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18 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Far cheaper to rent than to buy in London - new figures](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/BuyRent-400x310.png)
Londoners looking to buy a home can expect to spend 42% more on monthly mortgage payments than tenants pay on rent,...
16 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![Agency slams four councils for policies which directly hit rental supply](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/LearningAgents-400x310.png)
The lettings agency Winkworth has taken the unusual step of criticising policies of a series of councils. The councils are all Labour...
30 October 2023
From: Breaking News
![Figures lift lid on growing foreign investment in UK property](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/ForeignMoney-400x310.png)
A lettings agency claims foreign homeowners are sitting on £84.2 billion worth of property across England and Wales - but with...
14 July 2023
From: Breaking News
![Property company boss hit by big fine six years after offences](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Fine-400x310.png)
A property firm which admitted misleading tenants on their rights and threatening them to leave has been ordered to pay £8,000. Four...
12 July 2023
From: Breaking News
![Property company boss “threatening tenants to leave”](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/UnhappyTenants-400x310.png)
A property company director who admitted misleading tenants on their rights and threatening them to leave has been ordered to pay...
10 July 2023
From: Breaking News
![Values plummet in Canary Wharf as fears grow for rental sector](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/UnhappyTenants-400x310.png)
Canary Wharf was once seen as the future of London - now it’s the location that’s seen the greatest loss in...
04 July 2023
From: Breaking News
![Rental affordability improving at last, says Foxtons](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/ManSavingMoney_400x310.png)
New figures today from London-focussed lettings agency Foxtons shows growth in the supply of lettings properties on the market is starting...
24 April 2023
From: Breaking News
![Tory wants clampdown on HMOs run by “dubious people”](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/LearningAgent-400x310.png)
A veteran Conservative is calling on his government to clamp down on HMOs and ensure there is better council regulation and...
05 April 2023
From: Breaking News
![London rents show “unseasonable” early year rise - Foxtons](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyStats-400x310%20(1).png)
New figures today from London agency Foxtons show that the average rent in February 2023 rose five per cent from the...
23 March 2023
From: Breaking News
![So much for online agents - High Street firms are booming](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Property_Portal1-400x310.png)
New data shows that online agents have failed in their bid to replace traditional agencies - and that there are more...
18 January 2023
From: Breaking News
![Empty homes and holiday homes totals on the rise - new figures](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/BuildToRent-400x310.png)
The number of long-term empty homes has risen in every region of the UK during 2022 according to new government figures. The...
24 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![Homes with poor EPCs - regional breakdown shows worst areas](/upload/images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/green-deal400x310.png)
Households living in rental properties across the North of England face the biggest financial headache from soaring fuel price rises, according...
08 September 2022
From: Breaking News
![Labour call for higher Capital Gains Tax rise for some buy to lets](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/Tax-400x310.png)
Labour’s Sadiq Khan wants an increase in Capital Gains Tax for some buy to let investors. The London Mayor made his response...
31 May 2022
From: Breaking News
![Drastic fall in HMO numbers as government regulations bite](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/EvictionNotice-400x310-min.jpeg)
The number of HMOs in England has fallen as a result of government intervention in the market. In 2018 new regulations were...
13 May 2022
From: Breaking News
![London’s sharp rent variations laid bare by new research](/upload/images/Locations/LondonMap400x310-min.png)
A rental platform has revealed the wide disparity in rents to the north and south of the Thames in London, and...
16 February 2022
From: Breaking News
![Good news for London's rental market at last](/upload/images/Locations/Central-London400x310.png)
The London rental market stock surplus spurred by pandemic uncertainty has started to subside, with prime boroughs seeing some of the...
12 January 2022
From: Breaking News
![Ballistic! Lettings market ends year with a bang](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/PropertyInvestment-400x310.jpg)
A leading market forecaster has described the level of rent rises in one part of the country as “going ballistic”. “The London...
24 December 2021
From: Breaking News
![Low rental supply worsening in every region of England, says index](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/RentalMarket400x310.jpg)
Home, the property website that publishes an authoritative market snapshot for lettings and sales each month, says the long-standing supply drought...
16 November 2021
From: Breaking News
![Council boasts of court cases and fines against letting agents](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/Court-Fine-400x310.jpg)
One of the local authorities with the tightest clampdowns on letting agents has issued a statement celebrating its successes. Tower Hamlets council in...
19 October 2021
From: Breaking News
![Tax Take: Petition for Sunak to close holiday lets tax loophole](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/RishiSunak-400x310.jpg)
A tenant who says his former rental property has been turned into an Airbnb has set up a petition demanding Chancellor...
06 August 2021
From: Breaking News
![Agency targeted for day of protests against evictions](/img/default/lat.png)
At least one lettings agency is on a list of targets for socially-distanced protests tomorrow by anti-eviction campaigners in the left...
09 April 2021
From: Breaking News
![Revealed - London postcodes still in favour with investors and buyers](/img/default/lat.png)
London lettings and estate agency Benham and Reeves has calculated a league table of the most popular postcodes in the capital...
07 April 2021
From: Breaking News
![Commuter location yields not always better than in-London yields](/img/default/lat.png)
New research by lettings management platform Howsy shows which major London commuter hubs make the most attractive potential for buy to...
14 August 2020
From: Breaking News
![Coronavirus fall-out will slash rents by 5% or more - warning](/img/default/lat.png)
There’s a warning this morning that the consequences of the Coronavirus crisis mean that rents will fall at least five per...
