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A coalition of higher education and student housing organisations have called on the government to make further changes to the Renters...

New research suggests that a majority of the British public believe the government should be doing more to support students find...

Corporate student accommodation provider Unite Group has reported a big jump in earnings on the back of a shortage of lets...

Specialist property management firm Xenia Estates has announced a shake up ahead of entry into the residential lettings sector. Xenia currently looks...

Student accommodation booking platform Housemates is expanding overseas. The expansion will cover several major Canadian cities including Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal. Currently Housemates...

Over £100m has been invested into a new site that will offer purpose b built accommodation for 713 students beds in...

Aviva Investors, the global asset management business of Aviva plc, has spent some £150m acquiring a portfolio of six Purpose Built...

One of the lettings sector’s longest-standing suppliers - Mortgages for Business - is rebranding. It’s to be known as Mortgage Finance Brokers,...

Residential buy to let in the North West of England, London industrial property and retail warehouses are set to be the...

A prominent housing market commentator says Labour would introduce a tougher version of the Renters Reform Bill if it forms the...

The Generation Rent activist group has come out against an amendment to the Renters Reform Bill which reversed the threat of...

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

A free webinar on the controversial Renters Reform Bill is to feature one of the industry’s top legal experts. David Smith is...

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

The government has pledged that section 21 repossessions will not be scrapped until improvements have been made to the way courts...

A Manchester-based company which runs what it calls “an instant booking student accommodation marketplace” has joined forces with Norwegian tech firm...

A prominent provider of student rental accommodation has appointed an international property consultancy to consider growth options. Study Inn Group has a...

Two cities have been identified as the UK’s highest-growth cities across multiple property sectors over the next 10 years, according to...

Propertymark says it’s spotted what may be the first sign of a U-turn on one aspect of the controversial Renters Reform...

Lavanda, a student lettings property management tech supplier, has announced a partnership with UPP, a student accommodation provider working in partnership...

A seminar is to be held to look at the impact of rent controls on the burgeoning Build To Rent sector. Private...

A rent guarantor provider has announced a deal with agency Clever Student Lets. The provider - called RentGuarantor - says the deal...

Ruling politicians in Scotland have agreed that from April private rents can rise by 3.0 per cent in a 12 month period...

A prominent businessman has told the Scottish media that the country’s rent freeze policy has led to two major housing schemes...

Students face chaos as government plans to reform the rental market threaten to cause widespread uncertainty as to whether housing will...

A lettings agency in the Brighton area which describes itself as “ethical” is closing down due to staffing issues and the...

The growth of the Build To Rent sector is a symbol of a changing Britain, in says one of the players...

University students have queued on the street overnight to secure a home for next year in one of the UK’s most...

A lettings agency in Scotland has played down the impact of the emergency rent freeze and eviction ban which have been...

A lettings agent has taken the surprising step of encouraging tenants to seek compensation if their landlords fail to abide by...

There’s been a wide range of angry reactions to the Scottish Government’s passing of an emergency rent freeze and eviction ban...

A network of professional landlords is warning the government that its reform agenda for the private rental sector is plain wrong...

Rising numbers of young people going to university and a relatively low supply of new student housing means that by 2025...

New research claims students in the UK are currently paying as much as £16,500 per year in living costs - a...

Student landlords have seen record increases in rental prices of over 20 per cent in some cases, according to a lettings...

HMOs rented by students can be up to £30 a week cheaper than purpose built student accommodation in halls of residence. That’s...

There’s concern in the student lettings sector about the impact of the government’s Fairer Private Rental Sector White Paper. For this specialist...

A student-specialising lettings agency has been named as franchise of the year at the brand’s annual awards. Nicholas Humphreys Nottingham, one of...

A lettings agency is celebrating winning the obstruction to let and manage a 63 unit Build To Rent scheme for students...

A new study has compiled a league table of the best cities in the UK for investment in student accommodation. CIA Landlord...

A council says it’s considering introducing criminal record checks on individuals who apply to run HMOs as part of a wide-ranging...

The Lomond Group - which has ambitions to become a national operation - has announced two further acquisitions for one of...

Research by the UK’s largest student accommodation search platform shows a 3.7 per cent uplift in London’s Purpose-Built Student Accommodation bed...

The largest provider of purpose built student accommodation in the UK, Unite, has issued a trading statement giving the latest state...

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

A Newcastle lettings agency says it’s cracked how to help reduce tenancy disputes at check out and speed up the return...

The once-popular idea of parents buying a property for their offspring to use while at university, and then letting it to other...

A north of England lettings agency is claiming an all-time record for enquiries relating to student accommodation - and the biggest...

PropTech platform Lavanda says urban property is changing thanks to the pandemic, and it tells agents, landlords and other providers to...

Research by a student accommodation search platform suggests that the sector may rely too heavily on the apparent year-on-year growth in...

