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Expanding agency group My Property Box has completed its 10th acquisition in six years, buying Teesside lettings and property investment specialist...

Arun Estates - parent company of 100 branches in south east England, including brands Cubitt & West, Douglas Allen, Pittis and...

Lettings and sales agency Gascoines is this week celebrating 70 years of serving the property market in Nottinghamshire. Founded by Doug Gascoine...

A wealthy landlord who set up a fake lettings agency in Hull has been jailed for 11 years for allowing ‘ghost tenants’ to...

Lomond has snapped up another rental portfolio. It’s been acquired from the Rendall & Rittner Sales & Letting agency which had a...

The ESTAS Group says its 2024 Best in Postcode Category Winners will be announced on April 26. This new category was announced...

Lettings agency Edward Mellor, which operates its 15 branches across Greater Manchester, has signed up to OnTheMarket. This follows the controversial CoStar...

The British Property Federation claims the time required for Build To Rent planning applications has significantly increased over the past decade...

Almost half of more than 400 letting agents quizzed for a new study have expressed their optimism about the impact of...

The Martyn Gerrard agency has acquired a London independent - Range Homes. Range Homes, based in the north London suburb of Palmers...

Prominent MPs from the Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties have renewed their onslaught on Airbnb and other short let platforms.  Former Lib...

The number of private tenants in properties that are hard to heat has fallen, a council claims. As agents will know private...

The government has ruled out any reform to the council tax system. There has been long standing criticism of council tax because...

Propertymark’s property auction division - NAVA - has given ringing endorsement to the Material Information changes demanded under new Trading Standards...

New data released by insurance firm HomeLet claims that average rents have fallen now for three months on the bounce. The past...

Prime London rental values fell closer to their longer-term average in January, as supply continued to increase - but worries about...

A buying agent claims that rents could finally be tailing off despite some indices showing rises still taking place. According to Rightmove,...

One of the Republic of Ireland's largest agency chains, Sherry Fitzgerald, has snapped up Belfast independent Simon Brien Residential, known as...

A five year old consumer reviews website has been acquired by Rightmove. Homeviews was set up in 2019 and at the time...

The former Foxtons managing director Peter Rollings is to give agent a masterclass in obtaining higher lettings and sales fees. Rollings will...

A trades union has slammed the Bank of England over its decision to keep base rate at 5.25 per cent, saying...

Rents have risen seven per cent in the past year while voids have lengthened in the past month - although remain...

New analysis by insurance giant Aviva reveals that one in every 13 new homes built in England in the last decade...

The Building Research Establishment - which undertakes research, advice, training, testing, certification and standards-setting for the housing sector - is calling...

The Bank of England has kept its base rate at 5.25 per cent but markets forecast this will drop from the summer as...

A prominent lettings agency is advising landlords to fit out homes in prime locations to the same high specification as if...

Stamp duty receipts dipped four per cent to £2.4 billion in Q3 of last year - no less than 25 per...

The latest Build To Rent report prepared by lettings agency Savills claims 2023 saw a total of £4.5 billion of investment...

A new networking service for letting agents and all other property insiders, including landlords and investors, is being launched today by...

Government figures suggest the UK population could reach nearly 74m as soon as 2036, largely attributed to rising net migration. This is...

The Renters Reform Bill cannot succeed without proper engagement with letting agents and landlords, Propertymark argues.    According to a Freedom of Information...

Scottish councils must engage with letting agents and landlords if radical rental reforms have any chance of working. Propertymark argues that the...

Over a third of ARLA Propertymark members reported in December that rental prices have increased, according to their latest Housing Insight...

Seventeen housing organisations have sent an open letter to the government rejecting its idea of prioritising British families when it comes...

A managing partner at a letting agency has given an insight into the unique forces which he says is “strangling” the...

A law professor has dismissed a Labour call for agents to have qualifications as “eye poppingly silly” and “snobby.” Labour’s shadow housing...

There were 12,000 first time buyers over the age of 50 in the UK in 2022, the latest figures available. This means...

A property management firm claims that energy efficiency is apparently renters’ most important quality when choosing a place to live.  Centrick says...

A Knight Frank survey of 50 house builders shows a staggering 70 per cent support for Labour to win the next...

A return of pent-up demand and mortgage rates falling below five per cent have boosted the start of the year for...

The long-awaited Third Reading of the controversial Renters Reform Bill will not happen this week according to the Leader of the...

Savills says prime rental growth across London and the country has stalled for the first time in almost three years. In prime...

A former Economics Editor and Chief Political Correspondent of ITN will be a keynote speaker at the Propertymark One conference in...

Two thirds of private renters have experienced a problem with the quality or condition of their property in the past six...

Glasgow has been revealed as the UK city with the biggest rise in the number of buy to let properties in...

The average advertised rent for new properties coming to market hits another new record outside of London of £1,280 per calendar...

Foxtons’ unaudited end-of-year trading statement makes no bones about it - the lettings division saved the agency’s bacon in 2023. It suffered...

New research shows there are 36,210 long-term vacant homes across London - that’s around one in every 100 properties. The borough in...

Propertymark's latest research report suggests some letting agents want radical changes to the Renters Reform Bill now going through Parliament.  The aim...

Winchester council is setting up its own agency to let and manage privately rented homes. Venta Living pledges to provide “high quality,...

Student accommodation booking platform Housemates is expanding overseas. The expansion will cover several major Canadian cities including Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal. Currently Housemates...

