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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...

One in 10 UK tenants are now spending at least 60% of their take home salary on their rent, according to...

Lettings agency chain Lomond has revealed a list of what it calls “up and coming rental hotspots” with yields having strengthened...

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

The low supply of rental homes continues to put upward pressure on rents, reports Hamptons.   The average tenant paid £1,347 pcm to...

The right wing think tank the Adam Smith Institute has launched something called the Cost Of Rent Day. The institute has calculated...

Lettings agency giant Connells says the private rental sector performed strongly in the second quarter of 2024 despite worries over future...

Hamptons, one of the high-end brands owned by Connells, had appointed Graeme Young as regional lettings director.  Young assumes responsibility for 14-branches...

One of the longest standing and best known lettings agencies in the south east has opened a new office in Esher.  Curchods...

Letting agents have the toughest job trying to balance the needs of landlord and tenants while politicians create uncertainty around the...

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...

The decision of property developer Berkeley Group to enter the private rental sector is bad news for tenants, it’s claimed. Berkeley plans...

John D Wood & Co., one of the UK’s oldest lettings and estate agents dating back over 150 years, has expanded...

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

London’s rental market has weakened in recent months according to the fledgling online service Hello Neighbour. Rents are 1% down compared to...

Propertymark has stepped into the row over whether there should be more controls over second homes, holiday lets and people from...

London lettings agency Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward is expanding with the opening of a new branch in the centre of Camberwell. Anthony...

An estate agency that promotes the self-employed model claims that three areas of the country lead when it comes to industry...

The average gross rental yield reported by landlords has reached the highest level since the second quarter of 2018, according to...

Startling regional differences are acting as barriers to those looking to step onto the property ladder for the first time, according...

A controversial rental sector figure claims over half of the properties listed to let are actually available for a tenant to...

A deposit alternative service claims the cost of rent has outpaced salary growth by 5.2% over the past 10 years, leaving...

Seymours, one of the largest independent agency networks operating in the South East of England, is to advertise its lettings and sales...

For first time buyers, renting is cheaper than buying in most of the UK according to new data from the Halifax.  London, the...

England’s county councils want the next government to set out a long-term plan for housing, as a new report claims there’s...

The latest Rental Index from PropTech supplier Goodlord has recorded a rent rise and a reduction in void lengths over the...

Arun Estates - parent company of 100 branches in south east England, including brands Cubitt & West, Douglas Allen, Pittis and...

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

A new analysis shows that - unsurprisingly - London remains the most competitive region for letting agents, having seen the largest...

The head of a major supplier insists the Renters Reform Bill provision making it easier for tenants to keep pets is...

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

A new Bank of England survey has confirmed a growing outflow of landlords from the private rental sector since 2020. The Bank’s...

Low-income renters will get a boost next spring - but a pressure group wants more government help for this sector. The Chancellor’s...

The latest Rental Index from PropTech firm Goodlord has shown that year-on-year rents are up by 7.3 per cent across England...

A survey over 2,400 tenants has found that 55 per cent would prefer to have their utility bills included within the...

Over seven in 10 landlords report rising tenant demand during the third quarter – a new record high, research conducted on...

Rents saw an autumn dip in October, following three months of rapidly escalating prices across England.  According to PropTech firm Goodlord the...

One of the players in the controversial Deposit Alternative field is stepping up its case for this kind of service to...

The latest lettings market survey by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors shows rental demand continuing to rise.  A net balance of...

Rent levels and voids held steady over the past month with strong demand keeping annual price growth at nearly eight per...

New research shows that the majority of letting agents believe they are not paid sufficiently for their work. Research from the Goodlord...

The rental market remained strong in August says PropTech firm Goodlord. Despite average rents dipping marginally after a record breaking July -...

Leaders Romans Group has made three internal promotions at a senior level to beef up its property management team. Karen Shepherd, George...

A new analysis shows growth in the trend for buy to let properties to be sold with tenants in situ.  The analysis...

Zoopla’s research team says the rise in mortgage interest rates means it’s now cheaper to rent than to buy for the...

The north of England is outperforming the south when it comes to yields and capital appreciation, a new survey has discovered. In...

There are few signs that the pace of rental growth is slackening, warns Hamptons. It says the cost of a new tenancy...

July was a record breaking month for the rental market, claims a PropTech company. Goodlord analyses tens of thousands of completed tenancies...

South East property group Beresfords has appointed Bernadette Barcham to its Board of Directors.  A statement from the firm says the move...

New research reveals that there is an estimated £21.4 billion worth of holiday homes in England and Wales with the South...

