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Landlords exiting the market because of tax and red tape have led to “an acute shortage of available properties to rent”...

The growth of the private rental sector has slowed thanks to government intervention and economic uncertainty - but it will expand...

There’s been a huge 15 per cent slump in the number of properties to let in prime central London over the...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents says it is seeing the highest number of landlords selling their buy to let properties...

Over 70% of Conservative councillors and housing leads have indicated that £2 billion pledged for affordable housing is not enough to...

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...

There was a decline in both the number of To Let and Let By properties during April, according to the latest...

Goodlord, the PropTech company which restructured earlier this year and laid off a reported 40 members of staff, is fighting back...

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

A leading Conservative peer says the government should cut taxes for buy to let investors and regard them as part of...

Board company Agency Express says the buoyant start to the year’s lettings market has given way to a slowdown. In its February...

A lettings trade body says a major house builder has blamed, in part, recent tax increases on private landlords as a...

The new leader of the Labour party in Scotland says his party will introduce “stringent” rent controls if it gains power...

Reaction to the government’s call for developers and planning authorities to be more flexible in their approach to increasing the housing...

Knight Frank says prime central London rents have fallen on a quarterly basis for the 28th consecutive month - a record. The...

Tax increases on the rental sector are leaving young people unable to access the homes they need, an industry body claims. The...

Average rental values in prime central London fell 2.1 per cent in the year to February according to Knight Frank -...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is reminding its members to tell landlord clients that they have only a month to...

The number of properties available to rent in London is now 46 per cent below the national average according to ARLA...

ARLA Propertymark has issued a downbeat report on the lettings sector’s start to 2018.  Its report on the market's performance in January says...

A housing charity has called for the government to build more affordable social homes for rent to help families 'trapped' in...

A range of factors - including fierce competition under the supplied housing market, rising property prices and political uncertainty – have...

Tenant demand edged up in the three months to January, according to RICS, but landlord instructions have fallen back - suggesting...

Savills is urging its landlord clients to be more flexible in order to meet the new expectations of younger renters in...

The average number of properties managed by letting agents rose from 192 in November to 200 in December – the highest...

The government has been accused by a lettings sector trade body of skewing the market to encourage more short-lets.  The claim comes...

The average asking rent across the UK - excluding London - rose by just 0.7 per cent in 2017 according to...

A lettings agency has written to MPs setting out an eloquent case for a cap on agents’ fees levied on tenants...

Figures released by the government show huge support for the extension of the offences under which agents and landlords may in...

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

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

Prime minister Theresa May has repeated that the current government will not introduce rent controls in the private sector. The issue of...

A fall in the supply of available rental properties suggests some landlords may be quitting the buy to let sector as...

Some 70 per cent of letting agents expect taxes on the rental sector to rise further next year according to research...

The rental market in Prime Central London has shown signs of recovery at the end of 2017, according to a new...

Countrywide says one in every 12 homes that came on to the rental market in 2017 was for sale at some...

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

Average rents in prime central London fell 2.4 per cent year-on-year in November, which was the most modest decline recorded in...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents says it is seeing a consolidation of agencies ahead of the ban on agents’ fees...

The number of properties that agents managed per branch fell to a 12-month low in October according to new figures released...

A trade body says there are 15 formal government consultations going on within the private rental sector - and now it’s...

What is believed to be the first-ever study of Airbnb’s effects on house prices - not just rents - suggests the...

After several months of rising rent costs, the number of letting agents who saw landlords increasing prices for tenants fell substantially...

The Welsh Government has launched a consultation on draft regulations and guidance to implement the Fitness for Human Habitation requirements for...

Interest from prospective tenants edged up during September according to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.    Of agent members who responded to...

Average rental values fell three per cent in the year to September 2017 according to Knight Frank.   This decline is the smallest...

Rents in the UK rose by an average of 2.1 per cent during September according to HomeLet.   HomeLet says last month’s rise continues...

Rents outside of London have dropped by 0.2 per cent in the third quarter of this year according to new data...

The shadow housing minister, John Healey, has started to flesh out the details of Labour's proposed rent controls, announced by Jeremy...

Latest data from Your Move’s rental indices suggest that rents are growing, with the average in England and Wales now £904,...

Trade groups have reacted angrily to Labour’s proposal to introduce rent controls if the party enters government.   The announcement, made by Labour...

A trade body says the expanding Build To Rent sector will never be large enough to meet tenant demand and as...

A leading figure in the buy to let broker industry has called for would-be ‘pension pot’ landlords to seek advice before...

