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London Fire Brigade’s deputy assistant commissioner for fire safety has praised the new safety regulations which have now come in to...

One of the rental sector’s highest-profile trade bodies has accused pro-tenant group Generation Rent of needlessly scaring renters with the spectre...

Some 47 per cent of all properties in the private rental sector in England are now managed by ARLA Propertymark member...

Confusion over Electrical Inspection Condition Reports, created by inaccurate statements from the government, has been slammed by a housing law expert.  Last...

The latest market snapshot produced by agent data suggests that rent increases have hit a new low as the Coronavirus impacts on...

The militantly pro-tenant Generation Rent group says it’s working with local councils to have a new “tenants’ charter” introduced. The new director...

Figures unearthed by the Daily Telegraph show the scale of the arrears and eviction court case backlog likely to face the...

A solicitor involved in the Court of Appeal case which ruled in favour of the private rental sector has spoken of...

A new Labour group - Labour Tenants United - has issued a four-prong attack on the current private rental sector including...

A legal expert says the Court of Appeal ruling on S21 possession orders last week has resolved one of the most...

The government has withdrawn its latest electrical safety checks guidance for the private rental sector, with immediate effect. However, there remains...

Successes for the private rental sector may seem few and far between these days but the Court of Appeal has now...

Apropos is a revolutionary digital property management platform which has recently launched in the UK. The new property management platform has...

Age UK is the latest campaigning charity to call for the repeal of S21 and the introduction of greater controls over...

The current restriction on Airbnb-style short lets to 90 nights a year in London could spread to other cities - and...

Two new handbooks have been released offering advice to the private rental sector on how to improve energy efficiency.  Electricity distributor UK...

A local council is warning the HMO rental sector that tenants may be put at unnecessary risk as a result of...

A prominent figure in the lettings industry has warned that any extension to the current evictions ban would risk hurting the...

The campaigning charity Shelter says young adults are more in danger of homelessness than any other age group - and puts...

Accreditation service NAPIT has produced a publication for the rental sector ahead of new electrical safety checks coming into force for...

The Chartered Institute of Housing has published proposals aimed at avoiding a spike in private rental sector evictions when the current...

For Jill Griffiths, working exactly 25 years at the same agency is a cause for celebration - and her time serving...

Research shows that half of those in the private rental sector are aged 16 to 34, making the lettings industry vulnerable...

Citizens Advice claims that in the two months since the lockdown began it has helped over 10,000 people with issues related...

A new survey of tenants’ sentiment suggests that 54 per cent of renters feel confident to view a property with appropriate...

Rental app service Movebubble has launched its Home Walkthrough feature which it says it the first of its kind in the...

Labour’s proposal to extend the current ban on private rental sector evictions could end up with some landlords in financial ruin.  Landlord...

Deposit alternative service Flatfair has launched a tool for letting agents to help administer arrears run up by tenants during the...

A group of local landlords and others in the private rental sector are challenging a local authority’s licensing proposals with their...

A commission investigating affordable homes in the UK has called for annual private sector rent increases to be limited to a...

Nearly half of households in the private rental sector have regrets about their home according to a survey by the HomeOwners...

A raft of measures from government and courts intended to help private tenants during the Coronavirus lockdown may be storing up a...

Once the worst of the Coronavirus crisis passes there’s likely to be much more regulation of parts of the rental sector...

One of the official redress operators - Property Redress Scheme - has launched a tenancy mediation service for agents, landlords and...

The number of mortgage lenders still offering products to landlords is 42 - only seven fewer than at the peak of...

Different guidelines have been issued for the rental sector in different parts of the British Isles as devolved administrations get to...

A new analysis reveals three key figures that suggest the rental market will bounce back from the lockdown and the Coronavirus...

Agents and other property professionals have a week to submit their views to an enquiry into the impact of Coronavirus on...

The government’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme will be essential to keeping payments flowing through the rental sector, according to a leading...

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

The director of the website Home says that investment in buy to let will look like a highly attractive safe haven...

