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Rental growth across prime London slowed again in January, with average rents falling on a monthly basis for the third time...
16 February 2024
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A bizarre lettings start-up has launched - and isn’t taking rent in return for property. KindRoom instead offers itself as a platform...
08 November 2022
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Tax experts say that an attempt to levy higher purchase tax on holiday lets and second homes in one part of...
11 April 2022
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A former president of the Association of Residential Letting Agents has lifted the lid on how buy to let came about,...
31 December 2021
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A petition calling on Chancellor Rishi Sunak to increase tax on holiday lettings has still not hit its 45,000-signature target. Former long...
23 November 2021
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A tenant who says his former rental property has been turned into an Airbnb has set up a petition demanding Chancellor...
06 August 2021
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Cornish MPs have spoken up in the House of Commons to highlight what they claim is the danger of having too...
24 June 2021
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Crowdhaus, which describes its product as a property discovery app, has secured almost £200,000 to take the next step forward following...
28 April 2021
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Real estate fund management company Moorfield has teamed up with PropTech company Bricklane to buy a portfolio of 2,000 homes to...
26 April 2021
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Another agent reports huge surge in supply of London properties to let Yesterday Chestertons reported a large rise in the supply of...
08 July 2020
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A rental management platform has compiled a league table of where tenant demand is strongest for homes to let - and...
14 January 2020
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Countrywide has calculated that with many landlords exiting the buy to let market, the number of homes available to rent has...
27 December 2019
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A PropTech platform devised by Build To Let specialist Grainger is to be used in a bid to differentiate the company from...
01 October 2019
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Private tenants are being disadvantaged because of the government’s focus on boosting homeownership. According to the latest figures from the Royal Institution...
13 August 2019
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Some 12 per cent of homes to let are operated by a ‘company landlord’ according to an analysis by Countrywide high-end...
22 July 2019
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A trade body has hit out at government policy following a think tank’s claims that young people are less mobile because of...
07 June 2019
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A new PropTech start-up that claims to make student house-hunting easier is offering free listings to lettings agents with London properties. Polygon...
02 May 2019
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Sub-standard homes remain a key weakness in the private rental sector, which needs to get its house in order in the...
20 February 2019
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Rent increases seen in London this year are likely to continue in 2019 because of the diminishing supply of homes to...
05 December 2018
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Rightmove is reporting that average asking rents outside London have topped £800 per month for the first time, fuelled by a...
29 October 2018
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Rightmove’s chief executive officer, Peter Brooks-Johnson, is joining the board of an offshoot of a global classified listings operation. He is to...
09 October 2018
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A trade body says the country faces a net loss of 133,000 homes for private rent over the next year -...
12 July 2018
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Landlords exiting the market because of tax and red tape have led to “an acute shortage of available properties to rent”...
15 June 2018
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There are now five per cent fewer homes to let now than two years ago, says Countrywide in its rebranded Hamptons...
14 May 2018
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A lettings trade body says a major house builder has blamed, in part, recent tax increases on private landlords as a...
19 March 2018
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A trade body says new figures released by the independent Office for Budget Responsibility show that the government’s recent tax increases...
15 March 2018
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Letting agents were amongst those duped by a Merseyside builder who rented 33 homes and then sub-let them to allow the...
14 February 2018
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The government has released more details on long-discussed proposals to tighten up licensing in the private rental sector. It wants landlords in...
28 December 2017
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Countrywide says one in every 12 homes that came on to the rental market in 2017 was for sale at some...
11 December 2017
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Trade groups have reacted angrily to Labour’s proposal to introduce rent controls if the party enters government. The announcement, made by Labour...
28 September 2017
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The remaining overhand of last year’s buy to let buying surge by landlords means the annual rate of rent rises has...
07 April 2017
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A property firm has been fined £32,134 and ordered to pay costs of £260 and a victim surcharge of £170 after...
16 March 2017
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A new report suggests that institutional investment in the burgeoning Build To Rent sector could see the creation of 240,000 new...
