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One in 10 UK tenants are now spending at least 60% of their take home salary on their rent, according to...

OnTheMarket has launched a new report giving details of real-time lettings activity in local markets across the country.  OTM says that there;’s...

One of Northern Ireland’s fastest growing agencies has acquired one of the longest running property firms in South Down and established...

A lettings and sales agency chain with 14 branches across the north east of England has committed to raising £5,000 in...

My Property Box – a North East-headquartered lettings and sales agency – has struck a multi-million pound private equity deal for it...

HMO Sales Expert, a 2024 start-up, has launched a UK-wide partnership programme. It’s commenced with Plymouth, Doncaster, Leicester, and Peterborough, and later...

A third of homes currently for sale can be bought with a mortgage and monthly repayments that cost less than the...

North east England operator Pattinson Estate Agency is taking over another local rival firm. It’s acquired NS Bennett Estate Agents, in Stanley,...

Fine & Country says it’s staging so-called Masterclass sessions with experts creating strategies “to help agents dominate the prime property market...

Paragon Bank’s analysis of its lending data has revealed the top 10 locations for investment by portfolio buy-to-let landlords, those with...

Corporate student accommodation provider Unite Group has reported a big jump in earnings on the back of a shortage of lets...

Expanding agency group My Property Box has completed its 10th acquisition in six years, buying Teesside lettings and property investment specialist...

The scale of rent rises has peaked with future increases likely to be smaller, says Zoopla. The portal’s latest report into the...

Some 48 per cent of tenants are currently living with one or more housing disrepair issues, it’s being claimed. The problems include...

The classified ad website Gumtree is issuing an alert about what it claims is the growing threat of rental fraud. It says...

Rightmove is to provide agents with local market data and easier access to training at a series of Propertymark regional events. Rightmove...

One in eight tenants admit to letting out part or all of their rented property - and that rises to a...

Newcastle-based lettings agency Seekers has successfully qualified a further four members of staff and funded their membership of ARLA Propertymark. The four...

My Property Box Tyne & Wear has extended its all-inclusive rent deal - and it says it’s in response to concerns...

A comparison website has compiled a list of what it claims to be the most common lies on tenancy applications -...

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

Investors looking to add to their portfolios in 2023 should be urged to consider student housing opportunities, according to a Newcastle...

Newcastle-based lettings agency Seekers is backing a clean air zone in its city.  The agency’s two cars, both Volkswagen ID-3s, are part...

A north of England lettings agency has rebranded after two decades. Walton Robinson - which specialises in residential lettings for students, professionals...

Habitans Lettings - just two years old - has purchased the long-standing Heywoods agency in Newcastle Under Lyme. Established in 1881, Heywoods...

A buy to let investment site has used Artificial Intelligence to identify 10 top property investment opportunities in 2023.  Based on analysis...

New research predicts that northern regions of England will see many of the best investment opportunities in 2023. It is also these...

Newcastle-based agency Walton Robinson is offering a buy to let property sourcing service.  This year, the agency claims it’s secured rental increases...

New research claims students in the UK are currently paying as much as £16,500 per year in living costs - a...

Student landlords have seen record increases in rental prices of over 20 per cent in some cases, according to a lettings...

Rightmove’s Landlord and Tenant Services division is moving to a new headquarters. It’s 110 staff will shift from Killingworth to Quorum Park in...

An apprentice working at Newcastle’s Walton Robinson agency has revealed why she believes it’s her dream job. The agency specialises in residential...

A company providing virtual tours insists the technology delivers “undeniable results” but is still not used universally by agents. Virtual tours became...

Expanding North East agency Hive Estates has acquired a Newcastle lettings business as part of its plans for growth - and...

Rental market stock levels have plummeted further - even to below the pre-pandemic levels of late 2019. New research shows that in...

Rental guarantor service Housing Hand has announced a new partnership with student accommodation provider Kexgill. The firms claim the arrangement will challenge...

North east of England agency My Property Box has acquired Newcastle independent Groves as part of its strategic growth plan. All 12...

A Newcastle lettings agency says it’s cracked how to help reduce tenancy disputes at check out and speed up the return...

A north of England lettings agency is claiming an all-time record for enquiries relating to student accommodation - and the biggest...

Media reports in Stoke on Trent say a man was arrested after a police raid on the Homes2Let lettings agency in...

A lettings agency in Manchester has received over 10,000 rental enquiries in just one month. Manchester Apartments says it received some  21,000...

A lettings agency’s research has revealed that rental demand has continued to climb across most major UK cities during the third quarter...

The Furnished versus Unfurnished debate in the rental sector has been going on for years but new research attempts to quantify...

Rightmove is to rebrand its Van Mildert platform next month, when it will become Rightmove Landlord and Tenant Services. Van Mildert, a...

