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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...

The Property Ombudsman has expelled a London lettings and estate agency after it failed to honour a compensation payment to a...

Prime Central London’s lettings market has improved gradually during the first two quarters of the year according to JLL.   It says transaction...

The average UK private rental tenancy is now 20 months, almost a fifth longer than in 2014 according to research from...

ARLA Propertymark says letting and managing agents should be aware that they can raise ‘safeguarding alerts’ if they are concerned about...

Consumer group Which? says ‘micro-apartments’ - which have proliferated in recent years - may not be good investments.    The group has focussed...

New figures compiled by the British Property Federation chronicle the continuing growth of Build To Rent across the country.    The BPF says...

The boss of a lettings agency in London says there is a need for the private rental sector to become more professional...

The number of tenants entering the market across the UK has risen by 7.3 per cent on the month - but...

London agency Ludlowthompson has just appointed the first manager to emerge from the company’s apprenticeship scheme.    Launched in 2011, the scheme now...

Foxtons reports that average rents continued to fall across many parts of the capital in the second quarter of this year,...

A London council is using dawn raids in its clampdown on illegal subletting and on so-called ‘beds in sheds’ where tenants...

A council claims that up to 13,000 private landlords are “of interest” to HM Revenue and Customs, where there are alleged...

An economics academic says the country’s taxpayers should be “very angry” with the government for failing to collect taxes to which...

The Residential Landlords’ Association, which last autumn published important statistics on the spread of short lets within London, is now looking...

The annual rate of rental growth across Britain doubled between June and July driven by a turnaround in the London market,...

The agent behind London’s newest letting opportunity says it’s the most luxurious property in the capital’s most presigious neighbourhood - and...

Property investment platform LendInvest has raised £50m thanks to the over-subscription of its first retail bond, launched on the London Stock...

Redbridge council in London is offering 50 per cent off the cost of its private rental sector licensing scheme until September...

The results of a survey of 2,000 people conducted by an online letting agency appear to make sombre reading for letting...

A former tenant is the subject of a major investigation by a London newspaper after she claimed to have spent eight...

A no-holds-barred blog on a controversial website claims that it lifts the lid on being a letting agent in central London...

Buy to let investors are losing confidence in their ability to rely on steady rental yields, according to recent figures from...

A lettings agency that already operates an Airbnb management service has now launched an additional ‘interior styling service’ for landlords who...

Rents are gently rising again after some months of small dips according to HomeLet.    It says the average new tenancy signed during...

Newham council is to set up the UK’s first letting agents rating scheme to protect residents and landlords from rogue agents.   The...

New government figures reveal that there are 80,855 Built To Rent homes either completed or planned.    It says investment in this element...

New data from a survey of tenants suggests demand for the private rental sector looks set to be high for the...

Knight Frank has recruited Neil Cunningham to become head of South West London and Home Counties lettings, overseeing the performance of...

Let’s start with a quick fire quiz. How many more leads do you think you’d get with photos that have been...

Prime central London is seeing the rise of the micro-apartment, according to new research, as squeezed accommodation budgets have seen singles...

A man who illegally housed tenants inside his converted garage has been ordered to pay £173,141 by a court.   Amir Golesorkhi turned...

The government has been urged by a London council to act now to end letting fees for private renters.   Hackney council says...

Rightmove is testing an experimental Facebook Messenger bot in the London lettings market.    For the unitiated a bot is software that can...

It is being reported that one of the major providers of purpose-built student accommodation to let - Unite - could temporarily...

Stirling Ackroyd’s lettings book, with which it manages 1,400 properties, lies at the heart of the London agency’s acquisition by Nick...

More than 100 criminal prosecutions have been secured against landlords since the start of an enforcement crackdown by Brent council in...

Council officers discovered men living mattress to mattress inside a run-down flat above a commercial premises during a dawn raid.   Police and...

Beleagured housing minister Alok Sharma has been told by a London council that his decision over an application for a borough-wide...

Labour MP Karen Buck is to reintroduce her Private Members Bill into Parliament today - and if it is passed, she...

The typical rent paid by tenants across Britain rose by an average of 1.8 per cent in the 12 months to...

Countrywide says that the average price of a new let in Britain rose by 1.1 per cent year-on-year in June 2017...

Activity in the super prime London market, where tenants are prepared to pay £5,000 or more per week for a home,...

Countrywide says the rapid growth in the size of the private rental sector in recent years is not down to a...

Draker, which describes itself as the largest lettings-only agency in Kensington and Chelsea, has now expanded by opening a new office...

A south London property firm has been prosecuted by a local authority over its HMO management and may now have to...

A new charter has been launched to promote the rights of tenants in a London borough where, for the first time...

A new app called UrbanCo is launched today in London as part of a buying agent-style service aimed at busy would-be renters.    A...

Purpose-built and professionally-managed Build To Rent - until now seen as a primarily London phenomenon - appears on the march in Scotland...

A survey of letting and estate agencies suggest around half broadly back the changes to the private rental sector outlined in...

