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Letting agents should take measures to protect themselves from the impact of a lack of rental stock. A shortage of supply is...

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

The first six months of 2022 saw 171 per cent more enquiries from tenants looking for properties in London compared to...

MPs on a key Select Committee have been criticised by the letting agents’ trade body for failing to probe how Local...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Bekki Leaves, Director What is FCC Paragon and what services...

The financial fall out from Purplebricks’ disastrous lettings compliance crisis is likely to be revealed next week. The troubled agency says it...

Renters are being placed at unnecessary risk due to a delay in reforms that would allegedly give them greater protection, it’s been...

Holiday lets and second homes in one hotspot in the UK have not, after all, impacted on house prices and affordability,...

The sales director of a property investment firm says high house prices, rising interest rates and the broader cost of living...

Average asking rents outside London have hit another new record of £1,126 per calendar month according to Rightmove. This figure, for the...

Troubles at Purplebricks continue with an activist investor who has a four per cent share in the firm called on the...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Sales & Marketing Director What is Glide and what does...

Rental growth continues to roar ahead across prime areas of London, according to Savills. Prime London rental values increased a further 3.3...

PropTech companies Goodlord and Vouch have come together to call for input for their State Of The Lettings Industry report. The annual...

The Prime Central London lettings market continues to see rents rise as stock levels remain low, says property consultancy JLL. The low...

Another prominent industry voice is warning of the dangers of the Scottish Government’s new eviction policies. So far the National Residential Landlords...

The agents’ trade association Propertymark says the government’s high-profile rental sector reforms should address the continuing shortage of supply. Propertymark chief executive...

Low supply has kept rental growth high - and it’s unlikely to slow any time soon. Knight Frank says it expects stock...

A tourism chief has likened new anti-holiday let regulations to those of a Stalinist dictatorship. Ashford Price, secretary of the Welsh Association...

The private rental sector could grow an additional 6.5 per cent in just three years, it’s been forecast. This would bring the...

Knight Frank says a frustrating period for tenants looks likely to continue this summer in the prime London lettings market.  While supply...

Build To Rent may win a lot of publicity but it’s still largely unknown outside London according to new research. BTR completions...

The famous seaside town of Whitby in Yorkshire has voted in a referendum considering a ban on new build properties being...

Rents in Prime London are still rising rapidly and the number of new lettings is limited thanks to the lack of...

Demand for pied a terres from those working in offices for only three days of the week is fuelling demand for...

Propertymark says it welcomes measures in the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill that will mean swifter action to get the hundreds...

A new survey gives an indication of how quickly properties with poor Energy performance Certificates are falling out of favour in...

A Conservative MP is suggesting that there could be a ’25 mile limit’ imposed around certain rental properties to ensure they...

A senior lettings chief says the supply drought is making the rental market as overheated now as at any time in...

London-focussed agency Foxtons says the tenancy renewal numbers seen by the company this year are “unprecedented”. Gareth Atkins, lettings managing director at...

A Labour MP says a surge in the number of stag and hen parties in her constituency - undertaken by people...

The cost of living crisis may be changing tenants’ preferences to such a degree that bills-inclusive properties are becoming increasingly popular. That’s...

The number of HMOs in England has fallen as a result of government intervention in the market. In 2018 new regulations were...

Grainger plc, the UK's largest listed residential landlord and a growing player in the Build To Rent sector, has delivered an...

Rents in prime areas of London are nine per cent higher today than before the pandemic according to Knight Frank.  The high...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Clifford Thomas – Sales Director at The Letting Partnership What is...

The chief executive of Propertymark says a warning from agents about rents rising and stock diminishing as a result of a...

London lettings platform Rentd says a property rented with bills included may be convenient but it will also be expensive. Rentd says...

New research appears to be adding to the momentum to have more flexibility over pets in private rental accommodation.  Nearly one in...

Propertymark is calling on candidates in next week's Northern Ireland Assembly elections to support policies that will increase housing supply and...

