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The head of lettings agency Benham and Reeves has made an outspoken attack on stamp duty. The agency analysed data from the...

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...

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

A prominent London-focused agent and property consultant says landlords are prioritising long term ‘tenant quality’ over short term yields. Jo Eccles, founder...

The average home in England and Wales bought within the last 20 years and sold in 2023 achieved £102,650 or 48...

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

According to a London property management company, the profile of renters in prime London is varying hugely.  Glenfield Property Management says that...

A landlord and a property management company have been found guilty of putting tenants at risk after a council probe. Kensington and...

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

More than 300 landlords have applied for a new licence brought in this summer by Tory controlled Kensington and Chelsea council...

The latest research by London lettings agency Benham and Reeves has revealed the uphill struggle facing those in search of a...

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

Private landlords and managing agents are being invited to take part in a new anti-burglary scheme being run by a Labour-controlled...

A leading buying agent says changing planning priorities amongst London councils are likely to mean that large lateral apartments will maintain...

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, wants new powers to impose higher tax on empty homes - and even seize them...

The government response to a Freedom of Information request has shed light on the increasing number of homes in England and...

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

A new rental market analysis has revealed where in the UK has the highest proportion of private landlords.  Benham and Reeves analysed...

Prime Central London will bounce back in 2023 according to national consultancy Carter Jonas - and it’s thanks to the poorly...

A London council and Airbnb are working together to try to counter large scale fraud amongst social housing tenants who sub-let...

A fake landlord who made over £2,500 a month letting out a London that he didn’t own has been taken to...

Research by a rental platform suggests there are currently over 65,000 short let properties being advertised in London alone. The platform, Rentd,...

Landlords seeking capital appreciation from a recovering prime London market have been provided with a league table by a debt advisory...

Room rents in most major UK urban locations are now at a record high according to flatshare service SpareRoom.  Some 41 out...

Covid-19 has undoubtedly shifted the way new landlords will be looking to invest in 2022, and our ranking makes it clear...

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

A leading market forecaster has described the level of rent rises in one part of the country as “going ballistic”. “The London...

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

The government should factor in the property market’s huge regional variations when offering landlords incentives to become more energy efficient. That’s the call...

A lettings agent says a new HMO licensing regime in one of London’s highest profile boroughs will reduce the number of rental...

Landlords wanting to break into London buy to let have been provided with a guide to boroughs with the most discounted...

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

Rental affordability in the capital has improved markedly during the pandemic according to London lettings agency Benham and Reeves.  The firm analysed...

Owners of apparently empty or under-utilised properties in a prime London area are being asked to bring them into use to...

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

Buy-to-let landlords face having to reduce rents by at least 5% over the next five years as a growing number of...

The current average UK rental yield has dropped slightly from 3.6% to 3.5%, according to the latest data from Howsy.  Despite the existing...

Customers from Yorkshire Building Society, Accord Mortgages, Accord Buy to Let and Chelsea Building Society who have been financially affected by...

Draker Lettings is celebrating its 10th anniversary with the launch of its ‘let for free’ initiative aimed at landlords with properties...

The average price of residential property in the UK has increased by 189% since 1999, according to fresh analysis from independent...

Many tenants who own at least one pet have struggled to find pet-friendly accommodation, and yet despite efforts to encourage more...

Top-flight football returns this weekend, with Liverpool preparing for tonight’s Premier League opener versus Norwich City, but what team should landlords...

Germany’s rent controls place strong restrictions on in-tenancy rent increases, while the ‘rent brake’ introduced a couple of year ago makes...

The soaring cost of renting property in prime central London has once again come under the spotlight following WikiLeaks founder Julian...

The average rent for a property in the UK increased by 0.96% in the year to March but London remains a...

If you are looking to expand your buy-to-let portfolio this year with a low-cost property purchase you may wish to consider buying...

Rental values in prime London remain firm on the back of greater demand from tenants, as continued political uncertainty continues to...

