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

The number of film-related enquiries for short lets received by Knight Frank in the year to May has shown a rise...

Data from Rightmove suggests that demand from tenants looking for a new home has soared seven per cent since the Tenants...

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...

Data from a student accommodation specialist firm shows average rents across many cities are stuck at around a 20-year average of...

Throughout April and May, we ran a high-profile campaign across our sites, Landlord Today, Estate Agent Today, Letting Agent Today and...

The Welsh Government has started a formal consultation on proposals that include extending the minimum notice period applicable to a section...

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

Data from rental insurance firm HomeLet suggests that the Tenant Fees Act may already be causing more movement amongst tenants. The firm...

The average UK rent rose from £757 to £771 during the second quarter of 2019 - that’s 1.7 per cent, according...

An online room-letting platform claims rents have risen up to eight per cent in wake of the Tenant Fee Act. ideal flatmate...

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

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

There has been no change to rental yields across the UK over the past month as the lettings market settles down...

A leading trade body is urging the candidates to lead the Conservative Party to adopt a more positive approach to the...

The corner may have turned for the London rental market as prices grew between April and May, according to the latest...

An average of 34 per cent of a tenant’s typical salary is spent on rent across the UK, according to an...

There’s been a dramatic 37 per cent rise in rental instructions for prime properties in the capital during the first quarter...

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

Agents need to be pro-actively using PropTech and improving their work methods to reduce voids for their landlord clients. That’s the view...

Deposit alternative service flatfair has partnered with Barbon Insurance Group to co-market the two organisations’ products. “We’re thrilled to partner with the...

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

Consultation is underway to extend a landlord licensing scheme in a London borough where a third of households rents privately.  Three types...

Two landlords will this evening be seen securing the £16,000 they are owed by a rogue lettings agent - and TV...

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...

The latest rental market snapshot from PropTech firm Goodlord shows that average rent increased in four of the eight regions of...

A think tank is blaming high rents for apparently stopping Millennials moving to better paying parts of the country. A report from...

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

The public are described as being “sceptical and confused” over the fees ban that comes into effect tomorrow.  A survey by insurance...

The fierce competition in the lettings market in parts of London means that some tenants will feel no benefit from the...

The Mayor of London is under pressure to pull advertisements calling on landlords to stop providing homes for Londoners and move...

The latest Your Move lettings index for England and Wales shows the average rent stagnating - rising just 0.5 per cent...

With the Tenant Fee Ban obliterating a key income stream, letting agents should be looking at ways they can increase the...

The impact of Britain’s decision to leave the European Union has not hit the central London lettings sector as much as...

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

A rental market expert is urging landlords to be cautious when considering to use short-term lets websites such as Airbnb to...

New data from Proptech firm Goodlord suggests that the average void period for England and Wales is just 21 days. The longest...

New data looking specifically at room rental rates suggest that across the UK rents rose by an average three per cent...

A new report by a leading lettings sector expert cautions parents who are considering entering the Buy To Let sector by...

Rents across England and Wales have not moved in the last 12 months, according to Your Move.  The agency says the typical...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents says there is a record number of homes available to renters - but this does...

A 23 year old lettings agent has tragically died from a bacterial form of meningitis, a serious infection of the thin...

A Liberal Democrat activist is considering establishing a landlords’ group consisting of party members. Tony Harris, writing on the LibDem Voice website,...

Figures calculated by Rightmove suggest that even when the Fees Ban and Deposit Caps kick in on June 1, some deposits...

Startling figures released this morning by Rightmove suggest that rents have risen 8.2 per cent in London in the past year...

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

The scrapping of Section 21, as proposed by the government, shows that Whiteall has “a Dickensian view” of the buy to...

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

Average monthly UK rent is now at its lowest level for three years according to the Deposit Protection Service. Average rent fell...

Buy to let investors are facing a double whammy as stagnating rents and reduced tax relief are hitting profitability. A study from...

The rapid growth of Airbnb-style short lets could lead to the loss of private rented homes and displacement of long-term residents...

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

A controversial new survey claims to have identified the best cities for millennials to live in based on factors such as...

Latest lettings market data from high-end agency Knight Frank shows that average rents in prime central London rose 1.1 per cent...

