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The Guild of Property Professionals has given its backing to the concept of mystery shopping as a way of improving agents’...

The scale of rent rises has peaked with future increases likely to be smaller, says Zoopla. The portal’s latest report into the...

An insurance firm claims two thirds of people’s typical budgets are too low to afford the average UK rent of £634...

The average HMO is worth a third more than a comparably sized house according to new research. The typical HMO now costs...

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

Average rents in most regions of the UK have fallen slightly in the past month according to the latest HomeLet market...

Deposits have risen as much as 24 per cent in the past year in some parts of the UK - according...

New research has produced a series of league tables to identify where in Britain the best rental yields can be found. The...

If you want a barometer of a stable lettings market, this appears to be it - rents are now rising at...

The latest Your Move lettings index for England and Wales shows the average rent stagnating - rising just 0.5 per cent...

A new index for the lettings sector in England and Wales by PropTech company Goodlord gives a clean bill of health...

An online estate agency specialising in the sale of tenanted buy to let units has produced a league table of regional...

Some 18 per cent of properties let in the first half of 2018 were registered in the name of a company...

The Scottish rental market performed solidly in the last year, with the average rent rising by 0.6 per cent to hit...

Private rental sector tenants have spent the year so far working only to pay for their accommodation, the BBC claims.  The broadcaster...

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

New figures assembled by the Nationwide reveal precisely how much, on average, it costs to operate a privately rented property.    The numbers...

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

The proportion of private landlords in arrears is substantially under half the proportion of owner occupiers in the same position according...

A lettings agent has poured scorn on a survey suggesting a quarter of landlords are about to quit buy to let,...

Buy to let returns have exceeded those from the FTSE-100 with average gains of 9.6 per cent across England and Wales...

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