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More multi-millionaires and billionaires are choosing to rent super-prime homes in London, rather than purchase, reveals a new wealth report Beauchamp Estates’...

Savills is warning that despite strong income growth, rising rents are stretching the finances of those in the private rental sector.  Savills...

An agency has issued its rental market forecast for 2024. Chestertons says rents are forecast to have increased by 6.5 per cent...

Leaders Romans Group has launched a new benefit which supports employees undergoing fertility treatment. The benefit allows staff time off (unpaid for...

Last week’s Autumn Statement - which fell short of expectations in terms of help for the private rental sector - is...

Propertymark has issued a strongly-worded statement aimed at politicians demanding rent controls. Labour Members of the Scottish Parliament have urged the declaration...

New research has identified locations with the largest volume of available rental stock, based on those units at or below the...

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has used his Autumn Statement to reveal measures affecting both the rental market and the wider property industry.  The Local Housing...

A prominent lettings agent says there’s been a definite improvement in rental affordability in most areas - but he doubts all...

Affordability limits have been reached in several regions of the UK, the Home property website suggests. While some regions are still recording...

The Office for National Statistics official government lettings index shows that private rental prices paid by tenants in the UK increased...

Annual rental growth across prime London slowed slightly to 8.1 per cent in October according to property data firm LonRes.  However, rents...

The lettings market shows little sign of slowing as rents rose 11.7 per cent year-on-year across Britain in October, says the...

Over seven in 10 landlords report rising tenant demand during the third quarter – a new record high, research conducted on...

Propertymark wants Housing Secretary Michael Gove to continue with ground rent reforms for leaseholders following the launch of a consultation into this...

The government is considering five different options for ground rent as the reform process for the sector begins. The government is committed...

The latest RICS lettings market survey shows another increase in rental demand - but that demand appears to be slowing. The institution’s...

The UK lettings market, after experiencing recent surges in prices, is now displaying signs of returning to its seasonal patterns.  This is...

An industry supplier owned by the Leaders Romans Group says the government’s pledge to reform - not replace - leasehold should...

One of the first forecasts for the rental market for 2024 suggests that strong growth will continue. Property consultancy JLL says that...

Normality appeared on the horizon in the prime London rental market in October according to high end agency Knight Frank.  Average rents...

New figures have shown that 2,086 people were found to be sleeping on London’s streets for the first time between July...

A student lettings business claims the cycle of booking accommodation for the 2024-25 academic year has already started in some cities. The...

The Scottish Greens - who are in effect the architects of rent controls north of the border - have welcomed a...

There’s been widespread dismay in the industry as the outcome of a Judicial Review has backed the Scottish Government’s objective of...

Rents saw an autumn dip in October, following three months of rapidly escalating prices across England.  According to PropTech firm Goodlord the...

Average rents in Scotland for new tenancies in the private sector have risen by double digits for the fourth quarter in a...

Propertymark has welcomed the pledge by Housing Secretary Michael Gove not to introduce rent controls in England. The trade body says such...

The lettings agency Winkworth has taken the unusual step of criticising policies of a series of councils. The councils are all Labour...

Rents for student accommodation have increased by an average of 14.6 in two years and swallow up nearly all of the...

The cheapest end of the rental market is under-supplied and overly competitive, a deposit alternative service claims. The provider - Zero Deposit...

A client account is essential to your lettings business, but the rules and regulations you need to follow to keep this...

Rent controls as currently in force in Scotland and under consideration in Wales will not be put into effect in England,...

The Renters Reform Coalition - a collection of some 20 activist groups and charities demanding changes to the private rental sector...

A government minister has pledged to act on the threat to lettings agents posed by banks acting against pooled client accounts. Many...

The latest edition of the Home housing index shows Conti suing close links between both the lettings and sales markets. The Home...

Propertymark has issued a statement warning politicians not to introduce rent controls by the backdoor through processes which tinker with the...

London-focused agency Chestertons says it’s enjoyed a record month for lettings. This was driven by increasing demand for short-term rentals from business...

Annual rental growth across remained in double-digits during September, with the average cost of a new let up 11.7 per cent...

The government has changed the way shared ownership rents can be increased. This change will apply to the leases of new shared...

A controversial consultation document about rent controls is proposing that Build To Rent operators be exempt from the caps which may...

The latest lettings market survey by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors shows rental demand continuing to rise.  A net balance of...

Prime London rents are still rising - but that growth is slowing, says Knight Frank. And the number of new prospective tenants...

Landlords wanting to make a healthy return from their investment should target student properties in the North of England and Scotland,...

Propertymark has fired a broadside at Labour saying it must provide agents with a proper court system to handle evictions. Labour deputy leader...

An independent agency managing 115 lettings units has been snapped up its local Belvoir franchise. Tim Hughes, owner of Belvoir Newbury, has...

Rental growth in prime regional markets has started to slow, following runaway growth over the past three years. That’s the view from...

A new manifesto calling for rent controls and a raft of other measures is accusing the current rent rises of being...

Proposals for rent controls made in a government consultation document have been slammed by a prominent industry commentator and PropTech entrepreneur. The...

Rent levels and voids held steady over the past month with strong demand keeping annual price growth at nearly eight per...

