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Global property consultancy Knight Frank has launched its latest UK Build to Rent Market Update, revealing that investment in the UK...

It’s time to abolish what is colloquially called Landlord Licensing. If you’re a casual reader and perhaps not in our industry, a...

Happy New Year and welcome to what’s looking like a busy - perhaps even hectic - 2024! I thought it worth running...

After months of negative messaging and anti-development sentiment, espoused both nationally by the Government, and locally during May’s local election campaigning,...

Extra tax and rising costs drove agency acquisitions last year and more are expected in 2024. Agency broker Atomic Consultancy has said...

What will happen to house prices? Should I rent or buy? Will a Labour or Tory Government be better for homeowners....

Agents are hoping for further support for the housing market north of the border as the Scottish Government prepares to set...

The factor most likely to influence the housing market next year is entirely outside the industry’s control: the General Election. Knight Frank...

The private rental landscape has been undergoing a profound transformation, with technology playing a pivotal role in shaping the way tenancies...

It may be a measure of the government’s incompetence in the area of housing that two recent major announcements were sorely...

While some landlords may have breathed a sigh of relief following Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak’s announcement on energy upgrades, I suspect...

Winkworth is calling for the Government to take immediate action to fix the property market.  On the eve of the Tory party...

After years - indeed a decade - of anti-rental sector policy and rhetoric it’s difficult not to see recent days as...

Build to Rent (BTR) is the UK’s fastest-growing sector and this trend looks set to continue throughout 2023 and beyond. The...

MPs have expressed “concern and disappointment” at the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) for its persistent poor performance...

Introduced to Parliament in May, the Renters (Reform) Bill seeks to improve the private rental sector for both tenants and landlords....

The term mixed-tenure development usually refers to residential developments where different residential tenures are provided on the same site. Typically, tenure was...

After months of negative messaging and anti-development sentiment, espoused both nationally by the Government, and locally during recent local election campaigning,...

Like most parts of the UK, the one I live in has a bit of a beef about parking. More precisely,...

It’s not a sentence that I thought I would be writing, but Housing Secretary Michael Gove has indeed finally done something...

The National Association of Property Buyers’ Jonathan Rolande gives his take on a manic week for the property market. This is the week when...

The past seven days have seen a string of stories across the media relating to the property sector.  Reports have revealed how...

The proposals to shake the Private Rental Sector (PRS) to its foundations will, depending upon your political persuasion and housing status,...

Sustainability has become a watch word for businesses the world over but there’s one element of this equation that is too...

Despite most businesses across industry now adopting some form of digital alternative to traditional work methods, many in the private rental...

A controversial change due to be brought about in the proposed Renters’ Reform Bill is the abolition of Section 21 ‘no...

When Jeremy Hunt sat down in the Commons after delivering his first Spring Budget, I imagine there were many who felt...

So next week we get to know how high housing is on the Government’s list of priorities. As we wait to see...

Vaboo is a Customer Engagement and Reward Platform enabling Tenants and Landlords to give their insights into the relationships that matter...

The growth of the short term rentals sector has helped to create an economy featuring several new types of jobs that...

There are a few common questions that arise when the issue of mould in rented properties is mentioned: what causes it,...

If journalists believed everything they received in their inboxes, you’d be forgiven for thinking the private rental sector was a shiny,...

Is it really just a year ago that we were nervously wondering whether yet another Christmas would be Covid-affected? Little did we...

The property sector braced itself for the chill wind of Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Autumn Statement this week. His pre-Budget comment that he...

And…breathe. For a while back there, the only certainty for the housing market was uncertainty. That isn’t to say the election of Rishi...

House prices in some regions of the UK could continue increasing, despite concerns over the economic downturn and forecasts of house...

Property seekers can now search for a home through OnTheMarket based on “accessible features.” The portal has introduced a new “accessible features”...

Now that the industry has had the weekend to digest Kwasi Kwarteng’s short and dramatic mini-Budget, more reaction has been filtering...

Some people will say: What problem? But they are getting fewer as the detrimental effect of increasing numbers of short lets on...

Many first-time buyers and homeowners are becoming more cautious of the property market. The cost of living crisis, combined with rising...

Tenants are becoming more discerning – not just about the properties they choose to rent but who they rent from too. With...

Zoopla has teamed up with homelessness charity Crisis to help campaign for reform of housing benefits and to tackle the affordable...

People in prominent positions in the housing industry aren’t always perfect role models. After all, Chris Pincher was housing minister for...

Anyone working in the property market should have at least one eye on supply. Of course, it’s a constant issue for...

It’s often fashionable to criticise trade bodies and official groups, but right now I think that’s absolutely inappropriate. In well over 20...

The government’s Fairer Private Rented Sector White Paper has initially caused some consternation and a strong adverse reaction from some within...

This question is not as flippant as it sounds because over recent years the status of the private landlord has taken...

After years of delays and upheaval, the Renters' Reform Bill finally appears to be back on the agenda, in an effort...

Agents have pledged to keep a close eye on planning reforms amid a proposed overhaul announced in the Queen’s Speech yesterday. Prince...