Hello - we hope you had as good an Easter as possible in these unusual circumstances, and welcome back to work. Now...

A leading supplier says the current market standstill is an opportunity for the industry to rethink how short lets can be...

The commercial arm of Countrywide is urging landlords currently facing huge void periods because students have been ordered home, to reconfigure...

It’s not just navigating a path through the Coronavirus crisis that is proving the value of letting agents - it’s their...

Lettings management platform Howsy claims it has seen an increase in business since the lockdown 10 days ago.  It says it’s enjoyed...

A local authority has postponed the extension of its private rental sector licensing regime - but it’s warning agents not to...

Labour’s latest suggestion for the private rental sector - a rent holiday for tenants during the Coronavirus crisis - has been...

Airbnb and similar platforms have seen a collapse of business since the start of the Coronavirus crisis with some 70 per...

The government issued further guidance on the private rental sector over the weekend. The new 21 page document - a link to...

All court possession orders are being suspended from today as part of the changes to the private rental sector to cope...

Hello and welcome to the latest Conquering Corona - our guide for agents to get through these challenging times. Please let us...

Despite the challenges being thrown up to the lettings sector by Coronavirus, this is a reminder that new MEES regulations on...

The landlords’ newly-merged trade body has renewed its call for the government to do more to help the private rental sector...

There’s been a sharp drop in rental churn since the Coronavirus outbreak worsened according to a flat-sharing website. SpareRoom says that across...

New research suggests the damage to the private rental sector in terms of non-payment of rent could be a remarkable £15...

Not-for-profit accreditation service safeagent says the government should ensure councils delay the introduction of all new private rental sector licensing schemes...

A survey of the buy to let market conducted by a bank before the latest acceleration in the Coronavirus outbreak suggests...

A leading PropTech expert says there’s still more that can be done by the rental sector to drive up the quality...

There is no doubt that the BBC News article in early February caused something of a stir within the Deposit Free...

The government has been called upon to issue specific Coronavirus guidance for the rental sector. The chief executive of the Association of...

The chief executive of a new lettings sector trade body is to address his first conference next month, giving an indication...

Over 100,000 current or aspiring tenants have signed up to an education programme explaining how the rental sector works, run by...

Labour’s London Mayor, Sadiq Khan, has put his call for powers to control private rents at the heart of his campaign...

The Guild of Property Professionals is reminding the rental sector that owners of properties to let have only until April 1...

A rent guarantor service has taken a swipe at new housing minister Chris Pincher and his recent predecessors who have not...

Optimism amongst investors in the private rental sector is on the rise, despite the various tax and regulation obstacles facing the...

The private rental sector has come under attack for its conditions and costs to tenants in a report looking into health...

A property management firm says the private rental sector is effectively disadvantaged in the fight against climate change because it does...

Grainger, one of the biggest names in Build To Rent, has agreed to buy a proposed 348 home-scheme in central Nottingham. The...

The government’s official index for the private rental sector has shown that rents rose by 1.5 per cent in the 12...

Cynics who rejected claims that landlords would quit the buy to let sector because of increasing bureaucracy and higher taxes may...

The government has given the green light to a council’s huge licensing scheme, set to cover 18 of its 20 wards...

The government has failed the private rental sector says the Residential Landlords Association. In a statement released even before the resignation of...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has made an uncompromising set of demands on the government, asking it to implement a...

Three more deposit alternative supplier have issued statements seeking to distance their product from criticisms raised in a BBC investigation. Yesterday we carried...

A government report suggests the private rental sector is attracting an increasing number of older tenants - and the sector needs...

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

Generation Rent - an outspoken organisation sharply critical of lettings agents and many aspects of the private rental sector - is...

An increasing number of over-60s are now turning to the private rental sector - but, like other demographic sectors, they face...

The Renters’ Reform Bill worries many in the private rental sector but the government says there is still no date for...

A mortgage company has attempted to quantify how much private landlords inject into local economies. Aldermore’s research, surveying 1,000 UK-based landlords, discovered...

One of the growing number of deposit replacement providers claims that there could be £1.2 billion in deposit monies that are...

