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Housing Minister Matthew Pennycook has written to one of the key areas he believes vital for achieving Labour’s house-building targets, calling...

The property consultancy Bidwells has appointed a digital transformation expert to a new role to help the firm prepare for the...

OnTheMarket has launched a new report giving details of real-time lettings activity in local markets across the country.  OTM says that there;’s...

Planning permission has been given to the biggest-ever Build To Rent scheme in Milton Keynes. A company under the name PLATFORM_ has...

A 101-home Built To Rent estate is being created by Barratt Homes in Cambridge, as part of a deal with BTR...

Propertymark says it’s contacting all the appropriate new ministers over the summer to trigger an engagement process so agents’ voices can...

The Conservatives have this afternoon set out a 78-page manifesto, of which just over two pages are given to housing and...

Legal & General’s suburban Build To Rent business, called LGSBTR, has exchanged on 41 new BTR homes in St Neots, Cambridgeshire.   Consisting...

The Belvoir 2024 Annual Awards have crowded a father-and-son franchisee pairing as the big winners. Paul Wallace-Tarry and his son Richard Wallace-Tarry...

The Fine & Country Foundation’s Annual Carols by Candlelight concert, held in collaboration with King's College Cambridge, has raised £21,061. This will...

Landlords wanting to make a healthy return from their investment should target student properties in the North of England and Scotland,...

Rightmove is to provide agents with local market data and easier access to training at a series of Propertymark regional events. Rightmove...

A prominent provider of student rental accommodation has appointed an international property consultancy to consider growth options. Study Inn Group has a...

The Cambridge Building Society has selected two tenants by ballot to receive up to 70 per cent of their rent back...

An insurance firm claims two thirds of people’s typical budgets are too low to afford the average UK rent of £634...

The Cambridge Building Society has opened applications for its unique Rent to Home scheme. Last month it announced that it had invested...

The Cambridge Building Society has invested in two family-sized houses to expand its unique ‘Rent to Home’ rent-return housing scheme. The two...

A news website is reporting that a landlord cut the asking rent of a property after social media criticism of its...

A letting agent who stole over £80,000 from landlords is awaiting sentence. Frank Smart - owner of Smart Residential Letting Agents in...

Airbnb is giving away £100 vouchers to anyone in the UK who shifts into the short lets sector for the first...

There’s been a slump in demand for rental properties as a result of tenants staying put in the latter part of...

A new Buy To Let ‘tracker’ from a prominent buy to let mortgage lender has revealed what it considers to be...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I’m Nathan Abbott, Head of Change Management at The Lettings...

A lettings agency’s research has revealed that rental demand has continued to climb across most major UK cities during the third quarter...

More buy to let properties are being put on the sales market, despite the strength in the lettings sector, says Zoopla. In...

A lettings agent has expressed his amazement after an emotional LinkedIn post about paying himself a salary for the first time...

Two major south of England agency have merged in what they describe as a “transformational deal.”  Brand Vaughan, part of the expanding...

Rental demand has started to return to the majority of major UK cities during the second quarter of this year, with...

The Build to Rent market remains small in volume but it is making some inroads, leading to BTR rent rises predominantly...

New modular homes built to rent have been delivered to Northstowe, a new town in Cambridgeshire.  Each Town House home has been...

A senior lettings agency figure says virtual viewings have transformed the rental sector. “The increased level of requests for virtual viewings has...

Activists are attempting to build rent strike momentum amongst students who rent property across the country. ‘Rent Strike” is a national network...

Letting agencies and landlords are being invited by a local council to take part in what it describes as a “risk...

A new report demands that online rental platforms and portals allowing direct advertising by clients do more to deter fake landlords...

More than a third of furloughed private renters are worried about being able to pay their rent when the coronavirus lockdown...

The return of the housing market has seen demand for rental property boom - and it’s a third higher now than...

The number of new rental listings reaching the market has soared as much as 44 per cent in some areas following...

Rental demand has dropped significantly across London and other major UK cities as a result of the pandemic. When comparing current levels...

Demand for rental properties with gardens or other outdoor space has soared in terms of portal listings - perhaps no surprise...

A rental management platform has compiled a league table of where tenant demand is strongest for homes to let - and...

