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Rents rose 9% on average in the UK in Q1 2024 compared to the same period in 2023, says flatshare site SpareRoom. Out...

Paragon Bank’s analysis of its lending data has revealed the top 10 locations for investment by portfolio buy-to-let landlords, those with...

Prime London rental values ticked up 0.3% over the first three months of 2024, according to Savills, as the market continues...

Property logbook company Chimni is trialling a new form of Digital Property Logbook aimed at the Lettings markets.   The new logbooks...

Birmingham property agency Davidson Estates has completed the first of what it pledges to be a number of acquisitions with the...

Property professionals have less than 48 hours to submit entries for the Midlands PROPs Awards.  The search for the very best of...

Birmingham’s Labour council is considering closing its social housing waiting list to new applicants - and this is likely to trigger...

A property management firm claims that energy efficiency is apparently renters’ most important quality when choosing a place to live.  Centrick says...

Glasgow has been revealed as the UK city with the biggest rise in the number of buy to let properties in...

Fast-growing Lomond has snapped up another regional agency - this time one in the Midlands. Centrick - which had a High Street...

A severe shortage of properties to rent, fierce competition to secure the homes that are available, and rising rental prices led...

Online rental platform Lettingaproperty is telling landlords to take a strategic approach to property management in 2024, to help navigate legislative...

Newspaper report claims some 710 properties have been put into the private rental market by the government - and they are...

A Build To Rent scheme which fell into administration two years ago has been rescued by a property developer. Torsion Group has...

Lomond has consolidated its growing foothold in the lettings sector after sealing its biggest acquisition to date in the Midlands. In what...

Rental growth in prime regional markets has started to slow, following runaway growth over the past three years. That’s the view from...

Spicerhaart is setting up a remote centralised lettings management service which it says will operate “from Cardiff to Colchester, and Birmingham...

A survey of local authorities in some of the poorest areas of the country - bodies which enforce many private rental...

The classified ad website Gumtree is issuing an alert about what it claims is the growing threat of rental fraud. It says...

PropTech Kamma has entered into a partnership with agency and consultancy JLL. This means JLL’s UK residential agents will have access to...

One in eight tenants admit to letting out part or all of their rented property - and that rises to a...

A new office in the London suburb of North Acton has been announced by the LIFE Residential agency. The firm already has...

Propertymark has recognised the Level 3 Certificate for Estate and Lettings Agents (CELA) offered by Rightmove. Both Propertymark and its training arm...

Fast-growing agency network Lomond is launching its own national and regional market information - and it claims it’s using data rarely...

A Build To Rent operator has struck a deal with Lloyds Pharmacy to offer a so-called Health Concierge Service allowing tenants...

Rental yields have increased by as much as 2.5 per cent in the past year as rent values outperform house prices.  The...

London has continued to dominate the list of the most attractive cities for buy to let investment for the second year...

The head of a Martin & Co office in Wolverhampton has been jailed over fraudulent activity. A court heard that Bhavander Singh...

The long-standing head of an agency’s property management and lettings divisions is stepping up to become a partner in the company. Andrew...

The way to solve the rental sector supply shortage is through Build To Rent, a leading agency claims.  Leaders Romans Group says...

The advocates of Build To Rent have made another ambitious target for the sector’s growth.  Research from the British Property Federation and...

The Lettings Industry Council, a group of rental industry chiefs, has joined with other property professionals to reveal what they see...

The relentless expansion of Lomond Group continues apace with the acquisition of a Leeds-based independent, ERE Lettings. ERE’s 600 units under management...

There appears to be no space for discussion on the government’s private rental sector reform policies at the Tory Party conference...

Zero Deposit is piloting a new product that provides six weeks’ cover on every tenancy, even when the renter selects a...

The acquisition machine that is the Lomond Group has snapped up the lettings book of another independent agency. Lomond has taken over...

The Lomond Group has made another acquisition of an independent lettings firm, this time in the Midlands. Its John Shepherd brand has...

With the debate ranging over pets in lets, a new analysis by comparative website Compare The Market suggests pet damage is...

The lettings book containing over 130 properties managed by a franchised YourMove branch in Birmingham has been sold to the owners...

New research claims students in the UK are currently paying as much as £16,500 per year in living costs - a...

Airbnb has outlined plans to invest £500,000 to “preserve and showcase the West Midlands' cultural assets and boost tourism in the...

The fast-growing Lomond Group of agencies has acquired a major online lettings service. But it's going to manage the properties through physical...

An analysis of lettings data across England and Wales shows that  there have been 3,737 rental property repossession orders granted in...

Property prices in Birmingham are expected to rise more than any other city in the UK following the Commonwealth Games, it’s...

A prominent brand in the Lomond Group - Linley & Simpson - has expanded its portfolio by over 600 properties in...

Airbnb has signed what it calls “a landmark agreement” with the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, becoming the official hosting provider for ...

Birmingham’s Labour-controlled council is launching a consultation on a vast expansion to its existing HMO Additional Licensing scheme. The proposal is for...

Lettings and sales agency FleetMilne has acquired Knight Frank’s private client lettings business in Birmingham.  The purchase will boost FleetMilne’s managed lettings...

A leading brand in the fast-growing and heavily-funded Lomond Group has snapped up another independent agency.  Linley & Simpson has added another...

A company providing virtual tours insists the technology delivers “undeniable results” but is still not used universally by agents. Virtual tours became...

Many of the country’s leading letting agency brands have joined forces with Propertymark to deliver a training and development strategy for...

