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It’s been revealed by Propertymark that HM Revenue & Customs has fined agents over £1.6m for branches of anti-money laundering regulations. The...

Kate Davies, executive director of the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA), says rent controls are not the magic answer to problems...

The latest Rental Index from Goodlord reveals that rents are now up by 5.7% over the year.  The price per property over...

The percentage of tenants borrowing money to fund their cash deposits on their next property has risen over the last 12...

Average UK private rents increased by 9.0% in the 12 months to February 2024 according to the Office for National Statistics. This...

Latest data from The Deposit Protection Service suggests rents have risen faster than inflation over the past year. The organisation’s Rent Index...

Average room rents rose by 10 per cent or more in every UK region, every London region and almost every major...

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

A high profile PropTech entrepreneur is amongst a series of investors linked to a new fund, launched today, cashing in on...

The appeal of city living has been reignited across Scotland with new figures showing a surge in demand and rents for...

The leader of one of Britain’s highest profile lettings agency operations has let rip at the government for what he calls...

Grainger, the UK’s largest listed residential landlord, says its new Build To Rent scheme in Leeds has set a record for...

Rents in some of the most popular locations of the country have risen 25 per cent in the past year according...

A new £40m Build To Rent scheme has opened in Leeds city centre. The Headline, from Grainger, features 242 new homes and...

Despite rent controls being a vote-catching policy for some local election candidates next week, the reality is that asking rents in...

Zoopla has revealed its top 10 hotspots for buy to let investors seeking high rental yields.  The analysis is based on rental returns...

A survey of 34 world cities suggests that London ranks sixth when it comes to the cost of renting. The study, by...

New tenancies recorded by The Deposit Protection Service suggests the market is back almost to its pre-pandemic levels of activity. Data in...

Tenants paid a UK average monthly rent of £775 during the first quarter of this year according to the Deposit Protection...

The typical landlord’s income from property has plummeted by a fifth in under a decade according to the National Landlords’ Association. Its...

Haart is trying to shift the mood music around the private rental sector from challenging to celebratory, saying there is plenty...

Some 45 per cent of those who don’t yet own a home think they never will, according to a new report.  While...

The quality of accommodation in the private rental sector has drastically improved in the past decade according to a survey by...

There is increasing evidence of the so-called unintended consequences of the tenant fee ban according to a major regional lettings agency. Linley &...

Void periods have fallen to record lows across the UK in August, with average voids standing at just 11 days.  The data,...

Average rents dropped in five of the eight UK regions monitored by property technology company Goodlord. The biggest drop was recorded in...

The average UK rent rose from £757 to £771 during the second quarter of 2019 - that’s 1.7 per cent, according...

New data from Proptech firm Goodlord suggests that the average void period for England and Wales is just 21 days. The longest...

New data looking specifically at room rental rates suggest that across the UK rents rose by an average three per cent...

The latest lettings sector index suggests that monthly rents increased from February to March in six of the eight regions of...

The Property Ombudsman says agents can display weekly rents for homes they market - but they should be displayed alongside monthly...

Average rents in London are £1,615, up 3.3 per cent on last year, according to HomeLet’s latest index. This is the first...

Liverpool and Nottingham are the UK’s best performing property investment locations, according to mortgage broker Private Finance.  Both cities enjoy average rental...

A lettings agency has been fined over £11,000 for alleged breaches of regulations in advertising an unlicenced HMO that was later...

Average rents are now rising at the fastest rate since last Autumn, bringing the average monthly rent in England and Wales...

Average monthly rents for London two-bed homes will top £2,000 by the late summer according to letting agency Portico.  The average rent...

Rents in Greater London for new tenancies are rising at the slowest rate for almost two years.  Data from HomeLet shows rents...

A survey conducted for buy to let lender Landbay claims that a strong lettings market even in winter demonstrates “the shortage...

Average monthly rents in England and Wales hit a record high of £804 last month, according to Your Move and Reeds...