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A regional agent says the fear of further taxes on the private rental sector may lead to a spurt of landlords...

A report from Propertymark has laid out the stark and in some cases unforeseen consequence of the Conservative government’s phased removal...

The Bank of England has cut base rate from 5.25% to 5.0% - its first cut in four years. It was a...

The chance of the Bank of England deciding to cut base rate today and thus trigger further interest rate cuts, is...

A new lettings market index has been launched by the Skipton Group, parent company of Connells, the country’s largest lettings and...

The UK housing market has returned to its pre-pandemic size, according to Savills analysis. Overall, the total value of the UK housing...

A council has placed a Banning Order on a lettings agency operating unlicensed Houses in Multiple Occupation. Trophy Homes Ltd was hit...

An online lettings platform claims to have launched the first “end-to-end self-service lettings platform” which could save landlords around £3,800. Hello Neighbour...

The all-party House of Lords Industry and Regulators Committee has urged the government to get on with establishing a regulator of...

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

A charity providing support for older people facing financial hardship has hit out at the government over rumours concerning the Renters...

A prominent rental activist is tomorrow going to tell a House of Lords committee about the need to regulate letting agents. Conor...

Cotswolds and Midlands agency Sheldon Bosley Knight has snapped up a small independent lettings business. Stratford-based Charles Saville Limited adds more than...

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

An analysis of tenants renting between 2020 and 2023 shows a big rise in those on high salaries asked to provide...

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

Annual rental growth across prime London slowed slightly to 8.1 per cent in October according to property data firm LonRes.  However, rents...

An industry supplier owned by the Leaders Romans Group says the government’s pledge to reform - not replace - leasehold should...

Long established property business Newton Letting is rebranding as Rosevale Letting, following the conclusion of a licensing period. Former Newton employee, Riccardo...

Property consultancy Knight Frank is beefing up its super prime lettings team.  Amy Pritchard has joined as Senior Lettings Negotiator in the...

The auction house appears to be bucking the downward trend in the wider housing market. And much of it is down to...

The average rate of annual rental growth on a newly let property in Britain hit 12.0 per cent in August, the...

Reposit has increased the number of agencies offering its deposit alternative product.   This increase in agent customers comes as Reposit reports growth...

Average asking rents for new tenants outside of London reach another new record this quarter of £1,231 per calendar month. That’s the...

Newcastle-based lettings agency Seekers has successfully qualified a further four members of staff and funded their membership of ARLA Propertymark. The four...

A study by consumer intelligence service TwentyCi shows a continued severe under-supply of properties in the private rental sector.  It says that...

A campaign group of activists says there have been only “few reports of dodgy behaviour” by agents and landlords in the...

Shelter is telling the government it “must deliver” on the revolution it pledges under the Renters Reform Bill. Chief executive Polly Neate...

The government has back-tracked on its decision to publish the long-awaited Renters Reform Bill this week. The Mirror newspaper reports that “procedural issues”...

A lettings agency manager stole nearly £140,000 from her company to help clear her son’s drug debt. Wendy Dare, 57, is now...

The rapid recovery in London rents post-Covid has seen the capital’s tenants leave in record numbers, according to new research from...

Propertymark has reiterated its opposition to rent controls in its latest statement on proposals in Northern Ireland. The NI Assembly has published...

The lettings agency operated by controversial agent Ajay Jagota has been sold for an undisclosed sum. Jagota set up KIS Lettings with...

Governments across the UK must do more to understand the scale of short lets and the threat they may pose to...

A prominent agent has been appointed to head the ongoing expansion of a well known firm’s lettings team. James Gwynne has joined...

Bhavik Patel, owner of Nicholas Humphreys Southampton & Portsmouth has acquired independent lettings agency Harker and Bullman in Wimborne. This is the...

A new survey is a warning the government that it must stop forcing landlords out of the private rental sector by...

Local and central government is losing out on millions of pounds of council tax income this year because of the business...

ARLA Propertymark is warning the government that it should not delay further on its long-awaited Renters Reform Bill, because of the...

The owners of Martin & Co’s Aldershot branch have grown their managed portfolio by more than a fifth after acquiring local...

Agents have been reminded they can claim tax relief on the membership fees they pay to professional bodies that are approved...

One of the country’s most outspoken advocates of rent controls has been told why agents and landlords oppose them. Propertymark has hosted...

The number of prospective tenants asked to provide guarantors ahead of renting has risen by a huge 36 per cent over...

A Winkworth franchisee has opened his fourth office in the same region in four years. Jamie Moore has opened a new office...

One of the country’s oldest agencies may be under new ownership soon. The fast-expanding Lomond Group - which just last week announced...

Three lettings agency bosses have been banned from being directors of companies for a total of over 13 years after being...

The next episode of the Channel 5 show Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords this evening features an agent offering a supposed guaranteed...

The chief executive of Shelter says the experience of Scotland shows that the scrapping of S21 eviction powers produces benefits that...

The narrative from some activists and pressure groups is that private renting is some kind of ordeal endured by those who...

The popularity of buy to let mortgage products offering exclusive rates for higher value loans is a sign of optimism in...

Build To Rent completions are estimated to double by 2025, a property company forecasts. Between 2017 and 2018, the number of new...

