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An enterprising mother and daughter are bouncing back from being made redundant due to Covid-19 by setting up their own lettings...

International research suggests that short lets - Airbnb and similar platforms - cause housing shortages and push up private rents. Research by...

A second student accommodation provider has announced a rent discount. Student Roost has told its residents they can apply for a discount...

Unite Students, one of the UK's leading student accommodation providers, is giving tenants a rent reduction. Students will be able to apply...

Another local authority is considering a clampdown on the spread and condition of HMOs. Bath and North East Somerset Council, which is...

Activists are attempting to build rent strike momentum amongst students who rent property across the country. ‘Rent Strike” is a national network...

One of Britain’s largest purpose built student accommodation providers says there’s been a 10 per cent slump in the number of...

A student accommodation search portal has speculated on how the sector could change in the long term as Coronavirus hits education. “Whilst...

The huge disruption of the Coronavirus crisis to the UK's university education does not alter the sector’s long-term fundamentals, a specialist lettings...

Activists from the controversial renters’ group Acorn have picketed the headquarters of a national rental firm in a dispute over a...

A fully electronic check-in process can help to protect landlords’ properties and tenants’ deposits as students return to university over the...

With college and university terms about to start, and ever-more diligence required over Coronavirus, the Deposit Protection Service is offering an...

A new report demands that online rental platforms and portals allowing direct advertising by clients do more to deter fake landlords...

A rent guarantor service has rejected criticism of so-called Coronavirus break clauses in rental contracts. There’s been criticism in recent months of...

Student renters want break clauses automatically included in tenancy agreements to protect them financially in the event of a second wave of...

A £266m package of help to support vulnerable people into long term accommodation includes possible options to use the private rental...

A prominent economist who has called for a raft of measures to protect tenants during the Coronavirus crisis is now calling...

The extension to the evictions ban will compound the suffering of victims of domestic violence and anti-social behaviour. That’s the view of...

An economist who previously suggested tenants should live rent-free for three months during the Coronavirus crisis has revised his thinking -...

Winkworth says its London offices are reporting significant numbers of landlords who used to advertise on Airbnb and similar short-let platforms...

Student bodies want letting agents to acknowledge that many students have lost their incomes and have been forced to return to...

A lettings agent has completed a £2.6million property acquisition plan in one city on behalf of investors, and will go on...

A row is erupting in Swansea over the number of HMOs in the city. Council leaders in the city want to implement...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Catherine Shinerock - ARO Account Manager What is your ‘company name’...

Politicians from several parties say they want their local council in Bristol to have the powers to regulate the number and...

A huge survey of students, seeking their views on accommodation, has ended with a question mark over the value for money...

A compliance consultant has explained why a local council’s penalty on a rogue landlord - initially £31,499 - was slashed to...

A lettings agency has marked six months in business by embarking on a £100,000 project to create what it calls its...

The National Union of Students claims young people at college and university are being unfairly targeted by agents and landlords when...

A new building society mortgage product is aimed at allowing students to become first time buyers and to simultaneously become first...

Two university dropouts who started their own student letting agency have recorded their busiest ever start to an academic year. Harry Conti,...

North east agency My Property Box has announced it has merged with Sandersons Lettings, the firm which gave its founder his...

A huge US property investment firm valued at over $10 billion is entering the UK’s purpose build student accommodation sector. Chicago-based CA...

It’s that time of year again when pencil cases are fully stocked and the smell of dusty books opening fills the...

A university student who fled from his private rental apartment owing over £1,000 has posted a message on Facebook: “Catch me...

A new online lettings agency called Accommodation.co.uk is looking for franchisees to join ahead of its formal launch next month.  The company...

A pioneering lettings agency that allocates second and subsequent year students with private sector and university-owned homes has delivered its best...

A flat-sharing website has created a league table of average rents in locations surrounding the top-ranked universities in the United Kingdom....

A lettings group says the high-profile struggle performers at the Edinburgh Fringe now face to find affordable short-term accommodation was entirely...

The latest owner of a Belvoir franchise is a 31-year-old former part-time assistant at the company, who rose to office manager...

A specialist student accommodation lettings and property management company says it’s preparing to grow through a series of strategic acquisitions. Bankers have...

A European law firm has set out a critique of the driving forces behind Build To Rent - and it says...

University towns in the north of England and the Midlands score highest when it comes to yields and capital appreciation. The assessment...

Two housing organisations have come together to fund a major research programme to improve standards in the private rental sector. They are...

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

The agency handling the largest volume of student accommodation in Lincoln is celebrating its fourth birthday by opening a second office...

A damning report on taxation in the private rental sector (PRS) has accused the treasury of appearing not to understand 'the...

