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Johns&Co, an agency specialising in property investment and asset management, is expanding into a new territory - Manchester. Since its establishment in...

Ascend, which says it’s now the UK’s largest third-party operator of single-family Build To Rent homes, has recruited a new associated...

A relaunched online lettings agency operation is offering lettings listings deals to landlords from £39.50. The little known Essex-based Griffin Property Co...

The latest edition of the English Housing Survey reveals precisely how relatively rarely Section 21 is used. Data from the survey analysed...

Planning permission has been given to the biggest-ever Build To Rent scheme in Milton Keynes. A company under the name PLATFORM_ has...

Deposit alternative provider flatfair claims to have enjoyed a record-breaking start to 2024, forming 61 new partnerships.  These include Concept Estate Agents,...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors says it welcomes the new Labour government’s ambitious housing plans - but it also casts...

The biggest rental sector headline from Labour’s manifesto may well be its pledge for the “immediate” abolition of Section 21 eviction...

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

Labour’s manifesto, just released, makes a pledge to enact the “immediate” abolition of Section 21 eviction powers, along with other private...

Agents, and others in the lettings industry, have given a sceptical response to the Conservative manifesto and its varied pledges about...

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

A low profile family company called the Griffin Property Company has acquired Emoov, the online agency which was a pioneering name...

Build To Rent developer and operator Dandara Living has struck a partnership with deposit alternative service flatfair. Dandara joins other BTR operators...

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

The agency Centrick has been appointed to launch and operate a new multi-million-pound Build To Rent development in Leicester.  Centrick will provide...

The trade body representing the Build To Rent industry wants to recruit people from that sector to sit in its board. The...

Developer Beech Holdings has secured planning permission for its luxury development of Build To Rent apartments in Sheffield. Sheffield Gardens will include...

Legal & General’s suburban Build To Rent business, called LGSBTR, has exchanged on 41 new BTR homes in St Neots, Cambridgeshire.   Consisting...

Prime London rental values ticked up 0.3% over the first three months of 2024, according to Savills, as the market continues...

A group founded eight years ago to represent the Build To Rent niche has now rebranded in a bid to win...

What appears to be another government housing policy U-turn - this time on ground rents - is being hailed as “a...

Legal & General senior executive David Reid has been named as the chair of an influential committee driving forward Build To...

New rent control proposals put forward by politicians are unnecessary and too costly according to a leading property expert.  David Alexander -...

Rhodri Evans, director of land and new homes at Andrews Property Group, has been named as one of several industry figures...

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

Residential buy to let in the North West of England, London industrial property and retail warehouses are set to be the...

Citra Living, the Build To Rent arm of Lloyds Banking Group, has announced another new scheme. It is a 95-flat development at...

Michael Gove’s Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill, currently going through Parliament, has won praise from the industry body The Property Institute. There...

There’s to be a consultation this autumn about a proposed selective licensing regime in Scarborough. The proposal covers parts of the Castle,...

Two cities have been identified as the UK’s highest-growth cities across multiple property sectors over the next 10 years, according to...

The fledgling Build To Rent trade organisation, called the UK Apartment Association, is setting up regional hubs. It’s already established ones in...

A lack of direction and constant shifts in planning policy at local and national government level is putting a block on...

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

Leaders Romans Group's Suburban Build To Rent team has been appointed to jointly manage and maintain over 100 Build to Rent...

Newcastle-based lettings agency Seekers is backing a clean air zone in its city.  The agency’s two cars, both Volkswagen ID-3s, are part...

A leading agency says there are now clear indications that supply in the lettings market is growing and that rent levels...

Legal & General - one of the country’s biggest Build To Rent players - has struck a deal with new build...

The way to solve the rental sector supply shortage is through Build To Rent, a leading agency claims.  Leaders Romans Group says...

A new survey of over 8,000 commercial estate agents indicates a challenging 2023 - suggesting a possible alternative investment option for...

An end-of-year assessment by Zoopla suggests the price of flats across the UK have underperformed the rest of the market and...

The drastic shortage of rental properties will lessen during 2023 according to the Leaders Romans Group - and much of that...

A Labour MP has attacked Airbnb hosts and others in the short lets business, accusing them of “this exploitation of housing...

The government is to open a consultation on whether residential properties should require planning consent to be used as short lets...

Increasing demand for homes in cities was the driving force behind the rapid house price inflation witnessed earlier this year, with...

Leaders Romans Group has announced the creation of a Build To Rent Taskforce, using a different brand name - Three Sixty...

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

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

Property prices in Birmingham are expected to rise more than any other city in the UK following the Commonwealth Games, it’s...

House price growth in prime country and coastal locations is beginning to plateau after two years of runaway growth, with urban...

