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The Northwood franchise, which has more than 90 offices nationwide, has unveiled a new look for its lettings and estate agency...

Propertymark has welcomed the government’s commitment to end the practice of council tax of banding single rooms in HMOs, potentially saving...

LSL Property Services - owners of the Your Move and Reeds Rain brands - is to franchise its entire network of...

Activists say they are planning protests outside lettings agency offices this weekend. Activists in the London Renters Union and Greater Manchester Tenants...

A Labour MP has written to letting agents in her constituency demanding they explain high rents and their student allocation policies. Mary...

University students have queued on the street overnight to secure a home for next year in one of the UK’s most...

Rightmove hosts its latest anti-money laundering webinar next week. The hour-long session at 10am on Tuesday July 19 - a week today...

The mainstream media today is reporting that a group of anti-landlord/anti-agent activists called an agent a “w*****” at a protest. This apparently prompted...

Police were called to a protect outside a lettings firm in Oxfordshire after a crowd picketed the office over a dispute...

Activists from the Acorn renters' campaign group have held a protest outside a branch of Chancellors in Oxford. The group says the...

Acorn, a prominent campaign group targeting letting agency offices for protests, says the latest eviction ban extension doesn't go far enough. While...

A new agency is opening in the Home Counties and claims to offer vendors and landlords “a fresh, modern and energetic...

The industrial dispute involving Goodlord has escalated with protests outside agency offices using the lettings platform, and the creation of a...

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

A family-run agency that describes itself as “plucky” has rebranded and moved to larger premises in one of the UK’s most...

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

Luton council has opened Lets Squared, a High Street lettings and estate agency using public funds - even though the town...

Martin & Co says it has compensated clients fully after a rogue lettings agent in Cornwall added sums to invoices sent...

Deposit alternative service Zero Deposit has become the “exclusive deposit replacement partner” of the National Landlord Association - less than two...

The future of the lettings industry will be tech-driven says one of the industry’s leading consultants, who is now also director...

The Association of Residential Lettings Agents says it backs a new Trading Standards-led body which will enforce the Fees Ban starting  on...

PropTech company teclet has announced it will this year once again be a main category partner at The ESTAS estate and...

Salford-based student-focussed lettings agency Student Haus has been acquired by the Mistoria Group, which runs Mistoria Estate Agents in the north...

North west lettings and student accommodation specialist Mistoria Group has purchased an independent with 200 properties under management across Greater Manchester.  The...

The head of a lettings agency has refused to sign a pledge document put to him by a protest group - and...

The director of a property management firm has been found guilty of nine offences of breaching regulations relating to a house...

Over 1,000 guests celebrated the success of the industry at the 14th annual ESTAS awards on Friday. The event, which is sponsored...

The campaign group Acorn, which has in the past named individual letting agencies that it claims are charging unfairly high fees,...

A lettings agency office at Longton in Staffordshire has suffered a break in, less than 24 hours after what it believed...

The franchise giant Century 21 UK has opened its latest estate and letting agency office - and it's in Southampton.  The office,...

Local media in west London report that nine people have been rescued by firefighters after a fire above a letting and...

The campaign group ACORN, which has in the past organised protests outside letting agency offices, is up in arms that a...

Police are appealing for witnesses to come forward after a letting agency was broken into over the weekend.   At some point between 4.30pm...

A London lettings has tweeted that it does not share the view of one of its own branch managers who said...

The controversial campaign group ACORN, which has made headlines by protesting outside letting agency offices in Bristol, is launching a new...

Benham & Reeves Residential Lettings, London’s largest independent letting agency, has opened its 14th office. It's in Surrey Quays and is the agency’s...

Who are you? I’m the managing director of Fixflo and before starting Fixflo I worked as a property lawyer in London and...

The broker Independent Mortgage Solutions - which until now has found loans for clients interested in residential sales, self-build and buy...

No agent reading this will be under any illusions that the agency market is a particularly competitive sector to operate in.  I...