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Some of the richest people on the world, who use London as one of their bases, are choosing to rent rather...

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

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,...

Boutique Knightsbridge estate agency Nicolas Van Patrick (NVP) has acquired Chelsea lettings and management company HLR. HLR was established in 1986, growing...

Just four months after opening a fourth office of lettings agency Martin & Co in London, franchisee Michael van de Vyver...

New research shows there are 36,210 long-term vacant homes across London - that’s around one in every 100 properties. The borough in...

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

An agency which currently has £350m of property under management and boasts a 98 per cent client retention rate, has opened...

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...

A long-standing Martin & Co franchisee is expanding his network of London offices following an independent agency acquisition. Michael van de Vyver, who...

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

Knight Frank has appointed a temporary head of lettings in what it calls its “strategically important” Chelsea office in London. Willow Bushnell...

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

London-focussed lettings and sales agency Chestertons has announced its second acquisition in six weeks and third of the year, having snapped...

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

London letting agents and landlords have so far been hit with more than £900,000 in fines in the first half of...

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

Average room rents rose by 10 per cent or more in every UK region, every London region and almost every major...

Chestertons, one of London’s oldest and largest estate agencies, has snapped the letting and management business of Henry & James, described...

A young family have started 2023 in their new permanent home after a London council recovered the property from an illegal...

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

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

Chestertons has named a new lettings manager for its Chelsea branch. Jonathan James has been working in the industry for the past...

Prime London agency Russell Simpson has announced Ed Woolgar as its new head of lettings, after 18 years of work in...

Buy to let and other investors hoping for a rapid recovery in the prime central London market are likely to be...

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

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

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

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

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 leading market forecaster has described the level of rent rises in one part of the country as “going ballistic”. “The London...

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

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

Propertymark has told the government that imposing the same solution to the Net Zero challenge on all of the private rental...

One of the most pessimistic lettings operations about the London market during the pandemic says that at last the capital is...

Rapidly rising rents may trigger a new wave of investment buyers in London, helping to resuscitate the capital’s sales market in...

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

One of the London boroughs synonymous with wealth has revealed that 44 per cent of its housing stock is now actually...

Central London’s prime rental market is witnessing a wave of enquiries from tenants wanting to strike a deal according to a...

A lettings agency in central London has been issued with a fine for not belonging to a Client Money Protection scheme. The...

The fall out from Coronavirus is forcing the rental market into a once in a lifetime change as tenants reassess priorities. This...

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

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

Overseas and domestic students have returned to the Central London lettings market 'in force' so far this month, according to Dexters. 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 suggested that yields across the UK rental market are remaining broadly unchanged despite the Coronavirus crisis. The current average sits...

Winkworth says its London offices are reporting significant numbers of landlords who used to advertise on Airbnb and similar short-let platforms...

The consumer group Which? claims some agents and landlords are not honouring break clauses and therefore not allowing tenants to move...

Pressure group Generation Rent claims half of London’s councils did not fine any landlords for letting out unsafe homes in the...

London agency Draker Lettings is expanding its patch - and offering landlords a free service for six months. Draker, which is 10...

It’s back - the five-a-side football tournament which made its successful debut last year with teams from the agency and property...

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

A relatively new firm in the crowded central London buying agency market is expanding into property management. Aykroyd & Co was launched...

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

Rental growth remains in positive territory - just - but on average it’s still well below the general level of inflation...

Letting agents and property firms are being invited to take part in the inaugural Property & Construction leg of an event...

The lettings department of a central London independent agency is claiming its busiest January in some years. Russell Simpson, a family-run independent...

Countrywide’s upmarket lettings and sales brand, Hamptons International, has launched branded taxis in celebration of its 150th birthday.  The taxis will operate...

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

Edinburgh has been identified as having the UK’s fastest growing rents with the average annual sum rising by 4.63 per cent...

A rental management firm has launched a new home-sharing platform which it says is aimed at everyone wanting a place to...

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

A new analysis of rental yields across all of the UK’s local authorities has revealed exactly where the best places are for...

Landlords exiting the market because of tax and red tape have led to “an acute shortage of available properties to rent”...

London landlords and letting agents could be missing out on up to £111 million of short-term rental revenue each year, according...

There’s been a huge 43 per cent rise in the number of London properties registered to be short let on Airbnb...

Some 43 per cent of all stamp duty comes from buy to let investors and holiday home purchasers - and almost...

Rightmove has revealed that the 10 year average growth in asking rents across London has been 25 per cent, and over...

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

So here it is … a very Merry Christmas from Letting Agent Today and Angels Media, with our very best wishes...

Average rents in prime central London fell 2.4 per cent year-on-year in November, which was the most modest decline recorded in...

The search arm of Knight Frank, The Buying Solution, has a new recruit to handle both rental and sales clients in...

Rokstone has launched a new lettings division, operating out of the firm’s existing Marylebone offices and covering both short and long term...

Draker, which describes itself as the largest lettings-only agency in Kensington and Chelsea, has now expanded by opening a new office...

Pastor Real Estate, a long-standing agency operating in Mayfair and Monaco, is expanding its London activities.   The boutique agency, which covers lettings and sales as...

Two board members of Shelter who have links with the Grenfell Towers fire tragedy have resigned, according to a report in...

Stoke-on-Trent has been named as the UK's buy-to-let 'sweet spot'. Analysis of data from Home.co.uk by property crowdfunding plaform Property Partner shows...

JLL has made three new director-level appointments to its prime London lettings team.   Andrew Keelan has joined as associate director and manages...

Chelsea estate agency Russell Simpson has appointed a new senior lettings director in a bid to boost the firm’s rental offering.  Having...

The landlord of a west London property, described by a judge as a "deathtrap" and an "accident waiting to happen", has...

Kensington & Chelsea council in central London has set up a series of hotline services and a working party to investigate...

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A property management service claims there has been an “explosion” in the number of short lets undertaken through Airbnb and similar...

The landlord of an overcrowded flat which lacked proper fire precautions and had a dangerous boiler has been fined £162,000. Abbas Rasul...

A London landlord who failed to comply with an Improvement Notice to maintain his property for his tenants has a £4,000-plus...

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

Data from London agency Portico suggests rents dipped 1.7 per cent during the May to July period, covering six weeks leading up...

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

A letting agency in London has announced that it has dropped all fees it charges to tenants.  STANLEY Chelsea, a one branch...

Rent increases in Prime Central London have slowed due to uncertainty surrounding next month's EU Referendum, according to a new report. London...

A property company managing an HMO in prime central London has been £47,900. The fine is in relation to 24 charges under...

A prime central London letting agency says there has been a rise in the number of subletting scams in that part...

A landlord who did not have the required licence for the number of tenants living in his property, and who also...

The local council in the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea is starting an investigation into the private rental sector within...

Whether you are single or a family, looking to invest in rental property or want to lay down roots of your...