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A seasoned lettings expert has been taken on to boost the success of an agency branch in Surrey. James Clarke, with 25...

A new franchisee has been confirmed for Martin & Co’s branches in Caterham and Redhill & Reigate. A portfolio landlord who lives...

Tom Davies has started with Leaders Romans Group as the company’s first group financial services managing director. This new position coincides with...

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

New figures released this week by Propertymark reveal that even in the run-up to Christmas there was no significant change in...

The innovative lettings and estate agency Hat and Home has opened its fifth office - and once again it’s an unusual...

Latest market data from LSL Property Services - which includes the Your Move and Reeds Rain brands - shows a 10...

More than 20,000 UK estate agency branches have registered with HMRC for money laundering supervision – but thousands have yet to...

Martin & Co’s Sheffield and Worksop branches are under new ownership, with training guru Dean Gill taking the reins. He succeeds previous...

Over half of the agency branches sold to franchisees by LSL Property Services have signed up to a large PropTech deal. As...

EweMove Northampton North has confirmed the acquisition of Martin & Co Northampton.  Both brands are in The Property Franchise Group parent company. Having...

Three branches of Hunters have been acquired by a successful duo of agents with years of experience in the company. Sam Lakin...

LSL Property Services - owner of the Reeds Rains and Your Move brands - says it’s movement of agency branches to...

More property is likely to come onto the sales market in the weeks and months ahead as rising numbers of landlords...

Father and sons trio Kevin, Lewis and Tom Dudley have joined forces to become the new owners of Martin & Co’s...

There were 108 new applicants registered per Propertymark member lettings agency branch on average in January, compared to just 64 in...

Agency giant Leaders Romans Group has launched a nationwide partnership with the Trussell Trust, which operates many of the country’s food...

The private rented sector is enjoying record demand. According to Hometrack, rental enquiries per estate agency branch were 46% higher in...

The Property Redress Service claims to be the largest lettings redress service now, with over 13,250 letting agency branches on board. In...

The average rent for a new letting has increased by £117 per month since last year, reaching £1,078 per calendar month...

Rightmove has created thousands of personalised videos to help letting agency branches highlight this year’s achievements to prospective landlords. The video can...

Northern property specialist Bradley Hall has opened a new rental and sales office in Leeds city centre. The firm has expanded its...

One of the two official redress bodies, the Property Redress Scheme, has announced a beefed up advisory panel with a substantial...

Chestertons has named a new lettings manager for its Chelsea branch. Jonathan James has been working in the industry for the past...

The latest report from ARLA Propertymark shows that at last the average number of properties available for rent per agency branch...

OnTheMarket says its innovations with partnerships in the lettings sector have played a part in its successful growth. In the 12 months...

A leading light in the Generation Rent group is disputing the findings of a Propertymark survey of letting agents.  Agents from businesses...

Demand for pied a terres from those working in offices for only three days of the week is fuelling demand for...

  Belvoir has announced its franchise of the year, selected from the 166 offices in its network.  It’s husband and wife team Ben...

PropTech supplier Goodlord, which says it’s working with 1,100 agency branches already, has introduced a new product. It says its Rent Collection...

The London and South East property group Stirling Ackroyd - which recently rebranded from its former title, Nick Dunning Associates -...

Property group Nick Dunning Associates, which includes the brands Townends and Regents, has rebranded to Stirling Ackroyd Group, effective from today.  All...

A checklist for agents to help ensure they steer clear of unwanted fines or claims has been provided by the Guild...

Fenn Wright, which operates in East Anglia, has opened its latest office in Felixstowe and will focus on sales and lettings.  Managing...

After a successful 18 month pilot with a Northwood branch, franchise giant Belvoir has entered a deal with B-hive Block Management...

The new co-owner of two branches of Martin & Co is combining legal work with sales and lettings. Barrister Tom Fazackerley has...

Areas of the country which appear to have had a surplus of rental stock in the past is now reporting a...

Franchise giant Winkworth has opened a new office in the south west at Ferndown in Dorset. The office has been opened by...

