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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...

Targeting the specialist student rental market can be rewarding for letting agents and landlords if they take the right approach. The current...

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...

An agency which says it aims to be “the UK’s premier residential lettings company” says it’s offering itself free to landlords...

A pioneering lettings agency that allocates second and subsequent year students with private sector and university-owned homes has delivered its best...

Do you know how much your deposits should be? Since June 1 of this year, the government has capped deposits at...

A lettings group says the high-profile struggle performers at the Edinburgh Fringe now face to find affordable short-term accommodation was entirely...

Data from a student accommodation specialist firm shows average rents across many cities are stuck at around a 20-year average of...

A specialist student accommodation lettings and property management company says it’s preparing to grow through a series of strategic acquisitions. Bankers have...

A leading buy to let specialist lender says the vast number of BTL mortgage products now on the market has made...

A survey of 500 undergraduates has given a rare insight into what they want as accommodation priorities.  The study, by a landlord...

A PropTech platform launched three years ago acting as a search system for students wanting purpose-built accommodation is evolving into a...

The agency handling the largest volume of student accommodation in Lincoln is celebrating its fourth birthday by opening a second office...

A new PropTech start-up that claims to make student house-hunting easier is offering free listings to lettings agents with London properties. Polygon...

A new report by a leading lettings sector expert cautions parents who are considering entering the Buy To Let sector by...

Student demand for places across the UK - and therefore for accommodation - is holding up well despite Brexit uncertainty, according...

The government is back to business attacking the lettings sector with an extraordinary claim by a minister that many students are...

Gregory Property Group has announced forward funding and the start of work on one of the country’s largest purpose-built student blocks.  It’s...

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

A student accommodation search engine is introducing an automated feeds service for letting agents and landlords with large property portfolios. The service,...

There’s been a big rise in the volume of purpose-built student accommodation in the UK, suggesting that the market may be...

Another council has been given the go ahead to ban To Let boards in part of a city - with government...

A warning has been issued to lettings agents to review tenancy agreements to see if they are fit for purpose when...

A mortgage firm claims the lettings industry is ripping off students by overcharging them. Mojo Mortgages says it has compared the rent...

The UK’s student accommodation sector is still booming according to Knight Frank, despite Brexit creating uncertainty over the future of foreign...

Research released this morning reveals that university cities offer some of the highest buy to let yields in the country. The Free...

A controversial review website which says it can be used to identify “good (and bad) letting agents” has won the backing...

Manchester’s rental market is rising higher than in any other UK city according to property consultancy Cushman & Wakefield.  Rents were up...

North west lettings and student accommodation specialist Mistoria Group has purchased an independent with 200 properties under management across Greater Manchester.  The...

A PropTech entrepreneur says all agents would benefit from the introduction of more automation, but that those with student tenants may...

An agency has been expelled from The Property Ombudsman after receiving over 100 separate complaints, and failing to pay over £419,000...

A family-run hybrid based in the North East has secured the £300,000 contract to manage a new student accommodation development in...

Student landlords and letting agents are being warned by the Master Locksmiths Association (MLA) to tighten up security in their properties...

A rent guarantor service based in London and previously aiming itself at the UK market is expanding into the Republic of...

The University of Surrey’s in-house private lettings agency has won a gong at the Guardian University Awards 2018. The ‘Student Experience’ award...

Franchise agency Redstones, which has 13 offices across the Midlands, has acquired student letting company Housemates. Redstones, now one of the largest...

As students begin their search for housing for the next academic year, a university has relaunched a dedicated lettings agency service The...

Spotahome, a London-based student lettings platform, has acquired another platform aimed at students, Erasmusu, in a bid to expand its international...

A Birmingham-based student lettings agency says it has seen improved response rates from student tenants and viewers thanks to the use...

The former director of a lettings agency in Plymouth is to appear in court in March facing charges of fraud, false...

Student accommodation specialist Unite is launching a new service, called Conker, which aims to replace deposits with insurance schemes for students...

Legal & General - one of the country’s largest players in the burgeoning Build To Rent sector - has made a...

Buy to let expert Kate Faulkner says tenants should undertake more research on agents, landlords and properties before choosing a place...

Research by a student lettings software company suggests that 70 per cent of landlords say they would prefer not to let...

There has been a record number of new student accommodation bed spaces delivered in 2017, with possible consequences for future buy...

A council is seeking to prevent letting agents and landlords from letting homes to students in an area of a city...

Tenants are expecting to find and move in to new rental accommodation in ever-shorter periods of time.  Data from property website TheHouseShop.com...

A survey has been undertaken of the top 25 UK postcodes in terms of yields for investors - and London and...

Student rents in some parts of the country have risen by as much as 18 per cent in the past year...

A rental investment platform is claiming to have succeeded with the world’s largest property crowdfunding exercise, raising £2,992,800. Property Partner says it...

A lettings insurance specialist company is warning that students moving into private rental accommodation may pose a greater-than-average risk of fire. Total...

Online lettings agency Upad says that with the volume of purpose-built student accommodation set to increase 17 per cent this year,...

A new report into student accommodation has found that private student rent remains at an average of £100 to £119 a...

Letting agents are being reminded of the importance of independent and professionally compiled inventories for individual students as they start or...

The local authority in Islington, north London, is attempting to close what it calls a loophole concerning private rental property and...

As applications from EU students to UK universities fall for the first time in six years, an over-supply of purpose-built student...

A company which already runs a student accommodation lettings service online is to expand and open a general online lettings agency...

A league table drawn up by a rental sector insurance specialist claims private rental accommodation in university locations can produce yields...

