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The agency Centrick has been appointed to launch and operate a new multi-million-pound Build To Rent development in Leicester. Centrick will provide...
15 May 2024
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Claire Williams, the former team principal of the legendary Williams Formula One Team , has been named as one of the...
07 May 2024
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A prominent lettings agency says concern is growing in the private rental sector about the prospect of more pets in properties. A...
07 May 2024
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A prominent agent campaigning for business tax reform is urging Labour to come clean on its policies for business rates and...
03 May 2024
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The latest market report from Propertymark’s lettings agents suggests the demand is slowing. The latest data - for March - shows that...
03 May 2024
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The Prime Central London lettings market is returning to normality, a prominent agency says. JLL says average rents fell 1.4% between Q4...
25 April 2024
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Leaders - part of the Leaders Romans Group - has unveiled what it claims to one its latest “sustainable office” in...
17 April 2024
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Developer Beech Holdings has secured planning permission for its luxury development of Build To Rent apartments in Sheffield. Sheffield Gardens will include...
17 April 2024
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Property management and facilities firm Pinnacle is to become the leading managing agent for Legal & General Affordable Homes. In recent weeks, the...
16 April 2024
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HomeLet and Let Alliance’s chief executive Andy Halstead has called for less “government grandstanding” and more direct action to recognise the...
03 April 2024
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For first time buyers, renting is cheaper than buying in most of the UK according to new data from the Halifax. London, the...
27 March 2024
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NatWest Group has announced a new package of what it calls ”targeted lending and support” to help local councils provide more...
27 March 2024
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A group founded eight years ago to represent the Build To Rent niche has now rebranded in a bid to win...
26 March 2024
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OnTheMarket continues on its path to try to become the number one property portal, with a boast that it has a...
25 March 2024
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Leaders Romans Group claims to have achieved carbon neutrality for a second consecutive year. A statement claims LRG has undertaken “several notable...
07 March 2024
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The letting agents’ trade body Propertymark has made the unexpected move of calling on banks to cut mortgage rates. Rates are typically...
01 March 2024
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A lettings industry supplier claims one in nine renters use foodbanks. A survey of tenants, commissioned by Zero Deposit, found that just...
22 February 2024
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Respected energy industry consultancy Cornwall Insight says the price cap for the April to June period this year - to be...
20 February 2024
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New analysis by insurance giant Aviva reveals that one in every 13 new homes built in England in the last decade...
02 February 2024
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Government figures suggest the UK population could reach nearly 74m as soon as 2036, largely attributed to rising net migration. This is...
31 January 2024
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Savills says prime rental growth across London and the country has stalled for the first time in almost three years. In prime...
29 January 2024
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Qualifications for property managers in the social housing sector should be extended to the private rental sector too. That’s the view of...
22 January 2024
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Rents across the UK continue to retreat from their 2023 highs, falling by 2.9 per cent over the last three months,...
16 January 2024
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A historic former school and hospital building in Glasgow City Centre will be restored as part of a plan to create...
05 January 2024
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Almost two in five UK owners - landlords and homeowners - now consider improving the energy efficiency of their property an...
08 December 2023
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Leaders Romans Group claims it reached carbon neutrality in 2022, eight years ahead of its original target of 2030. The firm says...
05 December 2023
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It looks like more politicians are preparing a U-turn on energy efficiency rules for the private rental sector. Media reports indicate there...
24 November 2023
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Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Gary Wright - Chief Executive Officer. What is flatfair and what...
13 November 2023
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A council has launched its own social lettings agency to work with private sector landlords in tackling the record numbers living...
26 October 2023
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A lettings industry mentor has issued a plea to agents to do more to protect their landlords’ livelihoods. Sally Lawson, founder of...
16 October 2023
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A PR exercise has discovered that 89 per cent of UK MPs would not give priority to Build-to-Rent schemes in their...
11 October 2023
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The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors is launching its manifesto at this week’s Tory party conference - and improving the supply...
