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Propertymark has responded to the formal consultation schemes being imposed by a string of local councils - but says such measures...
02 September 2024
From: Breaking News
A new partnership being launched today aims to see if the private rented sector can contribute to ending homelessness. It takes the...
02 September 2024
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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...
30 August 2024
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Property industry supplier Iamproperty says some 670,000 students will likely be seeking private rental properties in the upcoming academic year -...
30 August 2024
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Edinburgh-based property portal ESPC has revealed the top-performing Edinburgh postcodes in terms of rental yields, for the second quarter of 2024. The...
29 August 2024
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A survey of over 730 property professionals has found that 76% believe the introduction of technology has changed the UK property...
28 August 2024
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Leading property website Zoopla has delivered strong results for letting agents in the run-up to the busiest time of year for...
27 August 2024
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A council has taken over powers for enforcement in the private rental sector - and it’s started off with a warning...
27 August 2024
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Knight Frank has set out its forecast for the rental sector for the rest of 2024 - notwithstanding political uncertainty. In the...
27 August 2024
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The abolition of Section 21 isn’t really that big a deal, a prominent lettings agent claims. Kristjan Byfield, who runs the base...
23 August 2024
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Propertymark is inviting letting agents to find out more about the latest legislative changes at one of its upcoming regional conferences. As...
23 August 2024
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One of the UK’s most high profile lettings agents is calling on politicians to change course on rent controls. David Alexander of...
22 August 2024
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A family agency, At Home in Edinburgh, has been shortlisted for a major residential sector award. The agency, which has a team...
21 August 2024
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A PropTech platform claims a new ‘Yield Control’ feature makes the end-of-tenancy process more efficient. Residently claims to connect and make smoother...
21 August 2024
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Consumer organisation Which? claims there are some 1,000 reports of rental fraud scams a month at this time of year. It says...
20 August 2024
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A regional agent says the fear of further taxes on the private rental sector may lead to a spurt of landlords...
20 August 2024
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Propertymark has come out with a strongly-worded statement accusing politicians in the Scottish Parliament of ignoring the industry’s views on rent...
20 August 2024
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London-focussed property data firm LonRes, which analysis activity in the prime areas of the capital, says annual rental growth increased to...
19 August 2024
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New figures show the scale of the rental supply slump in recent years. The respected Home website, which produces a monthly lettings...
19 August 2024
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New figures showing no slowdown in the rate of private rental inflation is just additional “misery” for tenants, a leading financial...
16 August 2024
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Automated rental payment platform PayProp has been named the Overall PropTech Company of the Year at the 2024 PropTech Breakthrough Awards. This...
16 August 2024
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A warning has been issued that lettings agencies could lose millions of pounds if landlords quit over new EPC targets. Reapit analysed...
15 August 2024
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OnTheMarket has launched a new report giving details of real-time lettings activity in local markets across the country. OTM says that there;’s...
15 August 2024
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A tax expert is advising anyone involved in the furnished holiday lettings sector to ‘act now’ ahead of upcoming tax changes. Ben...
14 August 2024
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Lettings agency chain Lomond has revealed a list of what it calls “up and coming rental hotspots” with yields having strengthened...
14 August 2024
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Hamptons lettings agency says it’s calculated what types of homes will be simply unable to be improved to reach the government...
13 August 2024
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Just as the prospect of tax rises in the Budget is causing uncertainty in the prime London sales market, so Labour’s...
13 August 2024
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Holiday Cottage Handbook has launched a new podcast series - Bitesize - looking at the short-term rentals industry, and wants experts...
13 August 2024
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The new Labour government has a “golden opportunity its” to resolve the rental crisis, but must give clarity to the industry...
12 August 2024
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The Law Society claims over 29,000 eviction claims in recent months leave “tens of thousands at risk of losing their homes.” The...
09 August 2024
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Landlords generated average rental yields of 6.3% in the second quarter of the year, research for Paragon’s latest PRS Trends Report...
09 August 2024
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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...
08 August 2024
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The latest rental market survey by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors suggests there’s still a significant mismatch between supply and...
08 August 2024
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The chief executive of Purplebricks says he’s backing Labour’s house building plans because of the state of the private rental sector. Sam...
