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A Labour council in London is seeking much greater control over the creation of so-called ‘small HMOs’. Lambeth council wants anyone creating a...

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

Propertymark has come out in support of the National Trading Standards Estate and Lettings Agency Team’s probe into Rent-to-Rent.    NTSELAT has...

Citra Living, part of Lloyds Banking Group, is to bring more than 150 new family homes to the rental market in...

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

Savills says prime rental growth across London and the country has stalled for the first time in almost three years. In prime...

Aviva Investors, the global asset management business of Aviva plc, has spent some £150m acquiring a portfolio of six Purpose Built...

High end lettings agency Savills has appointed a new head of residential lettings for its offices in Beaconsfield and Amersham. Daniel Spratley...

Berriman Eaton has reported a 30 per cent rise in its dedicated lettings business since 2020, with more than 420 properties...

Knight Frank has bolstered its prime offering across north London with a new head of lettings in its Hampstead office. Jared Kilgarriff...

Fewer than one in five homeowners support the government’s plans to ban gas boilers in new homes by 2025, with 83...

A series of new BTR schemes have been named by developers. In Coggeshall, north Essex, Vistry Group will deliver 36 homes, the...

Details have been given of Lloyds Bank’s latest dive into the Build To Rent market. Its BTR arm, Citra, has acquired 49...

Savills has announced a new head of its lettings department in its Bishops Park office in Fulham. Christina McLean steps into the...

Buy to let investors who want to convert family homes into HMOs in Hounslow for three to six tenants will now...

One of the country’s biggest Build To Rent players has secured funding for 1,000 new BTR homes. Legal & General has signed...

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

Foxtons has worked with house builders the Berkley Group to connect Asia Pacific buyers and landlords with UK property. The initiative, held...

The way to solve the rental sector supply shortage is through Build To Rent, a leading agency claims.  Leaders Romans Group says...

The growth of the Build To Rent sector is a symbol of a changing Britain, in says one of the players...

The advocates of Build To Rent have made another ambitious target for the sector’s growth.  Research from the British Property Federation and...

Increased demand and investor appetite for purpose built Single Family Rental schemes have seen this niche market grow at scale, according...

One of the country’s largest Build To Rent operators, Legal & General, has acquired a new scheme from volume housebuilders Countryside....

The value of the Private Rented Sector in England, Wales and Scotland grew by 5.8 per cent to a jaw dropping...

Airbnb has issued a lengthy statement in response to a recent raft of criticisms about the effects of soaring numbers of...

A council is offering free training to letting agents, via online courses starting next Monday. Dorset council says it wants to work...

A Manchester-based lettings agency has won a long-term deal with one of the UK’s most prominent Build To Rent operators.  Ascend Properties...

Winkworth says its London rental activities have suffered because of a lack of international travel, and students and young professionals returning to...

Lettings agency Intus Lettings has announced the opening of a new Sheffield office — its first base in Yorkshire. The Sheffield office...

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

A series of leading lettings agents have warned that the rental sector is set for significant change as the Coronavirus pandemic...

Another local authority is considering a clampdown on the spread and condition of HMOs. Bath and North East Somerset Council, which is...

One of the country’s major lettings agency chiefs says there is a “massive” change in tenant priorities underway. Michael Cook, national lettings...

A council has won a planning appeal banning the use of a property for short lets - considered a landmark case...

There are few silver linings to today’s Coronavirus crisis but there’s a heroic effort being made by a short let accommodation...

Build To Rent developer Simple Life has launched 28 new BTR family homes in Newhall Harlow, Essex.  Part of a larger development of...

A local authority in Manchester is pioneering a ban to prevent buyers of homes at a new development from selling them to private...

An investment company has revealed that it’s acquired land in the north of England to create a Build To Rent scheme. Godwin...

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

Savills has launched a new residential lettings service in one of the country’s most successful buy to let and investment locations...

Another London local authority is proposing to insist HMOs require planning permission in future.  Currently in Croydon multi-bedroom properties can be converted...

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

There’s been a strong start to the year for Build To Rent with news that a real estate investment trust dedicated...

The agency industry has reacted in a broadly downbeat way at the relatively few housing-related proposals that were announced in yesterday’s...

SDL Group is celebrating its 2,000th tenant in the new but fast-growing Build To Rent sector.  SDL works with developer Sigma Capital Group...

A Build To Rent operator is marking its 2,000th new-build home - an indication of how the sector is starting to...

Two more student houses in Brighton have been ordered to close by a government planning inspector. There have now been four such...

A local authority is considering introducing measures to prevent landlords turning family homes in one of its conservation areas into HMOs.  Reading...

Rents are rising faster for three bedroom homes than for any other property type. They show a rise of 4.6 per cent...

Urban regeneration specialist Sigma Capital is the latest firm to announce it is entering the Build To Rent sector, seeking to...

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