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Agents’ trade group Propertymark is demanding London Mayor candidates tackle what it calls “the unique housing challenges that the capital experiences.” Londoners...

The latest Rental Index from Goodlord reveals that rents are now up by 5.7% over the year.  The price per property over...

The proportion of buy to let properties purchased in Southern England fell to a record low last year, continuing a trend...

Homes Under The Hammer property expert Lucy Alexander is fronting a new campaign to identify empty homes and bring them back...

Newly released data by flatshare website SpareRoom reveals average rental prices in Greater London have seen a drop. Average rental prices in...

The latest Rental Index from PropTech supplier Goodlord has recorded a rent rise and a reduction in void lengths over the...

Another rental market snapshot suggests that London is suffering an oversupply of properties to let - with rents dipping as a...

Rents across the UK continue to retreat from their 2023 highs, falling by 2.9 per cent over the last three months,...

Landlords increasingly struggle with tenants who pay rent late or default, a mortgage lender is claiming.  Research from Molo suggests landlords are...

The latest HomeLet rental index begins 2024 with a glimmer of hope for tenants as rents have fallen for the second...

Affordability limits have been reached in several regions of the UK, the Home property website suggests. While some regions are still recording...

One of the first forecasts for the rental market for 2024 suggests that strong growth will continue. Property consultancy JLL says that...

A local authority in London is to buy back over 300 properties it built and sold off years ago under Right...

Average house prices are now falling 2.9 per cent annually in England and Wales according to the monthly e.surv index. Yorkshire and...

New research shows that 676,000 homes in England are sitting empty. The research comes from property purchasing firm House Buyer Bureau which...

The latest Rental Demand Index from the Barrows and Forrester agency has revealed that rental demand has surged during the third...

Buy-to-let landlords with property assets held in a company could be taking advantage of the current dip in house prices to...

July was a record breaking month for the rental market, claims a PropTech company. Goodlord analyses tens of thousands of completed tenancies...

The number of voids has dropped by 44 per cent in the past month to hit an average of just nine...

London landlords and letting agents have so far been hit with more than £900,000 in fines in the first half of...

The average UK rental price is now £1,229 pcm, increasing 1.3 per cent from last month.   Greater London sees a massive...

The cost of rent rose in seven of the eight regions monitored by Goodlord during June.  The average cost of rent per...

New data appears to show that the number of active short lets is lower - and not higher - than in...

Specialist buy to let lender Fleet Mortgages says there’s been both an annual and quarterly increase in rental yields, up from...

A lettings agency has identified the three most complained-about issues by tenants last year. All the tenants were in Greater London and...

The latest edition of a housing market measure has suggested that one borough of London has seen rent rises of 33...

After a hectic period of rent rises it appears that the lettings market is at a standstill according to PropTech firm...

Rents are up significantly in all regions and most notably in Greater London and Scotland according to the property website Home. It...

The London Mayor has been told to act urgently against the landlords of so-called ‘exempt accommodation’ in London. This is the largely-unregulated...

Overseas buyers - likely in many cases to be investors - have taken a bigger stake in the wealthy enclave of...

The rental market is firing on all cylinders again according to the latest market snapshot from PropTech firm Goodlord. It says void...

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has yet again taken to social media to demand the powers to freeze private sector rents. This has...

A substantial majority of agents say sellers are being unrealistic about the asking prices of their homes This includes landlord sellers quitting...

New data from flatshare site SpareRoom reveals that rents reached an all-time high in Q4 2022, with the average UK room...

The rental market remained relatively steady in recent weeks, according to the latest index from PropTech firm Goodlord. Void periods have remained...

It’s been known for over a year that John Lewis wishes to diversify into the private rental sector and now it...

The average cost of rent across England dipped one per cent during August, taking prices down to a national average of...

PropTech firm Kamma says total fines for agents and landlords have now topped £8m in London alone with a £238,000 increase...

Voids hit what has been described as an historic low in recent weeks, according to PropTech firm Goodlord. It says the average...

Rents are up year-on-year across all regions, according to the property website Home.   The mix-adjusted average rise across the UK is a...

The John Lewis Partnership is to offer short- and long-term lets when it builds flats to rent at three locations in...

A lettings market snapshot prepared each month by PropTech firm Goodlord claims there has been a dramatic rise in the typical...

There’s been a big rise in rents in the past month according to PropTech supplier Goodlord. They are now at their highest...

The threat of rent controls in two parts of the country may now be so severe that buy to let landlords...

A prominent property website, which monitors the lettings market, suggests that rent controls would drive a proportion of rental stock to...

The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan wants rogue landlords to pay bigger fines and more compensation to tenants. He is also introducing...

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, wants the government to put a stop to the capital being used for international money...

It’s a familiar story from PropTech supplier Goodlord as it releases its latest rental market snapshot - a lack of stock...

Rents are rising at around twice the level of a year ago according to the latest market snapshot by lettings agency...

Rents in Greater London are up an annualised 25 per cent, with much of the increase attributed to the stock of...

Landlords fearing a fall in income and a rise in voids over the festive period have nothing to fear - it...