  Agency Express says there has been a bounce in the number of new lettings listings across the UK.   Following unusually slow activity...

Some 61 per cent of chartered surveyors believe there will be a net exodus of landlords over the coming year thanks...

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

The number of landlords has fallen over the last two years despite a rise in supply of homes available to rent,...

A respected letting agency research head says Build To Rent could be a significant step towards solving the overall shortage of...

A third of tenants can't imagine ever taking their first step on the property ladder and owning their own home. This is...

Your Move says a shrinking supply of properties, in part created by government measures against the lettings sector, has led to...

The number of letting agents who saw landlords increasing rent costs for tenants remained at 31 per cent in July -...

Prime Central London’s lettings market has improved gradually during the first two quarters of the year according to JLL.   It says transaction...

ARLA Propertymark says letting and managing agents should be aware that they can raise ‘safeguarding alerts’ if they are concerned about...

The annual rate of rental growth across Britain doubled between June and July driven by a turnaround in the London market,...

A survey of almost 3,000 landlords suggests more than one in five plans to sell at least one of their investment...

The UK Association of Letting Agents is putting out an appeal to the agency industry to ensure it is not accidentally...

Green Party politician Andy Wightman claims that £10.6m in taxes are being avoided this year due to the boom in private...

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

Asking rents outside London continue to hold up despite the market having more available properties, according to Rightmove.   Prices rose 2.8 per...

Rents fell in June by 0.3 per cent when compared to the same time last year, the second successive month in...

Rented housing in London is at its least affordable levels for 10 years after typical rent rises of 47 per cent...

The Residential Landlords’ Association says recent fiscal changes hitting the private rented sector are hurting tenants but failing to achieve their...

Rents in prime central London have dropped 4.4 per cent in the past year - although that annual drop is not...

Over a quarter of letting agents saw rents rise in May - the highest level since June last year when 28...

The latest Kent Reliance Buy to Let Britain report - seen as a snapshot of the state of health of the...

The UK rental market has seen a slump of 11.6 per cent in available stock over the last six years, according...

The pace of decreasing rental values in Prime Central London (PCL) has slowed, according to the latest data from Knight Frank. Average...

The prospect of today's General Election as well as ongoing uncertainty surrounding Britain's exit from the European Union is having a...

The latest analysis of buy to let trends by letting agency franchise chain Belvoir has identified a specific lack of rental...

ARLA Propertymark says the number of properties managed per member increased marginally last month, from 183 to 185 - but there was...

An analysis by investment specialists London Central Portfolio reveals that in areas of central London swamped with new builds coming to...

Data from Agency Express suggests that the lettings market is wobbling with a sharp decline in its usual measure - the...

A prominent campaigning letting agent has discovered that more than 6,000 tenants in one region alone have complained to local authorities...

Letting agents have reporting an average of four landlords per branch selling up and quitting the buy to let sector in...

The number of people committing to tenancies for two years or more is declining according to new data released by Foxtons.   In...

New data from HomeLet shows that rental price inflation in the UK remained modest during March, increasing a small amount for...

The number of prospective new tenants in the Home Counties over the first three months of the year has risen 15...

The remaining overhand of last year’s buy to let buying surge by landlords means the annual rate of rent rises has...

As the new restrictions on landlords’ mortgage interest tax relief come into effect this week, ARLA Propertymark has restated its objections...

What does it say on your business card? Luke Burton Sales and Marketing Director, Rent4sure Who is Rent4sure? Rent4sure, is an established tenant referencing company. We provide...

The chief executive of Andrews Property Group says the government’s three per cent additional homes stamp duty surcharge on buy to...

New lettings data from Agency Express supports the belief that the rental market may be slowing down across much of the...

A property company owner who waged a campaign of harassment and intimidation against a young mother he wanted to illegally evict...

The Residential Landlords Association has spotted small print from the Budget that may suggest the government is about to review Rent...

A new report suggests that institutional investment in the burgeoning Build To Rent sector could see the creation of 240,000 new...

Figures from the Association of Residential Letting Agents, now formally known as ARLA Propertymark, suggest there has been a surge in...

A company selling management services for owners short-letting their properties says there has been a 136 per cent rise in the...

Housing minister Gavin Barwell is organising a series of regional meetings for property professionals to give him their view of his...

Tenants face potential rent increases of between 20 and 30 per cent as a result of tax rises hitting landlords, says...

The Residential Landlords Association has made a last-minute plea for buy to let investors to remain central to the government’s plans...

