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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...