Archive

A boutique agency with branches in prime central and south west London has expanded its lettings operation by acquiring two agencies...

A lettings agency claims foreign homeowners are sitting on £84.2 billion worth of property across England and Wales - but with...

Prime London’s rental growth has started to slow on an annual basis, according to the latest Savills prime lettings index. But the...

HM Courts and Tribunals Service has halted the work of bailiffs on safety grounds.  An incident is under investigation, and it’s believed...

A London-focused lettings agency says actual rents in the capital are far greater than official average figures produced by the government.  Benham...

Wandsworth council in south London is considering a review into the feasibility of introducing discretionary landlord licencing. A statement from the authority...

Labour’s Sadiq Khan wants an increase in Capital Gains Tax for some buy to let investors. The London Mayor made his response...

A mortgage lender specialising in working with ex-pat and foreign buy to let investors says the city apartment and house remain...

The number of HMOs in England has fallen as a result of government intervention in the market. In 2018 new regulations were...

A London council is urging letting agents and landlords to sign a pledge to encourage tenants to use the local recycling...

A rental platform has revealed the wide disparity in rents to the north and south of the Thames in London, and...

Data consultancy LonRes says a dramatic fall in prime London rental stock is forcing rents to rise at last.   The number of...

John D Wood - one of two high end brands formerly owned by Countrywide but recently acquired by Connells - is...

Rapidly rising rents may trigger a new wave of investment buyers in London, helping to resuscitate the capital’s sales market in...

There’s a large scale recovery underway in London’s rental sector according to the website Home. The site says that while average rents...

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...

Rightmove says falling rents in central London have led to a surge in interest from prospective tenants. Rightmove has analysed over 23 million...

Lettings agency Carter Jonas predicts the housing market - for both owner-occupiers and landlords - will become increasingly eco-focussed in 2021. It says...

There’s a warning this morning that the consequences of the Coronavirus crisis mean that rents will fall at least five per...

A London council has sent an open letting to its buy to let landlords urging them to show understanding to tenants...

London as a whole has seen rental stock plummet by 22 per cent in just one year according to a market...

Greater London rents have risen an average of four per cent in the past year - but some boroughs performing above-average...

Rents in London are rocketing but a leading market commentator says this is no reason to give in to a “Marxist dystopia”...

A buy to let investor who let out an unsafe and unlicensed property in London has now been hit with a...

The fierce competition in the lettings market in parts of London means that some tenants will feel no benefit from the...

Legal & General has exchanged contracts on two adjacent sites in south London to deliver its largest Built To Rent scheme...

London landlords and letting agents could be missing out on up to £111 million of short-term rental revenue each year, according...

A property management company which ignored a series of housing safety regulations and flouted laws designed to protect tenants’ rights has...

A warning has come from a campaigning letting agent that London’s landlords agents could be costing themselves tenants by requiring them...

The sittings of the select committee looking into government proposals to ban letting agents’ fees levied on tenants resume this week...

A south London property firm has been prosecuted by a local authority over its HMO management and may now have to...

A property company owner who waged a campaign of harassment and intimidation against a young mother he wanted to illegally evict...

A rogue landlord found guilty of waging a campaign of harassment and intimidation against a young mother he wanted to illegally...

It appears that Wandsworth Council has backed away from a decision to implement a new landlord licensing scheme.   Research by London Property...

A landlord and his letting agent who failed to declare they were operating a series of bedsits at an address in...

No agent reading this will be under any illusions that the agency market is a particularly competitive sector to operate in.  I...