02 October 2023
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A Build To Rent scheme is now ready for move-in by tenants, following the completed conversion of an ambulance station into...
18 September 2023
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Zoopla has issued the first major private rental sector market forecast for 2024. Rental growth this year is on track to end...
15 September 2023
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Knight Frank, in conjunction with Build To Rent operator Moda Living, has published a highly supportive report about BTR. Creating what it’s...
31 August 2023
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Strutt & Parker’s Chester operation has become the second tenant in an arcade within a new development in the city. Strutt &...
31 August 2023
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A Leaders branch office revamp has been launched with claims of it being fully sustainable. The Lewes branch of Leaders - part...
02 June 2023
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The new trade body for short lets has reacted angrily to a government plan for AirBnb and other short let hosts...
13 April 2023
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Leaders lettings agency has launched its new sustainable office in Aylesbury. The company insists that by 2030 all of its branches will...
12 April 2023
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Upmarket lettings agency Savills has moved its 30-strong team in Reading into a prominent new office in the town centre. The firm’s...
20 March 2023
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The Tenancy Deposit Scheme has announced a link up with eco organisations in a tree-planting initiative. TDS says the campaign was driven...
09 March 2023
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Exeter council in Devon is promoting a scheme to private landlords by calling it a “cost-effective solution for landlords who want...
02 March 2023
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The Competition and Markets Authority is launching a three month probe into how letting agents operate within the private rental sector. It says...
28 February 2023
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A property firm is claiming that nearly half of the UK’s younger generation of renters stay up at night worrying about...
09 February 2023
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Leaders Romans Group is unveiling what it claims is a new ‘sustainable’ branch office for its Portico brand in Fulham, London. The...
16 January 2023
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Airbnb has come out in favour of a short lets registration scheme across the UK - similar to the one promised...
10 January 2023
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Legal & General Capital helped fund over 17,000 new homes last year across a range of tenures, chiefly Build To Rent. Chief...
05 January 2023
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A new survey of over 8,000 commercial estate agents indicates a challenging 2023 - suggesting a possible alternative investment option for...
04 January 2023
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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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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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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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Does the lettings industry cater properly for agents' needs? There’s only one way of knowing – asking you directly. To find out...
14 November 2022
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The short lets industry - consisting of suppliers and operators within the burgeoning sector of Airbnb-style lettings - is to stage...
07 October 2022
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Build To Rent operator Sigma Capital Group Limited, which markets its homes under the private rental brand Simple Life, claims newer...
03 October 2022
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The government should do more to promote energy efficiency or risk finding itself in an even more difficult position next year. That’s...
14 September 2022
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Leaders Romans Group has launched what it claims is its first sustainable branch lettings office. Its Brighton city centre branch, operating under...
12 September 2022
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A major lettings sector supplier says the industry must do more to appeal to win employees from the TikTok generation. These typically...
23 August 2022
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Letting agencies will soon be able to calculate their carbon footprint as part of an initiative called The Sustainable Agents scheme. It’s...
12 July 2022
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Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Sales & Marketing Director What is Glide and what does...
11 July 2022
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Aviva Investors, the global asset management wing of insurance giant Aviva, has announced a deal with a Build To Rent specialist...
05 July 2022
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A property investment company says Build To Rent is key to helping Britain meet its current housing and climate change challenges...
20 June 2022
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Airbnb is giving away £100 vouchers to anyone in the UK who shifts into the short lets sector for the first...
29 April 2022
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A new and huge private rental licensing scheme has launched in County Durham. A total of at least 29,000 properties, or 42...
26 April 2022
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The activist group Acorn is lobbying a local council to deny people the right to buy a second home or let...
25 March 2022
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Politicians across the UK appear to be growing more vocal in their support for rent controls. The Welsh nationalist party Plaid Cymru...
17 February 2022
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Lloyds Banking Group, which is known to be investing huge sums in the UK private rental sector, has published the results...
