A lack of new investment rather than landlords selling-up is causing rental market supply issues, research suggests. The latest Hamptons Lettings Index...
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![Can traditional BTR learn from the successes of suburban BTR?](/upload/images/shutterstock_572192086(3).jpg)
We frequently read about how the traditional form of urban BTR has inspired the more recent model, suburban BTR. Our own...
29 June 2024
From: Features
![Jonathan Rolande: Times to ask serious questions about the UK's social housing crisis](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/BTR%20and%20affordable%20housing%20-%20By%20Andy%20Jones%20Property%20Investor%20Today%20BuildToRent-400x310.png)
Last week the Government published new housing data which has largely gone unreported. The vacuum was probably linked to the Budget, and...
15 March 2024
From: Breaking News
![Housing Ombudsmen - our industry's new growth area](/upload/images/02%20shutterstock_1993087799.jpg)
It may be a measure of the government’s incompetence in the area of housing that two recent major announcements were sorely...
02 December 2023
From: Features
![Party Time - housing policies from Labour, Tories and the rest](/upload/images/__thumbs/1%20IndustryViews%20political%20parties%20to%20spell%20out%20housing%20policy%20plans%20at%20conferences%20by%20Graham%20Norwood.jpg/1%20IndustryViews%20political%20parties%20to%20spell%20out%20housing%20policy%20plans%20at%20conferences%20by%20Graham%20Norwood__400x231.jpg)
And suddenly it’s autumn. It’s just six weeks before the clocks change, days are getting shorter and - the real sign...
09 September 2023
From: Features
![Is your letting business still compliant?](/upload/images/__thumbs/Is%20your%20business%20still%20compliant.jpg/Is%20your%20business%20still%20compliant__400x267.jpg)
Following publication of the Renter’s Reform Bill and the media coverage surrounding it, many agents and their landlords will understandably have...
27 May 2023
From: Features
![Section 21 use ‘ overstated’, according to LRG research](/upload/images/Section%2021%20use%20found%20to%20be%20overstated.jpg)
A controversial change due to be brought about in the proposed Renters’ Reform Bill is the abolition of Section 21 ‘no...
15 April 2023
From: Features
![What To Expect from the Property Market in 2023](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Seasonal%20Photos/HappyNY-400x310.png)
Over the later part of 2022, we have experienced unprecedented economic and political turmoil, which will remain as we head into...
17 December 2022
From: Features
![2023 - this is what’s going to happen](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Seasonal%20Photos/HappyNY-400x310.png)
Is it really just a year ago that we were nervously wondering whether yet another Christmas would be Covid-affected? Little did we...
10 December 2022
From: Features
![Four compliance findings from the English Private Landlords Survey](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Compliance-Image-400x310.png)
Are landlords following the law? To answer this question, the Government grouped answers from its English Private Landlords Survey 2022 according...
15 October 2022
From: Features
![How to prepare for the Fairer Private Rented Sector Shake-Up](/upload/images/Headshots%20and%20Property%20People/InventoryHive400x310.jpg)
With the government releasing details on the Fairer Private Rented Sector, landlords and letting agents are looking for ways to maintain...
03 August 2022
From: Features
![Three regulatory updates agents need to know about in 2022](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/MillennialAgents-Meeting-400x310.jpg)
A wide range of upcoming legislative changes will affect the private rented sector. From new carbon monoxide alarm regulations to renters...
16 July 2022
From: Features
![Agents prepare for planning overhaul as sector digests Queen's Speech](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/PlanningImage-400x310.jpg)
Agents have pledged to keep a close eye on planning reforms amid a proposed overhaul announced in the Queen’s Speech yesterday. Prince...
11 May 2022
From: Breaking News
![Right To Buy - what on earth is government playing at?](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/Mortgage-House-Keys-400x310.jpg)
What a difference two months and some local elections make. Cast your minds back to March 9 and the annual report of...
07 May 2022
From: Features
![Short term lets - what’s the extent of the problem?](/upload/images/Logos/Airbnb-Alt-400x310.jpg)
Timothy Douglas, Head of Policy and Campaigns at Propertymark, analyses the impact that the lack of available data is having on...
19 February 2022
From: Features
![“No market” for some prime London flats without outside space](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/london-property400x310.png)
A leading buying agency says that while prime central London’s property market shows clear signs of recovery, a weak area remains...
27 January 2022
From: Breaking News
![Build To Rent - why is it so cold and unfriendly?](/upload/images/BTR%2C%20PBSA%2C%20Co-living/BTR-Block-400x310.jpg)
Let’s begin with total transparency from this author: I believe there’s a place for Build To Rent in the wider portfolio...