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

The number of agents seeing rent rises imposed on tenants hit 34 per cent in February, well up on the 26...

The average rent across England and Wales in February was a mere 0.4 per cent higher than the same point a...

A postgraduate’s study of people who live in cars and vans on Bristol’s streets says they make the choice to do...

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

Rent rises in the year to the end of February, as released by the government’s Office of National Statistics, show growth...

The JLL lettings agency is warning that the five week deposit cap enshrined in the Tenant Fees Act is likely to...

A crooked letting agent took £220,000 from tenants and landlords and has been exposed as buying a home in Florida, renting...

The Residential Landlords Association has given its backing to Zoopla’s ban on agents and landlords advertising properties to rent as ‘No...

Rent in London is the most expensive in Europe for expats, new research shows. The UK capital’s rent averages US$7,189 - that’s...

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

Labour says it will introduce new ‘indefinite’ tenancies for private tenants, based on rules currently in place in Germany. It claims German...

The average rent in the UK is now £940 per month, up 3.8 per cent on this time last year. When London’s...

A landlord has been convicted of three offences relating to his failure to comply with fire safety requirements in a privately...

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

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

A new index for the lettings sector in England and Wales by PropTech company Goodlord gives a clean bill of health...

Data from Knight Frank shows that annual rental values actually grew in parts of prime outer London last month for the...

Rents over three prime London areas rose by 1.9 per cent in the final quarter of 2018 according to property data...

Demand for room rentals in London is so high their average charge has risen two per cent in 2019 already, claims...

More tenants are seeing rent increases, according to the latest market snapshot delivered by the Association of Residential Letting Agents. It says...

Short lets on Airbnb and similar platforms are causing increasing irritation for owners in residential blocks, according to a property management...

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

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

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

Latest official figures show that private rental prices paid by tenants in the UK rose by 1.0 per cent in 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 average rent in the UK is now £932, which is a rise of 2.5 per cent on this time last...

Throughout 2018 the number of homes available to rent in prime areas of London dropped 13 per cent. In particular, 80 per...

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

A flat-share website claims typical rents in some 38 per cent of London are now so high they render the areas...

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

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

Council enforcement officers have raided a house in Wembley, north London, and found 19 tenants paying a landlord £1,000 a week. Brent council’s...

Sometimes, running a lettings agency can feel as if you’re losing control of client money. Recent cases of property management fraud such...

The Residential Landlords Association says the government’s changes to Universal Credit don’t go far enough to prevent rent arrears. The RLA says...

High-end lettings agency Strutt & Parker says the take-up of new rental tenancies decreased by 5.4 per cent over 2018 as...

The BBC’s Reality Check service, respected for giving a more realistic assessment of many politicians’ promises, has looked at London mayor...

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

Tenants are in for a rocky ride this year - and it’s chiefly the fault of government, says the chief executive...

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

The Property Ombudsman says agents can display weekly rents for homes they market - but they should be displayed alongside monthly...

Andrews lettings agency in Oxford has emerged as the hero in an episode which saw a family evicted from their home...

London-focussed lettings agency ludlowthompson says buy to let landlords across the country claimed a record £17.7 billion in tax relief last...

There’s been an angry reaction to the suggestion that London’s Labour mayor, Sadiq Khan, is seeking to introduce rent controls in...

Renting became more affordable in 2018 thanks to a combination of a once-in-a-decade fall in annual rents and wage inflation, according...

A buy to let investor has lost possession of his flat after converting it into an Illegal House in Multiple Occupation...

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...

English letting agencies could lose over £60,000 each in the next two years alone as a result of the Tenant Fees...

A lettings market snapshot from Rightmove suggests asking rents in London are now increasing at an annual rate not seen for...

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

The lettings industry has welcomed news that reforms to Universal Credit will include a new online system for private landlords to...

A report claims that England has just 825 homes for every 1,000 families as a result of two decades of house...

The average UK rental values continued to grow towards the end of last year according to data with the average rent now...

The Daily Mail has reported on a massive buy to let fiddle which involved a £10.8m property empire, rents totalling £500,000...

The latest market snapshot from LSL Property Services once again shows that buy to let investors in northern regions have enjoyed...

Knight Frank has issued a relatively upbeat assessment of the prime London lettings market as the year draws to a close.  Firstly...

