per cent, its...

Data from rental insurance firm HomeLet suggests that the Tenant Fees Act may already be causing more movement amongst tenants. The firm...

The average UK rent rose from £757 to £771 during the second quarter of 2019 - that’s 1.7 per cent, according...

An online room-letting platform claims rents have risen up to eight per cent in wake of the Tenant Fee Act. ideal flatmate...

Media reports in London suggest that Labour’s hyper-active housing spokesman on the Greater London Assembly may be under threat from Jeremy...

The number of fake or fraudulent rental applications is on the rise, with landlords and letting agents being fooled by a...

Average rents performed strongly across many parts of the country last month, but floundered in London and the South East. Goodlord's Rental...

Institutional investment in the Build to Rent (BTR) sector reached a record high last year, according to fresh research from Bidwells.  The...

A senior London lettings agent has accused the government of “going to war” on buy to let investors. The director of Benham...

The number of buy to let products for first time landlords has risen to an all-time high. Data from independent mortgage market...

A London council wants to extend its private rental sector licensing scheme - and in doing so is boasting of the...

There has been no change to rental yields across the UK over the past month as the lettings market settles down...

Monday marks the one month anniversary of the Tenant Fees ban coming into force, but a senior London agent warns the...

The corner may have turned for the London rental market as prices grew between April and May, according to the latest...

A rogue landlord has been ordered to pay over £60,000 after - in the words of the council - “being found...

An average of 34 per cent of a tenant’s typical salary is spent on rent across the UK, according to an...

The Tenancy Deposit Scheme, which suggested a devastating fire in early January, has been recognised for the professional, efficient and calm...

A short lets management firm has acquired a PropTech platform and claims it will help owners “see their true profit potentials”...

A managing agent and several landlords have been fined almost £5,000 after forcing tenants to live in unacceptable conditions in a...

A European law firm has set out a critique of the driving forces behind Build To Rent - and it says...

University towns in the north of England and the Midlands score highest when it comes to yields and capital appreciation. The assessment...

A buy to let investor who let out an unsafe and unlicensed property in London has now been hit with a...

Despite criticism from some within the industry about the effects of short lets, the high-end agency Knight Frank has spoken of...

Local authority officers have found three tenants living inside a shed in the garden of a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Brent,...

A landlord who illegally converted a London home into two flats without planning permission has been given a prison sentence after...

There’s been a dramatic 37 per cent rise in rental instructions for prime properties in the capital during the first quarter...

New research shows that some buy to let investors in London could typically lose over £19,000 a year if Berlin-style rent...

The average cost of a new let in Great Britain has risen to £977 per calendar month.  That’s a 2.6 per cent...

More nightmare tenants have been the subject of investigation in a Channel 5 TV programme to be shown this evening. In the...

A research report claims letting agents could be missing out on thousands of pounds of potential income each year by not...

New figures out this morning show that the over-50s are becoming a larger part of the rental market.  So far this year...

A leading housing market analyst says the sales market is increasingly determined by the acts of buy to let and other...

A London council has successfully prosecuted a so-called “dodgy operator” landlord for failing to comply with fire safety regulations and carry...

Consultation is underway to extend a landlord licensing scheme in a London borough where a third of households rents privately.  Three types...

A record number of tenancies have been agreed above £5,000 per week in London during the first four months of the...

Two landlords will this evening be seen securing the £16,000 they are owed by a rogue lettings agent - and TV...

Airbnb has issued a statement distancing itself from controversial advertisements from a short lets management service. Hostmaker - which describes itself as...

A statement issued by short lets management firm Hostmaker about its controversial advertising campaign has been branded “disgusting” by a campaign...

The latest rental market snapshot from PropTech firm Goodlord shows that average rent increased in four of the eight regions of...

A property management chief is arguing that rent controls would restrict mortgage loans to buy to let investors and drive existing...

Airbnb and short let management service Hostmaker - at the centre of a dispute involving a landlord trade body and the...

Seven agencies have been expelled from membership of The Property Ombudsman after failing to pay compensation awards made by TPO. All are...

The government has agreed that a council in London where all 51 councillors are Labour should go ahead with a five...