A growing number of young professionals and students are choosing to house share, driving up the average cost of renting room...

As an income investment, buy-to-let continues to look attractive, especially compared to low savings rates and stock market swings, but when...

New research has identified London’s most uninhabitable boroughs for the capital’s tenants, based on the cost of living there to the...

Private landlords across the UK collectively earned £33.8bn from their buy-to-let investments in the year from 5 April 2017 to 2018,...

The increase of London Living Wage to £10.55 per hour and UK Living Wage to £9 per hour has been welcomed...

Buy-to-let has recently taken a bit of a bashing with some landlords forced to exit the market as profits drop amid...

Rents for residential properties fell across parts of London in quarterly terms as the supply of properties coming on to the...

The UK is facing a critical rental shortage as many landlords continue to offload properties due to recent tax a change,...

A drop in the number of properties coming onto the private rented market in prime central London (PCL) has begun to...

With the number of people living in private rented accommodation continuing to grow, more tenants are seeking permission to keep pets...

For the next five days, the grounds of the Royal Hospital in SW3 will be home to the world’s most prestigious...

London now has significantly more Airbnb listings than ever before, with a growing number of buy-to-let landlords turning to the holiday letting...

Hackney in east London has recorded the fastest growth in rents on a typical two-bedroom home over the past decade, according...

Tenants in London are now required to pay up to £8,650 just to move into a rented home, it has been...

While rental growth may have slowed in London over recent months, the appetite to invest in HMO properties across the capital...

The UK’s largest and arguably most controversial buy-to-let landlord who earlier this year banned ‘coloured people’ from renting any of his...

A landlord who endangered the lives of his tenants has been successfully prosecuted and fined more than £200,000 for failing to...

Fresh research using a combination of house prices, salaries and rental prices suggest that Stoke-on-Trent is the best destination to invest...

Most single tenants renting privately in the capital are now paying more than half of their monthly salary on average to...

The UK’s largest and arguably most controversial buy-to-let landlord who banned ‘coloured people’ from renting his properties because ‘they make them...

Complaints against letting agents often make the headlines, but the reality is that most tenants and landlords are happy with the...

The owner of a rental property in west London, which was described by a judge as a “deathtrap”, has been told...

Some buy-to-let landlords are bracing themselves for smaller profits over the coming years as a result of the new mortgage interest...

The UK’s largest and arguably most controversial buy-to-let landlord Fergus Wilson has called in the police after receiving a tirade of...

Britain’s biggest and arguably most contentious buy-to-let landlord has banned ‘coloured people’ from renting his properties because ‘they make them smell...

Rent increases across the UK have slowed to their lowest level since 2013, fresh data has revealed, with prices in London...

The pace of rental price growth in the UK slowed to 0.05% in the month to October from a rise of...

The chances of would-be buyers in London getting a foothold on the housing ladder remain slim, mainly due to high property...

A landlord has been fined £162,000 after 18 people were found to be living in his ‘unsafe’ Georgian Grade II-listed flat...

Buy-to-let landlords in London have not resorted to panic-selling as a consequence of the Brexit vote and are sensibly opting not...

Dlighted is trying to persuade more landlords and tenants to use its deposit-free renting service by claiming that at least £2bn...

There has been a “significant increase” in demand among corporate tenants relocating to London and the South East of England thanks...

Tenants will no longer be able to find a room in a two-bedroom London property for £500-a-month or less, according to...

Rental yields in London are now among the lowest in the country, but take a closer look at the market and...

Rental values have increased across prime central London over the past three months fuelled by greater demand from people looking to...

Homeowners and prospective landlords across the Deepings and Bourne districts of Lincolnshire are being offered grants of up to £5,000 to...

A west London property company managing an HMO in Notting Hill has been fined £47,900 in relation to 24 charges under...

An unlicensed HMO landlord has been ordered to pay more than £25,000 after appearing in court. Emmil Seeson Watson (also known as...

Living in London is something many of us dream of; it really is a city that never sleeps and you can...