The UK's post-Covid student accommodation market is becoming increasingly attractive to private equity firms, a Bloomberg report reveals.

They are pumping hundreds of millions of pounds into the sector because they believe

The average rent that tenants in the UK are paying has reached a record high of £992.

The figure comes from HomeLet who say that is the highest figure since 2014 when their index was launched

Call for students to return to campus and accommodation

University chiefs are calling on Prime Minister Boris Johnson to allow students to return to their campuses and accommodation this month.

The call comes after

Growing numbers of landlords in the UK are showing confidence in the buy to let sector by taking out larger loans, data reveals.

According to Keystone Property Finance, 58% of their clients have been applying for bigger loans si

While landlords have had to cope with the evictions ban since the pandemic lockdown began, one specialist firm says the time to evict a tenant could increase by six months.

The warning from Court Enforcement Services is for

Landlords warned over £30,000 safety fines

Landlords in England are being warned to comply with new safety laws or risk fines of up to £30,000.

That's because on 1 April, a new law for existing t

The UK's biggest student accommodation provider is predicting that its buildings will be full when the new academic year starts.

Unite Group , which has 177 student properties in 27 cities and towns with 74,000 beds, is mak

The growth in rent prices outside of London has reached 8%, the highest ever recorded figure by Hamptons.

However, rents in inner London have plummeted by 17.7%.

One reason for the rise in rents, the real estate firm

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Buy to let mortgage brokers are increasingly working with new BTL landlords as interest in the private rental sector grows, says one online search specialist.

According to Knowledge Bank, buy to let brokers are searching fo

Outside of London, rents are rocketing to record levels with most regions seeing big increases in rents.

And one survey reveals that tenants are returning to big cities.

News that rents are rising comes from Homelet w

The number of tenants seeking rental properties rocketed by 27% in January, a report reveals.

The findings from Arla Propertymark also reveal that the supply of homes to rent fell in the same month.

In their PRS

Despite a difficult year for landlords battling with the Covid-19 lockdown, the value of their BTL portfolios has risen by 8.6%.

According to research from real estate firm Barrows and Forrester, this equates to values rising by

Student landlords have hit back after one University urged them to introduce a blanket rent reduction for their student tenants.

The landlords in Portsmouth had been urged by the University of Portsmouth's Vice-Chancellor Graham Galbraith to del

UCAS have announced a record number of applications to University have been received by the 29^th of January.

This is a significant increase on the previous year of 8.5% and is the most applications ever received at this point in the a

A hitch with Universal Credit (UC) has revealed that landlords across the country are increasingly considering evicting their tenants.

That's because the UC portal has been closed to new claimants which means landlords are struggling to create A

The continued rising demand for rental property has seen rents for homes in commuter zones being pushed up, research reveals.

The analysis from Zoopla highlights that increasing demand in commuter zones matches the fall in deman

An influential group of MPs is calling on the government to refund student rents during the lockdown.

The call has been made by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Students, which includes peers and MPs from all political parties.

Landlords are no longer allowed to refuse to rent their property to a tenant who has a pet, new government guidelines state.

The new model tenancy agreement, introduced by the Ministry of Housing, is a recommended contract that landlords should

According to one student accommodation platform, the most affordable student rent is in the Liverpool L7 postcode.

This area is to home

According to recent research, the best buy to let university in the UK for investment purposes is the University of Southampton.

Their figures reveal that landlords there can expect a typical rental yield of 7.4%.

The average hou

According to real estate firm Hamptons, the number of landlords setting up a BTL limited company in 2020 was 41,700.

That's a rise of 23% on 2019's figure.

For a landlord creating a limited company, they can save tax

Landlords have been hit by a Government decision to extend its eviction ban for another six weeks.

The move means that the bailiff ban in England is now being extended to 21 February - at the earliest.

Robert Jenrick, the housing

Despite the issues and challenges brought by the Covid-19 pandemic, 45% of UK landlords say they are optimistic about their prospects in 2021.

The survey from Property Master, however, also reveals that 29% of landlords are pess

Student landlords worried about the coronavirus risks of students in their private accommodation will be pleased to hear about the latest research.

