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Rightmove says the number of available rental properties is currently 14% higher than this time last year, while tenant demand is...

Propertymark wants Labour to come clean on its rent control policy, as the party repeatedly flip-flops on the issue. The agents’ body...

Some 50% of tenants who moved last year did so because their landlords decided to sell the property.  By contrast, eviction was...

Propertymark has urged Scotland’s new First Minister to end the country’s housing emergency. John Swinney is now First Minister and says he...

Propertymark says the controversial Renters Reform Bill still misses the mark, despite a string of amendments made to it as it...

A group founded eight years ago to represent the Build To Rent niche has now rebranded in a bid to win...

The chief executive of Propertymark has made an outspoken attack on the government in response to its latest attempt to extract...

The Budget on Wednesday will contain a £300m tax raid on the rental sector according to a report this morning -...

Countryside campaigning charity CPRE has given a warm welcome to Michael Gove’s clampdown on short lets. Earlier this week Housing Secretary Michael...

Rents are approaching an affordability ceiling according to Savills - but the agency admits it doesn’t see substantial new supply on...

Over a third of ARLA Propertymark members reported in December that rental prices have increased, according to their latest Housing Insight...

A prominent housing expert has told MPs that letting agents could be used to police the standards off homes made available...

Propertymark has fired a broadside at Labour saying it must provide agents with a proper court system to handle evictions. Labour deputy leader...

Council tax premiums being considered in Wales would be insufficient to persuade short let and holiday home owners to move their...

The Renters (Reform) Bill rewrites many of the rules that the private rented sector has played by for decades. This may...

A news service claims that in many UK cities there are now more entire homes listed on Airbnb than there are...

Average asking rents for new tenants outside of London have risen to yet another new record of £1,190 per calendar month. This...

The new trade body for short lets has reacted angrily to a government plan for AirBnb and other short let hosts...

Rightmove says growing numbers of renters are leaving Britain’s cities to find a cheaper place to live or to get more...

A prominent agent and former RICS residential chairman has made an impassioned plea to the government to help the private rental...

Price growth in the rental market is predicted to continue throughout 2023 but there are tentative signs that rent hikes are...

The availability of stock within the owner-occupied market is now back to a pre-pandemic norm, but the reverse is true for...

Investment in the Build To Rent sector has almost doubled year-on-year, according to new research. Property consultancy Cushman & Wakefield says that...

Propertymark’s latest rental market snapshot shows that since February, the number of new tenants wanting to register on agents’ books has increased...

A Labour peer who was to have invested £1 billion in affordable homes has halted his scheme because of the threat...

The rental sector remains strong according to the latest market survey by Propertymark. The number of new tenants registered on average per...

Average asking rents outside London have hit another new record of £1,126 per calendar month according to Rightmove. This figure, for the...

The small number of rental properties listed on websites and portals as Price on Application have now been deemed illegal by...

A leading lettings agency says increasing numbers of tenants are seeking pet-friendly homes to rent. Chestertons claims up to 35 per cent...

The growing importance of virtual tours for properties to let and for sale during the pandemic shows little sign of easing,...

The increasingly shrill anti-landlord rhetoric from some politicians is making it harder for tenants, claims a leading industry spokesman. John Blackwood, chief...

For the first time since January 2020, rents in Inner London rose on an annual basis - they were up 3.9...

New data from Rightmove reveals that the imbalance of supply and demand for rental properties in suburban and rural areas has...

Demand for private rental housing is now at a five year high according to the National Residential Landlords Association. In the association’s...

Connells-owned high end agency Hamptons has declared the bottom of the rental market for Inner London, saying it’s now on the...

Lettings agency Hamptons says there’s been “an unprecedented fall” in the number of rental homes on the market, leading to double-digit...

New modular homes built to rent have been delivered to Northstowe, a new town in Cambridgeshire.  Each Town House home has been...

A call has gone out for the longer-term buy to let rental sector to have a similar tax regime as the largely-unregulated...

Demand for homes to rent has surged back by some 30 per cent in the two weeks to April 14 according...

The director of the website Home says that investment in buy to let will look like a highly attractive safe haven...