Who are you and what is your role within the company? Steve Rad, Managing Director What is ‘company name’ and what does it...

A prominent member of the House of Lords has given a surprising insight into how the fiscal and regulatory clampdown on...

A leading trade body is voicing concern over yet another council private rental sector licensing scheme - with particular worry over...

New research claims that one in every 50 homes in the capital is let on a short-term platform like Airbnb or...

The new body representing short let digital platforms like Airbnb and the large number of associated companies that have sprung up...

Councils that have been awarded additional cash injections by government could use their windfalls to enhance their enforcement of the private...

Research from Hamptons International suggests that millennials are paying a lower proportion of the total rental burden in Britain than a...

There’s been an angry response by the rental sector following the latest attack by campaigning charity Shelter. The organisation claims that private...

A council getting government cash for rental enforcement is using it to introduce a review service allowing tenants to comment on...

The Association of Residential Lettings Agents has thrown its weight behind an initiative by the Scottish Government to control the growth...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents and The Guild of Property Professionals have both given their backing to the government’s latest...

The government has announced an additional £4m in funding for local councils to combat rogue agents and landlords - but it’s...

A leading lettings sector trade body has outlined key pieces of legislation that will hit the private rental sector in 2020. The...

Here it is - the start of a new decade, a moment for resolutions and remembrance, and the last Bank Holiday...

This month sees the launch of a new trade body for the lettings sector - the National Residential Landlords Association. It’s the...

No date has been set by government for the second reading of the Renters' Reform Bill 2019-20. The Bill was announced in...

Just over third of private landlords are planning to quit the sector or cut the number of homes they let in...

An overwhelming proportion of letting agents - 84 per cent - say rents will rise next year, well up on the...

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

A trade body is warning of a crisis in the private rental market as new figures show a sharp drop in...

Haart is trying to shift the mood music around the private rental sector from challenging to celebratory, saying there is plenty...

The sales market in London continues to wreak havoc with agencies, as yesterday’s Foxtons story revealed, but one lettings agency is...

[Letting Agent Today was ‘off air’ for some of Wednesday and most of Thursday thanks to technical problems - we apologise to...

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

Specialist buy to let mortgage lender Paragon has welcomed Labour's General Election pledge to force rental properties to undergo an annual...

Labour’s policies for the private rental sector are “too extreme ... unrealistic and will be hugely damaging to housing supply in...

Agency Express, the board company that monitors the lettings market through demand for its To Let and Let By boards, warns...

Labour has given shocking new details of its proposals for the private rental sector including £100.000 fines if properties are deemed...

As the battle of political policies continues ahead of next month’s General Election, now Labour has unveiled a raft of initiatives...

On the day that Labour launches its proposals to reform the private rental sector, the Tories have announced so-called Lifetime Rental...

The Liberal Democrats is the first of the major parties to release its party manifesto for the December 12 manifesto, and...

The pressure group Generation Rent, which in the past has been highly critical of letting agents and other aspects of the...

A local council claims it has received over 500 complaints from private rental tenants since the start of April - approaching...

The normally-sedate Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has issued an unusually stark warning to government, telling it to “stop meddling” in...

Another think tank has come up with proposals to scrap Section 21 eviction powers and cap rents - and it also...

The growing chorus of calls to professionalise the short lets sector has won influential backing from a senior PropTech entrepreneur. Neil Cobbold...

Citizens Advice wants the next government to radically alter the private rental sector in favour of tenants.  The charity’s 2019 election manifesto,...

A leading London lettings agent wants increased regulation over Airbnb in a bid to deter criminal activity and anti-social behaviour. Martin Bikhit, managing...

Labour’s controversial proposal to oblige landlords to sell their buy to let properties to tenants who wished to purchase them, unveiled...

Three of the country’s most senior agents have told a PropTech supplier how they use technology to aid their compliance work...

Around 40 per cent of tenants currently in the private rental sector believe they will never be able to buy their...

A leading trade body says the government’s latest injection of funds to help local councils root out rogue operators in the...

