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A trade body suggests that the votes of private landlords could decide the results in over 100 constituencies in next week’s...

The Welsh nationalist party Plaid Cymru is pledging tax credits for private tenants whose rent and utilities bills add up to...

As the battle of political policies continues ahead of next month’s General Election, now Labour has unveiled a raft of initiatives...

The Property Franchise Group has issued an upbeat trading statement indicating that it’s mitigated much of the financial impact of the...

Another survey of private landlords show a majority feeling less confident about the market than they were three months ago. Last week...

Just over a fifth of lettings agents questioned in a major industry survey are concerned that may not be complying with...

The Welsh Government says it’s going to issue clarifications to some issues before the end of this year; if agreed by...

Landlords’ confidence in their lettings business has slumped to an all-time low, according to research by the National Landlords Association. In a...

Countrywide has issued an unusual statement saying that the veteran lettings expert recruited to steer the organisation through the tenant fee...

The latest rental index from PropTech firm Goodlord shows some regions enjoying lower void periods with others slower to stabilise.  Specifically, the...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents and the National Association of Estate Agents have issued their manifesto for next month’s General...

Welsh housing minister Julie James is to address agents, landlords and other property professionals at the Residential Landlord Association’s Future Renting...

One of the leading providers of deposit alternatives in the UK wants the government to embrace the option - even to...

Many buy to let investors are still badly bruised by the government’s wave of fiscal and regulatory assaults on the private...

A leading agent has repeated his controversial belief that the proposed scrapping of Section 21 eviction powers should be seen as...

New analysis by Direct Line for Business reveals a surge in the number of police investigations into the theft of electricity,...

UK-wide rental prices are up 2.0 per cent annually to £876 – a three-year high – according to a new quarterly...

Countrywide’s monthly rental index - based on achieved rather than advertised rents on newly let properties - says the average rent...

Well-known letting agent Kristjan Byfield has announced the details of his new product which aims to reduce the workload of the...

A rental market slump in September has led to a rise in average void periods across many parts of England and...

A prominent trade body is urging its members and the wider industry to back a crowdfunding exercise to pay for a...

The majority of the UK’s private renters don’t want to purchase a home according to new research, coming just as the...

New research has thrown light for the first time on the gap between the rental affordability of male and female workers...

safeagent’s Rent Smart Wales training course has been given the scheme’s top ‘High Assurance’ rating following its latest audit. Rent Smart Wales,...

Members of the industry’s two major landlord bodies have backed a merger which will now take place on January 1. Members of...

Data from Countrywide estate agents analysed by Hamptons International reveals that the average rent of a newly-let property in the UK...

A lettings platform has analysed the current average annual rental cost of different parts of the UK and how that relates...

The tenant fee ban in England has led to a surge in demand from tenants for properties according to Belvoir.  The franchise...

The Renting Homes (Fees etc.) (Wales) Act - which bans fees levied by agents and landlords on tenants - comes into...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents and the National Landlords Association have spoken out about the complexity of the fees ban...

A long-established agency in Wales says it’s shutting the sales side of its business and going to focus solely on lettings...

A new property court similar to the Scottish system should be established in England and Wales to deal with the proposed...

The Property Ombudsman has announced a slew of expulsions after six agents failed to comply with redress rules. They failed to abide...

Average rents dropped in five of the eight UK regions monitored by property technology company Goodlord. The biggest drop was recorded in...

A Cardiff lettings agent claims to have become the first in Wales to stop charging fees to new and existing tenants. CPS...

With less than four weeks to go to the start date of the Welsh Tenant Fees ban, the Association of Residential...

Legal & General has exchanged contracts to complete the largest privately funded development in Wales, Cardiff Central Square, which will include...

An outspoken Conservative party figure says government policies such as the scrapping of Section 21 will play into the hands of...

Rental growth continues to accelerate, reaching the highest level since April 2016 according to data from Hamptons International, part of Countrywide.   The...

The Welsh Government has started a formal consultation on proposals that include extending the minimum notice period applicable to a section...

The chairman of Hunters estate agency, who is also a Conservative MP, has hit out at the government over its handling...