The lettings technology company Goodlord, which works with over 2,000 UK letting agents, has been named by Deloitte as one of...

Two PropTech suppliers have announced their products will integrate in order to, in their words, “dramatically reduce reporting and end of tenancy...

A large-scale survey of private tenants has attempted to uncover what renters feel about the sector and their individual properties in...

Deposit alternative service Zero Deposit has revealed significant new investment as its founder - ex-Zoopla commercial director Jon Notley - takes a...

A business owner who calls himself a “frontline agent” is the new Vice President of ARLA Propertymark.  David Votta, owner of Votta...

The chairman of an agency chain is advising landlords to prepare for stock surpluses in some areas and to win tenants...

A husband and wife lettings and estate agency in Chichester is re-launching as its own operation, separately from the firm it...

London agency Keatons has acquired a nearby independent rival, JD Property. JD Property’s staff have already been relocated into Keatons existing office in Deptford.  This is Keatons' third acquisition in three years and now...

The government says it’s working on an online digital Right To Rent status checking service for agents and landlords to use,...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Catherine Shinerock - ARO Account Manager What is your ‘company name’...

Another branch of The Property Franchise Groups’s brand Martin & Co has snapped up an independent rival - and it’s the...

New investment in private rented housing has fallen since 2016 as some private landlords have dipped out of the sector in...

There’s still life in the buy to let market despite the regulatory and financial changes in recent years according to a...

One of the leading lettings sector trade bodies has unveiled what it describes as “a positive vision for the private rented...

Landlords must look at their finances as a range of tax changes continue to 'hit home', according to Apropos. The property management...

A leading industry trade body says the latest English Housing Survey report proves that criticisms of the private rental sector’s costs...

Boris Johnson or Jeremy Hunt will face an immediate crisis in the private rented sector if government doesn’t rethink its plans to...

Rents are rising at the fastest rate since 2017, pushing the average yield on residential property to 4.5 per cent, its...

There’s been another call on the government to rethink its plans to change the Section 21 eviction process.  The founder of Landlord...

The government says it wants to ban outright Section 21 'no fault' eviction powers in England and Wales. Instead landlords seeking to evict...

A leading accountancy firm has analysed buy to let taxation policies north and south of the border and claims that from...

Labour says it will introduce new ‘indefinite’ tenancies for private tenants, based on rules currently in place in Germany. It claims German...

The Yeovil branch of hybrid agency EweMove now has over 200 managed properties following the acquisition of the lettings book of...

A lettings market snapshot from Rightmove suggests asking rents in London are now increasing at an annual rate not seen for...

CGT Lettings Limited has acquired Gloucestershire based residential lettings company All About Property. All About Property has been run by Darren Loftus...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is reminding members of tax changes ahead - a timely intervention with the deadline for...

A lettings company’s management director has been disqualified for failing to protect thousands of pounds of tenants’ deposits. Kari Jade Ridout from...

A new study has revealed that the average Briton rents four years longer than they initially planned to, because of stubbornly-high...

A council says it has been preparing prosecution and penalty notices “for hundreds of private landlords that have failed to apply...

The percentage of tenants experiencing rent hikes in August was the highest for almost four years according to the Association of...

There have been “significant leaps forward” in the standards of the private rental sector in the past four years, but safety...

Britain’s most controversial buy to let investor, Fergus Wilson, has hit back and given his side of events on a series...

A Birmingham letting agent has a new way of resolving arrears run up by some of his tenants - he goes...

There are now five per cent fewer homes to let now than two years ago, says Countrywide in its rebranded Hamptons...

A trade body has stepped up its calls on government to help the lettings industry do more for older renters. Responding to...

Board company Agency Express says the buoyant start to the year’s lettings market has given way to a slowdown. In its February...

The average rental household in London has 2.1 rent-paying tenants, each paying £775 per month, equating to an average property rent...

An analysis of data released by HM Revenue and Customs shows that 1.9 million people earned money from property in 2015-16...

Trade bodies have started to react to last evening’s Panorama programme claiming alleged abuse of the Section 21 eviction system in...

The troubled PropTech firm Goodlord - which creates software to allow tenancies to be handled on a single system - has...

Larger scale landlords with 10 properties or more appear to be the most confident about the private rental sector, and are...

A landlord from Cornwall has been fined after failing to maintain gas appliances at his rental properties in Launceston.   Truro Crown Court...

The Property Ombudsman scheme (TPO) has extended its expulsion of a letting agency by an additional four years. Premier Property Management, based...

London agency Ludlowthompson has just appointed the first manager to emerge from the company’s apprenticeship scheme.    Launched in 2011, the scheme now...

The myth has been broken - tenants in the private rental sector are more satisfied with their accommodation than those in...

Private renters aren’t pressing agents and landlords to carry out repairs to their home over fears they’ll be evicted, claims Citizens...

After criticism of many younger voters allegedly failing to turn out during the June 2016 EU Referendum, new analysis of voter...

The proportion of households living in the Private Rented Sector (PRS) will rise to 24% over the next four years, according...

Who are you? Rebecca Johnston What does it say on your business card? Managing Director (TDS Custodial) What is TDS Custodial? TDS Custodial is a government-approved...