A property website says tenants and prospective renters in London are set to have ‘a torrid 2019’ because of a shortage of...

Edinburgh has been identified as having the UK’s fastest growing rents with the average annual sum rising by 4.63 per cent...

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

It’s the lull before the storm for private tenants according to the Association of Residential Lettings Agents. In its market snapshot looking...

A PropTech platform claims landlords can cut administration costs so much that they could afford to offer their lettings units furnished...

Rents in major regional cities are growing significantly faster than both London and the UK average, according to data from buy...

Most tenants believe they will never be able to own a home because of the burden of saving for a deposit...

Embattled London Labour mayor Sadiq Khan says he wants rent controls to be introduced in the capital’s private rental sector, but...

High end lettings agency Knight Frank says the proportion of properties listed for rent in prime London residential markets in October...

HomeLet’s latest snapshot of the lettings market suggests that the average UK rent is now £918 pcm - that’s 1.5 per...

Some 79 per cent of landlords are only servicing the interest on their mortgages, not paying down their loans, according to...

An angry lettings agent has emailed Cabinet minister James Brokenshire to show his disgust at the government’s U-turn over deposit caps. In...

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

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

The private rental sector in Wales could be offered incentives and other support to house those most in need, the Welsh...

There’s been a large jump in the number of tenants successfully negotiating rent reductions according to the Association of Residential Letting...

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

OnTheMarket, which is beginning to undertake occasional property research, has released data identifying what proportion of tenants’ salaries are spent on...

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

The head of a lettings agency has launched a petition in opposition to a bid by a local council to extend...

More landlords will leave the private rented sector in the next year as annual rental price growth has been flat or...

A substantial study by university academics suggests that changes to the benefit system lie behind the long-term rise in homelessness from...

The average rent in the UK is now £928 per calendar month, up by 2.1 per cent on the same time...

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

A new study has revealed that the average Briton rents four years longer than they initially planned to, because of stubbornly-high...

The number of lettings listings in prime central London fell 18 per cent in the year to September, says Knight Frank. The...

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

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

The 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...

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...

Rightmove is reporting that average asking rents outside London have topped £800 per month for the first time, fuelled by a...

The number of tenants seeing their rents rise continues to go up according to the latest market snapshot produced by the...

Just one region of England and Wales saw rents fall in the year to September 2018, according to the latest Your...

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

A managing agent who used ‘ghost tenants’ as a front so that she could cram 16 people into one overcrowded house...

New data from Countrywide’s luxury brand agency Hamptons International says the average price of a home bought by a landlord in...

New research may explain why the government and Labour appear to be competing with each other to attack landlords and letting...

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

With an average rental return of 7.69 per cent Ireland has been named as the top location in Europe for buy to...

Knight Frank says the annual rental value growth has returned to prime central London due to declining supply levels - the...

New research has attempted to quantify the number and scale of rent rises that are likely to take place as landlords...

A PropTech entrepreneur says all agents would benefit from the introduction of more automation, but that those with student tenants may...

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

The percentage of tenants experiencing rent hikes in August was the highest for almost four years according to the Association of...

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

Three London lettings sub-markets performed relatively weakly according to data just released by Knight Frank. Wimbledon’s rental values fell 1.5 per cent...

Latest government figures show that private rents paid by tenants in Great Britain rose by 0.9 per cent in the 12...

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

Rent-to-rent operator Residently says area with high volumes of tech company employees are leading the lettings market’s growth in London. The firm...

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

HomeLet says the average rent in the UK is now £947, up 0.9 per cent on last year - or up...

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

Barbon Insurance Group, which trades as HomeLet and Rentshield Direct, has now snapped up Movem. Movem uses personal online banking transaction data...

An investment trust has been launched and looks likely to be competing for individual investors who may see it as an...

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

A top London letting agent working for Knight Frank has commented on the 'irony' that the government's series of tax changes...

Generation Rent, the controversial pressure group campaigning alongside Shelter and others for the scrapping of landlords’ rights to evict under Section...

The ongoing debate over some letting agents and landlords allegedly refusing to accept tenants in receipt of housing benefit has now...

Lettings agents’ representatives have hit back at an accusation of discrimination made against the industry. A report by Shelter and the National...