The Welsh government is planning to make changes to the notice period for eviction which would see tenants given 12-month contracts...

Average rents performed strongly across many parts of the country last month, but floundered in London and the South East. Goodlord's Rental...

There has been no change to rental yields across the UK over the past month as the lettings market settles down...

A BBC investigation of 52 lettings agents has found that two thirds were levying charges on tenants, but it is uncertain...

An average of 34 per cent of a tenant’s typical salary is spent on rent across the UK, according to an...

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

A call by Shelter for England to adopt Scotland’s model of indefinite tenancies in the private rented sector has been attacked...

The average cost of a new let in Great Britain has risen to £977 per calendar month.  That’s a 2.6 per cent...

New figures out this morning show that the over-50s are becoming a larger part of the rental market.  So far this year...

The Residential Landlords Association has entered into a partnership with deposit alternative service Zero Deposit. The RLA says the service will be...

A lettings agency chief in Scotland says the upcoming ban on agents levying fees on tenants - to be introduced in...

The latest Your Move lettings index for England and Wales shows the average rent stagnating - rising just 0.5 per cent...

ARLA Propertymark is urging agents across England and Wales to ensure they have every preparation in place for the arrival of...

Not-for-profit operator Tenancy Deposit Scheme says early intervention between landlords and tenants across the UK is resulting in many more deposit...

The typical landlord who sold a rental property in England and Wales made a gross gain of £79,770 before tax last...

A slow rental market in London is weighing down on growth across the rest of the UK, according to the latest...

New data from Proptech firm Goodlord suggests that the average void period for England and Wales is just 21 days. The longest...

Three years after the introduction of the second homes stamp duty surcharge, landlords are “beginning to come to terms with the...

Rents across England and Wales have not moved in the last 12 months, according to Your Move.  The agency says the typical...

Student demand for places across the UK - and therefore for accommodation - is holding up well despite Brexit uncertainty, according...

The head of a major property management firm says the controversial proposal to scrap Section 21 eviction powers for landlords is...

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

Average monthly UK rent is now at its lowest level for three years according to the Deposit Protection Service. Average rent fell...

Buy to let investors are facing a double whammy as stagnating rents and reduced tax relief are hitting profitability. A study from...

The owner of a buy to let HMO has been found guilty of six offences but has received a fine of...

It’s been revealed that the Welsh version of the Tenants Fees ban will come into effect on September 1. “Agents need to...

The latest lettings sector index suggests that monthly rents increased from February to March in six of the eight regions of...

There’s been a big boost to the movement towards deposit alternatives in the private rental sector following a survey released this...

A leading accountancy firm has analysed buy to let taxation policies north and south of the border and claims that from...

The Renting Homes (Fees etc) (Wales) Bill passed its final hurdle in the Welsh Assembly yesterday evening. This has similar policies to...

The average rent across England and Wales in February was a mere 0.4 per cent higher than the same point a...

Rent rises in the year to the end of February, as released by the government’s Office of National Statistics, show growth...

The Tenancy Deposit Scheme has launched a series of events to educate letting agents and landlords on deposit protection. Starting next month...

The implementation and costs of landlord licensing schemes in Britain are a lottery. That’s the conclusion of a new analysis of licensing...

The proportion of landlords purchasing buy to let homes in London with cash rose from 33 per cent in 2017 to...

Numerous regional independent agency chains have joined Zero Deposit, one of several rental deposit replacement schemes to have appeared in recent...

A leading trade body says the argument that councils have insufficient powers to tackle rogue operators isn’t supported by the facts...

New research from Zoopla suggests that parking sits firmly at the top of requirements for renters - but with pet-friendly facilities...

A new index for the lettings sector in England and Wales by PropTech company Goodlord gives a clean bill of health...

The gap between the cost of buying and renting is down 59 per cent to its lowest level in nine years...

North Wales agency Dafydd Hardy has snapped up small independent Smith & Wypler as part of a new growth strategy.  Smith &...

PropTech company teclet has announced it will this year once again be a main category partner at The ESTAS estate and...

The Dispute Service, which operates the Tenancy Deposit Scheme, has been ranked among the Sunday Times’ 100 best not-for-profit companies to...

