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Propertymark says it welcomes measures in the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill that will mean swifter action to get the hundreds...
25 May 2022
From: Breaking News

A mortgage lender specialising in working with ex-pat and foreign buy to let investors says the city apartment and house remain...
20 May 2022
From: Breaking News

A senior lettings chief says the supply drought is making the rental market as overheated now as at any time in...
18 May 2022
From: Breaking News

A new market snapshot puts the average rental rise across the UK at a remarkable 18 per cent over the past...
16 May 2022
From: Breaking News

The latest sentiment survey amongst members of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors suggests that the rental market is strong -...
13 May 2022
From: Breaking News

The appeal of city living has been reignited across Scotland with new figures showing a surge in demand and rents for...
13 May 2022
From: Breaking News

A high end agency brand says pricing in the rental market continues to rise because of demand exceeding supply - and...
12 May 2022
From: Breaking News
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Agents have voiced their reservations over aspects of the widespread rental sector reform announced by the government in the Queen’s Speech. Yesterday...
11 May 2022
From: Breaking News

Rental values in prime areas of London are now nine per cent higher than they before the pandemic, with Knight Frank...
11 May 2022
From: Breaking News

One of the most high profile members of the Welsh Parliament has hit back at calls from the controlling Labour and...
09 May 2022
From: Breaking News

Rents in prime areas of London are nine per cent higher today than before the pandemic according to Knight Frank. The high...
09 May 2022
From: Breaking News

Three organisations have written a joint open letter to the Scottish Government warning that the supply of homes for rent –...
09 May 2022
From: Breaking News

The average rent in the UK has hit another record high of £1,091 after a 1.2 per cent increase in the...
05 May 2022
From: Breaking News

The chief executive of Propertymark says a warning from agents about rents rising and stock diminishing as a result of a...
04 May 2022
From: Breaking News
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Propertymark is calling on candidates in next week's Northern Ireland Assembly elections to support policies that will increase housing supply and...
29 April 2022
From: Breaking News

Average UK rents have increased for the sixth consecutive quarter - but some tenants are paying above the going rate to...
26 April 2022
From: Breaking News

ARLA Propertymark is the latest rental industry organisation to hit out at what it calls the “tenant-centred approach” being taken to...
26 April 2022
From: Breaking News

Foxtons has reported to its shareholders that its lettings revenue in the first quarter of this year was a stunning 21...
22 April 2022
From: Breaking News

Annual rental yields in England and Wales have dipped but tenant demand is set to stay strong for the rest of...
21 April 2022
From: Breaking News
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The chief executive of ARLA Propertymark has made an outspoken attack on the UK government, accusing it of a “blatant disregard...
20 April 2022
From: Breaking News

The latest market sentiment survey of the lettings market from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors suggests that rent rises will...
19 April 2022
From: Breaking News

The continuing shortage of supply in the lettings market is not only producing record high asking rents, but is also pushing demand...
14 April 2022
From: Breaking News

Winkworth has told its shareholders that the rental market is to boom - a lot. “In lettings we anticipate that prices will...
13 April 2022
From: Breaking News

The latest forecast for the UK lettings market this year is that there will be a four per cent rise in...
13 April 2022
From: Breaking News

OnTheMarket is today launched a lettings Automated Valuation Model tool that is claimed will provide landlords and investors with an instant...
12 April 2022
From: Breaking News

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I’m Alex Gibbs, Co-Founder and Director of Built Asset Management...
27 March 2022
From: 60 Second Interview

The great imbalance between tenant demand and available stock continues, according to the latest market snapshot from ARLA Propertymark. In February, Propertymark...
24 March 2022
From: Breaking News

There’s been a broad welcome from letting agents to the Spring Statement not loading more tax or restrictions on buy to...
24 March 2022
From: Breaking News

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Sarah Davies, Commercial Director at The Letting Partnership What is The...
21 March 2022
From: 60 Second Interview

An eye-watering annualised rent rise in Greater London of 27.3 per cent has helped pushed the all-UK total yearly hike to...
17 March 2022
From: Breaking News

A new player in the Build To Rent sector says it’s targeting locations in the London commuter belt with chronic supply...
14 March 2022
From: Breaking News

Rental market stock levels have plummeted further - even to below the pre-pandemic levels of late 2019. New research shows that in...
11 March 2022
From: Breaking News

Lettings agency Galbraith reports that landlords are now returning to the residential lets sector from holiday lets after several years without...
10 March 2022
From: Breaking News

ARLA Propertymark has slammed politicians who appear to have ignored a public consultation and gone ahead with draconian changes affecting second...
08 March 2022
From: Breaking News

The increasingly shrill anti-landlord rhetoric from some politicians is making it harder for tenants, claims a leading industry spokesman. John Blackwood, chief...
02 March 2022
From: Breaking News

New financial incentives are needed to bring thousands of empty homes back into use and give a much-needed boost to the...
01 March 2022
From: Breaking News

A 68-page academic report urges governments not to adopt hard controls that simply freeze rents - even though it acknowledges that...
28 February 2022
From: Breaking News

Propertymark, the letting agents’ trade body, has accused governments across the UK of using Covid 19 rule changes to slip in...
28 February 2022
From: Breaking News

The imposition of rent controls - urged by a growing number of politicians and pressure groups in different parts of the...
18 February 2022
From: Breaking News

A prominent lettings agency chief says a consultation looking at changes to private renting proposed by the Scottish Government is merely...
18 February 2022
From: Breaking News

New research commissioned by the landlords’ trade body shows that the UK needs almost 230,000 new private rented homes a year...
18 February 2022
From: Breaking News

Politicians across the UK appear to be growing more vocal in their support for rent controls. The Welsh nationalist party Plaid Cymru...
17 February 2022
From: Breaking News

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...
17 February 2022
From: Breaking News

Rents in prime areas of London are rocketing at an annual level of 22.5 per cent according to LonRes. Despite the falls...
15 February 2022
From: Breaking News

Figures obtained by ITV News suggest that one of the country's most popular tourist locations has as many Airbnbs listed as...
14 February 2022
From: Breaking News

New data from Zoopla suggests that lettings demand has now recovered across the central districts of all major cities including Birmingham,...
11 February 2022
From: Breaking News

The leader of one of Britain’s highest profile lettings agency operations has let rip at the government for what he calls...
10 February 2022
From: Breaking News

The rental market continues to boom despite the growing cost of living crisis, with average rents rising at a 13 year...
09 February 2022
From: Breaking News

The latest lettings market snapshot from HomeLet suggests another record average UK monthly rent level of £1,064 pcm - up a...
03 February 2022
From: Breaking News

A prominent London buying agent says her property management team is letting out homes in the capital in a matter of...
03 February 2022
From: Breaking News
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The government’s new Levelling Up White Paper, revealed this morning, includes a radical reshaping of the private rental sector. Section 21 eviction...
02 February 2022
From: Breaking News

