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A prominent letting agent has written an open letter to Housing Secretary Michael Gove, calling for a halt on government attacks...
19 December 2022
From: Breaking News
The chief executive of Propertymark says latest data from letting agents suggests rent rises may have peaked - but that could...
19 December 2022
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One of Connells’ high end branch, Hamptons, is releasing a TV advertisement on Boxing Day. The advert, in 30 and 60 second...
19 December 2022
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Over the last decade, the proportion of people aged 24 to 64 living in their own home has fallen and the...
19 December 2022
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Land and Buildings Transaction Tax - the Scottish equivalent of stamp duty - has risen to six per cent for all...
16 December 2022
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Rightmove says yesterday’s Bank of England base rate rise to 3.5 per cent - the ninth hike in as many Bank...
16 December 2022
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A London borough has been identified as having 42 per cent rental inflation in the past year. Lambeth in the south of...
16 December 2022
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Propertymark pledges that an event being held next summer will be “colossal” - and will haver the likes of lettings agents...
16 December 2022
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The latest market snapshot by London-focussed data company LonRes shows that a shortage of homes available to rent across all parts...
16 December 2022
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The Bank of England has increased base rate by 0.5 per cent to 3.5 per cent. This is the ninth consecutive base...
15 December 2022
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The government is under new pressure to introduce a last minute eviction ban to avoid private renters facing homelessness over Christmas. Liberal...
15 December 2022
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Data from fraud prevention database CIFAS a marked increase in both identity fraud and false lettings applications in the UK according...
15 December 2022
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Two members of Ellis & Co’s Mill Hill team have bought out the branch. Ellis & Co Mill Hill’s Paul Glass has...
15 December 2022
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PropTech firm PayProp UK claims actual rent rises may be well below those suggested in some surveys. In response to the Scottish...
15 December 2022
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The Propertynest lettings and sales agency is expanding into Yateley in Hampshire. This follows the recruitment of experienced agent Mark Holloway into...
15 December 2022
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Keller Williams UK - which has seen market centre closures in recent months - insists that its lettings business KW Move...
14 December 2022
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Data from the mortgage lenders’ trade body UK Finance shows the wisdom of agents having a lettings division. The body says: “We...
14 December 2022
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No fewer than 85 per cent of letting agents say that landlord clients have expressed a wish to sell up in...
14 December 2022
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Annual rental growth strengthened for the third month running, with average rents up 7.9 per cent across Britain on the same...
14 December 2022
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This may be 2022’s least surprising research finding - most property professionals want interest rates to fall. A webinar poll undertaken by...
14 December 2022
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Housing Secretary Michael Gove is being asked to take urgent action over housing conditions across social and private rental sectors. Following the...
13 December 2022
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A London lettings agent is offering free interior styling to all his clients. After 16 years working as head stylist for one...
13 December 2022
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A council wants public views on empty private homes in its patch - but doesn’t want to talk about publicly-owned empty...
13 December 2022
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The fledgling trade body for the UK’s short lets industry has welcomed the government’s proposal for a registration scheme for hosts. The...
13 December 2022
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Zoopla has given details of its collaboration with homelessness charity Crisis following the announcement of a three-year partnership earlier this year. Crisis’s...
13 December 2022
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The Bank of England’s monetary policy committee meets again this week with a further interest rate rise likely if base rate...
12 December 2022
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A new survey has been launched to gather views from people in a major English city on the idea of introducing...
12 December 2022
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Investment buyers will snap up a higher proportion of homes in 2022 than they did in 2021, the Hamptons agency forecasts. So...
12 December 2022
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Martin & Co’s Ashford branch is celebrating the countdown to Christmas with another independent agency acquisition. The franchised office, owned by Kevin...
12 December 2022
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Agents have expressed their anger at the government effectively scrapping any meaningful house building targets. Housing Secretary Michael Gove scrapped the mandatory...
12 December 2022
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A consultation proposing a steep rise in council tax for second homes has won strong public support. Flintshire council in north Wales...
09 December 2022
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A prominent independent lettings agency says the typical tenant outside of London now spends 63 per cent of their household income...