New research on private renting and mental health in Wales has concluded that more support is required.  The research was undertaken for...

March 19 has been set as the next date for the Welsh equivalent of the Tenant Fees Ban Bill to be...

Latest official figures show that private rental prices paid by tenants in the UK rose by 1.0 per cent in the...

Sometimes, running a lettings agency can feel as if you’re losing control of client money. Recent cases of property management fraud such...

The government has published an independent assessment of its Tenants Fees Bill proposal - the ban on fees levied by letting...

Almost the entire lettings industry has viewed the upcoming ban on tenants fees levied by agents in England and Wales as...

The latest rental market snapshot from YourMove suggests that typical rents rose 1.8 per cent across England and Wales in the...

There’s been an angry reaction to the suggestion that London’s Labour mayor, Sadiq Khan, is seeking to introduce rent controls in...

Renting became more affordable in 2018 thanks to a combination of a once-in-a-decade fall in annual rents and wage inflation, according...

Rents have risen over the past year but at a very low level according to new property consultancy Apropos.  Across Britain as...

Landlords in London are possibly £1,806 worse off since the vote to leave the EU in June 2016, according to specialist...

The latest market snapshot from LSL Property Services once again shows that buy to let investors in northern regions have enjoyed...

Most tenants believe they will never be able to own a home because of the burden of saving for a deposit...

Deposit protection provider The Dispute Service says it has seen a big rise in the number of deposits it protects in...

Continued political and economic uncertainty is likely to fuel increased tenant demand in the private rented sector, says Haart.  The company’s latest...

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

The private rental sector in Wales could be offered incentives and other support to house those most in need, the Welsh...

Two thirds of local authorities in England and Wales brought no prosecutions against private landlords in 2017/18 according to research by the...

Rents are rising very gently across almost all of England and Wales with only London and East Anglia showing falls in...

A government minister says the phrase ”rogue landlord” is too “cuddly” and he wants buy to let investors who broke the...

Today sees the Second Reading in the House of the Lords for the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Bill, promoted by...

More landlords will leave the private rented sector in the next year as annual rental price growth has been flat or...

Shelter is campaigning for the outlawing if default fees levied on tenants by agents in Wales. While the campaigning group welcomes the Renting...

One of the country’s leading buy to let experts has given her reasoning behind the surge in the number of people...

Buy to let investors in England and Wales who own particularly cold homes are being targeted by new regulations. Since April this...

A warning has gone out to the lettings sector to check that rental properties are ‘Gas Safe’ as the colder weather...

A landlord had been ordered to give back almost £4,000 that was paid to him while operating without a licence. The case...

An online estate agency specialising in the sale of tenanted buy to let units has produced a league table of regional...

Just one region of England and Wales saw rents fall in the year to September 2018, according to the latest Your...

A council-run lettings agency looks likely to be scrapped after it apparently lost some £53,000 - even though it manages only...

A city council has introduced highly specific guidelines as to the number, size and positioning of To Let boards following apparent...

With an average rental return of 7.69 per cent Ireland has been named as the top location in Europe for buy to...

A salary of £51,200 a year is required to rent a one bedroom home in London according to research conducted by...

The latest rental figures produced by Your Move for Scotland have prompted a claim that the country now has better yields...

Labour has outlined its proposals for the private rental sector if it gains power at the next General Election - and...

Latest government figures show that private rents paid by tenants in Great Britain rose by 0.9 per cent in the 12...

The Home Office is to reconvene its private rental sector stakeholder panel on Right to Rent. This follows a controversial period for...

HomeLet says the average rent in the UK is now £947, up 0.9 per cent on last year - or up...

Rent rises in the private rental sector have merely tracked inflation and the Retail Price Index over the past five years...

Rents in the UK, excluding London, are still increasing but at their slowest rate for five years. Figures from specialist lender Landbay...

The latest Your Move rental tracker suggests that London’s lettings market has continued to cool with prices falling by 0.5 per...

More big fines have been handed out in recent legal action regarding buy to let investors who have not stuck by...

