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Fleet Mortgages published their Q3 2026 Rental Barometer this week and one number stopped me. The average landlord portfolio in England and Wales has grown to 18 properties. Up from 16 in Q2.
Read articleThe Building Safety Levy came into force this morning, 1 October 2026.
Read articleNationwide published its September house price index this morning, and the headline number is 1.6% annual growth. The building society described it as steady. I would use a different word.
Read articleRightmove published its September 2026 House Price Index on Monday, and the headline grabbed attention: asking prices up 0.7%, the first monthly rise since May. But I would not lead with the price move.
Read articleRightmove published its summer rental analysis this week, and two towns on the Wirral came out at the top. Birkenhead and Wallasey averaged 30 enquiries for every available rental property during July and August 2026.
Read articleThe Office for National Statistics released its September 2026 Private Rent and House Prices bulletin this week, covering data through August 2026. UK private rents rose 4.6% annually.
Read articleZoopla published its September 2026 Rental Market Report this week with a headline that caught my attention. Rental supply has fallen for the first time in three years.
Read articleRICS published its August 2026 UK Residential Market Survey on 10 September. The headline from the lettings data: respondents expecting rents to rise over the next three months came in at 44%, up from 33% in July.
Read articleLonRes analysed 200 First-tier Tribunal decisions on rent increases served under Section 13 of the Renters' Rights Act. The headline figure: 73% of those decisions came in below the rent the landlord had proposed.
Read articleAuction House UK has published data showing a 70% year-on-year jump in tenanted property listings sold at its weekly online auctions.
Read articleRICS published its August 2026 UK Residential Market Survey on 21 August. The lettings section is where the news lives.
Read articleThe ONS published its August 2026 Private Rent and House Prices bulletin this morning. The UK average private rent reached £1,393 per month in July 2026, a 3.7% annual increase. In June the figure was 3.3%.
Read articleThe Renters' Rights Act came into force on 1 May 2026. Three and a half months later, Knight Frank is calling it largely counterproductive. Not because the security improvements for tenants are wrong in principle.
Read articleBuild-to-rent new starts across the UK fell 79% in the year to June 2026, according to data compiled by Savills for Real Estate:UK. Outside London, the collapse was 84%: from 13,893 new starts to 2,176 in a single year.
Read articleThe UK rental market produced a headline this week that looks contradictory on its face. Rental supply is at its highest point in seven years, up 17% in the first half of 2026 compared with the same period last year.
Read articleZoopla released its July 2026 House Price Index on 30 July, and the number that stopped me was not the price figure.
Read articleRightmove published its August 2026 rental market report this morning and the headline number is one I have not seen before.
Read articleThe ONS published its monthly private rent and house price bulletin today and the two headline numbers are pulling in opposite directions.
Read articleThe Association of British Insurers published research this month that puts a number on one of the biggest structural shifts in UK housing. By 2044, one in three pensioner households in the UK will be renting.
Read articleThe Institute for Public Policy Research published a rent control proposal for England on 16 July 2026.
Read articleRightmove's Q2 2026 Rental Trends Tracker landed this week with two record numbers and one directional shift that most coverage missed.
Read articleHamptons published its rental market analysis on Monday 13 July. Buried in it is a number that looks like good news for landlords and is not.
Read articleRICS published its June 2026 UK Residential Market Survey on 9 July.
Read articleThe Goodlord Rental Index for June 2026, published on 2 July, contains a number most investors have missed because it sits behind a trade press paywall.
Read articleThe Office for National Statistics published its June 2026 Private Rent and House Prices bulletin this morning. Average UK private rent: £1,383 per month, up 3.3% in the twelve months to May 2026.
Read articleZoopla published its June 2026 Rental Market Report this week. The national headline is positive: UK average new let rent at £1,321 per month, up 2.1% year on year.
Read articleSix weeks into the post-Section 21 world, RICS has published its May 2026 UK Residential Market Survey, the first dataset covering a full month under the Renters' Rights Act.
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