An increasing number of house purchases are made by buyers who are not in chains - a trend driven by the...

Foxtons has reported to its shareholders that its lettings revenue in the first quarter of this year was a stunning 21...

The number of properties available for let in prime central parts of the capital has consistently trended down from the peak...

The industry’s main trade body for lettings agents is telling its members to let the BBC know if they believe the...

Lettings accreditation and training service Safeagent is calling on the government to make more public cash available for councils to exercise...

ARLA Propertymark has hit back in this week’s debate on the quality of private rental property, following sharp criticism in a...

Thousands of tenants have no choice but to accept “appalling conditions” according to the chief executive of campaigning charity Shelter. Polly Neate...

The continuing shortage of supply in the lettings market is not only producing record high asking rents, but is also pushing demand...

Private rental property conditions and the enforcement of regulations by councils and government have all been in the firing line from...

OnTheMarket is today launched a lettings Automated Valuation Model tool that is claimed will provide landlords and investors with an instant...

High end agency Knight Frank has made two key lettings appointments in recent weeks. Oliver Hepplewhite, already an associate within the firm,...

A property finance company says increased taxes and regulations for the private rental sector mean that energy efficiency improvements to raise...

The great imbalance between tenant demand and available stock continues, according to the latest market snapshot from ARLA Propertymark. In February, Propertymark...

There’s been a broad welcome from letting agents to the Spring Statement not loading more tax or restrictions on buy to...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Sarah Davies, Commercial Director at The Letting Partnership What is The...

Rental portal Rentd says the pandemic-long decline in the London rental market is now “reversing at speed”. Rental values are climbing annually...

Rental market stock levels have plummeted further - even to below the pre-pandemic levels of late 2019. New research shows that in...

The latest lettings market snapshot from PropTech supplier Goodlord suggests that voids are reducing in almost all regions but that rents...

The UK’s rental market is now the world’s fourth largest by total volumes of privately rented properties according to research from...

New research shows that despite tax and regulatory changes restricting buy to let returns, this remains a far healthier investment than...

The imposition of rent controls - urged by a growing number of politicians and pressure groups in different parts of the...

A prominent lettings agency chief says a consultation looking at changes to private renting proposed by the Scottish Government is merely...

New research commissioned by the landlords’ trade body shows that the UK needs almost 230,000 new private rented homes a year...

Rents in prime areas of London are rocketing at an annual level of 22.5 per cent according to LonRes.  Despite the falls...

The leader of one of Britain’s highest profile lettings agency operations has let rip at the government for what he calls...

A finance chief is warning that the threat of possible rises in Capital Gains Tax should be dismissed by the government to...

PropTech supplier The Lettings Hub has launched a new Tenancy Compliance service through its pre-tenancy progression software, BOX.  The Lettings Hub says...

A prominent London buying agent says her property management team is letting out homes in the capital in a matter of...

Asking rents in Britain are now rising at their fastest ever rate according to Rightmove. Average asking rents hit annual growth of...

Tenants are complaining that lengthy application processes at lettings agencies contribute to their frustration at missing available properties.  The results of a...

One of the leading lettings agencies in Liverpool has issued a warning about the city’s controversial new licensing scheme. The Labour council...

A prominent agent says the shortage of rental property is now so acute, and like to get still worse, that those...

Rightmove is hosting a new webinar this week for agents, focused on navigating the current rental market. Taking place tomorrow the webinar...

Average UK rents increased for the fifth consecutive quarter in Q4 2021 according to The Deposit Protection Service, as stock shortages...

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

The London rental market stock surplus spurred by pandemic uncertainty has started to subside, with prime boroughs seeing some of the...

One of the biggest Build To Rent operators in the UK is investing in new technology with the aim of boosting...

A report from the House of Lords has condemned the private rental sector as being ”increasingly unaffordable” as well as being...

The 7,000 units under SDL’s block management are now with rival HML Group following an acquisition deal which took place last...

Home offices are already the most-demanded must have from prospective tenants says James Hay, director at Surrey lettings agency, The Home...