08 August 2024
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Flats in a multi-millionaire developer’s prestigious shoreline scheme in Folkestone can, after all, be short-let following a U-turn by the property...
07 August 2024
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The regulatory body for the private rental sector in Wales is offering letting agents a course in how to be “anti-racist...
07 August 2024
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Propertymark says stricter rules for EPC ratings in the private rental sector must be backed up with incentives and financial support. The...
06 August 2024
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Leaders Romans Group has snapped up Norfolk rental operation Dragonfly Lettings, as part of what LRG describes as “a significant step”...
06 August 2024
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Rent Reporting platform CreditLadder has integrated into SME Professional, a software service sold to the letting and sales industries. It says...
06 August 2024
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A report from Propertymark has laid out the stark and in some cases unforeseen consequence of the Conservative government’s phased removal...
05 August 2024
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In a statement which appears to go against the trend of much of the lettings sector, Connells says it sees no...
05 August 2024
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Inventory supplier No Letting Go is offering clients open access to its bespoke property reporting software, known as Kaptur. The allows agents...
05 August 2024
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The latest rental index from PropTech firm Goodlord shows record-breaking rises. William Reeve, chief executive of Goodlord, comments: “These July figures show...
02 August 2024
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A new analysis by Zoopla suggests and one in eight homes currently for sale were previously let out. The portal says this...
02 August 2024
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The John Lewis Partnership has received the green light to transform its Waitrose site in Bromley into a new Build To...
29 July 2024
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A trading statement by Rightmove reveals that it’s spent £3m on just an 8% share of a PropTech system that describes...
29 July 2024
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The Building Engineering Services Association has welcomed the new government’s commitment to reinforce the rules that require landlords and their agents...
26 July 2024
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The latest edition of the English Housing Survey reveals precisely how relatively rarely Section 21 is used. Data from the survey analysed...
25 July 2024
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The boss of a rental flatshare agency claims tenants are sacrificing summer holidays because of high rents. Matt Hutchinson, director of the...
25 July 2024
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Zoopla lettings chiefs have told the government it should tighten up its imminent Renters Rights Bill by demanding all lettings agents...
24 July 2024
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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...
24 July 2024
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Rightmove says the number of available rental properties is currently 14% higher than this time last year, while tenant demand is...
23 July 2024
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The low supply of rental homes continues to put upward pressure on rents, reports Hamptons. The average tenant paid £1,347 pcm to...
23 July 2024
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New figures from lettings agency Hamptons suggest that investors purchasing buy to let properties are increasingly looking to the north of...
22 July 2024
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Agents are being urged to campaign to change Labour’s Renters Rights Bill to stop it damaging the lettings industry. Neil Cobbold, commercial...
22 July 2024
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A prominent lettings agent says banning agents and landlords conducting bidding wars for a rental property is not addressing the real...
19 July 2024
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Zoopla is now describing itself as ’the official data partner’ of the Channel 4 programme ‘Worst House on the Street’. Its data...
19 July 2024
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London high end agency Eccord has bolstered its property management team with two experienced new hires. Steve Wilson joins as Senior Property...
19 July 2024
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Letting industry doyen Valerie Bannister has celebrated 40 years in the industry with a party thrown by her employer, Your Move. Valerie...
19 July 2024
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While much of the property industry’s response to the King’s Speech focussed on government plans for rental sector and planning reform,...
18 July 2024
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The government’s renewed pledge to end Section 21 eviction powers for agents and landlords is fine, a leading industry figure has...
18 July 2024
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David Cox, the former chief executive of ARLA Propertymark and now a senior executive at Rightmove, says it’s unlikely we’ll see...
18 July 2024
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The average age of landlords acquiring new rental property with a buy to let mortgage has fallen over the past decade,...
18 July 2024
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Foxtons says London’s lettings market is now at its summer peak. New internal data from the company claims demand rose by 15%...
18 July 2024
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The resignation of Labour’s First Minister of Wales has raised alarm with Propertymark. Vaughan Gething quit yesterday after the Welsh Housing Secretary...
17 July 2024
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New analysis from the British Property Federation (BPF) shows a dramatic slump in the number of Build To Rent units started. Although...
