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Supply has continued to build while demand remained steady, which increased downwards pressure on rents in the first quarter of 2024...

Prime London rental values fell closer to their longer-term average in January, as supply continued to increase - but worries about...

A prominent lettings agency is advising landlords to fit out homes in prime locations to the same high specification as if...

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

There were 3.7 new prospective tenants for every rental property listed in prime London postcodes last month says Knight Frank. The figure,...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors is launching its manifesto at this week’s Tory party conference - and improving the supply...

The number of lettings instructions in London has dropped since the start of the year.  Knight Frank says that compared to the...

A new analysis suggests that the number of first time buyers has plummeted by over 10 per cent in the past...

A leading agency says there are now clear indications that supply in the lettings market is growing and that rent levels...

The Knight Frank lettings and estate agency is warning that it expects house prices to fall in 2023. Tom Bill, its head...

The Property Franchise Group now manages in excess of 74,000 rental properties on behalf of landlords, according to a new trading...

There’s still some way to go for the lettings market to return to its pre-pandemic best according to Knight Frank -...

A generally upbeat trading statement from franchise agency giant Winkworth reports that prime London’s rental market’s long term return to normality...

Buy To Let lending is set to fall back this year, after a hectic 2021. That’s the forecast from the Intermediary Mortgage...

New figures show how effective the stamp duty holiday was in stimulating buy to let - and how similar measures could...

Staging a home during the selling process could boost a sale price by up to £47,000; meanwhile lettings asking prices could...

Rental growth in prime areas of London has climbed to multi-year highs according to new data from Knight Frank.  While only a...

Early results from a survey into wellbeing suggest that agents are changing their working practices to help staff have a greater...

A new report suggests that agents may already be seeing more middle-aged and older landlords - and if that hasn’t happened...

Lettings agency Hamptons, part of Connells, says there’s little sign that the stamp duty holiday led to large numbers of new...

The end of the stamp duty holiday today has triggered a reduction in the number of buy to let investors saying...

Knight Frank is anticipating a “sprint for stock” in the lettings market as offices reopen and travel restrictions ease.  Tom Bill, Knight...

The property industry has broadly welcomed Michael's Gove appointment as Housing Secretary after he replaced Robert Jenrick yesterday afternoon. “We welcome today’s...

Lettings agents have highlighted a lack of stock as their main concern, research claims. The latest State of the Lettings Industry report...

Propertymark has called for a return of mortgage interest relief and a review of landlord taxes to boost the rental sector. The...

There’s been a call for government to do more to support letting agents as an autumn of rental reform begins. Mark Hayward,...

New data released by franchise agency Winkworth showed that the rental market so far this year has been divided between house...

As the summer begins to draw to a close and the letting market regains its stride, attention is turning to the...

The value of the Private Rented Sector in England, Wales and Scotland grew by 5.8 per cent to a jaw dropping...

A study by Hamptons shows that so far this year 10 per cent of new tenancies have been taken by someone...

London-based buy to let purchasers in the first half of the year have looked outside the capital in high numbers according...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? My name is Maxine Fothergill and for the past ‘almost’...

The average UK rent now stands at a record £1,007 per calendar month - the highest ever, according to HomeLet. It’s up...

Baroness Alicia Kennedy has accused the government of hypocrisy over its diverging approach to evictions for commercial and residential tenants. On Wednesday...

An outspoken property investor has launched an online petition on the government website to oppose the threat of rent controls. YouTube influencer...

There’s been another upbeat trading statement from franchise giant the Belvoir Group. The company - which held its AGM yesterday - says...

The five years since the introduction of the three per cent stamp duty surcharge on additional homes has led to a...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card?  Bal Arora – Managing Director In your experience, what is the...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Jack Reid Founding Director of Orlando Reid  In your experience,...

The extended stamp duty holiday is having a significant positive impact on the rental market, according to new research. In a survey...

Winkworth says its London rental activities have suffered because of a lack of international travel, and students and young professionals returning to...

The popularity of buy to let mortgage products offering exclusive rates for higher value loans is a sign of optimism in...