The head of MartinCo, the country’s largest franchise agency group, says the government’s buy to let tax changes and lettings fee...

Tenant referencing and insurance firm FCC Paragon says its own referencing sector, as well as independent letting agents and smaller corporate...

There were 26 prospective tenants registered at each member branch of the Association of Residential Letting Agents - the lowest level...

Housing minister Gavin Barwell says recent changes to buy to let mortgage interest relief and stamp duty will only affect a...

Benham & Reeves Residential Lettings says it is encouraging its London landlords to avoid rent rises and instead focus on retaining...

The surge in properties to let which came on to the prime central London market after the April 1 stamp duty...

The average London rent in November was 0.7 per cent lower than last year - not an enormous fall but nonetheless...

The latest market survey by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors suggests rents will rise in 2017 for one simple reason...

A new report by think tank IPPR supports those who feel the so-called ‘sharing economy’ - short lets via Airbnb and...

The dramatic slump in the prime central London sales market is now leading to a reduction in rents being achieved in...

Members of the Association of Residential Letting Agents predict a fall in the number of homes being available to let next...

The managing director of one of the most prominent letting agencies in Edinburgh and Glasgow - where agents’ fees on tenants...

Phillip Hammond has delivered his first Autumn Statement, tackling amongst other things, what he called “the housing challenge.” The speech made no...

More than 92 per cent of landlords believe the government is anti-landlord and want the Chancellor to back them in this...

A survey of 1,000 buy to let investors by the Residential Landlords’ Association shows that around a quarter are saying they...

Property data company LonRes is the latest to report that the supply of property available to let in prime central London...

There has been another market survey suggesting a significant rise in the number of homes available to rent.   There were 11.4 per...

There has been a 25 per cent rise in the number of prime central London tenancies according to Knight Frank -...

A leading mortgage industry spokesman says he hopes Theresa May's "more balanced approach" to housing policy will trigger government support for...

A plentiful supply of freehold properties in our cities may become a thing of the past as urban areas become increasingly...

An outspoken mortgage chief has criticised other lenders for supplying buy to let products to “every Tom, Dick and Harry” since...

Members of the Association of Residential Letting Agents are reporting stock at an 18 month high.  Members managed on average 193 properties...

The financial downturn was “probably the best thing that could have happened” to this country’s private rental sector according to lettings...

Buyer enquiries from potential landlords and investors are now up 30 per cent since May according to Rightmove, suggesting that the...

New data produced by Knight Frank shows that the number of tenancies agreed in August this year was the highest on...

The government must urgently deliver 1.8m new rental homes as new figures from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors reveal a...

ARLA says its letting agent members have an average of 37 prospective tenants registered per branch – the highest number since...

Almost all of the UK's major towns and cities saw fewer available buy-to-let properties listed during August when compared with July. Property...

Across the UK as a whole there has been a slight increase in the number of tenants who agree to pay...

The chairman of the Residential Landlords’ Association has restated how he sees the private rental sector could help solve the country’s...

The number of rental properties on the market is at the highest level this year so far according to the Association...

A lettings sector supply company has had to amend an advertisment after a complaint about its “misleading” statement over smoke and...

There have been falls in rents in some price ranges in London thanks to an oversupply of stock, according to lettings...

Belvoir is calling on the government to reverse its punitive tax policies against buy to let and introduce incentives to make...

Belvoir says the majority of franchise owners in its 170-strong network are reporting a shortage of family housing as one opf...

Jeremy Corbyn’s plans for rent controls and “secure tenancies” in the private rented sector would spell disaster for tenants, reducing the...

Almost half of letting agents say they have seen uncertainty from their landlord clients “which could cause waves in the rental...

Latest data from board company Agency Express suggests that last month’s lull in the lettings market was short lived - although...

The Residential Landlords Association has welcomed a report by the House of Lords that institutional investors behind the Build To Rent...

There was an eight per cent surge in the number of homes available to rent in the second quarter of the...

A leading London lettings agency chief suggests that Brexit may - against the expectations of many - actually be a good...

The government is being warned that without changes to the Finance Bill currently going through parliament it will effectively be forcing rent...

Bank of England governor Mark Carney says the bank is keeping a close eye on the buy to let market -...

Bexley council in south east London says it is going to announce what it describes as a “crackdown” on HMOs next...

Whatever the outcome of today’s EU Referendum, ARLA says its lettings agent members do not believe supply, demand or rental costs...