Welsh housing minister Julie James is to address agents, landlords and other property professionals at the Residential Landlord Association’s Future Renting...

One of the industry’s leading trade bodies has revealed that the number of laws creating an obligation on landlords in the...

Lettings agents are being invited to tell a big city council how to improve its private rental sector strategy.  Manchester local authority...

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has launched his party’s General Election campaign with an attack on what he describes as “dodgy landlords.” He...

A new trade body is being set up in a bid to professionalise the short lets sector. The sector - which embraces...

A new piece of legislation has been invoked to ban a landlord from any involvement in the private rental sector for...

Many buy to let investors are still badly bruised by the government’s wave of fiscal and regulatory assaults on the private...

Rent controls similar to those demanded by Labour in London and other major cities in the UK do not work, and...

A solicitor has urged the government not to reform or scrap Section 21 eviction powers simply on the basis of protests...

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

Contrary to the impressions given in some quarters, no fewer than 75 per cent of tenants are happy to rent, and...

A statement from Hackney council in north east London says those who break its licensing provisions for the private rental sector...

A London-focussed lettings agency is hosting a seminar for landlords in association with a rental sector trade body. The key theme of...

New analysis by Direct Line for Business reveals a surge in the number of police investigations into the theft of electricity,...

Consumer charity Citizens’ Advice says government proposals to reform or possibly scrap S21 eviction rights do not go far enough.  The group...

In addition to the apparent collapse of Upad at the weekend, there has been unconfirmed speculation about redundancies at a second...

The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) has accused courts across the country of failing to follow their own rules when it comes...

A call has been made for the best letting agencies and other rental sector professionals to show how they comply with...

An umbrella organisation representing councils is calling for greater freedom to introduce more and larger rental sector licensing schemes, without the...

The private rented sector would shrink by 20 per cent if Section 21 ‘no-fault’ evictions are abolished, according to an economic...

There’s a warning from a leading agent that the unregulated proliferation of Airbnb-style short lets will lead to mainstream rent rises...

High end London estate agency Chestertons has signed up with Zero Deposits, one of the deposit replacement services expanding across the...

The quality of accommodation in the private rental sector has drastically improved in the past decade according to a survey by...

Legal & General is introducing a Rental Protection Plan for tenants, thought to be one of the first examples of this...

The majority of the UK’s private renters don’t want to purchase a home according to new research, coming just as the...

The weekly economic and financial research magazine The Economist has made a scathing attack on rent controls. The publication says rent controls...

The rental sector needs to prepare for the demographic challenge of an increasingly older population, says the head of a high...

The Nationwide is investing in a digital lettings service called Bunk - it’s headed by a 24 year old who has...

As expected, the Liberal Democrats’ conference in Bournemouth has backed a motion calling for the scrapping of Section 21 - effectively...

Members of the industry’s two major landlord bodies have backed a merger which will now take place on January 1. Members of...

A home being pet-friendly is the most desirable attribute in a rental property, according to research by a specialist mortgage lender.  The...

The Liberal Democrat conference, which begins on Saturday, is to debate a resolution calling for the scrapping of Section 21 -...

Utilities management service Tenant Shop says demographic changes leading to more families and older individuals renting privately represent an opportunity for...

The government has been criticised yet again for what is described as its “incoherent” approach to the private rental sector. David Miles,...

New research from an international law firm shows that the rental sector in major cities is now changing its demographic make-up...

PropTech firm Goodlord is hosting a webinar this week when the chief executive of the Association of Residential Letting Agents, David...

One in six landlords is seeking to reduce the size of their portfolio in the next 12 months and around half...

Some of the private rental sector’s most experienced and respected experts believe it’s almost inevitable that a housing market crash is...

Fixflo is launching its sixth annual Lettings Report for lettings professionals  The survey gauges the opinions of lettings professionals around the UK...

With the country in febrile election mode, it’s perhaps unsurprising that the Association of Residential Letting Agents has got in on...

The tenant fee ban in England has led to a surge in demand from tenants for properties according to Belvoir.  The franchise...

