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Propertymark is urging the government to tackle the problem of banks closing down undesignated or pooled client accounts of letting agents. HM...

A TV presenter with experience of property shows - Laura Hamilton - will be presenting the gongs at the Annual Guild...

Prime London rental values fell closer to their longer-term average in January, as supply continued to increase - but worries about...

Two former housing ministers are at war with each other after an attack on Rishi Sunak’s premiership in today’s Daily Telegraph. Sir...

Propertymark’s monthly political and government update webinars are set to continue in 2024 - General Election year. A statement from the trade...

Qualifications for property managers in the social housing sector should be extended to the private rental sector too. That’s the view of...

Letting agents’ body Propertymark is throwing its weight behind a mandatory licensing and registration scheme for short let landlords. Anyone who lets...

A mandatory short lets registration and licensing scheme is to be introduced in part of the UK, described as a system...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Neil Cobbold, Managing Director What is PayProp and what does it...

Knight Frank has taken the unusual step of warning that Tory splits over Rwanda and immigration could force an early election...

A Build To Rent scheme which fell into administration two years ago has been rescued by a property developer. Torsion Group has...

A property portal has announced the inaugural graduation of its first-ever qualification. Some 55 students were awarded the SPC Property Practice Certification,...

Data from London-focussed lettings agency Foxtons has found that rent is up eight per cent year-on-year, with the London average now...

The London rental market is shifting towards equilibrium for the first time since the end of the pandemic, according to Foxtons. In...

Propertymark has welcomed the pledge by Housing Secretary Michael Gove not to introduce rent controls in England. The trade body says such...

One prominent part of the Lomond agency empire is rebranding to fall in line with a larger higher-profile brand under the...

One of the players in the controversial Deposit Alternative field is stepping up its case for this kind of service to...

A charity claims the Renters Reform Bill, which gets its Second Reading in the Commons next week, will help reduce homelessness. New...

Propertymark has urged Labour to licence letting agents under its plans to ‘fundamentally reform the private rented sector’. The trade body also...

Westminster’s Labour controlled council is stepping up its war on Airbnbs and other short lets. It was a mandatory registration system for...

Two letting agents have been quoted in a newspaper report as saying landlord clients have instructed them to create ‘tracker’ rents...

Professional cleaning firm Prompt Cleaners has created a league table of regions and local authorities where renting is cheapest and dearest. The...

Crisis, the homelessness charity, has slammed the government over the growing gap between housing benefit levels and even the lower end...

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

The BBC says discussions are underway to extend the Renters Reform Bill to specifically outlaw any rental listing banning families and benefit recipients...

The government has back-tracked on its decision to publish the long-awaited Renters Reform Bill this week. The Mirror newspaper reports that “procedural issues”...

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

New figures today from London-focussed lettings agency Foxtons shows growth in the supply of lettings properties on the market is starting...

Labour’s much-publicised pledge to freeze council tax for the next year excludes empty buy to let properties and second homes it...

New figures today from London agency Foxtons show that the average rent in February 2023 rose five per cent from the...

A council is introducing a service which it claims will help identify properties which cannon future be used as private rental...

A property firm has been fined £8,000 for operating an HMO on one of Britain’s most famous roads. Westminster council has won...

New data shows that online agents have failed in their bid to replace traditional agencies - and that there are more...

A new analysis by agency and property consultancy JLL has revealed which borough within Prime Central London has the highest concentration...

The latest market snapshot by London-focussed data company LonRes shows that a shortage of homes available to rent across all parts...

A new survey has been launched to gather views from people in a major English city on the idea of introducing...

Propertymark’s head of policy and campaigns, Timothy Douglas, will explain how investment in the private rented sector can be better incentivised when...

Another political party is calling for a winter eviction ban as the first part of a reform programme for the private...

Activist renters want Liz Truss to follow Scotland’s lead and introduce a rent freeze and eviction ban.  The emergency measures - announced...

Knight Frank has appointed Sofia Lira Salas as head of lettings in its Hyde Park office in Prime Central London. Salas joined...

A prominent trade body is warning Tory leadership candidates not to put rental reform on the back burner and add to...

A building society which has taken the unprecedented step of stopping lending on second homes has been sharply criticised by a...

London-focussed lettings agency Benham and Reeves says renters who secured bargain properties during the pandemic now face huge rent rises when...

Forty per cent of privately rented homes in England are unlikely to achieve the energy efficiency rating target set to become...

Six agencies have been excluded from The Property Ombudsman for failing to pay compensation to wronged complainants. One was the Belvoir...

Rental growth continues to roar ahead across prime areas of London, according to Savills. Prime London rental values increased a further 3.3...

Some parts of London have recorded over 50 per cent of sales as second or additional properties. Research by lending firm Octane...

