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

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

High-end lettings agency Knight Frank is predicting that £75 billion of investment will be committed to the Build To Rent sector...

Rent controls of the kind which London mayor Sadiq Khan wishes to introduce will worsen what is already a huge exodus...

The latest rental market snapshot from YourMove suggests that typical rents rose 1.8 per cent across England and Wales in the...

A leading PropTech entrepreneur says letting agents must provide value for their landlord clients through technology, transparency and service if they...

The number of landlords exiting the market in the East of England is 100 per cent higher than the national average...

Rents are likely to rise 2.5 per cent in 2019, then 3.0 per cent in 2020 and a further 2.0 per...

One of London’s most respected independent lettings agencies has given a hugely upbeat report on the capital’s lettings market performance throughout...

Agents and landlords have united against what is being seen as the latest attack on the private rental sector by the...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has put together a brief summary of the 2018 rental market. In figures, the supply of...

Online lettings agency Upad says it’s to offer landlords a proprietary system to collect rental payments via Direct Debit. Its system, called...

The average rent across Scotland is now running at £573 per calendar month - but that figure hides wide variations in...

New figures show why the rental market is seeing such strong demand. The data shows that some 28 per cent of Britons...

Rents are rising very gently across almost all of England and Wales with only London and East Anglia showing falls in...

Manchester’s rental market is rising higher than in any other UK city according to property consultancy Cushman & Wakefield.  Rents were up...

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

The LonRes data consultancy says the lettings market in prime areas of the capital is now characterised by increasing rents and...

Figures drawn up for the London region of the GMB union claim that across the capital’s 33 boroughs private rents have...

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

The party conferences of the two main political parties threw up some interesting developments with regards to housing and the rental...

Buy to let investors in England and Wales who own particularly cold homes are being targeted by new regulations. Since April this...

Some broadly good news to end the week - rents are predicted to grow 13.7 per cent in the next five...

New figures show that the Scottish rental market returned to growth in September with average growth of 0.1 per cent across...

One of London’s most respected lettings agencies says it’s recorded its best-ever quarter for business - defying claims from some that...

A new quarterly overview of the UK lettings sector reveals three key trends: viewings are rising and more tenancies are being...

A major property platform says London’s rental and sales market may well be on the road to recovery - but that...

Two new PropTech services launched, targeting the lettings industry. Tenancy referencing firm FCC Paragon has launched MyMoveIn, an online platform that supports...

The latest rental figures produced by Your Move for Scotland have prompted a claim that the country now has better yields...

The number of available properties to rent is falling at an alarming rate, particularly in Greater London, according to property platform...

A new study shows that 43 per cent of tenants want the system of private rental deposits to be dropped and...

A gloomy report from The Deposit Protection Service says the UK’s rental market is in recession for the first time since...

The lettings director at Urban, the online agency recently snapped up by Emoov, says the rental market is faced with significant...

The rental market is being warned of the dangers from unsafe gas and electricity supplies caused by meter-tampering.  Research undertaken by the Grosvenor...

The chief executive of mydeposits has hit back at a Which? report calling for reform - or possibly even replacement -...

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

Rent rises in the private rental sector have merely tracked inflation and the Retail Price Index over the past five years...

It’s a conundrum for many, especially those moving to the capital...but portal OnTheMarket claims it knows exactly where it is cheapest...

Connells Group says a growing number of small-scale landlords are likely to quit because of the tax and regulation red tape...

Buy to let is still an attractive investment compared to other asset classes but to make the best of the opportunity...

One of London’s leading letting agencies says in the current neutral rental market, buy to let owners must work hard to...

The latest LendInvest buy to let report, which ranks 105 postcode areas around England and Wales based on a combination of...

The pressure group Generation Rent has joined forces with other critics of the private rental sector to demand an end to...

Buy to let landlords are welcoming proposals being considered by the government to provide financial incentives for those offering longer tenancies. In...

A new analysis of rental yields across all of the UK’s local authorities has revealed exactly where the best places are for...

A PropTech company chief is backing the controversial idea of spot checks on private rental sector properties in a bid to...

