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The latest Rental Index from Goodlord reveals that rents are now up by 5.7% over the year. The price per property over...
01 May 2024
From: Breaking News
The proportion of buy to let properties purchased in Southern England fell to a record low last year, continuing a trend...
30 April 2024
From: Breaking News
Homes Under The Hammer property expert Lucy Alexander is fronting a new campaign to identify empty homes and bring them back...
20 March 2024
From: Breaking News
Newly released data by flatshare website SpareRoom reveals average rental prices in Greater London have seen a drop. Average rental prices in...
15 March 2024
From: Breaking News
The latest Rental Index from PropTech supplier Goodlord has recorded a rent rise and a reduction in void lengths over the...
05 March 2024
From: Breaking News
Another rental market snapshot suggests that London is suffering an oversupply of properties to let - with rents dipping as a...
15 February 2024
From: Breaking News
Rents across the UK continue to retreat from their 2023 highs, falling by 2.9 per cent over the last three months,...
17 January 2024
From: Breaking News
Landlords increasingly struggle with tenants who pay rent late or default, a mortgage lender is claiming. Research from Molo suggests landlords are...
16 January 2024
From: Breaking News
The latest HomeLet rental index begins 2024 with a glimmer of hope for tenants as rents have fallen for the second...
12 January 2024
From: Breaking News
Affordability limits have been reached in several regions of the UK, the Home property website suggests. While some regions are still recording...
21 November 2023
From: Breaking News
One of the first forecasts for the rental market for 2024 suggests that strong growth will continue. Property consultancy JLL says that...
13 November 2023
From: Breaking News
A local authority in London is to buy back over 300 properties it built and sold off years ago under Right...
25 October 2023
From: Breaking News
Average house prices are now falling 2.9 per cent annually in England and Wales according to the monthly e.surv index. Yorkshire and...
17 October 2023
From: Breaking News
New research shows that 676,000 homes in England are sitting empty. The research comes from property purchasing firm House Buyer Bureau which...
06 October 2023
From: Breaking News
The latest Rental Demand Index from the Barrows and Forrester agency has revealed that rental demand has surged during the third...
30 September 2023
From: The Big Issues
Buy-to-let landlords with property assets held in a company could be taking advantage of the current dip in house prices to...
19 August 2023
From: Tax & Finance
July was a record breaking month for the rental market, claims a PropTech company. Goodlord analyses tens of thousands of completed tenancies...
04 August 2023
From: Breaking News
02 August 2023
From: Breaking News
London landlords and letting agents have so far been hit with more than £900,000 in fines in the first half of...
10 July 2023
From: Breaking News
The average UK rental price is now £1,229 pcm, increasing 1.3 per cent from last month. Greater London sees a massive...
06 July 2023
From: Breaking News
The cost of rent rose in seven of the eight regions monitored by Goodlord during June. The average cost of rent per...
04 July 2023
From: Breaking News
New data appears to show that the number of active short lets is lower - and not higher - than in...
31 May 2023
From: Breaking News
Specialist buy to let lender Fleet Mortgages says there’s been both an annual and quarterly increase in rental yields, up from...
26 April 2023
From: Breaking News
A lettings agency has identified the three most complained-about issues by tenants last year. All the tenants were in Greater London and...
20 April 2023
From: Breaking News
The latest edition of a housing market measure has suggested that one borough of London has seen rent rises of 33...
20 April 2023
From: Breaking News
After a hectic period of rent rises it appears that the lettings market is at a standstill according to PropTech firm...
11 April 2023
From: Breaking News
Rents are up significantly in all regions and most notably in Greater London and Scotland according to the property website Home. It...
22 March 2023
From: Breaking News
The London Mayor has been told to act urgently against the landlords of so-called ‘exempt accommodation’ in London. This is the largely-unregulated...
21 March 2023
From: Breaking News
Overseas buyers - likely in many cases to be investors - have taken a bigger stake in the wealthy enclave of...
08 March 2023
From: Breaking News
The rental market is firing on all cylinders again according to the latest market snapshot from PropTech firm Goodlord. It says void...
06 March 2023
From: Breaking News
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has yet again taken to social media to demand the powers to freeze private sector rents. This has...
23 February 2023
From: Breaking News
A substantial majority of agents say sellers are being unrealistic about the asking prices of their homes This includes landlord sellers quitting...
24 January 2023
From: Breaking News
New data from flatshare site SpareRoom reveals that rents reached an all-time high in Q4 2022, with the average UK room...