09 December 2022
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Inventory and property reporting app Inventory Base has partnered with software operator MRI Software. This means that through the MRI Partner Connect...
09 December 2022
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Trends in the lettings market “do not bode well for renters on low incomes” according to an analyst. Jack Godby of lettings...
09 December 2022
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The average rent for a new letting has increased by £117 per month since last year, reaching £1,078 per calendar month...
09 December 2022
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Purplebricks has detailed the price it is paying for a lettings compliance blunder first spotted last year. It predicts that, at worst,...
08 December 2022
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A Labour MP has attacked Airbnb hosts and others in the short lets business, accusing them of “this exploitation of housing...
08 December 2022
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Rightmove has created thousands of personalised videos to help letting agency branches highlight this year’s achievements to prospective landlords. The video can...
08 December 2022
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John D Wood, one of the high end brands now owned by Connells, has expanded into the Docklands & City area...
08 December 2022
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The headlines surrounding today’s new RICS market snapshot will concentrate on dramatic house price falls but the drop off in the...
08 December 2022
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One of the leading deposit alternative services has called for a code of conduct to step, amongst other things, alleged pressure...
07 December 2022
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07 December 2022
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A crackdown on Airbnbs and other short lets in the Scottish capital, Edinburgh, has infuriated landlord’s’ representatives. In line with the rest...
07 December 2022
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Housing Secretary Michael Gove has sent a letter to the Competitions and Markets Authority saying the watchdog is independent - but...
07 December 2022
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A new analysis claims to show how difficult it has become for buy to let investors to secure finance as a...
07 December 2022
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The volatile economy is forcing small agencies and other modest-sized businesses to put on hold millions of pounds of spending on...
06 December 2022
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The government is to open a consultation on whether residential properties should require planning consent to be used as short lets...
06 December 2022
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A well known regional lettings agency has completed a £250,000 investment drive that includes a new office and a recruitment campaign. Berriman...
06 December 2022
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Three councils will be sharing £1.21m in public cash over the next two years to tackle poor quality properties in the...
06 December 2022
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A London borough is tomorrow holding an online training session for agents and landlords on how to submit a licence application...
06 December 2022
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The Observer newspaper has investigated the way letting agents apply so-called zero deposit schemes - and claims that in some cases...
05 December 2022
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The John Lewis Partnership has agreed a £500m multi-decade joint venture with global investment company abrdn to deliver around 1,000 new...
05 December 2022
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The latest rental index from Goodlord shows rents down over the past month, with voids inching up. All seven English regions monitored...
05 December 2022
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Savills has promoted Sophie Candlin, a negotiator in its south west London Teddington office, to become its head of lettings. She takes...
05 December 2022
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OnTheMarket is to host a series of Meet Our Partners webinars to showcase suppliers with links to the portals. Since Jason Tebb...
05 December 2022
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Purplebricks is to reveal its latest trading figures next week in a crucial test for the turnaround strategy of new chief...
02 December 2022
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A PropTech supplier is claiming that a new link with a Facebook expert will help supercharge the social media experience of...
02 December 2022
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The UK Short Term Accommodation Association has named a new chief executive. Andy Fenner will support STAA chairperson Merilee Karr and director...
02 December 2022
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A financial expert says the latest house price index, showing the biggest monthly fall for over two years, is the “first...
02 December 2022
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Research released today by Legal & General, a player in the Build To Rent sector, claims that renters are willing to...
02 December 2022
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Activists say they are planning protests outside lettings agency offices this weekend. Activists in the London Renters Union and Greater Manchester Tenants...
01 December 2022
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Agents have only until the end of tomorrow, December 2, to feed into Propertymark’s response to a new consultation on the...
01 December 2022
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The Association of Independent Inventory Clerks is hosting a webinar this evening for letting agents and other industry employers responsible for...
01 December 2022
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Propertymark is doubling the number of full-scale regional conferences in 2023, and for the first time they will be free to...
01 December 2022
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Nottinghamshire estate agency Gascoines has bolstered its lettings team with the appointment of Callum Holmes as lettings co-ordinator. With more than 10...
01 December 2022
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A new lettings regime that is described as the biggest change in many decades comes into effect tomorrow in Wales, with...
