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

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

A mortgage lender specialising in working with ex-pat and foreign buy to let investors says the city apartment and house remain...

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

A new market snapshot puts the average rental rise across the UK at a remarkable 18 per cent over the past...

The latest sentiment survey amongst members of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors suggests that the rental market is strong -...

The appeal of city living has been reignited across Scotland with new figures showing a surge in demand and rents for...

A high end agency brand says pricing in the rental market continues to rise because of demand exceeding supply - and...

Agents have voiced their reservations over aspects of the widespread rental sector reform announced by the government in the Queen’s Speech. Yesterday...

Rental values in prime areas of London are now nine per cent higher than they before the pandemic, with Knight Frank...

One of the most high profile members of the Welsh Parliament has hit back at calls from the controlling Labour and...

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

Three organisations have written a joint open letter to the Scottish Government warning that the supply of homes for rent –...

The average rent in the UK has hit another record high of £1,091 after a 1.2 per cent increase in the...

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

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

Average UK rents have increased for the sixth consecutive quarter - but some tenants are paying above the going rate to...

ARLA Propertymark is the latest rental industry organisation to hit out at what it calls the “tenant-centred approach” being taken to...

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

Annual rental yields in England and Wales have dipped but tenant demand is set to stay strong for the rest of...

The chief executive of ARLA Propertymark has made an outspoken attack on the UK government, accusing it of a “blatant disregard...

The latest market sentiment survey of the lettings market from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors suggests that rent rises will...

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

Winkworth has told its shareholders that the rental market is to boom - a lot. “In lettings we anticipate that prices will...

The latest forecast for the UK lettings market this year is that there will be a four per cent rise in...

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

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I’m Alex Gibbs, Co-Founder and Director of Built Asset Management...

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

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

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

An eye-watering annualised rent rise in Greater London of 27.3 per cent has helped pushed the all-UK total yearly hike to...

A new player in the Build To Rent sector says it’s targeting locations in the London commuter belt with chronic supply...

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

Lettings agency Galbraith reports that landlords are now returning to the residential lets sector from holiday lets after several years without...

ARLA Propertymark has slammed politicians who appear to have ignored a public consultation and gone ahead with draconian changes affecting second...

The increasingly shrill anti-landlord rhetoric from some politicians is making it harder for tenants, claims a leading industry spokesman. John Blackwood, chief...

New financial incentives are needed to bring thousands of empty homes back into use and give a much-needed boost to the...

A 68-page academic report urges governments not to adopt hard controls that simply freeze rents - even though it acknowledges that...

Propertymark, the letting agents’ trade body, has accused governments across the UK of using Covid 19 rule changes to slip in...

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

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

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

Politicians across the UK appear to be growing more vocal in their support for rent controls. The Welsh nationalist party Plaid Cymru...

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...

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

Figures obtained by ITV News suggest that one of the country's most popular tourist locations has as many Airbnbs listed as...

New data from Zoopla suggests that lettings demand has now recovered across the central districts of all  major cities including Birmingham,...

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

The rental market continues to boom despite the growing cost of living crisis, with average rents rising at a 13 year...

The latest lettings market snapshot from HomeLet suggests another record average UK monthly rent level of £1,064 pcm - up a...

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

The government’s new Levelling Up White Paper, revealed this morning, includes a radical reshaping of the private rental sector. Section 21 eviction...

ARLA Propertymark is warning that new landlords must be drafted in to the private rental sector to replace those exiting in...

Lettings franchisees under the Belvoir banner delivered the group an additional 10 per cent management service fees last year according to...

Trade body UKALA has cautioned letting agents to act now following the government announcement that it intends to extend the need...

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

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

Wales and Scotland are ahead of the game when it comes to limiting the impact of short term lets on the...

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

Politicians who express concern over the number of holiday lets and Airbnbs in tourist areas miss one major point - if...

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

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

A leading agency handling international investors and buyers says Russians will displace the Chinese as the main purchasers of buy to...

A leading market forecaster has described the level of rent rises in one part of the country as “going ballistic”. “The London...

ARLA Propertymark has launched a radical programme of reform for the private rental sector - getting in before the government’s own...

