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The Conservatives have this afternoon set out a 78-page manifesto, of which just over two pages are given to housing and...

Londoners looking to buy a home can expect to spend 42% more on monthly mortgage payments than tenants pay on rent,...

Tenants in Bristol are paying 41 per cent more for a rental property than they did just five years ago, it...

A letting platform says what it calls “the rental chaos” of the current market has now end in sight. New data from...

Rents continue to soar across the UK according to data released by flatshare website SpareRoom.  It says average UK room rents were...

Legal & General Capital helped fund over 17,000 new homes last year across a range of tenures, chiefly Build To Rent.  Chief...

Rental portal Rentd says the pandemic-long decline in the London rental market is now “reversing at speed”. Rental values are climbing annually...

A rental platform has revealed the wide disparity in rents to the north and south of the Thames in London, and...

Volume developer Crest Nicholson has announced its biggest Build To Rent deal, worth £120m, organised in tandem with financial firm Oaktree. The...

One of the UK’s first ever Build To Rent companies, Fizzy Living, has been sold to a global real estate company...

A lettings agent has been jailed for three years for defrauding tenants and landlords out of more than £182,000.  Lee Clarke, 42,...

Rental demand has started to return to the majority of major UK cities during the second quarter of this year, with...

Fresh data from Knight Frank shows how uncertainty continues to dog the lettings market in some parts of central London. There appears...

A former employee at the Staines-upon-Thames office of lettings agency Martin & Co has returned – as the branch’s new owner. Doreen...

Despite rent controls being a vote-catching policy for some local election candidates next week, the reality is that asking rents in...

Local media in the Homes Counties report that two arrests were made after police were called by a lettings agency where...

A £5,000 fine has been handed to five landlords in London for failing to license HMOs.  One of the properties, a four-bedroom HMO in...

Prospective tenants are increasingly searching for properties outside of commuter hubs and urban areas, according to Rightmove. Its analysis of over 60 million...

Striving for higher yields remains the holy grail for buy to let, and new research suggests investors could be attracted by...

Leaders Romans Group has made another acquisition of a multi-office independent agency. It’s snapped up six-branch Outlook Property, which has offices across...

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

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

Greater London rents have risen an average of four per cent in the past year - but some boroughs performing above-average...

A buy to let investor has been hit with a £4,000 fine plus costs of over £5,000 after failing to license...

Mystery surrounds the whereabouts of a letting agent who appears not to be in any redress scheme, is being investigated by...

OnTheMarket, which is beginning to undertake occasional property research, has released data identifying what proportion of tenants’ salaries are spent on...

An overcrowded property let by an unlicensed company with inadequate fire precautions and unheated rooms has led to a £46,620 fine...

A gas safety engineer has pleaded guilty with a landlord of falsifying gas safety certificates for a string of private rental...

Rents in London rose by 0.1 per cent in the 12 months to June - it’s the first annual rental increase...

Specialist buy to let lender LendInvest has looked at 105 postcodes across England and Wales to find the best (and worst)...

A letting agent named in a case concerning a rat-infested House in Multiple Occupation in Leytonstone, East London, has been fined...

A London couple have used a lettings website to advertise for flat sharers in their property overlooking the Thames - it...

The Thames Valley Police says it wants to speak to a man in connection with an investigation in which a number of...

Tenancy deposits in England and Wales are typically £100 dearer than the Scottish equivalent.  Between June 2015 and May 2016, the average...

Lettings companies and an organised group of criminals described as a “gang of chancers” have been hit with fines and costs...

Letting agents are being urged to help tackle what the police are calling “modern slavery” happening in communities across Britain.  Modern slavery...

Two rogue landlords who collected rent from more than 30 tenants in five sub-standard houses all on the same street have...

Leaders has acquired Home Counties estate agency Aston Mead in a deal which brings it additional branches in two new areas,...

Whether you are single or a family, looking to invest in rental property or want to lay down roots of your...

Airbnb is letting out a two-bedroom floating house on the Thames to publicise the changes in short term letting rules in...

Rightmove says it has identified the 20 most expensive rental locations in the UK outside of London - and surprise, surprise,...