Property expert Kate Faulkner says the massive surge in new regulations, legislation and fiscal measures aimed at the private rental sector...

The chief executive of franchise giant Belvoir says government interference in the lettings sector will be to blame for higher rent...

A PropTech firm has analysed London’s rental market and its results again spell bad news for those in the sector in...

The Nationwide has bucked the trend of many industry organisations by insisting that the private rental market is still in good...

A lettings agency that started life as an idea between two friends 15 years ago is now celebrating managing over £100m...

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

A rental market survey conducted for The Deposit Protection Service claims the average rent has fallen in the UK for the...

The lettings market remains steady with demand roughly unchanged in March compared to the previous month according to the latest figures...

The JLL lettings team says it is now seeing competitive bidding now taking place on a number of developments in central London. The firm...

A new survey appears to buck the trend of recent rental market snapshots by showing that buy to let investors are...

Rents have risen a negligible 0.9 per cent across the UK in the last 12 months according to HomeLet. The average monthly...

Build To Rent operator and long-term volume landlord organisation Grainger says it is pioneering five-year leases “in a bid to overhaul...

Foxtons is warning that the private rental sector - traditionally a strong earner for the company even in times of challenging...

Lavanda, a platform for short-lets backed by Purplebricks’ co-founder Kenny Bruce, says it is to roll-out across the UK from later...

Tax increases on the rental sector are leaving young people unable to access the homes they need, an industry body claims. The...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is reminding its members to tell landlord clients that they have only a month to...

Build To Rent developer and operator PLATFORM_ has announced its first scheme in Scotland and an expansion of an existing development...

A range of factors - including fierce competition under the supplied housing market, rising property prices and political uncertainty – have...

Liverpool and Nottingham are the UK’s best performing property investment locations, according to mortgage broker Private Finance.  Both cities enjoy average rental...

The government has been accused by a lettings sector trade body of skewing the market to encourage more short-lets.  The claim comes...

The head of franchise giant Belvoir says government interference in the rental sector is likely to result in a rise in...

Lettings agency Haart says the government should go much further than the legislation it is supporting giving tenants the right to...

Last year saw a significant drop in the number of homes bought by landlords according to data released this morning by...

The government is being criticised for its latest consultation exercise on the new Minimum Energy Efficient Standards - because it ends...

Foxtons insists the London rental market may now be in recovery mode with 9.2 prospective tenants per property registered in the third...

Some 70 per cent of letting agents expect taxes on the rental sector to rise further next year according to research...

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

Countrywide says one in every 12 homes that came on to the rental market in 2017 was for sale at some...

A senior housing official at Bristol city council says the increasing popularity of Airbnb has had the effect of taking “hundreds”...

The Scottish rental market continued to perform strongly in the year to the end of October with the average property let for £572 on...

Rental prices in most areas of England and Wales have grown over the past 12 months with the East of England...

The industry is awaiting details of the latest government consultation concerning the private rental sector which will consider longer tenancies. The consultation...

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

A leading legal expert specialising in the private rental market says the sector should set up basic procedures to protect against...

What is believed to be the first-ever study of Airbnb’s effects on house prices - not just rents - suggests the...

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

Countrywide says a record 64,672 tenants left London over the last 12 months with an unusually-high proportion going on to rent elsewhere. Some...

The rental market in parts of prime central London is becoming increasingly dominated by well-funded overseas students, according to a leading...

The private rental sector in Wales is at risk of contracting next year, warns the Residential Landlords’ Association.   RLA Wales policy officer...

One in 20 lettings properties breach minimum standards set to come into force next April, according to a survey for an insurance...

A series of free legal events for letting agents and landlords is to launch this month with an advisory session on...

Yields from buy to let in the UK are now amongst the worst in Europe according to a new league table drawn...

As applications from EU students to UK universities fall for the first time in six years, an over-supply of purpose-built student...

A report into the Scottish rental market by Your Move says letting agents north of the border are already preparing for...

SDL Group - owner of the UK franchise for Century 21 lettings and estate agency branches - has been named as the...

The number of letting agents who saw landlords increasing rent costs for tenants remained at 31 per cent in July -...

