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With the energy price cap to rise by 10% from October, Rightmove reveals that this could mean an annual increase of...

Knight Frank has set out its forecast for the rental sector for the rest of 2024 - notwithstanding political uncertainty. In the...

New figures showing no slowdown in the rate of private rental inflation is just additional “misery” for tenants, a leading financial...

A charity leader claims spiralling rents are forcing children into what he calls “damp and mouldy B&Bs”. Matt Downie, chief executive of...

The boss of a rental flatshare agency claims tenants are sacrificing summer holidays because of high rents. Matt Hutchinson, director of the...

The low supply of rental homes continues to put upward pressure on rents, reports Hamptons.   The average tenant paid £1,347 pcm to...

Leading property players and analysts suggest that the lacklustre housing market figures produced by the Halifax over the weekend owe more...

An insurance firm’s analysis of official figures show there are now no fewer than 760,821 vacant properties in England, Scotland and...

The result of the election isn’t likely to be a gamechanger for the housing market, a prominent business consultancy says.  An analysis...

Some 8,000 people were forced to sleep rough for the first time in London last year, an increase of 25% on...

A huge survey involving analysis of over 14,000 properties suggests an urgent need for the next government to help private rental...

The Property Institute - a body for the residential property management sector - has announced the appointment of a Labour baroness...

Inflation figures are down - but not as much as many analysts expected. The basic Consumer Price Index figure fell from 3.2%...

Inflation is expected to drop sharply in the April figures due out this week. The Office for Budget Responsibility and Bank of...

There's good news for the buy to let sector as mortgage product availability is showing signs of stability, according to the...

TV property guru and Move iQ founder Phil Spencer to be a keynote speakers at Propertymark One this year, the trade...

A deposit alternative service claims the cost of rent has outpaced salary growth by 5.2% over the past 10 years, leaving...

Propertymark has batted away any possible market pessimism as a result of a downbeat price index result from the Halifax  Just before...

For first time buyers, renting is cheaper than buying in most of the UK according to new data from the Halifax.  London, the...

New and past landlords tempted back to Buy to Let have been warned - passive income from property isn’t easy.  This is...

A high profile lettings agency has had to pay almost £22,000 in damages to an employee who raised concerns about safety...

Ukrainians who came to the UK following the Russian invasion will be able to apply for 18-month extensions to their visas,...

Birmingham’s Labour council is considering closing its social housing waiting list to new applicants - and this is likely to trigger...

Government figures suggest the UK population could reach nearly 74m as soon as 2036, largely attributed to rising net migration. This is...

A new analysis shows that - unsurprisingly - London remains the most competitive region for letting agents, having seen the largest...

An organised crime group involved in producing and distributing an estimated £2.4m of cannabis has been found to have e used...

Self employed agency brand Harding Green, which majors on London and prime country markets, says it’s grown significantly in the lettings...

The latest rental index from Goodlord shows average rents in England rose nearly nine per cent higher across 2023. In 2022, rents...

A council is considering borrowing £50m to buy properties to rent on the private market and for affordable housing. West Norfolk council...

Airbnb and other short let platforms are from this week required to send data on their clients’ earnings to HMRC. And a...

A group of rental activists claims that police in England are disproportionately using a 19th century law that criminalises rough sleeping...

An analysis of tenants renting between 2020 and 2023 shows a big rise in those on high salaries asked to provide...

Almost two in five UK owners - landlords and homeowners - now consider improving the energy efficiency of their property an...

The Information Commissioner’s Office has issued advice to agencies on how to comply with data protection law.  The UK data protection regulator...

Leaders Romans Group claims it reached carbon neutrality in 2022, eight years ahead of its original target of 2030.  The firm says...

A prominent agency says tomorrow’s Autumn Statement is the Chancellor’s last chance to come good on the election promise to lower...

The lettings market shows little sign of slowing as rents rose 11.7 per cent year-on-year across Britain in October, says the...

There’s growing optimism that tomorrow’s Bank of England monetary policy committee meeting will see base rate held for another month -...

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

The National Audit Office says the government will soon have to take hard decisions on the future for the Homes For...

Parents and pet owners are paying as much as £460 per month more for rent and bills, it’s claimed. The claim comes...

Tenants in Bristol are paying 41 per cent more for a rental property than they did just five years ago, it...

The owners of one of the first Build To Rent schemes in Edinburgh is bidding to improve the EPC rating while...

Almost a quarter of England and Wales will become less affordable to buyers by 2025, it’s been claimed. The findings - from...

The north of England is outperforming the south when it comes to yields and capital appreciation, a new survey has discovered. In...

A property website has produced startling figures giving an insight into the frenzied rental market. Property Pal, which looks at the housing...

A letting platform says what it calls “the rental chaos” of the current market has now end in sight. New data from...

Airbnb has issued a statement responding to the call for a clampdown on short lets demanded by Labour’s outspoken London Mayor,...

Increasing numbers of relatively well-paid tenants are being asked to provide a guarantor. That’s the view of PropTech firm Goodlord which says...

Rents continue to soar across the UK according to data released by flatshare website SpareRoom.  It says average UK room rents were...