Landlords selling up or converting to short lets have led to a growing housing crisis, according to a trade body of...

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

The latest market snapshot from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors suggests that rents are to increase “firmly” in the near...

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

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

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

Police officers are this week raising awareness among agents about the signs of potential cannabis grows. The campaign is being led in...

Home, the property website that publishes an authoritative market snapshot for lettings and sales each month, says the long-standing supply drought...

Cluttons has given its latest lettings market snapshot for London, with an upbeat assessment of current and future demand. The agency say...

An agent in one major university city says it’s faced with 50 students applying for each available property. Edinburgh residential property lettings,...

Rental growth in prime areas of London has climbed to multi-year highs according to new data from Knight Frank.  While only a...

New figures from the National Home Building Council suggests the popularity of detached properties has soared during the pandemic - prompting...

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

Propertymark has told the government that imposing the same solution to the Net Zero challenge on all of the private rental...

A leading lettings agency wants next week’s Budget to unveil incentives to bolster supply in the long term rental sector. Richard Davies,...

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

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

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

Tenant demand continues to rise and is now way beyond the long term average according to the latest market snapshot by...

The head of a lettings agency has drawn up a wish list for Chancellor Rishi Sunak to address in his Budget...

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

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

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

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

After 10 days of reports of soaring energy costs, PropTech supplier Goodlord has produced a series of tips for letting agents...

Rik Smith, Head of Tenant Services at Goodlord, outlines in this tips piece how agents can support tenants with rising energy...

Record demand and low levels of supply have pushed the number of tenants experiencing rental increases to new highs, lettings agents...

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

Agents need to be diligent regarding the the growth of cannabis in rental properties and the devastating lengths tenants will go to...

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

The number of new prospective tenants registering with Knight Frank in August was 73 per cent higher than the same month...

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

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

ARLA Propertymark has voiced its concern over rent controls to a politicians who is leading the charge to introduce them to...

There’s been a 21 per cent rise in demand for properties from buy to let investors according to a new analysis...

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

Demand for private rental housing is now at a five year high according to the National Residential Landlords Association. In the association’s...

Agents’ body Propertymark says it wants a dedicated housing court because it’s lost faith in the mainstream court system to handle...

A housing market analyst is warning of "one heck of a dark cloud on the horizon for the lettings market” as...

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

Tenant demand for private rental property has risen for the fifth consecutive quarter according to the latest market snapshot from the...

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

One of the most pessimistic lettings operations about the London market during the pandemic says that at last the capital is...

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

A town with one of the UK’s heaviest concentrations of holiday homes is clamping down on future purchases by outsiders who...

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

ARLA Propertymark has hit back at a demand from London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan that he be given the powers to...

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

London’s rental market gathered momentum in June as tenants anticipated a return to the office with 24 per cent more tenancies...

A pet referencing service is being launched next month - but it expects agents and landlords to pay to see the...

Demand continues to build in prime lettings markets in London and the Home Counties, with Knight Frank data showing the number...

Deposit alternative firm flatfair has teamed up with an accommodation service to supply short lets. Users who find short lets through the...

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

London’s rental market is witnessing a strong recovery in spite of the pandemic, according to the latest analysis by lettings agency...

Rental growth accelerated in May to reach a new record high according to Connells-owned lettings agency Hamptons.   Last month the average cost...

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

The latest lettings market snapshot by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors suggests little easing of the strong tenant demand and...

As we all know, there is an increasing number of PropTech solutions aiming to service the property and lettings industry, with...

There’s now an unprecedented level of demand from tenants for properties, according to the latest survey findings from ARLA Propertymark. The survey...

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

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

Zoopla says rents outside London are rising at an average three per cent per year, the highest level since late 2018. However...

High-end lettings agency Knight Frank says there’s been a huge loss of houses available for renters in prime London in the...

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

One year on from the beginning of the pandemic, London’s reversal of fortunes in the rental market continues according to the...

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

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

The Home website has produced its latest rental market snapshot - and once again London is the odd region out compared...