Controversial London lettings agency Flintons has again been named by a BBC TV programme for allegedly unreasonable behaviour in relation to...

A number of industry experts have warned letting agents and landlords to prepare for a surge in tenants moving property once...

The head of a firm that seeks investors to put money into residential property funds rather than individual homes for tenants...

A company appearing to call on landlords to abandon tenants and instead let their properties to short-let visitors is now trying...

The fierce competition in the lettings market in parts of London means that some tenants will feel no benefit from the...

The Property Redress Scheme, one of the two government-backed redress operators for the lettings and sales service, has outlined its work...

The Mayor of London is under pressure to pull advertisements calling on landlords to stop providing homes for Londoners and move...

A portal called Oneandonlypro says it’s using Artificial Intelligence to try to identify the top 10 best areas in London for...

The latest Your Move lettings index for England and Wales shows the average rent stagnating - rising just 0.5 per cent...

An analysis of the rental market in England has revealed a dramatic drop in the number of EU nationals taking up...

Agents and landlords are being warned to prepare for a surge in tenants moving property once the fees ban kicks in...

Legal & General has exchanged contracts on two adjacent sites in south London to deliver its largest Built To Rent scheme...

An estate agency that describes itself as a ‘social enterprise’ says it will spend its profits on the homeless and related...

London agency Stirling Ackroyd - owned by Nick Dunning Associates, led by senior ex-Countrywide staff - has snapped up another independent...

The impact of Britain’s decision to leave the European Union has not hit the central London lettings sector as much as...

A new PropTech tool already used by three leading agencies claims to identify and speed up contact between pre-qualified tenants and...

Foxtons has been named as one of almost 100 firms which will be highlighted for failing to boost the number of...

The scores have been counted and the results are in for the 2019 ESTAS Awards, sponsored by Zoopla. On Friday May 10,...

The online property management platform Howsy, formerly known as NoAgent, has launched a new package for landlords. The platform says Howsy Protect...

The typical landlord who sold a rental property in England and Wales made a gross gain of £79,770 before tax last...

Average rents across the UK continue to rise ahead of the introduction of the Tenant Fees Act next month, according to...

A slow rental market in London is weighing down on growth across the rest of the UK, according to the latest...

The Property Ombudsman (TPO) has released its annual report for 2018, showing that for the first time the value of awards...

A rental market expert is urging landlords to be cautious when considering to use short-term lets websites such as Airbnb to...

New data from Proptech firm Goodlord suggests that the average void period for England and Wales is just 21 days. The longest...

New data looking specifically at room rental rates suggest that across the UK rents rose by an average three per cent...

A London council has won one of the largest-ever Proceeds of Crime claims from an unscrupulous buy to let investor. Andre Charles Trepel,...

A new PropTech start-up that claims to make student house-hunting easier is offering free listings to lettings agents with London properties. Polygon...

New data from specialist mortgage firm Commercial Trust suggests that London’s buy to let sector turned a corner in the first...

One of London’s best known lettings agents says unfurnished properties can take 30 per cent longer to let than a furnished...

Rents across England and Wales have not moved in the last 12 months, according to Your Move.  The agency says the typical...

How is Inadash revolutionising the rental market? Searching for a new rental property can be a stressful, time-consuming and frustrating process, but...

The Mayor of London is calling on government to introduce a new registration system for anyone wishing to rent out a...

The senior executive who has bought out the lettings side of a Glasgow agency business says increased use of PropTech is...

A national newspaper story suggests that a couple seeking an apartment to rent in Brixton were signed up to the wrong...

A rogue letting agent has been ordered to pay £42,596 in fines and costs of £10,626 after pleading guilty to a...

A husband and wife must pay joint fines, penalties and costs totalling over £8,000 after complaints about a bungalow they owned...

A senior lettings agent has raised the spectre of rental properties in future being German-style ‘empty shells’ - without even white...

Figures calculated by Rightmove suggest that even when the Fees Ban and Deposit Caps kick in on June 1, some deposits...

Startling figures released this morning by Rightmove suggest that rents have risen 8.2 per cent in London in the past year...

The scrapping of Section 21 eviction powers has been welcomed by the London Assembly - but apparently it doesn’t go far...

