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The government has won a landmark legal challenge against a freeholder forcing it to fix serious building safety issues in a...

Propertymark is demanding equal treatment with the social housing sector. Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove intends to boost standards in social housing...

One of the first Building To Rent schemes in Wales - a 22 storey tower - has seen its first residents...

Knight Frank has appointed Louna Del Barrio as lettings associate in a key London office. Del Barrio comes to Knight Frank following...

The letting agents’ trade body Propertymark says one of the UK governments should go further in ensuring the safety of tenants...

Knight Frank has bolstered its prime offering across north London with a new head of lettings in its Hampstead office. Jared Kilgarriff...

The lettings agency Winkworth has taken the unusual step of criticising policies of a series of councils. The councils are all Labour...

A lettings agency claims foreign homeowners are sitting on £84.2 billion worth of property across England and Wales - but with...

A property firm which admitted misleading tenants on their rights and threatening them to leave has been ordered to pay £8,000. Four...

A property company director who admitted misleading tenants on their rights and threatening them to leave has been ordered to pay...

Canary Wharf was once seen as the future of London - now it’s the location that’s seen the greatest loss in...

New research from lettings agency Hamptons shows that since 2018, average service charges for flats across England and Wales have increased...

New figures today from London-focussed lettings agency Foxtons shows growth in the supply of lettings properties on the market is starting...

A veteran Conservative is calling on his government to clamp down on HMOs and ensure there is better council regulation and...

New figures today from London agency Foxtons show that the average rent in February 2023 rose five per cent from the...

New data shows that online agents have failed in their bid to replace traditional agencies - and that there are more...

The government claims buildings will be made safer under new proposals including compulsory second staircases for new tower blocks. It says this...

The number of long-term empty homes has risen in every region of the UK during 2022 according to new government figures. The...

A risk management service says agents and landlords must do more to create a culture of safety, particularly around fire. Research released...

Households living in rental properties across the North of England face the biggest financial headache from soaring fuel price rises, according...

Labour’s Sadiq Khan wants an increase in Capital Gains Tax for some buy to let investors. The London Mayor made his response...

The number of HMOs in England has fallen as a result of government intervention in the market. In 2018 new regulations were...

Propertymark says one lasting legacy of the Grenfell Tower tragedy is that agents letting properties in high rise blocks must engage...

The Lomond Group - which has ambitions to become a national operation - has announced two further acquisitions for one of...

A rental platform has revealed the wide disparity in rents to the north and south of the Thames in London, and...

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

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

Finance companies have announced the development of a new 440-unit Build To Rent scheme in Birmingham. Harrison Street, an alternative real assets...

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

One of the local authorities with the tightest clampdowns on letting agents has issued a statement celebrating its successes. Tower Hamlets council in...

It’s been announced that UK Sotheby’s International Realty has secured tenants for 20 apartments in record time at Embassy Gardens, a...

Agents and landlords are being warned that the Fire Safety Act 2021 will make a huge impact on their responsibilities -...

A tenant who says his former rental property has been turned into an Airbnb has set up a petition demanding Chancellor...

The government has confirmed that reform of the private rental sector will be a priority for the coming session of Parliament. A...

A block management company owned by the Leaders Romans Group has been awarded over £6.5m in government building safety funds to...

At least one lettings agency is on a list of targets for socially-distanced protests tomorrow by anti-eviction campaigners in the left...

London lettings and estate agency Benham and Reeves has calculated a league table of the most popular postcodes in the capital...

Landlords and managing agents of HMOs could face unlimited fines following new measures being brought in to strengthen fire safety, the...

A Build To Rent scheme of 322 flats will include a 34 storey tower, it’s been revealed. Developer and property management firm...

A major player in the Build To Rent sector has announced another large scheme - 346 units - on a major...

New research by lettings management platform Howsy shows which major London commuter hubs make the most attractive potential for buy to...

High-end London agency chain Chestertons has snapped up an independent lettings agency in the east of the capital. Morgan Randall operated across Canary...

There’s a warning this morning that the consequences of the Coronavirus crisis mean that rents will fall at least five per...

The council at the centre of one of the planning controversies involving Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick has issued a warning to...

The director of renters’ campaign group Generation Rent says the long-running scandal of a planning decision made by the Housing Secretary...

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

A newspaper claims multiple councils are opening investigations into agents allegedly defying the tenant fees ban - and at least one...

A company that slots temporary tenants into properties that it manages has been found guilty of 15 charges connected with Homes...

A rogue landlord and the property company he ran have been fined £22,000 for dishing out ‘sham licences’ to tenants in...

A former Labour councillor and solicitor Muhammad Harun has been jailed for 16 months after pleading guilty to two counts of...

It may seem as if governments and councils are falling over themselves to change the private rental sector to win the...

New research shows that some buy to let investors in London could typically lose over £19,000 a year if Berlin-style rent...