10 December 2021
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Tell us about your role. I am the Customer Service Technology Group Manager at BSH (group brands include Bosch, NEFF and Siemens)...
02 November 2021
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PropTech platform Lavanda says urban property is changing thanks to the pandemic, and it tells agents, landlords and other providers to...
29 October 2021
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Consultation begins today on a selective licensing scheme for privately rented housing in 25 wards of Birmingham. Under the suggested scheme, all...
25 October 2021
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The head of a lettings agency has drawn up a wish list for Chancellor Rishi Sunak to address in his Budget...
14 October 2021
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A lack of longer term rental accommodation thanks to the growth of Airbnb and other short lets has led to a...
05 October 2021
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Private tenants and landlords across the country face a cliff edge as the end of furlough coincides with cuts to benefit...
21 September 2021
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Senior managers in the lettings and sales side of independent chain Spicerhaart are reducing their carbon footprint by taking up the...
20 August 2021
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One of the largest new additional licensing schemes for HMOs anywhere in the country is set to come into force in...
17 August 2021
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A town with one of the UK’s heaviest concentrations of holiday homes is clamping down on future purchases by outsiders who...
28 July 2021
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A new report calls for large scale reform of the private rental sector, including a national landlord register and changes to...
27 July 2021
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Tomorrow sees the start of a three-day debate over the extension of the eviction ban in Scotland - and Propertymark appears...
21 June 2021
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Airbnb, which has been criticised by some for its impact on local rental markets, is to set up its own ‘tax’...
07 June 2021
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Real estate as an industry has remained unchallenged throughout all of these years. For the industry worth more than 217 trillion...
19 March 2021
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There could be 700,000 private tenants in arrears by the end of this year - an unsustainable burden on agents and landlords,...
11 February 2021
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One of the country’s largest Build To Rent players, Legal & General, says it’s started work on 6,000 residential units in...
08 January 2021
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The next 12 months could be a surprisingly good year for the private rental sector despite some obvious challenges, according to...
04 January 2021
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You don’t need to be Greta Thunberg to know that climate change is a big issue that’s impacting our day-to-day lives....
09 December 2020
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An MP claims the proliferation of short lets via Airbnb and similar online platforms is indirectly pricing local people out of...
04 November 2020
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With no clear end in sight and conflicting Government advice as to whether we should work from home or go to...
24 September 2020
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The first attempt to assess the loss of rental income as a result of Coronavirus calculates 22 per cent of private landlords...
11 September 2020
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The Association of Residential Letting Agents is urging its members to write to their MPs over the provision of cash help...
07 September 2020
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A leading PropTech entrepreneur is warning agents to prepare for increased rent arrears from as soon as next month. Neil Cobbold, chief...
30 July 2020
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A Labour council serving one of the largest private rental communities in the country is reported to have failed to have...
09 January 2020
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The growing chorus of calls to professionalise the short lets sector has won influential backing from a senior PropTech entrepreneur. Neil Cobbold...
13 November 2019
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A leading London lettings agent wants increased regulation over Airbnb in a bid to deter criminal activity and anti-social behaviour. Martin Bikhit, managing...
07 November 2019
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A new trade body is being set up in a bid to professionalise the short lets sector. The sector - which embraces...
31 October 2019
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Countrywide’s high-end Hamptons International brand says it’s growing its lettings business “ethically and sustainably, regardless of market conditions.” It has ended the...
22 October 2019
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The government has this week published a learning toolkit for local authorities to help them with enforcement against rogue landlords and...
03 October 2019
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Two thirds of local authorities in England and Wales brought no prosecutions against private landlords in 2017/18 according to research by the...
29 November 2018
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A lettings trade body has welcomed extra government funding for English councils to clamp down on criminal landlords. But the Residential Landlords...
09 November 2018
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13 June 2018
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The chief of what is described as Britain’s largest lettings agency has told an influential group of MPs that the proposed...