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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...

Birmingham’s Labour-led council is to introduce a city-wide Article 4 Direction from June, which means a planning application must be submitted for...

A landlord has been ordered to pay almost £20,000 and has been told by a judge that he was meaner than...

A mortgage lender’s new Buy to Let City Tracker tool has calculated the best cities in the UK for buy to...

[Letting Agent Today was ‘off air’ for some of Wednesday and most of Thursday thanks to technical problems - we apologise to...

A rogue landlord has been fined more than £150,000 after failing to rectify safety hazards in a property he let. Latif Rehman...

A new piece of legislation has been invoked to ban a landlord from any involvement in the private rental sector for...

Property development and investment firm SevenCapital has released a top 10 league table of UK cities which it claims will perform...

A Shropshire man has become the first in England to be banned from being a landlord.  In a case brought by Telford...

Birmingham council has issued its first civil penalty against a House in Multiple Occupation landlord - and it says that move...

London is growing in its importance as a Build To Rent market according to new research released today. International property consultancy JLL...

A platform which works with independent lettings agents and Build To Rent operators says it is linking them to provide mutual...

Data from a student accommodation specialist firm shows average rents across many cities are stuck at around a 20-year average of...

An online room-letting platform claims rents have risen up to eight per cent in wake of the Tenant Fee Act. ideal flatmate...

University towns in the north of England and the Midlands score highest when it comes to yields and capital appreciation. The assessment...

A survey of 500 buy to let landlords suggests that well over a third are planning to increase the size of...

Rent in London is the most expensive in Europe for expats, new research shows. The UK capital’s rent averages US$7,189 - that’s...

The Home Office says it will reassess the Right To Rent scheme following last week’s decision by the High Court that...

Bristol is the best city for house shares, according to new research by specialist rental sector broadband and utilities provider Glide. The...

A new study suggests that rental properties now account for 40 per cent of the available housing stock.  Looking at the final...

A report claims that England has just 825 homes for every 1,000 families as a result of two decades of house...

A landlord and building contractor have been fined after quantities of asbestos fibres were released from the demolition of a conservatory...

Home ownership rates for families aged 25 to 34 are rising for the first time in 30 years but high barriers...

The party conferences of the two main political parties threw up some interesting developments with regards to housing and the rental...

Plans have been unveiled for a 23-storey development comprising 307 Build To Rent units, located overlooking Cardiff Bay. IM Properties and its...

A new investment company has launched offering what it calls “opportunities to invest in key residential and commercial developments across the...

A row appears to be brewing over the decision of a Labour MP to attend next week’s Conservative conference to discuss...

A two bedroom furnished flat can cost up to 21 per cent more to rent than a comparable property that’s unfurnished. Research...

The UK's second city Birmingham takes top spot when it comes to student property returns for buy-to-let investors. Analysis by online letting...

A landlord has been hit with a total fine of almost £40,000 for breaching House in Multiple Occupation (HMO) management regulations. David...

First the good news - investors are still purchasing buy to let properties; the less good news is that it’s a...

The latest LendInvest buy to let report, which ranks 105 postcode areas around England and Wales based on a combination of...

Sourced, which describes itself as the largest property investment platform in the UK, has secured its 25th franchise some 10 months...

A Birmingham letting agent has a new way of resolving arrears run up by some of his tenants - he goes...

Grainger says it’s ready to respond to the growing need for longer tenancies for families and older renters - the latter...

The Lomond Capital acquisition bandwagon continues apace with the latest independent to be snapped up being the well known Bonett’s Estate...

Midlands-based SDL Group has announced the sale of a Birmingham residential lettings portfolio to Lomond Capital. SDL Property Management now focuses on...

A buy to let investor has been found guilty of 35 HMO-related offences - and has to pay a total fine...

Build To Rent operator and long-term volume landlord organisation Grainger says it is pioneering five-year leases “in a bid to overhaul...

West Midlands Police and Birmingham council teamed up to investigate a property in the city which was riddled with health and...

A Derby-based agency says it’s on the acquisition trail and seeking lettings operations to take over. Birchover Sales and Lettings - led...

Specialist buy to let lender LendInvest has looked at 105 postcodes across England and Wales to find the best (and worst)...

Letting agents who act on landlords’ instructions to refuse tenants claiming benefits may be breaking the law. A legal case recently found...

A Birmingham-based student lettings agency says it has seen improved response rates from student tenants and viewers thanks to the use...

Rightmove has revealed the locations where prospective tenants have searched for properties on its portal in 2017 - and the winning...