Landlords’ confidence in the success of their own businesses has plunged in recent months.  Only 29 per cent of landlords have positive expectations...

It may seem as if governments and councils are falling over themselves to change the private rental sector to win the...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors wants the government to implement recent recommendations to regulate the agency industry, starting with the...

There should be open-ended tenancies with reduced rent for long-term contracts and any rent increase tied only to inflation. This dramatic reform...

Anyone underestimating the size of the UK’s growing private rental sector ought to think again - new research shows its value...

The Labour Party appears to be entering the arena of organising private rental sector tenants who have grievances. Party leader Jeremy Corbyn...

One of the key players in the ultra-competitive deposit alternative sector has announced a massive and new $11m investment. Flatfair says that...

A private landlord has gone on record to explain her own dilemma with a tenant - and why the government’s scrapping...

A Labour council which has become famous for its critical approach to the private rental sector has now been given almost £200,000...

Lettings professionals should do more to raise awareness of the need to reduce moving stress for tenants and landlords. Industry supplier Tenant...

Private tenants are being disadvantaged because of the government’s focus on boosting homeownership. According to the latest figures from the Royal Institution...

An investment company has revealed that it’s acquired land in the north of England to create a Build To Rent scheme. Godwin...

Legal & General has exchanged contracts to complete the largest privately funded development in Wales, Cardiff Central Square, which will include...

If the government follows through with its plan to scrap Section 21 there could be more work for agents as a...

The right wing Adam Smith Institute is the latest organisation to voice its strong opposition to Labour’s proposed rent controls for...

An outspoken Conservative party figure says government policies such as the scrapping of Section 21 will play into the hands of...

Legal & General, one of the largest specialist builders of so-called retirement communities for the over-55s, is now going to let...

An ‘open banking’ PropTech platform has partnered with two rental organisations which will offer agents, landlords and tenants direct payments and...

Calls by Labour’s London Mayor Sadiq Khan to secure powers to implement private sector rent controls are facing increasing opposition. Business organisation...

Some 12 per cent of homes to let are operated by a ‘company landlord’ according to an analysis by Countrywide high-end...

The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Housing and Care for Older People has sharply criticised the PRS as being ill-equipped to cater...

A leading industry trade body says the latest English Housing Survey report proves that criticisms of the private rental sector’s costs...

Boris Johnson or Jeremy Hunt will face an immediate crisis in the private rented sector if government doesn’t rethink its plans to...

The chairman of Hunters estate agency, who is also a Conservative MP, has hit out at the government over its handling...

Rents are rising at the fastest rate since 2017, pushing the average yield on residential property to 4.5 per cent, its...

A trade association has called for a 'moratorium' on any further government intervention in the buy-to-let sector in order to stop...

Local authorities are failing in their duty to prosecute criminal letting agents, the National Landlords Association (NLA) has warned. The NLA says...

Institutional investment in the Build to Rent (BTR) sector reached a record high last year, according to fresh research from Bidwells.  The...

A London council wants to extend its private rental sector licensing scheme - and in doing so is boasting of the...

Weak regulation of private renting is leaving hundreds of thousands of tenants living in hazardous homes in England, claims Citizens Advice. A...

A new survey by one of the sector’s most respected lenders, Paragon, suggests large scale landlords are now a bigger force...

An independent review into selective licensing in the private rental sector makes a series of recommendations to tighten processes, with the...

A trade body has accused the government of going back on its promise not to introduce a national register of landlords. The...

A senior Labour politician has claimed that there is a city in the UK where two out of every 13 residential...

The government has been told it needs to provide tenants with better information about their rights and responsibilities if it’s to...

A European law firm has set out a critique of the driving forces behind Build To Rent - and it says...

Two housing organisations have come together to fund a major research programme to improve standards in the private rental sector. They are...

The 24 year old head of an online lettings platform called Bunk says it’s up to letting agents to show they...

The government says thousands of families could benefit from changes to mortgage rules announced by Metro Bank. Currently the bank prevents landlords...