Rental guarantor service Housing Hand has announced a new partnership with student accommodation provider Kexgill. The firms claim the arrangement will challenge...

A report prepared by housing experts in Manchester shows a massive surge in the number of Airbnbs in the city -...

Propertymark says arrears in the private rental sector are rising once again as the Omicron variant continues to push across the...

One of the country’s oldest agencies may be under new ownership soon. The fast-expanding Lomond Group - which just last week announced...

Propertymark chief executive Nathan Emerson has given his prediction as to what the big issues will be in the 2022 lettings...

ARLA Propertymark is backing a call for the government to set a clear vision for how it sees the private rental...

A new Buy To Let ‘tracker’ from a prominent buy to let mortgage lender has revealed what it considers to be...

ARLA Propertymark has fired a shot across the bows of the government as it aims to improve energy efficiency in the...

The average number of new prospective tenants registered per branch fell in October to 71, from September’s figure of 83, according...

Property is fast becoming a preferred investing option for advocates of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, an investment company claims.  Sequire Property Investment...

During the last year, the industry has experienced a rollercoaster of highs and lows as agents experienced rental peaks, stock shortages,...

The desire for more living space, a key feature of the pandemic, has driven up rents on larger properties faster than...

The long term undersupply of rental properties across the country is expected to support rental growth into 2022, says Zoopla. In addition,...

Data from central London lettings agency Bective shows returning tenant demand in the capital. The agency’s analysis of new lettings applicants shows...

Foxtons is extensively praising the apparent benefits of Build To Rent, a sector in which the agency is keen to become...

All sides of the industry have expressed anger and frustration that yesterday’s Budget effectively ignored the private rental sector. ARLA Propertymark’s policy...

ARLA Propertymark has released its latest lettings market snapshot showing demand reducing - but even so still being a record for...

A lettings agency in Manchester has received over 10,000 rental enquiries in just one month. Manchester Apartments says it received some  21,000...

Leading industry figure Peter Knight is to discuss the future of the rental sector and the role of agents in a...

Travel Chapter, which owns the high profile Holidaylettings brand, is to float on the London Stock Exchange's junior AIM market. Devon-based Travel...

New research by the Benham and Reeves agency has revealed how a lack of London rental properties has pushed up the...

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

Data consultancy LonRes says a dramatic fall in prime London rental stock is forcing rents to rise at last.   The number of...

A lettings agency says a new HMO licensing regime in one of London’s highest profile boroughs will reduce the number of rental properties. This...

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

Tenants returning to the office and city centres has triggered strong rental growth in the largest urban centres. Rightmove’s Quarterly Rental Trends...

Campaigners against letting agents and landlords appear to suggest that the issue of rising rents is uniquely confined to the UK...

The lettings agents’ group Propertymark has told Chancellor Rishi Sunak that unless the private rented sector is overhauled many landlords will...

New data from Rightmove reveals that the imbalance of supply and demand for rental properties in suburban and rural areas has...

A lack of longer term rental accommodation thanks to the growth of Airbnb and other short lets has led to a...

A prominent industry supplier is warning the government not to damage the private rental sector in its push to promote ever-more...

Propertymark is telling politicians to stop demonising letting agents and landlords. The unusualy bluntl message has come in response to the latest...

The letting agents’ trade body has issued a warning to landlords that short lets may provide quick profits - but they...

The rapid pace of growth in the rental market will slow in 2022 but the enduring rate of increase should still...

A statement from ARLA Propertymark has hinted that it believes politicians may be out of touch with the reality of how...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I’m Vince Demilio, Sales Director of The Lettings Hub What services...

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

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

The chancellor Rishi Sunak has been urged to make it more attractive for landlords to invest in the private rental sector. Sunak...

Rental stock has dropped as landlords seek to profit from the staycation boom, Rightmove claims. Data from the portal suggests seaside towns...

One of the industry’s leading surveys comes out next week - and a preview suggests it’s going to show increasing optimism...

