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Lettings giant Foxtons has hired merger and acquisition bankers from Rothschild following pressure from shareholders to sell itself for £160m, the...

Latest data from agency Chestertons reveals a 125 per cent increase in the number of landlords choosing to reduce asking rents...

New figures from lenders trade body UK Finance show a massive fall in buy to let loans for those aged 55...

Stamp duty receipts dipped four per cent to £2.4 billion in Q3 of last year - no less than 25 per...

An analysis of tenants renting between 2020 and 2023 shows a big rise in those on high salaries asked to provide...

Lettings income has saved the bacon of franchise agency Winkworth after a sales slump hit profits.  A trading statement from the agency...

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 prominent lettings and sales agency says there’s been a dramatic 54 per cent slump in sales this year.  Research from Barrows...

The latest lettings market snapshot produced by London-focussed property data firm LonRes shows little change in the supply-constrained rental sector. However, figures...

Off-plan new build properties - at one time a solid favourite amongst landlords - are now falling out of favour with...

Just as transactions in the mainstream market ramp up for spring and summer, so enquiries about buy to let mortgages have...

The scale of investment in UK commercial property has fallen in all sectors, new research suggests.  Sirius Property Finance has analysed UK...

Winkworth has told its shareholders that the weak figures posted for 2022 are actually in line with management expectations. The franchise giant...

A prominent business analyst has given a bleak warning about the prospects for property investors and other home owners in 2023. Sarah...

The Bank of England has raised base rate by 0.25 per cent to 4.25 per cent - the highest level since...

Pre-tax profits for Connells Group have plummeted from £111.3m in 2021 to £67.5m last year - but its lettings division has...

Data from the mortgage lenders’ trade body UK Finance shows the wisdom of agents having a lettings division. The body says: “We...

Winkworth’s latest figures to shareholders show that sales revenues have slumped badly - but lettings have boomed for the moment at...

Purplebricks has set a date for a possible showdown with shareholders over the agency’s lettings compliance crisis amongst other controverisies.  It has...

Connells makes no reference about its lettings division in a terse statement about its business performance in the first half of...

There’s been a slump in demand for rental properties as a result of tenants staying put in the latter part of...

The Build to Rent market remains small in volume but it is making some inroads, leading to BTR rent rises predominantly...

One of the country’s largest lettings operations has outlined the challenges it faced during the Coronavirus crisis. LSL Property Services’ latest trading statement...

One of Britain’s largest purpose built student accommodation providers says there’s been a 10 per cent slump in the number of...

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

The new trade body for companies working in the beleaguered short lets sector has recruited 14 new member firms - although...

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

Landlords’ confidence in their lettings business has slumped to an all-time low, according to research by the National Landlords Association. In a...

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

Greater London rents have risen an average of four per cent in the past year - but some boroughs performing above-average...

The latest data from the Agency Express Property Activity Index, looking at the market’s performance in June, has revealed year on...

Belvoir, the UK's largest property franchise, says its trading during the first quarter of this year suggests it’s outperforming its expectation...

Rental growth remains in positive territory - just - but on average it’s still well below the general level of inflation...

The latest data from Agency Express shows what the company calls “buoyant figures” for the UK lettings market in October.  Following a...

The take up of new rental tenancies across prime central London decreased by no less than 12.7 per cent in the...

The number of lettings transactions in Prime Central London in the second quarter of this year slumped 15 per cent compared...

There’s been a huge 15 per cent slump in the number of properties to let in prime central London over the...

The number of properties available to rent in London is now 46 per cent below the national average according to ARLA...

Net buy to let investment has fallen 80 per cent in the past two years, a mortgage lenders’ group claims.  The Intermediary...

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

The UK rental market has seen a slump of 11.6 per cent in available stock over the last six years, according...

Mortgage lending for the buy to let sector has halved since the introduction of the stamp duty surcharge in April 2016 according...

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

Buy to let lending is well down according to data from the Council of Mortgage Lenders.    Apparently contrary to an optimistic report...

Deutsche Bank has issued a dire warning about the buy to let market in the UK, along with a broadside warning...

Landlords are increasingly favouring Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMO) and more 'complex property types' due to the often higher yields available.  Mortgages...

The approaching of the April 1 stamp duty surcharge deadline led to a severe drop-off in buy to let purchasers seeking...

Countrywide chief executive Alison Platt has confirmed to Letting Agent Today that her group’s strategy of acquiring independent letting agencies continues...

Economic uncertainty in China could spill over to cause problems for the student letting sector in the UK, an agent is...

Buy To Let mortgage lending grew 17 per cent in 2015 but faces a potential slump after April, according to property...

Forty per cent of letting agents are predicting supply will decrease over the next five years – the highest rate this...

The Council of Mortgage Lenders is warning of a possible slump for the buy to let market in the next two...

The Bank of England Governor Mark Carney is the latest influential figure to hint that there may soon be additional restrictions...

Countrywide may have been criticised by some for recent management and strategy changes but one thing appears to have been proven...

Rents in Prime Central London have risen 7.4 per cent over the course of the past year despite being unbchanged for...