Airbnb says that its so-called ‘party ban’ - introduced in 2020 at the height of the pandemic - is being made...

New research by Savills suggests that on-street car parking could increase both the capital values and rental potential of properties. The agency...

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

New figures show that post-pandemic rental prices are on the rise across the majority of the capital but that some rents...

A new market snapshot puts the average rental rise across the UK at a remarkable 18 per cent over the past...

Housing is back on the political agenda with a bang. The government’s new Levelling Up White Paper sets out sweeping reforms...

Rental portal Rentd says the pandemic-long decline in the London rental market is now “reversing at speed”. Rental values are climbing annually...

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

Westminster council wants central London to have the same powers as Paris and Amsterdam to stop anti-social behaviour caused by Airbnb...

A little-known law may require tenants to pay stamp duty on the rental properties they do not actually own. London lettings agency...

The London rental market stock surplus spurred by pandemic uncertainty has started to subside, with prime boroughs seeing some of the...

A London property managing agent has been ordered to pay more than £80,000 for safety failings which “exposed a potentially large...

Rents in much of London have not only bounced back from the pandemic but now exceed the levels reached in 2020. Research...

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

A lettings agency says a new HMO licensing regime in one of London’s highest profile boroughs will reduce the number of rental properties. This...

A property consultancy says it’s identified the next ‘landmine’ in the building safety saga facing agents and landlords around the country. Mary-Anne...

The UK’s largest ever additional licensing scheme for HMOs has come into effect over the long weekend.  Westminster council’s scheme will focus...

A part of the country which has seen a severe long term rental stock shortage as a result of switches from...

One of the largest new additional licensing schemes for HMOs anywhere in the country is set to come into force in...

A petition has been launched on the Channel Island of Jersey to prevent agents and landlords banning pets from the local...

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...

Fresh data from Knight Frank shows how uncertainty continues to dog the lettings market in some parts of central London. There appears...

A prominent London Conservative MP has made a scathing attack on the current rental sector’s structure, saying it is skewed in...

One year on from the beginning of the pandemic, London’s reversal of fortunes in the rental market continues according to the...

Lettings franchise giant Hunters has struck a commercial deal with a geospatial technology firm. The partnership offers immediate access to Kamma’s full...

Letting agents should help landlords through a blizzard of red tape and regulation cause by local licensing schemes, a PropTech entrepreneur...

Data from PropTech platform SpareRoom suggests that London’s typical room rent has dropped further, this time in response to the new...

While the Westminster government has extended its version of the eviction ban in England until February 21, a longer ban -...

It’s a case of London versus The Rest when it comes to the rental market, according to HomeLet. Its latest market snapshot shows...

A new assessment of legislation and council rules surrounding the private rental sector suggests a severe crackdown may be coming in...

London’s Westminster council - with 43 per cent of housing stock in the private rental sector - has launched a consultation on...

The average cost of renting in England is almost unchanged from five years ago - although that masks significant localised variations.  The...

The announcement of the Renters’ Reform Bill in the Queen’s speech last December caused a collective groan across the country from...

A London agency has won the instruction for a particularly prestigious let - a four bedroom apartment in the capital, once...

The Chartered Institute of Housing claims there may be a “massive increase” in evictions in the near future. In a briefing paper the...

A London council has launched a strategy it claims will protect private tenants and ensure they live in good quality and...

A definitive document has been published by the House of Commons library listing every eviction-related measure taken by UK governments during...

The first attempt to assess the loss of rental income as a result of Coronavirus calculates 22 per cent of private landlords...

Zoopla has revealed its top 10 hotspots for buy to let investors seeking high rental yields.  The analysis is based on rental returns...

A scheme providing interest-free loans to tenants with Covid-related arrears should be offered across the UK. That’s the view of David Alexander...

A London council is telling its private rental sector residents to use a new tool to check whether they may be...

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

The Welsh Government has temporarily increased the notice period landlords must provide from three months to six months to end Assured...

Average room rents in the capital have dipped seven per cent compared to this time last year according to a flat-sharing...

Private landlords want the government to stop local authorities charging council tax on rented homes left empty because of the Coronavirus.  The National...

Hello, this is the final Conquering Corona for the week as we continue to help agents with advice and guidance through...

A newspaper claims multiple councils are opening investigations into agents allegedly defying the tenant fees ban - and at least one...

The leaseholder of a council property in central London has been found guilty of advertising it on Airbnb and the Booking.com...

A resident who was unable to access an emergency escape route during a fire was found standing on a windowsill hanging...

A London council has caught out a rogue lettings agency for illegally operating two properties, with issues ranging from gas safety...

Campaigning charity Shelter claims 135,000 children in Britain are homeless and living in temporary accommodation this Christmas - the highest number...

A pressure group that has spoken out against letting agents and landlords is urging private tenants to take part in a...