Traditional letting agents could be on their way out – it has been claimed. City AM’s Katherine Denham says the danger posed to them is not going to be regulation but the tech-savvy younger...
Franchises giant Belvoir says there are over 10,000 potential acquisition targets which could be wanting a way out of the lettings and sales sectors because of increased regulation. Read the full story at Letting...
New research from the UK Association of Letting Agents (UKALA) shows that landlords in the North of England were more likely to experience a void period in the last quarter than any other UK region....
A new analysis by campaigning housing organisation Shelter claims the changes within the private rental sector could indirectly lose the next election for the Conservatives and win it for Labour. The charity says that...
David Cox, ARLA’s chief executive, has branded the government’s long-awaited database of rogue landlords as “pointless” because it will not be made public. The initial premise of a publicly accessible list of rogue landlords would...
Buy-to-let landlords who currently own property in Northern Ireland, or who are thinking about investing in the country’s buy-to-let sector, may be interested in new ‘definitive guides’ published by the Tenancy Deposit Scheme (TDS)....
The annual rate of house price growth in London has reached a seven-year low and could be in negative territory by the middle of this year, research from Hometrack claims. In contrast, regional cities...
There has been a sharp rise in the number of over 60s renting privately, according to new research from the Centre for Ageing Better. The study found that the number of older people privately...
A recent storyline in Eastenders saw the landlord Masood Ahmed attempt to cheat tenant Carmel Kazemi out of her tenancy security deposit by spoiling a carpet with coffee and then claiming she had forfeited her deposit. Unfortunately,...
Activity of transactions in Scotland’s Purpose-Built Student Accommodation (PBSA) exceeded £100 million in 2017, according to recent figures for GVA’s Student Housing Review show. Scotland also saw an increase in applicant numbers for PBSA...