According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), students are at a higher

With the coronavirus pandemic affecting the country, it has been revealed that private landlords have been offering their tenants more help than social landlords have done.

That's one of the findings from the English Housing Survey

Angry landlords in the UK say the government has forgotten them during the Covid-19 pandemic, a survey reveals.

According to The Mortgage Lender (TML), who carried out the survey, 64% of landlords say they have not received fina

According to Bunk, recent media stories predicting that the UK's student accommodation sector will struggle in 2021 are wide of the mark.

From a survey of students they have carried out, they say the student acco

The findings from Aldermore reveal there are still lots of solid BTL investment opportunities available despite

With students across the UK being told by the Government that they should return home in a travel window, some universities are reminding students about their obligations to their landlords.

One of them, Liverpool John Moores University<

The National Residential Landlords' Association (NRLA) is urging the government to introduce a new tenant and landlord dispute conciliation service.

They say this should be publ

Arla Propertymark says that 37% of letting agents say landlords had not put the rent up, compare

Landlords around the UK will be pleased to hear that students say they will return to their university studies in January.

There are fears that with universities ending their current term early for Christmas, that students may decide not to retu

Bailiffs have been told by the government not to enforce any court possession orders in an area with high coronavirus restrictions in place.

While this means that evictions could still proceed through courts, bailiffs will not now enforce evicti

Landlords in most regions have seen rents rising for the first time since March when the Covid-19 lockdown began.

The figures from Hamptons International reveal that the average rent is now £1,041 per month, that's a year-on-yea

The government has announced that possession cases with substantial rent arrears will now be exempt from the evictions ban.

The move will see High Court Enforcement Officers and bailiffs being able to complete evictions and enfo

Recent research released by accommodationforstudents.com demonstrates that students are overwhelmingly happy with their student accommodation. In addition over 60% of students indicated that their accommodation was good value for money.

The Government’s stamp duty holiday appears to be encouraging more landlords to expand their portfolio, figures reveal.

In findings from Simply Business, they say that 10% of landlords confess they are now planning to buy more p

According to property investors SevenCapital, the best place for investment in 2021 is Birmingham.

The Right to Rent rules that govern landlords in England are due to change from November.

That's when the Home Office will introduce several changes that, they say, will make it easier for agents and landlords to check that a potential tena

According to The Mistoria Group, landlords with student properties in the North West outperformed standard buy to let properties for return on inv

For those investors wanting to know where the best UK city for buy to let investment is, then a new study reveals all.

According to research from CIA Landlord Insurance, the best location to deliver profits is Salford.

One trading standards department is targeting student tenants with information about lettings fees - and ending a tenancy early.

The Trading Standards South West Team has been busy staging Twitter quizzes to

Strong demand from tenants has led to rents outside of London hitting a new record high, new figures reveal.

And rental yields are also increasing in most regions monitored.

An analysis from Rightm

Tenant demand hits record high

The number of tenants who have registered with letting agents for a home to rent has reached a record high, a report reveals.

The Private Rented Sector Report for August from Arla Proper

Landlords see Covid-19 as a portfolio-expanding opportunity

Despite the problems caused by the Covid-19 lockdown, growing numbers of landlords see the pandemic as a chance to expand their portfolio.

Th

A late surge from students wanting accommodation in London and the Home Counties led to the number of viewing figures reaching a 10-year high, figures reveal.

The research from Knight Frank, the real estate firm, found the viewing figures f

Plans by the government to extend their current evictions ban could see landlords going without rent for up to two years, one landlords' organisation is warning.

The National Residential Landlords' Association (NRLA) has written to the Prim

With Covid-19 restrictions now being eased, landlords around the country saw rents rise by an average of 2.1% in August.

According to the data from HomeLet, rents have risen by 1.5% compared with August last year.

Rents in London

Students have considered a broader range of accommodation choices as a result of Coronavirus. In a recent survey undertaken by www.accommodationforstudents.com 40% of respondents had considered living in a houseshare rather than a hall. 22% a flat or apart