ARLA Propertymark is warning that new landlords must be drafted in to the private rental sector to replace those exiting in...
01 February 2022
From: Breaking News

Lettings franchisees under the Belvoir banner delivered the group an additional 10 per cent management service fees last year according to...
01 February 2022
From: Breaking News

Trade body UKALA has cautioned letting agents to act now following the government announcement that it intends to extend the need...
31 January 2022
From: Breaking News

One of the leading lettings agencies in Liverpool has issued a warning about the city’s controversial new licensing scheme. The Labour council...
25 January 2022
From: Breaking News

A prominent agent says the shortage of rental property is now so acute, and like to get still worse, that those...
24 January 2022
From: Breaking News

Wales and Scotland are ahead of the game when it comes to limiting the impact of short term lets on the...
18 January 2022
From: Breaking News

There’s still some way to go for the lettings market to return to its pre-pandemic best according to Knight Frank -...
18 January 2022
From: Breaking News

Politicians who express concern over the number of holiday lets and Airbnbs in tourist areas miss one major point - if...
17 January 2022
From: Breaking News

The London rental market stock surplus spurred by pandemic uncertainty has started to subside, with prime boroughs seeing some of the...
12 January 2022
From: Breaking News

A report from the House of Lords has condemned the private rental sector as being ”increasingly unaffordable” as well as being...
11 January 2022
From: Breaking News

A leading agency handling international investors and buyers says Russians will displace the Chinese as the main purchasers of buy to...
05 January 2022
From: Breaking News

A leading market forecaster has described the level of rent rises in one part of the country as “going ballistic”. “The London...
24 December 2021
From: Breaking News

ARLA Propertymark has launched a radical programme of reform for the private rental sector - getting in before the government’s own...
15 December 2021
From: Breaking News

Landlords selling up or converting to short lets have led to a growing housing crisis, according to a trade body of...
14 December 2021
From: Breaking News

ARLA Propertymark is backing a call for the government to set a clear vision for how it sees the private rental...
13 December 2021
From: Breaking News

The latest market snapshot from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors suggests that rents are to increase “firmly” in the near...
09 December 2021
From: Breaking News

A new Buy To Let ‘tracker’ from a prominent buy to let mortgage lender has revealed what it considers to be...
07 December 2021
From: Breaking News

During the last year, the industry has experienced a rollercoaster of highs and lows as agents experienced rental peaks, stock shortages,...
24 November 2021
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The long term undersupply of rental properties across the country is expected to support rental growth into 2022, says Zoopla. In addition,...
17 November 2021
From: Breaking News

Police officers are this week raising awareness among agents about the signs of potential cannabis grows. The campaign is being led in...
17 November 2021
From: Breaking News

Home, the property website that publishes an authoritative market snapshot for lettings and sales each month, says the long-standing supply drought...
16 November 2021
From: Breaking News

Cluttons has given its latest lettings market snapshot for London, with an upbeat assessment of current and future demand. The agency say...
16 November 2021
From: Breaking News

An agent in one major university city says it’s faced with 50 students applying for each available property. Edinburgh residential property lettings,...
15 November 2021
From: Breaking News

Rental growth in prime areas of London has climbed to multi-year highs according to new data from Knight Frank. While only a...
05 November 2021
From: Breaking News

New figures from the National Home Building Council suggests the popularity of detached properties has soared during the pandemic - prompting...
29 October 2021
From: Breaking News

ARLA Propertymark has released its latest lettings market snapshot showing demand reducing - but even so still being a record for...
27 October 2021
From: Breaking News

Propertymark has told the government that imposing the same solution to the Net Zero challenge on all of the private rental...
22 October 2021
From: Breaking News

A leading lettings agency wants next week’s Budget to unveil incentives to bolster supply in the long term rental sector. Richard Davies,...
22 October 2021
From: Breaking News

New research by the Benham and Reeves agency has revealed how a lack of London rental properties has pushed up the...
20 October 2021
From: Breaking News

Savills says an increase in the number of new builds bought for buy to let and other property investment will help...
19 October 2021
From: Breaking News

Data consultancy LonRes says a dramatic fall in prime London rental stock is forcing rents to rise at last. The number of...
18 October 2021
From: Breaking News

Tenant demand continues to rise and is now way beyond the long term average according to the latest market snapshot by...
15 October 2021
From: Breaking News
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The head of a lettings agency has drawn up a wish list for Chancellor Rishi Sunak to address in his Budget...
14 October 2021
From: Breaking News

‘Room wanted’ ads are currently outnumbering ads for ‘rooms available’ on flatshare site SpareRoom for only the third time in six...
13 October 2021
From: Breaking News

Campaigners against letting agents and landlords appear to suggest that the issue of rising rents is uniquely confined to the UK...
08 October 2021
From: Breaking News
The lettings agents’ group Propertymark has told Chancellor Rishi Sunak that unless the private rented sector is overhauled many landlords will...
07 October 2021
From: Breaking News
New data from Rightmove reveals that the imbalance of supply and demand for rental properties in suburban and rural areas has...
06 October 2021
From: Breaking News

After 10 days of reports of soaring energy costs, PropTech supplier Goodlord has produced a series of tips for letting agents...
01 October 2021
From: Breaking News

Rik Smith, Head of Tenant Services at Goodlord, outlines in this tips piece how agents can support tenants with rising energy...
29 September 2021
From: Recruitment & Business Matters

Record demand and low levels of supply have pushed the number of tenants experiencing rental increases to new highs, lettings agents...
24 September 2021
From: Breaking News

We may still be some months off 2022, but property experts are already beginning to make their predictions for next year...
23 September 2021
From: Breaking News

Agents need to be diligent regarding the the growth of cannabis in rental properties and the devastating lengths tenants will go to...
21 September 2021
From: Breaking News

Knight Frank is anticipating a “sprint for stock” in the lettings market as offices reopen and travel restrictions ease. Tom Bill, Knight...
20 September 2021
From: Breaking News

The number of new prospective tenants registering with Knight Frank in August was 73 per cent higher than the same month...
09 September 2021
From: Breaking News

Rents in some of the most popular locations of the country have risen 25 per cent in the past year according...
08 September 2021
From: Breaking News

The lettings market continues to boom, with HomeLet’s latest index showing average UK rents at a record high for the third...
06 September 2021
From: Breaking News

ARLA Propertymark has voiced its concern over rent controls to a politicians who is leading the charge to introduce them to...
03 September 2021
From: Breaking News

There’s been a 21 per cent rise in demand for properties from buy to let investors according to a new analysis...
26 August 2021
From: Breaking News

The scale of demand in the private rental sector is now the highest on record according to ARLA Propertymark. The average number...
25 August 2021
From: Breaking News

Demand for private rental housing is now at a five year high according to the National Residential Landlords Association. In the association’s...
23 August 2021
From: Breaking News