The latest LendInvest buy to let report, which ranks 105 postcode areas around England and Wales based on a combination of...

A new analysis reveals that it takes an average of 118 days for court-appointed bailiffs to remove tenants from private homes...

Average UK rents have risen 1.8 per cent in the last year, equating to a typical £16 monthly hike. That’s the view...

A Tory activist has made an outspoken attack on the government’s policies towards the private rental sector on the pages of...

A new analysis of rental yields across all of the UK’s local authorities has revealed exactly where the best places are for...

The National Approved Letting Scheme has unveiled a new specialist training course for letting agents. The NALS Level 3 Award in Letting...

Outsourcing has long been an effective strategy in business. It enables you to provide a new, improved or more streamlined service...

The lettings industry has hit out at the Welsh Government’s proposals to ban agents’ fees levied on tenants. A Bill was put...

A Bill which is likely to end up banning letting agents’ fees levied on tenants in Wales has been introduced into...

A major Scottish property management firm says agents and landlords south of the border should prepare now for the likely agency...

Data from Your Move's England and Wales Rental Tracker shows that the number of tenants in arrears increased for the fourth...

Specialist mortgage broker Commercial Trust says there was an increase in buy to let purchase activity in London during the first...

Buy to let sector confidence across a range of measures remained stable or increased in the first quarter of 2018 compared...

Private rental sector tenants have spent the year so far working only to pay for their accommodation, the BBC claims.  The broadcaster...

The average cost of a new let reached £951 per month in Great Britain in March - that’s up 1.7 per...

Some 43 per cent of all stamp duty comes from buy to let investors and holiday home purchasers - and almost...

Specialist buy to let lender LendInvest has looked at 105 postcodes across England and Wales to find the best (and worst)...

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

The consumer group Which? says the new Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards starting next weekend could affect 300,000 buy to let properties.  From...

One of the client money protection schemes operating in the lettings sector says he believes agents and property managers could be...

The National Landlords Association has revealed a seven-point plan which would allow the Welsh Government greater powers over the private rental...

The Welsh Government’s housing minister has tweeted that the results of a formal consultation process on a ban on agents’ fees...

The UK lettings market has enjoyed a 'robust' start to 2018, according to the latest Agency Express Property Activity Index. The number...

It is being reported that the Labour mayor of Newham council - that’s the authority which has introduced stricter controls on...

Landlords in Wales who manage their own properties are being reminded that they must submit their licence application to Rent Smart...

A TV news programme has exposed how a sleazy male landlord - who presumably did not instruct a letting agent -...

The select committee monitoring the Department of Housing, Communities and Local Government will continue its deliberations today on the government’s ban...

Rent Smart Wales says it is “heartening” that there has been a substantial recent rise in the number of agents, properties...

The average rent in England and Wales was £850 in December 2017, an increase of 2.3 per cent in the last...

The average rent agreed on a new tenancy signed in December was £907 according to the insurance firm HomeLet, compared to...

Private rental prices paid by tenants in Great Britain rose by 1.2 per cent in the 12 months to December according...

There has been another prosecution under the controversial Rent Smart Wales regulations - although this time the landlord in question was...

A pullback in the buy to let market is threatening to reduce sale prices further in London and parts of the...

Rental prices in most areas of England and Wales have grown over the past 12 months with the East of England...

Stamp duty reform for first time buyers has taken pride of place in the Budget speech of Chancellor Phillip Hammond.   From today,...

Rent Smart Wales, the licensing and training regime which is now a year old, has taken an agent and a landlord...

A survey has been undertaken of the top 25 UK postcodes in terms of yields for investors - and London and...

A Welsh local authority is offering a cash payment of up to £1,200 to landlords who join a quasi-letting agency run...

Wales’ largest agency, Peter Alan, has acquired Roberts & Co Property Management Limited, a Newport company that manages 800 units.  The acquisition...

The annual rate of rental growth slowed between September and October according to Countrywide. The cost of the average new let in...

Rental growth is forecast to exceed house price growth in London, despite a glut of properties on the lettings market in...

The Secretary of State for Wales has called on the Welsh Government to take measures against what he calls “unjust fees...

