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![Agency aims for high-end market with rebrand and new appointment](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/PropTech/PropTech2-400x310.png)
Curchods is making a bid to expand its activities in the high end Surrey market with a rebrand of its latest...
09 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![Agency launches Platinum Homes service for high-end lettings](/upload/images/shutterstock_1937180014.jpg)
Home Counties agency Bridges today launches Platinum Homes, which it describes as “a bespoke sales and lettings service catering to premium...
29 February 2024
From: Breaking News
![Seventh branch opens for lettings and sales franchise trio](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Franchise-400x310.png)
Less than a year since opening the sixth branch of sales and lettings agency Parkers, one of the brand’s most successful...
30 October 2023
From: Breaking News
![Prime London rental market’s “remarkable growth” - agent’s data](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/HousePriceRising_400x310.png)
The post-Covid prime lettings market in London has seen remarkable growth, an agency says. The latest data from Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices London...
24 July 2023
From: Breaking News
![Suburban Build To Rent niche gets boost from lettings agency](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/BuildToRent-400x310.png)
Leaders Romans Group's Suburban Build To Rent team has been appointed to jointly manage and maintain over 100 Build to Rent...
05 April 2023
From: Breaking News
!['Post-Covid Lifestyle' pioneered by Build To Rent offering](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/MortgageCalculated_400x310.png)
Legal & General - one of the country’s biggest Build To Rent players - has struck a deal with new build...
11 January 2023
From: Breaking News
![Agency group claims dramatic cut in deposit refund times](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/RentalYields-400x310.png)
An agency group in Berkshire says it has reduced tenancy deposit return times by some 80 per cent in just two...
01 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![Hats off to independent agency opening its third branch](/upload/images/Property%20People/Hat%20and%20Home_400x310%20(1).png)
An independent lettings agency is opening its third bricks-and-mortar branch, under two years after the launch of the business. Hat and Home’s...
16 September 2022
From: Breaking News
![Independent lettings agency opens third branch in 16 months](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/PropertyPeople-400x310.jpg)
Hat and Home announced its third branch this week, in the Berkshire town of Bracknell. The agency is relatively new - it...
18 July 2022
From: Breaking News
![Belvoir branch amongst raft of agencies kicked out of The Property Ombudsman](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/Property-Newspaper-400x310.jpg)
Six agencies have been excluded from The Property Ombudsman for failing to pay compensation to wronged complainants. One was the Belvoir...
13 July 2022
From: Breaking News
![Race For Space Is Over - tenants quit Home Counties for London](/upload/images/Locations/london.png)
London rents are rising at a record pace with growth being driven by tenants returning from outside the capital. That’s the suggestion...
16 May 2022
From: Breaking News
![Lettings agent jailed after £182,000 fraud](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/police-tape400x310.png)
A lettings agent has been jailed for three years for defrauding tenants and landlords out of more than £182,000. Lee Clarke, 42,...
20 September 2021
From: Breaking News
![Fourth office opens for expanding south east franchise brand](/img/default/lat.png)
South East of England sales and lettings agency Parkers is continuing to expand across Berkshire with the opening of a new...
08 June 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
![All Change: property types and aspirational features for renters in 2020](/img/default/lat.png)
A property company has analysed Google Search Data from the past year to reveal what movers were looking for in 2020...
21 December 2020
From: Breaking News
![Regional agency in 50th year snaps up five-branch independent](/img/default/lat.png)
A regional independent agency generating more than £20 million in rental income annually has snapped up a five-branch independent firm. Alexander & Co,...
10 July 2020
From: Breaking News
![Top agent urges Airbnb regulation to deter criminal activity](/img/default/lat.png)
A leading London lettings agent wants increased regulation over Airbnb in a bid to deter criminal activity and anti-social behaviour. Martin Bikhit, managing...
07 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Expelled! Seven rogue letting agents kicked out of Ombudsman scheme](/img/default/lat.png)
Seven agencies have been expelled from membership of The Property Ombudsman after failing to pay compensation awards made by TPO. All are...
03 June 2019
From: Breaking News
![Volume developer in deal for over 100 Build To Rent homes](/img/default/lat.png)
The Build To Rent sector continues to grow, albeit slowly - now volume house builder Crest Nicholson has teamed up with...
12 April 2019
From: Breaking News
![Mystery over missing agent being probed by trading standards](/img/default/lat.png)
Mystery surrounds the whereabouts of a letting agent who appears not to be in any redress scheme, is being investigated by...
14 January 2019
From: Breaking News
![PropTech tool compares cost of 'lifetime renting' with house purchase](/img/default/lat.png)
A new PropTech tool tells users how much it would cost to rent a house in various areas for a ‘lifetime...