Agents’ body Propertymark says it wants a dedicated housing court because it’s lost faith in the mainstream court system to handle...
17 August 2021
From: Breaking News

A housing market analyst is warning of "one heck of a dark cloud on the horizon for the lettings market” as...
16 August 2021
From: Breaking News

Another index is showing that a scarcity of rental properties has prompted a rise in every single region of Britain -...
13 August 2021
From: Breaking News

Tenant demand for private rental property has risen for the fifth consecutive quarter according to the latest market snapshot from the...
12 August 2021
From: Breaking News

Agents will be aware that demand for rental property is high right now - so a property consultancy has worked out...
09 August 2021
From: Breaking News

One of the most pessimistic lettings operations about the London market during the pandemic says that at last the capital is...
30 July 2021
From: Breaking News

The latest rental market snapshot released by ARLA Propertymark shows a little of the heat coming out of the rental market...
29 July 2021
From: Breaking News

A town with one of the UK’s heaviest concentrations of holiday homes is clamping down on future purchases by outsiders who...
28 July 2021
From: Breaking News

Record tenant demand and record-fast lettings have combined to create an average asking rent above £1,000 per calendar month for homes...
15 July 2021
From: Breaking News
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ARLA Propertymark has hit back at a demand from London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan that he be given the powers to...
12 July 2021
From: Breaking News

For the first time since the beginning of the pandemic rents across all prime London regions saw a return to positive...
09 July 2021
From: Breaking News

London’s rental market gathered momentum in June as tenants anticipated a return to the office with 24 per cent more tenancies...
07 July 2021
From: Breaking News
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A pet referencing service is being launched next month - but it expects agents and landlords to pay to see the...
06 July 2021
From: Breaking News

Demand continues to build in prime lettings markets in London and the Home Counties, with Knight Frank data showing the number...
05 July 2021
From: Breaking News

Deposit alternative firm flatfair has teamed up with an accommodation service to supply short lets. Users who find short lets through the...
30 June 2021
From: Breaking News

There’s still no sign of a lettings market slowdown according to the latest report from ARLA Propertymark. It says that the average...
29 June 2021
From: Breaking News

London’s rental market is witnessing a strong recovery in spite of the pandemic, according to the latest analysis by lettings agency...
18 June 2021
From: Breaking News

Rental growth accelerated in May to reach a new record high according to Connells-owned lettings agency Hamptons. Last month the average cost...
15 June 2021
From: Breaking News

Areas of the country which appear to have had a surplus of rental stock in the past is now reporting a...
11 June 2021
From: Breaking News

The latest lettings market snapshot by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors suggests little easing of the strong tenant demand and...
11 June 2021
From: Breaking News
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As we all know, there is an increasing number of PropTech solutions aiming to service the property and lettings industry, with...
07 June 2021
From: Sponsored Content

There’s now an unprecedented level of demand from tenants for properties, according to the latest survey findings from ARLA Propertymark. The survey...
28 May 2021
From: Breaking News

Lettings agency Hamptons says there’s been “an unprecedented fall” in the number of rental homes on the market, leading to double-digit...
17 May 2021
From: Breaking News

The city centre rental market, considered to be one of the industry’s losers during the worst of the pandemic, is beginning...
13 May 2021
From: Breaking News

Zoopla says rents outside London are rising at an average three per cent per year, the highest level since late 2018. However...
12 May 2021
From: Breaking News

High-end lettings agency Knight Frank says there’s been a huge loss of houses available for renters in prime London in the...
10 May 2021
From: Breaking News

Unite Students, the UK’s largest provider of purpose built student accommodation, has signed a deal guaranteeing a fifth of its annual...
30 April 2021
From: Breaking News

One year on from the beginning of the pandemic, London’s reversal of fortunes in the rental market continues according to the...
27 April 2021
From: Breaking News

Rents across the wider London commuter belt continued to rise in the first three months of the year, according to a...
26 April 2021
From: Breaking News

There’s a new driver in the lettings market - the need for a flexible location and property type. Market consultancy TwentyCi says...
20 April 2021
From: Breaking News

The Home website has produced its latest rental market snapshot - and once again London is the odd region out compared...
15 April 2021
From: Breaking News

Average rents in prime central London declined 14.3 per cent in the year to March - but one agency reckons that may be...
14 April 2021
From: Breaking News
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Letting agents body ARLA Propertymark has joined the criticism of London Mayor Sadiq Khan who wants to be given the power...
12 April 2021
From: Breaking News

A quarterly index suggests that there’s been a sharp uplift in tenant demand for rental properties across the UK’s major cities...
08 April 2021
From: Breaking News

Latest figures from ARLA Propertymark suggest the rental market continues to perform strongly. Data for February - the latest available from the...
01 April 2021
From: Breaking News

Central London’s prime rental market is witnessing a wave of enquiries from tenants wanting to strike a deal according to a...
30 March 2021
From: Breaking News

Rightmove has revealed its new TV advertisement, which it claims will reach 59 per cent of the UK during its campaign...
24 March 2021
From: Breaking News

An upbeat market snapshot for the lettings sector claims that one region of the UK has seen rent increases in excess...
15 March 2021
From: Breaking News

Research by Hamptons suggests that the increased house prices caused by the stamp duty holiday sales surge has indirectly obliged more...
15 March 2021
From: Breaking News

The head of a lettings agency says there are up to 60 enquiries for every rental property he lists - and those...
12 March 2021
From: Breaking News

Foxtons has made no bones about how it sees future growth - it wants to acquire lettings books from other agencies. “There...
11 March 2021
From: Breaking News

ARLA Propertymark is warning politicians fighting elections this spring that rent controls should be firmly off the agenda. The organisation traditionally sets...
10 March 2021
From: Breaking News

Knight Frank says the plummeting rents in prime central London have at least managed to attract a surge in the number...
05 March 2021
From: Breaking News

Tenant referencing. It’s a necessary evil. Although most tenants are responsible and pay their rent on time, broke swindlers with dubious...
04 March 2021
From: Sponsored Content

A PropTech supplier says rental market activity remains relatively robust through this third lockdown, with a 25 per cent drop in...
02 March 2021
From: Breaking News
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A leading PropTech expert says the lettings industry hopes next week’s Budget will provide clarity on taxes - but he’s also...
23 February 2021
From: Breaking News

The latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors study suggests tenant demand has increased over the past quarter but at a slowing...
12 February 2021
From: Breaking News

Lettings management service Ringley Group has teamed up with a utility broker, 001 Ltd. It says this sources and identifies economies of...
11 February 2021
From: Breaking News

The fall out from Coronavirus is forcing the rental market into a once in a lifetime change as tenants reassess priorities. This...
09 February 2021
From: Breaking News

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...
08 February 2021
From: Breaking News

Rightmove’s analysis of its own listings for January suggests demand in the rental market is 14 per cent up on a year...
08 February 2021
From: Breaking News

