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Rightmove, still very much the Number One portal despite growing competition, is launching a new national marketing campaign this coming weekend. The...

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

New figures show the scale of the rental supply slump in recent years. The respected Home website, which produces a monthly lettings...

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

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

The latest rental market survey by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors suggests there’s still a significant mismatch between supply and...

A new analysis by Zoopla suggests and one in eight homes currently for sale were previously let out. The portal says this...

Asking rents continue to show posi­tive, albeit lower, growth in most regions according to the property website Home. The site conducts a...

Franchise chain Winkworth says there’s been a greater supply of rental properties in the first half of the year, combined with...

The result of the election isn’t likely to be a gamechanger for the housing market, a prominent business consultancy says.  An analysis...

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...

The latest residential market survey from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors is raising a red flag over what it calls...

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

The Property Franchise Group, which calls itself the UK’s largest multi-brand property franchisor, says its merging with lettings giant Belvoir has...

The latest RICS UK Residential Survey results suggests that tenant demand continues to lose momentum.  Alongside this, landlord instructions remain in short...

Boutique Knightsbridge estate agency Nicolas Van Patrick (NVP) has acquired Chelsea lettings and management company HLR. HLR was established in 1986, growing...

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...

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

Latest inflation figures are announced on Wednesday and the Bank of England makes its next base rate decision on Thursday. The Office...

Today’s new market snapshot from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors shows tenant demand rising but at a rather more modest...

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

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

A buying agent claims that rents could finally be tailing off despite some indices showing rises still taking place. According to Rightmove,...

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

A return of pent-up demand and mortgage rates falling below five per cent have boosted the start of the year for...

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

Foxtons’ unaudited end-of-year trading statement makes no bones about it - the lettings division saved the agency’s bacon in 2023. It suffered...

Leaders Romans Group has acquired three major lettings, sales and surveying businesses operating multiple branches across London, Surrey, Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire. The...

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

Foxtons claims it’s reached new heights under its latest management team. The agency has been described as the is fastest growing UK...

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

One of Britain’s leading agents - former RICS residential chairman Jeremy Leaf - says he is seeing a change of mood...

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

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

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

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

The Office for National Statistics official government lettings index shows that private rental prices paid by tenants in the UK increased...

Not for the first time this year, a trading update from London-focussed agency Foxtons has shown that lettings is leading the...

The latest edition of the Home housing index shows Conti suing close links between both the lettings and sales markets. The Home...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Louis Musgrove – Group Managing Director   What is Southernbrook Lettings and...

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

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

The latest lettings market snapshot from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors shows that a significant majority of members expect yet...

The Property Franchise Group has reported a bumper half year of trading with revenue at £13.2m and pre-tax profits up 11...

Lettings income has saved the bacon of franchise agency Winkworth after a sales slump hit profits.  A trading statement from the agency...

Annual rental growth in July was 9.1 per cent across prime London according to LonRes.   This figure took rents to 28.4 per...

The long-awaited supply increase in the prime London lettings market is underway, says high-end agency Knight Frank.  The agency says the underlying...

The head of one of the country’s highest profile franchise agency empires says the self-employed ethos of some advisers and entrepreneurial...

Increased lettings income proved a valuable balance to a declining sales market for The Property Franchise Group in the first half...

A strong lettings division has allowed Foxtons to record strong growth in its latest trading statement, despite the challenging sales market. The...

A property industry commentator wants buy to let mortgage rules to be relaxed so that frustrated sellers can let out their...

A prominent lettings and sales agency says there’s been a dramatic 54 per cent slump in sales this year.  Research from Barrows...

The story of low supply in the prime London lettings market appears to be coming to an end, says Knight Frank. The...

It’s no secret – 2023 is a difficult year for the property industry. While rising rents should lead to increased income...

Zoopla has announced it’s hosting its quarterly market update next Wednesday, June 14, to discuss how agents can keep their business...

Prime London’s housing market lacks its usual seasonal spring bounce with prices flat and transactions down, admits property data consultancy LonRes. And...

One of the high end lettings agencies dominating the prime London rental landscape says there’s no end in sight to the...

