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![Airbnb and Short Let Boom may be over says agency chief](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews1-400x310.png)
A lettings agency director is suggesting the short lets boom may be over. Marc von Grundherr, director of Benham and Reeves, says...
19 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Agent pleads with landlords to believe in buy to let](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Buy-to-let-2-400x310.png)
The director of a London lettings agency says buy to let landlords are entitled to feel downtrodden but claims it’s still...
07 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Agent demands end of bizarre rule making tenants pay stamp duty](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/StampDuty1_400x310.png)
A prominent lettings agent is calling for an end to what he calls the “archaic” system under which some tenants end...
22 March 2024
From: Breaking News
![Shock figures put interest rate cut on the back burner](/upload/images/shutterstock_2148997377.jpg)
There are growing fears that the hoped-for Bank of England base rate cut this spring - the first off possibly several...
18 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![Agent’s Affordability Warning - not all tenants will really benefit](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/AgentsWorking-400x310.png)
A prominent lettings agent says there’s been a definite improvement in rental affordability in most areas - but he doubts all...
21 November 2023
From: Breaking News
![Agents told to set ‘tracker’ rents that rise with interest rates](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/MortgageRatesIncrease_400x310.png)
Two letting agents have been quoted in a newspaper report as saying landlord clients have instructed them to create ‘tracker’ rents...
04 September 2023
From: Breaking News
![Values plummet in Canary Wharf as fears grow for rental sector](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/UnhappyTenants-400x310.png)
Canary Wharf was once seen as the future of London - now it’s the location that’s seen the greatest loss in...
04 July 2023
From: Breaking News
![Agents’ hopes rise for a soft landing for sales](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/HousePrices_pound-400x310.png)
“Optimism has survived another difficult month” says business consultancy Hargreaves Lansdown in response to the latest house price index. Indeed, the industry...
08 March 2023
From: Breaking News
![Reverse The Tax Threat - major agency backs petition](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/TaxRefund-400x310.png)
A high profile lettings agency has backed a petition demanding the reinstatement of tax relief for landlords. Benham and Reeves says it...
11 January 2023
From: Breaking News
![Tax Grabs - might Tories lose support because of CGT penalties?](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/TaxCoins-400x310.png)
A second agency chief has warned the Conservatives of the possible electoral consequences of higher taxes aimed at the private rental...
21 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![Interest rates up as agent warns public to “wake up and smell the coffee”](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/MortgageCalculated_400x310.png)
The Bank of England has increased its base rate from 2.25 per cent to 3.0 per cent. This is the largest hike...
03 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![Agents welcome Hunt tax change - but who knows what’s coming?](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/TaxCoins-400x310.png)
Propertymark’s chief executive Nathan Emerson has welcomed the dramatic government U-turn on taxes - but most importantly has retained the stamp...
18 October 2022
From: Breaking News
![Price shock for renters renewing tenancies, warns agency](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/Tenancy-Agreement-400x310.png)
London-focussed lettings agency Benham and Reeves says renters who secured bargain properties during the pandemic now face huge rent rises when...
28 July 2022
From: Breaking News
![Buy To Let returns far better than ISAs, research shows](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/BTL400x310.png)
New research shows that despite tax and regulatory changes restricting buy to let returns, this remains a far healthier investment than...
23 February 2022
From: Breaking News
![Staged properties fetch more in lettings and sales markets](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/HousingMarket-400x310.jpg)
Staging a home during the selling process could boost a sale price by up to £47,000; meanwhile lettings asking prices could...
18 November 2021
From: Breaking News
![Rents rise across London as stock shortage takes its toll](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/RisingRents-400x310.jpg)
New research by the Benham and Reeves agency has revealed how a lack of London rental properties has pushed up the...
20 October 2021
From: Breaking News
![Rogue tenants – how long has it taken to evict them during Covid?](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/UK-Cash-20-400x310.jpg)
The latest research by lettings agency Benham and Reeves has analysed how the pandemic has affected the UK rental market when...
17 September 2021
From: Breaking News
![London lettings market back with a bang, says leading agency](/upload/images/Locations/LondonMap400x310-min.png)
The tide is turning for the London rental market at last according to data from the Benham and Reeves lettings agency. In...
19 August 2021
From: Breaking News
![Many more agencies now listing properties with video content](/img/default/lat.png)
Rightmove is reporting a big rise in the proportion of properties listed with video content. It says rental listings with either a...
25 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![Massive over-supply in Central London now, admits leading agent](/img/default/lat.png)
A prominent agent says a huge over-supply of available rental property is now flooding the central London market, just as demand...
27 January 2021
From: Breaking News
![Tenants in arrears should have alternative homes by now - top agent](/img/default/lat.png)
A vocal London lettings agent says it isn’t the responsibility of agents or their landlord clients to take the financial hit...
21 August 2020
From: Breaking News
![Coronavirus is reshaping tenant demands, says lettings agency](/img/default/lat.png)
Research by a lettings agency suggests the pandemic has radically reshaped tenants’ demands. - and the process is still going on. Benham...
06 August 2020
From: Breaking News
![Rent takes 75% of income in some areas, admits agency](/img/default/lat.png)
A lettings agency admits that the proportion of net income required to cover rent has hit 75 per cent in some...
16 January 2020
From: Breaking News
![Industry rages against Labour’s “laughable” rent control plan](/img/default/lat.png)
Calls by Labour’s London Mayor Sadiq Khan to secure powers to implement private sector rent controls are facing increasing opposition. Business organisation...
22 July 2019
From: Breaking News
![Top agent blasts government for going to war on buy to let](/img/default/lat.png)
A senior London lettings agent has accused the government of “going to war” on buy to let investors. The director of Benham...
02 July 2019
From: Breaking News
![This is why buy to let looks a good investment for many years to come...](/img/default/lat.png)
London lettings agency Benham and Reeves has produced figures showing, indirectly at least, exactly why buy to let and property investment...
22 February 2019
From: Breaking News
![Stable rents show that buy to let is still sound, says leading agent](/img/default/lat.png)
Latest official figures show that private rental prices paid by tenants in the UK rose by 1.0 per cent in the...
15 February 2019
From: Breaking News
![Government blasted by another top agent over three year tenancies](/img/default/lat.png)
Yet another leading lettings agent has hit out at the government over its proposals for three year tenancies being the norm...
10 July 2018
From: Breaking News
![Student rents rise at twice the rate of mainstream rents](/img/default/lat.png)
London agency Benham & Reeves Residential Lettings says student rents have risen by 55.5 per cent over the past 20 years,...
25 August 2016
From: Breaking News
![Are developers 'downsizing' flats to appeal to buy to let investors?](/img/default/lat.png)
Developers of major London developments, including Battersea Power Station, may be considering 'downsizing' apartments that can't sell to make them more suitable...
09 May 2016
From: Breaking News
![Rent rises will outstrip buy to let tax rises, predicts letting agency chief](/img/default/lat.png)
George Osborne has done more for the rental market than any other chancellor in history claims Marc von Grundherr, lettings director...
21 January 2016
From: Breaking News
![London rental sector benefits from sales market woe says letting agency](/img/default/lat.png)
The struggling London sales market is provoking a boom in the capital’s rental sector according to data from Benham & Reeves...