More landlords are quitting conventional letting and resorting to holiday lets or, increasingly, Airbnb-style short lets.    The move is particularly acute in...

The average UK private rental tenancy is now 20 months, almost a fifth longer than in 2014 according to research from...

Foxtons reports that average rents continued to fall across many parts of the capital in the second quarter of this year,...

The agent behind London’s newest letting opportunity says it’s the most luxurious property in the capital’s most presigious neighbourhood - and...

Rents are gently rising again after some months of small dips according to HomeLet.    It says the average new tenancy signed during...

Prime central London is seeing the rise of the micro-apartment, according to new research, as squeezed accommodation budgets have seen singles...

A new app called UrbanCo is launched today in London as part of a buying agent-style service aimed at busy would-be renters.    A...

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

Rents fell in June by 0.3 per cent when compared to the same time last year, the second successive month in...

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

An alternative to traditional deposits, already tested in the German rental market, is now being introduced into the UK - and...

The UK rental market has seen a slump of 11.6 per cent in available stock over the last six years, according...

New research shows that thousands of landlords are using what are described as “risky online sites” in their bid to avoid...

A PropTech company claims its new software platform will make it easier for letting agents and property managers to co-ordinate maintenance...

Retired tenants are becoming a larger part of the rental market, according to the UK's largest letting agency. Countrywide reports that pensioners...

Letting agents and property managers will soon have a new way to coordinate maintenance reports and inspections, thanks to a refreshing...

The production company behind Grand Designs and Escape to the Country is looking for landlords to feature in a new BBC...

The average tenancy deposit for England and Wales is just below £1,000 according to the Deposit Protection Service’s figures for the...

Conservative peer Lord Flight, a former shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, says the UK needs “a vibrant and growing private...

An analysis by investment specialists London Central Portfolio reveals that in areas of central London swamped with new builds coming to...

New research shows that the image of tenants with fractious relationships with their letting agents or landlords is generally untrue. No fewer than...

The Liberal Democrats want a raft of additional controls on the private rented sector aimed at addressing what it describes as...

Spark Energy - the specialist energy supplier to the UK lettings sector - has announced the acquisition of broadband firm Home...

A study of over 3,000 tenants has found that an increasing number of renters are 'very happy' with their living situation. LSL...

A Liberal Democrat spokesman has used a lettings sector trade body website to outline his party’s support for a range of...

The average rent in England and Wales is now £800 per month according to latest statistics from Your Move.   The area with...

Scotland’s rental market swings to extremes, suggests the latest figures from website Citylets.   On the one hand the Scottish average rent has...

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

Steve Bolton, founder of investment consultancy Platinum Property Partners and one of two landlords who have led a campaign against restricting...

Tax rises for landlords being introduced today will make renting less affordable and stifle investment in homes to rent, making it...

What does it say on your business card? Luke Burton Sales and Marketing Director, Rent4sure Who is Rent4sure? Rent4sure, is an established tenant referencing company. We provide...

Housing minister Gavin Barwell has confirmed that consultation on the government’s proposed ban on letting agency fees levied on tenants in...

New lettings data from Agency Express supports the belief that the rental market may be slowing down across much of the...

The number of new landlords instructing agents is at its lowest for two years - and with worse to come thanks...

As the industry awaits the delivery of today's Spring Budget, the National Approved Letting Scheme (NALS) has called on the government...

New figures from Your Move suggest the rental market performed strongly across England and Wales, with rents rising in eight of...

L&G, one of the biggest firms involved in Britain’s Built To Rent sector, has named the agency it is appointing to...

The latest data from Agency Express shows what the board company describes as “a robust start to 2017” as the rental...

Countrywide claims that the proportion of landlords paying in cash for a property reached 61 per cent in January, the highest...

Agents and many industry bodies have expressed their disappointment and anger at many provisions of the Housing White Paper produced by...

The Residential Landlords Association has made a last-minute plea for buy to let investors to remain central to the government’s plans...

The central London rental market is beginning to show signs of topping out as tenant demand slides and landlords look to...

Northern Ireland, where rents were 6.4 per cent higher in December than in the same month of 2015, saw the strongest...

