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Figures from the National House Building Council show that housebuilding is currently running at only half the rate the new Labour...

UK hosts on Airbnb collectively earned over £1.5 billion in 2021 the short let platform claims. Some £668m of that was over...

A lettings agency has identified where tenant demand is strongest right now - and where demand is lower than some agents...

Another council is to conduct a consultation process to expand selective and additional licensing schemes for the next five years. Under existing...

Ascend Properties in Manchester has acquired another small independent agency. It’s snapped up Elavace Estates, a lettings management portfolio on Merseyside.  This follows acquisitions...

London rents climbed for the first time for over a year during Q1 2021 —although the rise was a mere £8...

It’s taken what Propertymark calls “a rigorous selection process” to find the latest four regional representatives for the Association of Residential...

The government is asking bailiffs not to enforce court possession orders in areas with the highest Coronavirus restrictions.  So although evictions can...

A lettings agency has relaunched its property management service after it was acquired by Purplebricks in 2017. The agreement back then meant...

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

A lettings agency says proposals for landlords to pay more council tax on homes they leave empty could indirectly help the...

A Manchester lettings agency has teamed up with a bank to fund entry into the Build To Rent management sector.  Two new...

One of the biggest and earliest companies investing in Britain’s fast-growing Build To Rent sector has expanded its partnership with one...

A group of criminals threw a large concrete block through a window to gain access to an estate and letting agency. The...

Letting agents were amongst those duped by a Merseyside builder who rented 33 homes and then sub-let them to allow the...

A survey has been undertaken of the top 25 UK postcodes in terms of yields for investors - and London and...

A Facebook group has been set up to name and shame so-called ‘tenants from hell’.   At the moment the page applies to...

A letting agency which has pleaded guilty of poorly managing a house in multiple occupation has ended up with a bill...

The National Approved Letting Scheme is the latest organisation to back a system allowing tenants to strengthen their credit history, simply...

Sigma, a Build To Rent developer, has completed and let its 1,000th rental home - a symbol of this fast-growing part...

A lettings agency on Merseyside is one of the first in the UK to take part of an experiment which could...