Insurance firm Let Alliance has reported a big increase in the sales of rent guarantee policies during the last six months. The increase in demand for rent guarantee protection has resulted in Let Alliance providing cover in 49% of the total reference transactions completed...

Rents rose in January, in an unusual start to a new year.   According to LSL, it was the first time on record that there has been a January increase in rents...

A battle has broken out in a university city after students complained that they are having to sign rental agreements and hand over large sums of money almost a year early to secure their homes, because of pressure from landlords and agents...

Lomond Capital, the lettings agency acquisition vehicle, has bought James Gibb Property Management, one of Edinburgh’s oldest letting agencies, which has managed and rented properties in the capital since 1872...

Heavy fines or a long jail term for the boss of fraudulent Oxford letting agent Charles Lawson have been welcomed by the head of the Tenancy Deposit Scheme as sending the right message to rogue agents...

A lettings business in the North-East has announced plans to open another nine branches in the region over the next three years and then take its brand nationwide...

The Metropolitan Police have issued a warning that fraudsters are stealing the personal details of landlords whose properties are managed by letting agents...

Martin & Co has launched a new franchise recruitment website as it seeks to build on its 180-strong network. Scott Burgess, franchise director, said: “The new website has been completely redesigned and developed in-house to give potential new franchise owners a more user-friendly experience in addition to a modern look and feel to the site...