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Propertymark is lobbying Housing Secretary and Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner to suggest that letting agents have a vital role to...

Housing Minister Matthew Pennycook has written to one of the key areas he believes vital for achieving Labour’s house-building targets, calling...

Some of the richest people on the world, who use London as one of their bases, are choosing to rent rather...

Knight Frank has set out its forecast for the rental sector for the rest of 2024 - notwithstanding political uncertainty. In the...

London-focussed property data firm LonRes, which analysis activity in the prime areas of the capital, says annual rental growth increased to...

Daniel Daggers, the self-styled #MrSuperPrime estate agent star of Netflix show Buying London, is to address a Propertymark event. Daggers, founder of...

Just as the prospect of tax rises in the Budget is causing uncertainty in the prime London sales market, so Labour’s...

A charity leader claims spiralling rents are forcing children into what he calls “damp and mouldy B&Bs”. Matt Downie, chief executive of...

Two new signings for the fast-growing Harding Green broker-model agency are both former lettings managers at Knight Frank. Milly Englander was formerly...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has given a warm welcome to Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner’s planning reforms. This week Rayner...

Deputy Prime Minister and Housing Secretary Angela Rayner has launched a comprehensive review of the National Planning Policy Framework. The objective is...

Deputy prime Angela Rayner will tomorrow unveil a new National Planning Policy Framework in a move that will strengthen requirements for...

The veteran founder of Hunters, Kevin Hollinrake, is reported to be in the race to be Conservative Party leader.  He is MP...

London high end agency Eccord has bolstered its property management team with two experienced new hires. Steve Wilson joins as Senior Property...

A new Renters' Rights Bill is to be introduced into Parliament, it's been confirmed today. The announcement was made in the King's...

Property consultancy JLL says there’s been a noticeable rise in prime Central London lettings activity.  Average rents rose 0.9% from Q1 to...

A 101-home Built To Rent estate is being created by Barratt Homes in Cambridge, as part of a deal with BTR...

Propertymark says it’s contacting all the appropriate new ministers over the summer to trigger an engagement process so agents’ voices can...

Propertymark has warned Labour’s Deputy Prime Minister against scrapping Section 21 eviction powers without an adequate replacement. If Angela Rayner does fulfil...

The term “Levelling Up” - introduced by ex-Prime Minister Boris Johnson - has been ditched by the new deputy Prime Minister,...

High end lettings agency Hamptons has launched a new international department to woo overseas investors and tenants seeking rental properties in...

Knight Frank has named Francesca Fox as Head of Super Prime Lettings in North London.  The agency says this newly created role...

Angela Rayner has been appointed Levelling Up Secretary with responsibility for housing - a role she has in addition to being...

The biggest rental sector headline from Labour’s manifesto may well be its pledge for the “immediate” abolition of Section 21 eviction...

Knight Frank says tenancies agreed in June for properties asking over £1,000 per week were at a level below the asking...

A lettings agency which has given broad support to the Renters Reform Bill now says it’s concerned that shadow housing Secretary...

Details have emerged of the first major events of the new government, whatever the result of the General Election on Thursday. Probably...

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

Development company Select Property has launched Select Residential, one of the first in-house lettings businesses of its kind by a build-to-sell...

The next Government should create a separate Ministry of Housing and encourage MPs of all parties to work together to solve...

Labour has stepped up its programme clamping down on what it calls “unscrupulous landlords strangling growth.” Specifically this means ending bidding wars,...

John D Wood & Co., one of the UK’s oldest lettings and estate agents dating back over 150 years, has expanded...

Knight Frank is suggesting that a growing degree of uncertainty is hitting the rental market, particularly the high-end sector in the...

Agents, and others in the lettings industry, have given a sceptical response to the Conservative manifesto and its varied pledges about...

Labour is launching a new Freedom to Buy scheme to get 80,000 young people on the housing ladder, over the next...

Propertymark has stepped into the row over whether there should be more controls over second homes, holiday lets and people from...

Knight Frank says the normalisation of supply and demand in Prime London has happened more quickly than anticipated, forcing it to...

Rental growth in prime London postcodes has narrowed to levels last seen in the summer of 2021, says Knight Frank.  Average rents...

Investment in UK purpose-built student accommodation in the first quarter of 2024 has been described as “robust.” A total of 21 transactions...

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

The Prime Central London lettings market is returning to normality, a prominent agency says. JLL says average rents fell 1.4% between Q4...

A seasoned lettings expert has been taken on to boost the success of an agency branch in Surrey. James Clarke, with 25...

The UK's rental market is experiencing a slowdown says a lettings chief. Nicky Stevenson, Managing Director of Fine & Country notes that...

It feels as though the UK housing market is waiting for something to happen. The prevailing mood is one of anticipation with...

Curchods is making a bid to expand its activities in the high end Surrey market with a rebrand of its latest...

Supply has continued to build while demand remained steady, which increased downwards pressure on rents in the first quarter of 2024...

Prime London rental values ticked up 0.3% over the first three months of 2024, according to Savills, as the market continues...

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

A prominent lettings agent is calling for an end to what he calls the “archaic” system under which some tenants end...

