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Paragon Bank has reduced rates on its core range of buy-to-let mortgages, taking 15bps off 10 products, in addition to launching...

Newspaper report claims some 710 properties have been put into the private rental market by the government - and they are...

Westminster’s Labour controlled council is stepping up its war on Airbnbs and other short lets. It was a mandatory registration system for...

A group of activists is trying to raise £15,000 to campaign for local councils to clampdown on AirBnb and other short...

A proposal to introduce a national register of Airbnb hosts in a bid to curb rowdy behaviour by guests has been...

The head of a Martin & Co office in Wolverhampton has been jailed over fraudulent activity. A court heard that Bhavander Singh...

South Hams council in south Devon - one of the UK’s top holiday spots - has unanimously agreed proposals for second...

The Leaders Romans Group has identified four locations which it says have come into their own since the working-from-home craze started...

A council says it’s looking for lettings agencies that worked with a rogue landlord who's been issued with a four year banning order. Bristol...

Two London landlords and their lettings agents will have to pay tens of thousands of pounds after a home they were letting...

The Lettings Hub is to roll out its Property Passport free tenant referencing product for letting agents. A beta test exercise already...

A Wales holiday lettings agency has worked with owner-clients to offer free holidays to frontline healthcare workers when the crisis has...

A London company that has previously had an ad banned by the Advertising Standards Authority has announced a change of name. The...

Agency Express, the board company that monitors the lettings market through demand for its To Let and Let By boards, warns...

The proportion of homes in Great Britain let by overseas based landlords is 11 per cent, up from seven per cent...

New analysis by Direct Line for Business reveals a surge in the number of police investigations into the theft of electricity,...

The Association of Residential Lettings Agents has taken legal advice on what can be charged to tenants for so-called ‘contractual damages’. ARLA...

Some 12 per cent of homes to let are operated by a ‘company landlord’ according to an analysis by Countrywide high-end...

A rise in the number of professional landlords means letting agents need to ensure their service meets the expectations of experienced...

There’s been a dramatic 37 per cent rise in rental instructions for prime properties in the capital during the first quarter...

The Daily Mail has unveiled an extensive network of homes advertised on Airbnb but actually being sub-let by tenants who are...

The proportion of homes let by an overseas based landlord has more than halved in the last eight years according to...

Rents in major regional cities are growing significantly faster than both London and the UK average, according to data from buy...

An overcrowded property let by an unlicensed company with inadequate fire precautions and unheated rooms has led to a £46,620 fine...

The proportion of landlords of British buy to let properties who are themselves based overseas has fallen to a record low...

Some 18 per cent of properties let in the first half of 2018 were registered in the name of a company...

The lettings market is looking distinctly healthier now than a month ago according to data just released by board company Agency...

There was a decline in both the number of To Let and Let By properties during April, according to the latest...

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

The UK lettings market has enjoyed a 'robust' start to 2018, according to the latest Agency Express Property Activity Index. The number...

Countrywide says one in every 12 homes that came on to the rental market in 2017 was for sale at some...

Countrywide says the rapid growth in the size of the private rental sector in recent years is not down to a...

Data from Agency Express suggests that the lettings market is wobbling with a sharp decline in its usual measure - the...

A remarkable one in five properties now being let are operated by a company landlord - and the figure surges to...

A new report suggests that institutional investment in the burgeoning Build To Rent sector could see the creation of 240,000 new...

Wembley Park in north London is to host Britain’s largest Build To Rent scheme yet after Quintain revealed a programme for...

The UK rental market remains resilient, despite an expected summer slowdown in activity.  This is the message from the latest Agency Express...

Latest data from board company Agency Express suggests that last month’s lull in the lettings market was short lived - although...

The number of properties across the UK categorised as To Let by board services company Agency Express has fallen 8.1 per...

The highly-publicised attempt by the founder of flat-sharing website SpareRoom to let two rooms from the London home “for what you can...

Letting agents in Cambridge have struck a deal with Stagecoach East to give five free days of travel to new tenants...

As the Conservative Party conference continues, a leading Tory has warned that "there is much further to go" on removing buy...

One of Britain’s senior letting agents says the people likely to be hit hardest by changes of the buy to let...

A trial voluntary ban on letting agents boards in part of a town has been declared such a success it could...

The general election result was greeted with a sigh of relief throughout the lettings industry. Thanks to the Conservatives' victory, the threat...