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A prominent agent campaigning for business tax reform is urging Labour to come clean on its policies for business rates and...

The latest market report from Propertymark’s lettings agents suggests the demand is slowing. The latest data - for March - shows that...

The Prime Central London lettings market is returning to normality, a prominent agency says. JLL says average rents fell 1.4% between Q4...

Leaders - part of the Leaders Romans Group - has unveiled what it claims to one its latest “sustainable office” in...

Developer Beech Holdings has secured planning permission for its luxury development of Build To Rent apartments in Sheffield. Sheffield Gardens will include...

Property management and facilities firm Pinnacle is to become the leading managing agent for Legal & General Affordable Homes. In recent weeks, the...

HomeLet and Let Alliance’s chief executive Andy Halstead has called for less “government grandstanding” and more direct action to recognise the...

For first time buyers, renting is cheaper than buying in most of the UK according to new data from the Halifax.  London, the...

NatWest Group has announced a new package of what it calls ”targeted lending and support” to help local councils provide more...

A group founded eight years ago to represent the Build To Rent niche has now rebranded in a bid to win...

OnTheMarket continues on its path to try to become the number one property portal, with a boast that it has a...

Leaders Romans Group claims to have achieved carbon neutrality for a second consecutive year.  A statement claims LRG has undertaken “several notable...

The letting agents’ trade body Propertymark has made the unexpected move of calling on banks to cut mortgage rates. Rates are typically...

A lettings industry supplier claims one in nine renters use foodbanks. A survey of tenants, commissioned by Zero Deposit, found that just...

Respected energy industry consultancy Cornwall Insight says the price cap for the April to June period this year - to be...

New analysis by insurance giant Aviva reveals that one in every 13 new homes built in England in the last decade...

Government figures suggest the UK population could reach nearly 74m as soon as 2036, largely attributed to rising net migration. This is...

Savills says prime rental growth across London and the country has stalled for the first time in almost three years. In prime...

Qualifications for property managers in the social housing sector should be extended to the private rental sector too. That’s the view of...

Rents across the UK continue to retreat from their 2023 highs, falling by 2.9 per cent over the last three months,...

A historic former school and hospital building in Glasgow City Centre will be restored as part of a plan to create...

Almost two in five UK owners - landlords and homeowners - now consider improving the energy efficiency of their property an...

Leaders Romans Group claims it reached carbon neutrality in 2022, eight years ahead of its original target of 2030.  The firm says...

It looks like more politicians are preparing a U-turn on energy efficiency rules for the private rental sector. Media reports indicate there...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Gary Wright - Chief Executive Officer. What is flatfair and what...

A council has launched its own social lettings agency to work with private sector landlords in tackling the record numbers living...

A lettings industry mentor has issued a plea to agents to do more to protect their landlords’ livelihoods. Sally Lawson, founder of...

A PR exercise has discovered that 89 per cent of UK MPs would not give priority to Build-to-Rent schemes in their...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors is launching its manifesto at this week’s Tory party conference - and improving the supply...

A Build To Rent scheme is now ready for move-in by tenants, following the completed conversion of an ambulance station into...

Zoopla has issued the first major private rental sector market forecast for 2024. Rental growth this year is on track to end...

Knight Frank, in conjunction with Build To Rent operator Moda Living, has published a highly supportive report about BTR. Creating what it’s...

Strutt & Parker’s Chester operation has become the second tenant in an arcade within a new development in the city. Strutt &...

A Leaders branch office revamp has been launched with claims of it being fully sustainable. The Lewes branch of Leaders - part...

The new trade body for short lets has reacted angrily to a government plan for AirBnb and other short let hosts...

Leaders lettings agency has launched its new sustainable office in Aylesbury. The company insists that by 2030 all of its branches will...

Upmarket lettings agency Savills has moved its 30-strong team in Reading into a prominent new office in the town centre. The firm’s...

The Tenancy Deposit Scheme has announced a link up with eco organisations in a tree-planting initiative. TDS says the campaign was driven...

Exeter council in Devon is promoting a scheme to private landlords by calling it a “cost-effective solution for landlords who want...

The Competition and Markets Authority is launching a three month probe into how letting agents operate within the private rental sector. It says...

A property firm is claiming that nearly half of the UK’s younger generation of renters stay up at night worrying about...

Leaders Romans Group is unveiling what it claims is a new ‘sustainable’ branch office for its Portico brand in Fulham, London. The...

Airbnb has come out in favour of a short lets registration scheme across the UK - similar to the one promised...

Legal & General Capital helped fund over 17,000 new homes last year across a range of tenures, chiefly Build To Rent.  Chief...

A new survey of over 8,000 commercial estate agents indicates a challenging 2023 - suggesting a possible alternative investment option for...

Zoopla has given details of its collaboration with homelessness charity Crisis following the announcement of a three-year partnership earlier this year. Crisis’s...