UK’s largest listed residential landlord, Grainger, has given details of its latest city scheme, in Newcastle. It has spent £57m on the...

The Build to Rent market remains small in volume but it is making some inroads, leading to BTR rent rises predominantly...

An agency in the north of England has outlined how it proposes to take investors to what it calls “multiple viewings”...

Letting agents should help landlords through a blizzard of red tape and regulation cause by local licensing schemes, a PropTech entrepreneur...

The average cost of renting in England is almost unchanged from five years ago - although that masks significant localised variations.  The...

It appears the much-hyped exodus of people from London to the country doesn’t apply to the rental market. Despite rents falling in...

Two former Keller Williams agents have their own BBC Three TV show now available on the iPlayer. It’s called Rent Like a...

The acquisition of a Newcastle independents has allowed Northwood to become one of the city’s largest lettings agencies. Inderpal Dhillon and Aman Singh of...

Media reports from Gateshead claim two brothers opened fire on a lettings agency with an air pistol when they were told they...

Deposits have risen as much as 24 per cent in the past year in some parts of the UK - according...

New research has produced a series of league tables to identify where in Britain the best rental yields can be found. The...

One bedroom properties provide the best returns to buy to let investors according to new research by a lettings management platform. Single...

A buy to let investor who kept a group of men as slaves – making them work 90-hour weeks in return...

One of the country’s largest Build To Rent players, Legal & General, says it’s to construct another 350 homes as part...

A local authority has postponed the extension of its private rental sector licensing regime - but it’s warning agents not to...

A leading property industry figure says Airbnb is attempting to persuade traditional buy to let landlords into going down the short-let...

The property management platform Apropos, scheduled to launch early next year, says it’s signed up 25 business partners ahead of schedule. The...

A group of landlords in the North East are the latest to criticise Labour's plans to introduce a Right to Buy...

Data from a student accommodation specialist firm shows average rents across many cities are stuck at around a 20-year average of...

An online room-letting platform claims rents have risen up to eight per cent in wake of the Tenant Fee Act. ideal flatmate...

University towns in the north of England and the Midlands score highest when it comes to yields and capital appreciation. The assessment...

A group of activists has expressed outrage over a council’s private rental licensing scheme, claiming it is too small to catch...

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

An agency in the north east of England is moving its HQ off the High Street and into an office block...

A survey of 500 buy to let landlords suggests that well over a third are planning to increase the size of...

A mortgage firm claims the lettings industry is ripping off students by overcharging them. Mojo Mortgages says it has compared the rent...

A new study suggests that rental properties now account for 40 per cent of the available housing stock.  Looking at the final...

Research released this morning reveals that university cities offer some of the highest buy to let yields in the country. The Free...

Manchester’s rental market is rising higher than in any other UK city according to property consultancy Cushman & Wakefield.  Rents were up...

A two bedroom furnished flat can cost up to 21 per cent more to rent than a comparable property that’s unfurnished. Research...

A family-run hybrid based in the North East has secured the £300,000 contract to manage a new student accommodation development in...

A newspaper in Northumbria says local police are treating a fire at a lettings agency as a deliberate arson attack. Police are...

Sourced, which describes itself as the largest property investment platform in the UK, has secured its 25th franchise some 10 months...

An analysis of over 580,000 properties has produced a league table of Britain’s best and worst buy to let postcodes in...

A rental investment platform is claiming to have succeeded with the world’s largest property crowdfunding exercise, raising £2,992,800. Property Partner says it...

A growing agency has appointed a new lettings team and is aiming to compete with its successful residential sales division. Heywoods, the...

A prominent campaigning letting agent has discovered that more than 6,000 tenants in one region alone have complained to local authorities...

Airbnb’s new protocol seeking to stop London hosts short-letting their properties for more than 90 days a year without formal consent,...

A campaign group has been refocussed with the objective of making the government honour its Autumn Statement pledge to ban letting...

A plentiful supply of freehold properties in our cities may become a thing of the past as urban areas become increasingly...

Economic uncertainty in China could spill over to cause problems for the student letting sector in the UK, an agent is...

New research from HomeLet reveals that Brighton, Bristol, Edinburgh and Newcastle recorded the largest increase in rents last year amongst the...

Countrywide has announced plans to recruit over 200 apprentices in the next year, working on a training programme drawn up with...

A row has broken out between one of the north east’s most prominent letting agents and Zoopla over the worst place...

A London agency has announced the launch of an educational property investment seminar business.  RE/MAX London launched RE/MAX Why What Where last...

A letting agent is angry that there has not been a single prosecution in his region as a result of agencies...

A north east agent claims that news coverage of tenants on housing benefits is too quick to point the finger at...