Parents and pet owners are paying as much as £460 per month more for rent and bills, it’s claimed. The claim comes...

Letting agents are currently managing 25 email and phone enquiries on average for every property they have to let across Britain,...

Tenants in Bristol are paying 41 per cent more for a rental property than they did just five years ago, it...

Local media in one of Britain’s busiest cities for rentals says tenants have been left in tears as a result of...

A leading lettings agency and property consultancy has revealed that it anticipate stronger-than-expected rental growth this year and next in prime...

It’s getting worse - the supply-demand mismatch in the rental sector is now “drastic” says Propertymark. The number of new prospective tenants...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Emma Parsons, Head of Partnership Development What is flatfair and what...

Shelter has published what it calls a General Election manifesto with rent controls at its heart. Called The Way Home: a manifesto to...

A prominent agent has called on politicians to scrap the Renters Reform Bill . He says it’s “ill thought-through and would be...

A deposit alternative service says increasing numbers of renters need multiple sources of funding for traditional deposits. Zero Deposit says its survey...

The auction house appears to be bucking the downward trend in the wider housing market. And much of it is down to...

A prominent industry supplier is urging agents and landlords to lobby MPs to suggest improvements to the Renters Reform Bill.  PayProp UK...

The chief executive of Propertymark has reiterated his call for the government to make investment in buy to let attractive. Nathan Emerson says:...

London-focussed agency Foxtons says there is a part of the capital which is seeing an average of 38 prospective tenants for...

The average rate of annual rental growth on a newly let property in Britain hit 12.0 per cent in August, the...

Rental value growth in prime London postcodes declined further in August as supply built and demand cooled.  That’s the view of high...

Zoopla has issued the first major private rental sector market forecast for 2024. Rental growth this year is on track to end...

There are no signs of rental growth slowing in prime London lettings market, says LonRes. The property data firm says annual rental...

New data from flatshare site SpareRoom has revealed just under three quarters of renters are either actively looking or considering moving...

More people are struggling to pay their rent according to a new government survey. The study, by the Office for National Statistics,...

Private rents have continued to soar in Scotland according to DJ Alexander, the largest lettings agency in the country.  It says rental...

A lettings agent who describes himself as “a responsible and ethical property professional” has met with a Liberal Democrat MP to...

The rental market remained strong in August says PropTech firm Goodlord. Despite average rents dipping marginally after a record breaking July -...

A leading property agency is demanding more certainty over new Energy Performance Certificate regulations.  Fisher German says the government should act now...

Two letting agents have been quoted in a newspaper report as saying landlord clients have instructed them to create ‘tracker’ rents...

Financial support from family members - not just parents - is expected to help fund 318,400 housing transactions in 2023, according...

New analysis reveals that other family members beyond parents are increasingly lending their financial support to first-time buyers.   So far this year...

The Green Party - which ran the Brighton and Hove council until being swept from office in May’s local elections -...

New figures from flat-sharing site SpareRoom suggest that while rents are still climbing, there are early signs of a lettings market...

Propertymark chief executive Nathan Emerson says the lettings market is defined now by the “alarming disparity” between demand and supply. In the...

Average rents in Scotland for new tenancies in the private rented sector have risen by double digits for the third time...

A prominent figure in the London property world says landlords under increasing financial pressure are being more selective about the letting...

Annual rental growth in July was 9.1 per cent across prime London according to LonRes.   This figure took rents to 28.4 per...

A leading agency says the squeeze on tenants facing high rent rises is not going to end anytime soon. The comment -...

Professional cleaning firm Prompt Cleaners has created a league table of regions and local authorities where renting is cheapest and dearest. The...

There are few signs that the pace of rental growth is slackening, warns Hamptons. It says the cost of a new tenancy...

Industry supplier HomeLet says rent guarantee insurance is now heavily advised because rents have reached what it calls an “astonishing” level. Andy...

There’s a blunt warning to renters this morning from the man behind the monthly lettings market snapshot from the Royal Institution...

The long-awaited supply increase in the prime London lettings market is underway, says high-end agency Knight Frank.  The agency says the underlying...

A letting platform says what it calls “the rental chaos” of the current market has now end in sight. New data from...

July was a record breaking month for the rental market, claims a PropTech company. Goodlord analyses tens of thousands of completed tenancies...

A retirement forecast suggests older renters may struggle as demographic and property market figures change over time. Scottish Widows’ annual retirement report,...

Citizens Advice is calling on the government to provide an unspecified amount of assistance to renters during the current cost of...

Crisis, the homelessness charity, has slammed the government over the growing gap between housing benefit levels and even the lower end...

The post-Covid prime lettings market in London has seen remarkable growth, an agency says. The latest data from Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices London...

Average asking rents for new tenants outside of London reach another new record this quarter of £1,231 per calendar month. That’s the...

A study by consumer intelligence service TwentyCi shows a continued severe under-supply of properties in the private rental sector.  It says that...

The latest market snapshot from ARLA Propertymark shows a familiar story for the lettings sector.  It says that in June the number...

The average rent on a newly let property in Britain rose to £1,273 pcm in June, a new record according to...

Finances have never been more stretched in the UK, with almost every bill and expense soaring for employees and employers alike,...