According to the Countrywide monthly Lettings Index average rents in the UK rose 1.2% to £906 a month for January compared to the same month last year. Despite the popular narrative of ever rising...
According to the latest index report, from Countrywide, the average property in 2015 was let within 20 days of being instructed; two days quicker than it was in 2014. Average rents grew by 3.1%...
Liberal Democrats in both the House of Commons and Lords have tabled motions aimed at stopping the Right to Rent policy. The leader of the party, Tim Farron, has released a statement saying that...
The third reading of the Housing and Planning Bill is due in the House of Commons today, after which it will proceed to the House of Lords. The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) has issued...
Overnight, the Home Office has issued a statement advising landlords and letting agents to begin Right to Rent checks immediately, ahead of when the measure becomes mandatory on 1st February 2016. As checks can...
A new survey from YouGov indicates that landlords are financial resilient and able to deal with rises in interest rates. When asked if they could cope with a 1.5% rise in the Bank rate,...
The latest report from the Association of Residential Letting Agents (ARLA) indicates that 40% of letting agents predict that the supply of rental properties will decrease over the next five years. The findings appear...
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has warned that the cost of renting in the UK could rise faster than house prices over the next five years. This would translate to to tenants...
A recent survey by HomeLet reports that 91% of landlords are going to keep rents for existing tenancies static during the first six months of 2016. This findings appear to imply that landlords have...
A new survey conducted by BDRC Continental on behalf of Paragon Mortgages has found that 41% of investors in the private rented sector have experienced an increase in tenant demand in the third quarter...
