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London rents have started to fall again - just as every other region of Britain is showing significant annual increases. Figures for...

The rate of rental growth picked up for the sixth month running according to lettings agency Hamptons.  Across Great Britain rents rose 4.3...

The latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors study suggests tenant demand has increased over the past quarter but at a slowing...

The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and shifting tenant requirements are reinforcing the need for good broadband in the rental market...

The fall out from Coronavirus is forcing the rental market into a once in a lifetime change as tenants reassess priorities. This...

The rate of rental growth accelerated sharply in December according to Countrywide agency brand Hamptons. Its research department shows that over the...

Rental growth expectations remain “slightly positive” across most of the UK according to the latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors market...

There is mounting evidence that rental growth is picking up steam, according to the latest analysis by Countrywide brand Hamptons. Average rents...

The gap between typical City rents and Country rents is closing according to an analysis of Countrywide properties by the company’s...

It appears the much-hyped exodus of people from London to the country doesn’t apply to the rental market. Despite rents falling in...

Hamptons International has given a rental market forecast for 2021 - and it doesn’t make for happy reading. The agency says the rental...

New data from Zoopla shows that a two-speed rental market is operating across the UK, with London in particular hitting major...

New data from Hamptons International reveals that in June the average rent on a newly let property in Britain dipped 0.6...

Rents on renewed tenancies across Great Britain fell 1.6 per cent in May, the third consecutive monthly fall.   Data from Hamptons International...

Rents on renewed tenancies fell for the second month in a row according to data from Hamptons International.   In April the average...

Grainger, one of the biggest forces in the UK’s Build To Rent sector, says it has proved the resilience of the...

Private rents are expected to fall across the UK in the coming three months, but stabilise over the course of the...

Seven out of 10 tenancies that were due to end in March were renewed according to Hamptons International - the highest...

Demand for homes to rent has surged back by some 30 per cent in the two weeks to April 14 according...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors warns that rents are likely to stagnate for the rest of the year - although...

The average rent for a newly let property rose 3.3 per cent in the year to the end of February -...

Grainger, one of the biggest names in Build To Rent in the UK, says its current BTR pipeline stands at 24...

The prime London lettings market has returned to growth after three years of falling rents, according to new five-year forecasts from...

New investment in private rented housing has fallen since 2016 as some private landlords have dipped out of the sector in...

The average cost of a rental home in Great Britain rose to £999 pcm in December according to figures just released...

There’s been an upbeat prediction on the lettings market given by leading market commentator Lucian Cook, head of residential research at...

Knight Frank forecasts cumulative rental growth of 11 per cent in prime outer London and 10 per cent in prime central...

Rental growth in Great Britain picked up throughout 2019 according to Countrywide.   In an analysis of the market released under the name...

Richard Donnell, research director at Zoopla, is warning the government that future reform of the private rental sector must not jeopardise...

Once again the monthly market snapshot from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors reports a decline in the stock of rental...

There’s been an upbeat assessment of how the private rental sector will fare in the next five years from a leading...

The average rent of a newly let property in Great Britain rose to £999 pcm in October according to data from...

A trade body says the private rental sector is facing a major crisis - more landlords are selling properties than buying...

A co-founder of a room rental PropTech service says there’s no clear evidence yet that the fees ban introduced in April...

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

Countrywide’s monthly rental index - based on achieved rather than advertised rents on newly let properties - says the average rent...

Average UK rents continued to rise between July and September, but failed to keep up with inflation, according to The Deposit...

Two housing charities have called for the government to invest more in housing benefit so it rises in line with private...

Data from Countrywide estate agents analysed by Hamptons International reveals that the average rent of a newly-let property in the UK...

Rents have reached an all time high across the UK according to HomeLet. Its latest index says the average rent in the...

Rental growth continues to accelerate, reaching the highest level since April 2016 according to data from Hamptons International, part of Countrywide.   The...

Average rents performed strongly across many parts of the country last month, but floundered in London and the South East. Goodlord's Rental...

New research shows that some buy to let investors in London could typically lose over £19,000 a year if Berlin-style rent...

