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10 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![Rebrand for 90-office national agency chain](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Franchise-400x310.png)
The Northwood franchise, which has more than 90 offices nationwide, has unveiled a new look for its lettings and estate agency...
15 December 2023
From: Breaking News
![Agents supporting HMO council tax breakthrough](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Taxes-400x310.png)
Propertymark has welcomed the government’s commitment to end the practice of council tax of banding single rooms in HMOs, potentially saving...
02 November 2023
From: Breaking News
![New agency structure will rival existing lettings franchise giants](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Bridging%20loan%20completions.png)
LSL Property Services - owners of the Your Move and Reeds Rain brands - is to franchise its entire network of...
05 May 2023
From: Breaking News
![Protests outside letting agency offices planned this weekend](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/StressedTenant-2-400x310.png)
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
From: Breaking News
![Labour MP tells letting agents to explain high rents](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/ManSavingMoney_400x310.png)
A Labour MP has written to letting agents in her constituency demanding they explain high rents and their student allocation policies. Mary...
01 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![Manic, Panic - Tenants queue overnight at lettings agencies](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Stressed(F)Tenant-400x310.png)
University students have queued on the street overnight to secure a home for next year in one of the UK’s most...
28 October 2022
From: Breaking News
![HMRC - webinar for agents led by veteran expert](/upload/images/PropTech%20%26%20Online/Webinar-400x310.png)
Rightmove hosts its latest anti-money laundering webinar next week. The hour-long session at 10am on Tuesday July 19 - a week today...
12 July 2022
From: Breaking News
![Letting agent abused by activist in eviction demo](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/Property-MagnifyingGlass--1-400x310.jpg)
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...
22 April 2022
From: Breaking News
![Police called to protest outside lettings company office](/img/default/lat.png)
Police were called to a protect outside a lettings firm in Oxfordshire after a crowd picketed the office over a dispute...
16 June 2021
From: Breaking News
![Activists stage DSS protest outside agency office](/img/default/lat.png)
Activists from the Acorn renters' campaign group have held a protest outside a branch of Chancellors in Oxford. The group says the...
04 May 2021
From: Breaking News
![Anti-agent campaigners brand eviction ban extension ‘inadequate’](/img/default/lat.png)
Acorn, a prominent campaign group targeting letting agency offices for protests, says the latest eviction ban extension doesn't go far enough. While...
11 March 2021
From: Breaking News
![New Home Counties agency offers “energetic alternative” to rivals](/img/default/lat.png)
A new agency is opening in the Home Counties and claims to offer vendors and landlords “a fresh, modern and energetic...
23 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![Union protests outside agencies as Goodlord dispute escalates](/img/default/lat.png)
The industrial dispute involving Goodlord has escalated with protests outside agency offices using the lettings platform, and the creation of a...
18 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![Make business rate cut permanent! Agents’ demand help](/img/default/lat.png)
ARLA Propertymark wants the government to make the current business rates exemption for High Street branches permanent. The exemption, introduced in the spring...
07 December 2020
From: Breaking News
![Rebrand for plucky family agency fighting back against Coronavirus](/img/default/lat.png)
A family-run agency that describes itself as “plucky” has rebranded and moved to larger premises in one of the UK’s most...
15 October 2020
From: Breaking News
![How is your office coping with safety and social distancing?](/img/default/lat.png)
For the coming Bank Holiday on Monday, we’d like to show images of how agency offices have adapted to cope with...
20 May 2020
From: Breaking News
![Council opens lettings agency in town with scores of private agencies](/img/default/lat.png)
Luton council has opened Lets Squared, a High Street lettings and estate agency using public funds - even though the town...
12 December 2019
From: Breaking News
![Agency compensates tenants and landlords after employee’s scam](/img/default/lat.png)
Martin & Co says it has compensated clients fully after a rogue lettings agent in Cornwall added sums to invoices sent...
04 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Zero Deposit strikes partnership deal with second landlord trade body](/img/default/lat.png)
Deposit alternative service Zero Deposit has become the “exclusive deposit replacement partner” of the National Landlord Association - less than two...