10 October 2018
From: Breaking News
![Agency tests 'hub' structure to allow agents to work more flexibly](/img/default/lat.png)
High end agency Knight Frank is reorganising a regional lettings division in a bid to create a ‘hub’ system which should...
30 August 2018
From: Breaking News
![Another Build To Rent scheme unveiled in southern England](/img/default/lat.png)
Another Build To Rent scheme has been unveiled, this time in Berkshire. Crest Nicolson and M&G Real Estate have joined forces to...
27 June 2018
From: Breaking News
![New survey shows rents stable but some landlords selling up](/img/default/lat.png)
Latest lettings findings from franchise agency Belvoir shows that in the third quarter of this year average rents were just £3 a...
20 December 2017
From: Breaking News
![New site could provide hundreds more Build To Rent properties](/img/default/lat.png)
Legal & General, one of the largest operators in the growing Build To Rent sector, has acquired a 272 acre site...
28 November 2017
From: Breaking News
![Rents fall and void periods lengthen as supply starts to exceed demand](/img/default/lat.png)
Rents outside of London have dropped by 0.2 per cent in the third quarter of this year according to new data...
09 October 2017
From: Breaking News
![Romans back on the acquisition trail and looking for volunteers...](/img/default/lat.png)
Romans - part of the leading property company, The Leaders Romans Group - is on the acquisition trail again. Between 2013 and...
27 September 2017
From: Breaking News
![County independent snaps up smaller rival + Other moves](/img/default/lat.png)
Curchods, the privately-owned, 21-branch Surrey agency which also trades as Burns & Webber, has acquired Aspire Management Services Surrey Ltd, an...
28 November 2016
From: Breaking News
![High-end agency launches corporate and relocation lettings team](/img/default/lat.png)
Strutt & Parker has launched a new corporate and relocation department for domestic and international tenants relocating within London and the...
02 November 2016
From: Breaking News
![Strutt & Parker coup as lettings head arrives from Hamptons International](/img/default/lat.png)
Kate Eales has been appointed by Strutt & Parker as its new national head of lettings, moving across from Hamptons International...
13 July 2016
From: Breaking News
![Union renews attack on 'rip off' private rental sector in south east England](/img/default/lat.png)
A study published by the GMB union claims that London’s well-documented high private rents are now leading to other steep rises...
07 June 2016
From: Breaking News
![New appointments drive Connells' and LSL's expansion plans](/img/default/lat.png)
Connells Residential Lettings has announced three new lettings area managers to grow its central division offering, covering Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Wiltshire, Berkshire...
03 May 2016
From: Breaking News
![Group protesting outside letting agents' offices starts campaign in second town](/img/default/lat.png)
A community group that has in the past staged protests at letting agents’ offices in Bristol has now organised a petition...
21 April 2016
From: Breaking News
![High-end agency and ARLA background for new property management chief](/img/default/lat.png)
Louise Griffiths, currently a board member on the Association of Residential Letting Agents, has joined Romans as director of the agency’s...
05 April 2016
From: Breaking News
![Council claims 90% of letting agents breaking the law over display of fees](/img/default/lat.png)
A local council claims around 90 per cent of the 100 or so letting agents operating within its area are breaking...
01 April 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 lettings chief for Romans as it continues its acquisition trail](/img/default/lat.png)
The Romans Group - which made seven acquisitions of independent agencies in 2015 - has appointed a new lettings managing director. Michael...
26 January 2016
From: Breaking News
![Council may stop family homes being turned into HMOs](/img/default/lat.png)
A local authority is considering introducing measures to prevent landlords turning family homes in one of its conservation areas into HMOs. Reading...
23 November 2015
From: Breaking News
![Inventory association launches new training courses](/img/default/lat.png)
The Association of Independent Inventory Clerks, known as the AIIC, has announced the details of two new training courses taking place...
25 August 2015
From: Sponsored Content
![£25,000 penalty for breaching safety and licence rules](/img/default/lat.png)
A landlord who did not have the required licence for the number of tenants living in his property, and who also...
20 July 2015
From: Breaking News
![Council confirms permanent ban on To Let boards](/img/default/lat.png)
Reading Council in Berkshire has confirmed that a voluntary ban on letting agents boards in part of the town will be...
17 July 2015
From: Breaking News
![Romans Wows Property Management Clients with Docusign](/img/default/lat.png)
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...
08 July 2015
From: Sponsored Content
![Acquisition 1 - Romans snaps up Surrey agency](/img/default/lat.png)
The Romans Group has snapped up Meldrum Salter Edgley letting and estate agency in Guildford following its recent acquisition with James...