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A new agency - which describes itself as a “disruptor company” - says it will charge an all-in lettings and management...

New analysis from the British Property Federation (BPF) shows a dramatic slump in the number of Build To Rent units started. Although...

The UK housing market has returned to its pre-pandemic size, according to Savills analysis. Overall, the total value of the UK housing...

Southampton council has approved a big new Build To Rent scheme on the site of a disused gasworks. Hawkstone Properties Ltd and...

Inflation figures are down - but not as much as many analysts expected. The basic Consumer Price Index figure fell from 3.2%...

Savills has moved to a new office in Petworth town centre, from which its lettings and other services will operate.  Savills, and...

A coalition of higher education and student housing organisations have called on the government to make further changes to the Renters...

Political parties should stop bickering and instead work together to improve the private rental sector. That’s the view of the Lettings industry...

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

A group founded eight years ago to represent the Build To Rent niche has now rebranded in a bid to win...

Rents are approaching an affordability ceiling according to Savills - but the agency admits it doesn’t see substantial new supply on...

The British Property Federation claims the time required for Build To Rent planning applications has significantly increased over the past decade...

The latest Build To Rent report prepared by lettings agency Savills claims 2023 saw a total of £4.5 billion of investment...

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

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

Rhodri Evans, director of land and new homes at Andrews Property Group, has been named as one of several industry figures...

Residential buy to let in the North West of England, London industrial property and retail warehouses are set to be the...

New housing minister Lee Rowley has spoken out in favour of Build To Rent. At the inaugural Build To Rent Innovators conference...

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

The latest annual report on Build To Rent in London again talks of issues with costs and delivery. A report from the...

Savills has moved into a new office in Bath, occupying over 2,500 square feet in a prominent on a prominent shopping...

Savills has appointed Marielle Papadopoullos as head of lettings in its key Hampstead office.  Papadopoullos, who joins as a director, has over...

The chief executive of Foxtons, who has been in the job exactly one year, now claims the company has enjoyed “incredible...

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...

The number of completed Build to Rent homes in the UK has increased 13 per cent in the past year to...

Savills has announced a new head of its lettings department in its Bishops Park office in Fulham. Christina McLean steps into the...

It appears almost certain that the Second Reading of the Renters Reform Bill - expected some weeks ago - will not...

Prime London’s rental growth has started to slow on an annual basis, according to the latest Savills prime lettings index. But the...

New research shows a 41 per cent reduction in the number of London properties available for private rent since the Covid-19...

Retirement housing specialist Pegasus wants to become a big player in Build To Rent and has employed the  Savills agency to...

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

Upmarket lettings agency Savills has moved its 30-strong team in Reading into a prominent new office in the town centre. The firm’s...

Figures out this morning from high end agency Savills shows a 5.1 per cent increase in capital appreciation on average across...

Agency launches dedicated lettings team for rejuvenated London area Savills has launched a dedicated residential lettings office in an area of prime...

Prime rental growth in London ended 2022 up 10.9 per cent on the year, according to Savills prime lettings index, as...

A statement to shareholders by the Savills lettings and estate agency admits that it under-estimated how strong the high end prime...

A warning letter signed by 330 major players in the private rental sector has been delivered to Housing Secretary Michael Gove. The...

A prominent letting agent has written an open letter to Housing Secretary Michael Gove, calling for a halt on government attacks...

Rightmove says yesterday’s Bank of England base rate rise to 3.5 per cent - the ninth hike in as many Bank...

Savills has promoted Sophie Candlin, a negotiator in its south west London Teddington office, to become its head of lettings. She takes...

A senior Savills figure, who chairs the trade body known as The Lettings Industry Council, has issued a warning to the...

As energy prices have increased 70 per cent in the UK this year, so more homeowners have fitted small-scale solar panel...

Savills, which at the end of last week released a gloomy forecast predicting a 10 per cent price drop for average...

Savills is the latest agency to suggest significant house price falls next year - although in its long-range forecast it says...

There seems to be an industry-wide sigh of relief that Rishi Sunak has become Prime Minister. His coronation marks the end of...

The advocates of Build To Rent have made another ambitious target for the sector’s growth.  Research from the British Property Federation and...

Propertymark’s chief executive Nathan Emerson has welcomed the dramatic government U-turn on taxes - but most importantly has retained the stamp...

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

Increased demand and investor appetite for purpose built Single Family Rental schemes have seen this niche market grow at scale, according...

The Times says some Build to Rent investment has been paused as a result of the rent freeze imposed by the...

London faces a possible homelessness spike this winter due to the cost-of-living crisis and increases in private rents, a group of...