The farcical implementation of the government’s Green Homes Grant scheme has been sharply criticised by Propertymark. Timothy Douglas, the organisation’s policy and...

Rents in some of the most popular locations of the country have risen 25 per cent in the past year according...

ARLA Propertymark has waded into the growing controversy over pets being allowed in rental properties. Last week a letter was sent to...

The lettings market continues to boom, with HomeLet’s latest index showing average UK rents at a record high for the third...

Pressure is growing to amend the 2019 Tenant Fees Act to allow charging additional deposits and insurance to cover pets in private rental...

A council has written to Housing Minister Chris Pincher calling for a new approach to the short lets issue. Oxford council leader...

Propertymark is alerting agents to ever-more sophisticated fraudulent documents being used in the private rental sector. The organisation recently requested agents to...

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

The scale of demand in the private rental sector is now the highest on record according to ARLA Propertymark.  The average number...

A part of the country which has seen a severe long term rental stock shortage as a result of switches from...

Industry growth specialist Christopher Watkin is to offer letting agents his secrets to attracting new landlords in a live webinar hosted...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I’m Heidi Shackell, CEO of The Lettings Hub. How has your...

The tide is turning for the London rental market at last according to data from the Benham and Reeves lettings agency. In...

An analysis of new government legislation on energy efficiency suggests it may lead to chaos in the private rental sector. Geospatial technology...

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

Another index is showing that a scarcity of rental properties has prompted a rise in every single region of Britain -...

Agents will be aware that demand for rental property is high right now - so a property consultancy has worked out...

A Conservative MP says he is to declare a “state of housing emergency” in his constituency because of the loss of...

A buying agency says it’s seen what it calls “a huge uptake in furnished lettings requests” following recent floods in London,...

The latest rental market snapshot released by ARLA Propertymark shows a little of the heat coming out of the rental market...

A leading private rental trade body says only bespoke financial help can ensure the private rental sector meets government energy efficiency...

Record tenant demand and record-fast lettings have combined to create an average asking rent above £1,000 per calendar month for homes...

Across Great Britain the pace of rental growth continued to climb in June, with rents rising 8.5 per cent year-on-year. The data...

Connells-owned high end agency Hamptons has declared the bottom of the rental market for Inner London, saying it’s now on the...

Women now make up 48 per cent of the 2.6m buy to let investors in the UK, according to London lettings...

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

There was much publicity this week for the efforts of the Welsh Government to deter the letting of second homes. Now it...

Lloyds Bank says tenants will “within the next few weeks” move into the first of a series of new developments it...

A firm creating an app showing live streams of properties to let or for sale claims one agency attracted 18 offers...

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

There’s still no sign of a lettings market slowdown according to the latest report from ARLA Propertymark. It says that the average...

Areas of the country which appear to have had a surplus of rental stock in the past is now reporting a...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? That's very retro - I have not had one of...

Landlords spend an estimated £839m each year upgrading newly purchased rental property before letting it out to tenants, helping to drive-up...

Lettings agency Hamptons says there’s been “an unprecedented fall” in the number of rental homes on the market, leading to double-digit...

The city centre rental market, considered to be one of the industry’s losers during the worst of the pandemic, is beginning...

A leading banking and wealth management company says a growth area for the rental sector in the years to come will...

A scheme being proposed in Northern Ireland has been branded as a threat to letting agents. The Northern Ireland Executive is considering...

Propertymark has waded in to the debate over flood prevention measures in the UK:il it wants insurance for homeowners and landlords faced...

A lettings company has paid an undisclosed sum - described only as “a six figure deal” - to acquire a large...

Despite rent controls being a vote-catching policy for some local election candidates next week, the reality is that asking rents in...

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

The Yorkshire town immortalised in the long-running BBC comedy Last of the Summer Wine - Holmfirth - is the location of the latest...

A Scottish agency has strengthened its specialism in managing HMOs with the acquisition of a lettings book of 90 more units. Braemore Sales...