27 November 2021
From: Features
![Former Housing Secretary dies at the age of 53](/upload/images/library/JamesBrokenshire-400x310%20(2).jpg)
Former Housing Secretary James Brokenshire has died at the age of 53. The Conservative ex-Cabinet minister, who was diagnosed with lung cancer...
08 October 2021
From: Breaking News
![Large family homes may be bought to house Afghan refugees](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/BorisJohnson-4-400x310.jpg)
Media reports suggest the government is considering offering grants to local authorities to purchase private family houses which are larger than...
25 August 2021
From: Breaking News
![Could an adjustment to BTL Stamp Duty improve the lettings market?](/img/default/eat.png)
The Stamp Duty holiday has been very beneficial for hundreds of thousands of buyers looking to take advantage of savings, even...
16 June 2021
From: Features
![Vote, Vote, Vote - Housing and the 2021 Local Elections](/img/default/eat.png)
Local elections rarely set the pulse racing and this year’s poll on Thursday faces a similar problem. But this time, it’s a...
01 May 2021
From: Features
![Prince Philip: how the property landscape changed during his century](/img/default/eat.png)
For many, the funeral of HRH Prince Philip will be a solemn affair, while for some it will also be a...
17 April 2021
From: Features
![Spring lettings market update – Pets, eviction ban and landlords selling up](/img/default/eat.png)
Unsurprisingly it’s been a busy few months in the property market so far this year, and a busy few months in...
27 March 2021
From: Features
![How to ensure your letting business remains compliant](/img/default/eat.png)
Being a letting agent today means keeping up to date with the long list of rules and regulations governing how a...
20 February 2021
From: Features
![Latest legislation – how can agents and landlords be compliant?](/img/default/eat.png)
In recent years, the extent and role of the private rented sector (PRS) in the housing market has seen significant changes. The...
24 October 2020
From: Features
![Revealed: What today's renters want, need and expect](/img/default/eat.png)
Life as we know it has changed – for everybody – and what tenants want, need and expect in this post-pandemic...
15 August 2020
From: Features
![Stamp duty holiday: the first change to benefit landlords in years](/img/default/eat.png)
As expected within the property industry, the Chancellor announced a stamp duty holiday in his Summer Statement. This now means that...
25 July 2020
From: Features
![It doesn’t have to be like Spicerhaart - another agent’s approach…](/img/default/eat.png)
While controversy swirls around the approach and motives of the sackings and branch closures at Spicerhaart, other agents are showing how...
23 March 2020
From: Breaking News
![Electrical checks – how to get ahead of the current](/img/default/eat.png)
By now, most letting agents and landlords will have heard about the draft legislation laid in Parliament concerning a mandatory minimum...
04 March 2020
From: Features
![What next for property in 2020?](/img/default/eat.png)
After a year dogged by Brexit deadlock, political turmoil, and slow growth, estate agents’ confidence in the property market hit a...
04 January 2020
From: Features
![Big Tory win: but agents warn over Stamp Duty and Section 21](/img/default/eat.png)
It’s a substantial Tory government for the next five years: what does this mean for estate agents, property and the market? We have...
13 December 2019
From: Breaking News
![General election 2019: The housing crisis remains a top issue](/img/default/eat.png)
With Brexit still unresolved, the domestic agenda has been pushed from the headlines by the seemingly overwhelming public and political discord...
07 December 2019
From: Features
![Home Logbooks, Property MOTs and agent regulation demanded by NAEA](/img/default/eat.png)
The National Association of Estate Agents and the Association of Residential Letting Agents have issued their manifesto for next month’s General...
05 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Party Conferences: what agents should look out for](/img/default/eat.png)
If you thought - perhaps hoped - that five weeks of prorogued Parliament meant a break from politics, think again: the...
14 September 2019
From: Features
![PropTech Today: Can €19 million disrupt an entire sector?](/img/default/eat.png)
News this week tells of Zehomes, the German property management company, raising €13 million in Series-A funding, bringing its all-time total...
21 August 2019
From: Breaking News
![Blond ambition - Does Boris Johnson have any housing policies?](/img/default/eat.png)
Britain lives in fundamentalist black-and-white times - all the more surprising when the country's most divisive point of contention sits on...
22 June 2019
From: Features
![Stamp Duty plummets by £1 billion following surcharge backfire](/img/default/eat.png)
New figures from HM Revenue and Customs suggest that stamp duty receipts have fallen by no less than £1 billion. The drop...