The average rent of a new letting in the UK grew by 0.24 per cent in the first six months of...

Asking rents outside London continue to hold up despite the market having more available properties, according to Rightmove.   Prices rose 2.8 per...

A lettings firm and a property management company that converted a family home into micro flats have been found guilty of...

Rents fell in June by 0.3 per cent when compared to the same time last year, the second successive month in...

A minister at the Departrment of Communities and Local Government has set out the government’s position in terms of the fire-related...

Rented housing in London is at its least affordable levels for 10 years after typical rent rises of 47 per cent...

Knight Frank is warning that changes to regulatory supervision of the European Central Bank could, if they went the wrong way,...

Rents in prime central London have dropped 4.4 per cent in the past year - although that annual drop is not...

**The free photography course for estate agents (part one) offer has now expired. It is still available in special circumstances so...

Pastor Real Estate, a long-standing agency operating in Mayfair and Monaco, is expanding its London activities.   The boutique agency, which covers lettings and sales as...

Bidding software that provides a new revenue stream for letting agents has been unveiled by a start up called Letsbid4lets.    The bidding...

London rents have fallen by an average 5.0 per cent in the past year according to new data released by Your...

The substantial majority of landlords could soon be required to licence their properties in one London borough if the government agrees...

The annual report of The Property Ombudsman, released today, reveals that the largest compensation award of the year has been made...

Southwark council in south London is sending leaflets to all its leaseholders to warn them that letting out homes on any...

Rents in prime central London are down 4.8 per cent in the past year according to Knight Frank - a slightly...

At the latest meeting of the Fair Fees Forum, members described the current approach towards landlord licensing as a 'post code...

The pace of decreasing rental values in Prime Central London (PCL) has slowed, according to the latest data from Knight Frank. Average...

A proposed amendment to the government's Housing and Planning Bill which suggests landlords are required to make homes 'fit for human...

The firm run by former Countrywide lettings director Nick Dunning has announced the details of its latest acquisition. Nick Dunning Associates has...

Former Conservative Party leader and Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith is set to speak at a lettings sector event...

The prospect of today's General Election as well as ongoing uncertainty surrounding Britain's exit from the European Union is having a...

Average UK rents fell in May, according to the latest HomeLet Rental Index. The figures show that the average UK rent on...

Research by the National Approved Letting Scheme (NALS) has identified that some 93% of local authorities have failed to issue a...

A new report says buy to let will continue to provide good investment opportunities but requires an increasingly professional approach.   The report,...

A property described as Europe’s largest rental co-living block, The Collective Old Oak in London’s Paddington, is up for sale with bids...

The average tenancy deposit for England and Wales is just below £1,000 according to the Deposit Protection Service’s figures for the...

Uber and a Build To Rent developer have announced a PropTech deal which will see the transport company getting involved in...

JLL has made three new director-level appointments to its prime London lettings team.   Andrew Keelan has joined as associate director and manages...

A management firm and corporate landlord have been hit with a £250,000 fine after a “potentially lethal” flat blaze in London -...

A Build To Rent operator with properties in London and Glasgow is scrapping tenants’ deposits from the middle of next month,...

ARLA Propertymark says the number of properties managed per member increased marginally last month, from 183 to 185 - but there was...

The latest deal by Lomond Capital means the rapidly expanding property group now manages over £2.5 billion of residential units.   Lomond has...

The London council of Newham is thought to be the first local authority in the UK to use new powers to...

An analysis by investment specialists London Central Portfolio reveals that in areas of central London swamped with new builds coming to...

Chelsea estate agency Russell Simpson has appointed a new senior lettings director in a bid to boost the firm’s rental offering.  Having...

Two lettings agencies have been expelled from The Property Ombudsman redress scheme.   As we reported when the story broke yesterday afternoon, one...

Two lettings agencies have this afternoon been expelled from The Property Ombudsman redress scheme. In one case, TPO expelled Lettings Solutions Ltd...

A selection of letting agents, estate agents and property professionals were recognised as 'outstanding learners' at the Propertymark Qualifications Awards last...

Property investors based in the capital are increasingly purchasing buy-to-let properties outside of London, according to Countrywide. The UK's largest agency's latest...

Rental growth in London remained relatively stable during the first quarter of 2017, according to Benham & Reeves Residential Lettings. The firm's...

Agencies are responding to the latest criticism of their fees on tenants, levied by the pressure group Generation Rent.    The group -...

A north London landlord who housed a family of five, including three children, in a cramped attic has been prosecuted by...

A buy to let expert says there should be stronger enforcement and streamlining of legislation in the private rental sector. In a...

Rents on new tenancies in London fell by 1.2 per cent over the past 12 months to April - the first...

An event that has been billed as Europe’s most senior networking event for real estate innovators takes place in London on...

What does it say on your business card? Peter Mansfield, Group Chairman, The World Property Network, www.twpn.com  and TheWorldPropertyNetwork.com                             What is The World Property Network...