Lettings chain Fine & Country says rents are likely to steadily rise through the summer. Nicky Stevenson, managing director of Fine &...

Rising rents mean the share of young people leaving the family home and moving into rented accommodation has plunged, says Hamptons...

A development site sourcing firm claims that reclassifying just one per cent of England’s Green Belt could unlock space for almost...

Strong rental growth pushed the average monthly rent on a newly let property outside London up to £1,002 pcm in April,...

High profile Propertymark lettings expert Angharad Trueman is joining Andrews agency as group lettings director. Trueman has been in the property industry...

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

HomeLet has released its latest market figures from April, showing UK average rental prices hitting their highest of all time.  The average...

One of the country’s biggest Build To Rent players has secured funding for 1,000 new BTR homes. Legal & General has signed...

After a hectic period of rent rises it appears that the lettings market is at a standstill according to PropTech firm...

New buy to let purchases are increasingly being funded by cash rather than a mortgage, says Hamptons lettings agency.   So far this...

After what appeared to be a lull over the New Year, the rental market is firing on all cylinders again according...

A new analysis suggests that the number of first time buyers has plummeted by over 10 per cent in the past...

England’s HMO market is shrinking despite a widespread need for more affordable rental accommodation. In 2019/20, there were an estimated 510,776 HMOs...

A debt advisory service claims it has calculated the overall size of the private rental sector. Sirius Property Finance analysed the current...

The latest Rental Index from Goodlord shows a mixed market with rents holding steady but voids increasing in certain regions. The cost...

London-focussed agency chain Dexters says it now has some 10,000 enquiries a year for its rental relocation service. It has 30,000 landlords...

The mismatch between demand and supply will keep the rental market strong in 2023 according to an agency chief. Nicky Stevenson, managing...

The Stirling Ackroyd Group says it’s delivered 20 per cent revenue growth alongside the opening of five lettings and sales offices...

The number of first-time buyers is estimated to have fallen by nine per cent in 2022, Yorkshire Building Society says. Analysis by...

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

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

An online rental platform warns the average rent bill could reach as much as £2,270/month if prices rise in line with...

A former marine is the franchise holder of a brand new Belvoir office close to a famous military base in south...

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

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

The average rent in the UK has increased by £115 per month since last year, reaching £1,051 per calendar month according...

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

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

The average cost of rent across England dipped one per cent during August, taking prices down to a national average of...

Maintenance costs now account for over a fifth of the average rental income of a property, it’s been claimed. A company called...

The fast-growing Lomond Group of agencies has acquired a major online lettings service. But it's going to manage the properties through physical...

An analysis of lettings data across England and Wales shows that  there have been 3,737 rental property repossession orders granted in...

Dexters, the London-focussed agency, has snapped up a four-branch chain operating in the capital. Dexters already has 30,000 landlords on its books...

The private rental sector could grow an additional 6.5 per cent in just three years, it’s been forecast. This would bring the...

New figures indicate the ongoing growth of buy to let. Analysing data on additional property purchases made in the financial year 2020/21,...

The Association of Independent Inventory Clerks says it’s going to propose evolutionary changes at its upcoming annual general meeting. This will include...

Fresh data from PropTech supplier Goodlord shows the average cost of rent in England reached £1,020 per property in May, up...

Another lettings agency is offering a major incentive to landlords switching from Airbnb to traditional long term rentals. Hills Lettings, a south...

A leading brand in the fast-growing and heavily-funded Lomond Group has snapped up another independent agency.  Linley & Simpson has added another...

The largest operator in London for the niche co-living sector has doubled the size of its portfolio in the east of...

Many of the country’s leading letting agency brands have joined forces with Propertymark to deliver a training and development strategy for...

One of the best-known names in lettings in London and the south east has renewed its partnership with PropTech supplier Goodlordfor a...

A new investment league table has been drawn up to show best aggregate rent and capital appreciation income for those in...

Rental affordability is deteriorating in parts of England. The research by rental platform Rentd looked at the current average income of a...

Connells-owned lettings agency Hamptons is warning that the record-breaking rental growth of the past year has seen tenants pay a rocketing...

New data reveals that over 80 per cent of renters spend more than 30 per cent of their take home pay...

The latest lettings market snapshot from PropTech supplier Goodlord suggests that voids are reducing in almost all regions but that rents...

New build homes command rental premiums of as high as 41 per cent in the current market, it’s been claimed. The Unlatch...

The government’s new Levelling Up White Paper, revealed this morning, includes a radical reshaping of the private rental sector. Section 21 eviction...

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