25 April 2019
From: Breaking News
![Stop indulging councils over rental licensing and local schemes](/img/default/eat.png)
It’s time, surely, for government to crackdown not just on rogue agents and landlords but on rogue councils that confuse the...
09 March 2019
From: Features
![No more ‘no DSS’ – is the government wasting its time?](/img/default/eat.png)
Last week, the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government announced a number of measures aimed at further tackling homelessness, including...
09 March 2019
From: Features
![This needs to be the start of redress reform, not the end](/img/default/eat.png)
The dust may have settled on the government’s recent announcement regarding housing and property complaints, but opinion is still split on...
09 February 2019
From: Features
![Simon Duce, Managing Director.](/img/default/eat.png)
ARPM Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Simon Duce, Managing Director. What is ARPM and what does it...
01 February 2019
From: 60 Second Interview
![NAEA and Guild back government's new Housing Complaints service](/img/default/eat.png)
The National Association of Estate Agents and the Association of Residential Lettings Agents have thrown their weight behind the government’s latest...
25 January 2019
From: Breaking News
![Government unveils 'Complaints Resolution Service' for property industry](/img/default/eat.png)
The government has this morning set out wide-ranging changes to redress systems for agents, the sales and lettings sectors, and other...
24 January 2019
From: Breaking News
![Redress revamp: more details to be revealed within weeks](/img/default/eat.png)
The government says it will be releasing details of its ideas to revamp redress systems concerning agents and new homes “in...
02 January 2019
From: Breaking News
![Property Jobs Today - the latest industry movers and shakers](/img/default/eat.png)
Two weeks to Christmas but no sign of our industry slowing down with more job moves announced in recent days. Please let...
10 December 2018
From: Breaking News
![Three-year tenancies will have biggest impact when things go wrong](/img/default/eat.png)
Amid the headline-grabbing political manoeuvring over Brexit, a policy proposal which could have serious ramifications for private landlords, and those who...
14 July 2018
From: Features
![Ombudsman to hold Rightmove webinar as redress race hots up](/img/default/eat.png)
The Property Ombudsman, Katrine Sporle, is to hold a briefing on the government’s redress reform on Wednesday - five days before...
09 April 2018
From: Breaking News
![Government launches surprise consultation on property redress](/img/default/eat.png)
The government has launched a surprise consultation on the creation of a new redress system for customers of agents and others...
18 February 2018
From: Breaking News
![Property experts reveal their Autumn Budget wishlist](/img/default/eat.png)
The housing industry has set out a list of demands in advance of the government’s hotly anticipated Autumn Budget on Wednesday. Despite...
18 November 2017
From: Features
![Party conference season - A housing plan for UK Plc](/img/default/eat.png)
And so concludes another party conference season. We’ve followed the great and the good (both terms are debatable) around Torbay, Bournemouth,...
07 October 2017
From: Features
![Three reasons why we need stamp duty reform](/img/default/eat.png)
Whenever any research is released, part of me can’t help thinking of that old adage, ‘lies, damn lies and statistics’ especially...
02 September 2017
From: Features
![Charity blasts stamp duty critics 'wanting to sell £1m-plus mansions'](/img/default/eat.png)
Shelter, the campaigning charity that has been hugely critical of private landlords and letting agents in recent years, has now launched...
17 August 2017
From: Breaking News
![PropTech Today: The long-term future of renting is short-term lettings](/img/default/eat.png)
You may have heard that Airbnb and property management company, Lavanda has closed a £1 million angel investment round. Backers include Purplebricks...
19 July 2017
From: Breaking News
![Scrap the bureaucracy and let’s have simple rental regulation](/img/default/eat.png)
That the private rental sector has become the government’s whipping boy for housing problems - landlords in particular, letting agents almost...
14 July 2017
From: Features
![Investor consultancy wants new government to lay off property](/img/default/eat.png)
London Central Portfolio, a property investment consultancy, has set out a five point plan for the next government elected this week...
05 June 2017
From: Breaking News
![What does the future hold for the buy-to-let market?](/img/default/eat.png)
Over the past two decades, investing in buy-to-let has been a relatively easy way to make money, which is why so...
25 February 2017
From: Features
![Buy-to-let mortgages: What opportunities and challenges lie ahead?](/img/default/eat.png)
The rapid growth in popularity of buy-to-let in recent years, fuelled in part by the failings of the pensions industry, has...