A senior buying agent is warning that new regulations over the length of notice given to tenants is having an unexpected...
05 February 2021
From: Breaking News

Average rents in prime central London fell 13 per cent in the year to January as over-supply still dominated the market, according...
04 February 2021
From: Breaking News

The latest rental market snapshot from ARLA Propertymark suggests that only 30 per cent of tenants experienced rent increases in December...
29 January 2021
From: Breaking News

Another major agency operating in central London confirms that the fall-out from the pandemic continues to produce a glut of units...
28 January 2021
From: Breaking News

A prominent agent says a huge over-supply of available rental property is now flooding the central London market, just as demand...
27 January 2021
From: Breaking News

A rental market snapshot says the UK-wide lettings picture is dragged down by Greater London's excess of supply, and by the...
13 January 2021
From: Breaking News

Major players in the Build To Rent sector are joining forces to see if they can give the industry a more...
08 January 2021
From: Breaking News

Propertymark is making it clear that rent controls are not the way to operate an efficient lettings market. In a formal response...
04 January 2021
From: Breaking News

The new chief executive of Propertymark has outlined what he sees as the main challenges for the rental sector for 2021. In...
31 December 2020
From: Breaking News

Higher levels of supply and weaker demand have dominated prime London lettings markets this month says Knight Frank. This meant that average...
23 December 2020
From: Breaking News

Rental growth expectations remain “slightly positive” across most of the UK according to the latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors market...
22 December 2020
From: Breaking News

A new rental system allowing licensed lettings agents to offer landlords a year’s rent up-front has had hundreds of responses in...
17 December 2020
From: Breaking News

Chris Hope, senior partner at Dawsons and Fine & Country agencies, will be one of the main speakers at a prestigious...
15 December 2020
From: Breaking News

An end-of-year market snapshot by the Association of Residential Letting Agents shows the supply of rental accommodation was the highest on record...
11 December 2020
From: Breaking News

If you think 2020 has been complicated, just wait until 2021: that’s the claim of a rental guarantor service which warns...
08 December 2020
From: Breaking News

Recent debate about urgent need for reform and better collaboration within the property industry, has once again come under the spotlight...
04 December 2020
From: Sponsored Content

Knight Frank says it’s seeing tenants in the prime London niche reflecting the same trends as those in the wider property...
03 December 2020
From: Breaking News

The number of tenants experiencing rent increases fell for the second month in a row according to ARLA Propertymark. Its latest snapshot...
01 December 2020
From: Breaking News

A council says it’s let 21 properties thanks to a rent guarantee system launched to woo private landlords to supply homes...
26 November 2020
From: Breaking News

ARLA Propertymark has issued a warning to government not to use Capital Gains Tax reform to further punish the private rental...
16 November 2020
From: Breaking News

One of the country’s major lettings agency chiefs says there is a “massive” change in tenant priorities underway. Michael Cook, national lettings...
11 November 2020
From: Breaking News

It appears the much-hyped exodus of people from London to the country doesn’t apply to the rental market. Despite rents falling in...
10 November 2020
From: Breaking News

A prominent lettings agent and property management expert says the industry has been reluctant to recognise the increasing trend of consumers...
06 November 2020
From: Breaking News

A rebranded agency is now focussing on selling only tenanted buy to let properties in what it calls ‘second tier’ cities...
05 November 2020
From: Breaking News

Another market snapshot from HomeLet suggests that there was a 2.2 per cent average rent increase across the UK in the...
04 November 2020
From: Breaking News

The number of tenants experiencing rent increases fell by almost a fifth in the year to the end of September according...
02 November 2020
From: Breaking News

The absence of traditional holiday and business users of short let accommodation has prompted a trade body to introduce a discount...
02 November 2020
From: Breaking News

The new trade group representing short lets operators is asking the government to make sure the short lets sector is specifically...
28 October 2020
From: Breaking News

The Welsh Government wants to reform compulsory purchase powers - meaning any landlord with a long-term empty property in the region...
20 October 2020
From: Breaking News

Rents continue to fall in Prime Central London according to agency Knight Frank. After September’s data is taken into account the annual...
09 October 2020
From: Breaking News

New long-term targets for improving energy efficiency across the private rental sector simply are not realistic, the government has been warned. The...
02 October 2020
From: Breaking News

A rental demand league table produced by a lettings management platform shows the winners and losers across the UK - and...
02 October 2020
From: Breaking News

With no clear end in sight and conflicting Government advice as to whether we should work from home or go to...
24 September 2020
From: Sponsored Content

West Midlands Police have revealed that a major drugs racket being run by a rogue landlord from his properties in Coventry...
16 September 2020
From: Breaking News

Data from Knight Frank suggests that average rental values in prime central London fell one per cent last month, taking the...
14 September 2020
From: Breaking News

The first attempt to assess the loss of rental income as a result of Coronavirus calculates 22 per cent of private landlords...
11 September 2020
From: Breaking News

The average rent across the UK is now £985 per calendar month, up some 2.1 per cent on four weeks ago...
02 September 2020
From: Breaking News

ARLA Propertymark says the number of new prospective tenants continued to rise in July, hitting the highest number on record. The average...
28 August 2020
From: Breaking News

A new student accommodation property platform has been launched which aims to deliberately by-pass letting agents. Housemates is for students, landlords and...
18 August 2020
From: Breaking News

The latest house price index, produced by the website Home, gives a broadly optimistic outlook for landlords and other buy to...
14 August 2020
From: Breaking News

Uncertainty around the start of the academic year and pressure on corporate budgets means lettings activity has been lower than normal...
07 August 2020
From: Breaking News

Strutt and Parker says the low level growth in the lettings market seen in prime central London in 2019 is being...
06 August 2020
From: Breaking News

New data from Zoopla shows that a two-speed rental market is operating across the UK, with London in particular hitting major...
05 August 2020
From: Breaking News

The number of new prospective tenants has risen markedly according to figures from ARLA Propertymark. In June - the latest data available...
31 July 2020
From: Breaking News

Propertymark is the latest industry body to warn the government against Capital Gains Tax changes that may disincentivise landlords. A joint statement...
20 July 2020
From: Breaking News

The average rental asking price outside of London has hit an all-time high says Rightmove - whereas inside the capital, the...
16 July 2020
From: Breaking News

Housing minister Chris Pincher has entered the row over Labour claiming that the stamp duty holiday announced last week was in...
15 July 2020
From: Breaking News

Labour has described the stamp duty holiday introduced last week as “a £1.3 billion bung for landlords” because the tax break...
13 July 2020
From: Breaking News

Another agent reports huge surge in supply of London properties to let Yesterday Chestertons reported a large rise in the supply of...
08 July 2020
From: Breaking News

One of the capital’s largest lettings agencies says business is recovering well, although ironically rents are down 10% and increased activity...
07 July 2020
From: Breaking News

