Archive

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...

Research by independent fact-checking organisation Full Fact has revealed that there are 12 local authority areas in the UK where a...

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

The number of properties that agents managed per branch fell to a 12-month low in October according to new figures released...

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

The average UK rent increased just £11.55 or 1.51 per cent over the last year according to The Deposit Protection Service. The new DPS...

The annual rate of rental growth slowed between September and October according to Countrywide. The cost of the average new let in...

The story of falling sale prices in prime central London has become familiar in the past year; now Knight Frank reports...

Average rents across the UK rose a modest 0.9 per cent in the year to October, taking the country's average to...

Student rents in some parts of the country have risen by as much as 18 per cent in the past year...

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

The Nationwide has set out a comprehensive study of how migrstion impacts on housing demand in the UK, especially in the...

A family-run lettings agency says its viability is seriously threatened by the likely fees ban to be introduced in 2018 -...

In the past 20 years the UK private rental sector has exploded! The sector has grown from under 10% of housing...

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

After several months of rising rent costs, the number of letting agents who saw landlords increasing prices for tenants fell substantially...

MPs from the cross-party Parliamentary Group for Ending Homelessness have spoken out on the need to help homeless people into the...

Interest from prospective tenants edged up during September according to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.    Of agent members who responded to...

Average rental values fell three per cent in the year to September 2017 according to Knight Frank.   This decline is the smallest...

Rents in the UK rose by an average of 2.1 per cent during September according to HomeLet.   HomeLet says last month’s rise continues...

Rents outside of London have dropped by 0.2 per cent in the third quarter of this year according to new data...

The shadow housing minister, John Healey, has started to flesh out the details of Labour's proposed rent controls, announced by Jeremy...

A new survey by a property insurance firm suggests more than half of private rental sector tenants have remained in the same...

Latest data from Your Move’s rental indices suggest that rents are growing, with the average in England and Wales now £904,...

Even those earning average salaries risk being priced out of the lettings market by high rents according to an insurance agency.    Research...

Trade groups have reacted angrily to Labour’s proposal to introduce rent controls if the party enters government.   The announcement, made by Labour...

Jeremy Corbyn has used his leader’s speech at the end of this week’s Labour conference in Brighton to commit the party...

The number of letting agents who saw landlords increasing rent costs for tenants rose to 35 per cent in August according...

A landlord has been prosecuted and ordered to repay over £5,000 to his tenants for letting an unlicensed House of Multiple...

A new report into student accommodation has found that private student rent remains at an average of £100 to £119 a...

The Nationwide Building Society says it is assembling what it calls ‘an industry alliance’ to support the increasingly-beleaguered private rental sector.   The...

Rents in the UK rose by an average of 2.4 per cent during August - the highest rate of annual growth...

Some 61 per cent of chartered surveyors believe there will be a net exodus of landlords over the coming year thanks...

Average rents for newly-let property across Great Britain rose to £954 per month in August, reflecting a 1.6 per cent annual...

Graduates sharing in London spend upwards of 45 per cent of their monthly take home pay on accommodation according to a...

The majority of MPs speaking at a House of Commons debate yesterday acknowledged they are wary of the 'unintended consequences' of...

A third of tenants can't imagine ever taking their first step on the property ladder and owning their own home. This is...

A survey conducted for MyDeposits suggests some nine per cent of landlords - or one in 11 - is likely to...

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

Your Move says a shrinking supply of properties, in part created by government measures against the lettings sector, has led to...

Political uncertainty across the UK and increased restrictions on buy to let are leading many landlords to raise rents and review...

Romans says one in four of its registered buyers in the first half of this year has been an investor, suggesting...

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

Prime Central London’s lettings market has improved gradually during the first two quarters of the year according to JLL.   It says transaction...

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

The number of tenants entering the market across the UK has risen by 7.3 per cent on the month - but...

Belvoir is warning that some buy to let investors are quitting the sector.   “Although we are not currently seeing a huge exit...

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

The annual rate of rental growth across Britain doubled between June and July driven by a turnaround in the London market,...