30 November 2022
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The government is urging all overseas entities who own property in the UK to register at Companies House. The Register of Overseas...
30 November 2022
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A not-for-profit company that matches rental properties with vulnerable tenants in need of accommodation has partnered with a maintenance firm to...
30 November 2022
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A new licensing scheme for HMOs, agreed by leaders of Portsmouth council, will be implemented from September 1 2023. Licensing of HMOs...
30 November 2022
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Following the recent inquest into the tragic death of two-year old Awaab Ishak in Rochdale, agents are being offered free awareness...
30 November 2022
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A senior Savills figure, who chairs the trade body known as The Lettings Industry Council, has issued a warning to the...
29 November 2022
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A respected agent is warning that a proposal to increase stamp duty on additional homes could kill off the rental market...
29 November 2022
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Airbnb-style short-lets in another part of Scotland are to be subject to new licensing rules. The scheme, introduced by the Scottish Government,...
29 November 2022
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Property consultancy Walker Singleton has snapped up the independent Daniel & Hirst agency in Yorkshire. The deal, which was for an undisclosed...
29 November 2022
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Shelter claims government figures show 5,940 households were “threatened with homelessness” in England as a result of Section 21 evictions between April...
29 November 2022
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OnTheMarket is launching its own proprietary customer relationship management platform for estate agents - and it’s billed as the first ever...
28 November 2022
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The downbeat results of a survey by a finance company suggest that half of tenants are worried that they will be...
28 November 2022
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A new survey from Aviva has revealed that over a million people may rule themselves out of the first-time buyer market,...
28 November 2022
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Lettings income for LSL Property Services increased two per cent in the past year - at just the time the company...
28 November 2022
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The well-known York agency Blenkin & Co has launched a prime lettings service to complement its long-established sales side. The new service...
28 November 2022
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A survey among letting agents on Rightmove has found that on average they are managing 36 enquiries per property and spending...
25 November 2022
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ARLA Propertymark President David Votta and Propertymark chief executive Nathan Emerson are amongst a group of trade body figures who have...
25 November 2022
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The government has made a general commitment to work with those who want council tax reforms for Homes in Multiple Occupation. Earlier...
25 November 2022
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Propertymark has given its backing to a clampdown by Housing Secretary Michael Gove on private landlords - although landlords themselves appear...
25 November 2022
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London property data business LonRes has launched an app. By downloading the app users can search for properties – for sale or...
25 November 2022
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Purplebricks’ board has announced that a general meeting of shareholders will be held on December 19 - and it involves a...
24 November 2022
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Data from different firms suggest there’s been an upsurge in the purchase of rent protection insurance by agents. Firstly Goodlord and Vouch...
24 November 2022
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A new PropTech integration with the Tenancy Deposit Scheme’s API will help streamline deposit protection, it’s claimed. According to Debbie Davies of...
24 November 2022
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The head of an estate agency and property investment firm says the government should do more to reform the rental sector...
24 November 2022
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The number of long-term empty homes has risen in every region of the UK during 2022 according to new government figures. The...
24 November 2022
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The large majority of players in the lettings industry wants the rental reform programme outlined by the government, an agent claims. Laura...
23 November 2022
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Propertymark says letting agents should have clear policies and priorities to help ensure properties are kept to the highest standards possible. The...
23 November 2022
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The allAgents review website has removed a claim suggesting it had been ‘endorsed’ by The Times and the Sunday Times newspapers. The...
23 November 2022
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A lettings network is urging landlords to back a campaign to abolish council tax re-banding for shared houses. Platinum Property Partners says...
23 November 2022
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A short trading statement from Stock Market-listed London agency chain Winkworth shows just how vital the lettings sector is to its...
23 November 2022
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A news website is reporting that a landlord cut the asking rent of a property after social media criticism of its...
22 November 2022
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The controversial Boiler Upgrade Scheme - which Propertymark say is so complex many people don’t think it’s worth applying to -...
22 November 2022
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A Belvoir branch has made its fifth acquisition - and this time it’s a neighbouring Belvoir office whose owners were retiring. Nathan...