01 August 2019
From: Breaking News
![PropTech is the future but only if it provides benefits, says top consultant](/img/default/lat.png)
The future of the lettings industry will be tech-driven says one of the industry’s leading consultants, who is now also director...
11 July 2019
From: Breaking News
![New regulatory body for Fees Ban likely to clamp down hard](/img/default/lat.png)
The Association of Residential Lettings Agents says it backs a new Trading Standards-led body which will enforce the Fees Ban starting on...
18 April 2019
From: Breaking News
![Lettings supplier teclet continues ESTAS category sponsorship](/img/default/lat.png)
PropTech company teclet has announced it will this year once again be a main category partner at The ESTAS estate and...
27 February 2019
From: Breaking News
![Agency swoops on independent firm specialising in student homes](/img/default/lat.png)
Salford-based student-focussed lettings agency Student Haus has been acquired by the Mistoria Group, which runs Mistoria Estate Agents in the north...
21 November 2018
From: Breaking News
![Regional agency snaps up independent in bid for 1,000 managed units](/img/default/lat.png)
North west lettings and student accommodation specialist Mistoria Group has purchased an independent with 200 properties under management across Greater Manchester. The...
05 October 2018
From: Breaking News
![Protest follows agency owner's refusal to sign 'pledge' document](/img/default/lat.png)
The head of a lettings agency has refused to sign a pledge document put to him by a protest group - and...
01 October 2018
From: Breaking News
![Property firm boss guilty over HMO safety: sentencing next week](/img/default/lat.png)
The director of a property management firm has been found guilty of nine offences of breaching regulations relating to a house...
13 December 2017
From: Breaking News
![Best letting agents named at glittering ESTAS bash](/img/default/lat.png)
Over 1,000 guests celebrated the success of the industry at the 14th annual ESTAS awards on Friday. The event, which is sponsored...
15 May 2017
From: Breaking News
![Anti-fees street protest staged outside letting agency office](/img/default/lat.png)
The campaign group Acorn, which has in the past named individual letting agencies that it claims are charging unfairly high fees,...
09 May 2017
From: Breaking News
![Letting agency office suffers arson and break-in within 24 hours](/img/default/lat.png)
A lettings agency office at Longton in Staffordshire has suffered a break in, less than 24 hours after what it believed...
21 December 2016
From: Breaking News
![Franchise giant opens latest lettings and sales office](/img/default/lat.png)
The franchise giant Century 21 UK has opened its latest estate and letting agency office - and it's in Southampton. The office,...
08 November 2016
From: Breaking News
![Nine rescued from apartments above London letting agency office](/img/default/lat.png)
Local media in west London report that nine people have been rescued by firefighters after a fire above a letting and...
12 October 2016
From: Breaking News
![Anti-letting agent campaigners up in arms over council licensing U-turn](/img/default/lat.png)
The campaign group ACORN, which has in the past organised protests outside letting agency offices, is up in arms that a...
30 August 2016
From: Breaking News
![Police seek help after break-in at letting agency office](/img/default/lat.png)
Police are appealing for witnesses to come forward after a letting agency was broken into over the weekend. At some point between 4.30pm...
10 August 2016
From: Breaking News
![Letting agency uses Twitter to disown comments by branch manager](/img/default/lat.png)
A London lettings has tweeted that it does not share the view of one of its own branch managers who said...
07 March 2016
From: Breaking News
![Anti-letting agent campaign wants tenants to 'rate' named agencies](/img/default/lat.png)
The controversial campaign group ACORN, which has made headlines by protesting outside letting agency offices in Bristol, is launching a new...
24 February 2016
From: Breaking News
![New London office is letting agency's 14th - and another is on the way](/img/default/lat.png)
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...
14 January 2016
From: Breaking News
![Rajeev Nayyar, Managing Director of Fixflo](/img/default/lat.png)
Who are you? I’m the managing director of Fixflo and before starting Fixflo I worked as a property lawyer in London and...
14 September 2015
From: 60 Second Interview
![Mortgage firm opens first letting agency office](/img/default/lat.png)
The broker Independent Mortgage Solutions - which until now has found loans for clients interested in residential sales, self-build and buy...