The council behind a controversial private rental sector licensing scheme is trying to justify its introduction on health and safety grounds. On...

The lettings sector is in the midst of a summer slowdown with no pick up in activity expected until next month,...

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...

Rents are expected to surge 15 per cent over the next five years thanks to increasing demand and limited supply following...

Average rents in London are £1,615, up 3.3 per cent on last year, according to HomeLet’s latest index. This is the first...

Negative media portrayals of the buy to let sector could help to tip Britain into a housing crisis, claims an online...

Controversial landlord Fergus Wilson has increased rents on all new tenancies in his property portfolio by £50 a week because of...

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

The latest Your Move rental tracker suggests that London’s lettings market has continued to cool with prices falling by 0.5 per...

Data from Knight Frank’s lettings division suggests that rents in the troubled Prime Central London area have risen for the second...

CityLets, Scotland’s largest online lettings listings service, says it’s business as usual for the market north of the border despite a...

The Association of Independent Inventory Clerks says it still believes there is an opportunity for the government to introduce mandatory inventory...

A lack of new rental properties coming to the market in London has helped push the annual rate of London asking...

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

Newspapers in Kent are reporting that controversial buy to let multi-millionaire Fergus Wilson has evicted four single mothers from his properties...

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

Letting agents and landlords have been warned to expect a possible rise in arrears in the coming months if conditions in...

Average UK rents have risen 1.8 per cent in the last year, equating to a typical £16 monthly hike. That’s the view...

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

Close examination of the consultation document on possible three year tenancies issued by the government suggest that it may want rent...

The latest monthly report from the Association of Residential Letting Agents puts the  number of rental properties managed by agents at...

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

We’re all for an optimistic interpretation of events but a new tool from comparison website GoCompare lists the UK’s top buy...

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

A head tenant who changed the locks on a property that was illegally sublet to no fewer than 35 men has...

Landlords exiting the market because of tax and red tape have led to “an acute shortage of available properties to rent”...

Outsourcing has long been an effective strategy in business. It enables you to provide a new, improved or more streamlined service...

The average rent in the UK is now £919, up two per cent on the same time last year according to...

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

The chief of what is described as Britain’s largest lettings agency has told an influential group of MPs that the proposed...

The GMB trades union has waded in to the debate over whether rents in the private rental sector in London are...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents says it is seeing the highest number of landlords selling their buy to let properties...

Two million tenants will this year be hit with rent rises totalling a combined £46m a month according to an online...

Over 70% of Conservative councillors and housing leads have indicated that £2 billion pledged for affordable housing is not enough to...

The government has responded to a petition calling for it to abolish the 3% stamp duty surcharge and reintroduce full buy-to-let...

Data from Your Move's England and Wales Rental Tracker shows that the number of tenants in arrears increased for the fourth...

MPs will today undertake the second reading of the Tenant Fees Bill which proposes to ban upfront tenant fees and introduce...

Spicerhaart says that with the lettings agency industry under attack there is a danger of some within the sector focussing too...

A prominent campaigner for alternatives to traditional rental sector deposits is welcoming the government’s commitment to consider the issue in the...

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

Time to put the gloom and doom about buy to let to one side - a new analysis shows that a...

The average rent in the UK is now £918, up by 1.5 per cent on the same time last year according...

The industry has reacted angrily to the announcement yesterday that the Tenants’ Fees Bill is now formally starting its progress through...

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

Up to 500,000 so-called Baby Boomers have been hit by allegedly unaffordable rents and a lack of appropriate housing for older...

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...

Labour insists that if it forms the next government it will introduce ‘living rents’ in a new range of affordable homes...

Belvoir has published what it calls ‘a decade of data’ tracking the changes in the private rental sector since 2008, when...

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

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

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

Council officers staged a dawn raid to uncover an unlicensed HMO in north London. The team discovered 10 men and women sleeping...

The average UK rent outside London is now £761, with London’s average being £1,879 - meaning tenants across the country now...

Specialist buy to let lender LendInvest has looked at 105 postcodes across England and Wales to find the best (and worst)...

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

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

A short lets management firm claims Londoners who let their homes over the upcoming Easter weekend could bag themselves a small...

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

Belvoir says there is no evidence of a large-scale sell-off of buy to let properties by beleaguered landlords, but 85 per...