The average cost of a new let in Great Britain has risen to £977 per calendar month.  That’s a 2.6 per cent...

Average rents across the UK continue to rise ahead of the introduction of the Tenant Fees Act next month, according to...

The operations director of letting agency haart has told landlords not to 'stress too much' over Brexit. Paul Sloan says it's easy...

A slow rental market in London is weighing down on growth across the rest of the UK, according to the latest...

The average cost of a new let in Great Britain is now £969 pcm as rental growth continues to rise.  Data from Hamptons...

Rental growth remains in positive territory - just - but on average it’s still well below the general level of inflation...

A lettings agency that has analysed HMRC data says rental income for buy to let landlords has leaped 15 per cent...

Rental values in prime London show early signs of bottoming out, says Savills, with the annual rate of falls now at...

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

Private tenants in Britain in 2018 paid £59.1 billion on rent - that’s £1.9 billion less than in 2017 and the...

The latest index from specialist buy to let platform Landbay says the slowdown in London’s lettings market since the Brexit vote...

Knight Frank has given an upbeat snapshot of the lettings market in Prime Central London, based mostly on higher rental growth...

Landlords in London are possibly £1,806 worse off since the vote to leave the EU in June 2016, according to specialist...

Rent increases seen in London this year are likely to continue in 2019 because of the diminishing supply of homes to...

So-called ‘real rents’ - those adjusted for inflation - have fallen by 2.2 per cent since October 2008.   This means that the...

A survey by specialist lender Landbay reveals that tenants outside of London typically spend 33 per cent of their monthly pay,...

The Scottish private lettings sector is on the march again with the latest index suggesting a 2.2 per cent annual rise,...

The average rent in the UK increased by 0.13% last month - the highest level of monthly growth recorded since April...

The latest figures produced by Countrywide show a slow rise in rents across most of the country with the notable exception of...

Rents in the UK, excluding London, are still increasing but at their slowest rate for five years. Figures from specialist lender Landbay...

Rents in London rose by 0.1 per cent in the 12 months to June - it’s the first annual rental increase...

Rental growth in England, excluding London, was just 1.18 per cent over the last year, the slowest annual rate since April...

There are now five per cent fewer homes to let now than two years ago, says Countrywide in its rebranded Hamptons...

The average cost of a new let reached £951 per month in Great Britain in March - that’s up 1.7 per...

Rents in Scotland continue to grow but the rate is slowing according to the latest data from Your Move. The average rental...

Rightmove has revealed that the 10 year average growth in asking rents across London has been 25 per cent, and over...

Rents in the UK grew by an average, and tiny, 0.69 per cent in the year to the end of February,...

For the second month running, rental growth in London has outstripped the rest of the country according to data released today...

The average cost of renting a home is now rising across every UK region for the first time in almost two...

Rental growth across Great Britain picked up in 2017 according to data released today by Countrywide.   Last year rents rose by an...

Rents across the UK began to shrink for the first time in over half a decade toward the end of 2017,...

The annual rate of rental growth picked up in November, with the cost of a new let across Great Britain rising...

The rental market in Prime Central London has shown signs of recovery at the end of 2017, according to a new...

The annual rate of rental growth slowed between September and October according to Countrywide. The cost of the average new let in...

Rental growth is forecast to exceed house price growth in London, despite a glut of properties on the lettings market in...

The typical rent of a prime Home Counties property rose by 1.2 per cent in the third quarter of this year,...

Some 61 per cent of chartered surveyors believe there will be a net exodus of landlords over the coming year thanks...

Graduates sharing in London spend upwards of 45 per cent of their monthly take home pay on accommodation according to a...

The annual rate of rental growth across Britain doubled between June and July driven by a turnaround in the London market,...

Countrywide says that the average price of a new let in Britain rose by 1.1 per cent year-on-year in June 2017...

Countrywide says the rapid growth in the size of the private rental sector in recent years is not down to a...

The average rent of a new letting in the UK grew by 0.24 per cent in the first six months of...

Rented housing in London is at its least affordable levels for 10 years after typical rent rises of 47 per cent...

The weakness of the pound since Britain’s decision to quit the European Union a year ago means that holiday properties are...

