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The city centre rental market, considered to be one of the industry’s losers during the worst of the pandemic, is beginning...

The government’s pledge to introduce a lifetime deposits concept, theoretically making it easier and cheaper for tenants to move, has been...

Zoopla says rents outside London are rising at an average three per cent per year, the highest level since late 2018. However...

High-end lettings agency Knight Frank says there’s been a huge loss of houses available for renters in prime London in the...

The latest HomeLet market index shows that the average rent in the UK is now at a record high of £996...

Labour’s candidate for London Mayor wants to control private rents - and he wants the capital to be a template for...

The latest rental market snapshot from PropTech company Goodlord shows rents holding steady across England but as lockdown restrictions ease voids...

Despite rent controls being a vote-catching policy for some local election candidates next week, the reality is that asking rents in...

An automated payments service has teamed up with a student accommodation provider to devise an eCommerce system allowing simpler rent payments. Vyne uses...

One year on from the beginning of the pandemic, London’s reversal of fortunes in the rental market continues according to the...

Rents across the wider London commuter belt continued to rise in the first three months of the year, according to a...

Flatshare website SpareRoom says over a fifth of 18 to 24 years olds have moved back in with their parents to...

Booming demand for homes in commuter zones and well-connected towns is causing a mini-boom in the lettings market. That’s the view of...

More students would like to see utility charges integrated into the overall costs of their accommodation, according to a specialist lettings...

A group of rental campaign bodies have come together to claim that some 694,000 tenants apparently face eviction when the current...

London rents climbed for the first time for over a year during Q1 2021 —although the rise was a mere £8...

The Home website has produced its latest rental market snapshot - and once again London is the odd region out compared...

Average rents in prime central London declined 14.3 per cent in the year to March - but one agency reckons that may be...

Letting agents body ARLA Propertymark has joined the criticism of London Mayor Sadiq Khan who wants to be given the power...

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

Rent guarantees and upfront cash payments from local authorities are the most effective means of opening the private rented sector to...

Winkworth says its London rental activities have suffered because of a lack of international travel, and students and young professionals returning to...

It’s not just the owner occupier whose property demands have changed radically because of the pandemic - a new survey suggests...

Average rents across the UK have risen for the fourth time in as many months according to the HomeLet index. Typical rent...

Latest figures from ARLA Propertymark suggest the rental market continues to perform strongly. Data for February - the latest available from the...

Central London’s prime rental market is witnessing a wave of enquiries from tenants wanting to strike a deal according to a...

Rent controls are being discussed again as candidates prepare for May's local elections. In London Green Party mayoral candidate Sian Berry -...

A charity is calling for a new national body to oversee the private rental sector. Citizens Advice makes this one of three...

The lettings sector is giving a sigh of relief at the absence of any change to Capital Gains Tax by HM Treasury. CGT...

Letting agents have only 10 days to open segregated client accounts or they could face being expelled by their client money...

Almost one year to the day since the first national lockdown began, Rightmove has analysed millions of data points to confirm...

An upbeat market snapshot for the lettings sector claims that one region of the UK has seen rent increases in excess...

Research by Hamptons suggests that the increased house prices caused by the stamp duty holiday sales surge has indirectly obliged more...

Foxtons has made no bones about how it sees future growth - it wants to acquire lettings books from other agencies. “There...

Rightmove says falling rents in central London have led to a surge in interest from prospective tenants. Rightmove has analysed over 23 million...

An inventory supplier to the lettings industry is advising agents to make sure they spot early signs of pet damage in...

Knight Frank says the plummeting rents in prime central London have at least managed to attract a surge in the number...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I’m David Hackett, Head of Business Development for The DPS    What...

The UK’s average rent is now £984, showing a three per cent increase on last year according to HomeLet. But there’s a...

February was another strong month for the lettings market according to the latest rental index from PropTech firm Goodlord. The average cost...

A landlord who built unlawful extensions to a family home and squeezed up to 14 people into the rooms has forfeited...

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...

A call has gone out for the longer-term buy to let rental sector to have a similar tax regime as the largely-unregulated...

ARLA Propertymark has issued a list of 10 demands for Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s long-awaited Budget on March 3, with a financial...

Average rents in prime central London fell 13 per cent in the year to January as over-supply still dominated the market, according...

Unite Students, the UK’s largest manager and developer of purpose-built accommodation for the student sector, is extending its 50 per cent...

The latest market snapshot for the private lettings sector shows rents holding steady into 2021 but voids increasing across the board. The...

The latest rental market snapshot from ARLA Propertymark suggests that only 30 per cent of tenants experienced rent increases in December...