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

Letting agencies Your Move and Reeds Rains claim rents have started to drop in many areas following the arrival of a...

Rents across the UK continued to rise during May but at a decreasing rate, says HomeLet.  Data shows that rents agreed on...

Average rents for single rooms across the UK increased at a faster rate than those in London, according to spareroom.co.uk. The rental...

The supply of rental properties fell by 5% during April when compared to the previous year, according to figures from the...

Buy to let returns have exceeded those from the FTSE-100 with average gains of 9.6 per cent across England and Wales...

A leading trade body says it’s time for the private rental sector to take gas safety more seriously following a spate...

Developers of major London developments, including Battersea Power Station, may be considering 'downsizing' apartments that can't sell to make them more suitable...

The outgoing director of the Your Move chain of lettings agents says the new London mayor - whether Sadiq Khan or...

The supply of rental housing stock on letting agents’ books fell sharply in March, to the lowest level since the start...

Private landlords’ confidence is at the lowest level since late 2006 according to market research company BDRC Continental, thanks to anti-buy...

A managing agent who tried to force out his tenants by filling the stopcock chamber with cement so that they would...

A lettings agency in south London has been found to be the front for a cannabis growing operation, with drugs grown...

A financial journalist has lambasted the government’s anti-buy to let policies, describing them as “political short-termism ... a vote winner to...

Legal & General Capital, which is set to be one of the biggest names in the burgeoning Build To Rent sector...

Respected credit ratings agency Fitch says buy to let will thrive for the next 12 to 24 months but the effects...

One of the country’s top lettings experts says last year’s law changes concerning the increased transparency of agents’ fees have “missed...

The managing director of the Association of Residential Letting Agents says urgent action is necessary “to make the prospect of being...

An industry body says proposals by the Bank of England to curb buy to let lending are “premature.” The Bank’s Prudential Regulation...

The new stamp duty surcharge on buy to let properties coming into effect next Friday will increase rent costs for tenants...

The government has been told to back off its criticism of buy to let landlords and instead do more to address...

A London landlord has been given an eight week suspended prison sentence after failing to have a gas boiler in a...

Two organisations are appealing to Scottish Ministers to ensure that businesses have the ability to supply accommodation for workers in rural...

A letting agency is being investigated by a local council and the police after it closed suddenly last month. Dukes Letting Department,...

This evening at 9pm sees the start of a second season of Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords on Channel 5.  The 10-part series...

A buy to let landlord in Stockton-on-Tees, has been sentenced after illegally uncapping and reconnecting a gas supply. Teeside Magistrates’ Court heard...

The supply of rental accommodation is the lowest for at least a year according to the Association of Residential Letting Agents. After...

Connells says there is still substantial room for additional agencies in the private lettings sector and that it intends to add...

A new report from the independent Social Market Foundation think tank has found that almost two million more people have been...

Returns from buy to let properties have risen to their highest level in over a year.  Data from Your Move and Reeds...

A landlord has to pay over £16,500 after being found guilty of failing to licence her ex-council flat with the local...

The total number of evictions last year reached a record high of 42,728 according to data from the Ministry of Justice.  Whilst...

Countrywide is to lead a group including Connells and Zoopla in a partnership with the proptech company Fixflo, currently best known...

Who are you? I am David d’Orton-Gibson What does it say on your business card? It says I am the Managing Director of an...

The lettings market is now enjoying ‘the calm before the storm’ according to the Association of Residential Letting Agents.  In its latest...

George Osborne has done more for the rental market than any other chancellor in history claims Marc von Grundherr, lettings director...

People coming to work in Scotland from overseas are making up an increasing proportion of private sector tenants according to a...

Britain's largest letting agency says rents grew by an average of 3.1 per cent in 2015, taking the average monthly rent...

Dorian Gonsalves, director of commercial and franchising at Belvoir, is urging the government to dramatically increase the availability of social housing...

Forty per cent of letting agents are predicting supply will decrease over the next five years – the highest rate this...

Treasury proposals to hand greater powers to the Bank of England to make access to buy to let lending harder risks...

The rural agency team at Bidwells says it is concerned the Conservative government may - by accident or design - be...

A former president of the Association of Taxation Technicians has made a strong defence of buy to let investors who, she...

An energy supply company that specialises in the lettings market has announced deals with three major businesses that allows it to...

There’s been an angry reaction from letting agents and landlords to the shock news that an additional three per cent stamp...

Fewer tenants are experiencing rent increases, according to the Association of Residential Letting Agents’ monthly market report. The number of letting agents...

