Tag: Rental market

What Do Buyers Look For In An Investment Property?

Author: Ranjan Bhattacharya

12th December 2023, 3 years ago | 0

What top 10 features do buyers look for in BTL investment property? Join Ranjan Bhattacharya and Andrew Roberts and fine...

Smaller landlords look to sell up and exit the PRS

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

12th December 2023, 3 years ago | 12

Major structural changes are taking place in the UK’s private rented sector (PRS) with smaller landlords more likely to exit...

Are selective licensing schemes to blame for soaring rents?

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

11th December 2023, 3 years ago | 23

For anyone wondering what the impact of selective licensing schemes is on tenants and rent prices, then one landlord has...

Legislation uncertainty causing chaos in PRS, claims industry body

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

5th December 2023, 3 years ago | 0

Uncertainty in legislation is causing high rents in the private rented sector, according to a new report. Propertymark’s Housing Insight...

The most affordable rental cities in Britain revealed

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

29th November 2023, 3 years ago | 0

The major cities that currently have the highest level of affordable homes for tenants that are at or below the...

Landlords optimistic about PRS after government’s EPC U-turn

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

22nd November 2023, 3 years ago | 0

Landlords are more confident about their letting businesses and the private rental sector (PRS) after the government scrapped plans to...

ONS reports a rental price surge across UK

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

17th November 2023, 3 years ago | 1

Private rents increased by more than 6% in England, according to the ONS lettings price index. London saw a big...

Londoners demand green belt reforms to solve housing crisis

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

15th November 2023, 3 years ago | 2

Londoners want homes built on the green belt to improve their housing chances, according to a new survey. In a...

NRLA urges cooperation between landlords and tenant groups on rental reform

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

1st November 2023, 3 years ago | 11

The National Residential Landlords Association (NRLA) has appealed to the Renters’ Reform Coalition, a group of organisations that push for...

Affordable homes to rent are ‘scarce and in high demand’

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

30th October 2023, 3 years ago | 5

Finding a cheap rental home in the UK is a daunting challenge with only 1.9% of the current rental market...

Landlords still keen to buy despite challenges, survey shows

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

27th October 2023, 3 years ago | 5

Nearly a third (32%) of buy to let landlords are planning to buy more property in the next 12 months,...

Rising rents pushing students to the limit

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

27th October 2023, 3 years ago | 3

Students are struggling as soaring rents outpace average maintenance loan, according to new research. A survey by student housing charity...

Housing crisis continues as demand surges past supply

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

25th October 2023, 3 years ago | 1

Demand continues to outpace supply in the lettings market, according to new data. The latest figures from Propertymark’s Housing Insight...

RICS survey reveals rising rents and falling house prices

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

13th October 2023, 3 years ago | 2

The UK’s housing market is facing a tough time, with the latest survey from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors...

London’s rental market hits record high as landlords reduce rents

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

13th October 2023, 3 years ago | 0

London’s rental market reached its peak last month with a growing trend of landlords lowering their rents, and Chestertons helped...

Angela Rayner dodges landlord questions in LBC interview clash

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

11th October 2023, 3 years ago | 42

In a feisty exchange on LBC, the Shadow Housing Secretary Angela Rayner refused to comment on Labour’s plan for landlords....

Rental market frenzy: Nottingham landlord sheds light on supply and demand imbalance

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

11th October 2023, 3 years ago | 11

The mismatch between supply and demand is worse than ever with a frenzy of activity in the rental market. New...

Rental market crisis: NRLA urges Government to act

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

9th October 2023, 3 years ago | 8

The National Residential Landlords Association (NRLA) has called on the Government to take urgent action to address the supply crisis...

Rental market frenzy: Tenants face 25 enquiries per property

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

5th October 2023, 3 years ago | 8

The rental market in the UK is experiencing a frenzy of activity, as letting agents report an average of 25...

Rents soar by up to 41% in five years

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

5th October 2023, 3 years ago | 11

Bristol is the most expensive city to rent a property in England with tenants paying 41% more than they did...

Rents rise as landlords exit the market, survey shows

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

26th September 2023, 3 years ago | 13

The UK’s private rented sector is facing a supply-demand imbalance that is pushing up rents as landlords exit the market,...