A survey of almost 3,000 landlords suggests more than one in five plans to sell at least one of their investment...

Buy to let investors are losing confidence in their ability to rely on steady rental yields, according to recent figures from...

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

The number of letting agents reporting rent rises over the past month is the highest for over a year according to...

With a host of changing regulations hitting the private rental sector, some landlords may be put off using letting agents, but...

The typical rent paid by tenants across Britain rose by an average of 1.8 per cent in the 12 months to...

Countrywide says that the average price of a new let in Britain rose by 1.1 per cent year-on-year in June 2017...

Purpose-built and professionally-managed Build To Rent - until now seen as a primarily London phenomenon - appears on the march in Scotland...

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

Asking rents outside London continue to hold up despite the market having more available properties, according to Rightmove.   Prices rose 2.8 per...

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

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

Almost one in seven private renters are spending more than half of their total income on rent, in stark contrast to...

Rents in prime central London have dropped 4.4 per cent in the past year - although that annual drop is not...

Over a quarter of letting agents saw rents rise in May - the highest level since June last year when 28...

Bidding software that provides a new revenue stream for letting agents has been unveiled by a start up called Letsbid4lets.    The bidding...

London rents have fallen by an average 5.0 per cent in the past year according to new data released by Your...

Rents in Scotland dropped 2.3 per cent on average in the month leading up to the General Election according to Your...

ARLA has led a call by many letting agents on hearing the Queen’s Speech - what was the point of a...

The Queen’s Speech, outlining the government’s proposals for the next two years, has confirmed a pledge to introduce a ban on...

The weakness of the pound since Britain’s decision to quit the European Union a year ago means that holiday properties are...

Rents in prime central London are down 4.8 per cent in the past year according to Knight Frank - a slightly...

Stoke-on-Trent has been named as the UK's buy-to-let 'sweet spot'. Analysis of data from Home.co.uk by property crowdfunding plaform Property Partner shows...

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

The prospect of today's General Election as well as ongoing uncertainty surrounding Britain's exit from the European Union is having a...

Large letting agents found to be flouting the incoming ban on letting agent fees should receive fines up to £30,000 to...

Average UK rents fell in May, according to the latest HomeLet Rental Index. The figures show that the average UK rent on...

The latest analysis of buy to let trends by letting agency franchise chain Belvoir has identified a specific lack of rental...

A new report says buy to let will continue to provide good investment opportunities but requires an increasingly professional approach.   The report,...

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

Online lettings agency Upad claims 20 per cent of landlords are set to increase their rents to their tenants thanks to...

ARLA Propertymark says the number of properties managed per member increased marginally last month, from 183 to 185 - but there was...

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

Landlords are increasingly looking to reduce the fees they pay to letting agents due to industry tax changes and increasing management...

Rents on new tenancies in London fell by 1.2 per cent over the past 12 months to April - the first...

Tenants aged between 18 and 39 and living alone spend 69 per cent of their monthly post-tax income on rent according...

The Conservatives should introduce rent controls to kick-start a seaside town renaissance, suggests an organisation set up originally by the David Cameron...

A letting sector trade body says two thirds of the largest buy to let mortgage lenders do not allow landlords to...

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

Letting agents have reporting an average of four landlords per branch selling up and quitting the buy to let sector in...

Over a third of adults are now living in some sort of social or private rental accommodation.    New research from insurance firm...

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

The number of people committing to tenancies for two years or more is declining according to new data released by Foxtons.   In...

New data from HomeLet shows that rental price inflation in the UK remained modest during March, increasing a small amount for...

The number of prospective new tenants in the Home Counties over the first three months of the year has risen 15...

There has been a three per cent increase in remortgaging levels amongst buy to let investors in March according to data...

A property firm at the centre of the campaign against phasing out landlords’ mortgage interest relief says is urging tenants to...

Mark Witherspoon, the data services director at ZPG, has joined the board of Barbon Insurance Group, which operates the HomeLet and...