Another major agency operating in central London confirms that the fall-out from the pandemic continues to produce a glut of units...

A new lettings market snapshot from Rightmove suggests that asking rents in some major city centres have seen annual falls up...

A series of leading lettings agents have warned that the rental sector is set for significant change as the Coronavirus pandemic...

It’s been reported that a London council is considering spending £10m on purchasing 25 former council homes it previously sold off...

A Midlands not-for-profit student lettings agency is giving a rent discount to students who live in its leased houses. The offer comes from Sulets,...

London’s mass transit service, Transport for London, has won consent for 853 homes at a huge scheme in the west of the...

A charity claims that young people under 25 in full-time work across England are unable to afford privately rented accommodation anywhere in the...

Data from PropTech platform SpareRoom suggests that London’s typical room rent has dropped further, this time in response to the new...

How did you get into property? My grandparents did some small property developments when I was growing up which always interested me,...

International research suggests that short lets - Airbnb and similar platforms - cause housing shortages and push up private rents. Research by...

A survey by a personal finance service has identified the traditional premium for a city centre rental property, and attempts to...

The number of tenants that moved home in London in December was double that of December 2019, according to an agency...

The current need to work from home, and the prospect of continuing to do so in part after the pandemic, is changing...

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

The Guild of Property Professionals has issued tips for agents and other industry professionals having to cope with working from home...

A rental market snapshot says the UK-wide lettings picture is dragged down by Greater London's excess of supply, and by the...

The head of industry recruitment consultancy Property Personnel is calling on agencies to be more tolerant of the struggles working parents...

Unite Students, one of the UK's leading student accommodation providers, is giving tenants a rent reduction. Students will be able to apply...

The average rent in the UK, measured just before the turn of the year, is £979, showing a 2.7 per cent...

Propertymark is making it clear that rent controls are not the way to operate an efficient lettings market. In a formal response...

The next 12 months could be a surprisingly good year for the private rental sector despite some obvious challenges, according to...

Higher levels of supply and weaker demand have dominated prime London lettings markets this month says Knight Frank. This meant that average...

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

Letting agents say the number of tenants experiencing rent increases fell for the third month in a row. The latest ARLA Propertymark...

The Tenant Fees Act 2019’s 12-month transition period came to an end on 31 May, prohibiting various payments and charges that...

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

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

A renters’ union in Scotland claims a proposal to cap rents in the country doesn’t go far enough. The Scottish Parliament’s Local...

If you think 2020 has been complicated, just wait until 2021: that’s the claim of a rental guarantor service which warns...

Activists are attempting to build rent strike momentum amongst students who rent property across the country. ‘Rent Strike” is a national network...

It’s a case of London versus The Rest when it comes to the rental market, according to HomeLet. Its latest market snapshot shows...

ARLA Propertymark has given a detailed response to a government consultation on how the pandemic has hit the private rental sector. The...

Knight Frank says it’s seeing tenants in the prime London niche reflecting the same trends as those in the wider property...

The latest rental market snapshot from PropTech supplier Goodlord shows the November lockdown creating a subdued picture - but with early...

A new online platform for students to search for and book accommodation has been launched, claiming to be “the fastest, simplest and...

The number of tenants experiencing rent increases fell for the second month in a row according to ARLA Propertymark. Its latest snapshot...

A Labour MP and a newspaper have joined forces to campaign against so-called ‘exempted rental accommodation’. One of Birmingham’s MPs - Jack...

There’s widespread concern that a freeze on the Local Housing Allowance will worsen rental arrears. Although Chancellor Rishi Sunak failed to mention...

Some 90 per cent of branches from franchise giant Belvoir believe house rents will rise or at least stay static in 2021,...

Activists from the so-called renters’ union Acorn have held a protest outside the office of a lettings agency in Oxford. A photograph...

London lettings agency Benham and Reeves has drawn up a league table of which boroughs in the capital have had their...

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

Letting agents are being offered a free consultation helpline during the pandemic.  Julie Condliffe, a lawyer and property investment expert, says the...

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

A new report from the Nationwide and campaigning charity Shelter puts letting agents in the dock over the standards in the...

A prominent lettings agent and property management expert says the industry has been reluctant to recognise the increasing trend of consumers...

Another market snapshot from HomeLet suggests that there was a 2.2 per cent average rent increase across the UK in the...

A market snapshot produced by PropTech firm Goodlord shows rents dropping a hefty nine per cent across the UK. This follows several...

Staying on top of the numbers and figures in a constantly changing industry can be stressful. Changing property prices can be...

Opposition Labour councillors on a local authority says HMOs should only be let if each bedroom has an en suite bathroom.  The...

