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Edinburgh-based property portal ESPC has revealed the top-performing Edinburgh postcodes in terms of rental yields, for the second quarter of 2024. The...

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

Rightmove has produced five core demands on behalf of the rental sector, which it would like the next government to meet. These...

Co-living specialist Built Asset Management has snapped up a fourth rival operator in three years.  ProCo-Living joins the BAM business portfolio with...

A personal finance expert has revealed that a new group which he calls Guppies are reconciled to possibly renting forever. Alan Davison,...

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

Keyzy, a rent-to-own service aimed at aspiring homeowners, has raised £3m in a seed funding round.  The proceeds will accelerate its purchases...

Prime rental growth in London ended 2022 up 10.9 per cent on the year, according to Savills prime lettings index, as...

Winkworth is expanding in the south west with a new office opening in the Bishopston area of Bristol, tapping into a...

Just about every agency that has commented on yesterday’s Autumn Statement are in agreement - changes to Capital Gains Tax, Inheritance...

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

Tenants are demanding better quality HMOs according to new research from specialist buy to let lender Paragon Bank. The bank’s survey of...

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

There’s been a broad welcome from letting agents to the Spring Statement not loading more tax or restrictions on buy to...

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

Home offices are already the most-demanded must have from prospective tenants says James Hay, director at Surrey lettings agency, The Home...

A lettings agency in Manchester has received over 10,000 rental enquiries in just one month. Manchester Apartments says it received some  21,000...

The room-letting sector known as co-living, now growing in London, has seen occupancy levels bounce back since some Covid restrictions have...

Campaigners against letting agents and landlords appear to suggest that the issue of rising rents is uniquely confined to the UK...

The lettings arm of a leading Edinburgh-based property portal has reported a surge of Edinburgh properties being rented on the same...

As a letting agent in the UK, you might think what happens in China has no bearing on your work here....

The chancellor Rishi Sunak has been urged to make it more attractive for landlords to invest in the private rental sector. Sunak...

A buying agency says it’s seen what it calls “a huge uptake in furnished lettings requests” following recent floods in London,...

Winkworth says its London rental activities have suffered because of a lack of international travel, and students and young professionals returning to...

Lettings agency Intus Lettings has announced the opening of a new Sheffield office — its first base in Yorkshire. The Sheffield office...

HousingAnywhere, a rental platform specialising in accommodation for young professionals and students, has raised some €24m for further expansion. The service covers some UK...

Online lettings company Monkey vs Owl - also known as MOVO - has expanded from a regional and mostly student service...

The splendidly named East Midlands lettings agency Monkey vs Owl - known as MOVO - has opened a second office. Its first,...

The commercial arm of Countrywide is urging landlords currently facing huge void periods because students have been ordered home, to reconfigure...

Grainger, one of the biggest names in Build To Rent, has agreed to buy a proposed 348 home-scheme in central Nottingham. The...

An agency which says it aims to be “the UK’s premier residential lettings company” says it’s offering itself free to landlords...

Institutional investment in the Build to Rent (BTR) sector reached a record high last year, according to fresh research from Bidwells.  The...

A PropTech platform launched three years ago acting as a search system for students wanting purpose-built accommodation is evolving into a...

Rent in London is the most expensive in Europe for expats, new research shows. The UK capital’s rent averages US$7,189 - that’s...

A report claims that England has just 825 homes for every 1,000 families as a result of two decades of house...

Five homeless people will have a roof over their heads this Christmas thanks to a kind-hearted PropTech chief. Mike Georgeson, founder of...

Manchester’s rental market is rising higher than in any other UK city according to property consultancy Cushman & Wakefield.  Rents were up...

The shock findings of a new survey suggest that 32 per cent of landlords would be less likely to buy new...

Yet another leading lettings agent has hit out at the government over its proposals for three year tenancies being the norm...

Grainger plc, the UK’s largest listed residential landlord, has launched a scheme of 29 two, three and four bedroom houses aimed...

A property company and a landlord have been fined over £200,000 after being accused of putting tenants’ lives in danger by...

A London letting agency is opening a new branch thanks to continued high demand from EU nationals looking for rental property...

The agent behind London’s newest letting opportunity says it’s the most luxurious property in the capital’s most presigious neighbourhood - and...

The pace of decreasing rental values in Prime Central London (PCL) has slowed, according to the latest data from Knight Frank. Average...

The proportion of households living in the Private Rented Sector (PRS) will rise to 24% over the next four years, according...

Build To Rent operator Essential Living has won planning consent for 221 new homes in Brentford - part of the firm’s...

The fall in rents across prime central London’s lettings market are slowing according to Knight Frank. It claims rents have dropped 4.9...

A property investment financing specialist says an increasing number of buy to let investors are converting properties into Houses in Multiple...

The largest Build To Rent deal in Bristol has been announced.  Grainger, the UK's largest listed residential landlord, will forward fund, acquire...

It's more important than ever that letting agents stand out with their marketing messages. The British rental market is more crowded than...

Prime central London’s sales market has been in the doldrums for some time - now at least one high-end lettings agency...

Savills says mainstream UK rents are likely to rise by an average of 16.5 per cent by the end of 2020...

The private rented sector is becoming an increasingly diverse place. Its growth into the UK's second largest form of housing has...

Investors with HMOs are better placed than other landlords to combat any financial damage caused by future interest rate rises. Analysis carried...

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