Rental market
News covering the Private Rented Sector with relevance to letting agents and landlords and the wider residential property industry.
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Inflation could undermine house-price growth, says latest survey
Asking Price Index from Home.co.uk says price growth is tailing off, but rental growth has returned and demand is strong.
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Detached homes are the hottest rental properties, report says
Rents on detached homes increased twice as fast as the average for all UK properties during Q3 2021, according to The DPS.
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New prime London tenancies at highest level for 10 years
The number of prospective new tenants registering with agents in September was 56% higher than last year, says Knight Frank.
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Goodlord buys tenant app Acasa to boost opportunities for agents
Acasa app which helps tenants manage household bills and split costs between flatmates will become part of the Goodlord tenant onboarding platform.
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City centre demand returns for new generation of young renters
Report by Savills suggests transport hubs are once again a priority for a new, young, mobile workforce.
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Stamp Duty holiday fails to fuel buy-to-let spending spree by investors
Little sign that large numbers of new investors are buying buy-to-lets despite the Stamp Duty holiday, according to new report.
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LATEST: ARPM collapsed despite £245,000 government-backed Covid loan
Accounts for year ending May last year show company was lent the money via the HMRC's CBILS programme.
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Estate agency’s short-lets launch goes head-to-head with Airbnb
JLL says its Short Stays initiative will offer travellers and business people access to properties within professionally-managed blocks.
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Tenants now able to lodge rental deposits direct with TDS and Mydeposits
New tech from RentProfile integrated with the two deposit schemes cuts process from days to minutes, but agents still in control.
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Kitchen chaos main cause of deposit disputes
Cleaning topped the list of most frequent reasons for tenancy deposit disputes since 2020, with kitchens often the dirtiest room at check-out.
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