A statement issued by short lets management firm Hostmaker about its controversial advertising campaign has been branded “disgusting” by a campaign...

The management company of a private New York City rental apartment complex is to install a facial recognition system which must...

A survey of 500 undergraduates has given a rare insight into what they want as accommodation priorities.  The study, by a landlord...

The rapid growth of Airbnb-style short lets could lead to the loss of private rented homes and displacement of long-term residents...

Agents and prospective buy to let investors keen to grab a slice of the capital’s growing lettings market now have a...

A buy to let investor has been hit with a £4,000 fine plus costs of over £5,000 after failing to license...

The latest property completed in the ever-growing Build To Rent sector is a 44 storey tower standing at 141 metres tall. The...

One of the country’s major Build To Rent providers has signed a deal to deliver 324 flats in a major city...

A buy to let investor has lost possession of his flat after converting it into an Illegal House in Multiple Occupation...

Rent increases seen in London this year are likely to continue in 2019 because of the diminishing supply of homes to...

An overcrowded property let by an unlicensed company with inadequate fire precautions and unheated rooms has led to a £46,620 fine...

The lettings book of My London Home will be absorbed into the Stirling Ackroyd portfolio and rebranded this autumn. Consisting of nearly...

Legal & General has exchanged contracts on the West Tower in Manchester’s Deansgate, bringing the firm’s total of BTR units in...

The government has outlined increases in powers it wants to give social housing tenants - but no details of increases in social housing building. The...

Average rents in London are £1,615, up 3.3 per cent on last year, according to HomeLet’s latest index. This is the first...

All privately-let homes must have electrical installations checked every five years under new rules announced by the Ministry of Housing, Communities...

A trade body is backing a call by a parliamentary committee for the government to fund certain fire safety improvements in...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has heaped praise on a local authority which has fined 27 lettings and managing agents...

Rents in London rose by 0.1 per cent in the 12 months to June - it’s the first annual rental increase...

An electrical testing equipment firm and an MP are setting up a national campaign to demand new laws on appliance testing...

This week marks a major milestone in Mayor of London Sadiq Khan's efforts to crack down on the capital's rogue letting...

Foxtons has lost an appeal against the £35,000 fine it was hit with at the end of last year.  The agency was...

There’s been a huge 43 per cent rise in the number of London properties registered to be short let on Airbnb...

The government’s review into building and fire safety regulations is missing the opportunity to assess fire safety regulations on a wider...

Letting Agent Today understands that Foxtons has been asked to appear at a hearing staged by a London council to prove...

Foxtons has been fined £35,000 for failing to prove to a local council that a house it was letting was safe...

Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward has been appointed joint agent and sole lettings manager for Britannia Point, a 182 unit Build To Rent...

Yet another formal government consultation is under way, this time into smoke and carbon monoxide alarms in the private rental sector...

An industry trade group says residents in high rise blocks of flats are being let down by a system in which...

More than half of buy to let landlords have taken measures to check the fire safety of their properties in the...

A lettings sector trade body is warning that contradictory and outdated fire safety guidance needs updating.    At present, landlords or their agent...

It is being reported that one of the major providers of purpose-built student accommodation to let - Unite - could temporarily...

A new charter has been launched to promote the rights of tenants in a London borough where, for the first time...

A minister at the Departrment of Communities and Local Government has set out the government’s position in terms of the fire-related...

The BBC is reporting that the Welsh government is offering private buy to let investors who have properties in high-rise buildings...

The Residential Landlords Association is urging checks on white goods in privately rented homes following the Grenfell Tower tragedy.    The association is...

Two board members of Shelter who have links with the Grenfell Towers fire tragedy have resigned, according to a report in...

A proposed amendment to the government's Housing and Planning Bill which suggests landlords are required to make homes 'fit for human...

A landlord who illegally converted a property into seven flats and rented them out without planning permission faces having to repay...

An advice website claims that more than half of the privately rented properties in the selective licensing area imposed by a...

A property management service claims there has been an “explosion” in the number of short lets undertaken through Airbnb and similar...

Zoopla has moved into a new headquarters, a 45,000 square foot property adjacent to Tower Bridge in central London.   The new offices...

A BBC investigation claims that people living in the private rental sector spend more than a third of their disposable income...

Hamptons International and Day Morris have been appointed as joint lettings agents for London’s first bespoke Build To Rent scheme.   Vantage Point...

Campaign group Generation Rent is running a research project into letting agent fees via a comparison website named Letting Fees UK. The...

Connells has revealed that it has taken 50 of its ‘top achiever’ lettings and sales agents on an all-expenses paid trip...

A landlord who let out dark, damp and overcrowded rooms has been hit with a huge £67,000 fine. Rogue landlord Liakath Ali,...

The Resort Group, the developer of the all-suite Llana Beach Hotel and Spa, which is due to open in 2016, has...