The arrival of mandatory enhanced electrical checks so soon after the chaos of the Coronavirus pandemic represents a perfect storm for...
23 June 2020
From: Breaking News

Average room rents in the capital have dipped seven per cent compared to this time last year according to a flat-sharing...
22 June 2020
From: Breaking News

Research from franchise giant Belvoir is the latest to show what may be rapidly changing aspirations from private tenants. “The results confirm...
17 June 2020
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Knight Frank is the latest agency to produce evidence that the lettings sector has rebounded in the four weeks since the...
11 June 2020
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Demand in the prime London lettings market is catching up with supply, reducing short-term downwards pressure on rental values. That’s the view...
05 June 2020
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The so-called King and Queen of Buy To Let, the controversial husband and wife team of Fergus and Judith Wilson, are...
04 June 2020
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A buy to let investor who kept a group of men as slaves – making them work 90-hour weeks in return...
04 June 2020
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A prominent figure in the lettings industry has warned that any extension to the current evictions ban would risk hurting the...
03 June 2020
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The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has issued guidelines ahead of new electrical safety checks coming into force for...
02 June 2020
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Rents in London have dropped by between 10 and 15 per cent as fewer people are willing or able to move...
29 May 2020
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The return of the housing market has seen demand for rental property boom - and it’s a third higher now than...
22 May 2020
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The number of new rental listings reaching the market has soared as much as 44 per cent in some areas following...
20 May 2020
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One of the country’s largest lettings agencies is to lose 17 jobs out of 100 in what the company founder calls...
19 May 2020
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ARLA Propertymark has made a series of demands on the government in the light of the Coronavirus crisis. In a formal written...
07 May 2020
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The latest market snapshot by PropTech firm Goodlord suggests that while new and completed tenancy volumes dropped rapidly in the first...
06 May 2020
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New research claims to show that the lockdown could end up with higher rents as demand in the lettings sector outstrips...
04 May 2020
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Seven out of 10 tenancies that were due to end in March were renewed according to Hamptons International - the highest...
27 April 2020
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Rental demand has dropped significantly across London and other major UK cities as a result of the pandemic. When comparing current levels...
23 April 2020
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Demand for homes to rent has surged back by some 30 per cent in the two weeks to April 14 according...
21 April 2020
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The Property Academy’s latest webinar, to be held this afternoon, is to be addressed by a behavioural economist and frequent contributor...
21 April 2020
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New and newly-refurbished properties are letting more readily as virtual viewings become more widespread during the lockdown. That’s the view of Knight...
16 April 2020
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The proportion of homes bought last month by buy to let investors plummeted to a record low of just eight per...
09 April 2020
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Welcome to the latest edition of our daily service dedicated to advice and guidance on how agents can best cope with the...
01 April 2020
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Hello, and we trust you had as good a weekend as possible in these difficult circumstances. As we start a new week...
30 March 2020
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There are few silver linings to today’s Coronavirus crisis but there’s a heroic effort being made by a short let accommodation...
24 March 2020
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23 March 2020
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A lettings market snapshot conducted before the worst effects of the Coronavirus were known suggests the rental market is relatively strong...
17 March 2020
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The Budget has failed tenants by doing nothing to increase the supply of private rental property according to two lettings sector...
12 March 2020
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An online student publication is urging readers who are tenants to “go lawsuit crazy” when the full provisions of the Homes...
06 March 2020
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Labour’s London Mayor, Sadiq Khan, has put his call for powers to control private rents at the heart of his campaign...
04 March 2020
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Growing demand and a shrinking supply of rental properties in prime central London has led to a 50 per cent surge...
02 March 2020
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A landlord has been ordered to pay nearly £6,000 in fines and costs after pleading guilty to harassing and financially exploiting...
27 February 2020
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Demand for rental properties in January increased to the highest level on record with 88 prospective tenants registered per lettings agency...
26 February 2020
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The government is driving landlords into the short let sector according to a trade body. The Residential Landlords Association, responding to recent...
24 February 2020
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Nearly four out of 10 landlords believe that tenant demand will rise this year, according to a study by high-profile buy...
19 February 2020
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A trade group’s submission to the Treasury ahead of next month’s Budget includes a call for the new Chancellor to slash...
18 February 2020
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Almost three quarters of Belvoir’s lettings franchisees anticipate rent increases this year. In a survey of the franchise firm’s offices across the...
18 February 2020
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Another housing market snapshot suggests demand and confidence are improving as a result of the new political and economic landscape following...
17 February 2020
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The government has failed the private rental sector says the Residential Landlords Association. In a statement released even before the resignation of...
14 February 2020
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The PropTech platform Movebubble has upgraded its features to increase rivalry between lettings agents and thus enhance the renting experience for...
14 February 2020
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The Association of Residential Letting Agents has made an uncompromising set of demands on the government, asking it to implement a...
13 February 2020
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An analysis of HMRC data reveals that the number of small buy-to-let landlords has dropped for the first time in five...
10 February 2020
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A lettings agency in one of the most competitive markets in Britain says it’s enjoyed a record year winning landlords from...
05 February 2020
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Knight Frank has released its latest rental market summary for London, and it paints a mixed picture. Firstly the number of properties...
04 February 2020
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A landlord has ended up with fines totalling over £90,000 after repeatedly ignoring a council’s selective licensing regime. Stephen Ige pleaded guilty...
04 February 2020
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Nearly half a million properties could be removed from the long-term lettings market as disenchanted landlords move to short-lets. A survey by...
31 January 2020
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London’s asking rents hit a new record average of £2,119 per calendar month as the ongoing shortage of property for tenants...
31 January 2020
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The prime London lettings market has returned to growth after three years of falling rents, according to new five-year forecasts from...
31 January 2020
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The Association of Residential Letting Agents says the number of tenants successfully negotiating rent reductions has hit an all time low...
29 January 2020
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New research claims that one in every 50 homes in the capital is let on a short-term platform like Airbnb or...
24 January 2020
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New investment in private rented housing has fallen since 2016 as some private landlords have dipped out of the sector in...
22 January 2020
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The average cost of a rental home in Great Britain rose to £999 pcm in December according to figures just released...
20 January 2020
From: Breaking News

A leading agency in a part of the UK where local government wants to clamp down on the spread of Airbnb...
17 January 2020
From: Breaking News

