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The Shepherd’s Bush office has the largest lettings portfolio of all the Winkworth offices across the capital - and now it...

John D Wood & Co has celebrated a major anniversary by opening its new headquarters in Belgravia. It’s 150 years ago since...

A prominent lettings industry supplier has asked whether the earlier-than-expected arrival of the rental reform white paper was a distraction from...

New research by Savills suggests that on-street car parking could increase both the capital values and rental potential of properties. The agency...

A specialist rental platform says its research shows a growing number of people intentionally renting long-term. Ocasa says the reason is the...

Activists are calling on the government to impose swingeing taxes on some lettings properties “to bring them back into the residential...

Labour’s Sadiq Khan wants an increase in Capital Gains Tax for some buy to let investors. The London Mayor made his response...

A Conservative MP is suggesting that there could be a ’25 mile limit’ imposed around certain rental properties to ensure they...

The government has released more details of the powers being given to local authorities to levy additional taxes on second homes.  The...

Leaks from government ahead of this morning’s Queen’s Speech suggest that second homes which are not let out are likely to...

The new material information requirements recently announced by the National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agency Team will be the topic...

A property ownership and management company has been fined £20,000 for failing to carry out safety and fire safety improvement works...

A new investment league table has been drawn up to show best aggregate rent and capital appreciation income for those in...

A new analysis of prospective first time buyers suggests that the cost of their initial deposit has soared in the past...

Homes headed by a person over the age of 45 will account for at least half of all privately renting households...

The activist group Acorn is lobbying a local council to deny people the right to buy a second home or let...

New data suggests a quarter of tenants up to their late 30s have typically moved home no fewer than 10 times...

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

A large majority of private renters are happy with their properties, status and their landlords according to a new survey. A report...

A PropTech supplier to the lettings industry that has just signed a deal with OnTheMarket has come out in support of...

Lettings agency Galbraith reports that landlords are now returning to the residential lets sector from holiday lets after several years without...

The increasingly shrill anti-landlord rhetoric from some politicians is making it harder for tenants, claims a leading industry spokesman. John Blackwood, chief...

The UK’s rental market is now the world’s fourth largest by total volumes of privately rented properties according to research from...

New research commissioned by the landlords’ trade body shows that the UK needs almost 230,000 new private rented homes a year...

Figures obtained by ITV News suggest that one of the country's most popular tourist locations has as many Airbnbs listed as...

The government’s new Levelling Up White Paper, revealed this morning, includes a radical reshaping of the private rental sector. Section 21 eviction...

Politicians who express concern over the number of holiday lets and Airbnbs in tourist areas miss one major point - if...

The Liberal Democrats have proposed sharp restrictions on holiday rentals at the heart of the party’s plans to solve the housing...

An agency has made its third acquisition in recent years - this time snapping up a town’s longest established lettings agency. Whitegates...

One of the country’s oldest agencies may be under new ownership soon. The fast-expanding Lomond Group - which just last week announced...

The trade body representing Airbnb and other short let providers and sector suppliers says the short let industry is best placed...

Only 15 per cent of adults are confident the housing crisis will be resolved in their lifetime. New research among 2,000 individuals...

A think tank says it would take a major policy change to fulfil Boris Johnson’s goal to turn generation rent into...

‘Generation rent’ was a term first coined in 2011 by the Halifax in a survey on the future of homeownership. It...

A prominent consultancy advising the Build To Rent sector has identified one British city as the prime location for investment in 2022. BNP...

A scam in one city has reportedly seen scores of individuals robbed of thousands of pounds as short lets have been...

A leading agent and member of the Propertymark board says London’s letting agencies and private rental sector need government help -...

A new call has come for government action to stop the hemorrhage of properties shifting from long term rental to Airbnb...

A prominent industry supplier is warning the government not to damage the private rental sector in its push to promote ever-more...

A branch of national lettings agency Martin & Co is under new ownership. Landlord and property developer Grant Simpson has purchased the...

Pressure is growing to amend the 2019 Tenant Fees Act to allow charging additional deposits and insurance to cover pets in private rental...