New data looking specifically at room rental rates suggest that across the UK rents rose by an average three per cent...

The government says it wants to ban outright Section 21 'no fault' eviction powers in England and Wales. Instead landlords seeking to evict...

Prospective tenants are being warned about a fraud scam that cons people into paying an advance fee to rent a property. The...

The government is back to business attacking the lettings sector with an extraordinary claim by a minister that many students are...

A postgraduate’s study of people who live in cars and vans on Bristol’s streets says they make the choice to do...

Bristol is the best city for house shares, according to new research by specialist rental sector broadband and utilities provider Glide. The...

There’s been a big rise in the volume of purpose-built student accommodation in the UK, suggesting that the market may be...

A controversial Labour-controlled local authority which already has 91 per cent of its private rental properties inside licensing schemes is now...

The Tenancy Deposit Scheme - which was hit by a serious fire at its Hemel Hempstead headquarters last evening - has appointed...

Research released this morning reveals that university cities offer some of the highest buy to let yields in the country. The Free...

The average rent across Scotland is now running at £573 per calendar month - but that figure hides wide variations in...

A substantial study by university academics suggests that changes to the benefit system lie behind the long-term rise in homelessness from...

A controversial review website which says it can be used to identify “good (and bad) letting agents” has won the backing...

Manchester’s rental market is rising higher than in any other UK city according to property consultancy Cushman & Wakefield.  Rents were up...

There has been limited support given from some parts of the lettings industry to a proposal offering Capital Gains Tax relief...

The Deposit Protection Service says almost a quarter of students lost part of their tenancy deposit when they left their accommodation...

The National Landlords Association is the latest trade body to back what is being described as a landmark review of the...

The policy director of the Residential Landlords Association (RLA) is calling on local councils to use the 'extensive powers' they have...

The UK's second city Birmingham takes top spot when it comes to student property returns for buy-to-let investors. Analysis by online letting...

Student landlords and letting agents are being warned by the Master Locksmiths Association (MLA) to tighten up security in their properties...

There’s more evidence today that the largest buy to let investment yields are coming from the north of England and the...

A lettings agency has teamed up with a university to give young students an insight into how small businesses operate. Priestley’s, a...

The number of lettings transactions in Prime Central London in the second quarter of this year slumped 15 per cent compared...

An analysis of over 580,000 properties has produced a league table of Britain’s best and worst buy to let postcodes in...

Letting agents and landlords will have to win planning consent to erect To Let signs in student areas of Leicester from...

A rent guarantor service based in London and previously aiming itself at the UK market is expanding into the Republic of...

A letting agency says it is on course to manage 1,000 properties before it marks its tenth anniversary next year.  Tay Letting,...

The University of Surrey’s in-house private lettings agency has won a gong at the Guardian University Awards 2018. The ‘Student Experience’ award...

Franchise agency Redstones, which has 13 offices across the Midlands, has acquired student letting company Housemates. Redstones, now one of the largest...

Academic research suggests tenants in England and Wales are missing out on £80m of interest to tenancy deposit schemes every single...

As students begin their search for housing for the next academic year, a university has relaunched a dedicated lettings agency service The...

The former director of a lettings agency in Plymouth is to appear in court in March facing charges of fraud, false...

The Communities and Local Government committee of MPs will on Monday hear their first oral evidence of the year for the...

Research by the University of Sheffield is reported to show the apparent damage done by short lets on Airbnb and similar...

Research by a student lettings software company suggests that 70 per cent of landlords say they would prefer not to let...

A portal which allows renters to review their lettings experiences and which encourages agents to buy and download tenants' references has...

The pressure group Generation Rent - often identified with highlighting issues concerning young tenants - is now warning of a massive...

Student rents in some parts of the country have risen by as much as 18 per cent in the past year...

What is believed to be the first-ever study of Airbnb’s effects on house prices - not just rents - suggests the...

New analysis shows how the phasing out of mortgage interest tax relief for buy to let investors may prove a particular...

A new report into student accommodation has found that private student rent remains at an average of £100 to £119 a...

Letting agents are being reminded of the importance of independent and professionally compiled inventories for individual students as they start or...

ARLA Propertymark has revealed what it believes is a 'big step forward' for letting agents processing large numbers of overseas student...

London agency Ludlowthompson has just appointed the first manager to emerge from the company’s apprenticeship scheme.    Launched in 2011, the scheme now...

A league table drawn up by a rental sector insurance specialist claims private rental accommodation in university locations can produce yields...

An economics academic says the country’s taxpayers should be “very angry” with the government for failing to collect taxes to which...