Franchise letting agency giant Winkworth is warning that London’s tenants face higher rents as some landlords sell investment properties in the...

JLL is forecasting that average rents across the UK will rise by 4.5 per cent next year, followed by a 4.0...

A rogue landlord has been fined £20,000 and ordered to pay £3,343 costs as well as a victim surcharge of £120...

Tenants in the West Midlands are suffering the most from rent increases, according to the Association of Residential Letting Agents’ monthly...

Stephen Moss, CEO of based Pring.co.uk the UK’s leading property investment search engine, takes a look at the impact of ‘Corbynmania’...

Leeds company Morgans is expanding its lettings and sales operations - putting to bed once and for all the city’s former...

A landlord has been fined a meagre £265 after a defective gas appliance was found to be in operation at his...

Build to Rent development in London is over double that in the rest of the UK with over 14,276 units in...

Rightmove says letting agents are reporting “extraordinary demand” in many parts of the country, with an increasing number of tenants positively...

A London letting agency says a huge rise in the number of tenants with dogs, combined with a lack of supply...

Average rents have risen for 10 months in a row according to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors - and there's...

A prime central London letting agency says there has been a rise in the number of subletting scams in that part...

Over 60 per cent of private sector landlords face being pushed from the basic to higher rates of income tax as...

Who are you?     Michael Groves, Partner of Lomond Capital which is focused on bringing together good quality regional letting and estate...

The number of available private rented properties rose sharply in July according to the Association of Residential Letting Agents.  Agents managed an...

Average rental values across prime London are now 7.4 per cent higher than they were this time last year.  LonRes says that...

The deputy mayor of London, with special responsibility for housing, says the enthusiasm of buy to let investors can boost housebuilding...

More and more agents are witnessing increases in the cost of renting, according to the Association of Residential Letting Agents. Its latest...

One in four households in the UK will be privately renting by 2025 - that’s the conclusion of research by respected...

Tenant arrears are rising in Scotland, even though letting agents’ fees on tenants are banned. Agents’ fees on renters, which are legal in...

The independent Institute for Fiscal Studies has described the justification given by Chancellor George Osborne for curbing tax breaks for buy to...

Changes announced to the amount of money ordinary home owners can secure, tax-free, from letting out rooms in their homes have...

Wednesday’s budget proved a grim viewing for those who have worked in the rental sector for some time and watched the...

Chancellor George Osborne has announced that mortgage interest tax relief for buy-to-let homebuyers are to be restricted to basic rate of...

I don't think there is one person in lettings and property management who isn't alarmed at the scenes just over the...

Free seminars are being arranged to help letting agents get to grips with the legalities and praticalities of assessing legionella risk...

The number of rental properties available for tenants decreased seven per cent between the end of April and end of May...

A landlord has been fined £1,000 after leaving his tenant without any hot water. Reading council received a report of a fault...

When do we really start to worry about rising rents and house prices? Despite an apparent slowdown in house price inflation...

Given that I wrote my last article on the day of the General Election but well before the result was known,...

Landlords could risk facing heavy fines if they fail to protect their tenants’ deposits before an important new deadline on June...

The House of Commons library has issued a 30 page guide on the private rental sector, covering everything from the current...

A spokesman for the mortgage firm Ocean Finance has made a startlingly outspoken attack on the private rental sector, accusing letting...

One of London’s high-end letting agents says it has experienced a sharp increase in tenant demand since the election after a...

"Stop right there. Hands above your head. Don't move. Mavis, dial 999." Mr D Smith (MARLA, NFoPP) removes his Glock 19...

Two thirds of landlords plan to buy at least one further property in the next six months, according to Mortgages for...

The number of landlords selling their buy-to-let properties increased during April, according to the latest report from the Association of Residential...

There has been much debate in recent years about Britain’s desperate need for more housing stock. Demand has been outstripping supply...

This week RICS reported a further drop in the number of people putting their homes up for sale; new instructions fell...

The new Conservative government must focus on raising standards across the private renal sector according to one of the industry’s leading...

I write this article on the day of the General Election so you’ll forgive the political analogies. In particular, how any...

The agency industry has been acting with delight over the likelihood that there will be a slim overall majority for the...

Around 40 developers, property consultants and block managers have sent an open letter to the new government - being elected today...

The Labour party’s proposals to cap rent rises with inflation and insist on three year tenancies in the private rental sector...

There has been widespread criticism of Labour's proposals for the private rental sector. The policies will “backfire” according to the National Landlords’ Association.  "We understand...