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Anyone renting an Airbnb or other short let property in Edinburgh from the summer of 2026 is likely to be hit...

A regional agent says the fear of further taxes on the private rental sector may lead to a spurt of landlords...

Propertymark has come out with a strongly-worded statement accusing politicians in the Scottish Parliament of ignoring the industry’s views on rent...

The latest rental index from PropTech firm Goodlord shows record-breaking rises. William Reeve, chief executive of Goodlord, comments: “These July figures show...

The Bank of England has cut base rate from 5.25% to 5.0% - its first cut in four years. It was a...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has given a warm welcome to Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner’s planning reforms. This week Rayner...

Deputy prime Angela Rayner will tomorrow unveil a new National Planning Policy Framework in a move that will strengthen requirements for...

The boss of a rental flatshare agency claims tenants are sacrificing summer holidays because of high rents. Matt Hutchinson, director of the...

Zoopla is now describing itself as ’the official data partner’ of the Channel 4 programme ‘Worst House on the Street’.  Its data...

Foxtons says London’s lettings market is now at its summer peak. New internal data from the company claims demand rose by 15%...

The resignation of Labour’s First Minister of Wales has raised alarm with Propertymark. Vaughan Gething quit yesterday after the Welsh Housing Secretary...

A lettings agency is offering tenants guidance on what it calls “how to jump the rental queue.” Benham and Reeves outlines a...

Property consultancy JLL says there’s been a noticeable rise in prime Central London lettings activity.  Average rents rose 0.9% from Q1 to...

Leaks over the weekend from what would appear to be government sources suggest some 35 new Bills will be in the...

Propertymark says it’s contacting all the appropriate new ministers over the summer to trigger an engagement process so agents’ voices can...

Data sourced from millions of Barclays current accounts reveals spending on rent and mortgages rose just 1.5% year-on-year in June –...

High end lettings agency Hamptons has launched a new international department to woo overseas investors and tenants seeking rental properties in...

Leading property players and analysts suggest that the lacklustre housing market figures produced by the Halifax over the weekend owe more...

Paragon Bank has reduced rates on its core range of buy-to-let mortgages, taking 15bps off 10 products, in addition to launching...

The incoming Labour government has a social mandate to support the next generation of homeowners in the UK, says financial PropTech...

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

If Labour wins Thursday’s General Election. expect three major housing announcements within a fortnight. That’s the exclusive claim from the Sunday Times...

A review of Edinburgh’s controversial short term lets licensing will take place this summer. City councillors agreed to publicly consult on the...

Details have emerged of the first major events of the new government, whatever the result of the General Election on Thursday. Probably...

The BBC is reporting that councillors in Manchester have launched a series of attacks on users of Airbnb and other short...

Inflation back on target and following speculation about a summer interest rate cut have prompted Propertymark to insist that the Bank...

An increase in property listings is helping to create a more normalised market which is a welcome relief to renters, landlords...

Any lingering hope of a pre-election interest rate cut by the Bank of England has been hurt by the government’s Office...

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

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 Rental Index from PropTech platform Goodlord shows rents hit their highest levels since October over the last month.  Rents across...

Citra Living, the Build To Rent offshoot of Lloyds Banking Group, continues with its growth strategy into the private rental sector. Citra...

Your Move – part of LSL, which last year underwent a radical restructuring - is trying to woo existing agents and...

Political parties should not allow the lengthy General Election campaign to delay work on a new and beefed-up Energy Performance Certificate...

A prominent housing market analyst says people shouldn’t bother reading election literature but instead study interest rates if they want to...

Internal data from Foxtons, London’s largest lettings agent, indicates sentiment may be improving across the capital as data shows a 12%...

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

A third of homes currently for sale can be bought with a mortgage and monthly repayments that cost less than the...

A stamp duty cut in the run up to a General Election would see house prices go up and evictions soar,...

Rental growth in prime London postcodes has narrowed to levels last seen in the summer of 2021, says Knight Frank.  Average rents...

The latest Rental Index from Goodlord reveals that rents are now up by 5.7% over the year.  The price per property over...

The Housing Secretary in Wales says that nation is unlikely to follow the example of Scotland by introducing rent controls. At a...

Citra Living, part of Lloyds Banking Group, is to bring more than 150 new family homes to the rental market in...

Housing minister Lee Rowley will be taking centre stage at the largest property agency conference in the UK this summer, Propertymark...

The Prime Central London lettings market is returning to normality, a prominent agency says. JLL says average rents fell 1.4% between Q4...

Data from in-the-news agency Foxtons reveals rental applicant demand has increased 9% from February, yet is now still 14% lower year...

