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Generation Rent says it wants rent rises across the UK limited to the lowest of two official government statistics. In a statement...

Only five weeks after the General Election, activist group the Renters Reform Coalition is already impatient at Labour’s failure to bring...

Metropolitan areas that have built more homes in relation to their population since 2015 are more likely to have seen rent...

Academics in a leading university have set up a project to probe so-called bidding wars in the private rental sector.  Two figures...

Latest official figures from the government’s Office for National Statistics show that average UK private rents increased by 8.6% in the...

Entrepreneur and former star of TV show Dragon’s Den James Caan will be the keynote speaker at the National Residential Landlords...

Speculation is growing ahead of the General Election around how first-time buyers will fair, and if they’ll receive the support they...

The property consultancy Bidwells says that based on an average 300,000 new homes a year it could be four decades before...

Nigel Farage has pledged that his Reform UK party would reverse the Section 24 landlord tax changes within 100 days. Section 24...

The Times recently calculated that recent tax and regulation changes made it unviable for many landlords to continue in the sector. We...

Figures publicised in a new House of Commons report suggests there’s been a huge rise in the number of short lets...

England’s dwindling social housing stock is poised to plummet by an additional 189,000 properties through the controversial Right to Buy scheme...

Average UK private rents were up 8.9% in the year to April according to the Office for National Statistics. This is a...

London councils have slammed government plans for regulating the short-term and holiday lets sector. In a letter to Housing Secretary Michael Gove,...

New market analysis by peer-to-peer investment platform easyMoney has identified 10 areas of the nation on track for growth of more...

A comprehensive new survey gives the lowdown on buy to let in the UK. The study, by Uswitch, is lengthy and covers...

The average house prices in England was £290,000 last year, some 8.3 times average annual earnings. This was actually down from 8.5...

The Government quietly announced population projections towards the end of January that could have major implications for the types of homes...

Activist group Generation Rent has described the latest homelessness data from the government as showing “a whole new level of horror.” It...

There’s been a remarkable start to the year for the UK auction sector - its busiest January ever. Essential Information Group, which...

Landlords selling up because of rising taxes and unaffordable regulations are being advised not to be over ambitious with asking prices.  Tim...

Tenants faced with eviction must have legal aid, the Law Society of England and Wales claims. Recently published statistics from the Ministry...

Almost a quarter of London tenants have had to move rental properties more than five times in five years, a tax...

Two thirds of landlords say the demand for private rented housing is continuing to increase, according to new research commissioned by...

Generation Rent has launched a double-pronged attack on landlords and the government. The activist group claims that the latest possession statistics from...

The Tenant Farmers Association says its latest survey of tenant farmers paints a bleak picture of the relationships between landlords and...

A think tank claims that the government will pay landlords in the private sector six times the expected spend on new affordable homes in the five-year period between 2021 and 2026. The New...

There will be long term pressure on housing affordability and the private rental sector if demographic forecasts from a range of...

The Office for National Statistics says private rents in England experienced a 6.1 per cent rise in 2023, the sharpest annual...

The yo-yo economic news is now casting doubt on whether the Bank of England will cut base rate as quickly as...

Generation Rent says it’s worked out what rent levels will be in two years’ time. The activists say rents will rise 14...

One in four people don’t have enough savings to cover a 25 per cent drop in earnings - and that rises...

The government’s Office for National Statistics is introducing a new way of measuring rent rises from the spring. It will double the...

A charity is suggesting that if only the government got on with abolishing S21 eviction powers, homelessness would be eased. Crisis -...

The UK’s Office for National Statistics will soon have access to data on short-term lets listed on Airbnb, Booking .com and...

A new analysis has produced a league table of the most and least affordable rental locations in England. The findings placed Rutland...

The government's Office for National Statistics has revealed that it conducts an exercise to assess the likelihood that landlords will increase...

Just days after the government revealed it was not scrapping Section 21 until court possession processes had been overhauled, so the...

The property investment service BuyAssociation has changed the wording of an advertisement after intervention by the Advertising Standards Authority. The ASA says: “A...

The classic “landlord favourite” for buying and selling - the auction house - appears to be bucking the downward trend in...

Debate is raging over whether there will be a 15th successive interest rate rise when the Bank of England’s monetary policy...

New housing affordability figures provide one underlying reason why many potential buyers cannot make the move and instead rely increasingly on...

Rents in the private sector of England and Wales increased by 5.1 per cent in the year to June — the...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has launched an eight week long consultation in a bid to gather input on its...

A report from the government’s Office for National Statistics shows that renters and mortgage holders have higher odds of experiencing financial...

The priority for the majority of landlords is rental income that is paid on time, but there is also the priority...

If you are a landlord looking for the silver lining in a dark cloud, June’s interest rate decision will have certainly...

A year ago, many landlords’ primary concern was what would be included in the Government’s long-awaited Renters (Reform) Bill. Today, with...

New data from the Office for National Statistics, based on the 2021 Census results, show growth in the number of holiday...