The Welsh Government has launched a consultation on draft regulations and guidance to implement the Fitness for Human Habitation requirements for...

The private rental sector in Wales is at risk of contracting next year, warns the Residential Landlords’ Association.   RLA Wales policy officer...

The CLA says the energy efficiency regulations for the lettings sector coming into effect in April are “fundamentally flawed” when it...

Pressure from the consumer lobby is building for the introduction of a ban on letting agents’ fees levied on tenants -...

Latest data from Your Move’s rental indices suggest that rents are growing, with the average in England and Wales now £904,...

Letting agents are being warned that they can minimise the impact of the fees ban levied on tenants by being proactive...

Labour's housing spokesman has called on the government to give councils greater powers over the regulation of the private rental sector.   In...

Housing minister Alok Sharma has once again confirmed that the ban on lettings’ agents fees levied on tenants in England will...

Housing minister Alok Sharma has told a major residential conference that rent controls will definitely not be a policy of the...

Letting agents across the UK must prepare now for a ban on fees charged to tenants says a PropTech company -...

Bob Parry Lettings, a north Wales agency, has removed a claim from its website concerning a plot of land, following a...

Agents who review and modernise their rent collection procedures could claim back thousands of pounds in rent, an automated payments platform...

Over the past few months, hundreds of agents across the UK have been improving their photography skills by taking part in...

Your Move says a shrinking supply of properties, in part created by government measures against the lettings sector, has led to...

A new report identifies in detail over 145 laws and regulations governing the private rental sector, varying across the four countries...

Equity release specialist Retirement Advantage has launched a range of products specifically for owners of Buy To Let properties.    These products will...

The average UK private rental tenancy is now 20 months, almost a fifth longer than in 2014 according to research from...

A council claims that up to 13,000 private landlords are “of interest” to HM Revenue and Customs, where there are alleged...

Let’s start with a quick fire quiz. How many more leads do you think you’d get with photos that have been...

Beleagured housing minister Alok Sharma has been told by a London council that his decision over an application for a borough-wide...

The typical rent paid by tenants across Britain rose by an average of 1.8 per cent in the 12 months to...

Countrywide says the rapid growth in the size of the private rental sector in recent years is not down to a...

A buy to let investor who ignored the controversial Rent Smart Wales scheme faces a bill of more than £3,500 for...

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

**The free photography course for estate agents (part one) offer has now expired. It is still available in special circumstances so...

London rents have fallen by an average 5.0 per cent in the past year according to new data released by Your...

Skipton International has launched a guide to help expat buy to let investors trying to make sense of the UK government’s...

The UK rental market has seen a slump of 11.6 per cent in available stock over the last six years, according...

The top ten buy-to-let postcodes in England and Wales are evenly split between locations that voted for the Conservatives or Labour. Luton...

Retired tenants are becoming a larger part of the rental market, according to the UK's largest letting agency. Countrywide reports that pensioners...

A crowdfunding campaign for a legal challenge against the rollout of the Right to Rent scheme is nearing its funding target. With...

A Newport landlord has been fined £4,400 for operating a dangerous, unlicensed house in multiple occupation and failing to comply with...

The average tenancy deposit for England and Wales is just below £1,000 according to the Deposit Protection Service’s figures for the...

The National Approved Letting Scheme has launched a new course which it describes as “ground-breaking” and which allows candidates to become...

Immigration charity Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) has this week launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise funds for...

Agents and landlords with properties in Wales have been reminded they could be breaking the law if they're not signed up to...

A buy to let expert says there should be stronger enforcement and streamlining of legislation in the private rental sector. In a...

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

The average rent in England and Wales is now £800 per month according to latest statistics from Your Move.   The area with...

A body representing 370 councils in England and Wales wants the government to close a legal loophole which allows the conversion...

Custodial deposit protection was introduced 10 years ago this week and the Deposit Protection Service has been marking the anniversary. Custodial protection...

Mydeposits says it is aware of a new scam from what it calls “a fraudulent company” imitating mydeposits and getting in...

ARLA Propertymark and the Residential Landlords Association have written to the Welsh Government seeking a meeting to discuss a possible ban...