New research reveals that there is an estimated £21.4 billion worth of holiday homes in England and Wales with the South...

Tenants want letting agents, landlords and other property industry figures to more openly demonstrate their green credentials. That’s the message from a...

A fraudster lettings agent must repay £122,922.68 to her old firm within three months - or face yet more time in...

There’s another free webinar for agents to learn about the Renters Reform Bill next week. This one is organised by lettings-focussed PropTech...

Agents whose rental properties became workplaces during the pandemic are unlikely to see any major change in the situation soon. That’s because...

Moneyfacts, the respected independent mortgage market monitor, is warning that lenders have been withdrawing buy to let fixed deals. Within the buy...

The scale of investment in UK commercial property has fallen in all sectors, new research suggests.  Sirius Property Finance has analysed UK...

It already looks like 2023 is on track to see licensing fines for agents and landlords reaching nearly double the 2022...

After announcing a new license in Southwark and Camberwell earlier this month Fine & Country is now expanding further in London...

Leaders Romans Group has snapped up another independent lettings firm in what it calls a five year acquisition programme. Stanley & Partners...

A prominent lettings agency chief wants a raft of measures to help the private rental sector and investors in next week’s...

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

The average rent in the UK is now £1,174 pcm, down 0.1 per cent from December after seeing the first month-on-month...

The share of Londoners purchasing property outside of the capital slowed in 2022, back towards pre-Covid norms.   That’s the view of lettings...

Agents have only until the end of tomorrow, December 2, to feed into Propertymark’s response to a new consultation on the...

A new licensing scheme for HMOs, agreed by leaders of Portsmouth council, will be implemented from September 1 2023. Licensing of HMOs...

An online rental platform warns the average rent bill could reach as much as £2,270/month if prices rise in line with...

Investment in the Build To Rent sector has almost doubled year-on-year, according to new research. Property consultancy Cushman & Wakefield says that...

Build To Rent operator Sigma Capital Group Limited, which markets its homes under the private rental brand Simple Life, claims newer...

The Property Franchise Group - which includes a host of High Street brands - saw a rise in managed properties of...

Households living in rental properties across the North of England face the biggest financial headache from soaring fuel price rises, according...

Latest figures from the Tenancy Deposit Service shows a slight reduction in typical deposits for rental properties in England and Wales. At...

The Property Franchise Group says it’s increased the size of its lettings portfolio by around 1,000 units over the past year...

Purplebricks has given its interpretation of how much its lettings sector compliance crisis has cost the company. Back in December the Daily...

A high profile London lettings agency says some owners of properties in prime areas of the capital have seen capital appreciation...

A new survey by business consultancy Hargreaves Lansdown suggests that out of the 20 per cent of households who now rent...

Activists are calling on the government to impose swingeing taxes on some lettings properties “to bring them back into the residential...

A survey conducted by financial institutions has found the first suggestion that rental properties are slowly becoming more energy efficient. A study...

The average rent in the UK has hit another record high of £1,091 after a 1.2 per cent increase in the...

The chief executive of Propertymark says a warning from agents about rents rising and stock diminishing as a result of a...

The chief executive of ARLA Propertymark has made an outspoken attack on the UK government, accusing it of a “blatant disregard...

New research claims to show the rent gap between lets in London and those in suburbs up to an hour from the...

The Property Franchise Group says that in the past year the number of managed properties it handles has risen from 58,000...

Rental affordability is deteriorating in parts of England. The research by rental platform Rentd looked at the current average income of a...

The monthly costs for a first time buyer are some 13 per cent lower than that of a similar renter -...

A large majority of private renters are happy with their properties, status and their landlords according to a new survey. A report...

Rental market stock levels have plummeted further - even to below the pre-pandemic levels of late 2019. New research shows that in...

A player in the rental insurance field is warning that the growing cost of living crisis makes it more important than...

The rental market continues to boom despite the growing cost of living crisis, with average rents rising at a 13 year...

The Property Franchise Group now manages in excess of 74,000 rental properties on behalf of landlords, according to a new trading...

Asking rents in Britain are now rising at their fastest ever rate according to Rightmove. Average asking rents hit annual growth of...

Tenants are complaining that lengthy application processes at lettings agencies contribute to their frustration at missing available properties.  The results of a...

Average UK rents increased for the fifth consecutive quarter in Q4 2021 according to The Deposit Protection Service, as stock shortages...

Shelter claims the end of the eviction ban has contributed to creating over 274,000 people who are homeless in England right now, including 126,000 children. Shelter’s interpretation of official...

A fake lettings operation has been uncovered by a leading legitimate agency - and now the National Trading Standards Estate and...

Council-imposed fines on letting agents and landlords that fall foul of licensing regulations have risen dramatically in the past month alone. Research...

Over £80,000 pounds of fines have been imposed on a letting agency and its director. Zenith Accommodation Ltd’s boss, Mohammad Mallick of...

Rents for detached homes increased twice as fast as the average for all UK properties during Q3 2021 says the Deposit...

There’s been a sharp reduction in average void periods this year - a sign of how strong the rental market has...

The former home of The Yorkshire Post has been turned into a new build-to-rent property by Grainger. The building, one of Leeds’...