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30 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![Agents urged to attend Equality and Cultural Awareness event](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/shutterstock_192595709.jpg)
Propertymark is urging member agents in Wales to attend a so-called Cultural Awareness Course which will explain their responsibilities under the...
23 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![Father and Son win big at agency awards ceremony](/upload/images/shutterstock_1137101828.jpg)
The Belvoir 2024 Annual Awards have crowded a father-and-son franchisee pairing as the big winners. Paul Wallace-Tarry and his son Richard Wallace-Tarry...
28 March 2024
From: Breaking News
![Top UK cities for 2024 rental potential revealed by industry supplier](/upload/images/shutterstock_304372931(1).jpg)
Aldermore has named Bristol, as the best city for landlords to invest in for 2024. Manchester, Coventry, Brighton and London make up...
23 February 2024
From: Breaking News
![Labour call for agents’ qualifications is “laughable and silly”](/upload/images/shutterstock_2032893779(1).jpg)
A law professor has dismissed a Labour call for agents to have qualifications as “eye poppingly silly” and “snobby.” Labour’s shadow housing...
30 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![PropTech allows short lets to operate in student housing](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/Studentsimage400x310.jpg)
Lavanda, a student lettings property management tech supplier, has announced a partnership with UPP, a student accommodation provider working in partnership...
23 May 2023
From: Breaking News
![Yields rise in areas where rents outstrip capital appreciation](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/RentalYields-400x310.png)
Rental yields have increased by as much as 2.5 per cent in the past year as rent values outperform house prices. The...
22 February 2023
From: Breaking News
![‘City of Airbnbs’ has seen country’s highest house price rise](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Franchise-400x310.png)
House prices in York - where the local MP is leading an onslaught on the proliferation of short lets - have...
03 January 2023
From: Breaking News
![Where to Invest in 2023 - hotspots enjoy over 15% yields](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Flags%20%26%20Locations/EnglandMap-400x310.png)
A buy to let investment site has used Artificial Intelligence to identify 10 top property investment opportunities in 2023. Based on analysis...
28 December 2022
From: Breaking News
![Winning agency branches on course for £1m turnover in 2022](/upload/images/Logos/BelvoirNEWESTLogo400x310.jpg)
Belvoir has announced its franchise of the year, selected from the 166 offices in its network. It’s husband and wife team Ben...
25 March 2022
From: Breaking News
![Agency snaps up another independent’s lettings portfolio](/upload/images/Miscellaneous/MergerAcquisition-1-400x310.jpg)
Dawsons Property has acquired the rental portfolio of Liberty Properties in Swansea. “We shall be looking to hold both landlord and tenant...
07 March 2022
From: Breaking News
![Top rental investment locations - where’s hot and where’s not](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/AdobeStock_265319498.jpeg)
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
![Do short lets invalidate insurance of entire blocks of apartments?](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/RentalMarket400x310.jpg)
A politician is raising the possibility that people who live in private blocks and let out their apartments via Airbnb or...
29 November 2021
From: Breaking News
![Research shows best university locations for buy to let investment](/upload/images/BTR%2C%20PBSA%2C%20Co-living/StudentHouse-400x310.jpg)
New research reveals that student property portfolios based in smaller university towns or cities typically generate the best returns. The findings, from...
30 September 2021
From: Breaking News
![Revealed - the rental market’s most lucrative sector](/upload/images/library/New%20Rental%20Index-400x310.png)
Research by Paragon Bank has revealed the sector that has out-performed the rest of the private rental investment landscape - student...
31 August 2021
From: Breaking News
![‘Greenest areas to rent’ identified in latest survey](/img/default/lat.png)
If agents want to emphasise the green credentials of their local area, then a new league table may be of help. An...
22 June 2021
From: Breaking News
![Agency gets Premiership rugby sponsorship deal over the line](/img/default/lat.png)
A Belvoir franchise has agreed on a new partnership with Premiership rugby team, Swansea RFC. The deal means not only will the...