Although Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak’s Spring Statement did not include many announcements regarding housing, it did provide a good...

In this weekend feature, inventory expert and chair of the AIIC, Daniel Evans, sets out why rental reform changes will make...

The industry has reacted to the Spring Statement by breathing a sigh of relief that nothing was likely to cause damage...

If you want to sex-up the Chancellor’s financial statement scheduled for lunchtime on Wednesday, you’d call it a Budget or a...

Peta Milne, founder of Instagram growth and PR service Monimo, and a content writer at Choices Estate Agents, recently sat down...

A poll of Conservative voters shows strong majorities for higher taxes on second homes and empty properties, and tougher demands on...

The government’s Levelling Up White Paper, released today, contains an unexpected and shock commitment - to create a new 'lite' version...

The government’s new Levelling Up White Paper, revealed this morning includes a radical reshaping of the private rental sector. Section 21 eviction...

Our Agents Do Charity column each Friday does a fantastic job of highlighting the amazing charitable work of agents up and...

At the risk of mixing my metaphors, any mention of energy has become something of a blue touch paper in the...

Let’s begin with total transparency from this author: I believe there’s a place for Build To Rent in the wider portfolio...

Just as city centre traffic is reminiscent of life before the pandemic, the rental market in central zones of UK’s largest...

I’ve never written the three letters ‘EPC’ more often than I have in the past week. Law changes for the private rental...

In the UK, 3.5 million households — which is over one-third of UK households — are either privately or socially rented,...

Within weeks the focus of the industry will be on the White Paper to be issued on rental reform before Christmas. Let’s...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has given a ringing endorsement to home ownership as a central part of the government’s levelling up...

Few political policies have such a ring of the past as rent controls - they were last seen in this country...

Media reports suggest the government is considering offering grants to local authorities to purchase private family houses which are larger than...

I’m sorry to break this to you but in 10 days’ time it will be autumn - and we will have...

New data shows the strongest quarter for new build home registrations since 2007.  According to NHBC, the new home warranty and insurance...

Since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, technology has proven to be the answer for many problems faced by sectors across...

Initiatives by property portal Residential People and mortgage lenders Paragon Bank and Foundation Home Loans help people to find, buy or...

The government and property industry have been talking about it for a long time, and there have been numerous initiatives introduced...

The MP who chairs one of the most important committees in the House of Commons has urged the government to increase...

OnTheMarket has signed a new deal with a PropTech partner - the second in successive weeks. This latest one is a 12...

It’s been quite a week for the rental sector. Lettings agents and landlords have had such a torrid time in recent years...

Over the next few years, the property sector is set to change for the better – all thanks to PropTech. While the...

The new Mayor of London, to be decided in an election tomorrow, has just received a six point set of demands...

For many, the funeral of HRH Prince Philip will be a solemn affair, while for some it will also be a...

Estate agency offices in Wales, closed for many weeks as part of that country’s lockdown, will reopen from next Monday, April 12. The...

Licensing of the short-term lets sector in Scotland was due to be introduced next month. However, it was recently announced that...

With March marking one year since the beginning of the first national lockdown across all four nations of Britain in response...

Unsurprisingly it’s been a busy few months in the property market so far this year, and a busy few months in...

It’s now more than a year since the government offered an additional £4 million to councils to combat rogue landlords. At the...

Housing minister Kelly Tolhurst has resigned from the government for personal reasons. Tolhurst had formal responsibility for the government’s policies to combat...

As we approach the end of the year, there is no doubt that it has been a turbulent 12 months for...

The shock and almost immediate increase in stamp duty on additional homes in Wales has prompted one question in the industry...

First off, hello and welcome to this new series – appearing in Estate Agent Today’s Breaking News section each month –...

Back in September, Westminster Council launched a new strategy to help 'protect tenants' and 'ensure they live in good-quality and well-managed...

Today sees the government’s Spending Review, with Chancellor Rishi Sunak taking centre stage as he presents a 12 month spending plan to...

It’s no surprise to hear that the property market has seen a lot of change across 2020, with ups and downs...

Book review by Graham Norwood, editor of Estate Agent Today, Letting Agent Today and Landlord Today. If a letting agent wants to...

Let’s be honest: things are getting just a little tougher aren’t they?  We’re delighted to say that the spirit of the industry...

We all know what the problem is, but what’s the solution? The problem is that landlords, thinking they offer a valuable service...

The pandemic and the way the government has reacted to the private rental sector (PRS) has got me thinking about the...

Life as we know it has changed – for everybody – and what tenants want, need and expect in this post-pandemic...

Back in the day, party politics and the private rental sector used to be straightforward. Conservatives were pro-landlord, Labour were pro-tenant, while...

Hello - we hope you had as good an Easter as possible in these unusual circumstances, and welcome back to work. Now...

Labour’s long-standing housing spokesman, John Healey, has been moved to become shadow defence secretary on the front bench of new leader...

Much like PropTech, Open Banking has been used as a buzzword in recent years. However, when it comes to the rental...

Hello and welcome to the latest Conquering Corona - our guide for agents to get through these challenging times. Please let us...