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Savills says an increase in the number of new builds bought for buy to let and other property investment will help...

The rush for space to work and relax at home will still dominate the rental market for the short term at...

ARLA Propertymark has hit back at a demand from London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan that he be given the powers to...

For the first time since the beginning of the pandemic rents across all prime London regions saw a return to positive...

London’s Labour Mayor, Sadiq Khan, has made a new call for power to cap private rents. He’s claimed that rents in the...

An estate agency has sponsored an eco-art exhibition that involves 100 life-sized elephant sculptures in a central London park. Savills has sponsored...

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

Agents and other industry players have penned an open letter to government demanding a radical overhaul of targets for energy efficiency in the...

Real estate as an industry has remained unchallenged throughout all of these years. For the industry worth more than 217 trillion...

An assessment by Savills suggests capital values - including those for properties in the lettings sector - are likely to soar...

A new property identification system which has won the backing of ARLA Propertymark and substantial parts of the industry has said...

High end agency Savills says it’s raised over £270m in nine auctions this year, with an average sold price of over...

The latest Build To Rent snapshot up to late summer shows the number of BTR homes in stages of planning across...

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

Savills latest remote auction in 2020 saw £40m raised with 90 lots sold bringing the total value of property sold in 2020...

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

Two lettings agencies have been vandalised by activists who defied the Coronavirus lockdown to damage property. Local media reports in Cheltenham say...

We'd hoped it was good news but in fact it's just good-news-yet-to-come. The Savills office in Wuhan, the epicentre of the Coronavirus crisis in...

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

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

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

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

In recent days we’ve been running images and videos from Halloween-decorated offices over on our sister publication Estate Agent Today -...

Research by the British Property Federation shows that there are now 148,046 build-to-rent homes complete, under construction or in planning across...

A relatively new firm in the crowded central London buying agency market is expanding into property management. Aykroyd & Co was launched...

A new white-labelled outsourced lettings management service is launching today, claiming to undercut all rivals. F%ur - a brand from 4percentproperty -...

The concept of a so-called rental property passport would rapidly improve the quality of accommodation and landlords, and would be far...

A holiday lets and short-term lettings market boom can be put down to a combination of four reasons, according to specialist...

Savills says some 120,000 buy to let mortgages have been redeemed since the launch of the additional homes stamp duty surcharge...

Savills has launched a new residential lettings service in one of the country’s most successful buy to let and investment locations...

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

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

Some broadly good news to end the week - rents are predicted to grow 13.7 per cent in the next five...

Savills has announced two acquisitions in the north west, one of an agency and one of an individual branch.  The agency being...

The British Property Federation says there are now 124,037 Build To Rent homes complete, under construction and in planning across the...

The chief of a PropTech firm says letting agents should consider participating in the growing Build to Rent sector.  Until now, many...

New figures show a 30 per cent rise in the past year in the number of Build To Rent units planned,...

Savills is urging its landlord clients to be more flexible in order to meet the new expectations of younger renters in...

Stamp duty reform for first time buyers has taken pride of place in the Budget speech of Chancellor Phillip Hammond.   From today,...

A report on progress into the Suzy Lamplugh Trust’s new code - introduced precisely a year ago - suggests more still...

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

Kitemark-style scheme SAFEagent is calling on the government to ensure plans to make Client Money Protection schemes mandatory are not ignored...

The increasing number of renters and low interest rates for existing home owners mean that the total rent bill is now...

Letting Agent Today understands that senior industry figures are working on the framework of a new attempt at regulation, including measures...

A string of corporate letting agencies plus ARLA Propertymark have again called on the government to reconsider its proposed ban on agents’...

A property described as Europe’s largest rental co-living block, The Collective Old Oak in London’s Paddington, is up for sale with bids...

Only just over a week remains before the end of the formal consultation on the government’s proposal to ban letting fees...

Research experts at high-end agency Savills say a total of £5.3 billion is expected to be invested in the student accommodation...

Twenty agency groups have backed a call by the Association of Residential Letting Agents urging the government to extend or scrap its...

Prime Purchase, the buying arm of estate agency Savills, says renting may be “a more financially sound route” for some wealthy...

A new report suggests that institutional investment in the burgeoning Build To Rent sector could see the creation of 240,000 new...

Organisers of the Future:PropTech2017 conference on May 4 have revealed new sponsors involved with the event - including Angels Media, publisher...

The Fair Fees Forum, a platform for letting agencies and trade bodies set up by the National Approved Lettings Scheme, has...

Property campaigner Ajay Jagota has launched what he calls a “stolen deposits totaliser” to keep track of how much cash crooked...

A former administrator at a Savills letting office has admitted embezzling around £16,000 from the firm over a five and a...

The NALS Fair Fee forum - an initiative launched last month - has now set up a working group to consider,...

An online lettings agency says tenants’ arrears are likely to be the biggest issue facing the rental sector next year unless...

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

Legal & General has appointed a former Savills residential capital markets expert as it beefs up its team ahead of greater...

Savills is the only organisation with an agency wing represented on the first board of the UK Apartment Association, a new...

Chainbow, the specialist block management company that has recently taken a high profile approach to the Build To Rent sector, has...

Louise Griffiths, currently a board member on the Association of Residential Letting Agents, has joined Romans as director of the agency’s...

Not one of the raft of buy to let rule changes being introduced by Chancellor George Osborne - ostensibly to help...

The government’s initiatives to try to increase house building and owner occupation will not stop demand for rented homes rising by...

The scores are in - we have asked 20 senior agents and analysts for their forecasts for capital values the 2016...

A new portal has been launched to publicise possible student investment properties. At the moment it has under 30 properties, almost all...

Former Conservative housing minister Mark Prisk says the recent clampdowns on the traditional buy to let sector may end up helping...

The research team at high-end lettings and estate agency Savills says the controversial three per cent ‘additional property’ stamp duty introduced...

There’s been an angry reaction from letting agents and landlords to the shock news that an additional three per cent stamp...

Savills says mainstream UK rents are likely to rise by an average of 16.5 per cent by the end of 2020...

An interesting point of view from a young sales negotiator working for Spicerhaart, whose chief executive Paul Smith recently wrote an...

Agents have expressed their disappointment at the decision by the government to restrict mortgage interest relief for Buy To let investors...

It seems like every day there’s a new article about On The Market. Usually it consists something Zoopla have said, followed...

After celebrating its year anniversary this week, Boris Johnson’s London Rental Standard has been criticised for signing up only 12% of...

The general election result was greeted with a sigh of relief throughout the lettings industry. Thanks to the Conservatives' victory, the threat...

Savills says the Build To Rent sector is set to enjoy a surge of new investment as a result of the...

The agency industry has been acting with delight over the likelihood that there will be a slim overall majority for the...