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Online rental platform Lettingaproperty is telling landlords to take a strategic approach to property management in 2024, to help navigate legislative...

PropTech rental platform  Goodlord has partnered with an open banking platform to enhance its tenant referencing service. Goodlord, which first integrated open...

An online rental platform warns the average rent bill could reach as much as £2,270/month if prices rise in line with...

PropTech operator Lettingaproperty has won £750,000 to build a new rental platform of landlords and tenants. The cash boost, from the MEIF...

New figures indicate the ongoing growth of buy to let. Analysing data on additional property purchases made in the financial year 2020/21,...

The boss of a PropTech rental platform claims that tenants are particularly badly hit by the current cost of living crisis. Research...

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

There’s been a big rise in the number of private rental properties on the past decade, despite sweeping tax and regulation...

The man behind the Ideal Flatmate rental platform has now set up a Build To Rent portal called Your Place. All properties...

Crossrail rental values have climbed by 15 per cent on average in the last year alone - before this week’s opening...

New figures show that post-pandemic rental prices are on the rise across the majority of the capital but that some rents...

Rental affordability is deteriorating in parts of England. The research by rental platform Rentd looked at the current average income of a...

A lettings platform set up 18 months ago but under-the-radar until now claims to be the world’s first for women only...

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

With the steady introduction of rental platforms and apps designed to bypass letting agents and property managers in the tenancy process,...

A platform that says it wants to help reduce letting agents’ reliance on traditional portals such as Rightmove and Zoopla has...

A rental platform has revealed the wide disparity in rents to the north and south of the Thames in London, and...

‘Room wanted’ ads are currently outnumbering ads for ‘rooms available’ on flatshare site SpareRoom for only the third time in six...

OnTheMarket has signed a 12 month exclusive commercial partnership with Canopy, the tenant referencing platform. The partnership will enable the portal to...

PropTech start up Halo claims that what it calls a new “tenant engagement platform” will streamlines the rental onboarding process. The firm...

A new rentals platform claims to have signed up 150 London agencies prior to launch this spring. Findingaplace says it has signed up...

A survey of private rental sectors in major European cities suggests London is one of the tougher locations for tenants working...

HousingAnywhere, a rental platform specialising in accommodation for young professionals and students, has raised some €24m for further expansion. The service covers some UK...

London’s lettings market may never return to its pre-pandemic appearance according to a flat-sharing rental platform. SpareRoom says 49 per cent of...

Rental operators specialising in short lets are signing up to a tracking study to assess the sector’s size and significance.  The exercise...

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

Rents are higher for Londoners living near busy high streets - for the moment at least.  Research by rental platform Spotahome has...

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

The volume of UK home-hunters searching for pet-friendly rental properties has jumped since the start of lockdown, according to a rental platform. Searches for homes...

A short-lets rental platform says it has evidence to show that nights booked in April are down 90 per cent compared...

Rental platform Canopy, which allows tenants to rent without a deposit, has announced a new partnership which will allow agents and...

A London-focused PropTech startup has just won another £7m in funding. Residently manages houses and flats for landlords, letting them directly to...

A rental platform says it welcomes government plans to overhaul redress for tenants and others in the housing system but it...

Five homeless people will have a roof over their heads this Christmas thanks to a kind-hearted PropTech chief. Mike Georgeson, founder of...

Rental platform Goodlord - which in January made around 40 staff redundant in a restructuring move - has now announced that...

A new online rental platform claims that landlords could save enough to afford an additional holiday this year if they signed...

Could this happen here? Airbnb, the hugely successful online rental platform, has linked with a US property portal to give prospective...