Rightmove has created thousands of personalised videos to help letting agency branches highlight this year’s achievements to prospective landlords. The video can...

Research released today by Legal & General, a player in the Build To Rent sector, claims that renters are willing to...

Does the lettings industry cater properly for agents' needs? There’s only one way of knowing – asking you directly. To find out...

The short lets industry - consisting of suppliers and operators within the burgeoning sector of Airbnb-style lettings - is to stage...

Build To Rent operator Sigma Capital Group Limited, which markets its homes under the private rental brand Simple Life, claims newer...

The government should do more to promote energy efficiency or risk finding itself in an even more difficult position next year. That’s...

Leaders Romans Group has launched what it claims is its first sustainable branch lettings office.  Its Brighton city centre branch, operating under...

A major lettings sector supplier says the industry must do more to appeal to win employees from the TikTok generation. These typically...

Letting agencies will soon be able to calculate their carbon footprint as part of an initiative called The Sustainable Agents scheme. It’s...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Sales & Marketing Director What is Glide and what does...

Aviva Investors, the global asset management wing of insurance giant Aviva, has announced a deal with a Build To Rent specialist...

A property investment company says Build To Rent is key to helping Britain meet its current housing and climate change challenges...

Airbnb is giving away £100 vouchers to anyone in the UK who shifts into the short lets sector for the first...

A new and huge private rental licensing scheme has launched in County Durham. A total of at least 29,000 properties, or 42...

The activist group Acorn is lobbying a local council to deny people the right to buy a second home or let...

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

Lloyds Banking Group, which is known to be investing huge sums in the UK private rental sector, has published the results...

Tell us about your role. I am the Customer Service Technology Group Manager at BSH (group brands include Bosch, NEFF and Siemens)...

PropTech platform Lavanda says urban property is changing thanks to the pandemic, and it tells agents, landlords and other providers to...

Consultation begins today on a selective licensing scheme for privately rented housing in 25 wards of Birmingham. Under the suggested scheme, all...

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

A lack of longer term rental accommodation thanks to the growth of Airbnb and other short lets has led to a...

Private tenants and landlords across the country face a cliff edge as the end of furlough coincides with cuts to benefit...

Senior managers in the lettings and sales side of independent chain Spicerhaart are reducing their carbon footprint by taking up the...

One of the largest new additional licensing schemes for HMOs anywhere in the country is set to come into force in...

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

A new report calls for large scale reform of the private rental sector, including a national landlord register and changes to...

Tomorrow sees the start of a three-day debate over the extension of the eviction ban in Scotland - and Propertymark appears...

Airbnb, which has been criticised by some for its impact on local rental markets, is to set up its own ‘tax’...

Real estate as an industry has remained unchallenged throughout all of these years. For the industry worth more than 217 trillion...

There could be 700,000 private tenants in arrears by the end of this year - an unsustainable burden on agents and landlords,...

One of the country’s largest Build To Rent players, Legal & General, says it’s started work on 6,000 residential units in...

The next 12 months could be a surprisingly good year for the private rental sector despite some obvious challenges, according to...

You don’t need to be Greta Thunberg to know that climate change is a big issue that’s impacting our day-to-day lives....

An MP claims the proliferation of short lets via Airbnb and similar online platforms is indirectly pricing local people out of...

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

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

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is urging its members to write to their MPs over the provision of cash help...

A leading PropTech entrepreneur is warning agents to prepare for increased rent arrears from as soon as next month. Neil Cobbold, chief...

A Labour council serving one of the largest private rental communities in the country is reported to have failed to have...

The growing chorus of calls to professionalise the short lets sector has won influential backing from a senior PropTech entrepreneur. Neil Cobbold...

A leading London lettings agent wants increased regulation over Airbnb in a bid to deter criminal activity and anti-social behaviour. Martin Bikhit, managing...

A new trade body is being set up in a bid to professionalise the short lets sector. The sector - which embraces...

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...

The government has this week published a learning toolkit for local authorities to help them with enforcement against rogue landlords and...

Two thirds of local authorities in England and Wales brought no prosecutions against private landlords in 2017/18 according to research by the...

A lettings trade body has welcomed extra government funding for English councils to clamp down on criminal landlords. But the Residential Landlords...

The average rent in the UK is now £919, up two per cent on the same time last year according to...

The chief of what is described as Britain’s largest lettings agency has told an influential group of MPs that the proposed...

One of the many firms that has sprung up to manage Airbnb-style short let accommodation says it backs the Labour Party’s...

The chairman of the Residential Landlords Association has written in the Labour-supporting New Statesman magazine about the need for the lettings...

Jeremy Corbyn has used his leader’s speech at the end of this week’s Labour conference in Brighton to commit the party...

Ajay Jagota, the north east agent known for his campaign against rental deposits, says recent initiatives by two deposit protection services...

Agents who review and modernise their rent collection procedures could claim back thousands of pounds in rent, an automated payments platform...