February saw significant improvements in activity across the prime London lettings market, and annual rental growth also increased slightly after four...

A former housing minister responsible for the sell off of huge numbers of social homes has told the Prime Minister he...

The Chancellor has used his Budget to confirm a 2p cut in National Insurance, from April 6. This will take it...

A prominent property expert who runs a buying and property management service for high end clients says London still attracts international...

Data released today from Foxtons has found that the number of new instructions in January 2024 was 25 per cent higher...

Rental growth across prime London slowed again in January, with average rents falling on a monthly basis for the third time...

A pressure group unhappy about lack of progress on the Renters Reform Bill wants MPs to be bombarded with complaint emails.  Over...

The government has done a U-turn on its original policy to relax HMO regulations on private rental properties used by asylum...

Prime London rental values fell closer to their longer-term average in January, as supply continued to increase - but worries about...

A prominent lettings agency is advising landlords to fit out homes in prime locations to the same high specification as if...

Savills says prime rental growth across London and the country has stalled for the first time in almost three years. In prime...

Rents across the UK continue to retreat from their 2023 highs, falling by 2.9 per cent over the last three months,...

Knight Frank has revised its housing market forecasts for 2024, just two weeks into the new year. It’s done this on the...

High end lettings agency Savills has appointed a new head of residential lettings for its offices in Beaconsfield and Amersham. Daniel Spratley...

The UK rental market is experiencing a gradual easing in demand, marking a shift from the peak levels witnessed in recent...

Self employed agency brand Harding Green, which majors on London and prime country markets, says it’s grown significantly in the lettings...

An agency which currently has £350m of property under management and boasts a 98 per cent client retention rate, has opened...

Lomond has more than doubled its footprint spanning the South Coast after a major deal involving a 10 branch agency, Beal's. Beal’s employs...

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

Lomond has announced one more acquisition in the North West of England - the 17th it has completed in the region...

Strutt & Parker’s London New Homes staff attribute 50 per cent of their market this year as dollar-based - 30 per...

LonRes says rents in prime London are still rising but the rate of rental growth has slowed to two-year low. That took...

Former housing minister Rachel Maclean - the victim of a shock sacking by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak last month - has...

There were 3.7 new prospective tenants for every rental property listed in prime London postcodes last month says Knight Frank. The figure,...

Next year will see “a strong resurgence” in the rental market, a leading agent predicts. Nicky Stevenson, Managing Director of Fine &...

A prominent London buying agent and property consultant says the slowly improving supply of rental property means more tenants are now...

More multi-millionaires and billionaires are choosing to rent super-prime homes in London, rather than purchase, reveals a new wealth report Beauchamp Estates’...

Savills is warning that despite strong income growth, rising rents are stretching the finances of those in the private rental sector.  Savills...

Lomond has consolidated its growing foothold in the lettings sector after sealing its biggest acquisition to date in the Midlands. In what...

Affordability limits have been reached in several regions of the UK, the Home property website suggests. While some regions are still recording...

Knight Frank has bolstered its prime offering across north London with a new head of lettings in its Hampstead office. Jared Kilgarriff...

Annual rental growth across prime London slowed slightly to 8.1 per cent in October according to property data firm LonRes.  However, rents...

Inflation figures for the year to October are out this week and are expected to have fallen to 4.8 per cent. That’s...

Strutt & Parker has announced a new National head of lettings. Anna Ambrose brings with her 18-years’ experience within the sector, including...

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

Normality appeared on the horizon in the prime London rental market in October according to high end agency Knight Frank.  Average rents...

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says the Renters Reform Bill will be mentioned in today’s King’s Speech - and is part of...

Leaders Romans Group claims the pessimistic mood which many say surrounds the private rental sector is exaggerated. It has surveyed its landlord...

The Renters Reform Bill is to get its long awaited Second Reading on Monday, October 23. The claim comes from today’s Financial...

Prime London rents are still rising - but that growth is slowing, says Knight Frank. And the number of new prospective tenants...

Labour deputy leader and shadow housing secretary Angela Rayner has given her party’s conference an outline of future policy plans. She says:...

Rental growth in prime regional markets has started to slow, following runaway growth over the past three years. That’s the view from...

Prime London markets are proving more resilient to rising interest rates than their mainstream equivalents, says Savills. Prices in prime central London...

A leading lettings agency and property consultancy has revealed that it anticipate stronger-than-expected rental growth this year and next in prime...

An industry body - the Property Energy Professionals Association - has condemned the Prime Minister’s abandonment of Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards...

The lettings chief in a prominent regional agency says she’s delighted that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has done a dramatic U-turn...

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

Propertymark has given strong support to the government’s “flexible and affordable” approach to the green policy agenda,  Timothy Douglas, Head of Policy...

Rental value growth in prime London postcodes declined further in August as supply built and demand cooled.  That’s the view of high...

Rightmove is launching a new marketing campaign which it calculates will reach 51m people - the overwhelming majority of the UK...

There are no signs of rental growth slowing in prime London lettings market, says LonRes. The property data firm says annual rental...