17 July 2024
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The right wing think tank the Adam Smith Institute has launched something called the Cost Of Rent Day. The institute has calculated...
17 July 2024
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A lettings agency is offering tenants guidance on what it calls “how to jump the rental queue.” Benham and Reeves outlines a...
17 July 2024
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The Housing Secretary in the Welsh Government, Julie James, was one of several ministers to quit in yesterday's dramatic day of...
17 July 2024
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A lettings agency chief says there’s growing discussion about rent controls in his area - and he fears this may be...
16 July 2024
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The trade union UNISON has partnered with activist group Generation Rent to demand root-and-branch reform of the private rental sector. Four key...
16 July 2024
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Lettings agency giant Connells says the private rental sector performed strongly in the second quarter of 2024 despite worries over future...
16 July 2024
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Property consultancy JLL says there’s been a noticeable rise in prime Central London lettings activity. Average rents rose 0.9% from Q1 to...
16 July 2024
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Asking rents continue to show positive, albeit lower, growth in most regions according to the property website Home. The site conducts a...
15 July 2024
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Leaks over the weekend from what would appear to be government sources suggest some 35 new Bills will be in the...
15 July 2024
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Former Bank of England governor Mark Carney is warning that homeowners, including those serving the private rental sector, will have to...
12 July 2024
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Propertymark has warned Labour’s Deputy Prime Minister against scrapping Section 21 eviction powers without an adequate replacement. If Angela Rayner does fulfil...
11 July 2024
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The latest lettings market snapshot by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors contains a raft of worried statements from agents. A large...
11 July 2024
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Data sourced from millions of Barclays current accounts reveals spending on rent and mortgages rose just 1.5% year-on-year in June –...
11 July 2024
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Franchise chain Winkworth says there’s been a greater supply of rental properties in the first half of the year, combined with...
11 July 2024
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High end lettings agency Hamptons has launched a new international department to woo overseas investors and tenants seeking rental properties in...
09 July 2024
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Knight Frank has named Francesca Fox as Head of Super Prime Lettings in North London. The agency says this newly created role...
09 July 2024
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Knight Frank says the incoming Labour government faces a potential clash between what is politically desirable and economically possible, in terms...
08 July 2024
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Labour MP Matthew Pennycook has been named as the principal housing minister in the new government. He was shadow housing minister when...
06 July 2024
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Angela Rayner has been appointed Levelling Up Secretary with responsibility for housing - a role she has in addition to being...
05 July 2024
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One of the longest standing and best known lettings agencies in the south east has opened a new office in Esher. Curchods...
05 July 2024
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The incoming Labour government has a social mandate to support the next generation of homeowners in the UK, says financial PropTech...
05 July 2024
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The biggest rental sector headline from Labour’s manifesto may well be its pledge for the “immediate” abolition of Section 21 eviction...
05 July 2024
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A nationwide survey conducted by Leaders Romans Group shows significant concerns over proposed rent controls, property taxes, and regulatory changes. LRG this...
04 July 2024
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Over 50% of landlords regard the management of their properties as a full-time job, a survey by a buy to let...
04 July 2024
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Thousands of homes in central London may have been lost to Airbnb and other short let platforms, a Labour candidate claims. Rachel...
04 July 2024
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Knight Frank says tenancies agreed in June for properties asking over £1,000 per week were at a level below the asking...
04 July 2024
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The latest snapshot of the rental market from Rightmove reveals that average advertised rents for tenants outside of London have reached...
03 July 2024
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Labour is likely to make rental sector reform and regulation a priority - at least partly because it will be low-cost...
03 July 2024
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The Leaders Romans Group lettings agency chain is demanding that the new government elected tomorrow brings back the Renters Reform Bill...
03 July 2024
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Letting agents have the toughest job trying to balance the needs of landlord and tenants while politicians create uncertainty around the...
03 July 2024
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Rents in June 2024 rose by 6.7% year-on-year, according to the latest figures from the Goodlord Rental Index. The Index, which analyses...
02 July 2024
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An insurance firm’s analysis of official figures show there are now no fewer than 760,821 vacant properties in England, Scotland and...