It looks almost certain that agents and landlords must ensure electrical installation inspections and testing are carried out for all new...
15 January 2020
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The fallout continues over the government’s shock refusal to allow Liverpool council to continue its huge landlord licensing scheme. Yesterday we reported that...
15 January 2020
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The Association of Residential Lettings Agents has thrown its weight behind an initiative by the Scottish Government to control the growth...
10 January 2020
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The owner of a Derbyshire property must pay out more than £3,000 after being found guilty of failing to comply with...
02 January 2020
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There’s been an upbeat prediction on the lettings market given by leading market commentator Lucian Cook, head of residential research at...
02 January 2020
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Knight Frank forecasts cumulative rental growth of 11 per cent in prime outer London and 10 per cent in prime central...
30 December 2019
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Countrywide has calculated that with many landlords exiting the buy to let market, the number of homes available to rent has...
27 December 2019
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The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has given a brief but optimistic assessment of the private rental market for next year. “As...
24 December 2019
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Just over third of private landlords are planning to quit the sector or cut the number of homes they let in...
23 December 2019
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An overwhelming proportion of letting agents - 84 per cent - say rents will rise next year, well up on the...
23 December 2019
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The new government must prioritise the implementation of proposals to ensure letting agents and others in the industry are appropriately qualified. That’s...
19 December 2019
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New data from the Association of Residential Lettings Agents shows how the festive slowdown has hit the market. The number of tenants...
19 December 2019
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Richard Donnell, research director at Zoopla, is warning the government that future reform of the private rental sector must not jeopardise...
18 December 2019
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The National Landlords’ Association says the new Conservative government must do two things in its early phase in office. The NLA, which...
16 December 2019
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London as a whole has seen rental stock plummet by 22 per cent in just one year according to a market...
16 December 2019
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A prominent industry trade group says the new government must honour its manifesto commitment to strengthen the right of “good landlords”...
16 December 2019
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A trade body is warning of a crisis in the private rental market as new figures show a sharp drop in...
13 December 2019
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Once again the monthly market snapshot from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors reports a decline in the stock of rental...
12 December 2019
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A compliance consultant has explained why a local council’s penalty on a rogue landlord - initially £31,499 - was slashed to...
10 December 2019
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[Letting Agent Today was ‘off air’ for some of Wednesday and most of Thursday thanks to technical problems - we apologise to...
06 December 2019
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The latest rental market snapshot from the Association of Residential Letting Agents suggests that 50 per cent of agents witnessed an...
29 November 2019
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Labour’s policies for the private rental sector are “too extreme ... unrealistic and will be hugely damaging to housing supply in...
27 November 2019
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As the battle of political policies continues ahead of next month’s General Election, now Labour has unveiled a raft of initiatives...
22 November 2019
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A leading agent is the latest industry figure to speak out against rent controls, which continue to be advocated by Labour...
13 November 2019
From: Breaking News

Knight Frank says the supply of new lettings properties in prime central London is likely to slow - and as a...
07 November 2019
From: Breaking News

Industry supplier Let Alliance has merged with the Barbon Insurance Group, which includes HomeLet and Rentshield The announcement was made at...
06 November 2019
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A collective of activist renter groups has set out a manifesto of what it wants from the winner of next month’s...
04 November 2019
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One of the leading lettings sector trade bodies has unveiled what it describes as “a positive vision for the private rented...
31 October 2019
From: Breaking News

Rent controls similar to those demanded by Labour in London and other major cities in the UK do not work, and...
29 October 2019
From: Breaking News

The likely general election is an opportunity for the government to make the lettings sector more appealing for would-be landlords, says...
29 October 2019
From: Breaking News

A trade body says the private rental sector is facing a major crisis - more landlords are selling properties than buying...
25 October 2019
From: Breaking News

Research by the British Property Federation shows that there are now 148,046 build-to-rent homes complete, under construction or in planning across...
24 October 2019
From: Breaking News

Countrywide’s high-end Hamptons International brand says it’s growing its lettings business “ethically and sustainably, regardless of market conditions.” It has ended the...
22 October 2019
From: Breaking News

Property development and investment firm SevenCapital has released a top 10 league table of UK cities which it claims will perform...
18 October 2019
From: Breaking News

UK-wide rental prices are up 2.0 per cent annually to £876 – a three-year high – according to a new quarterly...
16 October 2019
From: Breaking News

Another law firm has sharply criticised the government’s proposals to abolish Section 21 eviction powers for landlords. Devonshires says the government should...
16 October 2019
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The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) has submitted its response to the government's consultation on scrapping Section 21 evictions, which closes tomorrow...
11 October 2019
From: Breaking News

Property investors are concerned that Brexit could deter international buyers from purchasing property in the UK, which could in turn weaken...
11 October 2019
From: Breaking News

Landlords have urged the authorities not to introduce rent controls in Manchester as they would 'choke off' supply of housing in...
07 October 2019
From: Breaking News

There has been a significant spike in activity in the East Hampshire lettings market, according to analysis from Zoopla. Over the last...
03 October 2019
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The number of tenants experiencing rent rises following the introduction of the Tenant Fees Act continued its upward curve in August. The...
02 October 2019
From: Breaking News

There’s a warning from a leading agent that the unregulated proliferation of Airbnb-style short lets will lead to mainstream rent rises...
30 September 2019
From: Breaking News

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has accused Labour of being thin on detail when it comes to the housing policies...
26 September 2019
From: Breaking News

A huge US property investment firm valued at over $10 billion is entering the UK’s purpose build student accommodation sector. Chicago-based CA...
25 September 2019
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The weekly economic and financial research magazine The Economist has made a scathing attack on rent controls. The publication says rent controls...
23 September 2019
From: Breaking News

As expected, the Liberal Democrats’ conference in Bournemouth has backed a motion calling for the scrapping of Section 21 - effectively...
18 September 2019
From: Breaking News

Greater London rents have risen an average of four per cent in the past year - but some boroughs performing above-average...
13 September 2019
From: Breaking News

Utilities management service Tenant Shop says demographic changes leading to more families and older individuals renting privately represent an opportunity for...
12 September 2019
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The government has been criticised yet again for what is described as its “incoherent” approach to the private rental sector. David Miles,...
11 September 2019
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Rents across prime central London have been roughly flat over the past year - although yields are up as a result...
06 September 2019
From: Breaking News

The tenant fee ban in England has led to a surge in demand from tenants for properties according to Belvoir. The franchise...
30 August 2019
From: Breaking News

The number of tenants experiencing rent rises increased to the highest figure on record in July according to data just produced...
28 August 2019
From: Breaking News

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors wants the government to implement recent recommendations to regulate the agency industry, starting with the...
22 August 2019
From: Breaking News

Data published by the Office for National Statistics shows private rental prices paid by tenants in the UK rising by 1.3...
16 August 2019
From: Breaking News

PropTech supplier Movebubble claims that over 450,000 tenants use its app. Users can schedule viewings, share feedback with agents or landlords or...
15 August 2019
From: Breaking News

Private tenants are being disadvantaged because of the government’s focus on boosting homeownership. According to the latest figures from the Royal Institution...
13 August 2019
From: Breaking News

It took an average of just 20 days to let a home between January and July this year according to a...
12 August 2019
From: Breaking News

Prime London’s lettings market is growing but has seen fewer new lets over the second quarter of the year according to...
09 August 2019
From: Breaking News