London Central Portfolio, an investment consultancy, says the capital’s prime central area is seeing a demographic change as younger British tenants...

An organisation that wants rent controls, the scrapping of Section 21 and what it calls “indefinite tenancies” claims to have 4,000...

Asking rents outside London have hit a new high according to Rightmove’s latest market snapshot. The pressure comes from record demand from...

Rents continue to fall in Prime Central London according to agency Knight Frank. After September’s data is taken into account the annual...

Rents in the UK dropped in six of the eight regions monitored by PropTech supplier Goodlord.  During September, the average rent for...

Shelter has returned to the attack on the private rental sector. In a new report it claims a third of tenants in England...

The Chartered Institute of Housing claims there may be a “massive increase” in evictions in the near future. In a briefing paper the...

The latest monthly rental index produced by insurance provider HomeLet shows a four per cent surge in the all-UK average rent...

The huge disruption of the Coronavirus crisis to the UK's university education does not alter the sector’s long-term fundamentals, a specialist lettings...

Activists from the controversial renters’ group Acorn have picketed the headquarters of a national rental firm in a dispute over a...

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

A leading trade body has broadly welcomed the Winter Economy Plan outlined by Chancellor Rishi Sunak yesterday, but says this still...

The National Residential Landlords Association (NRLA) has slammed London Mayor Sadiq Khan's call for a rent freeze in the capital. Yesterday, ahead...

The decline of the high street - which has been accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic - is forcing commercial investors to...

Data from Knight Frank suggests that average rental values in prime central London fell one per cent last month, taking the...

The latest announcement from Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick suggests the eviction ban WILL end at last on September 20. However, more concessions...

Zoopla has revealed its top 10 hotspots for buy to let investors seeking high rental yields.  The analysis is based on rental returns...

The rental market is heading into the normally-quieter autumn period with strength but increasing void periods. Data from PropTech firm Goodlord, which...

The average rent across the UK is now £985 per calendar month, up some 2.1 per cent on four weeks ago...

ARLA and the NRLA have teamed up with charities - some usually critical of letting agents and landlords - to lobby...

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

The latest survey of buy to let landlords suggests a relatively healthy private rental sector notwithstanding the challenges of the Coronavirus...

A specialist mortgage operator is warning letting agents and landlords to gear up for a winter of discontent as a result...

The author of a book described as being about “insecure renters haemorrhaging cash” has used her newspaper column to make a...

One in eight homes coming onto the rental market in inner London since May has previously been an Airbnb or other...

The latest house price index, produced by the website Home, gives a broadly optimistic outlook for landlords and other buy to...

A leading PropTech figure says a political issue north of the border demonstrates the advantages of voluntary industry codes of practice over...

Strutt and Parker says the low level growth in the lettings market seen in prime central London in 2019 is being...

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

A senior lettings expert with almost four decades experience says evictions should not be considered during the virus crisis, irrespective of the...

The average rent in the UK has risen 1.5 per cent in just a month, but it is still a fraction...

A survey of 34 world cities suggests that London ranks sixth when it comes to the cost of renting. The study, by...

The Local Government Association, which represents almost all councils in England, is calling on the government to scrap section 21. The call comes...

There’s a warning this morning that the consequences of the Coronavirus crisis mean that rents will fall at least five per...

New tenancies recorded by The Deposit Protection Service suggests the market is back almost to its pre-pandemic levels of activity. Data in...

Coronavirus lockdowns and travel restrictions imposed by the UK and other governments have hit the London rental market badly, an agency...

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

The average rental asking price outside of London has hit an all-time high says Rightmove - whereas inside the capital, the...

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

Average rents in most regions of the UK have fallen slightly in the past month according to the latest HomeLet market...

Another agent reports huge surge in supply of London properties to let Yesterday Chestertons reported a large rise in the supply of...

One of the capital’s largest lettings agencies says business is recovering well, although ironically rents are down 10% and increased activity...

A lettings sector trade body, acting with homelessness charities, is urging the government to do more as young people in rented...

A Bill which would have introduced a general cap on rent increases in the private rental sector has been abandoned by...

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has given Letting Agent Today a statement trying to soothe critics of its...

The latest snapshot of the lettings market from PropTech firm Goodlord suggests that activity is much stronger now than a year...

A new league table has been produced listing locations where a mix of rental yield and capital growth have given buy...

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

A prominent economist who has called for a raft of measures to protect tenants during the Coronavirus crisis is now calling...

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

Average room rents in the capital have dipped seven per cent compared to this time last year according to a flat-sharing...