Independent financial services monitor Moneyfacts claims that a new report is about to reveal the withdrawal of 74 buy to let...

  The average rent paid for a home in the UK outside London hit £750 in December, rising by 2.04 per cent...

The average rental property was let for £830 a month in November according to Your Move - that means the average...

Some 80 per cent of letting agents say they expect rents to rise next year.   In the latest market survey by the...

Around one in 12 properties currently available on the rental market could become un-rentable by 2018 if government energy efficiency plans...

Franchise giant Hunters has reported to its shareholders that it has seen an 18 per cent rise in its lettings income...

Martin & Co claims to have identified the 10 key factors that influence local rental markets in terms of tenant numbers...

Rents will "unpreventably rise" thanks to the government's proposed ban on letting agency fees levied on tenants and because of its...

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

A major survey has given a vote of confidence to buy to let despite the wave of fiscal, political and economic...

Property consultancy Dataloft has produced an index to monitor what it says are the four key factors behind buy to let investors'...

The average rent for a UK property grew by a negligible 0.05 per cent in October, despite a tiny fall in...

Research by data company Propcision has revealed that across London typical Airbnb rental rates for apartments are double that of long-term rental...

The latest demand by anti-letting agent pressure group Generation Rent is for the government to abolish the right of landlords or...

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

The campaign group Generation Rent says most buy to let properties are not mortgaged and many landlords are unaffected by current...

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

Regional lettings markets around the country are now outperforming London according to Your Move.    While rents in London grew 6.9 per cent...

Grainger, the UK’s largest residential property owner and manager listed on the London Stock Exchange, has set out an argument to...

ARLA says its letting agent members have an average of 37 prospective tenants registered per branch – the highest number since...

  Over 5.5m Britons think that they will never be able to own a home on the grounds of cost.   A survey of...

A London agency has reported that its lettings revenues increased by a fifth during August. ludlowthompson's lettings revenue increased by 20% year-on-year...

The UK rental market remains resilient, despite an expected summer slowdown in activity.  This is the message from the latest Agency Express...

An East Midlands estate agency has opened its third lettings office, saying the rental market has 'defied expectations'. Richard Watkinson and Partners,...

Across the UK as a whole there has been a slight increase in the number of tenants who agree to pay...

New data from referencing company Equifax Touchstone suggests that this July’s buy to let mortgage lending total is 39 per cent...

Belvoir is calling on the government to reverse its punitive tax policies against buy to let and introduce incentives to make...

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

Almost half of letting agents say they have seen uncertainty from their landlord clients “which could cause waves in the rental...

The Residential Landlords Association has welcomed a report by the House of Lords that institutional investors behind the Build To Rent...

The UK Apartment Association - the umbrella group of Build To Rent suppliers, including some developers and operators - is starting...

A leading London lettings agency chief suggests that Brexit may - against the expectations of many - actually be a good...

Rents across the UK continued to rise during June, but the first half of 2016 has been characterised by a slowing...

A buy to let property in London is going to be “very difficult to make viable” in the near future unless...

The high-end agency Pastor Real Estate is marketing what it believes may be the capital’s smallest grade II listed duplex apartment - it...

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

Buy to let investors face a ‘ticking timebomb’ that may force many of them to quit the sector in the long-term,...

Rents across the UK continued to rise during May but at a decreasing rate, says HomeLet.  Data shows that rents agreed on...

A removals firm has claimed it is currently dealing with more tenants moving between properties than home buyers.  Aussie Man & Van...

An online platform aiming to link letting agents with tenants and landlords has raised £2m and now promises to use it...

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HomeLet’s monthly rental market monitor shows that rents are still rising across the UK.  It says rents on new tenancies outside of...

The supply of rental housing stock on letting agents’ books fell sharply in March, to the lowest level since the start...

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

One of the capital’s most high profile agents say prime central London’s rental market may be an indirect beneficiary of the...

This evening at 9pm sees the start of a second season of Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords on Channel 5.  The 10-part series...

Connells says there is still substantial room for additional agencies in the private lettings sector and that it intends to add...

Returns from buy to let properties have risen to their highest level in over a year.  Data from Your Move and Reeds...