Rents in London are rocketing but a leading market commentator says this is no reason to give in to a “Marxist dystopia”...
07 August 2019
From: Breaking News

A platform which works with independent lettings agents and Build To Rent operators says it is linking them to provide mutual...
25 July 2019
From: Breaking News

The supply of lettings property has begun to increase in higher price brackets in prime central London, leading rents to fall...
25 July 2019
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The lettings establishment has sent its congratulations to Boris Johnson on his election as Tory leader and, from this afternoon, Prime...
24 July 2019
From: Breaking News

Over-regulation of short-term let accommodation in some areas of rural Scotland could pose a risk to rural tourism, a business organisation...
23 July 2019
From: Breaking News

Calls by Labour’s London Mayor Sadiq Khan to secure powers to implement private sector rent controls are facing increasing opposition. Business organisation...
22 July 2019
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The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Housing and Care for Older People has sharply criticised the PRS as being ill-equipped to cater...
18 July 2019
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Rents are rising at the fastest rate since 2017, pushing the average yield on residential property to 4.5 per cent, its...
12 July 2019
From: Breaking News

A trade association has called for a 'moratorium' on any further government intervention in the buy-to-let sector in order to stop...
09 July 2019
From: Breaking News

A leading trade body is urging the candidates to lead the Conservative Party to adopt a more positive approach to the...
01 July 2019
From: Breaking News

There’s been a dramatic 37 per cent rise in rental instructions for prime properties in the capital during the first quarter...
20 June 2019
From: Breaking News

A call by Shelter for England to adopt Scotland’s model of indefinite tenancies in the private rented sector has been attacked...
18 June 2019
From: Breaking News

A leading housing market analyst says the sales market is increasingly determined by the acts of buy to let and other...
14 June 2019
From: Breaking News

A leading lettings expert insists that greater regulation in the private rental sector can work for the benefit of landlords and...
10 June 2019
From: Breaking News

A trade body has hit out at government policy following a think tank’s claims that young people are less mobile because of...
07 June 2019
From: Breaking News

A lettings agent and investment adviser says there is a positive interpretation of the fees ban introduced this month in England. Abi...
06 June 2019
From: Breaking News

A property management chief is arguing that rent controls would restrict mortgage loans to buy to let investors and drive existing...
04 June 2019
From: Breaking News

The Tenant Fees Act comes into effect in England tomorrow - but a senior lettings expert is questioning whether it will...
31 May 2019
From: Breaking News

The Association of Residential Lettings Agents says the feared sell-off of private rental units is continuing apace on the eve of...
31 May 2019
From: Breaking News

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has been put on the spot by the person many consider to be the country’s most...
30 May 2019
From: Breaking News

The fierce competition in the lettings market in parts of London means that some tenants will feel no benefit from the...
28 May 2019
From: Breaking News

The Mayor of London is under pressure to pull advertisements calling on landlords to stop providing homes for Londoners and move...
23 May 2019
From: Breaking News

A leading buy to let mortgage provider says the professional landlord with multiple properties is increasingly becoming the backbone of its...
23 May 2019
From: Breaking News

The operations director of letting agency haart has told landlords not to 'stress too much' over Brexit. Paul Sloan says it's easy...
13 May 2019
From: Breaking News

A quarter of private landlords are looking to sell at least one property over the next year according to new research...
02 May 2019
From: Breaking News

The Association of Residential Letting Agents says there is a record number of homes available to renters - but this does...
26 April 2019
From: Breaking News

The official government consultation period on the scrapping of Section 21 eviction begins shortly, but now a leading lettings sector trade...
23 April 2019
From: Breaking News

Startling figures released this morning by Rightmove suggest that rents have risen 8.2 per cent in London in the past year...
18 April 2019
From: Breaking News

The head of a major property management firm says the controversial proposal to scrap Section 21 eviction powers for landlords is...
16 April 2019
From: Breaking News

The government says it wants to ban outright Section 21 'no fault' eviction powers in England and Wales. Instead landlords seeking to evict...
15 April 2019
From: Breaking News

Latest lettings market data from high-end agency Knight Frank shows that average rents in prime central London rose 1.1 per cent...
01 April 2019
From: Breaking News

A lettings sector trade body is demanding that the government brings forward tax measures to address what it calls “the scourge...
13 March 2019
From: Breaking News

A rogue lettings agent has been fined over £72,000 after being found guilty of 15 separate offences relating to three illegally established houses...
07 March 2019
From: Breaking News

Data from Knight Frank shows that annual rental values actually grew in parts of prime outer London last month for the...
06 March 2019
From: Breaking News

Rents over three prime London areas rose by 1.9 per cent in the final quarter of 2018 according to property data...
01 March 2019
From: Breaking News

More tenants are seeing rent increases, according to the latest market snapshot delivered by the Association of Residential Letting Agents. It says...
26 February 2019
From: Breaking News

The lettings department of a central London independent agency is claiming its busiest January in some years. Russell Simpson, a family-run independent...
21 February 2019
From: Breaking News

Foxtons has given a relatively upbeat assessment of the capital’s rental market in its survey of the sector in 2018. It says...
20 February 2019
From: Breaking News

Belvoir says a survey of its franchisees shows that Brexit is having what it calls “a significant impact” on the rental...
19 February 2019
From: Breaking News

Rental values in prime London show early signs of bottoming out, says Savills, with the annual rate of falls now at...
18 February 2019
From: Breaking News

Latest official figures show that private rental prices paid by tenants in the UK rose by 1.0 per cent in the...
15 February 2019
From: Breaking News

You may be forgiven for thinking that rent takes up an ever-greater proportion of tenants’ income - but new figures out...
14 February 2019
From: Breaking News

Throughout 2018 the number of homes available to rent in prime areas of London dropped 13 per cent. In particular, 80 per...
12 February 2019
From: Breaking News

With good news in the buy to let sector in short supply, here’s a promising start to the week - a...
11 February 2019
From: Breaking News

A lettings sector trade body has put the blame firmly on government for the scale of poverty amongst those who privately...
11 February 2019
From: Breaking News

The BBC’s Reality Check service, respected for giving a more realistic assessment of many politicians’ promises, has looked at London mayor...
06 February 2019
From: Breaking News

High-end lettings agency Knight Frank is predicting that £75 billion of investment will be committed to the Build To Rent sector...
06 February 2019
From: Breaking News

Tenants are in for a rocky ride this year - and it’s chiefly the fault of government, says the chief executive...
31 January 2019
From: Breaking News

Knight Frank has given an upbeat snapshot of the lettings market in Prime Central London, based mostly on higher rental growth...
31 January 2019
From: Breaking News

A lettings market snapshot from Rightmove suggests asking rents in London are now increasing at an annual rate not seen for...
17 January 2019
From: Breaking News