28 July 2020
From: Breaking News
![Rent Repayment Orders - council reveals action against landlords](/img/default/lat.png)
The council at the centre of one of the planning controversies involving Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick has issued a warning to...
30 June 2020
From: Breaking News
![“This stinks” - renters’ leader verdict on Jenrick planning scandal](/img/default/lat.png)
The director of renters’ campaign group Generation Rent says the long-running scandal of a planning decision made by the Housing Secretary...
22 June 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
![Under Investigation! Agents probed for alleged Fees Ban breaches](/img/default/lat.png)
A newspaper claims multiple councils are opening investigations into agents allegedly defying the tenant fees ban - and at least one...
03 March 2020
From: Breaking News
![Property firm and landlord fined £22,000 for issuing ‘sham licences’](/img/default/lat.png)
A rogue landlord and the property company he ran have been fined £22,000 for dishing out ‘sham licences’ to tenants in...
20 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Former Labour councillor jailed after years of housing fraud](/img/default/lat.png)
A former Labour councillor and solicitor Muhammad Harun has been jailed for 16 months after pleading guilty to two counts of...
20 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Oops - tenants less likely to vote, despite politicians wooing Generation Rent](/img/default/lat.png)
It may seem as if governments and councils are falling over themselves to change the private rental sector to win the...
23 August 2019
From: Breaking News
![Disaster for buy to let investors if Berlin-style rent freeze happens](/img/default/lat.png)
New research shows that some buy to let investors in London could typically lose over £19,000 a year if Berlin-style rent...
19 June 2019
From: Breaking News
![“Disgusting” - short lets management firm slammed by campaign group](/img/default/lat.png)
A statement issued by short lets management firm Hostmaker about its controversial advertising campaign has been branded “disgusting” by a campaign...
07 June 2019
From: Breaking News
![Regulate Airbnb-style lets or risk hurting long term market - warning](/img/default/lat.png)
The rapid growth of Airbnb-style short lets could lead to the loss of private rented homes and displacement of long-term residents...
09 April 2019
From: Breaking News
![Revealed: top 10 ‘most searched for’ rental hotspots in London](/img/default/lat.png)
Agents and prospective buy to let investors keen to grab a slice of the capital’s growing lettings market now have a...
09 April 2019
From: Breaking News
![Council says landlords should “account for their tenants’ behaviour”](/img/default/lat.png)
A buy to let investor has been hit with a £4,000 fine plus costs of over £5,000 after failing to license...
02 April 2019
From: Breaking News
![Agency must pay over £50,000 after letting overcrowded flat](/img/default/lat.png)
An overcrowded property let by an unlicensed company with inadequate fire precautions and unheated rooms has led to a £46,620 fine...
21 September 2018
From: Breaking News
![London rents pass £1,600 pcm level for first time as market improves](/img/default/lat.png)
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...
08 August 2018
From: Breaking News
![Council fining 27 rogue agents wins strong backing from ARLA](/img/default/lat.png)
The Association of Residential Letting Agents has heaped praise on a local authority which has fined 27 lettings and managing agents...
11 July 2018
From: Breaking News
![London rents up - but it's not exactly a large increase...](/img/default/lat.png)
Rents in London rose by 0.1 per cent in the 12 months to June - it’s the first annual rental increase...
06 July 2018
From: Breaking News
![Major milestone as all London boroughs sign up to ‘rogue database’](/img/default/lat.png)
This week marks a major milestone in Mayor of London Sadiq Khan's efforts to crack down on the capital's rogue letting...
23 May 2018
From: Breaking News
![Failure for Foxtons in court appeal against £35,000 fine](/img/default/lat.png)
Foxtons has lost an appeal against the £35,000 fine it was hit with at the end of last year. The agency was...
22 May 2018
From: Breaking News
![Huge surge in London properties short-letting via Airbnb](/img/default/lat.png)
There’s been a huge 43 per cent rise in the number of London properties registered to be short let on Airbnb...
01 May 2018
From: Breaking News
![Exclusive: Foxtons asked to prove it’s competent to manage rental properties](/img/default/lat.png)
Letting Agent Today understands that Foxtons has been asked to appear at a hearing staged by a London council to prove...
15 January 2018
From: Breaking News
![Foxtons fined £35,000 for failing to prove house was safe for letting](/img/default/lat.png)
Foxtons has been fined £35,000 for failing to prove to a local council that a house it was letting was safe...
04 December 2017
From: Breaking News
![Tenants' charter launches in borough with 40% private renters](/img/default/lat.png)
A new charter has been launched to promote the rights of tenants in a London borough where, for the first time...
13 July 2017
From: Breaking News
![Buy to let investor may have to repay rent from seven illegal flats](/img/default/lat.png)
A landlord who illegally converted a property into seven flats and rented them out without planning permission faces having to repay...
03 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![Website claims thousands of London lets defy licensing rules](/img/default/lat.png)
An advice website claims that more than half of the privately rented properties in the selective licensing area imposed by a...
03 March 2017
From: Breaking News
![Explosion in number of Airbnb short-lets in past 12 months](/img/default/lat.png)
A property management service claims there has been an “explosion” in the number of short lets undertaken through Airbnb and similar...
26 October 2016
From: Breaking News
![BBC survey claims to identify 'sky high' rental areas across England](/img/default/lat.png)
A BBC investigation claims that people living in the private rental sector spend more than a third of their disposable income...
08 August 2016
From: Breaking News
![Pressure group running comparison site for letting agent fees](/img/default/lat.png)
Campaign group Generation Rent is running a research project into letting agent fees via a comparison website named Letting Fees UK. The...