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

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

Online lettings company Monkey vs Owl - also known as MOVO - has expanded from a regional and mostly student service...

Two thorny subjects are back on the agenda for letting agents - break clauses and what happens when students leave their...

A Green Party councillor has been refunded fees he and his partner were charged by a letting agency five years ago,...

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

London Central Portfolio, an investment consultancy, says the capital’s prime central area is seeing a demographic change as younger British tenants...

A Czech-based PropTech firm called Flatio says it’s entering the UK market and aims to have at least 10,000 properties listed...

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

Trading Standards in one region of the UK is staging Twitter quizzes aimed at students, and asking about agents’ fees surrounding...

Rents continue to fall in Prime Central London according to agency Knight Frank. After September’s data is taken into account the annual...

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...

Consumer charity Citizens Advice has given guidance to student tenants who may have to return home early this term because of...

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

A rent guarantor service says the rental sector has investors and landlords who are happy for tenants to defer rent payments...

Hamptons International has given a rental market forecast for 2021 - and it doesn’t make for happy reading. The agency says the rental...

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

A fully electronic check-in process can help to protect landlords’ properties and tenants’ deposits as students return to university over the...

Overseas and domestic students have returned to the Central London lettings market 'in force' so far this month, according to Dexters. The...

Data from Knight Frank suggests that average rental values in prime central London fell one per cent last month, taking the...

With college and university terms about to start, and ever-more diligence required over Coronavirus, the Deposit Protection Service is offering an...

The rental market is heading into the normally-quieter autumn period with strength but increasing void periods. Data from PropTech firm Goodlord, which...

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

A rent guarantor service has rejected criticism of so-called Coronavirus break clauses in rental contracts. There’s been criticism in recent months of...

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...

Uncertainty around the start of the academic year and pressure on corporate budgets means lettings activity has been lower than normal...

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

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

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

One of the capital’s largest lettings agencies says business is recovering well, although ironically rents are down 10% and increased activity...

A pro-tenant campaign group has this morning kicked off its campaign to have the eviction ban - already extended until late...

The Deposit Protection Service has issued seven ways to help agents and students in England and Wales arrange accommodation check-outs during...

Rents in London have dropped by between 10 and 15 per cent as fewer people are willing or able to move...

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 private equity firm that snapped up Zoopla Property Group two years ago has revealed that it’s one of two companies...

One of the lettings sector’s biggest trade bodies is calling on government to make a clear statement to help landlords who...

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

The departure of almost all students from UK universities and colleges back to their parental homes for possibly several months has...

A lettings agency and its director have pleaded guilty to renting out an overcrowded house in the first case brought to...

An online student publication is urging readers who are tenants to “go lawsuit crazy” when the full provisions of the Homes...

Grainger, one of the biggest names in Build To Rent, has agreed to buy a proposed 348 home-scheme in central Nottingham. The...

A lettings sector trade group says lavish additional services are being offered by landlords who are nervous that Brexit will lead...

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...

New research from the National Landlords Association reveals that migrant workers, and not professional executives, provide the best rental yield. The NLA...

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

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

The National Union of Students claims young people at college and university are being unfairly targeted by agents and landlords when...

A lettings agency has voluntarily decided to scrap To Let boards in densely populated areas, because they are unsightly and in...

One of the leading lettings sector trade bodies has unveiled what it describes as “a positive vision for the private rented...

A new building society mortgage product is aimed at allowing students to become first time buyers and to simultaneously become first...

Property development and investment firm SevenCapital has released a top 10 league table of UK cities which it claims will perform...

Giant glow-in-the-dark swear words, a sex toy and a pet python are among some of the items that students left in...

Two university dropouts who started their own student letting agency have recorded their busiest ever start to an academic year. Harry Conti,...

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

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

The Association of Residential Lettings Agents is urging member agents and the industry to ensure it is up to date with...

A new online lettings agency called Accommodation.co.uk is looking for franchisees to join ahead of its formal launch next month.  The company...

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...

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

An ‘open banking’ PropTech platform has partnered with two rental organisations which will offer agents, landlords and tenants direct payments and...

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...

