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The number of buy to let property purchases in the UK fell 14% from 224,700 in 2022/23 to 193,700 in the...

Four fifths of developers believe that the next government needs to do more to support first time buyers, according to the...

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

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

There’s growing anger over restrictions on private homeowners using their properties via Airbnb and other short let platforms. Earlier this week Housing...

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

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

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

The ValPal Network - a lead generation product from Angels Media, publisher of Letting Agent Today and other Today titles -...

A council’s lettings service - first set up a decade ago - says it is stepping up its campaign to recruit...

Reapit has inked a deal with fast-expanding PropTech service Kamma to automate information about private rental sector council licensing. This year is...

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

Increasing numbers of landlords are considering instructing lettings agents for the first time because of increased red tape and the complexity...

Landlords in England and Wales have seen their rental portfolio income increase by 8.7 per cent in the past year.  That’s according...

Up to 160 regulations and responsibilities are overwhelming landlords and pushing them towards using agents, a prominent buying agent and property...

A leading agency says the squeeze on tenants facing high rent rises is not going to end anytime soon. The comment -...

A Liberal Democrat council leader says all properties - even those in properly established lettings businesses - should be charged council...

The Renters Reform Bill can be the perfect opportunity for the industry to become more professional - just so long as...

The Guild of Property Professionals says PropTech may be the answer to the ongoing problem with client accounts. Since 2019 many banks...

A lettings agency chief says tighter EPC targets will be “devastating” for the private rental sector. Ben Quaintrell - managing director of...

A prominent lettings agent in the north of England has written to Housing Secretary Michael Gove urging him to cease attacking...

Airbnb has come out in favour of a short lets registration scheme across the UK - similar to the one promised...

Landlord numbers may have dropped in recent months but a longer term analysis shows the reverse. Total Landlord Insurance analysed the current...

Beleaguered landlords increasingly require professional assistance not only to manage their properties but to cope with the growing bureaucracy associated with...

TV property expert Phil Spencer says the slowing sales market should spur sales-only agencies into the lettings field. He suggests that ongoing...

A leading light in the Generation Rent group is disputing the findings of a Propertymark survey of letting agents.  Agents from businesses...

Shocking figures have emerged regarding the long-running problems caused by banks demanding that agencies have a designated client account for each...

A PropTech supplier says it’s created a solution to letting agents and landlords who must remain compliant and who want to...

ARLA Propertymark is backing a call for the government to set a clear vision for how it sees the private rental...

A leading trade body says the rental sector must not discriminate against tenants on benefits - and has told government it...

The initiative which the government hoped would transform energy efficiency in the private rental sector is being axed this week. The Green...

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

Propertymark is making it clear that rent controls are not the way to operate an efficient lettings market. In a formal response...

ARLA Propertymark says there has been a breakthrough on the banking clampdown on pooled client accounts - a pain in the...

A group of local landlords and others in the private rental sector are challenging a local authority’s licensing proposals with their...

A seminar roadshow has been announced for letting agents considering quitting the sector.  LegalforLandlords says it’s organised the six events after discovering...

There’s been a steep rise in the costs of landlord joining a compulsory licensing scheme operated by Labour-controlled Nottingham city council. The...

One of the industry’s leading trade bodies has revealed that the number of laws creating an obligation on landlords in the...

Research by safeagent - the new name for the National Approved Letting Scheme - has found over 130,000 unlicensed properties in...

An umbrella organisation representing councils is calling for greater freedom to introduce more and larger rental sector licensing schemes, without the...

It can be done - a council has U-turned on plans for a licensing scheme for landlords. The move by Hounslow council...

Police in South Shields have called for the sharing of information about tenants in HMOs - and a council is considering...

Over-regulation of short-term let accommodation in some areas of rural Scotland could pose a risk to rural tourism, a business organisation...

A property investment platform claims that investor sentiment in buy to let is actually improving despite ongoing political and economic uncertainty...

A formal consultation process has started to consider government plans to extend Anti-Money Laundering from property sales to lettings as well. Unveiled...

Just when you thought there could not be any more rival licensing or accreditation systems in the private rental sector, a...

Shadow housing minister John Healey has given his backing to a Labour MP’s attempt to introduce a mandatory national register for...

Connells Group says a growing number of small-scale landlords are likely to quit because of the tax and regulation red tape...

There are now well over 125 pieces of legislation and regulations - most introduced in modern times - governing the private...

The chief executive of franchise giant Belvoir says government interference in the lettings sector will be to blame for higher rent...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has provided a check-list for so-called accidental landlords. The association says that with 145 pieces of...

Landlords exiting the market because of tax and red tape have led to “an acute shortage of available properties to rent”...

One in five UK landlords have entered buy to let without even planning to, finding themselves with a property ‘accidentally’ or...

A survey has revealed that with over 145 individual laws and more than 400 regulations to follow, it’s dangerous for landlords...

Yorkshire estate agency Linley & Simpson has completed a hat-trick of acquisitions taking its letting portfolio past the milestone of 5,500...

One of the senior figures in the UK’s burgeoning Build To Rent sector has called on the Chancellor to help this...

PropTech company PayProp says the government’s outline proposal for greater regulation of the private rental sector should be treated as good...

A new report identifies in detail over 145 laws and regulations governing the private rental sector, varying across the four countries...

A proposed amendment to the government's Housing and Planning Bill which suggests landlords are required to make homes 'fit for human...

The government has set out 29 key points in its Housing White Paper.   Introducing in the Commons this afternoon, Communities Secretery Sajid...

An industry body is warning new London Labour mayor Sadiq Khan not to think he is helping renters by tying up...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has given its support for what appears to be a government U-turn on Client Money...

A senior relocation and human resources expert says Right To Rent will not change the behaviour of any letting agent or...

The row over Tory MPs who voted against a bid to ensure all homes let to private tenants were “fit for...

The chairman of Berkeley Homes is warning that George Osborne’s latest three per cent stamp duty hike for buy to let...

The government has confirmed that it has no plan to ban letting agency fees in England. Fees are already banned in Scotland...

Research by a prominent letting agency chain suggests that despite the onslaught of red tape thrown at landlords, almost half are...

The changes to tax relief for landlords comes on top of a blizzard of new health and safety requirements, regulations and...

"Stop right there. Hands above your head. Don't move. Mavis, dial 999." Mr D Smith (MARLA, NFoPP) removes his Glock 19...

A Conservative government means good news in the shape of a reduction in bureaurcracy for the private rental sector - but...

Letting agents have received another warning from legal experts to familiarise themselves with new legislation introduced just before MPs broke up...