There’s a new driver in the lettings market - the need for a flexible location and property type. Market consultancy TwentyCi says...

Demand is still moving away from cities and towards suburbs and rural areas, according to Rightmove. “Areas around the North and South...

London rents have started to fall again - just as every other region of Britain is showing significant annual increases. Figures for...

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

Latest figures from ARLA Propertymark suggest the rental market continues to perform strongly. Data for February - the latest available from the...

One of the London boroughs synonymous with wealth has revealed that 44 per cent of its housing stock is now actually...

Propertymark says its Inspire programme is continuing to help agents via its small group network - and it’s taking bookings for...

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

The lettings sector is giving a sigh of relief at the absence of any change to Capital Gains Tax by HM Treasury. CGT...

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

The vast majority of tenants would pay more if rental properties better suited their needs, a prominent lettings agency claims. Manchester-based Ascend...

An upbeat market snapshot for the lettings sector claims that one region of the UK has seen rent increases in excess...

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

Knight Frank says the plummeting rents in prime central London have at least managed to attract a surge in the number...

A survey of private rental sectors in major European cities suggests London is one of the tougher locations for tenants working...

An online petition is voicing opposition to government calls for ever-improving EPCs in the private rental sector.  Nottingham landlord Tricia Urquhart has started the...

A new lettings market snapshot from Rightmove suggests that asking rents in some major city centres have seen annual falls up...

A prominent agent says a huge over-supply of available rental property is now flooding the central London market, just as demand...

Propertymark has responded to the official consultation on the government proposals called Energy Performance of Privately Rented Homes in England and...

EweMove - one of several agency titles owned by The Property Franchise Group - has incorporated three High Street operations run by...

Two Labour MPs have made extensive claims about the number of evictions from the private rental sector likely to happen if...

Unite Students, one of the UK's leading student accommodation providers, is giving tenants a rent reduction. Students will be able to apply...

A council claims that as many as a fifth of all the private rental sector homes in its area have a...

Propertymark is making it clear that rent controls are not the way to operate an efficient lettings market. In a formal response...

An extremely upbeat trading statement from Stock Market-quoted agency Belvoir suggests business has been ahead of even its pre-Coronavirus expectations in...

Samuel Estates, a south west London agency, has acquired its third independent local firm in 2020. The latest to be snapped up...

A late-year surge in the number of Build To Rent applications has been forecast by a market commentator. Alex Blagden, senior researcher...

London’s Westminster council - with 43 per cent of housing stock in the private rental sector - has launched a consultation on...

Activists from the so-called renters’ union Acorn have held a protest outside the office of a lettings agency in Oxford. A photograph...

The gap between typical City rents and Country rents is closing according to an analysis of Countrywide properties by the company’s...

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

An MP claims the proliferation of short lets via Airbnb and similar online platforms is indirectly pricing local people out of...

Another market snapshot from HomeLet suggests that there was a 2.2 per cent average rent increase across the UK in the...

Independent agent uses innovative ‘feet up’ campaign to win business. An independent letting agency has invited landlords to put their ‘feet up’...

Putting fingers to keyboard to create blogs and articles isn’t always the easiest job for agents, particularly when meetings, viewings and...

It’s a given these days that your business needs to be on social media. Consumers spend a large portion of their...

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

Pressure appears to be building for more pet-friendly lettings properties with two Build To Rent operators promoting animal-friendly tenancies. BTR operator Fizzy Living...

A family-run agency that describes itself as “plucky” has rebranded and moved to larger premises in one of the UK’s most...

Asking rents outside London have hit a new high according to Rightmove’s latest market snapshot. The pressure comes from record demand from...

The Chartered Institute of Housing claims there may be a “massive increase” in evictions in the near future. In a briefing paper the...

New long-term targets for improving energy efficiency across the private rental sector simply are not realistic, the government has been warned. The...

Stockport-based property development company Three Sixty has launched what it calls an online agency - Three Sixty Living - to handle...

A London council has launched a strategy it claims will protect private tenants and ensure they live in good quality and...

