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London rents are rising at a record pace with growth being driven by tenants returning from outside the capital.   That’s the suggestion...

A lettings agent has been jailed for three years for defrauding tenants and landlords out of more than £182,000.  Lee Clarke, 42,...

South East of England sales and lettings agency Parkers is continuing to expand across Berkshire with the opening of a new...

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

A property company has analysed Google Search Data from the past year to reveal what movers were looking for in 2020...

A regional independent agency generating more than £20 million in rental income annually has snapped up a five-branch independent firm. Alexander & Co,...

A leading London lettings agent wants increased regulation over Airbnb in a bid to deter criminal activity and anti-social behaviour. Martin Bikhit, managing...

Seven agencies have been expelled from membership of The Property Ombudsman after failing to pay compensation awards made by TPO. All are...

The Build To Rent sector continues to grow, albeit slowly - now volume house builder Crest Nicholson has teamed up with...

Mystery surrounds the whereabouts of a letting agent who appears not to be in any redress scheme, is being investigated by...

A new PropTech tool tells users how much it would cost to rent a house in various areas for a ‘lifetime...

High end agency Knight Frank is reorganising a regional lettings division in a bid to create a ‘hub’ system which should...

Another Build To Rent scheme has been unveiled, this time in Berkshire. Crest Nicolson and M&G Real Estate have joined forces to...

Latest lettings findings from franchise agency Belvoir shows that in the third quarter of this year average rents were just £3 a...

Legal & General, one of the largest operators in the growing Build To Rent sector, has acquired a 272 acre site...

Rents outside of London have dropped by 0.2 per cent in the third quarter of this year according to new data...

Romans - part of the leading property company, The Leaders Romans Group - is on the acquisition trail again.    Between 2013 and...

Curchods, the privately-owned, 21-branch Surrey agency which also trades as Burns & Webber, has acquired Aspire Management Services Surrey Ltd, an...

Strutt & Parker has launched a new corporate and relocation department for domestic and international tenants relocating within London and the...

Kate Eales has been appointed by Strutt & Parker as its new national head of lettings, moving across from Hamptons International...

A study published by the GMB union claims that London’s well-documented high private rents are now leading to other steep rises...

Connells Residential Lettings has announced three new lettings area managers to grow its central division offering, covering Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Wiltshire, Berkshire...

A community group that has in the past staged protests at letting agents’ offices in Bristol has now organised a petition...

Louise Griffiths, currently a board member on the Association of Residential Letting Agents, has joined Romans as director of the agency’s...

A local council claims around 90 per cent of the 100 or so letting agents operating within its area are breaking...

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

The Romans Group - which made seven acquisitions of independent agencies in 2015 - has appointed a new lettings managing director. Michael...

A local authority is considering introducing measures to prevent landlords turning family homes in one of its conservation areas into HMOs.  Reading...

The Association of Independent Inventory Clerks, known as the AIIC, has announced the details of two new training courses taking place...

A landlord who did not have the required licence for the number of tenants living in his property, and who also...

Reading Council in Berkshire has confirmed that a voluntary ban on letting agents boards in part of the town will be...

Leading UK property agency enhances auditing and reporting while providing a better client experience. Company’s Top Objectives Romans is a 19-branch network of...

The Romans Group has snapped up Meldrum Salter Edgley letting and estate agency in Guildford following its recent acquisition with James...

Rightmove says it has identified the 20 most expensive rental locations in the UK outside of London - and surprise, surprise,...