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Glenigan, regarded as one of the construction industry’s most respected insight and intelligence consultancies, says the sector will enjoy a long-term...

London’s rental market has weakened in recent months according to the fledgling online service Hello Neighbour. Rents are 1% down compared to...

The 85 branches of Spicerhaart have signed a three-year partnership with The Lettings Hub to use its tenancy management platform. Spicerhaart also...

Londoners looking to buy a home can expect to spend 42% more on monthly mortgage payments than tenants pay on rent,...

Two London agents who traded fraudulently through their lettings business and scammed victims out of over £24,000 have been sentenced. After a...

A prominent lettings agency says concern is growing in the private rental sector about the prospect of more pets in properties.  A...

The Chancellor has used his Budget to confirm a 2p cut in National Insurance, from April 6. This will take it...

Specialist property management firm Xenia Estates has announced a shake up ahead of entry into the residential lettings sector. Xenia currently looks...

Knight Frank has appointed Louna Del Barrio as lettings associate in a key London office. Del Barrio comes to Knight Frank following...

Rents across the UK continue to retreat from their 2023 highs, falling by 2.9 per cent over the last three months,...

A prominent London buying agent and property consultant says the slowly improving supply of rental property means more tenants are now...

Parts B and C of the process to improve material information disclosure in property listings are published today within comprehensive new guidance...

The Nationwide Building Society is embarking on an experiment - at first for owner occupiers only - which may be extended...

A London lettings agency has been ordered to pay over £12,000 in a fine and costs for its part in running...

The agency and landlord responsible for letting a two-bedroom flat in Dagenham have been found guilty in court for providing extremely...

Atomic Consultancy, the specialist acquisition management business, believes that 2023 is likely to present significant opportunities for those looking to sell...

Landlord numbers may have dropped in recent months but a longer term analysis shows the reverse. Total Landlord Insurance analysed the current...

Fourteen Trading Standards authorities across a swathe of England are embarking on an enforcement project to check lettings agency compliance.  The Central England...

A Build To Rent operator has created what it calls a one-stop app for tenants. The operator Apo says the new app...

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

Build to rent providers are taking the lead against private rental sector homes by advertising developments as pet-friendly.  Research by furnishings provider...

Specialist property lender Castle Trust Bank has agreed a £13.2m development loan for a Build To Rent scheme within a mixed...

A leading buy to let mortgage expert has backed the government’s pledge to issue a White Paper and additional consultation before...

A rental demand league table produced by a lettings management platform shows the winners and losers across the UK - and...

The private rental sector dedicated to student accommodation in London could see a 24 per cent drop in income in the...

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

New research by lettings management platform Howsy shows which major London commuter hubs make the most attractive potential for buy to...

The Property Ombudsman has announced the expulsion of eight agencies, all for contravening TPO codes of practice. Most of the expulsions were...

A lettings agency has marked six months in business by embarking on a £100,000 project to create what it calls its...

A former Labour councillor and solicitor Muhammad Harun has been jailed for 16 months after pleading guilty to two counts of...

An east London lettings agency must pay more than £2,500 after a six-foot-high pile of waste was found fly-tipped on land...

Three criminals have been sentenced after pleading guilty to money laundering involving an online lettings agency. The sentences follow an investigation spearheaded...

An umbrella organisation representing councils is calling for greater freedom to introduce more and larger rental sector licensing schemes, without the...

A lettings agent in London has been fined for the third time in as many years – this time for failing...

A tenant pretending to be landlord has been ordered to pay more than £21,000 after he carved up five family homes...

A managing agent and several landlords have been fined almost £5,000 after forcing tenants to live in unacceptable conditions in a...

A landlord who illegally converted a London home into two flats without planning permission has been given a prison sentence after...

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

The government has agreed that a council in London where all 51 councillors are Labour should go ahead with a five...

A buy to let investor who converted three family homes to HMOs without securing planning permission has been jailed for falsifying...

A flat-share website claims typical rents in some 38 per cent of London are now so high they render the areas...

A letting agent in east London has been fined £4,000 after apparently publishing the incorrect fees that it levies on tenants...

A buy to let investor has lost possession of his flat after converting it into an Illegal House in Multiple Occupation...

A couple from east London who illegally converted a town centre office block into 14 flats have been ordered to pay...

Figures drawn up for the London region of the GMB union claim that across the capital’s 33 boroughs private rents have...

A London agency has been fined for the second time in 11 months. Local media in Barking, east London, report that Primelodge...

A London landlord has been ordered to pay over £13,000 for breaching the conditions of his licence as a result of...

Rents in London rose by 0.1 per cent in the 12 months to June - it’s the first annual rental increase...

Three agencies have been heavily fined after a property in London was being used for multiple occupation with 11 people living...

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

A couple who illegally converted an office block into 14 flats have been found guilty for disregarding planning laws - and...

London Bishops have written to housing minister Alok Sharma calling on him to do more to protect vulnerable private tenants. The Bishops...

Almost 60 per cent of councils across Britain have not prosecuted any landlord for any offence in the past year according...

The average rent of a new letting in the UK grew by 0.24 per cent in the first six months of...

An east London landlord, who was also director of a letting agency, has been forced to pay out over £235,000 for...

A landlord who illegally converted a property into seven flats and rented them out without planning permission faces having to repay...

A senior Labour politician in a London borough has branded so-called ‘rip off landlords’ as “the scourge of London.”   Councillor Laila Butt,...

A London council has set up a system to allow council tenants to buy into a shared ownership scheme which it...

New research by an online property lending company reveals that those towns which were strongest in voting ‘Leave’ in the EU...

International development firm Westrock has given details of what it calls “the first homes designed specifically for rent in a key...

Enforcement officers from Barking and Dagenham council, one of the most active in chasing up private rental sector issues, has discovered...

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