The man who is arguably Britain’s most controversial landlord - Fergus Wilson - is likely to be issuing up to 90...
15 January 2019
From: Breaking News

A property website says tenants and prospective renters in London are set to have ‘a torrid 2019’ because of a shortage of...
28 December 2018
From: Breaking News

The number of landlords exiting the market in the East of England is 100 per cent higher than the national average...
27 December 2018
From: Breaking News

A buy to let investor has been fined more than £5,000 and ordered to pay a further £4,000 after HMO offences. John...
21 December 2018
From: Breaking News

It’s the lull before the storm for private tenants according to the Association of Residential Lettings Agents. In its market snapshot looking...
20 December 2018
From: Breaking News

Buy to let investor Changhaiz Ishaq has been ordered to pay a £8,510 fine for defying a prohibition order on his...
18 December 2018
From: Breaking News

Famous buy to let landlord Judith Wilson has been fined £10,000 and ordered to pay almost £15,000 costs for failing to...
13 December 2018
From: Breaking News

High end lettings agency Knight Frank says the proportion of properties listed for rent in prime London residential markets in October...
12 December 2018
From: Breaking News

A new survey suggests that the demise of the High Street for shopping could lead to a surge in the supply...
10 December 2018
From: Breaking News

Some 79 per cent of landlords are only servicing the interest on their mortgages, not paying down their loans, according to...
10 December 2018
From: Breaking News

Continued political and economic uncertainty is likely to fuel increased tenant demand in the private rented sector, says Haart. The company’s latest...
06 December 2018
From: Breaking News

Rent increases seen in London this year are likely to continue in 2019 because of the diminishing supply of homes to...
05 December 2018
From: Breaking News

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has put together a brief summary of the 2018 rental market. In figures, the supply of...
04 December 2018
From: Breaking News

There’s been a large jump in the number of tenants successfully negotiating rent reductions according to the Association of Residential Letting...
30 November 2018
From: Breaking News

One of Britain's highest profile landlords is to be sentenced on December 11 - and she must show the court details of...
20 November 2018
From: Breaking News

The number of lettings listings in prime central London fell 18 per cent in the year to September, says Knight Frank. The...
13 November 2018
From: Breaking News

The power held by tenants is growing across the UK, as new research indicates 61 per cent of buy to let...
08 November 2018
From: Breaking News

Some broadly good news to end the week - rents are predicted to grow 13.7 per cent in the next five...
02 November 2018
From: Breaking News

The agency industry has reacted in a broadly downbeat way at the relatively few housing-related proposals that were announced in yesterday’s...
30 October 2018
From: Breaking News

Rightmove is reporting that average asking rents outside London have topped £800 per month for the first time, fuelled by a...
29 October 2018
From: Breaking News

The number of tenants seeing their rents rise continues to go up according to the latest market snapshot produced by the...
26 October 2018
From: Breaking News

Brexit is causing concern among landlords, according to HomeLet. The initial results of HomeLet’s annual landlord survey says nine out of 10...
15 October 2018
From: Breaking News

A new quarterly overview of the UK lettings sector reveals three key trends: viewings are rising and more tenancies are being...
11 October 2018
From: Breaking News

Knight Frank says the annual rental value growth has returned to prime central London due to declining supply levels - the...
04 October 2018
From: Breaking News

A major property platform says London’s rental and sales market may well be on the road to recovery - but that...
03 October 2018
From: Breaking News

The percentage of tenants experiencing rent hikes in August was the highest for almost four years according to the Association of...
28 September 2018
From: Breaking News

Three London lettings sub-markets performed relatively weakly according to data just released by Knight Frank. Wimbledon’s rental values fell 1.5 per cent...
27 September 2018
From: Breaking News

Latest government figures show that private rents paid by tenants in Great Britain rose by 0.9 per cent in the 12...
24 September 2018
From: Breaking News

The number of available properties to rent is falling at an alarming rate, particularly in Greater London, according to property platform...
24 September 2018
From: Breaking News
17 September 2018
From: Breaking News

A leading letting agent argues that the UK housing market is not prepared to deal with a growing number of lifetime...
05 September 2018
From: Breaking News

A top London letting agent working for Knight Frank has commented on the 'irony' that the government's series of tax changes...
31 August 2018
From: Breaking News

In what seems to be increasingly rare good news for the private rental sector, ARLA says demand from new tenants has...
29 August 2018
From: Breaking News

Belvoir says more landlords are selling up and fewer newcomers are investing in the private rental sector because of increased legislation...
24 August 2018
From: Breaking News

The rental market is being warned of the dangers from unsafe gas and electricity supplies caused by meter-tampering. Research undertaken by the Grosvenor...
20 August 2018
From: Breaking News

The lettings sector is in the midst of a summer slowdown with no pick up in activity expected until next month,...
17 August 2018
From: Breaking News

Rent rises in the private rental sector have merely tracked inflation and the Retail Price Index over the past five years...
13 August 2018
From: Breaking News

Rents are expected to surge 15 per cent over the next five years thanks to increasing demand and limited supply following...
09 August 2018
From: Breaking News

Chestertons has announced record lettings results for the first half of 2018, claiming growth in market share and increased productivity. The agency...
31 July 2018
From: Breaking News

The number of tenants experiencing rent hikes rose to 35 per cent in June, up from 28 per cent in May...
27 July 2018
From: Breaking News

The number of landlords with more than 10 Airbnb accommodations listed in London has risen by 8.4 per cent in the...
26 July 2018
From: Breaking News

A trade body says the country faces a net loss of 133,000 homes for private rent over the next year -...
12 July 2018
From: Breaking News

A gas safety engineer has pleaded guilty with a landlord of falsifying gas safety certificates for a string of private rental...
11 July 2018
From: Breaking News

A consumer group which conducted 30 undercover viewings in five different UK cities claims letting agents are showing potential tenants around...
03 July 2018
From: Breaking News

The latest monthly report from the Association of Residential Letting Agents puts the number of rental properties managed by agents at...
02 July 2018
From: Breaking News

The government should scrap the tax on new homes which is punishing those in need of a home to rent, the...
29 June 2018
From: Breaking News

Landlords exiting the market because of tax and red tape have led to “an acute shortage of available properties to rent”...
15 June 2018
From: Breaking News

The growth of the private rental sector has slowed thanks to government intervention and economic uncertainty - but it will expand...
15 June 2018
From: Breaking News

There’s been a huge 15 per cent slump in the number of properties to let in prime central London over the...
04 June 2018
From: Breaking News

The Association of Residential Letting Agents says it is seeing the highest number of landlords selling their buy to let properties...
01 June 2018
From: Breaking News

Over 70% of Conservative councillors and housing leads have indicated that £2 billion pledged for affordable housing is not enough to...
30 May 2018
From: Breaking News

The introduction of a 3% stamp duty surcharge on the purchase of buy-to-let properties and the phasing out of buy-to-let mortgage...