ARLA Propertymark says it will launch a campaign against the government’s proposed ban on letting agents’ fees levied on tenants “in...

The government’s formal consultation on its proposed ban for fees levied on tenants by agents has been greeted with derision and...

The remaining overhand of last year’s buy to let buying surge by landlords means the annual rate of rent rises has...

The speed at which rents across are growing has more than halved since a three per cent stamp duty surcharge on second...

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

The fall in rents across prime central London’s lettings market are slowing according to Knight Frank. It claims rents have dropped 4.9...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is keeping up its campaign against a ban on agents’ fees in England by showing...

There are 4,000 jobs at risk if an outright ban comes into force on letting agents’ fees according to new research...

  Renters are spending half their wages keeping a roof over their head, are twice as likely as homeowners to have no...

Angry landlords in Shropshire have set up an online petition against local council proposals to introduce selective licensing.    The Wrekin Landlords Association...

Rent increases have slowed in London with only eight per cent of agents reporting increases last month - and a quarter...

L&Q has launched 59 Build To Rent units on the site of the former Walthamstow greyhound racing stadium in London.   The operator...

Half of England’s local authorities claim it is ‘very difficult’ to assist homeless applicants into privately rented accommodation, according to a...

Private renters go on fewer holidays, save less money and are more likely to make forced cutbacks than home owners according...

A survey of students in Birmingham has discovered that over 44 per cent of respondents claim to have paid what the...

It seems prop-tech is exploding at a scary rate, and the latest brands are all trying to grab our attention by...

Specialist mortgage lender Together is the latest company to back the idea of rent payment records being used to measure the...

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

A trade body claims that vulnerable tenants are finding it harder to access rented housing because of tax changes being introduced...

There was a sigh of relief amongst the lettings industry that yesterday's Budget introduced no new property taxes - but concern...

Upad, which claims to be Britain's larges online lettings agency, says Manchester has seen a 100 per cent increase in buy to...

The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) is writing to the Office for Budget Responsibility asking it to provide clarification on controversial tax...

Rents rose by a year-on-year average of 0.8 per cent at the end of last month - while inflation in the...

Belvoir says new figures from across its network of agents shows that the government is wrong to claim that renting is...

Letting Agent Today’s Conor Shilling was in the audience of The Great Buy To Let Debate - always one of the...

The Loughborough Building Society is launching a Buy For Uni mortgage product seeking to encourage students to buy a home -...

A Conservative MP has launched a scathing attack on some landlords in his own constituency following a local council initiative to...

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

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

Protests planned by tenants’ groups for many Santander bank branches over the past weekend turned instead into celebrations after the institution...

Tenants face potential rent increases of between 20 and 30 per cent as a result of tax rises hitting landlords, says...

Opponents of the proposed change to mortgage interest tax relief for landlords have promised what they call a “shock and awe”...

A new online estate agency based in London says that to rent the recommended space for a single person in the...

Countrywide says that last month the cost of a new let was 2.6 per cent higher than in the same month...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has given a stark warning about the cumulative effect of the additional homes stamp duty...

Average rents ended 2016 higher than they started it according to figures from Your Move relating to England and Wales.   The average...

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

David Miles, a former Bank of England economist, has described the government’s mortgage interest tax relief reform as “terrible” - but...

Rents in the UK were an average of just 0.7 per cent higher last month than in January 2016, the latest...

A trade magazine and a national newspaper are reporting anger amongst landlords, tenants and housing groups following the discovery of a...

The government should think again about punitive tax changes to the private rented sector after receiving greater-than-expected revenue from the three...

Housing minister Gavin Barwell says recent changes to buy to let mortgage interest relief and stamp duty will only affect a...

A buy to let mortgage lender claims that five out of six areas affected by the long-running spate of strikes on...

The cost of private rented housing is roughly mirroring changes in earnings across England - but in the social rented sector...

Benham & Reeves Residential Lettings says it is encouraging its London landlords to avoid rent rises and instead focus on retaining...