The Property Institute has welcomed a Labour Party move to introduce the regulation of property agents across much of the sector. Tabled...

Reposit is the latest deposit alternative service to announce strategic partnerships with agencies - the latest signings are Symonds & Sampson,...

Propertymark is hosting a webinar where Scott Bailey - policy manager at the Home Office - will answer questions on Right...

The UK government has taken an equity stake in the rental investment platform Shojin through the conversion of a pandemic-era loan...

Two former housing ministers are at war with each other after an attack on Rishi Sunak’s premiership in today’s Daily Telegraph. Sir...

Figures released by HMRC show that the Treasury raked in £5.7 billion in inheritance tax receipts in the nine months from...

Just under half of mortgage brokers expect to place more limited company buy-to-let business throughout the next 12 months, Paragon Bank...

Leaders Romans Group has acquired three major lettings, sales and surveying businesses operating multiple branches across London, Surrey, Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire. The...

Thousands of lettings and estate agencies, and other property businesses, are in ‘critical’ or ‘significant’ financial distress, it’s been claimed. The latest...

Over £100m has been invested into a new site that will offer purpose b built accommodation for 713 students beds in...

Foxtons’ internal lettings data shows that the 2024 lettings market in the capital is likely to be more balanced than in...

A new study claims holiday rental providers could increase business five fold or more through improved communication. The study asked more than...

Aereon - a European software provider that owns high profile PropTech operator Fixflo - has entered a strategic partnership with automated...

Controversy surrounds a government idea - floated over the weekend - to allow renters to secure mortgages with just one per...

Fines for agents and landlords who breach Right To Rent rules increase today from £80 per lodger and £1,000 per occupier...

Deposit alternative company flatfair has announced a major new agency partnership with the Andrews Property Group.  Andrews branches will be able to...

Propertymark’s monthly political and government update webinars are set to continue in 2024 - General Election year. A statement from the trade...

Qualifications for property managers in the social housing sector should be extended to the private rental sector too. That’s the view of...

Labour is using a Bill currently going through Parliament as a backdoor method to introduce the regulation of lettings, estate and...

Average rents in Scotland for new tenancies in the private rented sector have risen by double digits for the fifth quarter...

An event which claims to change the fortunes of letting agents has been recognised by the Professional Speakers Academy. Agent Rainmaker Live...

Aviva Investors, the global asset management business of Aviva plc, has spent some £150m acquiring a portfolio of six Purpose Built...

Agents who want to put their arguments for lettings fiscal reform to the Chancellor have until 5pm next Wednesday to submit...

There are more rental properties for tenants to choose from than any other time since Covid, according to London estate agency...

There are growing fears that the hoped-for Bank of England base rate cut this spring - the first off possibly several...

One of the lettings sector’s longest-standing suppliers - Mortgages for Business - is rebranding. It’s to be known as Mortgage Finance Brokers,...

Strutt & Parker is leaving its HQ to share premises with other parts of its parent company - and to have a...

Two agencies have today joined eXp UK, the platform which now wants existing branch-based firm to convert to its self employed...

A large multi-brand lettings agency group is dropping its listings on Zoopla and instead going to list rental properties on OnTheMarket...

Summer looks like it’s going to be a hectic period for lettings agents and the private rental sector according to TV...

Property taxes in Scotland exceeded £600m over the last year according to analysis of the latest statistics by the country’s largest...

TV host Jenni Falconer is to reprise her role as compere of Propertymark’s ‘One Conference’ when it’s repeated at London’s ExCel...

The letting agents’ trade body Propertymark says one of the UK governments should go further in ensuring the safety of tenants...

A PropTech supplier this week hosts a free webinar for agents to shed light on the rise of attempted tenancy fraud...

Propertymark is hosting an Understanding Material Information for Lettings Agents on Thursday January 18 from 1230 to 1400. The National Trading Standards...

Property agency James Douglas has acquired a rental service and launched its own lettings arm in the south Wales city of...

A new analysis shows that - unsurprisingly - London remains the most competitive region for letting agents, having seen the largest...

Rents across the UK continue to retreat from their 2023 highs, falling by 2.9 per cent over the last three months,...

Knight Frank has revised its housing market forecasts for 2024, just two weeks into the new year. It’s done this on the...

A leading lettings agency says 2023 was a record-breaking year for rental growth.   The average rent on a newly let property in...

Propertymark is hosting a client money security webinar tomorrow lunchtime between 12.30 and 13.30. The webinar will discuss the rise of Artificial...

The long-running aspiration of many to allow rental payments to be counted towards credit ratings appears to have taken a step...

The UK Apartment Association - a Build To Rent trade body - has given details of an expo it’s hosting in...

A free webinar for agents is being held next week, again devoted to the Renters Reform Bill as well as the...

Letting agents’ body Propertymark is throwing its weight behind a mandatory licensing and registration scheme for short let landlords. Anyone who lets...

Fast-growing Lomond has snapped up another regional agency - this time one in the Midlands. Centrick - which had a High Street...

A survey by one of the industry’s deposit alternative services, flatfair, shows that - unsurprisingly - over 61 per cent rank...

New rent control proposals put forward by politicians are unnecessary and too costly according to a leading property expert.  David Alexander -...

Insurance giant Aviva is urging consumers to be on their guard after seeing a seven per cent increase in customer claims...