Rents rose in every region of GB in September, the first time since January according to Hamptons International

Latest Hamptons International Monthly Lettings Index report – September 2018  headlines  ‘Landlord purchases fall by £5.2 billion in 3 years’. The report reveals that in H1 2018 landlords spent £12.1 billion on new buy-to-let purchases, £5.2 billion or 30% less than in H1 2015 (£17.3 billion). In London landlords spent £3.5 billion purchasing rental homes…

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Rents outside London continue to rise according to Hamptons International

Latest Hamptons International Monthly Lettings Index report – August 2018 reveals that London rents on newly let homes (i.e. homes advertised on the open market to let) fell for the third consecutive month, down -0.8% year-on-year, however rents on newly let homes in Great Britain excluding London, rose 2.0% year-on-year. Rents on those properties where…

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Rents have risen 60% faster than average wages across England according to new research by housing charity Shelter.

New research from Housing Charity Shelter reveals that rents have raced 60% faster than wages since 2011 across England and it shows this crisis is spilling out of cities and into leafy English market towns and suburbs like Tunbridge Wells, Sevenoaks and Milton Keynes. Research report ‘Rentquake’ hits middle England as rents race above wages…

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Rental market grew in 2017 according to Countrywide

The latest Countrywide plc Monthly Lettings Index – January 2018 released this week reveals that rising rents and more households renting means 2017 was a record year for total rent, last year tenants in Great Britain paid a record £51.6 billion in rent, an increase of £1.8 billion on the previous year and more than…

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London Landlords cutting rents according to NLA

Latest news release 6th February 2018 from the National Landlords Association (NLA) reveals that London landlords are cutting rents. According to recent research by the NLA,  one in five landlords (16 per cent) in outer London has reduced rents over the last year. The NLA state in their report: The research also shows that the…

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London goes from having the slowest rate of rental growth in England to the fastest.according to Countrywide

The latest Countrywide Plc Monthly Lettings Index report – December 2017 released 15th January 2018 headlines ‘Rental growth accelerates in 2017.’ Last year (2017) rents rose by an average of 2.4%, an increase from 1.8% in 2016 according to Countrywide. The Countrywide report reveals that London goes from having the slowest rate of rental growth…

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