27 February 2017
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The government has set out 29 key points in its Housing White Paper. Introducing in the Commons this afternoon, Communities Secretery Sajid...
07 February 2017
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A building firm that carried out illegal building work to create homes to let has been hit with a £250,000 confiscation...
12 December 2016
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The dramatic slump in the prime central London sales market is now leading to a reduction in rents being achieved in...
07 December 2016
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Members of the Association of Residential Letting Agents predict a fall in the number of homes being available to let next...
07 December 2016
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Property data company LonRes is the latest to report that the supply of property available to let in prime central London...
15 November 2016
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There has been another market survey suggesting a significant rise in the number of homes available to rent. There were 11.4 per...
10 November 2016
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Canterbury is the latest council to consider setting up its own letting agency. The authority hopes to tempt private landlords with promises...
06 October 2016
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One of Britain’s burgeoning group of Build To Rent operators has struck a deal for 249 of its new homes to...
26 August 2016
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Countrywide’s latest lettings index shows rental growth slowing in every region of Britain because of a glut of homes coming to...
15 August 2016
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Jeremy Corbyn’s plans for rent controls and “secure tenancies” in the private rented sector would spell disaster for tenants, reducing the...
08 August 2016
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The Residential Landlords Association is asking the Welsh Assembly to scrap the three per cent stamp duty surcharge imposed on buy...
20 July 2016
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There was an eight per cent surge in the number of homes available to rent in the second quarter of the...
14 July 2016
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Letting agencies Your Move and Reeds Rains claim rents have started to drop in many areas following the arrival of a...
17 June 2016
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Some 18 per cent of lettings properties are advertised with floorplans according to an analysis of Rightmove listings by a floorplan...
13 June 2016
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The frenzy of investor purchasing of buy to let units ahead of the stamp duty surcharge deadline has led to an...
16 May 2016
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The outgoing director of the Your Move chain of lettings agents says the new London mayor - whether Sadiq Khan or...
06 May 2016
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A council has asked agents in its area to tell landlords of additional planning powers taken by the authority which may...
09 March 2016
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The supply of rental accommodation is the lowest for at least a year according to the Association of Residential Letting Agents. After...
26 February 2016
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Agents acting for landlords replacing furniture and other domestic items in homes to let should be given detailed guidance from the...
23 February 2016
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The influencial cross-party Commons Treasury Committee says the whole economy could suffer is George Osborne’s fiscal measures against the private rental...
15 February 2016
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Legal & General Capital, which last week announced its intention to work with a Dutch pension fund manager to build 3,000...
09 February 2016
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People coming to work in Scotland from overseas are making up an increasing proportion of private sector tenants according to a...
19 January 2016
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A survey conducted for buy to let lender Landbay claims that a strong lettings market even in winter demonstrates “the shortage...
15 January 2016
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18 December 2015
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The rural agency team at Bidwells says it is concerned the Conservative government may - by accident or design - be...
15 December 2015
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- From April 2016 buy to let landlords and people buying second or holiday homes will have to pay an additional...
26 November 2015
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George Osborne has announced a shock additional 3.0 per cent stamp duty on second homes and buy to let properties. Details are...
25 November 2015
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While almost every lettings organisation has been up in arms at the raft of tax changes for landlords suggested by Chancellor...
26 October 2015
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It’s been a bad weekend for the image of the private rental sector with a series of reports and press stories...
19 October 2015
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The deputy mayor of London, with special responsibility for housing, says the enthusiasm of buy to let investors can boost housebuilding...
30 July 2015
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Tenant arrears are rising in Scotland, even though letting agents’ fees on tenants are banned. Agents’ fees on renters, which are legal in...
22 July 2015
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A kit explaining how homes to let can be made more secure and legally-compliant has been launched by the Residential Landlords...
30 June 2015
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The number of rental properties available for tenants decreased seven per cent between the end of April and end of May...