Oxford council, which has 49 per cent of its housing stock in the private rental sector, is starting a formal consultation...

One in eight homes coming onto the rental market in inner London since May has previously been an Airbnb or other...

New data from Zoopla shows that a two-speed rental market is operating across the UK, with London in particular hitting major...

New data from Hamptons International reveals that in June the average rent on a newly let property in Britain dipped 0.6...

The average rental asking price outside of London has hit an all-time high says Rightmove - whereas inside the capital, the...

One of the biggest names in the Build To Rent sector, Legal & General, says all of its new housing stock...

The chairman of an agency chain is advising landlords to prepare for stock surpluses in some areas and to win tenants...

Two new handbooks have been released offering advice to the private rental sector on how to improve energy efficiency.  Electricity distributor UK...

The buy-to-let market has grown significantly in recent years as long-term renting becomes more popular and investors continue to see the...

A document outlining options for the future regulation of Airbnb and other short let platforms in the UK is to be...

The return of the housing market has seen demand for rental property boom - and it’s a third higher now than...

The number of new rental listings reaching the market has soared as much as 44 per cent in some areas following...

Have you heard of Psych? No, me neither - but that’s our loss according to the London team of Auction House.  The...

Winkworth says its London offices are reporting significant numbers of landlords who used to advertise on Airbnb and similar short-let platforms...

New research claims to show that the lockdown could end up with higher rents as demand in the lettings sector outstrips...

Seven out of 10 tenancies that were due to end in March were renewed according to Hamptons International - the highest...

Hot weather combined with a lockdown can only mean one thing - a record number of searches for rental properties with...

A new renovation start-up is working with letting agents and landlords to allow key workers to use empty rental properties for...

Rental demand has dropped significantly across London and other major UK cities as a result of the pandemic. When comparing current levels...

High-end lettings agency Knight Frank says the lettings market “could explode quite quickly” when the lockdown ends. The agency says that in...

Although the worst of the stock market bloodletting triggered by Coronavirus now appears to have gone, franchise agency group Belvoir has...

A leading PropTech expert says there’s still more that can be done by the rental sector to drive up the quality...

A lettings market snapshot conducted before the worst effects of the Coronavirus were known suggests the rental market is relatively strong...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Nick Lyons CEO What is No Letting Go and what does...

Another housing market snapshot suggests demand and confidence are improving as a result of the new political and economic landscape following...

Nearly half a million properties could be removed from the long-term lettings market as disenchanted landlords move to short-lets. A survey by...

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

A third of all landlords live in Greater London and the South East according to data collated by a property management...

New research claims that one in every 50 homes in the capital is let on a short-term platform like Airbnb or...

New investment in private rented housing has fallen since 2016 as some private landlords have dipped out of the sector in...

A rental management platform has compiled a league table of where tenant demand is strongest for homes to let - and...

London as a whole has seen rental stock plummet by 22 per cent in just one year according to a market...

A trade body is warning of a crisis in the private rental market as new figures show a sharp drop in...

Once again the monthly market snapshot from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors reports a decline in the stock of rental...

A mortgage lender’s new Buy to Let City Tracker tool has calculated the best cities in the UK for buy to...

The Liberal Democrats is the first of the major parties to release its party manifesto for the December 12 manifesto, and...

A local council claims it has received over 500 complaints from private rental tenants since the start of April - approaching...

Some 45 per cent of those who don’t yet own a home think they never will, according to a new report.  While...

Labour’s controversial proposal to oblige landlords to sell their buy to let properties to tenants who wished to purchase them, unveiled...

A lettings guru who worked at Purplebricks for five years in a string of key roles has quit the company to...

Many buy to let investors are still badly bruised by the government’s wave of fiscal and regulatory assaults on the private...

Former QPR and Nottingham Forest striker Dexter Blackstock has been fined over £25,000 and branded a rogue landlord after admitting 12 licencing offences. He...