Savills London has promoted Charlotte Whitmarsh to head of lettings in the Wimbledon office.  She steps into her new position with seven...

Capital appreciation over the next five years amongst properties in prime areas of cities and countryside will be strongest in the...

Buy to let and other investors hoping for a rapid recovery in the prime central London market are likely to be...

The Build to Rent sector has grown by 14 per cent in the year to the end of the first quarter...

House price growth in prime country and coastal locations is beginning to plateau after two years of runaway growth, with urban...

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

The Shepherd’s Bush office has the largest lettings portfolio of all the Winkworth offices across the capital - and now it...

New research by Savills suggests that on-street car parking could increase both the capital values and rental potential of properties. The agency...

An agency has opened its 10th residential lettings office in south west London. The new Savills branch, which will also handle sales,...

Rightmove’s April webinars for agents continue today with Daryl Mcintosh, Policy Manager at Propertymark, giving a legal and compliance update for...

A PropTech supplier to the lettings industry that has just signed a deal with OnTheMarket has come out in support of...

The Lettings Industry Council - which arguably has a low profile with agents - has become an industry partner of another...

Franchise estate agency chain Winkworth has expanded its presence in prime south west London with the opening of a new Wimbledon office. The new...

The trade body which serves as a cheer leader for Build To Rent says the niche sector is part of the...

Savills says an increase in the number of new builds bought for buy to let and other property investment will help...

The rush for space to work and relax at home will still dominate the rental market for the short term at...

ARLA Propertymark has hit back at a demand from London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan that he be given the powers to...

For the first time since the beginning of the pandemic rents across all prime London regions saw a return to positive...

London’s Labour Mayor, Sadiq Khan, has made a new call for power to cap private rents. He’s claimed that rents in the...

An estate agency has sponsored an eco-art exhibition that involves 100 life-sized elephant sculptures in a central London park. Savills has sponsored...

Rents across the wider London commuter belt continued to rise in the first three months of the year, according to a...

Agents and other industry players have penned an open letter to government demanding a radical overhaul of targets for energy efficiency in the...

Real estate as an industry has remained unchallenged throughout all of these years. For the industry worth more than 217 trillion...

An assessment by Savills suggests capital values - including those for properties in the lettings sector - are likely to soar...

A new property identification system which has won the backing of ARLA Propertymark and substantial parts of the industry has said...

High end agency Savills says it’s raised over £270m in nine auctions this year, with an average sold price of over...

The latest Build To Rent snapshot up to late summer shows the number of BTR homes in stages of planning across...

Staying on top of the numbers and figures in a constantly changing industry can be stressful. Changing property prices can be...

Savills latest remote auction in 2020 saw £40m raised with 90 lots sold bringing the total value of property sold in 2020...

A commission investigating affordable homes in the UK has called for annual private sector rent increases to be limited to a...

Two lettings agencies have been vandalised by activists who defied the Coronavirus lockdown to damage property. Local media reports in Cheltenham say...

We'd hoped it was good news but in fact it's just good-news-yet-to-come. The Savills office in Wuhan, the epicentre of the Coronavirus crisis in...

The prime London lettings market has returned to growth after three years of falling rents, according to new five-year forecasts from...

There’s been an upbeat prediction on the lettings market given by leading market commentator Lucian Cook, head of residential research at...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has given a brief but optimistic assessment of the private rental market for next year. “As...

Welsh housing minister Julie James is to address agents, landlords and other property professionals at the Residential Landlord Association’s Future Renting...

In recent days we’ve been running images and videos from Halloween-decorated offices over on our sister publication Estate Agent Today -...

Research by the British Property Federation shows that there are now 148,046 build-to-rent homes complete, under construction or in planning across...

A relatively new firm in the crowded central London buying agency market is expanding into property management. Aykroyd & Co was launched...

A new white-labelled outsourced lettings management service is launching today, claiming to undercut all rivals. F%ur - a brand from 4percentproperty -...

The concept of a so-called rental property passport would rapidly improve the quality of accommodation and landlords, and would be far...

A holiday lets and short-term lettings market boom can be put down to a combination of four reasons, according to specialist...

Savills says some 120,000 buy to let mortgages have been redeemed since the launch of the additional homes stamp duty surcharge...

Savills has launched a new residential lettings service in one of the country’s most successful buy to let and investment locations...

Rental values in prime London show early signs of bottoming out, says Savills, with the annual rate of falls now at...

There has been a massive surge in the volume of lettings properties under construction for the burgeoning Built To Rent sector. Data...

Some broadly good news to end the week - rents are predicted to grow 13.7 per cent in the next five...

Savills has announced two acquisitions in the north west, one of an agency and one of an individual branch.  The agency being...