We may be all-too-familiar with the challenges facing letting agents and landlords in the private rental sector but there is at...

A holiday lettings company says it’s seen a 23 per cent increase in its portfolio over the past year as owners...

A leading lettings expert insists that greater regulation in the private rental sector can work for the benefit of landlords and...

A trade body has hit out at government policy following a think tank’s claims that young people are less mobile because of...

A lettings agent and investment adviser says there is a positive interpretation of the fees ban introduced this month in England. Abi...

A prominent consumer group claims that one in 10 tenants currently renting say they have at some point been evicted “for...

A new analysis of the private rental sector suggests the typical buy to let investor will be lucky to generate annual...

A property management chief is arguing that rent controls would restrict mortgage loans to buy to let investors and drive existing...

Airbnb and short let management service Hostmaker - at the centre of a dispute involving a landlord trade body and the...

The head of an automated payment system for the rental sector says lettings agents can help offset losses caused by the...

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has been put on the spot by the person many consider to be the country’s most...

The best lettings agents will survive and shine through the ban of fees levied on tenants, which comes into effect this weekend. The...

The head of a firm that seeks investors to put money into residential property funds rather than individual homes for tenants...

A company appearing to call on landlords to abandon tenants and instead let their properties to short-let visitors is now trying...

The Property Redress Scheme, one of the two government-backed redress operators for the lettings and sales service, has outlined its work...

Inventory reports are increasingly revealing illegal safety and compliance issues within tenanted property, a trade body claims. The Association of Independent Inventory...

There’s been another major industry survey revealing that a high number of lettings agents and landlords may quit the private rental...

The Residential Landlords Association and Gas Safe Register have joined forces to promote gas safety awareness in the private rental sector. The...

An analysis of the rental market in England has revealed a dramatic drop in the number of EU nationals taking up...

A study claims as many as a fifth of private renters in the UK have developed an illness due to issues...

Letting agents are being urged to consider how they can reduce their administrative workload, following huge growth in the size of...

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

A damning report on taxation in the private rental sector (PRS) has accused the treasury of appearing not to understand 'the...

Housing charity Shelter has announced the launch of a £600,000 fund it is hosting, with the aim of improving the private...

Revenue raised by landlord licensing schemes should be used to enforce rental sector regulation, according to PayProp. It says that the money...

A compliance company has accused “thousands” of buy to let investors of failing to address major household hazards which render properties...

Increased use of technology could boost gas-related health and safety in the private rental sector according to the people behind a...

A property investment platform claims that investor sentiment in buy to let is actually improving despite ongoing political and economic uncertainty...

A senior figure at a deposit replacement service says the current flurry of changes in the private rental sector are positive. Daniel...

Location, Location, Location star Phil Spencer has launched a new podcast aimed at helping listeners through what he calls “the minefield”...

The Association of Residential Lettings Agents says it backs a new Trading Standards-led body which will enforce the Fees Ban starting  on...

One of the most vocal critics of lettings agents in recent years appears to be moving away from the property industry. Campbell...

The scrapping of Section 21 eviction powers has been welcomed by the London Assembly - but apparently it doesn’t go far...

The head of a major property management firm says the controversial proposal to scrap Section 21 eviction powers for landlords is...

The government says it wants to ban outright Section 21 'no fault' eviction powers in England and Wales. Instead landlords seeking to evict...

The government’s plan to scrap Section 21 is personally backed by the Prime Minister and will begin formal consultations today. If the...

There will be less buy to let remortgaging in future as landlords consolidate rather than expand their portfolios. The prediction comes from...

The latest lettings sector index suggests that monthly rents increased from February to March in six of the eight regions of...

Tenancy Deposit Scheme is the latest player in the private rental sector to launch online tools to help letting agents cope...

A housing minister has pledged that more key reforms for the private rental sector will be revealed soon, despite Brexit political...

Fergus Wilson, arguably Britain’s most controversial landlord and almost certainly the individual with the largest number of buy to lets in...

There’s been a big boost to the movement towards deposit alternatives in the private rental sector following a survey released this...