Average rents in prime central London declined 14.3 per cent in the year to March - but one agency reckons that may be...

Letting agents body ARLA Propertymark has joined the criticism of London Mayor Sadiq Khan who wants to be given the power...

A quarterly index suggests that there’s been a sharp uplift in tenant demand for rental properties across the UK’s major cities...

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

Central London’s prime rental market is witnessing a wave of enquiries from tenants wanting to strike a deal according to a...

Rightmove has revealed its new TV advertisement, which it claims will reach 59 per cent of the UK during its campaign...

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

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

The head of a lettings agency says there are up to 60 enquiries for every rental property he lists - and those...

Foxtons has made no bones about how it sees future growth - it wants to acquire lettings books from other agencies. “There...

ARLA Propertymark is warning politicians fighting elections this spring that rent controls should be firmly off the agenda. The organisation traditionally sets...

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

Tenant referencing. It’s a necessary evil.  Although most tenants are responsible and pay their rent on time, broke swindlers with dubious...

A PropTech supplier says rental market activity remains relatively robust through this third lockdown, with a 25 per cent drop in...

A leading PropTech expert says the lettings industry hopes next week’s Budget will provide clarity on taxes - but he’s also...

The latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors study suggests tenant demand has increased over the past quarter but at a slowing...

Lettings management service Ringley Group has teamed up with a utility broker, 001 Ltd. It says this sources and identifies economies of...

The fall out from Coronavirus is forcing the rental market into a once in a lifetime change as tenants reassess priorities. This...

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...

Rightmove’s analysis of its own listings for January suggests demand in the rental market is 14 per cent up on a year...

A senior buying agent is warning that new regulations over the length of notice given to tenants is having an unexpected...

Average rents in prime central London fell 13 per cent in the year to January as over-supply still dominated the market, according...

The latest rental market snapshot from ARLA Propertymark suggests that only 30 per cent of tenants experienced rent increases in December...

Another major agency operating in central London confirms that the fall-out from the pandemic continues to produce a glut of units...

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

A rental market snapshot says the UK-wide lettings picture is dragged down by Greater London's excess of supply, and by the...

Major players in the Build To Rent sector are joining forces to see if they can give the industry a more...

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

The new chief executive of Propertymark has outlined what he sees as the main challenges for the rental sector for 2021. In...

Higher levels of supply and weaker demand have dominated prime London lettings markets this month says Knight Frank. This meant that average...

Rental growth expectations remain “slightly positive” across most of the UK according to the latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors market...

A new rental system allowing licensed lettings agents to offer landlords a year’s rent up-front has had hundreds of responses in...

Chris Hope, senior partner at Dawsons and Fine & Country agencies, will be one of the main speakers at a prestigious...

An end-of-year market snapshot by the Association of Residential Letting Agents shows the supply of rental accommodation was the highest on record...

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

Recent debate about urgent need for reform and better collaboration within the property industry, has once again come under the spotlight...

Knight Frank says it’s seeing tenants in the prime London niche reflecting the same trends as those in the wider property...

The number of tenants experiencing rent increases fell for the second month in a row according to ARLA Propertymark. Its latest snapshot...

A council says it’s let 21 properties thanks to a rent guarantee system launched to woo private landlords to supply homes...

ARLA Propertymark has issued a warning to government not to use Capital Gains Tax reform to further punish the private rental...

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

It appears the much-hyped exodus of people from London to the country doesn’t apply to the rental market. Despite rents falling in...

A prominent lettings agent and property management expert says the industry has been reluctant to recognise the increasing trend of consumers...

A rebranded agency is now focussing on selling only tenanted buy to let properties in what it calls ‘second tier’ cities...

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

The number of tenants experiencing rent increases fell by almost a fifth in the year to the end of September according...

The absence of traditional holiday and business users of short let accommodation has prompted a trade body to introduce a discount...

The new trade group representing short lets operators is asking the government to make sure the short lets sector is specifically...

The Welsh Government wants to reform compulsory purchase powers - meaning any landlord with a long-term empty property in the region...

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

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

A rental demand league table produced by a lettings management platform shows the winners and losers across the UK - and...

