Category: Property News

Fewer than one in five private rental properties in England were within the Local Housing Allowance (LHA) rates last year, according to new joint research by the Chartered Institute of…

A large County Court in London has written to its legal clients to warn them that some of their scheduled evictions face being cancelled or rescheduled. The announcement has been…

Buy-to-let landlords will influence house prices if a large number choose to sell up, according to rating agency Moody’s. The firm is predicting that prices will fall by 10% in…

With increasing costs, inflation hovering around the 10 per cent mark and mortgage rates approaching 6 per cent there’s lots of talk about increasing rents. Many landlords are unable to…

Persistent home working is affecting office occupancy rates and is leading commercial tenants to fail to renew their office leases. Ghost city streets have emerged post pandemic as occupancy rates…

Prospective tenants flooding into London this summer – along with the continued shrinkage in property numbers – is set to create one of the most competitive rental markets ever seen.…

Across the UK nations there’s been a rolling programme of rental reform, one new tenancy regime after another, but has any of this really worked for the benefit of tenants…

Landlords face even longer waits than normal to evict tenants in London after two big landlords were told that bailiff operations are to be suspended for the ‘foreseeable future’. This…

The burgeoning build-to-rent (BTR) sector has been warned not to rest on its laurels as new research reveals slipping customer service standards. Consultancy hereSAY’s BTR Mystery Shopping Benchmark Report found…

A leading lawyer warns that by abolishing section 21 the government will be helping nuisance tenants at the expense of the weak and vulnerable. Under the Renters (Reform) Bill, landlords…