‘Room wanted’ ads are currently outnumbering ads for ‘rooms available’ on flatshare site SpareRoom for only the third time in six...

New research reveals that student property portfolios based in smaller university towns or cities typically generate the best returns. The findings, from...

We may still be some months off 2022, but property experts are already beginning to make their predictions for next year...

A new idea put forward by a student-focussed Build To Rent operator is likely to increase the momentum behind campaigners wanting...

The number of international tenants searching for UK property has reached its highest level since before the pandemic. High end agency Knight...

Research by Paragon Bank has revealed the sector that has out-performed the rest of the private rental investment landscape - student...

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

A Manchester agency says there’s been a 400 per cent increase in enquiries from international students. This huge number of enquiries for...

Mistoria is opening its sixth office in the north west of England. The new branch in Cheadle follows Mistoria’s existing outlets in...

A major student accommodation platform says its local area has become a regeneration hotspot for proper investment. UniHomes says Sheffield has already...

A student accommodation provider has been granted planning consent to turn a building in central Leeds into a 350-bed purpose-built block. Study...

Sulets - a not-for-profit, charitable trust providing accommodation for students - has struck gold. It’s won a Gold award from Investors in...

Unite Students, the UK’s largest provider of purpose built student accommodation, has signed a deal guaranteeing a fifth of its annual...

An automated payments service has teamed up with a student accommodation provider to devise an eCommerce system allowing simpler rent payments. Vyne uses...

Real estate fund management company Moorfield has teamed up with PropTech company Bricklane to buy a portfolio of 2,000 homes to...

Lettings agency Intus Lettings has announced the opening of a new Sheffield office — its first base in Yorkshire. The Sheffield office...

Unite Students, the UK’s largest owner, manager and developer of purpose-built student accommodation, has been granted planning approval for a new...

Britain’s largest supplier of purpose-built student accommodation, Unite, says students are bored with Zoom and will return en masse to their rental...

The pandemic has had a major impact on the student rental market with landlords suffering significant losses of income. A new analysis...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I’m David Hackett, Head of Business Development for The DPS    What...

A fast-growing regional chain of agencies has purchased another independent operator in the lettings sector. Yorkshire's Linley & Simpson has bought Sinclair Properties...

Lettings agents are being told by an online platform to be extra-vigilant as increasing numbers of student tenants are getting pets. The...

Unite Students, the UK’s largest manager and developer of purpose-built accommodation for the student sector, is extending its 50 per cent...

A Midlands not-for-profit student lettings agency is giving a rent discount to students who live in its leased houses. The offer comes from Sulets,...

A second student accommodation provider has announced a rent discount. Student Roost has told its residents they can apply for a discount...

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

UniHomes, a student accommodation platform, has snapped up Split The Bills, a bill sharing service aimed at the student market. UniHomes -...

An investment group of companies specialising in student accommodation says letting agents can be very important - but it also says...

A new online platform for students to search for and book accommodation has been launched, claiming to be “the fastest, simplest and...

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

A student accommodation search portal has speculated on how the sector could change in the long term as Coronavirus hits education. “Whilst...

The huge disruption of the Coronavirus crisis to the UK's university education does not alter the sector’s long-term fundamentals, a specialist lettings...

Activists from the controversial renters’ group Acorn have picketed the headquarters of a national rental firm in a dispute over a...

The private rental sector dedicated to student accommodation in London could see a 24 per cent drop in income in the...

Knight Frank says one week in August saw the lettings market in London and the Home Counties hit a 10 year...

Student renters want break clauses automatically included in tenancy agreements to protect them financially in the event of a second wave of...

A new student accommodation property platform has been launched which aims to deliberately by-pass letting agents.  Housemates is for students, landlords and...

The splendidly named East Midlands lettings agency Monkey vs Owl - known as MOVO - has opened a second office. Its first,...

Buy to let landlords specialising in student accommodation are facing huge challenges with increased government legislation and the impact of Coronavirus. That’s...

Student lettings and management company Uni2 Rent has expanded its business with the acquisition of Nottingham West Lettings, for an undisclosed...

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

Student bodies want letting agents to acknowledge that many students have lost their incomes and have been forced to return to...

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

A lettings agent has completed a £2.6million property acquisition plan in one city on behalf of investors, and will go on...

A jailed letting agent in a long-running legal saga has now been told she must repay her victims some £43,000 -...

Politicians from several parties say they want their local council in Bristol to have the powers to regulate the number and...

A huge survey of students, seeking their views on accommodation, has ended with a question mark over the value for money...

The London Airbnb property management company previously known as AirAgents, has rebranded as Nestor. Established in 2015, AirAgents went on to win...

A lettings agency has marked six months in business by embarking on a £100,000 project to create what it calls its...

A huge US property investment firm valued at over $10 billion is entering the UK’s purpose build student accommodation sector. Chicago-based CA...