Jan Woodland, Head of Property SLC Solicitors comments:

ARLA and the NUS are offering the following tips for students looking to rent their first property at university:

Seasonal slowdown in sales but development market is booming which could redress the supply/demand issue over next few years

Tenants are staying longer and their rental requirements are changing, according to new research from the Association of Residential Letting Agents (ARLA).

A Yorkshire sales and lettings estate agency has been expelled from membership of The Property Ombudsman scheme.

Rental tenants have lost out on £1.1 billion in the past three years (averaging £367 million per year) as a result of deposit funds being withheld when they come to leave the...

New research reveals that average void period (length of time a property is unoccupied) for a UK rental property now stands at 3 weeks, the longest period since Q1 2011.

Figures released by Belvoir Lettings, which analyses data from 137 offices across the UK, shows that the national three-month rental average rose from £681 to £727, suggesting a 7%...

With over half a million students applying for UK university courses starting at the end of the summer, the student lettings market is still thriving.

A new survey of landlords shows that long-distance lettings dominate parts of the Private Rented Sector in the UK.