Airbnb is giving away £100 vouchers to anyone in the UK who shifts into the short lets sector for the first...

Another new Build To Rent scheme has been announced by Grainger. Launching next month, the 158-unit Gilders Yard scheme sits on the...

The central Birmingham branch of franchise giant Belvoir is celebrating its 15th anniversary by moving to a prestigious new city centre...

Research by the UK’s largest student accommodation search platform shows a 3.7 per cent uplift in London’s Purpose-Built Student Accommodation bed...

A developer says its new state-of-the-art sales centre in Hong Kong in set to boost Chinese investment in London. Galliard, the developer...

New data from Zoopla suggests that lettings demand has now recovered across the central districts of all  major cities including Birmingham,...

The fast-growing Lomond Group, backed by private equity cash, has snapped up another independent.  Lomond’s John Shepherd brand, which operates throughout the...

Birmingham, Bristol and Leicester are seeing the fastest growth in Buy To Let investment according to new figures from a business...

A successful lettings and sales agency in Birmingham has doubled in size in its first year of business. Davidson Estates, which has...

Propertymark is telling its letting agent members that they have a role in helping solve the Afghan refugee crisis. It says some...

Finance companies have announced the development of a new 440-unit Build To Rent scheme in Birmingham. Harrison Street, an alternative real assets...

A brand within the fast-expanding Lomond Group has sealed its second acquisition within a fortnight, adding a further 200 properties to...

A lettings agency has been prosecuted by Birmingham council for unlawfully evicting a tenant. Principal Homes is based at Great Barr and was...

Confirming many Covid-related trends, it appears that outer city properties have seen their yields and rents grow to a greater degree...

Another independent lettings agency has been acquired by a fast-expanding giant with plans to become a prominent national agency network. Lomond Group’s John...

Consultation begins today on a selective licensing scheme for privately rented housing in 25 wards of Birmingham. Under the suggested scheme, all...

Tenants returning to the office and city centres has triggered strong rental growth in the largest urban centres. Rightmove’s Quarterly Rental Trends...

A lettings agency’s research has revealed that rental demand has continued to climb across most major UK cities during the third quarter...

An auctioneer says the strong interest of investors from around the world shows how Buy To Let has a second wind...

Lomond Group has partnered with PropTech player Goodlord to provide IT services across the group's brands, which include Braemore, Stonehouse, Linley...

The Furnished versus Unfurnished debate in the rental sector has been going on for years but new research attempts to quantify...

London-based buy to let purchasers in the first half of the year have looked outside the capital in high numbers according...

Principle Estate Management has won another major contract - completing the firm’s transformation from little more than a one man band...

The Build to Rent market remains small in volume but it is making some inroads, leading to BTR rent rises predominantly...

Despite rent controls being a vote-catching policy for some local election candidates next week, the reality is that asking rents in...

Real estate fund management company Moorfield has teamed up with PropTech company Bricklane to buy a portfolio of 2,000 homes to...

Linley & Simpson and Lomond Capital - which joined forces at the end of 2020 to create a new national agency...

Demand is still moving away from cities and towards suburbs and rural areas, according to Rightmove. “Areas around the North and South...

A quarterly index suggests that there’s been a sharp uplift in tenant demand for rental properties across the UK’s major cities...

'Forward in Unity' is a mural painted by Gent48, a renowned Birmingham street artist. It's situated in the centre of Digbeth...

New modular homes built to rent have been delivered to Northstowe, a new town in Cambridgeshire.  Each Town House home has been...

An investigation is underway into a lettings agency which has gone into liquidation owing almost £500,000 in rent to landlords and in...

One of the first franchisees for a new business model put forward by the Century 21 UK agency is a buy...

The fall out from Coronavirus is forcing the rental market into a once in a lifetime change as tenants reassess priorities. This...

Lomond Capital, which owns Scottish lettings and estate agents Braemore and Stonehouse, is to merge with Yorkshire firm Linley & Simpson. The...

There are growing calls for so-called ‘exempt accommodation’ to face the same controls that are exerted over the rest of the...

One of the largest players in the Build To Rent sector, Legal & General, says it’s to have a second significant...

A Labour MP and a newspaper have joined forces to campaign against so-called ‘exempted rental accommodation’. One of Birmingham’s MPs - Jack...

The team behind Glasgow’s first major city centre Build to Rent housing development has announced another multi-million-pound BTR project. Kelvin Properties, which...

A local authority is launching a six month probe into rooms let out but exempt from rental sector regulation. The project is...

A growing residential estate management company has committed its future to office-working after moving to a new boutique space in Birmingham. Principle...

A lettings agency that told a prospective tenant it had a policy of not offering tenancies to housing benefit recipients has...

Property consultancy CBRE claims that Build To Rent is likely to be the most resilient sector of the UK property industry...

A digital property management platform has gone live with a network of local agents covering some of the UK’s key cities.  Apropos has recruited a network of what it calls...

Birmingham agent Bobby Singh, who runs the Love Your Postcode agency, epitomises the heart of the industry right now.  He has created...

The average rent for a newly let property rose 3.3 per cent in the year to the end of February -...

The West Midlands Police force says it’s secured what it calls a “landmark court order” against a rogue landlord who turned...

A seminar roadshow has been announced for letting agents considering quitting the sector.  LegalforLandlords says it’s organised the six events after discovering...

A leading property industry figure says Airbnb is attempting to persuade traditional buy to let landlords into going down the short-let...