A council has written to Housing Minister Chris Pincher calling for a new approach to the short lets issue. Oxford council leader...

New data from Rightmove shows that demand for pet friendly rental properties has increased by 120 per cent compared to last...

A petition has been launched on the Channel Island of Jersey to prevent agents and landlords banning pets from the local...

Propertymark has joined four so-called ‘action groups’ advocating housing policy changes including the setting up of a national landlord register and...

A letter from a tenant’s union is demanding that a Labour councillor “publicly explain” his actions as an accountant advising investors...

A town with one of the UK’s heaviest concentrations of holiday homes is clamping down on future purchases by outsiders who...

The Dogs Trust campaign ‘lets with pets’ states: “Landlords and letting agencies who exclude pet owners from their properties are missing out...

The narrative from some activists and pressure groups is that private renting is some kind of ordeal endured by those who...

Cornish MPs have spoken up in the House of Commons to highlight what they claim is the danger of having too...

A leading banking and wealth management company says a growth area for the rental sector in the years to come will...

Many letting agents fail to conduct the obligatory identity checks on landlord clients according to an industry supplier. Blinc UK says that...

A Build To Rent operator say it is promoting the concept of private tenants being allowed pets - and it takes a...

Affordable homes provider Auxesia Homes has appointed residential management firm Touchstone to handle its entire mixed tenure portfolio.  Auxesia offers affordable shared...

A leading veterinary body - the National Office of Animal Health, or NOAH - wants pets to be allowed in private rental...

Momentum is building to have the Tenant Fees Act amended, allowing agents to charge tenants for damage insurance which would then...

Campaigning charity Shelter has criticised Chancellor Rishi Sunak for allegedly leaving “far more people on the brink of homelessness than homeownership.”  Chief...

A report in the Financial Times over the weekend suggests that Lloyds Bank is poised to become a major residential landlord,...

A new survey suggests only a small minority of landlords use agents to partly or wholly manage their portfolios. The survey, by...

Lettings agents are being told by an online platform to be extra-vigilant as increasing numbers of student tenants are getting pets. The...

It’s been reported that a London council is considering spending £10m on purchasing 25 former council homes it previously sold off...

London’s mass transit service, Transport for London, has won consent for 853 homes at a huge scheme in the west of the...

January 29th is the date set for MPs to hold the Second Reading of a Private Members’ Bill aimed at the...

A property entrepreneur critical of the quality of traditional buy to let says the government should create a Minister for Renting...

The private rental sector should embrace the idea of tenants with pets and not object to the prospect. That’s the view of...

Letting agents and landlords have faced huge change and uncertainty this year, with Covid-19 the major driver. But even before the...

Several pet charities are supporting an attempt by an MP to reform lettings regulations to permit more pets in private rental...

John Lewis Partnership, until now best known for its department stores and ownership of Waitrose, is to build homes for rent. The...

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

Government intervention, which in recent years has seen scores of legal and regulatory changes to the private rental sector, may be...

A new report demands that online rental platforms and portals allowing direct advertising by clients do more to deter fake landlords...

A high profile former estate agent who was a major figure on the London sales market for over three decades has...

A survey by The Tenancy Deposit Service suggests that half of landlords have experienced damage to their rental properties by pets.  And...

The typical rent for a London property makes it “the undefeated number one most expensive city in Europe” despite increases slowing...

The Budget has failed tenants by doing nothing to increase the supply of private rental property according to two lettings sector...

A pet care company claims that millions of private renters are being denied the benefits of pet ownership because of landlords...

Nearly four out of 10 landlords believe that tenant demand will rise this year, according to a study by high-profile buy...

A trade group’s submission to the Treasury ahead of next month’s Budget includes a call for the new Chancellor to slash...

An analysis of HMRC data reveals that the number of small buy-to-let landlords has dropped for the first time in five...

Home ownership is increasingly out of reach for British consumers, who say the market has become expensive and inaccessible and that...

An accountancy trade body is warning of another possible tax hike to hit the lettings industry. The Association of Accounting Technicians is...

