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Propertymark is telling the Bank of England that now is the perfect time to cut base rate and trigger wider interest...

Average UK private rents increased by 9.0% in the 12 months to February 2024 according to the Office for National Statistics. This...

The Martyn Gerrard agency has acquired a London independent - Range Homes. Range Homes, based in the north London suburb of Palmers...

A prominent lettings agency is advising landlords to fit out homes in prime locations to the same high specification as if...

There are growing fears that the hoped-for Bank of England base rate cut this spring - the first off possibly several...

Knight Frank has bolstered its prime offering across north London with a new head of lettings in its Hampstead office. Jared Kilgarriff...

The lettings agency Winkworth has taken the unusual step of criticising policies of a series of councils. The councils are all Labour...

Savills has appointed Marielle Papadopoullos as head of lettings in its key Hampstead office.  Papadopoullos, who joins as a director, has over...

A London-focused lettings agency is partnering with Barratt London to encourage Indian investors. Barratt London, with 40 years’ experience in the capital...

Franchise giant Winkworth is opening a new office in West Hampstead, extending its north London footprint from existing offices in neighbouring...

Elliot Leigh - an agency that is the largest guaranteed rent provider in London and Essex - has completed phase one...

Rents continue to soar across the UK according to data released by flatshare website SpareRoom.  It says average UK room rents were...

An agency is claiming a record for the sum at which it is letting a seven bedroom property in north London. Aston...

High end lettings agency Aston Chase has let a house modelled on Windsor Castle for the princely sum of £247,000 per...

The Bank of England has raised base rate by 0.25 per cent to 4.25 per cent - the highest level since...

A prominent agent and former RICS residential chairman has made an impassioned plea to the government to help the private rental...

“Optimism has survived another difficult month” says business consultancy Hargreaves Lansdown in response to the latest house price index.  Indeed, the industry...

An estate agency has been prosecuted and ordered to pay £35,000 for falling foul of property licensing rules. Green House Estate Agents...

The number of mortgage approvals for house purchases in November came to 46,075 according to the Bank of England. The 46,075 figure...

Propertymark has written to Housing Secretary Michael Gove outlining its concerns about the latest licensing scheme proposal from a local council. The...

The Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England has agreed to raise interest rates by 0.5 per cent to 2.25...

The sole director of a lettings agency, who was recently made the subject of an anti-social behaviour injunction and banning order,...

Agents have voiced their reservations over aspects of the widespread rental sector reform announced by the government in the Queen’s Speech. Yesterday...

The launch of a new collection of high end homes aimed at renters aged 60-plus has triggered enthusiastic responses from agents. Developer...

An independent agency in London has ditched its company cars and gone over to e-bikes instead when it’s representatives attend viewings. Taylor...

A fast-expanding PropTech business has opened a new office in London to serve a growing client base in the capital and...

An agency has secured what it calls the fastest ever letting of a mansion on the legendary north London street, Bishops...

North London agency Home Minders has acquired independent lettings and sales business Alan Goldin Estates. This transaction is Home Minder’s third acquisition,...

A London agency says it’s doubled its rental deals over an eight week period, helped by adopting a virtual tours app. Paramount,...

Martyn Gerrard Estate Agent is the latest agency to partner with a deposit alternative supplier - in this case flatfair.  Tenants at...

Harrow council in north London has launched a formal consultation on its plan to renew its landlord licensing scheme in the...

It’s easy to forget in the Coronavirus frenzy but from tomorrow, Friday March 20, all tenancies are to become subject to...

A landlord has been ordered to pay back no less than £190,000 - equivalent to nine years’ rent - after he...

A resident who was unable to access an emergency escape route during a fire was found standing on a windowsill hanging...

A landlord has ended up with fines totalling over £90,000 after repeatedly ignoring a council’s selective licensing regime. Stephen Ige pleaded guilty...

A London council tenant who for a period of seven years failed to disclose that he owned three houses, has been...

The growing deposit alternative sector continues to be ultra-competitive with 15-branch agency Kings Lettings signing up to Zero Deposit. Kings Lettings operates...

