Zoopla: Rental Supply Falls for First Time in Three Years
Zoopla 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: Rent Expectations Surge to 44% as Sales Market Steadies
RICS 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 article73% of Landlord Rent Increases Cut at Tribunal
LonRes 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 articleTenanted Property Auctions Up 70%: The Landlord Exit Buying Window
Auction House UK has published data showing a 70% year-on-year jump in tenanted property listings sold at its weekly online auctions.
Read articleRICS: Seven Quarters of Falling Landlord Supply. Rents Still Rising.
RICS published its August 2026 UK Residential Market Survey on 21 August. The lettings section is where the news lives.
Read articleONS August 2026: UK Rents Up 3.7% to £1,393. Post-RRA Acceleration.
The 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 articleRenters Rights Act Is Pushing Rents Up, Not Down
The 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 Starts Plunge 79%: What UK BTL Landlords Gain
Build-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 articleUK Rental Supply Hits 7-Year High. Why Rents Are Still Rising.
The 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: UK Home Sales on Course for Lowest Level Since 2012
Zoopla released its July 2026 House Price Index on 30 July, and the number that stopped me was not the price figure.
Read articleRightmove: UK Asking Rents Hit All-Time High of £1,577 in August 2026
Rightmove published its August 2026 rental market report this morning and the headline number is one I have not seen before.
Read articleONS July 2026: Rents Up 3.3% as House Prices Cool to 2.7%
The ONS published its monthly private rent and house price bulletin today and the two headline numbers are pulling in opposite directions.
Read articlePensioner Renters to Triple by 2044: The BTL Demand Case
The 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 articleIPPR Double-Lock Rent Cap: England BTL Impact
The Institute for Public Policy Research published a rent control proposal for England on 16 July 2026.
Read articleRightmove Q2 2026: Record Rents, Supply Tightening Again
Rightmove's Q2 2026 Rental Trends Tracker landed this week with two record numbers and one directional shift that most coverage missed.
Read articleThe Landlord Sell-Off Is Slowing. Ground 1A Is Why.
Hamptons 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 June 2026: Sales Supply Falls and the BTL Buyer Window is Closing
RICS published its June 2026 UK Residential Market Survey on 9 July.
Read articleUK Rents Jump 6.5% in June: The RRA Effect on Starting Rents
The 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 articleONS June 2026: UK Rents Up 3.3% But the North East Is at 5.9%
The 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 June 2026: Cheap Areas Surge, Big Cities Stall
Zoopla 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 articleRICS May 2026: Rental Supply Crunch & What It Means for BTL
Six 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.
Read article