The top ten buy-to-let postcodes in England and Wales are evenly split between locations that voted for the Conservatives or Labour. Luton...

The pace of decreasing rental values in Prime Central London (PCL) has slowed, according to the latest data from Knight Frank. Average...

Average UK rents fell in May, according to the latest HomeLet Rental Index. The figures show that the average UK rent on...

Rental growth in London remained relatively stable during the first quarter of 2017, according to Benham & Reeves Residential Lettings. The firm's...

The speed at which rents across are growing has more than halved since a three per cent stamp duty surcharge on second...

Countrywide says that last month the cost of a new let was 2.6 per cent higher than in the same month...

A buy to let mortgage lender claims that five out of six areas affected by the long-running spate of strikes on...

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

Figures from investment company London Central Portfolio suggest that re-lets of older properties to new tenants showed a fall in rents...

Asking rents rose 3.0 per cent outside of London in 2016 - but will rise 4.0 per cent in 2017. That’s the...

Rents across the UK grew by a modest 1.12 per cent in 2016 according to buy to let lender Landbay -...

The average London rent in November was 0.7 per cent lower than last year - not an enormous fall but nonetheless...

In an otherwise-downbeat set of predictions for 2017 and beyond, Savills says that rental growth is likely to outstrip sales price growth...

Rents are rising faster in northern cities than those in the south, narrowing the divide between the two halves of the...

The rate of rental growth has dipped to its lowest annual rate this year - prices are up three per cent...

The average rent for a one-bedroom property was £1,010 in August, according to the latest Landbay Rental Index. Between July and August,...

The average rent in England and Wales has reached an all-time high of £846 per month - a year-on-year increase of...

Countrywide’s latest lettings index shows rental growth slowing in every region of Britain because of a glut of homes coming to...

Rents for individual rooms to let are rising fastest in Swansea, Bradford, Portsmouth and Swindon, with all of these locations seeing...

Letting agencies Your Move and Reeds Rains claim rents have started to drop in many areas following the arrival of a...

Average rents for single rooms across the UK increased at a faster rate than those in London, according to spareroom.co.uk. The rental...

The average rent paid by private tenants across Great Britain increased by 2.6% in the twelve months to April 2016, according...

Annual rent rises in Scotland hit a three-year low in April, according to new figures. Your Move's Scotland Buy-to-Let Index shows that...

Average rents are now rising at the fastest rate since last Autumn, bringing the average monthly rent in England and Wales...

Landlords predict that one-bedroom flats will be the property type to increase most in value over the next year.  Meanwhile, two-bedroom flats...

A buy to let investment search portal has produced an interactive map based on a pull-together of research into the lettings market...

Countrywide says £28 billion worth of home sales were completed in March ahead of the stamp duty surcharge deadline, a 76...

The number of tenancies signed by a single tenant has fallen, according to the latest HomeLet Rental Index. Last year, tenants living...

In the last year 12% of lets were agreed at more than the initial asking price, according to the latest figures...

Countrywide says average rents across the UK are now at their highest-ever levels, some 12 per cent above their pre-recession peak.  This...

Rents in Greater London for new tenancies are rising at the slowest rate for almost two years.  Data from HomeLet shows rents...

Typical rents in Scotland are down from £757 per month to £747 according to Citylets - just as the Private Housing...

Britain's largest letting agency says rents grew by an average of 3.1 per cent in 2015, taking the average monthly rent...

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

JLL is forecasting that average rents across the UK will rise by 4.5 per cent next year, followed by a 4.0...

Average rents have risen for 10 months in a row according to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors - and there's...

Rightmove says rents across England and Wales, outside London, are up 1.3 per cent in the past three months according to...

Rents across England and Wales have dipped by 0.1 per cent and now stand at an average of £803 per month. Annual...

The average rent in Scotland has plateaued, remaining at an all-time record high of £549 a month, according to Your Move's...

An industry study reports that the average tenancy length is now almost three years. Property consultancy firm Allsop’s fifth annual Rent Check...

Average Scottish rents recorded in April increased by 1.6% in a year, according to Your Move’s latest Scottish Rental Index.  This is...