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Housing minister Eddie Hughes has categorically stated that the government is not considering rent controls in England. In a written reply to...

The average rent in the UK has hit another record high of £1,103 per calendar month after a 1.1 per cent...

Propertymark members are to get a briefing on Northern Ireland’s new Private Tenancies Act at a webinar hosted by the trade...

Propertymark is calling on candidates in next week's Northern Ireland Assembly elections to support policies that will increase housing supply and...

The industry’s main trade body for lettings agents is telling its members to let the BBC know if they believe the...

The monthly costs for a first time buyer are some 13 per cent lower than that of a similar renter -...

A player in the rental insurance field is warning that the growing cost of living crisis makes it more important than...

Propertymark, the letting agents’ trade body, has accused governments across the UK of using Covid 19 rule changes to slip in...

A lettings agency says renters must pay an average of up to 77 per cent of their monthly household income to...

Propertymark is advising agents to prepare for substantial changes to the Right To Rent process arriving in just two months time. As...

The latest lettings market snapshot from HomeLet suggests another record average UK monthly rent level of £1,064 pcm - up a...

Extending the length of Notice to Quit periods in the private rented sector in Northern Ireland to up to six months...

Buy to let investors many quit the sector if proposals in the Northern Ireland Private Tenancies Bill go-ahead in their existing...

ARLA Propertymark has released its latest lettings market snapshot showing demand reducing - but even so still being a record for...

The House of Commons Library, an independent body not controlled by government, has published a detailed history of the many measures...

New laws to limit rent increases to once a year in Northern Ireland have moved a step closer and lettings agents...

The lettings market continues to boom, with HomeLet’s latest index showing average UK rents at a record high for the third...

Reluctance to move during the pandemic is thought to be a key reason for a sharp drop in tenancy disputes between...

Northern Ireland’s Department for Communities is extending the regulations for the period of notice a landlord must give a tenant before...

There’s been a 21 per cent rise in demand for properties from buy to let investors according to a new analysis...

A new estimate put the value of the UK private rental sector at almost £1.4 trillion. Buy to let and investment consultancy...

Propertymark has given its broad support to a new Private Members Bill introduced into the Northern Ireland assembly, aimed at improving...

There’s still no sign of a lettings market slowdown according to the latest report from ARLA Propertymark. It says that the average...

A scheme being proposed in Northern Ireland has been branded as a threat to letting agents. The Northern Ireland Executive is considering...

The ESTAS Awards ceremony is traditionally held each May but no prizes for guessing why this year, as with 2020, things...

Average rents across the UK have risen for the fourth time in as many months according to the HomeLet index. Typical rent...

Latest figures from ARLA Propertymark suggest the rental market continues to perform strongly. Data for February - the latest available from the...

The National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agents Team is appealing to the industry to be eagle-eyed for scams. This follows the...

A leading property law expert says there is now pressure on Chancellor Rishi Sunak to raise stamp duty on buy to...

Letting agents say the number of tenants experiencing rent increases fell for the third month in a row. The latest ARLA Propertymark...

As lockdown – Season 2, the sequel no one asked for – gets underway in England, landlords, tenants and agents will...

A property company that owns and manages premises occupied by a politician has returned some £10,000 in furlough money received under...

A Green Party councillor has been refunded fees he and his partner were charged by a letting agency five years ago,...

The Chartered Institute of Housing claims there may be a “massive increase” in evictions in the near future. In a briefing paper the...

The latest monthly rental index produced by insurance provider HomeLet shows a four per cent surge in the all-UK average rent...

Activists from the controversial renters’ group Acorn have picketed the headquarters of a national rental firm in a dispute over a...

There have been changes to the Notice To Quit process in Northern Ireland. The Private Tenancies (Coronavirus Modifications) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020...

A group of Labour and Liberal Democrat MPs have together claimed that England could witness "a new wave of homelessness" when...

Room rents in the capital have dropped seven per cent in the past three months as the Coronavirus crisis saps demand...

Shelter is calling for stricter enforcement against letting agents in Northern Ireland which it claims are illegally charging tenants fees for...

A stamp duty cut could reinvigorate the buy to let market and the wider economy as the country comes out of...

The lettings market in Northern Ireland is resuming on Monday after its lockdown because of the Coronavirus crisis. Arlene Foster, first minister of...

Different guidelines have been issued for the rental sector in different parts of the British Isles as devolved administrations get to...

A Northern Ireland lettings agent is providing rent-free housing for NHS staff who have moved out of their own homes to...

The typical UK private rental deposit, often considered high in this country, is thought to be relatively low by international standards...

A third of all landlords live in Greater London and the South East according to data collated by a property management...

This month sees the launch of a new trade body for the lettings sector - the National Residential Landlords Association. It’s the...