There’s been a spectacular surge in demand for lettings properties as vendors take advantage of the stamp duty holiday by selling...

Agents must be ready for an influx of new business according to outsourced telephone and live chat service Moneypenny. Its latest figures...

Research by Hamptons suggests that the increased house prices caused by the stamp duty holiday sales surge has indirectly obliged more...

Some £3.5 billion of investment was placed in the growing Build To Rent sector in 2020, despite concerns over the pandemic...

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

Rightmove’s David Cox - formerly of the Association of Residential Letting Agents - is to talk through the Budget fallout for...

A property lawyer is forecasting a surge in buy to let purchasing in the coming months as the stamp duty extension...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents says it’s disappointed the Budget failed to address the funding of the private rental sector.  “Extending...

This afternoon's Budget has seen dramatic announcements from Chancellor Rishi Sunak referring to the private rental sector. For landlords buying properties, the stamp...

Rightmove says there’s been a big rise in the number of prospective tenants contacting letting agents via its website. The portal says...

Some 60 per cent of multi-property landlords have expanded their portfolio since the introduction of the Stamp Duty Holiday last summer...

A leading PropTech expert says the lettings industry hopes next week’s Budget will provide clarity on taxes - but he’s also...

For most letting agents the last year has been a challenging one which has focused attention on dealing with the immediate,...

A leading property law expert says there is now pressure on Chancellor Rishi Sunak to raise stamp duty on buy to...

Entrants for the 2021 ESTAS Customer Service Awards have only until December 31 to sign up. Founder Simon Brown says: “The bounce...

Around one in seven residential properties purchased in November were snapped up by buy to let investors, according to Countrywide research. A...

An end-of-year market snapshot by the Association of Residential Letting Agents shows the supply of rental accommodation was the highest on record...

Recent debate about urgent need for reform and better collaboration within the property industry, has once again come under the spotlight...

One of the country’s major lettings agency chiefs says there is a “massive” change in tenant priorities underway. Michael Cook, national lettings...

The 2021 ESTAS Customer Service Awards are to be held on Friday June 11. For the first time the awards will host...

Foxtons has posted what many consider to be disappointing lettings figures for the third quarter of the year. The company’s lettings-related revenue...

It’s been an unexpected year for the property market, shaped by the effects of the pandemic. We didn’t quite anticipate the...

Nearly half of prospective home buyers have delayed their plans because of the Coronavirus crisis, a mortgage company says. Research by Aldermore...

A specialist mortgage operator is warning letting agents and landlords to gear up for a winter of discontent as a result...

Independent service Moneyfacts says that while the buy to let mortgage sector remains resilient, it has contracted slightly in recent weeks...

The latest house price index, produced by the website Home, gives a broadly optimistic outlook for landlords and other buy to...

A trade body is reminding new landlords tempted by the stamp duty holiday of the raft of health and safety measures they...

Now may be the time for buy to let investors to consider incorporation - putting their property portfolios into a limited...

A lettings agent comparison website, Rentround, says the stamp duty holiday has spurred existing and would-be landlords to search for new...

A specialist buy to let mortgage broker is urging prospective investors to buy sooner rather than later if they want to...

The Prime Minister has stepped into the ongoing row over a Labour claim that last week’s stamp duty holiday was merely...

Housing minister Chris Pincher has entered the row over Labour claiming that the stamp duty holiday announced last week was in...

A PropTech firm is offering what it calls “free landlord leads” to letting agents who register with the company in July...

Labour has described the stamp duty holiday introduced last week as “a £1.3 billion bung for landlords” because the tax break...

The research department of Countrywide’s Hamptons International brand says the stamp duty holiday introduced yesterday on homes selling for £500,000 or...

Former Labour Baroness Alicia Kennedy, the new director of the campaign group Generation Rent, claims 500,000 renters are in arrears as...

Buy to let investors should be exempted from the three per cent stamp duty surcharge even if purchasers of holiday homes still...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors warns that rents are likely to stagnate for the rest of the year - although...

The agency industry has reacted in a broadly downbeat way at the relatively few housing-related proposals that were announced in yesterday’s...