07 January 2021
From: Breaking News
![Agency expansion announced just as lockdown kicks in](/img/default/lat.png)
Belvoir has opened its third office in Swansea - but like other agency branches in Wales, it’s set to close for...
21 October 2020
From: Breaking News
![Nightingale Courts will tackle eviction cases when ban ends](/img/default/lat.png)
The huge backlog of eviction and other cases anticipated in the coming months will be helped by the creation of a...
03 August 2020
From: Breaking News
![Demand drops across UK cities as tenants stay put during pandemic](/img/default/lat.png)
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
From: Breaking News
![Politician complains that too many HMOs allowed in city](/img/default/lat.png)
A row is erupting in Swansea over the number of HMOs in the city. Council leaders in the city want to implement...
02 March 2020
From: Breaking News
![Concern over £1,000-plus licensing fee proposed by council](/img/default/lat.png)
A leading trade body is voicing concern over yet another council private rental sector licensing scheme - with particular worry over...
29 January 2020
From: Breaking News
![Buy To Let league table reveals where demand is strongest](/img/default/lat.png)
A rental management platform has compiled a league table of where tenant demand is strongest for homes to let - and...
14 January 2020
From: Breaking News
![Purplebricks lettings director quits to go to rival hybrid franchise firm](/img/default/lat.png)
A lettings guru who worked at Purplebricks for five years in a string of key roles has quit the company to...
05 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Revealed: best university towns for rents and yields](/img/default/lat.png)
A flat-sharing website has created a league table of average rents in locations surrounding the top-ranked universities in the United Kingdom....
09 August 2019
From: Breaking News
![Rip-off! Agents and landlords accused of overcharging students in most cities](/img/default/lat.png)
A mortgage firm claims the lettings industry is ripping off students by overcharging them. Mojo Mortgages says it has compared the rent...
21 January 2019
From: Breaking News
![Up they go: Rightmove says rents to rise because of stock famine](/img/default/lat.png)
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
![Crooked agents and landlords pocket almost £1m in just six months](/img/default/lat.png)
Crooked letting agents and landlords have so far this year been convicted of illegally pocketing over £900,000 of tenant’s cash – and there’s...
17 July 2018
From: Breaking News
![Ombudsman launches latest phase of clampdown on rogue lettings agents](/img/default/lat.png)
The Property Ombudsman scheme has launched the third and latest phase of its national campaign with the Chartered Trading Standards Institute...
14 November 2017
From: Breaking News
![Agents beware: new campaign to catch those ignoring law on fees](/img/default/lat.png)
The Property Ombudsman and the Chartered Trading Standards Institute have announced a second phase of their campaign to tackle letting agents...
28 March 2017
From: Breaking News
![Rightmove forecasts rents outside of London will rise 4% in 2017](/img/default/lat.png)
Asking rents rose 3.0 per cent outside of London in 2016 - but will rise 4.0 per cent in 2017. That’s the...
12 January 2017
From: Breaking News
![Another warning of a large rise in properties on the lettings market](/img/default/lat.png)
There has been another market survey suggesting a significant rise in the number of homes available to rent. There were 11.4 per...
10 November 2016
From: Breaking News
![Agents' fees: Ombudsman and Trading Standards in new initiative](/img/default/lat.png)
The Property Ombudsman scheme and the Chartered Trading Standards Institute have joined forces to tackle lettings agents that are breaking the...
25 October 2016
From: Breaking News
![London lagging in terms of room rental returns, says website](/img/default/lat.png)
Rents for individual rooms to let are rising fastest in Swansea, Bradford, Portsmouth and Swindon, with all of these locations seeing...
03 August 2016
From: Breaking News
![New £1m-plus student lettings portal seeking listings from agents](/img/default/lat.png)
A new property tech startup is launching this month with the promise that it will “completely transform the way university students...