The Home property website has identified locations where rents have risen by up to 38 per cent in the past 12...

£223.7 billion. That’s how much better off UK landlords are than five years ago when you do the maths on the...

Average annual rental growth across Britain hit 8.0 per cent in September, the third fastest annual rate of growth recorded this...

There’s good news for landlords who anticipate holding on to their property investments at least until 2031 - capital values are...

Celebrations amongst landlords and home owners over the latest record house price figures mask growing disadvantages for renters, claims a mortgage...

Rental yields on student lets are climbing steadily across England according to a new analysis by Goodlord.  In good news for landlords,...

A new table of UK city affordability offers some guidance for landlords looking for urban properties in some of the least...

Fines for landlords and lettings agents in Greater London have soared from just £22,000 in May to a huge £139,146 in...

Voids are at their lowest level since August 2019 while rents are on the rise, according to the latest Goodlord snapshot...

A prominent PropTech supplier to the lettings sector predicts that as summer continues and Covid restrictions reduce, so more tenants will...

We’re on track for a bumper summer of lettings according to one of the sector’s most authoritative rental market monitors. Goodlord’s latest...

The latest Goodlord rental index shows a buoyant lettings market over the past month.  March brought a boost in average income for...

London-focussed lettings agency Portico has drawn up highly localised hotspots within the capital for landlords seeking the best yields.  According to the...

With buy to let and traditional commercial property both under challenge thanks to government regulations and Coronavirus, the government is now...

The latest rental market snapshot from the property website Home talks of “a nightmare scenario for London landlords”. Firstly, it says rents...

Despite talk of increased arrears and wider economic concerns, it appears tenants are increasingly worried about the long-term effects of poor credit...

A leading market monitor suggests voids are increasing but otherwise states the rental market is in good health, one year on from...

A lettings agency says there is very large scale support amongst tenants for the extension to the current bailiff-enforced eviction ban,...

Rents across much of England and Wales are performing strongly according to a new market analysis - and in some areas...

The latest survey from PropTech platform Goodlord suggests the lettings landscape is relatively stable entering 2021 - but with the prospect...

The Labour-controlled Greater London Authority and 18 other groups of activists, charities and students have formed a new pro-renter coalition. Called the...

Renters are quitting London and heading for the regions in search of more space and bigger homes and gardens. That’s the claim...

A lettings market monitor says the Greater London rental sector has in recent months switched from one of scarcity of properties...

Sigma Capital has joined forces with Swedish investment firm EQT to create a £1bn housing joint venture, with a view to...

With activity in the market continuing to rise and the number new tenancies back to pre-pandemic levels, landlords are enjoying strong...

Rents increased by an average of 2% in August thanks to greater demand from renters, the latest figures show.  Modest growth in...

Rents on renewed tenancies fell for the second consecutive month in April, the latest Hamptons International Lettings Index shows.  Last month, the average...

Rents have unsurprisingly dropped over the past month, while the dip in void periods has fluctuated across the UK, the latest...

Some 70% tenancies that were due to end in March were renewed, the highest level recorded in any March since 2008...

Knight Frank forecast that residential property sales will fall by 38% this year, amid the coronavirus pandemic. Based on the assumption that...

There was a notable increase in the number of new tenancies in the early part of March before a sudden drop...

Rents continued to rise year-on-year in March while the number of homes available to let fell, according to the latest data...

Average UK rents continued to rise in February, but failed to keep up with inflation, according to the latest HomeLet Rental...

The rental market broadly remained stable in January, the latest rental index from Goodlord shows. Average rents increased in four out of...

The north of England provided the biggest jump in returns for buy-to-let landlords in the final quarter of last year as...

Fresh research from Proportunity reveals how different property types performed over the past decade, based on price growth.  The data, collected across...

A shortage of properties available to rent coupled with strong demand from tenants has led to notable rental price increases across...

London’s first rogue landlord banning order has been issued after tenants’ lives were put at risk through the letting of unsafe...

Rents in the UK’s private rented sector increased further in October, according to the latest data.  The figures from HomeLet show that...

Ahead of next month’s general election, the Residential Landlords Association (RLA) is warning that any potential proposal to introduce rent controls...

Almost a quarter of landlords are planning to sell at least one property from their existing buy-to-let portfolio, new research from...

Rents in the UK’s private rented sector continued to increase in September, the latest figures show.  The data from HomeLet reveals that...

More than 8,300 Londoners have called on London Mayor Sadiq Khan to ban adverts ‘encouraging’ landlords to abandon long-term tenants for...

Controversial short-lets managing agents Hostmaker has defended its latest advertising campaign after once again sparking outrage among some industry professionals for...

Rents in Great Britain increased 1.9% year-on-year in March, driven by a 3.7% rise in Greater London where rents hit a...

UK rents have started to increase at a rate not seen in the market for more than two years, fresh figures...

More needs to be done to stem the increase in short-term lets on Airbnb and similar platforms to ensure that there...

Overseas investors snapped up more than half of all properties for sale in prime London in the second half of 2018...

Close to £2.4m of additional funding designed to clampdown on unscrupulous landlords will be made available for more than 50 councils...