A group of MPs is raising concerns about a claim that 40 per cent of homes sold through the Right To...

Legal & General Capital - which has recently made clear its intention to become a major Build To Rent player in...

The lettings market is now enjoying ‘the calm before the storm’ according to the Association of Residential Letting Agents.  In its latest...

A land-owners’ group is upset at the Scottish Government’s alleged “disregard” for estate- and land-owners to be able to gain vacant...

George Osborne has done more for the rental market than any other chancellor in history claims Marc von Grundherr, lettings director...

It's more important than ever that letting agents stand out with their marketing messages. The British rental market is more crowded than...

New research from HomeLet reveals that Brighton, Bristol, Edinburgh and Newcastle recorded the largest increase in rents last year amongst the...

Dorian Gonsalves, director of commercial and franchising at Belvoir, is urging the government to dramatically increase the availability of social housing...

A seasonal slowdown has hit the lettings sector with rents dipping 0.4 per cent in November to a UK monthly average...

There’s been an angry reaction from letting agents and landlords to the shock news that an additional three per cent stamp...

Fewer tenants are experiencing rent increases, according to the Association of Residential Letting Agents’ monthly market report. The number of letting agents...

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

Prime central London’s sales market has been in the doldrums for some time - now at least one high-end lettings agency...

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

The rental market looks set to benefit from the continuing housing market strength as new research claims that first time buyers...

Countrywide may have been criticised by some for recent management and strategy changes but one thing appears to have been proven...

The sales market in Prime Central London may be in the doldrums but the lettings sector is on the rise with...

Labour MP David Lammy and Kevin Hollinrake, the founder of Hunters - and now a Conservative MP - have clashed online...

Around 40 per cent of landlords are reporting an increase in tenant demand in their area in the past three months. A...

The Green Party candidate for London Mayor says protests outside the MIPIM property conference have her backing as they highlight that...

Rightmove says letting agents are reporting “extraordinary demand” in many parts of the country, with an increasing number of tenants positively...

After six months of annual rent price rises of 10 per cent plus the latest HomeLet index shows rent prices have...

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

Our team of heroes have been helping thousands of UK letting agents for the past 20 years, during this time we...

Rents are rising faster for three bedroom homes than for any other property type. They show a rise of 4.6 per cent...

The government has confirmed that it has no plan to ban letting agency fees in England. Fees are already banned in Scotland...

The 107,000 overseas students using London’s burgeoning private rental market contribute some £600m annually to landlords, according to research by agency...

The office of a letting agency that urged its landlord clients to consider increasing rents has been the subject of an...

At HomeLet we have a team of heroes who have been helping the UK's letting agents with rent guarantees, tenant referencing...

Atlas Residential - a US Build To Rent company which operates 18,000 rental units across 13 states valued at a total...

The number of available private rented properties rose sharply in July according to the Association of Residential Letting Agents.  Agents managed an...

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

Rents continue to rise across the UK with many regions now keeping pace with or exceeding the pace of price increases...

An analysis by Britain’s biggest letting agency, Countrywide, has thrown up a little known fact - with applications for school places...

There has been a sharp rise in rent arrears - they made up 8.7 per cent of all rent payable in...

This week the Chancellor, George Osborne, delivered the first Conservative Budget for almost 20 years. While Mr Osborne claimed that it marked...

Private rents in the UK are the highest in Europe despite having amongst the least secure tenancies - that it the...

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

Prominent landlord Liz Hodgkinson has hit out at the allegedly-high fees of letting agents who offer full management services, claiming their...

Rents have risen in all parts of the UK in the past three months with Greater London average rents now exceeding...

Forget those ideas that even posh students live in digs or shared houses - prime central London agency Napier Watt has...

Two thirds of landlords plan to buy at least one further property in the next six months, according to Mortgages for...

Private sector rents in England and Wales have grown 4.6 per cent year-on-year – the fastest rate of increase since November...

Tenant evictions have reached a record high 11,307 in the first quarter of the year according to government figures. However, the majority...

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

There has been widespread criticism of Labour's proposals for the private rental sector. The policies will “backfire” according to the National Landlords’ Association.  "We understand...

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