We’ve added some new community feature options to our listing details this week. So when you now add a Flat to Rent in Edinburgh you can list local community features such as cinemas, gyms, restaurants, bars, and a few others.

User friendly images will be shown on your listing for the features you selected when adding the flat. These community features are a quick and simple way to add information to your listing. The images on your listing will make the flat eye-catching to potential tenants.

We’ve tried to make searching for a flat to rent in Edinburgh as simple as possible, but at the same time offer you a variety of different ways to search for your flat.

The simplest way to search is by using the keyword quick search along with the property feature images to quickly bring up a list of flats to rent that suit your requirements.

Alternatively, you can search by region of Edinburgh. Choose from City Centre Flats, Edinburgh East Flats, Edinburgh West Flats, Edinburgh North Flats or Edinburgh South flats. Searching this way will bring up a list of all flats in those regions of Edinburgh.

The 3rd method of searching is to list properties within a certain area of Edinburgh, for example Grassmarket Lets or Stockbridge Lets. Searching this way will bring up all flats listed with Flat Rent Edinburgh within that particular area.

The final way to search is to use our detailed flat rent search function. Searching this way will allow you to be specific about what type of flat you are interested in. Selecting the various property features you need the flat to have and what area you would like it to be within.

We’ve updated our list of postcodes to include all Edinburgh and surrounding area postcodes. So now any flat to rent in Edinburgh that is listed in our site, will have a Google map listed on the page showing the location of the property. The map will allow you to zoom in and out of the property location and see the surrounding area and work out directions to the flat. Ideal to use after arranging a viewing to find a flat. Simply print the map off and away you go!

Flat Rent Edinburgh’s new post a listing section, makes it quick and simple for you to list your flat for rent in Edinburgh! After you’ve registered and then signed in, simply click on post a listing to add your flat or flats to rent in Edinburgh.

Once you come to the add listing page, simply select the region within Edinburgh that your flat is located in. Then select the area within this region of Edinburgh from the 2nd drop down menu. Be sure to enter your post code, as this will show a map of your flat’s location using Google maps! Very clean indeed! Be sure to list when your property is to become available from, so you don’t get enquiries coming through before your ready for them!

You can now add video tours of your flat! There is no better way for tenants to see the layout and size of your property. We recommend making videos around 30 seconds to a minute long. Be sure to wander around each room in your flat with your camera. The file should be no larger than 2MB to upload. The video can be in WMA, AVI or MPG format. After selecting the type of property you are letting, be sure to add the various features of your property by selecting the necessary tick boxes.

We recommend writing at least 150 words (around 5 paragraphs) into your property description, but the more the merrier! Be sure to answer any possible questions you reckon people may have about the flat. List all key features, and talk about anything that makes your flat unique or different. Try to grab the readers attention with an exciting property description. This will result in a higher volume of enquiries, and ultimately viewings.

Last but not least, add your images of the flat. You can add up to 8 photos. Be sure to add captions to state which room each image is of. Then that’s you finished! Simply click add to list your property on Flat Rent Edinburgh! You can preview your listing before submitting if you wish to see what it will look like before hand too if you wish.

Flat Rent Edinburgh now offer essential advice on letting or renting a flat in Edinburgh, in a useful and simple top tip section. The advice is summarised within the Top 10 Renting Tips section.

Flat Rent Edinburgh have today launched a new quick search which makes it simpler and quicker for you to find flats to rent in Edinburgh. The funky images allow you to quickly select the features you want your flat to have. Or you can simply search by keyword. Check it out on our homepage!

At Flat Rent Edinburgh, we’ve just completed our Renting Advice section. This offers detailed advice for both tenants looking to rent a flat, and private landlords in Edinburgh looking to lease out their property.

The advice section covers queries over references, deposits, inventories, tenancy lease agreements and many other issues that could cause discrepencies when renting a flat.

If your a tenant or a landlord, you can discuss any issues you may be having in our Forum. Which allows people in similar situations to help each other out and offer advice on renting a flat in Edinburgh.

The property market in Edinburgh is due to be shaken up very shortly, by the launch of Flat Rent Edinburgh next week. The site owned by Skyline Property promises to allow letting agents and private landlords the ability to upload and advertise their properties, or property portfolios in a much more cost effective manner than other web based letting companies that are out there at the moment.

Their simple property uploader section allows you to add a flat for as small as £4.99 if you are a private landlord. Also allowing letting agents to add all their properties for £24.99 a month. Bulk uploading tool available.

Edinburgh tenants can discuss issues with landlords or questions they have about renting a flat in Edinburgh within the Flat Rent Edinburgh Forum. Or look for advice and help on renting a property in Edinburgh within their Renting Advice section of their site.

With the UK property market beginning to pick up again, property rentals will soon tighten up and near extortionate amounts will be requested no more for monthly rent. The average price of houses having tumbled over the past 2 years, is set to fall slightly further in 2010 analysts predict. With the general consensus reckoning another 10% fall across the board for UK house prices. So all going well, and with no shocks to the UK economy, house sales should pick up. Meaning less demand for rental properties, and lower monthly rent values that landlords can command.

All in all I reckon letting agents, as well as private landlords won’t be able to have the luxury of such high budgets to advertise their properties, given the decrease in monthly income coming in. The fall in monthly rent likely to be in line with the decrease in property valuation, of 10%.

I reckon companies like Flat Rent Edinburgh will be popping up across the UK. They seem to be taking a fresh approach to the property rental market and offering both letting agents and private landlords a cheap and affordable way to list their property for let, to a captive online audience. At present their allowing private landlords to submit each property for only £4.99 until let! How long this will last for, I can’t say, not long though is my guess!

Owned by Skyline Property Group, Flat Rent Edinburgh also offer rental advice for tenants. I would imagine this particularly effective in a cultural city such as Edinburgh, with so potential tenants coming from abroad. I guess why they also offer the ability to translate their entire site into multiple languages at the click of 1 button. A very nice feature indeed. Long may sites popping up like this one continue. And with analysts predicting that interest rates set to stay low in the UK for several years to come, the letting market will remain vibrant enough, but without the sharp increase in monthly rent being commanded by landlords that we’ve seen in 2009 in the UK.