17 February 2017
From: Features
![What we learnt about the Government post-White Paper](/img/default/eat.png)
If you work in lettings, I’ll already have a pretty good idea on how you feel about the current Conservative Government. The...
11 February 2017
From: Features
![What next for the rental market in 2017?](/img/default/eat.png)
The rental market has had to face a raft of changes over the past year, including the introduction of the 3% stamp...
14 January 2017
From: Features
![Are landlords about to ditch letting agents and go it alone?](/img/default/eat.png)
Next year is likely to be a challenging time for letting agents, following a raft of changes introduced by the government...
09 December 2016
From: Features
![Rent rises are inevitable after tax clampdown on buy-to-let](/img/default/eat.png)
Buy-to-let landlords may have failed in their recent legal battle against planned government tax relief changes for buy-to-let homes set to...
14 October 2016
From: Features
![Around 400 homes sold off by infamous buy to let investment couple](/img/default/eat.png)
Fergus and Judith Wilson, at one time considered to be Britain’s biggest private landlords, have sold off an estimated 400 of...
12 September 2016
From: Breaking News
![Is buy-to-let investing still a safe bet?](/img/default/eat.png)
The huge rush to acquire buy-to-let property in the first quarter of the year ahead of the stamp duty change deadline...
09 September 2016
From: Features
![What does Sadiq Khan’s victory mean for housing in London?](/img/default/eat.png)
The new mayor of London Sadiq Khan has pledged to do all in his power to help make London “better” after...
12 May 2016
From: Features
![Britain’s best letting agents](/img/default/eat.png)
Here are the top letting agents in Britain who go above and beyond to help their customers, as voted for by...
10 May 2016
From: Features
![London mayoral election: A referendum on housing](/img/default/eat.png)
The race to replace London Mayor Boris Johnson has entered its final few days, and like never before, housing is the...
29 April 2016
From: Features
![Tax and Buy-to-Let – how short are our memories?](/img/default/eat.png)
We talk about the unstoppable rise of buy-to-let and forget that it was only as recently as the early 1970’s that...
08 April 2016
From: Features
![Have we reached tipping point for many private landlords?](/img/default/eat.png)
With less than a month to go before the new rate of stamp duty kicks in for second property purchasers, we’re...
18 March 2016
From: Features
![You read it here first: What to look for in Osborne’s Budget](/img/default/eat.png)
When it comes to Budgets and Property, you have to hope that the old adage that ‘things happen in threes’ turns...
12 March 2016
From: Features
![Stamp duty and buy to let tax changes: Readers' views put to David Cameron](/img/default/eat.png)
In January readers of Estate Agent Today and Letting Agent Today were given the opportunity to give their views on proposed...
25 January 2016
From: Features
![A New Year’s Resolution for every landlord – make someone love you](/img/default/eat.png)
Once you go beyond the industry’s anger about the Chancellor’s three per cent stamp duty surcharge – and that’s an anger...
27 November 2015
From: Features
![‘Between a rock and a harder place'](/img/default/eat.png)
Stephen Moss, CEO of Pring.co.uk the UK’s leading property investment search engine, takes a look at the impact of ‘Corbynmania’ on...
28 October 2015
From: Sponsored Content
![Investment portal attracts 5,000 agents](/img/default/eat.png)
A web portal which radically changes the way investors search for their next investment property has signed up 5,000 agents, less...
07 October 2015
From: Sponsored Content
![Build To Let: A threat or a challenge to agents?](/img/default/eat.png)
If there’s one thing that looks like a good move right now, it’s becoming a letting agent. Whereas some years ago we...
18 September 2015
From: Features
![Alex Chesterman Q & A: The Results](/img/default/eat.png)
Readers of Estate Agent Today and Letting Agent Today were given an exclusive opportunity to pose questions to Zoopla Property Group...
14 September 2015
From: Features
![We’re all disrupters now](/img/default/eat.png)
It’s become almost obligatory for start-ups in many industries – frequently online agents in the selling and letting business – to...
04 September 2015
From: Features
![Say no to George before housing crisis](/img/default/eat.png)
A new website has been launched to fight back against the attack George Osborne made in the Summer Budget on the...
21 August 2015
From: Features
![Portals should carry private sales plus agents' stock - claim](/img/default/eat.png)
An opinion poll of over 2,000 people conducted for The House Shop shows that a majority of people would use a...
21 July 2015
From: Breaking News
![Agents unhappy at Osborne's Buy To Let and Non Dom measures](/img/default/eat.png)
Agents have expressed their disappointment at the decision by the government to restrict mortgage interest relief for Buy To let investors...