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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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 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 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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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