An online lettings agency specialising in student accommodation alleges that student tenants are discriminated against by landlords on the basis of...

It is being reported that one of the major providers of purpose-built student accommodation to let - Unite - could temporarily...

The head of an online letting agency specialising in student accommodation says the controversial Right To Rent legislation may have to...

A specialist student lettings agency says the drop in the number of applicants for UK higher education courses this year threatens...

The current ‘busy season’ for lettings turnovers at the end of student terms would be made significantly easier if agents and...

The Tenancy Deposit Scheme says the end of May usually triggers the annual movement of students from their rented properties -...

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

A seven per cent fall in the number of EU students seeking places at UK universities, matched with a 4.3 per...

University Cribs, the student property search engine, is expanding to list accommodation in the London market.    The service says that with its...

Who are you? Richard Price What does it say on your business card? We don't have our roles on our business cards. I...

An online letting agency has sharply criticised student accommodation branded as affordable yet costing, it claims, nearly twice the maximum maintenance...

A survey of students in Birmingham has discovered that over 44 per cent of respondents claim to have paid what the...

Student landlords are concerned that fast-track two-year degrees could have an impact on their rental businesses. This is according to StudentTenant.com, which...

An online lettings firm claims that last year four out of 10 students had some or all of their deposits kept...

The Loughborough Building Society is launching a Buy For Uni mortgage product seeking to encourage students to buy a home -...

Manchester council is considering a city-wide ban on letting agents’ To Let boards.   The local authority says the plethora of boards in some...

An online lettings agency specialising in student accommodation has raised £310,000 to grow its business.    StudentTenant says its aim is to rival conventional...

A letting agency specialising in student accommodation in Nottingham city centre and its director have admitted a series of breaches of...

Specialist student rental company Studenttenant.com has expressed concern at Prime Minister Theresa May’s announcement this week that Britain would not seek...

Despite what many in the industry believe to be an upsurge in specialist student accommodation construction in recent years, one student...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is warning the government that some of its proposed changes to regulations governing HMOs may...

Brighton and Hove council has failed in its bid to win government backing to ban To Let boards. The council sought government...

Another local authority is considering a ban to reduce the impact - or possibly ban outright - agents' To Let boards.  Residents...

The Association of Independent Inventory Clerks says it is concerned at the results of a survey suggesting 79 per cent of...

A 71 year old landlord has been fined £5,037.97 at Birmingham Magistrates Court for failing to obtain an HMO licence and...

The government is considering a ban on the display of To Let boards in parts of Leicester following a council bid...

It is feared that Cardiff council will later this week severely restrict the number of new shared houses in two popular...

Student accommodation provider Student Cribs has secured £200m in funding from institutions to expand its portfolio - and it’s looking for...

Four out of 10 students lose well over a third of their deposits when they rent privately while at university or...

A study of just over 1,000 students suggests that 58 per cent use online sources to find accommodation while only 25...

A new property tech startup is launching this month with the promise that it will “completely transform the way university students...

A Birmingham MP is to put a Bill to the House of Commons after the summer in his bid to stop...

Two more student houses in Brighton have been ordered to close by a government planning inspector. There have now been four such...

A new report claims that over a third of student property investors plan to expand their portfolios in 2016, despite the...

Landlords predict that one-bedroom flats will be the property type to increase most in value over the next year.  Meanwhile, two-bedroom flats...

Institutional investment in purpose built student accommodation has 'polarised' the market, according to Knight Frank's head of student housing. James Pullen says...

Two former University of Lincoln students are to launch a students-only lettings portal on June 1, allowing agencies and private landlords...

A letting agent has been jailed after reportedly tricking students into paying deposits totalling thousands of pounds for flats they could...

A student accommodation specialist is warning about the potential pitfalls of investing in individual student rooms or small pods as opposed...

A survey suggests that the three facilities demanded most by student tenants are security, wi-fi and clothes washing.  The research, conducted amongst...

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

Agents and landlords are being warned that students expect increasingly high standards of accommodation including space, decor and fixtures and fittings. The...

A letting agency that has been the subject of a BBC investigation and has gone into liquidation in controversial circumstances has...

On October 6 2015 we published an article concerning Clever Student Lets Ltd, entitled “Agents back political probe into deal between...

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

A new survey claims there is a serious shortfall of appropriate quality accommodation for students.  The research, conducted amongst 500 students and...

A judge is expected to rule in the next two weeks in the case of students being sued by a landlord...

A row has broken out between one of the north east’s most prominent letting agents and Zoopla over the worst place...

The shortage of rental accommodation in some university towns is so great that up to 22 people are competing for every...

The 107,000 overseas students using London’s burgeoning private rental market contribute some £600m annually to landlords, according to research by agency...

A letting agency has been ordered to pay more than £12,000 in fines and court costs after being convicted of seven...

Barnet is the latest council appearing to edge towards increased private rental sector licensing as it enters the final two weeks...

Research for a student accommodation service says the average weekly rent paid by students has risen a modest £1.43 in the...

Students in rented housing are being let down by a small number of bad landlords and a failure by local authorities...

The Master Locksmiths Association has set out advice to letting agents on the best way to secure student properties which in...

Hundreds of To Let boards have been taken down in a suburb of south Liverpool as a result of a voluntary...

Investment into the country’s student housing market hit £3.98 billion in the first half 2015, well ahead of the £2.35 billion...

Student tenants risk losing thousands of pounds through items detailed in a property inventory going missing at the end of a...

A portal is launching this week that claims to be the UK’s first helping landlords and letting agents reach students looking...

Almost half of students (49%) surveyed by Glide Utilities said their weekly rent represents good value for money, the firm has...