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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...

Property data consultancy LonRes has named five winners in its so-called ‘Let Of The Year’ awards. The London-focussed consultancy has revealed the...

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...

A boutique agency with branches in prime central and south west London has expanded its lettings operation by acquiring two agencies...

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

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...

A series of lenders have slashed their buy to let mortgage rates in a bid to win business. These include: - LendInvest Mortgages...

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

Knight Frank’s Marylebone residential office has welcomed Luke Hewens as Head of Lettings. Hewens began his property career as lettings negotiator in...

One of the players in the controversial Deposit Alternative field is stepping up its case for this kind of service to...

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

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

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...

The long-awaited supply increase in the prime London lettings market is underway, says high-end agency Knight Frank.  The agency says the underlying...

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...

The story of low supply in the prime London lettings market appears to be coming to an end, says Knight Frank. The...

Moneyfacts, the respected independent mortgage market monitor, is warning that lenders have been withdrawing buy to let fixed deals. Within the buy...

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

Agency launches dedicated lettings team for rejuvenated London area Savills has launched a dedicated residential lettings office in an area of prime...

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...

Foxtons has issued a welcome statement to its new chief executive as it seeks to return to past glories. Guy Gittins -...

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 new market snapshot puts the average rental rise across the UK at a remarkable 18 per cent over the past...

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

Central London rents are now 7.5 per cent higher than pre-pandemic levels. A detailed analysis of just 100 properties by property consultancy...

London-based block and facilities services provider SBA Property Management has acquired management agency Paul Samuel Associates. A specialist property management firm with...

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...

The demand for London rental properties has increased by almost 60 per cent in the third quarter compared to the same...

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

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

Rents in London have risen an average six per cent this year, a leading agency claims - and some areas are...

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

Knight Frank is this year’s headline sponsor of the LandAid Sleep Out, one of the causes many in the industry support. This...

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...

Average room rents in the capital have dipped seven per cent compared to this time last year according to a flat-sharing...

New research suggested that yields across the UK rental market are remaining broadly unchanged despite the Coronavirus crisis. The current average sits...

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

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

A trade body suggests that the votes of private landlords could decide the results in over 100 constituencies in next week’s...

The Property Ombudsman has announced a slew of expulsions after six agents failed to comply with redress rules. They failed to abide...

The number of film-related enquiries for short lets received by Knight Frank in the year to May has shown a rise...

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

The fierce competition in the lettings market in parts of London means that some tenants will feel no benefit from the...

A portal called Oneandonlypro says it’s using Artificial Intelligence to try to identify the top 10 best areas in London for...

Figures calculated by Rightmove suggest that even when the Fees Ban and Deposit Caps kick in on June 1, some deposits...

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

Demand for room rentals in London is so high their average charge has risen two per cent in 2019 already, claims...

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

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...

The UK's second city Birmingham takes top spot when it comes to student property returns for buy-to-let investors. Analysis by online letting...

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...

A PropTech firm has analysed London’s rental market and its results again spell bad news for those in the sector in...

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...

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

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

Humberts, the country agency which raised eyebrows earlier this year by announcing it was to open an office in prime central...

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

A London letting agency is opening a new branch thanks to continued high demand from EU nationals looking for rental property...

Knight Frank has recruited Neil Cunningham to become head of South West London and Home Counties lettings, overseeing the performance of...

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...

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...

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...