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  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...