Younger people will have more difficulty finding rented accommodation in coming months as a substantial proportion of landlords actively cut back...

Prime central London is seeing the rise of the micro-apartment, according to new research, as squeezed accommodation budgets have seen singles...

A specialist student lettings agency says the drop in the number of applicants for UK higher education courses this year threatens...

The latest investigation into the ability of the private rental sector to meet the needs of the population is calling for...

As the end of the academic year approaches, one deposit protection scheme is urging student tenants to reclaim their deposits.  SafeDeposits Scotland...

A seven per cent fall in the number of EU students seeking places at UK universities, matched with a 4.3 per...

University Cribs, the student property search engine, is expanding to list accommodation in the London market.    The service says that with its...

Andrews Property Group has announced that Hannah Norris to lead its lettings business across its three major regions of Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire...

The Residential Landlords’ Association has welcomed the new Rugg Review into the state of the private rental sector - but few...

There is to be a new high-level and independent review of the private rental sector in England.   The Nationwide Foundation is funding...

  Renters are spending half their wages keeping a roof over their head, are twice as likely as homeowners to have no...

A survey of students in Birmingham has discovered that over 44 per cent of respondents claim to have paid what the...

Imperial College London has paid £30m to acquire half of London’s largest Build To Rent scheme at The Perfume Factory in...

New research claims that the financial benefits of renting rather than owning may have been under-rated.   A financial researcher at the University...

The Resolution Foundation, a think tank, claims that home ownership is far lower than is widely believed to be the case...

Age UK says the number of older people renting in the private sector is set to soar in the near future...

To coincide with students' return to university, the trade body for Scotland's electrical sector, SELECT, has launched a radio campaign to...

Average rents in some of the UK's most popular university locations have increased significantly over the last year, according to SpareRoom.co.uk. As...

Student accommodation provider Student Cribs has secured £200m in funding from institutions to expand its portfolio - and it’s looking for...

Four out of 10 students lose well over a third of their deposits when they rent privately while at university or...

A study of just over 1,000 students suggests that 58 per cent use online sources to find accommodation while only 25...

London agency Benham & Reeves Residential Lettings says student rents have risen by 55.5 per cent over the past 20 years,...

Who are you? Edward Trustworth, 23 What does it say on your business card? Founder, MyTenantedProperty.com What does the business do and what are you...

An enterprising letting agency in the east Midlands is to stage a series of events under the title The Future of...

A new property tech startup is launching this month with the promise that it will “completely transform the way university students...

Government policy is making it harder than ever for benefits claimants and the homeless to rent homes, according to a new...

Research undertaken by one of Britain’s leading rental sector experts and the Tenancy Deposit Scheme Charitable Foundation gives perhaps the most...

Landlords predict that one-bedroom flats will be the property type to increase most in value over the next year.  Meanwhile, two-bedroom flats...

Two former University of Lincoln students are to launch a students-only lettings portal on June 1, allowing agencies and private landlords...

Agents and landlords are being warned that students expect increasingly high standards of accommodation including space, decor and fixtures and fittings. The...

A new portal has been launched to publicise possible student investment properties. At the moment it has under 30 properties, almost all...

There’s been a call to ban letting boards from streets near a university campus. Councillors in York say the boards which go...

A judge is expected to rule in the next two weeks in the case of students being sued by a landlord...

A local council is consulting on the creation of a charter involving letting agents, landlords, consumer bodies and university accommodation teams. If...

A row has broken out between one of the north east’s most prominent letting agents and Zoopla over the worst place...

The shortage of rental accommodation in some university towns is so great that up to 22 people are competing for every...

The private rented sector is becoming an increasingly diverse place. Its growth into the UK's second largest form of housing has...

New student tenants have been urged to be vigilent and not fall victim to fake online letting agents and landlords. The National...

Reading Council in Berkshire has confirmed that a voluntary ban on letting agents boards in part of the town will be...

In case we didn’t learn the lesson last time around, we appear to be on the brink of a refresher course...

Earlier this week the housing charity Shelter confounded many in the private rented sector by concluding on its website that tough rent...

Campaigning charity Shelter appears for the first time to have acnowledged that rent caps may backfire and end up harming tenants...

When do we really start to worry about rising rents and house prices? Despite an apparent slowdown in house price inflation...

A portal is launching this week that claims to be the UK’s first helping landlords and letting agents reach students looking...

A trial voluntary ban on letting agents boards in part of a town has been declared such a success it could...

Ahead of the next academic year, a letting agency has been advising prospective students on how to rent a property while...

The Residential Landlords Association says some agents and landlords may be required to notify the National Measurement and Regulation Office regarding...

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