18 January 2023
From: Breaking News
The rental market remained relatively steady in recent weeks, according to the latest index from PropTech firm Goodlord. Void periods have remained...
06 January 2023
From: Breaking News
It’s been known for over a year that John Lewis wishes to diversify into the private rental sector and now it...
05 December 2022
From: Breaking News
The average cost of rent across England dipped one per cent during August, taking prices down to a national average of...
02 September 2022
From: Breaking News
PropTech firm Kamma says total fines for agents and landlords have now topped £8m in London alone with a £238,000 increase...
12 August 2022
From: Breaking News
Voids hit what has been described as an historic low in recent weeks, according to PropTech firm Goodlord. It says the average...
04 August 2022
From: Breaking News
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...
22 June 2022
From: Breaking News
The John Lewis Partnership is to offer short- and long-term lets when it builds flats to rent at three locations in...
13 June 2022
From: Breaking News
A lettings market snapshot prepared each month by PropTech firm Goodlord claims there has been a dramatic rise in the typical...
04 May 2022
From: Breaking News
There’s been a big rise in rents in the past month according to PropTech supplier Goodlord. They are now at their highest...
05 April 2022
From: Breaking News
The threat of rent controls in two parts of the country may now be so severe that buy to let landlords...
17 March 2022
From: Breaking News
A prominent property website, which monitors the lettings market, suggests that rent controls would drive a proportion of rental stock to...
21 February 2022
From: Breaking News
The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan wants rogue landlords to pay bigger fines and more compensation to tenants. He is also introducing...
17 February 2022
From: Breaking News
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, wants the government to put a stop to the capital being used for international money...
11 February 2022
From: Breaking News
It’s a familiar story from PropTech supplier Goodlord as it releases its latest rental market snapshot - a lack of stock...
04 February 2022
From: Breaking News
Rents are rising at around twice the level of a year ago according to the latest market snapshot by lettings agency...
21 January 2022
From: Breaking News
Rents in Greater London are up an annualised 25 per cent, with much of the increase attributed to the stock of...
13 January 2022
From: Breaking News
Landlords fearing a fall in income and a rise in voids over the festive period have nothing to fear - it...
07 January 2022
From: Breaking News
The Home property website has identified locations where rents have risen by up to 38 per cent in the past 12...
15 November 2021
From: Breaking News
£223.7 billion. That’s how much better off UK landlords are than five years ago when you do the maths on the...
16 October 2021
From: Industry Views
Average annual rental growth across Britain hit 8.0 per cent in September, the third fastest annual rate of growth recorded this...
11 October 2021
From: Breaking News
There’s good news for landlords who anticipate holding on to their property investments at least until 2031 - capital values are...
17 September 2021
From: Breaking News
Celebrations amongst landlords and home owners over the latest record house price figures mask growing disadvantages for renters, claims a mortgage...
08 September 2021
From: Breaking News
Rental yields on student lets are climbing steadily across England according to a new analysis by Goodlord. In good news for landlords,...
16 August 2021
From: Breaking News
A new table of UK city affordability offers some guidance for landlords looking for urban properties in some of the least...
12 August 2021
From: Breaking News
Fines for landlords and lettings agents in Greater London have soared from just £22,000 in May to a huge £139,146 in...
05 August 2021
From: Breaking News
Voids are at their lowest level since August 2019 while rents are on the rise, according to the latest Goodlord snapshot...
04 August 2021
From: Breaking News
A prominent PropTech supplier to the lettings sector predicts that as summer continues and Covid restrictions reduce, so more tenants will...
06 July 2021
From: Breaking News
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...
04 June 2021
From: Breaking News
The latest Goodlord rental index shows a buoyant lettings market over the past month. March brought a boost in average income for...
06 April 2021
From: Breaking News
London-focussed lettings agency Portico has drawn up highly localised hotspots within the capital for landlords seeking the best yields. According to the...
18 March 2021
From: Breaking News
With buy to let and traditional commercial property both under challenge thanks to government regulations and Coronavirus, the government is now...
16 March 2021
From: Breaking News
The latest rental market snapshot from the property website Home talks of “a nightmare scenario for London landlords”. Firstly, it says rents...
16 February 2021
From: Breaking News
Despite talk of increased arrears and wider economic concerns, it appears tenants are increasingly worried about the long-term effects of poor credit...
