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The lettings sector has softened over the past year as the demand for urban living with shorter commutes has been replaced...

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

With the Government announcement this week of another national lockdown across England amid the surging coronavirus infections, it once again puts...

Major players in the Build To Rent sector are joining forces to see if they can give the industry a more...

The next 12 months could be a surprisingly good year for the private rental sector despite some obvious challenges, according to...

The gap between typical City rents and Country rents is closing according to an analysis of Countrywide properties by the company’s...

An MP claims the proliferation of short lets via Airbnb and similar online platforms is indirectly pricing local people out of...

A survey of 2,750 tenants by a prominent PropTech firm suggests a quarter are concerned about not being able to pay...

Prospective tenants are increasingly searching for properties outside of commuter hubs and urban areas, according to Rightmove. Its analysis of over 60 million...

Striving for higher yields remains the holy grail for buy to let, and new research suggests investors could be attracted by...

Rents are higher for Londoners living near busy high streets - for the moment at least.  Research by rental platform Spotahome has...

A document outlining options for the future regulation of Airbnb and other short let platforms in the UK is to be...

One of the country’s largest Build To Rent players, Legal & General, says it’s to construct another 350 homes as part...

The private equity firm that snapped up Zoopla Property Group two years ago has revealed that it’s one of two companies...

Foxtons has snapped up a lettings agency in suburban London. It’s bought London Stone Properties Limited and its subsidiary company London Stone...

A new concept of co-living is being offered on a rental basis at a new purpose-built development in west London. The firm...

The Association of Residential Lettings Agents has thrown its weight behind an initiative by the Scottish Government to control the growth...

There’s been an upbeat assessment of how the private rental sector will fare in the next five years from a leading...

New research from an international law firm shows that the rental sector in major cities is now changing its demographic make-up...

Online rental services platform Howsy - which last week revealed £5m new investment from backers - has acquired online lettings agency...

Legal & General, one of the largest specialist builders of so-called retirement communities for the over-55s, is now going to let...

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

An estate agency that describes itself as a ‘social enterprise’ says it will spend its profits on the homeless and related...

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

One of the largest players in the Build To Rent sector has snapped up a site in a major city centre...

Home ownership rates for families aged 25 to 34 are rising for the first time in 30 years but high barriers...

The countryside lettings sector will be badly hit by new energy efficiency rules being introduced by the government next year. That’s the...

The online lettings agency Urban is continuing to operate as normal despite the shock revelation that parent company Emoov is looking...

The head of the online lettings agency recently scooped up by Emoov says traditional lettings agents have made a rod for...

Plans have been unveiled for a 23-storey development comprising 307 Build To Rent units, located overlooking Cardiff Bay. IM Properties and its...

Two private landlords have been found guilty of managing Houses in Multiple Occupation with dangerous and sub-standard conditions, following a successful...

The lettings director at Urban, the online agency recently snapped up by Emoov, says the rental market is faced with significant...

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...

The chief commercial officer of PropTech startup Canopy says that letting agents and Build to Rent landlords need to accommodate the...

One of the UK’s largest block management agencies, the Residential Management Group, has opened a new northern office in recognition of...

Council officers staged a dawn raid to uncover an unlicensed HMO in north London. The team discovered 10 men and women sleeping...

A PropTech firm which uses so-called ‘sherpas’ to find lettings properties for would-be renters, is now seeking £250,000 through crowdfunding to...

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

The shadow housing minister, John Healey, has started to flesh out the details of Labour's proposed rent controls, announced by Jeremy...

New data from a survey of tenants suggests demand for the private rental sector looks set to be high for the...

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

A new app called UrbanCo is launched today in London as part of a buying agent-style service aimed at busy would-be renters.    A...

A new report suggests that institutional investment in the burgeoning Build To Rent sector could see the creation of 240,000 new...

L&G, one of the biggest firms involved in Britain’s Built To Rent sector, has named the agency it is appointing to...

The need for letting agencies to assist landlords with the increasingly-complicated private rental sector has been hammered home by the results...

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Benham & Reeves Residential Lettings says it is encouraging its London landlords to avoid rent rises and instead focus on retaining...

The fast-growing Build To Rent sector has seen another boost in investment from a major player - Legal & General.    Earlier this week...

Online estate agent Urban.co.uk says it has created a league table of fees that tenants are charged by agencies in different locations...

New research suggests the UK is on the brink of a large-scale, commercially developed, owned and operated Build To Rent sector. A...

A plentiful supply of freehold properties in our cities may become a thing of the past as urban areas become increasingly...

Rents are rising faster in northern cities than those in the south, narrowing the divide between the two halves of the...

Failing to pay rent on time or at all is the most common rule broken by tenants that is set out...

Savills is the only organisation with an agency wing represented on the first board of the UK Apartment Association, a new...

Two more student houses in Brighton have been ordered to close by a government planning inspector. There have now been four such...

The British Property Federation says George Osborne’s stamp duty surcharge will threaten the success of the Build To Rent sector, which...

Legal & General Capital, which last week announced its intention to work with a Dutch pension fund manager to build 3,000...

Legal & General Capital - which has recently made clear its intention to become a major Build To Rent player in...

The governor of the Bank of England has ruled out an immediate rise in interest rates because of the turmoil in...

Savills says mainstream UK rents are likely to rise by an average of 16.5 per cent by the end of 2020...

Countrywide chief executive Alison Platt has said the acquisition of best-in-class urban-based lettings agencies will be a major plank of her...

The government is watering down its controversial new Right To Buy policy, by giving housing associations one week to sign up...

Mixed-use developer Muse says it will submit plans for a 100-unit Build To Let scheme at part of a retail, office...

A letting agency has won a management deal for new-build homes which a landlord can buy with a choice of size,...

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

Urban regeneration specialist Sigma Capital is the latest firm to announce it is entering the Build To Rent sector, seeking to...

The Build To Rent movement, whereby financial and other institutions fund the construction of purpose-built rental accommodation and go on to...

A city worried that the explosion of short lets offered via Airbnb may worsen its existing housing crisis is next month...

There has been much debate in recent years about Britain’s desperate need for more housing stock. Demand has been outstripping supply...

The policies of the SNP-controlled Scottish Government risks leading to an exodus of landlords as a result of the removal of...

A peer-to-peer lender says its study of 1,000 buy to let locations across the UK suggestsfour of the 10 highest yields...

About ten years ago, I was working as the branch manager of an estate agency based in an affluent part of...