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The National Residential Landlords Association says it’s met with new housing minister Matthew Pennycook to discuss improving standards in the rental...

The average price of a home coming to the market for sale has dipped 0.4% in the past month says Rightmove.  This...

Some locations in the UK are seeing as many as 40-plus prospective tenants racing for the keys of every available rental...

Rightmove is warning that the housing market is set for disruptions from the summer onwards, and suggests the brisk start to...

A merger of two of the biggest names in the lettings agency world will mean the combined group managing 152,000 rental...

Escalating rents have led many first time buyers to adjust their property expectations and accept smaller homes when they purchase, a...

The long-awaited Renters Reform Bill has been unveiled, as Ministers bid to address the housing crisis and create a fairer rental...

2023 could be a landmark year for the private rented sector if Michael Gove succeeds in his pursuit of reforming the...

The Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities has still not given a new date for the publication of the Renters...

The government has back-tracked on its decision to publish the long-awaited Renters Reform Bill this week. The Mirror newspaper reports this morning that...

A newspaper report claims that some Conservative MPs are unhappy at the anti-landlord tone of the Renters Reform Bill which is...

The Property Investor Show is back for its 20th year with 100 property sector experts and exhibitors in London this week. The...

Landlords looking mostly long-term capital appreciation rather than yields may have to invest in an unlikely location which topped a league...

The Hunters lettings agency has set out tips for landlords to keep their rental properties occupied all year round. The firm -...

A respected private rental sector body wants the government to slow its timetable for energy efficiency reform, warning that landlords could...

Letting agents in London say there's more interest from prospective tenants now the vaccine and Coronavirus roadmap suggest something like normality...

Scams involving fake landlords and bogus lettings agents are rife in the private rentals sector, and may have been made worse...

Rightmove said visits to its website rose by 45% yesterday morning compared with a day earlier following the government’s decision to...

Online searches for properties in remote or coastal locations has increased sharply, according to Rightmove.  The property website analysed the areas people...

Amid all the uncertainty facing the world, some people are in the middle of buying property, and while some home hunters...

The number of homes sold rose again in February to hit their highest level in six months in a further sign...

Zoopla has registered more than 100,000 sign-ups to its latest dedicated rental platform since it was launched a week ago.  Zooploma, a...

The change in customer behaviour driven by technological developments is the biggest trend that marketers believe will offer the greatest opportunities...

Landlords are being urged to vet tenants carefully and watch out for the tell-tale signs that a property is being used as...

There are growing signs of stability returning to the residential property market, new research shows.  Sentiment towards the housing market looks positive...

The outlook for the UK housing market has improved over the past few weeks with the decisive nature of the general election...

New electrical safety regulations were presented before Parliament on 13 January 2020 in a move by the government to strengthen electrical...

Property website Zoopla has released the keywords that prospective homebuyers are most likely to use when searching on the site. ‘Garage’, ‘garden’...

There was a marginal drop in the number of tenants experiencing rent increases in September but they remained high overall, ARLA...

With no repairs required, lower running costs and energy bills, as well as NHBC’s 10-year warranty, new build homes appeal to...

Deposit-free renting provider flatfair has signed a partnership with Hunters which has more than 200 letting branches across the UK. The move...

The number of tenants experiencing rent rises hit yet another record high in August, the latest ARLA Propertymark PRS report shows. The...

There has been an increase of almost 60% in buyer enquiries in Preston in the last 12 months, according to new...

Zoopla has launched its new app experience which aims to help home-hunters easily find the most relevant properties on mobile and...

With some analysts predicting that buy-to-let landlords are about to flood the market with properties for sale, investors are being urged...

The North West has long since ceased to be an “inside tip” amongst forward-looking property investors. It’s now one of the...

But-to-let landlords thinking about expanding their property portfolio will find that the sustained drop in the number of new homes for...

The number of tenants experiencing rent increases dropped slightly in March thanks partly to a sharp rise in the number of...

Nationwide were among a small group of mortgage lenders asked to give evidence at a select committee yesterday on restrictions around...

Traditionally, many renters have often sought properties with good local amenities close by in an area that falls within the catchment...

The number of tenants experiencing rent increases in February rose to the highest figure since August, as supply of new property...

The number of tenants experiencing rent increases in January rose for the first time since September 2018, according to ARLA Propertymark’s...

The number of tenants experiencing rent increases in November dropped to its lowest level seen since February this year, according to...

There was an 85% rise in the number of tenants successfully negotiating rent reductions in October as the supply of available...

It now takes more than five months on average for private landlords to regain possession of a property when applying to...

Some 31% of private tenants saw their rent payments rise last month, up from 27% in September 2017 and 24% in...

With more house-hunters than ever now starting their search for a new home by typically looking online on one of the major property portals, most landlords would naturally like...

It currently looks like a potentially good time for buy-to-let landlords to expand their property portfolios, amid an overall cooling in...

An unscrupulous individual pretending to be a private landlord in order to scam more than £10,000 from unsuspecting tenants before going...

The rapid growth in popularity of buy-to-let in recent years has been fuelled in part by the failings of the pensions...

The popularity of property auctions in the UK has increased enormously in recent years, supported by popular TV shows such as...

Despite pressure from the property industry, including landlords, letting agents and housebuilders, the chancellor Philip Hammond opted not to reverse the...

The average cost of renting a home has increased outside of London as rent paid rose 2% and pay fell over...

With more house-hunters than ever now starting their property search online, it is important that your rental property has a strong...

Kevin Hollinrake, the Conservative MP and co-founder of Hunters estate agents, has tabled an amendment to the Finance Bill calling for...

Landlords are often portrayed as greedy investors who are looking to take advantage of tenants, but when it comes to what...

The number of residential properties on letting agents’ books reached its highest level of the year so far in July, according...

An MP has spoken out in favour of buy-to-let landlords by insisting that they should never have been denied a tax...

With more house-hunters than ever now starting their property search online, it is crucial that a property has a good website...

Estate agents have reported an increase in the number of buy-to-let investors trying to push sales through before April stamp duty...

Measures which discourage investment in the private rented sector can only push up rents and harm tenants more than landlords, a...

The tiny number of landlord convictions is no deterrent to the worst landlords, Generation Rent has said, as it calls on...

Plumstead in South East London is currently the cheapest place to rent a two-bed property in the capital, according to research...