Labour has thrown its weight behind campaigning pressure groups in a general call to avoid what the party’s housing spokeswoman calls...

Research from franchise giant Belvoir is the latest to show what may be rapidly changing aspirations from private tenants. “The results confirm...

The industry’s major landlord trade body is urging its members to write to MPs to explains what it calls “the devastating...

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

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

The chairman of an agency chain is advising landlords to prepare for stock surpluses in some areas and to win tenants...

We’re familiar with the rental market being strong across England - now there’s news of it doing well north of the...

A lettings sector group says there was never any eviction crisis looming for private tenants, contrary to a slew of recent claims. New independent...

More than a third of furloughed private renters are worried about being able to pay their rent when the coronavirus lockdown...

PropTech firm Goodlord says there’s been “a remarkable bounce back” in the lettings sector since the market resumed. It’s been three weeks...

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

Rents in London have dropped by between 10 and 15 per cent as fewer people are willing or able to move...

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

A London council has sent an open letting to its buy to let landlords urging them to show understanding to tenants...

A leading trade body is backing calls by MPs for additional financial support to tenants during the Coronavirus crisis. The National Residential...

The return of the housing market has seen demand for rental property boom - and it’s a third higher now than...

A leading trade body is pleading with the government not to make it harder for landlords or their agent representatives to...

One of the country’s largest lettings agencies is to lose 17 jobs out of 100 in what the company founder calls...

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

A foundation which receives substantial funding from trade unions and a charity linked to the Nationwide is calling for rents to...

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

The Generation Rent pressure group is wrong to claim that the majority of landlords are failing to support tenants needing help...

A group of private rental activists says Labour proposals to give tenants two years to repay arrears accrued during the virus...

Shelter has delivered a 14,000-signature petition claiming that thousands of private renters who have lost their jobs could be facing eviction...

An economist who previously suggested tenants should live rent-free for three months during the Coronavirus crisis has revised his thinking -...

The latest market snapshot by PropTech firm Goodlord suggests that while new and completed tenancy volumes dropped rapidly in the first...

A pressure group representing private tenants wants government to help housing associations purchase buy to let properties “at knockdown prices.” A blog...

New research claims to show that the lockdown could end up with higher rents as demand in the lettings sector outstrips...

The typical rent for a London property makes it “the undefeated number one most expensive city in Europe” despite increases slowing...

Tenants paid a UK average monthly rent of £775 during the first quarter of this year according to the Deposit Protection...

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

The new National Residential Landlords Association has backed calls from the Labour Mayor of London to ensure the benefits system covers...

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

Student bodies want letting agents to acknowledge that many students have lost their incomes and have been forced to return to...

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

New and newly-refurbished properties are letting more readily as virtual viewings become more widespread during the lockdown. That’s the view of Knight...

A lettings sector website claims 40 per cent of tenants have seen their ability to pay full or in some cases...

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

One of the lettings sector’s biggest trade bodies is calling on government to make a clear statement to help landlords who...

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

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

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...

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

We imagine many agencies have encountered acts of kindness from their clients in recent days - and agents themselves are going...

A lettings market snapshot conducted before the worst effects of the Coronavirus were known suggests the rental market is relatively strong...

The typical UK private rental deposit, often considered high in this country, is thought to be relatively low by international standards...

The latest lettings market snapshot by HomeLet shows that average rents across the UK are still not breaking through the £1,000...

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

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

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

The typical landlord’s income from property has plummeted by a fifth in under a decade according to the National Landlords’ Association. Its...

Almost three quarters of Belvoir’s lettings franchisees anticipate rent increases this year.  In a survey of the franchise firm’s offices across the...

Another housing market snapshot suggests demand and confidence are improving as a result of the new political and economic landscape following...

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...

The latest lettings market snapshot provided by HomeLet shows that the average rent across the UK as a whole is now...

The latest market snapshot produced by PropTech firm Goodlord suggests that even in the south west of England - where renters...

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

A London Labour council wants to introduce rent controls to its borough. The South London Press reports that Lambeth councillors have voted through...

Nearly half a million properties could be removed from the long-term lettings market as disenchanted landlords move to short-lets. A survey by...

London’s asking rents hit a new record average of £2,119 per calendar month as the ongoing shortage of property for tenants...

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

The Association of Residential Letting Agents says the number of tenants successfully negotiating rent reductions has hit an all time low...

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

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

A trade body has come out against a council’s HMO licensing scheme, claiming that its consultation period was too short -...

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 angry response by the rental sector following the latest attack by campaigning charity Shelter. The organisation claims that private...