The property market could be emerging from the downturn, Zoopla says.  Annual house price growth remains just 3.0 per cent according to...

A property management firm says it recently compiled a check-out report for a property which was 414 pages in total. The property...

More property is likely to come onto the sales market in the weeks and months ahead as rising numbers of landlords...

Prime London rents picked up again over the first three months of this year, says Savills. Rental prices are up 1.4 per...

The rental market in Prime London continues to suffer from a severe stock shortage according to recent data from property consultancy...

Foxtons’ latest trading statement suggests that it’s heavily reliant on lettings revenue as the sales market stutters and the whole company...

Pre-tax profits for Connells Group have plummeted from £111.3m in 2021 to £67.5m last year - but its lettings division has...

The number of lettings instructions in London has dropped since the start of the year.  Knight Frank says that compared to the...

Rents across Greater London are up 21 per cent year-on-year according to the Home property website, which prepares a mon they...

The chief executive of Propertymark is warning that interest rates are likely to rise at least one more time. The remarks by...

The supply of lettings property is finally increasing says Knight Frank. The agency says that in London and elsewhere, mortgage rates and...

A leading agency says there are now clear indications that supply in the lettings market is growing and that rent levels...

The chief executive of Propertymark says latest data from letting agents suggests rent rises may have peaked - but that could...

Data from the mortgage lenders’ trade body UK Finance shows the wisdom of agents having a lettings division. The body says: “We...

A prominent independent lettings agency says the typical tenant outside of London now spends 63 per cent of their household income...

Trends in the lettings market “do not bode well for renters on low incomes” according to an analyst. Jack Godby of lettings...

The headlines surrounding today’s new RICS market snapshot will concentrate on dramatic house price falls but the drop off in the...

A survey among letting agents on Rightmove has found that on average they are managing 36 enquiries per property and spending...

Agents should look to lettings to protect themselves when the sales market is hit by the coming recession and drop in...

The current supply demand imbalance across the UK rental market looks set to endure as fewer households move across into owner...

Famous London agency Foxtons has enjoyed a shares boost on the back of a 25 per cent spike in revenue in...

Prime London rental growth reached 14.0 per cent in the year to the end of September according to Savills, but the...

Zoopla is issuing a warning today that price cuts in the sales market are likely to hit pre-pandemic levels as affordability...

The rental sector remains strong according to the latest market survey by Propertymark. The number of new tenants registered on average per...

Headline-grabbing demands for more regulation and rent freezes risk frightening buy to let investors away, a leading analyst warns. Doug Shephard is...

As the new academic year gets underway, demand continues to far outweigh supply in the lettings market in London and the...

New long-term analysis by Hamptons says rental growth will cool over the coming years but will still outperform house prices between...

A leading market analysis suggests that the private rental sector may be set to benefit from large scale corporate investors seeking...

Knight Frank has made a candid observation about the prime London lettings market, saying it remains “a long way from normality.”  While...

The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee has announced that base rate is rising from 1.25 to 1.75 per cent. The rate is now...

Belvoir says that during the six months to the end of June income increased 11 per cent on the year before,...

Rental growth continues to roar ahead across prime areas of London, according to Savills. Prime London rental values increased a further 3.3...

Knight Frank says a frustrating period for tenants looks likely to continue this summer in the prime London lettings market.  While supply...

OnTheMarket says its innovations with partnerships in the lettings sector have played a part in its successful growth. In the 12 months...

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

A senior lettings chief says the supply drought is making the rental market as overheated now as at any time in...

Zoopla is warning that the recent sharp rise in rents has stretched affordability with the average rent now accounting for 37...

Rental values in prime areas of London are now nine per cent higher than they before the pandemic, with Knight Frank...

Rents in prime areas of London are nine per cent higher today than before the pandemic according to Knight Frank.  The high...

One of the UK’s largest lettings groups has made an outspoken attack on the policies of a political party standing in...

The latest market sentiment survey of the lettings market from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors suggests that rent rises will...

An eye-watering annualised rent rise in Greater London of 27.3 per cent has helped pushed the all-UK total yearly hike to...