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

Propertymark is urging member agents in Wales to attend a so-called Cultural Awareness Course which will explain their responsibilities under the...

The Belvoir 2024 Annual Awards have crowded a father-and-son franchisee pairing as the big winners. Paul Wallace-Tarry and his son Richard Wallace-Tarry...

Aldermore has named Bristol, as the best city for landlords to invest in for 2024.  Manchester, Coventry, Brighton and London make up...

A law professor has dismissed a Labour call for agents to have qualifications as “eye poppingly silly” and “snobby.” Labour’s shadow housing...

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

Rental yields have increased by as much as 2.5 per cent in the past year as rent values outperform house prices.  The...

House prices in York - where the local MP is leading an onslaught on the proliferation of short lets - have...

A buy to let investment site has used Artificial Intelligence to identify 10 top property investment opportunities in 2023.  Based on analysis...

  Belvoir has announced its franchise of the year, selected from the 166 offices in its network.  It’s husband and wife team Ben...

Dawsons Property has acquired the rental portfolio of Liberty Properties in Swansea.  “We shall be looking to hold both landlord and tenant...

A new Buy To Let ‘tracker’ from a prominent buy to let mortgage lender has revealed what it considers to be...

A politician is raising the possibility that people who live in private blocks and let out their apartments via Airbnb or...

New research reveals that student property portfolios based in smaller university towns or cities typically generate the best returns. The findings, from...

Research by Paragon Bank has revealed the sector that has out-performed the rest of the private rental investment landscape - student...

If agents want to emphasise the green credentials of their local area, then a new league table may be of help. An...

A Belvoir franchise has agreed on a new partnership with Premiership rugby team, Swansea RFC. The deal means not only will the...

Belvoir has opened its third office in Swansea - but like other agency branches in Wales, it’s set to close for...

The huge backlog of eviction and other cases anticipated in the coming months will be helped by the creation of a...

Rental demand has dropped significantly across London and other major UK cities as a result of the pandemic. When comparing current levels...

A row is erupting in Swansea over the number of HMOs in the city. Council leaders in the city want to implement...

A leading trade body is voicing concern over yet another council private rental sector licensing scheme - with particular worry over...

A rental management platform has compiled a league table of where tenant demand is strongest for homes to let - and...

A lettings guru who worked at Purplebricks for five years in a string of key roles has quit the company to...

A flat-sharing website has created a league table of average rents in locations surrounding the top-ranked universities in the United Kingdom....

A mortgage firm claims the lettings industry is ripping off students by overcharging them. Mojo Mortgages says it has compared the rent...

A lettings market snapshot from Rightmove suggests asking rents in London are now increasing at an annual rate not seen for...

Crooked letting agents and landlords have so far this year been convicted of illegally pocketing over £900,000 of tenant’s cash – and there’s...

The Property Ombudsman scheme has launched the third and latest phase of its national campaign with the Chartered Trading Standards Institute...

The Property Ombudsman and the Chartered Trading Standards Institute have announced a second phase of their campaign to tackle letting agents...

Asking rents rose 3.0 per cent outside of London in 2016 - but will rise 4.0 per cent in 2017. That’s the...

There has been another market survey suggesting a significant rise in the number of homes available to rent.   There were 11.4 per...

The Property Ombudsman scheme and the Chartered Trading Standards Institute have joined forces to tackle lettings agents that are breaking the...

Rents for individual rooms to let are rising fastest in Swansea, Bradford, Portsmouth and Swindon, with all of these locations seeing...

A new property tech startup is launching this month with the promise that it will “completely transform the way university students...

The police says it is continuing to investigate the disappearance of 59-year-old Alec Warburton, a Swansea landlord. Detectives are carrying out a...