TV property guru and Move iQ founder Phil Spencer to be a keynote speakers at Propertymark One this year, the trade...

Lettings giant Foxtons has hired merger and acquisition bankers from Rothschild following pressure from shareholders to sell itself for £160m, the...

Propertymark is telling the Bank of England that now is the perfect time to cut base rate and trigger wider interest...

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

A new Build To Rent scheme launches in Manchester this summer with the first residents moving in during June. The Castings is...

The Chancellor has used his Budget to confirm a 2p cut in National Insurance, from April 6. This will take it...

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

The ESTAS Group says its 2024 Best in Postcode Category Winners will be announced on April 26. This new category was announced...

The Bank of England has kept its base rate at 5.25 per cent but markets forecast this will drop from the summer as...

Foxtons’ internal lettings data shows that the 2024 lettings market in the capital is likely to be more balanced than in...

Summer looks like it’s going to be a hectic period for lettings agents and the private rental sector according to TV...

Winkworth’s first trading statement of 2024 reveals that it saw a five per cent rise in rental revenues in 2023 -...

David Cox, the former ARLA chief executive, says the earliest that the Renters Reform Bill could come into effect is late...

Self employed agency brand Harding Green, which majors on London and prime country markets, says it’s grown significantly in the lettings...

A historic former school and hospital building in Glasgow City Centre will be restored as part of a plan to create...

Lower mortgage rates - still falling in the days since the end of the festive break - may be persuading some...

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

Owner occupiers have been competing with landlords in the battle to purchase smaller properties, new figures show. Smaller properties are often preferred...

Housing Secretary Michael Gove has given what some commentators have interpreted as a sign that private rental sector licensing from councils...

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

A surprising one in seven lettings agents is now reporting a fall in rents rather than a rise. Although far more agents...

Glasgow’s lettings market is the strongest it’s been in up to 10 years, with a shortage of rental flats driving demand...

The UK lettings market, after experiencing recent surges in prices, is now displaying signs of returning to its seasonal patterns.  This is...

Agents’ trade body Propertymark has pencilled in June 14 2024 as the date for its second Propertymark One event. Last summer’s event,...

PropTech service The Lettings Hub has announced a new strategic partnership with client accounting platform LettsPay.  This follows on from four additional...

The government has been warned by trade body Propertymark that the controversial Renters Reform Bill must fairly reflect the importance of...

Prime London rents are still rising - but that growth is slowing, says Knight Frank. And the number of new prospective tenants...

Airbnb’s global chief executive has suggested that the short lets platform may handle longer term rentals in future. Brian Chesky, in an...

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

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

A mortgage expert says it’s likely that the housing market will improve this autumn. Octane Capital studied Property lending mortgage approval trends...

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

Parliament resumes today following its summer recess but there is still a lack of detail on aspects of the Renters Reform...

A series of new BTR schemes have been named by developers. In Coggeshall, north Essex, Vistry Group will deliver 36 homes, the...

A property website has produced startling figures giving an insight into the frenzied rental market. Property Pal, which looks at the housing...

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

The post-Covid prime lettings market in London has seen remarkable growth, an agency says. The latest data from Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices London...

The Co-Op Bank is joining forces with campaigning charity Shelter to argue against Section 21 evictions, and together they have organised...

The increasing likelihood that the private rental sector will be obliged to allow more pets into lets simply demonstrates the need...

Latest data from London-focussed lettings agency Chestertons confirms that the traditionally busy ‘summer season’ has kicked off. In June some 19 per...

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

A new office in the London suburb of North Acton has been announced by the LIFE Residential agency. The firm already has...

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

The cost of rent rose in seven of the eight regions monitored by Goodlord during June.  The average cost of rent per...

London agency Chestertons has warned tenants in the capital to be prepared for a highly competitive property search this summer. The firm’s...

Trading Standards has stopped a lettings agency owner from being a company director after he defrauded customers by over £80,000. Francis Smart,...

Data from London-focussed agency Foxtons reveals that average weekly rental prices in May have surpassed the peak of 2022. The average weekly...

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

Airbnb claims there has been a 75 per cent drop in party reports made to Airbnb in the UK since its...

I was surprised the other day to read statistics from the English Housing Survey about how many landlords use letting agents. In...

The cost of rent across England rose for the fifth consecutive month during May, according to PropTech firm Goodlord. During the month,...

A senior director at Chestertons, one of London’s largest lettings agencies, has warned that tenants in the capital will face an...

One of the country’s most popular destinations for both visitors and short let accommodation is likely to be hit with a...

Lavanda, a student lettings property management tech supplier, has announced a partnership with UPP, a student accommodation provider working in partnership...