Belvoir has snapped up another independent lettings agency in the south east.  Grey & Co, located at Wembley Park in north London,...

Data from a Countrywide agency shows that 59 per cent of landlords who live in London purchased their buy to let...

The average cost of a new let in Great Britain is now £969 pcm as rental growth continues to rise.  Data from Hamptons...

Average monthly UK rent is now at its lowest level for three years according to the Deposit Protection Service. Average rent fell...

Savills has launched a new residential lettings service in one of the country’s most successful buy to let and investment locations...

The rapid growth of Airbnb-style short lets could lead to the loss of private rented homes and displacement of long-term residents...

Rental growth remains in positive territory - just - but on average it’s still well below the general level of inflation...

Agents and prospective buy to let investors keen to grab a slice of the capital’s growing lettings market now have a...

High end lettings agency Harrods Estates says it has seen a 10 per cent rise in tenancy renewals in the Knightsbridge...

The latest lettings sector index suggests that monthly rents increased from February to March in six of the eight regions of...

A PropTech lead generation app that dubs itself the ‘Uber for Lettings Agents’ has launched in Manchester. The app, from Movebubble, already...

London’s lettings sector is changing with tenants still wanting to buy but increasingly accepting they must rent for longer in the...

A controversial new survey claims to have identified the best cities for millennials to live in based on factors such as...

A buy to let investor has been hit with a £4,000 fine plus costs of over £5,000 after failing to license...

Latest lettings market data from high-end agency Knight Frank shows that average rents in prime central London rose 1.1 per cent...

The number of London landlords exiting the market last month was a whopping 125 per cent higher than the national average. The...

It’s a vital time for letting agents to hammer home the benefits of buy to let and the dangers to landlords...

The average rent across England and Wales in February was a mere 0.4 per cent higher than the same point a...

A property management company is taking the unusual approach of suggesting to buy to let investors that they purchase properties with...

A survey of 500 buy to let landlords suggests that well over a third are planning to increase the size of...

Rent rises in the year to the end of February, as released by the government’s Office of National Statistics, show growth...

The implementation and costs of landlord licensing schemes in Britain are a lottery. That’s the conclusion of a new analysis of licensing...

The JLL lettings agency is warning that the five week deposit cap enshrined in the Tenant Fees Act is likely to...

A dawn raid on unlicensed HMOs in north London last week were the latest sign of a crackdown on rogue operators...

The proportion of landlords purchasing buy to let homes in London with cash rose from 33 per cent in 2017 to...

Rent in London is the most expensive in Europe for expats, new research shows. The UK capital’s rent averages US$7,189 - that’s...

Haringey council is the latest local authority in the capital to create a borough-wide additional licensing scheme for HMOs. It claims the...

The London-focussed rental app Movebubble has revealed major new investment from Build To Rent developer Quintain, which is taking a 10...

The average rent in the UK is now £940 per month, up 3.8 per cent on this time last year. When London’s...

Numerous regional independent agency chains have joined Zero Deposit, one of several rental deposit replacement schemes to have appeared in recent...

Two landlords have been ordered to pay more than £30,000 for breaching fire safety and over-occupancy licence conditions at their House...

New research from Zoopla suggests that parking sits firmly at the top of requirements for renters - but with pet-friendly facilities...

A lettings agency that has analysed HMRC data says rental income for buy to let landlords has leaped 15 per cent...

A new index for the lettings sector in England and Wales by PropTech company Goodlord gives a clean bill of health...

Data from Knight Frank shows that annual rental values actually grew in parts of prime outer London last month for the...

The gap between the cost of buying and renting is down 59 per cent to its lowest level in nine years...

Rents over three prime London areas rose by 1.9 per cent in the final quarter of 2018 according to property data...

Demand for room rentals in London is so high their average charge has risen two per cent in 2019 already, claims...

PropTech company teclet has announced it will this year once again be a main category partner at The ESTAS estate and...

Another London local authority is proposing to insist HMOs require planning permission in future.  Currently in Croydon multi-bedroom properties can be converted...

Just when you thought there could not be any more rival licensing or accreditation systems in the private rental sector, a...

Letting agents and property firms are being invited to take part in the inaugural Property & Construction leg of an event...

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...