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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

Landlords have been told by the Government that they must now give six months' notice to their tenants which will run until March 2021.

This is in addition to the eviction ban extension, which was recently announced, and which will now end on 20

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

A call has been made for student tenancy agreements to include a break clause should another wave of Covid-19 take place.

A survey of students and parents was carried out by Money Magpie and it found that 89% of students would like a break claus

40% increase in enquiries

Here at Accommodation for S

According to Ben Fielding from property inventory software firm InventoryBase, landlords should review their rental propert

Landlords around the country are seeing rents rise and tenant demand booming at higher levels than in 2019, new research reveals.

The findings from Goodlord show that rents are rising in most regions and void periods are beginning to fall.

Landlords and potential BTL investors will be pleased to hear that the UK's buy to let mortgage market is beginning to show signs of recovery after the Covid-19 lockdown, figures reveal.

The findings from Moneyfacts show that the number of BTL f

A growing number of universities in the UK are looking to charter flights in a bid to bring overseas students to study in the country this year, it has been revealed.

The news will bring relief to those landlords with private student accomm

According to Arla Propertymark, the proportion of rent increases being imposed on tena

The first two weeks in June have seen the lettings market enjoying huge gains for both completed and new lettings applications, one platform reveals.

According to Goodlord, these applications are now higher than June 2019's levels and under

The North West of England has seen a student property investment surge that has increased by 8% year-on-year, research reveals.

The findings from Mistoria Group highlights that international investors, as well as UK-based investors, have been in

Demand in the UK's rental sector for homes surged by 22% after letting agents were allowed to reopen on 13 May, one organisation says.

According to Rightmove, demand for rental properties is growing at a quicker pace than for the residential sal

Currently the Higher Education sector is experiencing an unprecedented level of disruption and as a result there is a significant amount of uncertainty about what will be happening in the 2020/21 academic year.

Universities have been hit particu