More nightmare tenants have been the subject of investigation in a Channel 5 TV programme to be shown this evening. In the...

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

There’s been another major industry survey revealing that a high number of lettings agents and landlords may quit the private rental...

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 rent guarantor provider claims that deposits which prospective tenants are required to pay are often reduced if such a service...

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...

A local authority has written to purchasers of former council houses and apartments warning them against illegally letting them out -...

One of London’s best known lettings agents says unfurnished properties can take 30 per cent longer to let than a furnished...

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

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Taha Dar, founder and CEO of SearchSmartly. What is SearchSmartly and...

Prospective tenants are being warned about a fraud scam that cons people into paying an advance fee to rent a property. The...

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

A crooked letting agent took £220,000 from tenants and landlords and has been exposed as buying a home in Florida, renting...

There is a warning that the HMRC’s Let Property campaign, which received huge publicity and attention for some years, has so...

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,...

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

A holiday lettings company and a longer term private rental listings services have come together to try to optimise income for...

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

Two PropTech suppliers are claiming their new products will help lettings agents in the future, especially in the light of the...

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...

JLL says its London offices saw increased demand in the third quarter of the year, underpinned by the student sector. Lonres data...

The shock findings of a new survey suggest that 32 per cent of landlords would be less likely to buy new...

The Deposit Protection Service says almost a quarter of students lost part of their tenancy deposit when they left their accommodation...

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...

There’s more evidence today that the largest buy to let investment yields are coming from the north of England and the...

The Scottish Government’s private rental reforms are shaking up the sector according to new data, which reveals rental property sales have...

A lettings agency has teamed up with a university to give young students an insight into how small businesses operate. Priestley’s, a...

Online accommodation platform Student.com has linked with mental health charity Student Minds in a bid to prioritise mental health awareness amongst...

Buy to let landlords are welcoming proposals being considered by the government to provide financial incentives for those offering longer tenancies. In...

Arguments have already started over the government’s proposals to make three year tenancies the norm in the private rental sector. Letting Agent...

Leaks from government sources to at least two mainstream news outlets today suggest that radical proposals on longer tenancies and possible...

A students’ union is the latest body to partner a review platform allowing renters to give their verdict on dealing with...

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...

The number of buy to let investors in the UK has hit a record high of 2.5m in the latest tax...

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

The Association of Independent Inventory Clerks has renewed its call for letting agents and other property professionals to back an online...

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

Oxford’s Labour council has given its support to a lettings review website because it claims it will help drive up the...

Brighton’s largest lettings agency MTM Property has rebranded under the new name Coapt. The rebranding involved a year of workshops, client and...

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

An online petition urging MPs to make it compulsory for privately let properties to be subject to independent inventory reporting is...

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...

A former councillor says letting agents should be responsible for ensuring student tenants know how to organise their bins in a...

The lettings director of high-end London lettings agency Russell Simpson says he expects the capital’s rentals market to blossom next year...

Foxtons insists the London rental market may now be in recovery mode with 9.2 prospective tenants per property registered in the third...

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

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

A buy to let investor who failed to purchase a £542 licence for his HMO has been ordered to pay almost...

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

The rental market in parts of prime central London is becoming increasingly dominated by well-funded overseas students, according to a leading...

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

The director of a Plymouth letting agency has been re-bailed and will appear in court again in January.    Heather Crabb, owner of...

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

Letting agency Spicerhaart has been fined £2,670 after pleading guilty to operating an unlicensed house in multiple occupation.   A prosecution was brought...

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 London letting agency is opening a new branch thanks to continued high demand from EU nationals looking for rental property...

ARLA Propertymark has revealed what it believes is a 'big step forward' for letting agents processing large numbers of overseas student...

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

Younger people will have more difficulty finding rented accommodation in coming months as a substantial proportion of landlords actively cut back...

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

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

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

As the end of the academic year approaches, one deposit protection scheme is urging student tenants to reclaim their deposits.  SafeDeposits Scotland...

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...

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The fall in rents across prime central London’s lettings market are slowing according to Knight Frank. It claims rents have dropped 4.9...

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...

A trade body is warning letting agents and landlords of the need to have detailed evidence to support any deduction made...

