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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...

Rightmove says there are still nearly 50,000 rental properties needed to head back to the pre-pandemic level of rental supply. The latest...

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

The average advertised rent for new properties coming to market hits another new record outside of London of £1,280 per calendar...

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

A series of lenders have slashed their buy to let mortgage rates in a bid to win business. These include: - LendInvest Mortgages...

The Jackson-Stops agency is warning that the Renters Reform Bill is driving investors away - and making the market worse, not...

London has seen the strongest rental growth over the last year according to an analysis by lettings agency Hamptons.   The average rent...

Data from London-focussed lettings agency Foxtons has found that rent is up eight per cent year-on-year, with the London average now...

The scale of rent rises has peaked with future increases likely to be smaller, says Zoopla. The portal’s latest report into the...

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

It may still be 16 months until the furthest date for the next General Election but with party conference season in...

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

OnTheMarket says the frantic lettings market of the past year or more is bad news for agents. In a trading statement to...

A prominent lettings and sales agency says there are four reasons why house prices won’t fall off a cliff, despite interest...

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

A trading statement from Belvoir reveals that the franchise giant is on the look out for “good quality complimentary acquisitions”. A strong...

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

Trade bodies have been trying to shore up investor confidence after the latest house price index, by the Nationwide, showing another...

A coalition of tenant activists has called a Day of Action to protest at delays in the government’s rental reform agenda. The...

Spanish bank Santander says UK residential property prices look set to fall 10 per cent this year and will return to...

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

The average house price in Wales reached a new peak of £249,076 at the end of 2022 but cost of living...

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

There will be up to six new branches opened this year for the franchise brand Winkworth. The agency made its announcement in...

The housing market slowdown is gathering pace and has now hit every region of the UK according to the Nationwide. In data...

Foxtons says London’s market is finally cooling - at least a little - for the Christmas period. November followed the seasonal downward...

The Halifax has released a snapshot of the housing market as the year ends - with the cost of living crisis...

The latest rental index from Goodlord shows rents down over the past month, with voids inching up.  All seven English regions monitored...

The latest high end agency to predict the mainstream market next year is Strutt & Parker - and it’s less downbeat...

A leading business consultancy says the Bank of England will once again increase interest rates by twice the minimum permitted. CMC Markets...

Rents across Great Britain rose by an average of 8.3 per cent over the last 12 months, marking a gradual slowdown...

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...

Asking rents in Britain are now rising at their fastest ever rate according to Rightmove. Average asking rents hit annual growth of...

A generally upbeat trading statement from franchise agency giant Winkworth reports that prime London’s rental market’s long term return to normality...

Rents in much of London have not only bounced back from the pandemic but now exceed the levels reached in 2020. Research...

There’s still no sign of a lettings market slowdown according to the latest report from ARLA Propertymark. It says that the average...

The city centre rental market, considered to be one of the industry’s losers during the worst of the pandemic, is beginning...

The latest market snapshot for the private lettings sector shows rents holding steady into 2021 but voids increasing across the board. The...

An exercise by PropTech company Goodlord has given an insight into what the lettings market may look like in parts of...

The letting market experienced a traditional seasonal decline in August, according to the latest analysis from Agency Express. Its Property Activity Index...

Can technology bring about the lasting change needed to the property industry? The industry has felt the effect of lockdown and...

The typical rent for a London property makes it “the undefeated number one most expensive city in Europe” despite increases slowing...

Demand for homes to rent has surged back by some 30 per cent in the two weeks to April 14 according...

New data from the Association of Residential Lettings Agents shows how the festive slowdown has hit the market. The number of tenants...

New research indicates that the majority of property investors in the UK have their plans on pause for the next six...

Average monthly UK rent is now at its lowest level for three years according to the Deposit Protection Service. Average rent fell...

Brexit is not a good reason for delaying buy to let investment, insists a mortgage chief. Andrew Turner is chief executive at...

A survey of mortgage experts conducted by one of the largest specialist buy to let lenders suggests that Brexit is hitting...

The latest index from specialist buy to let platform Landbay says the slowdown in London’s lettings market since the Brexit vote...

The latest rental market snapshot from YourMove suggests that typical rents rose 1.8 per cent across England and Wales in the...

TV property pundit Phil Spencer, who now runs property advice site MoveIQ, says letting agents may introduce new administration fees on...

A new league table of worries for landlords shows exactly why letting agents are needed - and a lot of the...

Home ownership rates for families aged 25 to 34 are rising for the first time in 30 years but high barriers...

Rents in major regional cities are growing significantly faster than both London and the UK average, according to data from buy...

The lettings sector is in the midst of a summer slowdown with no pick up in activity expected until next month,...

Rents in the UK, excluding London, are still increasing but at their slowest rate for five years. Figures from specialist lender Landbay...

The latest LendInvest buy to let report, which ranks 105 postcode areas around England and Wales based on a combination of...

The growth of the private rental sector has slowed thanks to government intervention and economic uncertainty - but it will expand...

Board company Agency Express says the buoyant start to the year’s lettings market has given way to a slowdown. In its February...

The average number of properties managed by letting agents rose from 192 in November to 200 in December – the highest...

A pullback in the buy to let market is threatening to reduce sale prices further in London and parts of the...

Rents across the UK began to shrink for the first time in over half a decade toward the end of 2017,...

Average rents in prime central London fell 2.4 per cent year-on-year in November, which was the most modest decline recorded in...

July’s activity data from board company Agency Express has revealed a significant slowdown in the number of rental properties coming on...

The average rent of a new letting in the UK grew by 0.24 per cent in the first six months of...

The prospect of today's General Election as well as ongoing uncertainty surrounding Britain's exit from the European Union is having a...

An analysis by investment specialists London Central Portfolio reveals that in areas of central London swamped with new builds coming to...

Rents in the UK were an average of just 0.7 per cent higher last month than in January 2016, the latest...

Figures from investment company London Central Portfolio suggest that re-lets of older properties to new tenants showed a fall in rents...

Rent increases across the UK are now running at an average that is less than half the level of a year...

Rents are rising faster in northern cities than those in the south, narrowing the divide between the two halves of the...

Buyer enquiries from potential landlords and investors are now up 30 per cent since May according to Rightmove, suggesting that the...

The UK rental market remains resilient, despite an expected summer slowdown in activity.  This is the message from the latest Agency Express...

"A large proportion of 25 to 45 year olds will be permanent tenants rather than buyers" a senior economist has predicted.   Tony...

Sequre Property Investment says it has seen a five per cent increase in enquiries and a 12.4 per cent increase in...

Agents have been giving their reaction to the shock Brexit referendum result - and their comments have ranged from the gloomy...

There was a massive slowdown in buy to let lending by investors as the additional homes stamp duty surcharge passed -...

The additional homes stamp duty surcharge is contributing to a slowdown in the central London development market according to JLL. The number...

Countrywide says average rents across the UK are now at their highest-ever levels, some 12 per cent above their pre-recession peak.  This...

The three per cent stamp duty surcharge proposed for purchases of buy to let and holiday homes risks being seen as...

Britain's largest letting agency says rents grew by an average of 3.1 per cent in 2015, taking the average monthly rent...

A seasonal slowdown has hit the lettings sector with rents dipping 0.4 per cent in November to a UK monthly average...

Prime central London’s sales market has been in the doldrums for some time - now at least one high-end lettings agency...

When do we really start to worry about rising rents and house prices? Despite an apparent slowdown in house price inflation...

HomeLet says the average rent across the UK is now rising roughly in line with those in Greater London for the...

Landlords anticipate that rent rises will taper off over the next twelve months, according to a sentiment survey conducted by Your...