A trade body suggests that the votes of private landlords could decide the results in over 100 constituencies in next week’s...

UK-wide rental prices are up 2.0 per cent annually to £876 – a three-year high – according to a new quarterly...

The cost of renting a room in the UK remained steady during Q3, according to SpareRoom. The country's biggest flatsharing site says...

The majority of the UK’s private renters don’t want to purchase a home according to new research, coming just as the...

Ben Beadle is to be the chief executive of the new National Residential Landlords Association, launching in January. The new body comes...

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

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

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

A BBC investigation of 52 lettings agents has found that two thirds were levying charges on tenants, but it is uncertain...

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

Not-for-profit operator Tenancy Deposit Scheme says early intervention between landlords and tenants across the UK is resulting in many more deposit...

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

Student demand for places across the UK - and therefore for accommodation - is holding up well despite Brexit uncertainty, according...

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

Latest official figures show that private rental prices paid by tenants in the UK rose by 1.0 per cent in the...

Renting became more affordable in 2018 thanks to a combination of a once-in-a-decade fall in annual rents and wage inflation, according...

Most tenants believe they will never be able to own a home because of the burden of saving for a deposit...

Deposit protection provider The Dispute Service says it has seen a big rise in the number of deposits it protects in...

The average rent in the UK is now £928 per calendar month, up by 2.1 per cent on the same time...

Urgent action is needed to tackle discrimination against benefit claimants by buy to let mortgage providers according to a leading trade...

The Home Office is to reconvene its private rental sector stakeholder panel on Right to Rent. This follows a controversial period for...

Average UK rents have risen 1.8 per cent in the last year, equating to a typical £16 monthly hike. That’s the view...

A rental market survey conducted for The Deposit Protection Service claims the average rent has fallen in the UK for the...

The average rent agreed on a new tenancy signed in December was £907 according to the insurance firm HomeLet, compared to...

Latest data from HomeLet suggests that typical rents across the UK have fallen in real terms over the past 12 months. Average...

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 in the UK rose by an average of 2.4 per cent during August - the highest rate of annual growth...

Letting agents across the UK must prepare now for a ban on fees charged to tenants says a PropTech company -...

A new report identifies in detail over 145 laws and regulations governing the private rental sector, varying across the four countries...

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

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

A crowdfunding campaign for a legal challenge against the rollout of the Right to Rent scheme is nearing its funding target. With...

Immigration charity Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) has this week launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise funds for...

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

A seven per cent fall in the number of EU students seeking places at UK universities, matched with a 4.3 per...

ARLA Propertymark representatives have met with Home Office officials in Cardiff and Edinburgh ahead of the government’s roll-out of Right To...

Poor communication, not being treated as a customer, and the time it takes to get property issues resolved have topped the...

A damning critique of the one-year-old Right To Rent legislation in England suggests that the government is largely unaware of its...

Now Northern Ireland appears to be in the frame for substantial changes to the private rental sector according to the Association...

Northern Ireland, where rents were 6.4 per cent higher in December than in the same month of 2015, saw the strongest...

One of the UK’s largest local government pension schemes has committed £100m to invest in the fast-growing Build To Rent sector.   The...

Earlier this month we reported on Belfast council’s decision to open a public consultation on whether To Let boards should be...

Rents across the UK are still rising but the rate of growth continues to slow.   Data from HomeLet shows that rents agreed...

Letting agents and landlords operating in Northern Ireland are now being invited to go through an accredited training programme being operated...

Rents in Scotland are at a record high, after the fastest month-on-month growth on record.  Data from Your Move shows that average...

All regions of the UK will see falling owner-occupation levels and more private renting over the next decade, with particular rises...

A review of the private rental sector in Northern Ireland has been launched - but there is a tight deadline, with...

New research from HomeLet reveals that Brighton, Bristol, Edinburgh and Newcastle recorded the largest increase in rents last year amongst the...

The Scottish Government is to announce today whether it is replicating the three per cent stamp duty hike on buy to...

PropertyPal, a portal covering Northern Ireland, has launched a new Android app which allows consumers to ‘draw’ a defined area in...

Up to 5,000 landlords are reported to be receiving licensing fee refunds as a result of legal advice given to the...

The latest survey of private sector rents by HomeLet shows very large regional differences with one area seeing a 4.9 per...

There has been a mixed response from the private rental industry following the announcement that Right To Rent checks will become mandatory...

After six months of annual rent price rises of 10 per cent plus the latest HomeLet index shows rent prices have...

A licensing system for private landlords and letting agents is the way forward for the Northern Ireland rental sector according to...

After a night of remarkable election results, it looks likely that much of the residential property industry - which was strongly...