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 -...

A group of students in Bristol has won a court case after a lettings agency acting for a landlord deducted money...

Right To Rent is encouraging discrimination against international students according to a student lts online service.    Government figures marking the first anniversary...

A short-let platform says overseas students may be a new market sector for agents who handle Airbnb-style bookings on behalf of...

The average tenancy deposit for England and Wales is just below £1,000 - but London’s typical deposit is now at its...

A property investment financing specialist says an increasing number of buy to let investors are converting properties into Houses in Multiple...

Four letting agencies and a number of local councillors in York appear to have reached a voluntary agreement to reduce the...

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

An online student lettings agency claims there will be a growing number of students using the holiday season to boost their...

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

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

Regional lettings markets around the country are now outperforming London according to Your Move.    While rents in London grew 6.9 per cent...

Letting agents and landlords are being reminded to comply with an obligation to remove ‘to let’ signs in certain parts of...

Labour councillors controlling Brighton and Hove council are reported to be writing to the government for premission to charge HMO owners...

To coincide with students' return to university, the trade body for Scotland's electrical sector, SELECT, has launched a radio campaign to...

A London agency has reported that its lettings revenues increased by a fifth during August. ludlowthompson's lettings revenue increased by 20% year-on-year...

Average rents in some of the UK's most popular university locations have increased significantly over the last year, according to SpareRoom.co.uk. As...

Our key partner and buy-to-let specialist, Hamilton Fraser, and renown industry expert, Paul Shamplina have released the first in a new...

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...

London agency Benham & Reeves Residential Lettings says student rents have risen by 55.5 per cent over the past 20 years,...

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...

Discussions between a landlord group and the government has resulted with additional clarity being given for Right to Rent checks on...

A report from Citizens Advice claims to show that a city’s letting agents charge a complex array of fees - with...

The Daily Telegraph - an outspoken critic of George Osborne’s fiscal changes aimed at extracting more money from the buy to...

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 letting agency has been criticised by local students after sending a touting letter to landlords saying it could increase rents...

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

Countrywide is next week formally announcing that it is acquiring the large Oxford-based lettings agency Finders Keepers. Countrywide says the agency -...

The private rental sector could expand to cover 40 per cent of households and the UK population is likely to split...

Letting agents are a money-grabbing, throat-cutting, ruthless lot - well, that’s what some say. But Leeds-based student lettings agency The Student...

An industry body has asked classified listings online service Gumtree to issue its users clear warnings about possible scams involving fake...

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

A Loughborough lettings agency has been accused of “obscene” advertising because of the wording used on To Let boards.  Councillor Ted Parton...

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

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

ARLA has issued guidance to students who may be using the Christmas break to line-up accommodation for the coming year.  Looking for...

There’s been a call to ban letting boards from streets near a university campus. Councillors in York say the boards which go...

A bid to force letting agents to remove To Let boards from properties in areas of a city with high numbers...

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

There is uproar in Brighton as a result of students being let rooms in an HMO - despite the property’s owners...

The manager of a Lancaster letting agency dealing chiefly with students says he will co-operate with any police investigation into his...

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

A long-established letting agency and a campaign group have joined forces to analyse a UK government's private rental sector reform proposals...

Students are considered to be almost twice as likely to lose their deposit at the end of a tenancy than any...

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 private rented sector is becoming an increasingly diverse place. Its growth into the UK's second largest form of housing has...

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...

New student tenants have been urged to be vigilent and not fall victim to fake online letting agents and landlords. The National...

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...

Letting agents in two areas of Cardiff with large proportions of privately rented property will have to apply for consent to...

Rents in prime central London are rising again after a prolonged period of stagnation, according to property advisers London Central Portfolio. “The...

The immigration charity the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants says it is working with a range of other bodies...

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

Forget those ideas that even posh students live in digs or shared houses - prime central London agency Napier Watt has...

A Scottish agent has warned that government proposals to restrict landlord repossessions could negatively impact accommodation costs at the Edinburgh Festival. David...

Ahead of the next academic year, a letting agency has been advising prospective students on how to rent a property while...

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

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