Knight Frank says prime central London rents have fallen on a quarterly basis for the 28th consecutive month - a record. The...

Average rental values in prime central London fell 2.1 per cent in the year to February according to Knight Frank -...

Well over twice as many Scottish tenants have seen their rents rise at the start of the year compared to those...

Grainger plc, the UK’s largest listed residential landlord, has launched a scheme of 29 two, three and four bedroom houses aimed...

The latest figures from LSL Property Services suggest that rents have increased across the UK by an average 2.5 per cent in the...

ARLA Propertymark has issued a downbeat report on the lettings sector’s start to 2018.  Its report on the market's performance in January says...

A housing charity has called for the government to build more affordable social homes for rent to help families 'trapped' in...

The director of a lettings agency who who stole hundreds of thousands of pounds to spend on holidays and other luxuries...

The Residential Landlords Association says Labour’s proposals to link rent increases to inflation would leave tenants worse off according to official...

Rents in the UK rose by an average of 2.4 per cent in the year to the end of January according...

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

High end agency Strutt & Parker is warning that older properties in prime central London are getting harder to let, with...

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

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

Tenant demand edged up in the three months to January, according to RICS, but landlord instructions have fallen back - suggesting...

The National Landlords’ Association is reporting that around 16 per cent of its members in outer London have reduced rents over...

High London rents - with the average now running at £1,280 - are driving tenants into sharing according to an online...

Research by NALS has revealed extensive increases in the cost of licensing of lettings properties and landlords by local authorities in...

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

Homes in Multiple Occupation produced average yields of 8.9 per cent in 2017, the highest of all buy to let property...

The average rent in England and Wales was £850 in December 2017, an increase of 2.3 per cent in the last...

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

The average rent agreed on a new tenancy signed in December was £907 according to the insurance firm HomeLet, compared to...

A fine of over £29,000 has been imposed on an absentee landlord whose property was said to have put tenants’ lives...

NoAgent, an online service charging landlords a fee to manage their properties, is the latest to offer a link between tenants’...

Private rental prices paid by tenants in Great Britain rose by 1.2 per cent in the 12 months to December according...

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

The average asking rent across the UK - excluding London - rose by just 0.7 per cent in 2017 according to...

New research claims that as many as 78 per cent of young adults aged 18 to 30 fear they will never...

The Property Ombudsman scheme has today announced three expulsions of agencies as a result of non-payment of rent or awards. Firstly, a...

A lettings agency has written to MPs setting out an eloquent case for a cap on agents’ fees levied on tenants...

The UK’s army of buy to let landlords will still benefit from £16.7 billion worth of tax relief even after the...

One of the lettings sector’s biggest lenders, Santander, is allowing its buy to let landlord borrowers to offer assured shorthold tenancies...

MPs today discuss the impact of Universal Credit on the private rented sector, in a debate prompted by the Liberal Democrat’s...

UK rents grew by a tiny 0.56 per cent in 2017 according to specialist lender Landbay. However, in a special exercise, the...

Automated rental payment provider PayProp has joined the call for private rent payments to be counted towards tenants’ credit scores in...

Government proposals to ban letting agent fees levied on tenants next year are unlikely to make renting cheaper as new research...

Latest data from HomeLet suggests that typical rents across the UK have fallen in real terms over the past 12 months. Average...

Latest lettings findings from franchise agency Belvoir shows that in the third quarter of this year average rents were just £3 a...

Millennials renting an average-sized property outside of London, who begin their tenancy at age 21, will spend an average of £110,830...

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

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

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

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

A leasehold campaigner has called on the Queen to end her support for what he calls the UK's “feudal leasehold system” by changing the...

A cocktail of tax reform and tighter regulation is slowing growth across the private rental sector, despite its value hitting a new...

There has been a record number of new student accommodation bed spaces delivered in 2017, with possible consequences for future buy...

Average rents in prime central London fell 2.4 per cent year-on-year in November, which was the most modest decline recorded in...

Knight Frank says average rents are to rise by 14 per cent between the start of next year and the end...

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

A large shake up of the private rental sector begins in Scotland tomorrow with the introduction of Private Residential Tenancies replacing...

The owner of a property firm who reportedly misled tenants and let an illegally converted property has been jailed for 155...