A new lettings platform claims it can help existing agents and staff working for companies quit and fulfil their dream of...

It’s here - the Fifth EU Money Laundering Directive comes into force today with significant challenges and implications for letting agents. The...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents says it will be issuing resources to support for lettings agents in the coming days...

Owners of buy to let properties across the UK could be entitled to compensation due to onerous ground rent charges according...

Higher housing costs - including private sector rents - have reduced incomes and increased inequality as the poorest families have borne...

Around 40 per cent of tenants currently in the private rental sector believe they will never be able to buy their...

A collective of activist renter groups has set out a manifesto of what it wants from the winner of next month’s...

The owner of a house believed to be occupied by multiple tenants has been prosecuted by a Kent council for failing...

Rent controls similar to those demanded by Labour in London and other major cities in the UK do not work, and...

Most landlords are wary of the potential damage, smells and noise complaints that can come with accommodating a tenant with pets....

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

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

The Nationwide is investing in a digital lettings service called Bunk - it’s headed by a 24 year old who has...

A landlord who failed to provide information regarding a buy to let property has been fined £2,080.  Tenants contacted Colchester council in...

A PropTech lettings platform is claiming to be valued at over £2.8m. Inadash describes itself as an “on-demand marketplace” which via an...

With the recent introduction of the Tenant Fees Act – which bans upfront fees charged by letting agents and caps security...

Private tenants are being disadvantaged because of the government’s focus on boosting homeownership. According to the latest figures from the Royal Institution...

Legal & General, one of the largest specialist builders of so-called retirement communities for the over-55s, is now going to let...

While we wouldn’t be so bold as to say the government gets its daily fix of property news from the Today...

A European law firm has set out a critique of the driving forces behind Build To Rent - and it says...

There’s been a dramatic 37 per cent rise in rental instructions for prime properties in the capital during the first quarter...

A property management chief is arguing that rent controls would restrict mortgage loans to buy to let investors and drive existing...

A buy to let investor has been left with a £2,000 bill and a criminal conviction after letting out his property...

A new survey suggests that long-term renting could be substantially less expensive than a mortgage. The study, for Ocean Finance, has analysed...

The JLL lettings agency is warning that the five week deposit cap enshrined in the Tenant Fees Act is likely to...

A new study claims one in three Britons would be happy renting for the rest of their lives - but the...

Momentum is building in the campaign to end ‘No DSS’ discrimination against private rental sector tenants in receipt of housing benefit. Late...

Connells-owned Gascoigne Halman - the agency at the centre of the long-running legal dispute with OnTheMarket - has acquired the Rowcliffes...

Ambitious regional chain Linley & Simpson has opened a new branch in the Yorkshire market town of Pudsey after snapping up...

LSL Property Services has acquired LetCo Homes, a lettings and property management specialist based at Whiteley in Hampshire.  LetCo, which operated chiefly...

Home ownership rates for families aged 25 to 34 are rising for the first time in 30 years but high barriers...

Online lettings platform HomeRenter says its property listings are now more detailed and more compelling thanks to a new ‘property creation flow’...

Research by franchise lettings agency company Belvoir suggests that landlords are continuing to exit the property market, although not at the...

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

An advertisement on a property management firm’s website suggesting that rental income would be guaranteed to landlords has been banned by...

A growing number of tenants say they want to stay put in their rented home even if the landlord sells up. A...

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

HomeLet says the average rent in the UK is now £947, up 0.9 per cent on last year - or up...

Barbon Insurance Group, which trades as HomeLet and Rentshield Direct, has now snapped up Movem. Movem uses personal online banking transaction data...

In our previous 2 blogs we have covered the definitions of the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations (CPRs) and what...

In our previous blog, we looked at the definitions outlined by the CPRs. In our next blog we’ll look at the...

In 2014 The Properties Misdescriptions Act was repealed and replaced with the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations, otherwise known as...

The Money Laundering Regulations 2017 require estate agents to risk assess their business relationships and apply an appropriate level of investigation...

The mystery surrounding a lettings and estate agency on the island of Guernsey offers an insight into a system where companies...