A mortgage lender’s new Buy to Let City Tracker tool has calculated the best cities in the UK for buy to...

Flat-sharing website Ideal Flatmate has raised £2m in a funding round in order to expand to seven new cities in the...

A landlord has been fined almost £2,500 for breaching an improvement notice issued by Cambridge City Council. Noelle Salameh was fined after...

The weekly economic and financial research magazine The Economist has made a scathing attack on rent controls. The publication says rent controls...

As expected, the Liberal Democrats’ conference in Bournemouth has backed a motion calling for the scrapping of Section 21 - effectively...

An online room-letting platform claims rents have risen up to eight per cent in wake of the Tenant Fee Act. ideal flatmate...

A new survey by a specialist property sector lender reveals that 19 per cent of landlords are looking to sell in...

As competition hots up between different deposit replacement scheme providers, three new Build To Rent sign-ups have been announced by one...

LAT recently carried a story of a lettings agency diversifying by renting out parking spaces for landlord owners - and now...

There has been limited support given from some parts of the lettings industry to a proposal offering Capital Gains Tax relief...

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

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

A letting agent operating in Cambridgeshire has seemingly 'gone to ground', owing landlords and tenants thousands of pounds. Frank Smart, who has...

The UK's second city Birmingham takes top spot when it comes to student property returns for buy-to-let investors. Analysis by online letting...

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

The Independent online newspaper says Conservative MP Gary Streeter will tomorrow meet with Prime Minister Theresa May and urge her to...

UK rents grew by a tiny 0.56 per cent in 2017 according to specialist lender Landbay. However, in a special exercise, the...

Rightmove has revealed the locations where prospective tenants have searched for properties on its portal in 2017 - and the winning...

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

Consumer group Which? says ‘micro-apartments’ - which have proliferated in recent years - may not be good investments.    The group has focussed...

The reasons behind ‘landlord churn’ - when buy to let investors sell up - are more connected with personal circumstances than...

An online platform describing itself as a ‘matchmaker’ for prospective flatmates is temporarily offering letting agents free listings in a bid...

Affordability pressures in the private rental sector mean that far fewer tenants are now renting properties with spare bedrooms according to...

Rents are rising faster in northern cities than those in the south, narrowing the divide between the two halves of the...

A local council has halted proposals to introduce a licensing regime for a town’s privately let properties after what a newspaper called...

Mortgage firms insisting on landlords proving their rental income could cover 145 per cent of their monthly payments could lead to...

Cambridge-based agency Bidwells is expanding its lettings division.  The lettings team has grown from eight to 10 professionals thanks to the recent...

A letting agent who unlawfully evicted a tenant from a property has been ordered to pay a total of £4,315. Alan Croft...

Letting agents in Cambridge have struck a deal with Stagecoach East to give five free days of travel to new tenants...

Lettings and sales agency Sharman Quinney has acquired Gilbert & Thomas Estate Agents.   This takes Sharman Quinney’s network total to 20 branches...

Rents in the private sector have been falling in real terms according to an independent study just published.   The research, commissioned by...

Platinum Properties has won the ESTAS monthly letting agency awards in both the landlord and tenant categories for the second month...

Research for a student accommodation service says the average weekly rent paid by students has risen a modest £1.43 in the...

Police say a man has been arrested on suspicion of fraud following the closure of east of England letting agency Kirby...

A couple from Cambridgeshire have been fined £10,000 and ordered to hand over in excess of £75,000 after repeatedly renting out...

The National Approved Letting Scheme has acted about the mystery surrounding the future of east of England letting agency Kirby Property...

Mystery surrounds the fate of Kirby Property Management, a letting agency with offices at Cambourne, Cambridge and St Neots in the...

A council in an area with one of the country’s largest private lettings sectors says it has launched investigations into more...

Earlier this week the housing charity Shelter confounded many in the private rented sector by concluding on its website that tough rent...

Campaigning charity Shelter appears for the first time to have acnowledged that rent caps may backfire and end up harming tenants...

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LSL Property Services says it has already acquired nine lettings books so far this year - with more to follow -...

Belvoir remains unrepentant after criticism from some quarters over an email sent to tenants last week intimating that a vote for...