With no clear end in sight and conflicting Government advice as to whether we should work from home or go to...

West Midlands Police have revealed that a major drugs racket being run by a rogue landlord from his properties in Coventry...

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

The first attempt to assess the loss of rental income as a result of Coronavirus calculates 22 per cent of private landlords...

The average rent across the UK is now £985 per calendar month, up some 2.1 per cent on four weeks ago...

ARLA Propertymark says the number of new prospective tenants continued to rise in July, hitting the highest number on record. The average...

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

The latest house price index, produced by the website Home, gives a broadly optimistic outlook for landlords and other buy to...

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

Strutt and Parker says the low level growth in the lettings market seen in prime central London in 2019 is being...

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

The number of new prospective tenants has risen markedly according to figures from ARLA Propertymark. In June - the latest data available...

Propertymark is the latest industry body to warn the government against Capital Gains Tax changes that may disincentivise landlords. A joint statement...

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

Housing minister Chris Pincher has entered the row over Labour claiming that the stamp duty holiday announced last week was in...

Labour has described the stamp duty holiday introduced last week as “a £1.3 billion bung for landlords” because the tax break...

Another agent reports huge surge in supply of London properties to let Yesterday Chestertons reported a large rise in the supply of...

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

The arrival of mandatory enhanced electrical checks so soon after the chaos of the Coronavirus pandemic represents a perfect storm for...

Average room rents in the capital have dipped seven per cent compared to this time last year according to a flat-sharing...

Research from franchise giant Belvoir is the latest to show what may be rapidly changing aspirations from private tenants. “The results confirm...

Knight Frank is the latest agency to produce evidence that the lettings sector has rebounded in the four weeks since the...

Demand in the prime London lettings market is catching up with supply, reducing short-term downwards pressure on rental values. That’s the view...

The so-called King and Queen of Buy To Let, the controversial husband and wife team of Fergus and Judith Wilson, are...

A buy to let investor who kept a group of men as slaves – making them work 90-hour weeks in return...

A prominent figure in the lettings industry has warned that any extension to the current evictions ban would risk hurting the...

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has issued guidelines ahead of new electrical safety checks coming into force for...

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

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

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

One of the country’s largest lettings agencies is to lose 17 jobs out of 100 in what the company founder calls...

ARLA Propertymark has made a series of demands on the government in the light of the Coronavirus crisis.  In a formal written...

The latest market snapshot by PropTech firm Goodlord suggests that while new and completed tenancy volumes dropped rapidly in the first...

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

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

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

Demand for homes to rent has surged back by some 30 per cent in the two weeks to April 14 according...

The Property Academy’s latest webinar, to be held this afternoon, is to be addressed by a behavioural economist and frequent contributor...

New and newly-refurbished properties are letting more readily as virtual viewings become more widespread during the lockdown. That’s the view of Knight...

The proportion of homes bought last month by buy to let investors plummeted to a record low of just eight per...

Welcome to the latest edition of our daily service dedicated to advice and guidance on how agents can best cope with the...

Hello, and we trust you had as good a weekend as possible in these difficult circumstances.  As we start a new week...

There are few silver linings to today’s Coronavirus crisis but there’s a heroic effort being made by a short let accommodation...

The average rent for a newly let property rose 3.3 per cent in the year to the end of February -...

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

The Budget has failed tenants by doing nothing to increase the supply of private rental property according to two lettings sector...

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

Labour’s London Mayor, Sadiq Khan, has put his call for powers to control private rents at the heart of his campaign...

Growing demand and a shrinking supply of rental properties in prime central London has led to a 50 per cent surge...

A landlord has been ordered to pay nearly £6,000 in fines and costs after pleading guilty to harassing and financially exploiting...

Demand for rental properties in January increased to the highest level on record with 88 prospective tenants registered per lettings agency...

The government is driving landlords into the short let sector according to a trade body. The Residential Landlords Association, responding to recent...

Nearly four out of 10 landlords believe that tenant demand will rise this year, according to a study by high-profile buy...

A trade group’s submission to the Treasury ahead of next month’s Budget includes a call for the new Chancellor to slash...