The ownership of buy to let property is much more evenly split between women and men than amongst other forms of...

The government has outlined increases in powers it wants to give social housing tenants - but no details of increases in social housing building. The...

A third of tenants are happy to rent long-term and have no plans to purchase a property in the future, new...

The Money Laundering Regulations 2017 require estate agents to risk assess their business relationships and apply an appropriate level of investigation...

A rental sector supplier claims huge numbers of tenants are extremely ignorant of the health and safety issues surrounding their rental...

There’s been a significant rise in the number of fixed-rate buy to let mortgages available to limited companies, says independent mortgage...

Belvoir has published what it calls ‘a decade of data’ tracking the changes in the private rental sector since 2008, when...

An influential think tank is calling on government to radically reform the private rental sector because a generation of young people...

Franchise agency Redstones, which has 13 offices across the Midlands, has acquired student letting company Housemates. Redstones, now one of the largest...

Countrywide has announced that Dan Channer - a well-known figure in the lettings industry generally, and managing director of Oxford-based Finders...

Another property crowdfunding investment product has been launched, aiming to offer investors an alternative to the increasingly regulated and taxed buy...

The average rental household in London has 2.1 rent-paying tenants, each paying £775 per month, equating to an average property rent...

Belvoir has announced what it calls “a significant acquisition” by one of its franchisees, which is set to add almost £1m...

A trade group says diminishing rates of home ownership amongst younger people shows the need to have a thriving private rental...

The Treasury has confirmed to Letting Agent Today that the ban on credit card surcharges which came into effect in recent...

New research claims that as many as 78 per cent of young adults aged 18 to 30 fear they will never...

A leasehold campaigner has called on the Queen to end her support for what he calls the UK's “feudal leasehold system” by changing the...

Over two thirds of landlords are reluctant to invest in new properties as a result of the stamp duty surcharge on...

A leading accountancy and business advice consultancy says residential landlords who want to downsize their portfolios because of recent tax changes...

A tenant survey conducted by an online letting agent suggests that almost nine out of 10 tenants are not currently looking...

Belvoir is reporting a record year for franchise license renewals in 2017 with 34 offices across the country celebrating a collective...

The National Landlords Association (NLA) has agreed a partnership with property marketplace TheHouseShop. The website is now one of the NLA's recognised...

The proportion of households living in the Private Rented Sector (PRS) will rise to 24% over the next four years, according...

In a blog which appears - perhaps surprisingly - to be supportive of Theresa May’s General Election manifesto, campaigning charity Shelter...

The Labour Party has published its full manifesto for the upcoming General Election on June 8.  Titled 'For the many not the...

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...

The Conservatives should introduce rent controls to kick-start a seaside town renaissance, suggests an organisation set up originally by the David Cameron...

A landlord has set up a company to handle the ownership and management of buy to let properties - and the...

A new study of landlords reveals that far more believe they will be affected by today’s buy to let mortgage interest...

Analysis of the government's latest English Housing Survey figures shows that there’s been a further decline in the home ownership rate...

  Renters are spending half their wages keeping a roof over their head, are twice as likely as homeowners to have no...

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

Government leaks to the Observer newspaper suggest that the Housing White Paper will show a huge policy shift towards renting - and may...

Why not drive one of the most powerful, beautiful, and sensational supercars available on the planet today, and at a price...

The Residential Landlords Association has been quick off the mark to issue what it calls a seven point wish list to...

  An attempt is underway to resuscitate the Green Deal which many buy to let and other residential property investors used to...

The Resolution Foundation, a think tank, claims that home ownership is far lower than is widely believed to be the case...

New research suggests the UK is on the brink of a large-scale, commercially developed, owned and operated Build To Rent sector. A...

A leading mortgage industry spokesman says he hopes Theresa May's "more balanced approach" to housing policy will trigger government support for...

In its latest bid to push Chancellor Phillip Hammond to back down on buy to let tax changes, the Residential Landlords...

A London council has set up a system to allow council tenants to buy into a shared ownership scheme which it...

The government must urgently deliver 1.8m new rental homes as new figures from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors reveal a...