A charity is warning that growing numbers of private tenants are likely to have difficulties keeping up with their financial commitments. The...

A pressure group is calling on the government to introduce in-tenancy restrictions on how much rents can be raised, and claims...

If this was typical of the past 10 years we would be talking of a 0.6 per cent average house price...

Investors and second home buyers contributed over a quarter of all property taxes in the last year according to a property...

Rents in England their upward path last month, rising 0.1 per cent to an annual rate of 4.7 per cent according...

A recent study by nationwide conveyancers Muve, using official data from the Office for National Statistics, has revealed the most and...

Propertymark has told a group of MPs that many benefit recipients are excluded from the private rented sector due to the...

A campaign group claims that current MPs in the House of Commons make as much as £2m a year. 38 Degrees, which...

One of the most respected financial organisations is warning landlords and the rest of the property industry that markets are now...

Tax expert David Hannah claims that the government's 12 new high-growth investment zones have already begun to drive property prices in...

Hitting the UK’s net zero carbon objective is an immense task, but one that we must strive for. We all have...

Many indices suggest house prices have already dipped, at least slightly, but “forward-looking indication don’t look brilliant either” according to one...

According to the most recent statistics there are 676,452 vacant properties in England, nearly half a million of which have been...

  Second home market growth and falling house prices could be a combination for success. There’s been a clear positive correlation between profit...

Airbnb claims its so-called ‘spare room’ landlords earn an a rage of just £2,400 a year - the equivalent of a...

Good EPC ratings are increasingly important for tenants when considering which properties to rent, it’s been claimed. Nicky Stevenson, managing director of...

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

A leading property industry figure has exploded the myths that lie behind the calls for private rent controls. Ian Fletcher, director of...

House prices rose by 9.8 per cent year-on-year in December compared with the same month in 2021, the Office for National...

A £50m scheme to bring more empty homes back to life in Wales - but private land are excluded from applying. The...

An unlikely location heads the latest league table purporting to show the highest returns on property investment. Aldermore’s Buy To let City...

The new editor of an influential newspaper property supplement has come up with a way of solving what she calls “the...

Propertymark says some 85 per cent of its member agents in Scotland have landlord clients who have expressed a wish to...

Capital values are set to fall “further and faster” between now and the spring, a property expert predicts. Mortgage lender figures have...

There are several key reasons why property owners choose to become landlords, some of which include regular income, investment and long-term...

Activist group Generation Rent has started a petition calling on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to freeze private rents this winter. As part...

The charity Crisis says rising rents are a contributing factor to the homelessness crisis. The comment come as  new data from the...

A prominent figure in property investment is warning that buy to let is the sector facing the biggest challenges in the...

As the energy crisis gather pace, households are increasingly likely to be in the position where they are unable to afford...

Property taxes in Scotland have increased by nearly two thirds compared to the pre-pandemic period according to analysis of the latest...

With cost of living increases impacting homeowners, landlords and tenants, are the 44,130 vacant houses across cities in England a bigger...

A campaign called Energy Guide says landlords can and should do more to save energy in the private rental sector.  The campaign...

In Scotland - where a rent freeze kicks in this coming weekend - Scottish private rents have fallen nearly 15 in...

A government department is asking landlords to share their data in a bid to improve services. The Valuation Office Agency says it...

Rents have increased by 3.4 per cent across the UK on average over the past year - rather less than the...

Paragon Bank has revealed the locations where landlords letting to students can achieve the strongest yields - and they are typically...

A prominent personal finance analyst says renters in the private sector are amongst the most badly hit by the cost of...

Average rental prices across the UK rose at the highest level since 2016 in June, government figures show.  Even so that annual...

A prominent agency has revised its market forecast for the rest of 2022 and says prices will rise more and for...

Ofgem has announced that the energy price cap will further rise from £1,971 to £2,800 in October this year, amid an...

An online rental platform suggests almost a third of rental homes may be deemed unaffordable. Ocasa, using Office for National Statistics data,...

Brand new ‘property passports’ would help landlords prove their homes are compliant and assist tenants to identify decent and safe housing,...

Campaigning charity Shelter wants the government to fast-track its pledge to scrap Section 21 eviction powers. The government pledged a White Paper...

Activists in Generation Rent have repeated once again their call for a rent freeze and yet another eviction ban.  “Rents have been...

Contrary to recent figures from Zoopla and others, pointing to double-digit rental inflation in the past year, official statistics show the...

Labour’s London Mayor - buoyed up after the party’s successes in the capital in last week’s elections - has renewed his...

Activists in the Generation Rent group have made seven demands on government including a rent freeze, the clearing of tenants’ arrears,...

Campaigning charity Shelter claims renters’ pockets are being hit the hardest of any demographic group in Britain in terms of the...

Almost 10 per cent of private landlords letting properties to Universal Credit claimants have experienced at least one tenant having difficulties...

Official government data suggests that rents are rising by 1.8 per cent a year - but a prominent analyst has gone...

With landlords under pressure to fund ever-stricter energy efficiency requirements, a new report appears to make the government’s ‘one size fits...