The PropTech platform Movebubble has upgraded its features to increase rivalry between lettings agents and thus enhance the renting experience for...

A prominent industry trade group says the new government must honour its manifesto commitment to strengthen the right of “good landlords”...

A trade body is warning of a crisis in the private rental market as new figures show a sharp drop in...

As the battle of political policies continues ahead of next month’s General Election, now Labour has unveiled a raft of initiatives...

On the day that Labour launches its proposals to reform the private rental sector, the Tories have announced so-called Lifetime Rental...

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

Rent controls similar to those demanded by Labour in London and other major cities in the UK do not work, and...

The government has been criticised yet again for what is described as its “incoherent” approach to the private rental sector. David Miles,...

The two largest landlord trade groups are to merge. The National Landlords Association and the Residential Landlords Association will unite to form...

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

Data published by the Office for National Statistics shows private rental prices paid by tenants in the UK rising by 1.3...

The lettings establishment has sent its congratulations to Boris Johnson on his election as Tory leader and, from this afternoon, Prime...

A leading trade body is urging the candidates to lead the Conservative Party to adopt a more positive approach to the...

The Mayor of London is under pressure to pull advertisements calling on landlords to stop providing homes for Londoners and move...

There’s been another major industry survey revealing that a high number of lettings agents and landlords may quit the private rental...

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

A lettings sector trade body has put the blame firmly on government for the scale of poverty amongst those who privately...

The Haart agency is calling on the government to give the private rental sector a break in the autumn Budget, as...

The number of available properties to rent is falling at an alarming rate, particularly in Greater London, according to property platform...

A trade body says the country faces a net loss of 133,000 homes for private rent over the next year -...

Buy to let landlords are welcoming proposals being considered by the government to provide financial incentives for those offering longer tenancies. In...

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

A leading lettings sector trade body has repeated its call on government to offer a range of incentives to landlords and...

Tax increases on the rental sector are leaving young people unable to access the homes they need, an industry body claims. The...

Last year saw a significant drop in the number of homes bought by landlords according to data released this morning by...

MPs today discuss the impact of Universal Credit on the private rented sector, in a debate prompted by the Liberal Democrat’s...

Over two thirds of landlords are reluctant to invest in new properties as a result of the stamp duty surcharge on...

The increasing number of renters and low interest rates for existing home owners mean that the total rent bill is now...

The annual rate of rental growth across Britain doubled between June and July driven by a turnaround in the London market,...

A survey of almost 3,000 landlords suggests more than one in five plans to sell at least one of their investment...

Tax rises for landlords being introduced today will make renting less affordable and stifle investment in homes to rent, making it...

Research by a lettings sector trade body shows that net growth of units within the private rental sector - that is,...

The Residential Landlords Association has made a last-minute plea for buy to let investors to remain central to the government’s plans...

The average London rent in November was 0.7 per cent lower than last year - not an enormous fall but nonetheless...

A senior Conservative peer has renewed his attack on his own party over the buy to let tax grab on landlords,...

The government must urgently deliver 1.8m new rental homes as new figures from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors reveal a...

Grainger, the UK’s largest residential property owner and manager listed on the London Stock Exchange, has set out an argument to...

The chairman of the Residential Landlords’ Association has restated how he sees the private rental sector could help solve the country’s...

Jeremy Corbyn’s plans for rent controls and “secure tenancies” in the private rented sector would spell disaster for tenants, reducing the...

The Residential Landlords Association is asking the Welsh Assembly to scrap the three per cent stamp duty surcharge imposed on buy...

The government is being warned that without changes to the Finance Bill currently going through parliament it will effectively be forcing rent...

Action is needed to tackle the scandal of ‘buy to leave’ investors who are denying Londoners the homes they need, according...

Legal & General Capital - which has recently made clear its intention to become a major Build To Rent player in...

Treasury proposals to hand greater powers to the Bank of England to make access to buy to let lending harder risks...

The number of rental properties available for tenants decreased seven per cent between the end of April and end of May...

There has been widespread criticism of Labour's proposals for the private rental sector. The policies will “backfire” according to the National Landlords’ Association.  "We understand...