The chairman of the Residential Landlords’ Association has restated how he sees the private rental sector could help solve the country’s...

Kevin Hollinrake - the founder of franchise agency Hunters and now a Conservative MP - is calling for a cut in...

No fewer than 86 per cent of renters - the equivalent of over six million households - have less than a...

Much publicity has been given to the Resolution Foundation’s report into falling home ownership - but the flip side is that...

The long-term aspiration of most Britons to own their home has not been deterred by the Brexit vote, according to the...

A consumer group dedicated to reducing tax says recent fiscal changes introduced by the government will end up hurting private rental...

The combination of falling home ownership and rising costs in the private rented sector mean that today’s younger generation will have...

Speculation is mounting that other European cities including London could follow the example of Berlin in effectively banning short-lets through online...

Two professional property investors are giving away a Manchester flat valued at £110,000 in a protest against Chancellor George Osborne’s attacks...

Two of the industry’s biggest estate agency groups have selected the same firm to provide their legal services.  Hillyer McKeown has been...

Almost all landlords are considering increasing rents to pay for the higher taxes they now face. According to a survey by the...

A private landlord aged 72 must pay £4,800 after pleading guilty to 11 offences of breaching the Licensing and Management of...

The gap between average incomes and the pay of tenants who want to buy their first property has reached a post-recession...

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

A new report from the independent Social Market Foundation think tank has found that almost two million more people have been...

The housing ladder is disappearing for most young working households on modest incomes who are obliged to rent for the indefinite...

The government’s initiatives to try to increase house building and owner occupation will not stop demand for rented homes rising by...

Prime Minister David Cameron has dismissed out of hand appeals and comments from Letting Agent Today readers to reconsider the recent...

A third of private tenants have put their plans to buy on hold and have stayed in rented accommodation longer than...

Rents are set to sky-rocket by 27 per cent in the next decade according to research commissioned by the Association of...

The rural agency team at Bidwells says it is concerned the Conservative government may - by accident or design - be...

A new survey of mortgage approvals suggests first time buyers are continuing to lose out - and are thus likely to...

- From April 2016 buy to let landlords and people buying second or holiday homes will have to pay an additional...

George Osborne has announced a shock additional 3.0 per cent stamp duty on second homes and buy to let properties. Details are...

The head of a landlords’ association has warned the Conservative government not to demonise buy to let investors who typically have...

The National Apartment Association, the organisation that represents the Build To Rent sector in the US, has just hosted a UK...

Savills says mainstream UK rents are likely to rise by an average of 16.5 per cent by the end of 2020...

The struggling London sales market is provoking a boom in the capital’s rental sector according to data from Benham & Reeves...

A London letting agency says a huge rise in the number of tenants with dogs, combined with a lack of supply...

As the Conservative Party conference continues, a leading Tory has warned that "there is much further to go" on removing buy...

Generation Rent - the campaign group that needs £60,000 to continue operating beyond the end of August - has renewed its...

Competition is hot among home buyers in my part of southern England to take ownership of properties that come onto the...

There has been no let-up in the anger expressed by sections of the buy to let sector after Chancellor George Osborne...

The appetite of investors for trying relatively untested projects remains undiminished with news that a buy-to-let property recently sold out on...

This week will see whether Chancellor George Osborne will give in to calls to close some of the tax breaks given...

When do we really start to worry about rising rents and house prices? Despite an apparent slowdown in house price inflation...

Given that I wrote my last article on the day of the General Election but well before the result was known,...

A £212,900 property in Surrey which was advertising on a crowdfunding platform at 3pm was fully funded by 3.35pm, it is...

The National Landlords Association says it is to lobby Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne on private rental sector tax issues...

A landlord in Coventry has been handed a £3,350 fine after a house in multiple occupation under his ownership was found...

I write this article on the day of the General Election so you’ll forgive the political analogies. In particular, how any...

Labour’s onslaught on the private rental sector continues, with the party now setting out how it will implement its rent controls...

“More than 1 in 3 agreed property deals in England & Wales fall through… Gazeal is a new system for property sales,...