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Rental growth in Britain has slowed says lettings agency Hamptons, with the average newly let rent rising 6.7% over the past...

Co-living developments are a type of purpose-built rental housing, under the same principle as Build To Rent (BTR) but offering smaller size...

Rental growth continued to cool in February, says the latest market snapshot from lettings agency Hamptons.   Last month, the average rent on...

The buy to let mortgage sector has seen fixed rates fall to their lowest point since September 2022, according to analysis...

Average rents on newly let properties across Britain rose 8.3 per cent year-on-year in January, the slowest pace for 13 months...

Analysis by Zoopla says rent controls introduced in Scotland have directly led to higher rents. The property portal’s research team has analysed...

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

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

Two new reports - from lettings agency Foxtons and data consultancy LonRes - show London’s rental market returning to pre-pandemic normality. Foxtons...

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

London has seen the strongest rental growth over the last year according to an analysis by lettings agency Hamptons.   The average rent...

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

The prime London market appears to be seeing a slow return to stability - but average rental growth in the past...

Rental growth in prime regional markets has started to slow, following runaway growth over the past three years. That’s the view from...

A leading lettings agency and property consultancy has revealed that it anticipates stronger-than-expected rental growth this year and next in prime...

Rental markets near London’s Crossrail stations have seen premiums emerge, a new survey suggests.  Areas which have benefitted from the largest reductions...

Rents will rise 25 per cent over the next four years, outpacing the modest 5.5 per cent House price growth across...

Making an investment in a country with a different currency introduces exchange rate risk. Ideally, a UK investor would buy the...

Authoritative new research suggests that there’s been a 91,000 rise in student numbers to 2.3m - yet in major student cities...

There are few signs that the pace of rental growth is slackening, warns Hamptons. It says the cost of a new tenancy...

Over recent years, as successive governments have tightened lettings legislation and increased the tax burden on landlords, some with investment properties...

After a decade of steady growth, the number of older renters is poised to increase rapidly over the next 10 years...

Across prime London, annual rental growth in June was 8.0 per cent according to data consultancy LonRes.   This takes rents to almost...

Savills’ latest market snapshot for prime properties in the UK regions suggest that tenant priorities are gently shifting. Across UK prime regional...

As landlords face losses as high as £7,500 this year – thanks to increased mortgage and living costs alongside a tax overhaul...

Experts are forecasting that London rental prices are predicted to grow by 3% this year alone, while prices may increase by...

An agency heavily involved in Build To Rent claims investment in the sector remains high - but soaring debt costs may...

Every year, those thinking about investing in property for the first time and even current landlords ask themselves whether it’s the...

Grainger, the Newcastle company that is active in Build To Rent and claims to be Britain’s biggest landlord, has enjoyed a...

One of the property industry’s most respected bodies says Build To Rent won’t solve the lettings supply shortfall. The claim comes in...

The perennial shortage of new homes in the capital has now collided with a sharp increase in government regulation, a tripling...

Prime rental growth in London ended 2022 up 10.9 per cent on the year, according to Savills prime lettings index, as...

Annual rental growth strengthened for the third month running, with average rents up 7.9 per cent across Britain on the same...

Cluttons says renter demand in central London is massively outstripping the supply of homes available for let, while the sales market...

New figures from the Hamptons lettings agency show that rental growth is softening - although the overall rate remains high. The agency...

September saw the highest average rental costs ever recorded by Goodlord, according to the PropTech firm’s latest index.  With the previous record...

Grainger, the UK’s largest landlord and a huge player in the Build To Rent sector, says it’s going to implement only...

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

There is no real prospect of improved rental supply in the near term as private landlords continue to sell off homes...

New market analysis by lettings and sales agency Hamptons suggests that landlords are the largest group likely to sell up over...

Rents across Great Britain rose by an average of 8.3 per cent over the last 12 months, marking a gradual slowdown...

Savills says Prime London rents are to rise by 12.0 per cent in 2022 and by a total 18.3 per cent...

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

A new league table shows landlords the cities across the UK where the highest average Airbnb nightly prices are charged. The data,...

Rental growth rates slipped back slightly during the early part of summer according to an analysis by the Hamptons lettings agency,...

Rental growth continues to roar ahead across prime areas of London, according to Savills. Prime London rental values increased a further 3.3...

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 most recent interest rate rise has swung the balance making it cheaper to rent than to buy, according to lettings...

The surge in rents will subside and the market will normalise before the end of the year. That’s the prediction from Zoopla...

The highest rental growth since the Global Financial Crisis, coupled with the cost of living crisis, is putting increased pressure on...