Rendall & Rittner, a major operator in the residential block management sector, has completed its purchase of Braemar Estates from the...

One of the senior figures in the UK’s burgeoning Build To Rent sector has called on the Chancellor to help this...

A Birmingham agent has branded the government’s draft Tenant Fees Bill - which proposes a ban on letting agents’ fees on tenants...

A campaigning letting agent says that at the start of this financial year the total cash value of deposits held in...

The Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration has started what is described as an official inspection of Right To Rent. Legislation...

A league table drawn up by a rental sector insurance specialist claims private rental accommodation in university locations can produce yields...

Two landlords have been fined almost £14,000 for breaching a multitude of property management regulations. Abdul Qadir, 56, and Dr Mohammed Anwar,...

Uber and a Build To Rent developer have announced a PropTech deal which will see the transport company getting involved in...

The latest deal by Lomond Capital means the rapidly expanding property group now manages over £2.5 billion of residential units.   Lomond has...

A US firm that is believed to want a slice of the UK’s growing short-lets market has made a key business...

A survey of students in Birmingham has discovered that over 44 per cent of respondents claim to have paid what the...

The fast-growing Build To Rent sector has seen another boost in investment from a major player - Legal & General.    Earlier this week...

A Birmingham letting agency and a landlord have been fined £5,590 for failing to obtain an HMO licence and for breaching...

A plentiful supply of freehold properties in our cities may become a thing of the past as urban areas become increasingly...

A 71 year old landlord has been fined £5,037.97 at Birmingham Magistrates Court for failing to obtain an HMO licence and...

Three men have received prison sentences of up to 28 months after a nationwide lettings scam was unearthed by trading standards...

A letting agent who stole more than £400,000 from clients has had her sentence appeal dismissed by judges. Amy Williams, who part-owned Williams...

Average rents in some of the UK's most popular university locations have increased significantly over the last year, according to SpareRoom.co.uk. As...

Almost all of the UK's major towns and cities saw fewer available buy-to-let properties listed during August when compared with July. Property...

Rents for individual rooms to let are rising fastest in Swansea, Bradford, Portsmouth and Swindon, with all of these locations seeing...

A man who posed as a letting agent to swindle landlords and tenants has been jailed for just over two years.   Legal...

A Birmingham MP is to put a Bill to the House of Commons after the summer in his bid to stop...

SDL Bigwood - owned by Century 21 UK franchise parent company Shepherd Direct Limited - has been selected as the lettings...

A landlord has been fined almost £25,000 for a series of failings relating to a House in Multiple Occupation (HMO). Birmingham-based Salih...

Tenants spend an average of 18 months in a rented property before moving on, according to new research by insurer Direct...

A buy to let investment search portal has produced an interactive map based on a pull-together of research into the lettings market...

Councils and other bodies advising tenants to ignore valid Section 21 notices and waiting to be evicted by bailiffs are costing...

A leading lettings expert says George Osborne’s proposed stamp duty surcharge of three per cent may be just weeks from implementation...

An immigration lawyer has criticised the government’s Right to Rent scheme - officially starting today - for having little impact but...

The Local Government Association says recent prosecutions show that councils are cracking down on illegal evictions by landlords and their agents...

It’s probably a question you’ve never asked yourself but one online flat sharing agency has calculated the most expensive and the...

Estate Agency AllStars is to take its training nationwide next year.  The company runs courses on What is Estate Agency, Prospecting School,...

Countrywide chief executive Alison Platt has said the acquisition of best-in-class urban-based lettings agencies will be a major plank of her...

The shortage of rental accommodation in some university towns is so great that up to 22 people are competing for every...

Connells Residential is launching its first ever event for property investors - Invest Fest, in Birmingham next week.   The agency chain has...

Who are you?     Michael Groves, Partner of Lomond Capital which is focused on bringing together good quality regional letting and estate...

A London agency has announced the launch of an educational property investment seminar business.  RE/MAX London launched RE/MAX Why What Where last...

An agency has been expelled from The Property Ombudsman scheme for a minimum of two years after failing to comply with...

Three agents have been announced as winners of The ESTAS Agent of the Month competition for June.   The Birmingham Central branch...

A letting agency that failed to apply for House of Multiple Occupation licences at three properties in Birmingham has been fined...

The immigration charity the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants says it is working with a range of other bodies...

A peer-to-peer lender says its study of 1,000 buy to let locations across the UK suggestsfour of the 10 highest yields...

Q: What does it say on your business card? I like the flexibility of roles so I do not have a title...