Almost three quarters of Belvoir’s lettings franchisees anticipate rent increases this year.  In a survey of the franchise firm’s offices across the...

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

The government has failed the private rental sector says the Residential Landlords Association. In a statement released even before the resignation of...

The PropTech platform Movebubble has upgraded its features to increase rivalry between lettings agents and thus enhance the renting experience for...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has made an uncompromising set of demands on the government, asking it to implement a...

An analysis of HMRC data reveals that the number of small buy-to-let landlords has dropped for the first time in five...

A lettings agency in one of the most competitive markets in Britain says it’s enjoyed a record year winning landlords from...

Knight Frank has released its latest rental market summary for London, and it paints a mixed picture. Firstly the number of properties...

A landlord has ended up with fines totalling over £90,000 after repeatedly ignoring a council’s selective licensing regime. Stephen Ige pleaded guilty...

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

London’s asking rents hit a new record average of £2,119 per calendar month as the ongoing shortage of property for tenants...

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

The Association of Residential Letting Agents says the number of tenants successfully negotiating rent reductions has hit an all time low...

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

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

The average cost of a rental home in Great Britain rose to £999 pcm in December according to figures just released...

A leading agency in a part of the UK where local government wants to clamp down on the spread of Airbnb...

It looks almost certain that agents and landlords must ensure electrical installation inspections and testing are carried out for all new...

The fallout continues over the government’s shock refusal to allow Liverpool council to continue its huge landlord licensing scheme. Yesterday we reported that...

The Association of Residential Lettings Agents has thrown its weight behind an initiative by the Scottish Government to control the growth...

The owner of a Derbyshire property must pay out more than £3,000 after being found guilty of failing to comply with...

There’s been an upbeat prediction on the lettings market given by leading market commentator Lucian Cook, head of residential research at...

Knight Frank forecasts cumulative rental growth of 11 per cent in prime outer London and 10 per cent in prime central...

Countrywide has calculated that with many landlords exiting the buy to let market, the number of homes available to rent has...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has given a brief but optimistic assessment of the private rental market for next year. “As...

Just over third of private landlords are planning to quit the sector or cut the number of homes they let in...

An overwhelming proportion of letting agents - 84 per cent - say rents will rise next year, well up on the...

The new government must prioritise the implementation of proposals to ensure letting agents and others in the industry are appropriately qualified. That’s...

New data from the Association of Residential Lettings Agents shows how the festive slowdown has hit the market. The number of tenants...

Richard Donnell, research director at Zoopla, is warning the government that future reform of the private rental sector must not jeopardise...

The National Landlords’ Association says the new Conservative government must do two things in its early phase in office. The NLA, which...

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

A prominent industry trade group says the new government must honour its manifesto commitment to strengthen the right of “good landlords”...

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

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

A compliance consultant has explained why a local council’s penalty on a rogue landlord - initially £31,499 - was slashed to...

[Letting Agent Today was ‘off air’ for some of Wednesday and most of Thursday thanks to technical problems - we apologise to...

The latest rental market snapshot from the Association of Residential Letting Agents suggests that 50 per cent of agents witnessed an...

Labour’s policies for the private rental sector are “too extreme ... unrealistic and will be hugely damaging to housing supply in...

As the battle of political policies continues ahead of next month’s General Election, now Labour has unveiled a raft of initiatives...

A leading agent is the latest industry figure to speak out against rent controls, which continue to be advocated by Labour...

Knight Frank says the supply of new lettings properties in prime central London is likely to slow - and as a...

Industry supplier Let Alliance has merged with the Barbon Insurance Group, which includes HomeLet and Rentshield     The announcement was made at...

A collective of activist renter groups has set out a manifesto of what it wants from the winner of next month’s...

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

Rent controls similar to those demanded by Labour in London and other major cities in the UK do not work, and...

The likely general election is an opportunity for the government to make the lettings sector more appealing for would-be landlords, says...

A trade body says the private rental sector is facing a major crisis - more landlords are selling properties than buying...

Research by the British Property Federation shows that there are now 148,046 build-to-rent homes complete, under construction or in planning across...

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...

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