There’s now an unprecedented level of demand from tenants for properties, according to the latest survey findings from ARLA Propertymark. The survey...

Leeds agency HOP - previously well known as Let Leeds - is expanding its office network with the launch of a...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents says agents should continue to help landlords and tenants during the Coronavirus crisis. Although the vaccine...

Ascend Properties in Manchester has acquired another small independent agency. It’s snapped up Elavace Estates, a lettings management portfolio on Merseyside.  This follows acquisitions...

Rightmove has set out its innovation programme for the private rental sector. The portal has given over a substantial amount of its...

The number of new prospective tenants soared 27 per cent in the New Year according to figures released over the weekend...

Franchise giant Belvoir has issued a statement to shareholders emphasising the success of its financial services wing. The Belvoir Group established its...

ARLA Propertymark wants the government to make the current business rates exemption for High Street branches permanent. The exemption, introduced in the spring...

Belvoir has opened its third office in Swansea - but like other agency branches in Wales, it’s set to close for...

Deposit alternative service flatfair has teamed up with a rewards provider to offer 500 letting agencies one year of free access. Agents...

Letting agents are being warned that many risk a backlog of mandatory electrical checks unless they take rapid action to work with...

The anti-letting agent group ACORN is to stage protests in 10 to 15 UK cities this weekend according to an activists’...

For the coming Bank Holiday on Monday, we’d like to show images of how agency offices have adapted to cope with...

One of the major deposit alternative operators has announced 31 new letting agency branches have signed up, from three high-profile brands. Zero...

The controversial Acorn group of anti-letting agent activists has been accused of intimidation of female staff during a protest outside and...

Demand for rental properties in January increased to the highest level on record with 88 prospective tenants registered per lettings agency...

New investment in private rented housing has fallen since 2016 as some private landlords have dipped out of the sector in...

Well-known letting agent Kristjan Byfield has announced the details of his new product which aims to reduce the workload of the...

The number of tenants experiencing rent rises following the introduction of the Tenant Fees Act continued its upward curve in August. The...

A leading lettings and sales agency in West Sussex is launching a hub-style structure centralising branch activities in a town centre. Michael...

One of the country’s youngest lettings franchise holders has opened a second branch by acquiring an independent agency. Kuljeet Aujla, owner of...

It’s a vital time for letting agents to hammer home the benefits of buy to let and the dangers to landlords...

The tenants’ fees ban coming into effect from June 1 could help traditional lettings agents keep their place on High Streets,...

London agency giant Kinleigh Folkard and Hayward is the latest to offer its tenant clients a no-deposit service.  It's going to use...

A pressure group that in the past has protested outside letting agency branches has staged more direct action - this time against...

A lettings agent says the fees ban expected to be introduced next year may end up indirectly helping to save the...

A man who submitted false VAT returns for the Lincoln franchise branch of Martin & Co for a period of six...

A portal which allows renters to review their lettings experiences and which encourages agents to buy and download tenants' references has...

SDL Group - owner of the UK franchise for Century 21 lettings and estate agency branches - has been named as the...

Letting agents have reporting an average of four landlords per branch selling up and quitting the buy to let sector in...

A campaign group has been refocussed with the objective of making the government honour its Autumn Statement pledge to ban letting...

There’s a new player in prime London’s burgeoning lettings sector - Quintessentially Estates.  The new division is to be led by Quintessentially...

The supply of rental properties fell by 5% during April when compared to the previous year, according to figures from the...

Countrywide is to lead a group including Connells and Zoopla in a partnership with the proptech company Fixflo, currently best known...

Estate agents shying away from sales of buy to let properties because of recent government clampdowns on the sector risk missing...

A so-called 'ethical lettings charter' established by a group that has campaigned against some letting agencies, is set to be adopted...

A survey of 750 letting agency branches and 70,000 tenant requests suggests agents are improving their management of repairs. The survey -...

London letting agency Branch Properties has launched a service specifically aimed at meeting the accommodation needs of disabled people in London....