It’s a vital time for letting agents to hammer home the benefits of buy to let and the dangers to landlords...

Changes to Capital Gains Tax which reach their full impact in the next 12 months could fuel property changing hands between...

A survey of 500 buy to let landlords suggests that well over a third are planning to increase the size of...

Another think-tank has come up with reforms which it wants the government to make to the private rental sector - and...

TrustMark, the government-backed quality kite mark scheme for tradespeople, is launching a pilot with Trading Standards to improve the quality and...

The ban on tenants’ fees beginning on June 1 presents an opportunity to overhaul the private rental sector, says a property...

A Scottish mediation company and the SafeDeposits Scotland Trust are to create eight workshops aiming to improve relationships between agents, landlords,...

Labour’s proposal to introduce indefinite tenancies along the lines in a bid to emulate the German model reveals the party’s “fundamental...

More than a third of landlords are looking to cut their annual spending - and many of them are considering ending...

Momentum is building in the campaign to end ‘No DSS’ discrimination against private rental sector tenants in receipt of housing benefit. Late...

Gregory Property Group has announced forward funding and the start of work on one of the country’s largest purpose-built student blocks.  It’s...

The government has announced that over £19.5m is to be spent on paying deposits or paying the first month’s rent for...

Property management firm Mcilroy Smith has launched a mental health policy for its employees - possibly the first company in the...

A council in the west country has launched a grading system for property agents which it says is designed to be...

New figures from a leading trade body suggest that councils across England have cut by a quarter the amount they are...

Just when you thought there could not be any more rival licensing or accreditation systems in the private rental sector, a...

A local authority in the Midlands has admitted what many people have believed for some time - despite a slew of...

Sub-standard homes remain a key weakness in the private rental sector, which needs to get its house in order in the...

Over 250 new units constructed by Telford Homes are to be used for Build To Rent according to a deal announced...

More local authorities have announced that they want to increase the size of the areas covered by their existing selective licensing...

Belvoir says a survey of its franchisees shows that Brexit is having what it calls “a significant impact” on the rental...

Bristol is the best city for house shares, according to new research by specialist rental sector broadband and utilities provider Glide. The...

A senior Labour politician claims that “unscrupulous” letting agents are hammering tenants with higher-than-usual charges between now and June 1 when...

You may be forgiven for thinking that rent takes up an ever-greater proportion of tenants’ income - but new figures out...

The latest property completed in the ever-growing Build To Rent sector is a 44 storey tower standing at 141 metres tall. The...

A lettings sector trade body has put the blame firmly on government for the scale of poverty amongst those who privately...

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

Private rental sector tenants in England stay an average of 4.1 years in their property - casting doubt over the justification...

One of the country’s major Build To Rent providers has signed a deal to deliver 324 flats in a major city...

New rules are to be introduced to ensure mandatory electrical inspections on private rental properties are carried out by competent and...

The latest report for the rental sector by the TDS Charitable Foundation calls for greater cooperation between property professionals and tenants...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is demanding 'property MOTs' to help landlords trying to meet new energy efficiency targets. The government’s...

The news this week that even individual private landlords must join a redress scheme is just the latest in an onslaught...

Disrepair in communal areas of private blocks is to be tackled in a new series of seminars for letting agents and...

One of the largest players in the Build To Rent sector has snapped up a site in a major city centre...

The Labour party has expressed outrage at the news that London councils are spending over £22m each year renting back homes...

Rents have risen over the past year but at a very low level according to new property consultancy Apropos.  Across Britain as...

A lettings agency boss who says she is actually in favour of the agents’ fees ban nonetheless admits there will be...

There has been a massive surge in the volume of lettings properties under construction for the burgeoning Built To Rent sector. Data...

The UK’s largest provider of inventory services says the creation of an MOT certificate system for properties in the rental sector...

The Residential Landlords Association’s membership has hit a new high of 35,000.  Established in 1998 the not-for-profit association - which describes itself...

The number of people renting a home aged between 35 and 54 has risen by 15 per cent in the last...