New research from Rightmove shows almost a quarter of landlords are planning to sell at least one property from their current...

There has been a significant spike in activity in the East Hampshire lettings market, according to analysis from Zoopla. Over the last...

An umbrella organisation representing councils is calling for greater freedom to introduce more and larger rental sector licensing schemes, without the...

There’s a warning from a leading agent that the unregulated proliferation of Airbnb-style short lets will lead to mainstream rent rises...

High end agency JLL says it’s seen a consistent rise in London owners becoming landlords, with a 15.3 per cent increase...

Landlords in a part of Teesside are to be allowed to operate a “collaborative” licensing scheme after a council backed down...

It’s that time of year again when pencil cases are fully stocked and the smell of dusty books opening fills the...

More efforts are being made to urge London homeowners to consider short-term lets which in some cases can routinely earn an...

The most reliable indicator of rental trends in the UK As the largest provider of deposit protection in the UK, our database...

One of the key players in the ultra-competitive deposit alternative sector has announced a massive and new $11m investment. Flatfair says that...

It took an average of just 20 days to let a home between January and July this year according to a...

Belvoir has told its shareholders and the City that it enjoyed a strong first half of 2019 with its 300 High...

An investment company has revealed that it’s acquired land in the north of England to create a Build To Rent scheme. Godwin...

An outspoken Conservative party figure says government policies such as the scrapping of Section 21 will play into the hands of...

Calls by Labour’s London Mayor Sadiq Khan to secure powers to implement private sector rent controls are facing increasing opposition. Business organisation...

Data from Rightmove suggests that demand from tenants looking for a new home has soared seven per cent since the Tenants...

The Southampton branch of Martin & Co has more than doubled its business after acquiring an independent agent in the city. It’s...

In the last ten years Google's revenue, largely from pay per click ads (Adwords), has grown by 527% (Source: Statista). In...

Airbnb has issued a statement distancing itself from controversial advertisements from a short lets management service. Hostmaker - which describes itself as...

A statement issued by short lets management firm Hostmaker about its controversial advertising campaign has been branded “disgusting” by a campaign...

Airbnb and short let management service Hostmaker - at the centre of a dispute involving a landlord trade body and the...

New data looking specifically at room rental rates suggest that across the UK rents rose by an average three per cent...

Three years after the introduction of the second homes stamp duty surcharge, landlords are “beginning to come to terms with the...

Figures calculated by Rightmove suggest that even when the Fees Ban and Deposit Caps kick in on June 1, some deposits...

Startling figures released this morning by Rightmove suggest that rents have risen 8.2 per cent in London in the past year...

Demand for room rentals in London is so high their average charge has risen two per cent in 2019 already, claims...

The Money Laundering Regulations require estate agents to risk assess their business relationships and apply an appropriate level of investigation to...

Foxtons has given a relatively upbeat assessment of the capital’s rental market in its survey of the sector in 2018. It says...

Belvoir says a survey of its franchisees shows that Brexit is having what it calls “a significant impact” on the rental...

Latest official figures show that private rental prices paid by tenants in the UK rose by 1.0 per cent in the...

Throughout 2018 the number of homes available to rent in prime areas of London dropped 13 per cent. In particular, 80 per...

Knight Frank’s student accommodation partner has given the thumbs up to new figures suggesting a surge in overseas and domestic students...

Knight Frank has given an upbeat snapshot of the lettings market in Prime Central London, based mostly on higher rental growth...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is demanding 'property MOTs' to help landlords trying to meet new energy efficiency targets. The government’s...

A new study suggests that rental properties now account for 40 per cent of the available housing stock.  Looking at the final...

A regional lettings agency claims it’s seen a 26 per cent surge in tenant and prospect views on properties listed as...

A lettings market snapshot from Rightmove suggests asking rents in London are now increasing at an annual rate not seen for...

The man who is arguably Britain’s most controversial landlord - Fergus Wilson - is likely to be issuing up to 90...

A report claims that England has just 825 homes for every 1,000 families as a result of two decades of house...