If you want to know why inventories are vital for agents and landlords, look no further than the high-profile dispute over...

A lettings platform has analysed the current average annual rental cost of different parts of the UK and how that relates...

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

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

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

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

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

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

A buy to let investor who converted three family homes to HMOs without securing planning permission has been jailed for falsifying...

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...

The National Approved Lettings Scheme has taken the unusual step of commenting on, and welcoming, the outcome of a court case...

A council accused of paying over £500,000 to a landlord it had already ruled as unfit to rent out property is...

The agency industry has reacted in a broadly downbeat way at the relatively few housing-related proposals that were announced in yesterday’s...

Two private landlords have been found guilty of managing Houses in Multiple Occupation with dangerous and sub-standard conditions, following a successful...

Sourced, which describes itself as the largest property investment platform in the UK, has secured its 25th franchise some 10 months...

A TV show on Channel 5 this evening may well serve as a warning to letting agents about the dangers of...

Council officers staged a dawn raid to uncover an unlicensed HMO in north London. The team discovered 10 men and women sleeping...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A landlady has been fined £15,000 for failing to license and manage a house in multiple occupation.    Sharon Jacobs was also ordered...

The owner of a house in multiple occupation in the leafy Hampstead area of north London has been hit with a...

Wembley Park in north London is to host Britain’s largest Build To Rent scheme yet after Quintain revealed a programme for...

Sigma Capital, one of the earliest investors in the UK Build To Rent sector, is creating a new brand called Simple...

Benham & Reeves Residential Lettings says it is encouraging its London landlords to avoid rent rises and instead focus on retaining...

The Advertising Standards Authority has received a complaint about a claim which was on an online letting agency’s website suggesting it...

Unlikely as it seems one of Channel 4's digital networks, E4, has commissioned a comedy series based in ... a lettings...

Respected legal firm Mishcon de Reya is the latest voice warning of problems which can be caused when apartment owners let...

A landlord guilty of breaching a planning enforcement notice has been ordered to pay £700,000 in fines and costs - the...

A gunman who described himself as a would-be tenant has been jailed after two “terrifying” robberies on letting agencies.  The Enfield Independent...

A rogue landlord faces a court bill of almost £40,000 after being caught cramming 24 people into a house in north...

A landlord’s company has been left with a bill of over £14,000 for letting unlicensed flats in north London.   Appearing at Highbury...

A landlord who waged what a local authority describes as “a war of intimidation” against tenants living in his property has...

Magistrates have fined the leaseholders and landlords of a 10-flat property in north London £120,000 after finding they had put the...

Haringey Council in North London is the latest local authority to launch its own letting agency for private tenants. Move 51⁰ North...

A London lettings has tweeted that it does not share the view of one of its own branch managers who said...

A blog post by eviction specialists Landlord Action has exposed bad tenants who can clearly afford to pay the rent but...

A previously-convicted landlord has been ordered to pay over £200,000 by a court for illegally converting two properties into flats without...

A landlord has a bill of more than £85,000 for unlawfully letting a basement flat. As part of a council planning enforcement...

A landlord has been ordered to pay more than £7,000 after failing to licence a house in multiple occupation in the...

The Insolvency Service, which probes all compulsory liquidations and individual bankruptcies, has wound up two letting agencies.  Morgan Fox (Lettings) Limited, formerly...

The publication Environmental Health News has secured the release of files showing the details of hundreds of convicted private landlords in...

The council which became a standard bearer for so-called ‘landlord licensing’ - Enfield in north London - appears to have abandoned...

Two agents charged with fraud are expected to appear in court tomorrow Martin Marcus and Nadim Khan will appear at Harrow Crown...

The second episode of Channel 5’s Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords, due to air tomorrow evening at 9pm, will feature three separate...

An amnesty on the licensing of houses in multiple occupation is being held in Barnet in north London following the successful...

About ten years ago, I was working as the branch manager of an estate agency based in an affluent part of...