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Lloyds Living agrees 182-home rental deal
Lloyds Living has agreed 182 private rental homes across three East Midlands developments, with family houses making up most of the new stock.
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ONS: Rents rise 3.8% as house prices grow 1.4%
Land Registry: London holds 43% of overseas company titles
Bank of England flags softer housing market before rate vote
Redwood Bank: East Midlands local landlord investment rises 15.1%
Hamptons reveals new-let rents rise 2.4% as North tops £1,000
Karis: cyber attacks on property firms rise 17%
Propertymark: London rent salary threshold reaches £74,010
ABI: subsidence claims reach £20,000 after hot weather
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ONS: private new housebuilding falls 4.9% in July
ONS data shows private housing new work fell 4.9 percent in July 2026, even as total construction output edged up 0.1 percent.
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HomeLet: UK new-tenancy rents hit £1,382 in August
HomeLet’s August 2026 Rental Index puts the average UK new-tenancy rent at £1,382 a month, up 0.9 percent in a month and 4.1 percent annually.
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Glenigan: residential starts plunge 36% as costs bite
Glenigan reports residential starts fell 36 percent year on year to August as weak sales and higher build costs stalled site viability.
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Pegasus: arrears fall to record low but portfolios split
Pegasus Insight reports record-low landlord arrears, but 66 percent of large portfolios still reported missed rent in the past year.
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Benham and Reeves: rents accelerate in five regions after May
Benham and Reeves finds rents accelerated in five English regions after May, while England’s overall rental growth held at 0.6 percent.
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RICS: rent expectations rise to 3% as landlord supply falls
RICS reports landlords expect UK rents to rise about 3% over the next year after its August survey recorded tenant demand up and rental supply down.
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Hello Neighbour: rental demand settles as affordability caps rent growth
Hello Neighbour says viewing requests have more than halved since 2023 as tenant affordability, not migration, now limits how far advertised rents can rise.
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Paragon: Stoke student properties deliver 9.42% average yield
Paragon Bank says student properties in Stoke-on-Trent delivered an average gross yield of 9.42 percent, the highest return in its latest university-market analysis.
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Lloyds: house prices post first annual fall since 2023
Lloyds says August brought the first annual house-price fall since November 2023, after average values slipped 0.2 percent in the month to £298,468.
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EIG: residential auction sales fall 10.1% in July
Essential Information Group says residential auction sales fell 10.1 percent year on year in July 2026 as the national success rate slipped to 64.7 percent, pointing to a choosier market for landlords buying or selling stock.
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SpareRoom urges £11,000 Rent a Room allowance to lift supply
SpareRoom is urging the Chancellor to raise the Rent a Room allowance to £11,000 a year, saying a bigger tax-free threshold could bring more lodger rooms back to market as flatshare supply shrinks.
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HBF: nine in 10 councils lack enough planners
HBF and Paragon Bank say councils across England and Wales are short of an estimated 2,660 planners, with staffing now 20 percent below need and the gap worsening again despite fresh recruitment pledges.
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Nationwide: August house prices edge up 0.2%
Nationwide says UK house prices rose 0.2 percent in August, leaving annual growth at 1.6 percent as the lender’s latest index pointed to a subdued sales market heading into autumn.
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HMRC says July property transactions fell after June uptick
HMRC says the provisional seasonally adjusted count of UK residential property transactions fell to 96,710 in July, down 2 percent on June and 1 percent on a year earlier, reversing the small June uptick in sales activity.
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Lomond says tenants spend 32.7% of income on rent
Lomond says tenants now spend 32.7 percent of income on rent, with the average UK monthly rent at £1,369 and average time to let stretched to 63 days in its Summer 2026 market report.