The Deposit Protection Service claims the single largest reason why private tenants move is to find properties accepting pets. Around a thousand...

The man behind the Ideal Flatmate rental platform has now set up a Build To Rent portal called Your Place. All properties...

The appeal of city living has been reignited across Scotland with new figures showing a surge in demand and rents for...

A lettings agency has identified where tenant demand is strongest right now - and where demand is lower than some agents...

A north of England agency is going green as it replaces its existing car fleet electric vehicles. The purchase of two Volkswagen...

The online lettings agency Howsy is reported to have been acquired by a national chain after a ‘distressed sale’ following its...

Franchise giant Belvoir has named a former chief executive of a major housebuilder as a non-executive director, to help with the...

The trade body which serves as a cheer leader for Build To Rent says the niche sector is part of the...

One of the country’s largest Build To Rent operators, Legal & General, has acquired a new scheme from volume housebuilders Countryside....

MPs and the wider public have been presented with a lengthy report on the growth of Airbnb and similar platforms across...

Over half of tenants who have stayed at short let home-based properties via Airbnb or similar platforms have broken or damaged...

Many young Britons allegedly live beyond their means, blaming high rents and “unforseen” agency charges as contributory reasons.  A home insurance company...

Results have been released of an analysis of over 20,000 Build To Rent tenants in over 15,000 homes across the UK...

PropTech platform Lavanda says urban property is changing thanks to the pandemic, and it tells agents, landlords and other providers to...

Tenants returning to the office and city centres has triggered strong rental growth in the largest urban centres. Rightmove’s Quarterly Rental Trends...

New data from Rightmove reveals that the imbalance of supply and demand for rental properties in suburban and rural areas has...

Linley & Simpson, one of the North of England’s leading residential letting agents, has expanded its Sheffield operations just six months...

Data from Leaders Romans Group shows that lettings attracted 5,941 requests for viewings in June – an average of 42 per...

There’s a warning today that office-to-resi conversions - popular with landlords in recent years - are at an increased risk of...

Across Great Britain the pace of rental growth continued to climb in June, with rents rising 8.5 per cent year-on-year. The data...

For the first time since the beginning of the pandemic rents across all prime London regions saw a return to positive...

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

The Leaders Romans Group has identified four locations which it says have come into their own since the working-from-home craze started...

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

Research by the British Property Federation shows that 6,937 new Build To Rent homes won full planning permission in the first...

Leaders Romans Group is launching a consultancy and management service for Build To Rent developers - a bid to engage with institutions in...

New modular homes built to rent have been delivered to Northstowe, a new town in Cambridgeshire.  Each Town House home has been...

Research by Hamptons suggests that the increased house prices caused by the stamp duty holiday sales surge has indirectly obliged more...

Rightmove says falling rents in central London have led to a surge in interest from prospective tenants. Rightmove has analysed over 23 million...

The lettings sector has softened over the past year as the demand for urban living with shorter commutes has been replaced...

International research suggests that short lets - Airbnb and similar platforms - cause housing shortages and push up private rents. Research by...

With the Government announcement this week of another national lockdown across England amid the surging coronavirus infections, it once again puts...

Major players in the Build To Rent sector are joining forces to see if they can give the industry a more...

The next 12 months could be a surprisingly good year for the private rental sector despite some obvious challenges, according to...

The gap between typical City rents and Country rents is closing according to an analysis of Countrywide properties by the company’s...

An MP claims the proliferation of short lets via Airbnb and similar online platforms is indirectly pricing local people out of...

A survey of 2,750 tenants by a prominent PropTech firm suggests a quarter are concerned about not being able to pay...

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...

Rents are higher for Londoners living near busy high streets - for the moment at least.  Research by rental platform Spotahome has...

A document outlining options for the future regulation of Airbnb and other short let platforms in the UK is to be...

One of the country’s largest Build To Rent players, Legal & General, says it’s to construct another 350 homes as part...

The private equity firm that snapped up Zoopla Property Group two years ago has revealed that it’s one of two companies...

Foxtons has snapped up a lettings agency in suburban London. It’s bought London Stone Properties Limited and its subsidiary company London Stone...

A new concept of co-living is being offered on a rental basis at a new purpose-built development in west London. The firm...

The Association of Residential Lettings Agents has thrown its weight behind an initiative by the Scottish Government to control the growth...

There’s been an upbeat assessment of how the private rental sector will fare in the next five years from a leading...

New research from an international law firm shows that the rental sector in major cities is now changing its demographic make-up...

Online rental services platform Howsy - which last week revealed £5m new investment from backers - has acquired online lettings agency...

Legal & General, one of the largest specialist builders of so-called retirement communities for the over-55s, is now going to let...