Plans to end the freeze on housing benefits will still leave many tenants unable to afford rent say landlords. Following the announcement...

A leading property industry figure says Airbnb is attempting to persuade traditional buy to let landlords into going down the short-let...

A trade magazine is reporting that online lettings agency Upad has been bought out by a PropTech platform. The Negotiator says Howsy...

A former director at LSL’s Build To Rent division has today been named as head of business development at a London...

The rental market is stable as it enters 2020 according to the latest index from PropTech company Goodlord.  Five out of the...

London rents increased by an average of 3.5 per cent in 2019 according to a European lettings monitor called HousingAnywhere. While this...

McCarthy & Stone, long associated with retirement properties only available to buy, has introduced a renting option at a number of...

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

One of the leading providers in the hyper-competitive deposit alternative niche has made a bid for support from London tenants by...

A high end lettings agency says the most expensive rural rental market in the north west of England is dominated by...

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...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has given a brief but optimistic assessment of the private rental market for next year. “As...

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

The latest lettings market snapshot by referencing firm HomeLet shows the average rent in the UK is now £947. This is up...

The new government must prioritise the implementation of proposals to ensure letting agents and others in the industry are appropriately qualified. That’s...

New data from the Association of Residential Lettings Agents shows how the festive slowdown has hit the market. The number of tenants...

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

Generation Rent, a campaign group that is consistently critical of lettings agencies and landlords, says a priority of the new government...

London as a whole has seen rental stock plummet by 22 per cent in just one year according to a market...

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

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

Owners of buy to let properties across the UK could be entitled to compensation due to onerous ground rent charges according...

A mortgage lender’s new Buy to Let City Tracker tool has calculated the best cities in the UK for buy to...

The average deposit paid by a new private tenant is now £1,299 according to a new player in the deposit alternative...

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

The latest rental market snapshot from the Association of Residential Letting Agents suggests that 50 per cent of agents witnessed an...

Controversial housing charity Shelter claims that private renters are collectively paying out £11 billion more a year – around £425 a...

The relatively low profile 99home online agency says it is now the UK’s fifth largest operation in the online sector after...

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

There’s been a steep rise in the costs of landlord joining a compulsory licensing scheme operated by Labour-controlled Nottingham city council. The...

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

Some 45 per cent of those who don’t yet own a home think they never will, according to a new report.  While...

One might have thought that if private rental tenants were as badly treated as some people suggest, housing would be their...

The latest lettings market snapshot by insurance firm HomeLet says the average rent across the UK is now £953, up 2.7...

The appeal by Labour’s Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, to be given powers to introduce rent controls have been dealt a...

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

A leading agent is the latest industry figure to speak out against rent controls, which continue to be advocated by Labour...

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

Higher housing costs - including private sector rents - have reduced incomes and increased inequality as the poorest families have borne...

The latest rental index from PropTech firm Goodlord shows some regions enjoying lower void periods with others slower to stabilise.  Specifically, the...

Knight Frank says the supply of new lettings properties in prime central London is likely to slow - and as a...

Industry supplier Let Alliance has merged with the Barbon Insurance Group, which includes HomeLet and Rentshield     The announcement was made at...

A collective of activist renter groups has set out a manifesto of what it wants from the winner of next month’s...

One of the leading lettings sector trade bodies has unveiled what it describes as “a positive vision for the private rented...

A new report from Knight Frank shows how the country’s most expensive lettings market - prime central London - has boomed. The...

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

A new building society mortgage product is aimed at allowing students to become first time buyers and to simultaneously become first...

The likely general election is an opportunity for the government to make the lettings sector more appealing for would-be landlords, says...

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

Most landlords are wary of the potential damage, smells and noise complaints that can come with accommodating a tenant with pets....

Countrywide’s high-end Hamptons International brand says it’s growing its lettings business “ethically and sustainably, regardless of market conditions.” It has ended the...

Property development and investment firm SevenCapital has released a top 10 league table of UK cities which it claims will perform...

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

New research from Rightmove shows almost a quarter of landlords are planning to sell at least one property from their current...

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...

Several lettings agencies have stepped up to offer help to stranded customers of the collapsed online service Upad. A notice on Upad’s...

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...

The cost of renting a room in the UK remained steady during Q3, according to SpareRoom. The country's biggest flatsharing site says...

Landlords have urged the authorities not to introduce rent controls in Manchester as they would 'choke off' supply of housing in...

A rental market slump in September has led to a rise in average void periods across many parts of England and...

The number of tenants experiencing rent rises following the introduction of the Tenant Fees Act continued its upward curve in August. 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...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has accused Labour of being thin on detail when it comes to the housing policies...

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

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