The cost of a newly let home rose 9.8 per cent over the last 12 months to £1,125 pcm, marking the...

The latest forecast for the UK lettings market this year is that there will be a four per cent rise in...

Annual rental growth in prime London reached 11.1 per cent in the first quarter of this year, following a 3.4 increase...

Property consultancy JLL says it’s identified one hitherto-unfashionable part of London as an area set to outperform the rest of the...

A prominent lettings agency says the rental growth seen in the past year will not be repeated in 2022, as tenants...

Foxtons has issued a wide-ranging snapshot of the London private rental market. Overall some 27 per cent of Londoners are  now privately...

Newly published rental yield from Rightmove reveals that the average yield across Great Britain is 5.5 per cent. This is the highest...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors’ latest index suggests there’s no end in sight to rent rises in 2022. RICS’ monthly sentiment...

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

Landlords are benefitting from widespread rent rises across the UK - with even London seeing a turnaround.  This is according to lettings...

Landlords with family properties are in the pound seats when it comes to rent increases, according to data from lettings agency...

Acute tenant demand over the third quarter of 2021 has propelled UK rental growth to its highest level for over a...

A new league table of investment potential has given a ringing endorsement to buy to let in cities. Select Property Group has...

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

Rents and capital appreciation will both rise next year - but to a significantly lesser degree than in 2021. That’s the verdict...

New research by lettings agency Hamptons shows the total amount of rent paid by tenants across Britain has actually fallen eight...

Zoopla says rental properties are typically letting almost a week faster than a year ago. It claims that with supply and demand...

The UK rental market has revved up amidst a sharp rise in demand for city living, driving the highest rate of...

The Hamptons lettings agency says the rate of annual rental growth is slowing slightly - but there’s no suggestion of a...

There's more good news about the rental market across the country, with rents rising 8.5 per cent year-on-year. The data comes from...

The lettings agency Hamptons has declared the bottom of the rental market for Inner London, saying it’s now on the way...

Rental growth accelerated in May to reach a new record high according to Connells-owned lettings agency Hamptons.   Last month the average cost...

Lettings agency Hamptons says that across Great Britain rents rose 5.9 per cent annually in April, the fastest rate since January...

New figures released by Rightmove this morning show that 65 per cent of London locations now have lower rent levels than...

Reduced demand and falling rents continue throughout the London prime flats market, with values down in all areas except the south west...

New figures suggest a large average rise in rents over the past year in almost every region outside of London. According to...

High level research shows that since the start of the pandemic - March 2020 - some 300,000 fewer properties have come...

Plummeting inner London rents mean the gap between central and outer areas of the capital is now far less than before. Data...

There is substantial investment going in to the private rental sector by individual landlords, according to evidence from the latest edition...

New research out this morning suggests that Coronavirus continues to change the lettings landscape, with houses now renting more quickly than a...

The latest sentiment survey from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors suggests a drop in landlord activity across the UK. RICS does...

The latest lettings market snapshot from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors suggests the vast majority of respondents expect rents in...

Rents rose 1.4 per cent in the year to October, a drop from the 1.5 per cent growth recorded in September...

Rental growth across Great Britain was flat in September according to the latest market survey by Countrywide brand Hamptons International. Average rents...

The latest study from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors shows a strong lettings market across the UK - except in London. “London...

Prime Central London rents fell by an average 2.3 per cent in the third quarter of 2020 according to Savills. In prime...

New landlord instructions were broadly flat last month following a modest increase in July, while tenant demand continues to increase sharply,...

Demand for properties in the private rented sector has increased significantly providing a welcome boost for buy-to-let landlords.  Various reports show that...

There has been a solid recovery in the letting market in recent weeks, according to a new RICS survey.  Respondents noted a...

Average UK rents slowed in the second quarter of the year as the coronavirus pandemic took its toll. Zoopla’s latest quarterly Rental...

There was a 1.6 % fall in rents on renewed tenancies across Great Britain in May, the third consecutive monthly drop,...

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

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

The cost of renting a home in Scotland continued to rise during the final quarter of 2019, new figures show.  The Scottish...

The squeeze on supply, coupled with continued demand for properties from tenants, is likely to lead to continued rental increases across...

The cost of renting a home in the UK is rising quicker than the rate of inflation, with the average monthly...

Despite the widening supply-demand imbalance in the private rented sector, it is now generally more affordable to rent a property with...

There are tentative signs that landlords are beginning to return to the buy-to-let market, particularly in London where house price falls...

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

The UK housing market is showing signs of recovery following a prolonged period of uncertainty, according to JLL.  The property firm forecasts...