12 February 2021
From: Breaking News
A leading market monitor suggests voids are increasing but otherwise states the rental market is in good health, one year on from...
03 February 2021
From: Breaking News
A lettings agency says there is very large scale support amongst tenants for the extension to the current bailiff-enforced eviction ban,...
13 January 2021
From: Breaking News
Rents across much of England and Wales are performing strongly according to a new market analysis - and in some areas...
13 January 2021
From: Breaking News
The latest survey from PropTech platform Goodlord suggests the lettings landscape is relatively stable entering 2021 - but with the prospect...
07 January 2021
From: Breaking News
The Labour-controlled Greater London Authority and 18 other groups of activists, charities and students have formed a new pro-renter coalition. Called the...
16 December 2020
From: Breaking News
Renters are quitting London and heading for the regions in search of more space and bigger homes and gardens. That’s the claim...
16 November 2020
From: Breaking News
A lettings market monitor says the Greater London rental sector has in recent months switched from one of scarcity of properties...
15 October 2020
From: Breaking News
Sigma Capital has joined forces with Swedish investment firm EQT to create a £1bn housing joint venture, with a view to...
25 September 2020
From: Breaking News
With activity in the market continuing to rise and the number new tenancies back to pre-pandemic levels, landlords are enjoying strong...
07 September 2020
From: Sponsored Content
Rents increased by an average of 2% in August thanks to greater demand from renters, the latest figures show. Modest growth in...
07 September 2020
From: Breaking News
Rents on renewed tenancies fell for the second consecutive month in April, the latest Hamptons International Lettings Index shows. Last month, the average...
18 May 2020
From: Breaking News
Rents have unsurprisingly dropped over the past month, while the dip in void periods has fluctuated across the UK, the latest...
05 May 2020
From: Breaking News
Some 70% tenancies that were due to end in March were renewed, the highest level recorded in any March since 2008...
28 April 2020
From: Breaking News
Knight Frank forecast that residential property sales will fall by 38% this year, amid the coronavirus pandemic. Based on the assumption that...
09 April 2020
From: Breaking News
There was a notable increase in the number of new tenancies in the early part of March before a sudden drop...
02 April 2020
From: Breaking News
Rents continued to rise year-on-year in March while the number of homes available to let fell, according to the latest data...
30 March 2020
From: Breaking News
Average UK rents continued to rise in February, but failed to keep up with inflation, according to the latest HomeLet Rental...
11 March 2020
From: Breaking News
The rental market broadly remained stable in January, the latest rental index from Goodlord shows. Average rents increased in four out of...
11 February 2020
From: Breaking News
The north of England provided the biggest jump in returns for buy-to-let landlords in the final quarter of last year as...
10 February 2020
From: Breaking News
Fresh research from Proportunity reveals how different property types performed over the past decade, based on price growth. The data, collected across...
09 January 2020
From: Breaking News
A shortage of properties available to rent coupled with strong demand from tenants has led to notable rental price increases across...
30 December 2019
From: Breaking News
London’s first rogue landlord banning order has been issued after tenants’ lives were put at risk through the letting of unsafe...
19 November 2019
From: Breaking News
Rents in the UK’s private rented sector increased further in October, according to the latest data. The figures from HomeLet show that...
15 November 2019
From: Breaking News
Ahead of next month’s general election, the Residential Landlords Association (RLA) is warning that any potential proposal to introduce rent controls...
30 October 2019
From: Breaking News
Almost a quarter of landlords are planning to sell at least one property from their existing buy-to-let portfolio, new research from...
17 October 2019
From: Breaking News
Rents in the UK’s private rented sector continued to increase in September, the latest figures show. The data from HomeLet reveals that...
14 October 2019
From: Breaking News
More than 8,300 Londoners have called on London Mayor Sadiq Khan to ban adverts ‘encouraging’ landlords to abandon long-term tenants for...
03 June 2019
From: Breaking News
Controversial short-lets managing agents Hostmaker has defended its latest advertising campaign after once again sparking outrage among some industry professionals for...
28 May 2019
From: Breaking News
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...
15 April 2019
From: Breaking News
UK rents have started to increase at a rate not seen in the market for more than two years, fresh figures...
11 April 2019
From: Breaking News
More needs to be done to stem the increase in short-term lets on Airbnb and similar platforms to ensure that there...
09 April 2019
From: Breaking News
Overseas investors snapped up more than half of all properties for sale in prime London in the second half of 2018...