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02 September 2024
From: Breaking News
A female-run block management company says it’s achieved a 30% growth in its client base - and it doesn’t take kickbacks...
27 June 2024
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Housing juggernaut Legal & General says it’s now half way through a £400m Build To Rent scheme in Wandsworth, south London. It...
06 June 2024
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A boutique agency with branches in prime central and south west London has expanded its lettings operation by acquiring two agencies...
25 March 2024
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A lettings agency claims foreign homeowners are sitting on £84.2 billion worth of property across England and Wales - but with...
14 July 2023
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Prime London’s rental growth has started to slow on an annual basis, according to the latest Savills prime lettings index. But the...
11 July 2023
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HM Courts and Tribunals Service has halted the work of bailiffs on safety grounds. An incident is under investigation, and it’s believed...
16 June 2023
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A London-focused lettings agency says actual rents in the capital are far greater than official average figures produced by the government. Benham...
28 April 2023
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Wandsworth council in south London is considering a review into the feasibility of introducing discretionary landlord licencing. A statement from the authority...
07 October 2022
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Labour’s Sadiq Khan wants an increase in Capital Gains Tax for some buy to let investors. The London Mayor made his response...
31 May 2022
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A mortgage lender specialising in working with ex-pat and foreign buy to let investors says the city apartment and house remain...
20 May 2022
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The number of HMOs in England has fallen as a result of government intervention in the market. In 2018 new regulations were...
13 May 2022
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A London council is urging letting agents and landlords to sign a pledge to encourage tenants to use the local recycling...
17 March 2022
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A rental platform has revealed the wide disparity in rents to the north and south of the Thames in London, and...
16 February 2022
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Data consultancy LonRes says a dramatic fall in prime London rental stock is forcing rents to rise at last. The number of...
18 October 2021
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John D Wood - one of two high end brands formerly owned by Countrywide but recently acquired by Connells - is...
01 September 2021
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Rapidly rising rents may trigger a new wave of investment buyers in London, helping to resuscitate the capital’s sales market in...
15 July 2021
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There’s a large scale recovery underway in London’s rental sector according to the website Home. The site says that while average rents...
17 June 2021
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At least one lettings agency is on a list of targets for socially-distanced protests tomorrow by anti-eviction campaigners in the left...
09 April 2021
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London lettings and estate agency Benham and Reeves has calculated a league table of the most popular postcodes in the capital...
07 April 2021
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Rightmove says falling rents in central London have led to a surge in interest from prospective tenants. Rightmove has analysed over 23 million...
10 March 2021
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Lettings agency Carter Jonas predicts the housing market - for both owner-occupiers and landlords - will become increasingly eco-focussed in 2021. It says...
30 December 2020
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There’s a warning this morning that the consequences of the Coronavirus crisis mean that rents will fall at least five per...
28 July 2020
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A London council has sent an open letting to its buy to let landlords urging them to show understanding to tenants...
26 May 2020
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London as a whole has seen rental stock plummet by 22 per cent in just one year according to a market...
16 December 2019
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Greater London rents have risen an average of four per cent in the past year - but some boroughs performing above-average...
13 September 2019
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Rents in London are rocketing but a leading market commentator says this is no reason to give in to a “Marxist dystopia”...
07 August 2019
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A buy to let investor who let out an unsafe and unlicensed property in London has now been hit with a...
21 June 2019
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The fierce competition in the lettings market in parts of London means that some tenants will feel no benefit from the...
28 May 2019
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Legal & General has exchanged contracts on two adjacent sites in south London to deliver its largest Built To Rent scheme...
16 May 2019
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London landlords and letting agents could be missing out on up to £111 million of short-term rental revenue each year, according...
22 May 2018
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A property management company which ignored a series of housing safety regulations and flouted laws designed to protect tenants’ rights has...
03 April 2018
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A warning has come from a campaigning letting agent that London’s landlords agents could be costing themselves tenants by requiring them...
20 March 2018
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The sittings of the select committee looking into government proposals to ban letting agents’ fees levied on tenants resume this week...
19 February 2018
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A south London property firm has been prosecuted by a local authority over its HMO management and may now have to...
14 July 2017
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A property company owner who waged a campaign of harassment and intimidation against a young mother he wanted to illegally evict...
17 March 2017
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A rogue landlord found guilty of waging a campaign of harassment and intimidation against a young mother he wanted to illegally...
27 February 2017
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It appears that Wandsworth Council has backed away from a decision to implement a new landlord licensing scheme. Research by London Property...
08 September 2016
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A landlord and his letting agent who failed to declare they were operating a series of bedsits at an address in...