As the introduction of new energy efficiency regulations moves closer, landlords are being urged to check the Energy Performance Certificate (EPC)...

ARLA Propertymark representatives have met with Home Office officials in Cardiff and Edinburgh ahead of the government’s roll-out of Right To...

Belvoir says new figures from across its network of agents shows that the government is wrong to claim that renting is...

The Loughborough Building Society is launching a Buy For Uni mortgage product seeking to encourage students to buy a home -...

New figures from Your Move suggest the rental market performed strongly across England and Wales, with rents rising in eight of...

Average rents ended 2016 higher than they started it according to figures from Your Move relating to England and Wales.   The average...

A damning critique of the one-year-old Right To Rent legislation in England suggests that the government is largely unaware of its...

The average tenancy deposit for England and Wales is just below £1,000 - but London’s typical deposit is now at its...

Belvoir Cardiff has completed the acquisition of a management portfolio of 130 rental properties. The purchase of all properties managed by Letwise...

The Residential Landlords Association says new tax powers devolving to the Welsh Assembly should involve exemptions when it comes to the...

Northern Ireland, where rents were 6.4 per cent higher in December than in the same month of 2015, saw the strongest...

  The average rent paid for a home in the UK outside London hit £750 in December, rising by 2.04 per cent...

Letting agents’ fees levied on tenants - already banned in Scotland and now likely to be banned in England according to...

The average rental property was let for £830 a month in November according to Your Move - that means the average...

The number of buy to let transactions across England and Wales has fallen 8.2 per cent in one month and is down an...

The proportion of private landlords in arrears is substantially under half the proportion of owner occupiers in the same position according...

City investment consultancy Jefferies has calculated the impact on landlords if the country’s second largest agency group - LSL Property Services...

The controversial Welsh private lettings sector scheme called Rent Smart Wales had around 65 per cent of agents and landlords register...

Rent Smart Wales, a controversial scheme that require letting agents to be trained, comes into effect today after a troubled lead...

Right To Rent legislation means British nationals without a passport face difficulties according to the Residential Landlords’ Association.    According to its latest...

Data from the Ministry of Justice suggests the number of claims made by private sector landlords to repossess a property has...

The Residential Landlords Association has roasted the enforcement policies and provisions for the controversial Rent Smart Wales initiative which begins in...

Credit rating consultancy Experian says it is cheaper to rent than buy in 84 per cent of areas, while it's cheaper...

Only just over two weeks remain for letting agents and landlords operating in Wales to register with the Rent Smart Wales...

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

Government figures from the Office for National Statistics show average rents in privately let homes across Britain rose by an average...

The Welsh Government - which now has additional fiscal powers allowing it to be more independent from Westminster - has chosen...

Protecting your business in an unpredictable market can be a challenge, so finding insurance you can rely on is essential. As a nationwide...

Regional lettings markets around the country are now outperforming London according to Your Move.    While rents in London grew 6.9 per cent...

With just nine weeks to go before the deadline, only a small proportion of Welsh agents and landlords have registered for...

The number of tenancy deposit disputes reached a record high in 2015-16, but still represents only a fraction of all deposits. Figures...

The average rent for a new tenancy in London during August was £1,765 per month, according to data from the Tenancy...

A landlord operating in Wales has been fined almost £3,000 for failing to renew the House in Multiple Occupation (HMO) licences...

Across the UK as a whole there has been a slight increase in the number of tenants who agree to pay...

New data from the Tenancy Deposit Scheme shows that at the end of March 2016 there were a total of 3.426m...

The average rent in England and Wales has reached an all-time high of £846 per month - a year-on-year increase of...

The typical deposit paid when a tenant moves to a new property in England and Wales is set to break the...

Average rents paid by tenants across Great Britain rose by 2.4 per cent in the 12 months to July, according to...

Another survey, this time from an online letting agency, reveals that as many as 70 per cent of tenants are concerned...

The problem of cannabis ‘farmers’ using privately rented properties to mass-produce the drug is at its worst in the West Midlands,...

The Advertising Standards Authority has stepped in after receiving a complaint about the display of fees on a letting agency’s website.    The...