Average private rents in Scotland at the national level recorded an uncharacteristic dip in the final quarter of 2016, down 0.9...

Prime rents in the Home Counties dipped 0.8 per cent last year, but with the speed of fall appearing to be...

Figures from investment company London Central Portfolio suggest that re-lets of older properties to new tenants showed a fall in rents...

Asking rents rose 3.0 per cent outside of London in 2016 - but will rise 4.0 per cent in 2017. That’s the...

Rent increases across the UK are now running at an average that is less than half the level of a year...

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

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

The couple believed to be the owners of Britain’s largest buy to let portfolio have defended sending letting agents an 11-point...

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

This is the final Letting Agent Today until Tuesday January 3 2017, so everyone at Angels Media sends all good wishes for...

Rents across the UK grew by a modest 1.12 per cent in 2016 according to buy to let lender Landbay -...

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

The surge in properties to let which came on to the prime central London market after the April 1 stamp duty...

Rents in London rose by just 1.6 per cent over the year to the end of November - the lowest increase...

The average London rent in November was 0.7 per cent lower than last year - not an enormous fall but nonetheless...

The latest market survey by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors suggests rents will rise in 2017 for one simple reason...

The dramatic slump in the prime central London sales market is now leading to a reduction in rents being achieved in...

Members of the Association of Residential Letting Agents predict a fall in the number of homes being available to let next...

Agency chain Spicerhaart is warning that tenants could pay up to three times as much as they currently do, if tenant...

Landlord confidence has returned despite government tax changes to the private rental sector - although research for the survey that produced...

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

A letting agency says the scale of confusion over letting agents’ fees is such that some tenants actually believe the deposit...

Many agencies have spoken out in dismay at the announcement by government that letting agency fees on tenants would be banned...

  Industry groups have warned that the government’s ban on letting agency fees levied on tenants in England will backfire, with most...

The government will today announce that it is banning letting agents’ fees levied on tenants - meaning the fees will instead...

The UK is only the 15th best place in Europe to enjoy high returns from buy to let according to currency...

The Residential Landlords’ Association says it stands by a claim that one in four landlords may sell up, and it refutes...

One the leading letting agencies in Brighton has sharply criticised a proposal by the local council to introduce a selective licensing...

A lettings agent has poured scorn on a survey suggesting a quarter of landlords are about to quit buy to let,...

The boss of easyProperty says he wants the Associational of Residential Letting Agents to back an initiative for so-called ‘referencing passports’...

A survey of 1,000 buy to let investors by the Residential Landlords’ Association shows that around a quarter are saying they...

Average rents across the country have risen just three per cent in the past year and typical tenants are staying an...

Rents have fallen in prime central London for every month for the past year and tenants now have the whip hand,...

Another prominent mortgage chief has called on the government to show its support for the private rental sector by repealing some...

Lettings expert Kate Faulkner says yields - a traditional long-standing measure of success for buy to let landlords - are becoming...

There has been a 25 per cent rise in the number of prime central London tenancies according to Knight Frank -...

In an otherwise-downbeat set of predictions for 2017 and beyond, Savills says that rental growth is likely to outstrip sales price growth...

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

Average rents across the UK are up eight per cent over the past 15 months according to Connells Group - but...

Buy to let landlords may be forced to raise rents or even sell their properties because of the government’s new tax...

Government figures from the Office for National Statistics show average rents in privately let homes across Britain rose by an average...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is warning that proposals to enforce minimum room sizes in HMOs in the privste rental...

The average rent for two bedroom apartments has risen to more than a third of gross average earnings of tenants in...

A well-known mortgage broker is quoted as saying that buy to let organisations are complaining too much over tax changes for...

Rents have flat-lined across most of the capital according to Benham & Reeves Residential Lettings, which says it is advising its...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has responded to the latest government recommendations for tighter controls on the private rental sector...

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

A senior Conservative peer has renewed his attack on his own party over the buy to let tax grab on landlords,...

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

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

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

The financial downturn was “probably the best thing that could have happened” to this country’s private rental sector according to lettings...