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

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

Low-income renters will get a boost next spring - but a pressure group wants more government help for this sector. The Chancellor’s...

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

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

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

Three property management companies and a landlord have been fined approaching £80,000 for health and safety failings. Mohammed Ali Abbas Rasool, Cadogan...

A management company and a lettings agency involved in running a London HMO have been prosecuted for fire safety failures. Monsoon Properties...

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

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

Councillors in one part of London are considering asking agents to include ‘green features’ on property details. Camden’s Labour controlled council has...

The number of long-term empty homes has risen in every region of the UK during 2022 according to new government figures. The...

Trading Standards is describing a penalty imposed on a London letting agent as “a landmark” after the company failed to comply...

PropTech firm Kamma says total fines for agents and landlords have now topped £8m in London alone with a £238,000 increase...

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

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

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

The sole director of a lettings agency, who was recently made the subject of an anti-social behaviour injunction and banning order,...

Crossrail rental values have climbed by 15 per cent on average in the last year alone - before this week’s opening...

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

A London-focussed lettings agency group has paid £2,000 as a result of breaching the Tenant Fees Act. The issue relates to the...

The London agency Bective says the prime areas of the capital have enjoyed an eight per cent uplift in rental values...

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

Home, the property website that publishes an authoritative market snapshot for lettings and sales each month, says the long-standing supply drought...

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

A London council has secured banning orders against rogue property agents who were previously fined over £70,000 for letting an unlicensed...

Knight Frank is this year’s headline sponsor of the LandAid Sleep Out, one of the causes many in the industry support. This...

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

London lettings agency Benham and Reeves has drawn up a league table of which boroughs in the capital have had their...

Rents are higher for Londoners living near busy high streets - for the moment at least.  Research by rental platform Spotahome has...

Coronavirus lockdowns and travel restrictions imposed by the UK and other governments have hit the London rental market badly, an agency...

A leading supplier says the current market standstill is an opportunity for the industry to rethink how short lets can be...

A lettings agency and its director have pleaded guilty to renting out an overcrowded house in the first case brought to...

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

A London council says nearly half of the Airbnb-style short let properties available in its patch last year exceeded their legal...

A room-finding portal, along with the owners of a London lettings agency and management firm, must pay over £100,000 for letting...

A judge has ordered two landlords to pay a total of £14,858 for illegally renting out an unlicensed house without working...

A London council tenant who for a period of seven years failed to disclose that he owned three houses, has been...

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”...

Demand for room rentals in London is so high their average charge has risen two per cent in 2019 already, claims...

A lettings agency and its director have been fined a total of £30,000 for failing to licence HMOs and giving sham...

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

OnTheMarket, which is beginning to undertake occasional property research, has released data identifying what proportion of tenants’ salaries are spent on...

A London property firm must repay no less than £60,000 in rent after a council obtained a Rent Repayment Order against...

A London local authority which is part way through its five year additional HMO licensing scheme wants lettings agents to give their...

A lettings agent described as ‘rogue’ by a London council, along with two lettings companies, have been heavily fined for operating...

Average rents in London are £1,615, up 3.3 per cent on last year, according to HomeLet’s latest index. This is the first...

The controversial Right To Rent regime whereby agents and landlords are expected to check the immigration status of would-be tenants is...

Two rogue letting agents in London have been fined thousands of pounds as part of a council campaign to clean up...

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

The Residential Landlords Association has reiterated its opposition to Right To Rent, and is backing two legal challenges to the measure. Letting...

Barratt Homes’ London division is offering what it describes as ‘free property management’ on new-builds purchased at selected schemes and then...

PropTech firm PayProp has welcomed the latest measures to clamp down on rogue elements within the lettings industry - but warns...

A London council has won its appeal against Foxtons using the term “administration fees” in its lettings charges.    Back in 2015 Camden...

Letting agents who have broken the law are set to be ‘named and shamed’ by the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan,...

MNY Property Management Ltd has been fined £3,390 for offences under the Housing Act - specifically, failing to buy a licence...

The owner of a house in multiple occupation in the leafy Hampstead area of north London has been hit with a...

A BBC investigation claims that people living in the private rental sector spend more than a third of their disposable income...

London politician Sian Berry - who was the Green Party candidate for the Mayoral elections in the capital in May -...

A London estate and letting agency has announced the appointment of 19 new members of staff as a result of a...

A letting agent and four landlords face bills totalling more than £20,000 after being prosecuted by Islington Council for operating unlicensed...

A typical tenant in a two-bed property in England will have paid over £40,000 in rent in the past five years...

A London local authority has taken court action against one of its own councillors who has admitted failing to carry out...

Two letting agencies in the London borough of Camden have lost their appeal against fines for failing to join a redress...

The PRS, one of three authorised redress schemes, is backing a ‘Fair Lettings’ campaign being introduced by Camden council in London. It...

Unitary local authorities where trading standards and environmental health teams work to the same objectives are more successful at clamping down...

A property consultancy specialising in licensing regimes for privately-let properties says there have been 580 housing prosecutions in London under the...