Rents across the UK are still rising but the rate of growth continues to slow.   Data from HomeLet shows that rents agreed...

The National Approved Letting Scheme says the most recent call to ban letting agent fees - in a demand made by...

Jeremy Corbyn’s plans for rent controls and “secure tenancies” in the private rented sector would spell disaster for tenants, reducing the...

The Residential Landlords Association is asking the Welsh Assembly to scrap the three per cent stamp duty surcharge imposed on buy...

As part of Rent4sure’s ongoing programme of development initiatives, Clair Jones has been appointed National Field Sales Manager. “Rent4sure is one of...

ARLA is stepping up its call for letting agents to have professional qualifications in a bid to combat fraud.   In a contribution...

In the three months after the introduction of the three per cent stamp duty surcharge on April 1, landlord purchases accounted...

The Local Government Association, representing 370 councils across England and Wales, is calling on the public to speak out against rogue...

A survey by the National Landords’ Association reveals that the number of retired people living in private rented accommodation has soared...

The Association of Independent Inventory Clerks says the government should not back a provision in the Renters' Rights Bill which would...

Property investment specialists at online consultancy LendInvest have analysed coastal towns across England and Wales for their buy to let potential...

Rents in Scotland are at a record high, after the fastest month-on-month growth on record.  Data from Your Move shows that average...

Lettings volumes have taken a sharp downward trend in May according to board company Agency Express. New listings were down 11.9 per...

Letting agencies Your Move and Reeds Rains claim rents have started to drop in many areas following the arrival of a...

Around 30 per cent of private rental sector landlords are still undecided about whether they will vote to leave or remain...

Tenancy deposits in England and Wales are typically £100 dearer than the Scottish equivalent.  Between June 2015 and May 2016, the average...

Today sees the launch of what claims to be the UK's first online commercial estate and letting agency.  Virtual Commercial will offer...

The average rent paid by private tenants across Great Britain increased by 2.6% in the twelve months to April 2016, according...

The Property Redress Scheme (PRS) has announced the details of a workshop for Welsh letting agents, taking place in July. The event...

The National Landlords Association (NLA) has launched a new version of its Fire Safety Logbook which has been endorsed by the...

Average rents are now rising at the fastest rate since last Autumn, bringing the average monthly rent in England and Wales...

At first sight this looks distinctly like undercutting the local market - a farmhouse, glorious countryside and coastal views, some 900...

Buy to let returns have exceeded those from the FTSE-100 with average gains of 9.6 per cent across England and Wales...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors is urging landlords and agents acting on their behalf to bring themselves up to date...

The Liberal Democrats are following in the footsteps of some Green and Labour politicians in calling for a ban on letting...

Good news for agents having to work harder to persuade would-be landlords that buy to let makes financial sense after the...

The latest survey of arrears in England and Wales suggests the level now stands at 9.1 per cent of all rent...

A petition opposing lettings agents’ fees in England and Wales has now gathered over 245,000 signatures. Vicky Spratt, features editor on the...

A leading chartered surveying firm is stressing the differences that exist between new English and Scottish energy efficiency rules hitting the...

A private landlord aged 72 must pay £4,800 after pleading guilty to 11 offences of breaching the Licensing and Management of...

The government has updated the Section 8 and Section 13 forms which apply to private letting in England: they come into...

Today sees the first step of a long-term government drive to improve energy efficiency in the private rental sector through the...

The 1,000th person has been trained as part of Rent Smart Wales, the compulsory scheme that says it aims to raise...

New licence fees for letting and managing agents have been announced by Rent Smart Wales, the Welsh Government’s registration and licensing scheme which...

Average rents are now rising on a monthly basis for the first time since September, up 0.1 per cent between January...

Tenants now pay 2.6 per cent more rent on average than they did a year ago according to the government’s Office...

Returns from buy to let properties have risen to their highest level in over a year.  Data from Your Move and Reeds...

A lettings and sales agent has admitted to a court that he tried to cheat an elderly pensioner by buying her flat...

Countrywide has revealed that it has acquired 30 lettings businesses in the past year alone, expanding the firm’s rental sector headcount...