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

A lettings agency in the growing Lomond Group has purchased a rental portfolio on the south coast.  Brand Vaughan has bought the lettings...

Another council wants an extension to the existing ban on bailiff-enforced evictions, which is scheduled to end on February 22.  Yesterday our...

Lomond - which recently merged with Linley & Simpson - has acquired four smaller independent agencies in three different cities. Two of...

Property specialist PS&B has acquired the Graves Jenkins management portfolio - both firms deal in residential and commercial property management on...

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

A long-running case about a house divided up and let out without planning permission has resulted in a fine of nearly...

One of the most prominent south coast lettings and sales agencies is returning to Zoopla after a five year absence.  Mishon Mackay,...

A major player in the Build To Rent sector has announced another large scheme - 346 units - on a major...

Some 60% of London office workers who rent in the capital say the pandemic has made them reconsider their living situation,...

More than a third of furloughed private renters are worried about being able to pay their rent when the coronavirus lockdown...

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

A council is lobbying the government to ask for landlords using Airbnb and other short let platforms to be charged business...

A Labour council serving one of the largest private rental communities in the country is reported to have failed to have...

Campaigning charity Shelter claims 135,000 children in Britain are homeless and living in temporary accommodation this Christmas - the highest number...

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

A local council claims it has received over 500 complaints from private rental tenants since the start of April - approaching...

Belvoir has confirmed that its Brighton franchisees have acquired the independent Homelets agency in the town - for a cool £1m. Existing...

Young adults aged 20 to 29 spend up to a third of their pre-tax income on rent for a room according...

A husband and wife pair of buy to let investors have been prosecuted after letting out a property that contained serious...

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

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

A buy to let investor has been fined £4,800 and ordered to pay £2,200 in costs for failing to keep his...

Administrators have been appointed as a result of action taken by a major creditor of Brighton Holiday Homes, the agency which...

Thousands of pounds have been paid to a short let and holiday accommodation agency in Brighton which appears to have closed...

Legal & General is to develop a Brighton industrial estate into the town’s first Build To Rent scheme. The work will go on...

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

The council at Brighton & Hove has won an extra £34,820 in public money from the government to help it build...

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

LAT recently carried a story of a lettings agency diversifying by renting out parking spaces for landlord owners - and now...

Another short let management firm, set up in the wake of an explosion of Airbnb-style renting by amateurs and professionals, is...

There’s more evidence today that the largest buy to let investment yields are coming from the north of England and the...

A buy to let investor has been fined £20,000 after a kitchen fire that occurred in May last year at a...

A Member of Parliament who says “the majority of agents” engage in “dirty tactics” when it comes to fees imposed on...

Airsorted, one of a number of management services that have sprung up to cater for hosts using Airbnb and similar platforms,...

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

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

A Brighton and Hove lettings agent has been fined more than £3,000 for allowing two properties that he owned himself to...

Brighton’s largest lettings agency MTM Property has rebranded under the new name Coapt. The rebranding involved a year of workshops, client and...

Legal & General has exchanged contracts to acquire land in the centre of Brighton in order to deliver the city’s first...

Liverpool and Nottingham are the UK’s best performing property investment locations, according to mortgage broker Private Finance.  Both cities enjoy average rental...

UK rents grew by a tiny 0.56 per cent in 2017 according to specialist lender Landbay. However, in a special exercise, the...

Lomond Capital has announced its second acquisition in two weeks by acquiring south Manchester lettings and sales agency Hallmark Residential.  The deal...

Lomond Capital has acquired independent Brighton letting agency Tanat-Jones & Company. The deal marks Lomond’s second acquisition in the city since purchasing...

Jeremy Corbyn has used his leader’s speech at the end of this week’s Labour conference in Brighton to commit the party...

A tenant appears to be entitled to pay sub-market rent for the rest of his life after a legal case involving...

Letting and estate agencies in Brighton and Hove have agreed to voluntary restrictions on the erection of To Let and For...

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

A landlord of a shared house in Hove, near Brighton, has been found to be ‘putting people’s lives at risk’ and ordered to pay...

Manchester council is considering a city-wide ban on letting agents’ To Let boards.   The local authority says the plethora of boards in some...

The head of a major lettings agency in Brighton says fees can work out to be “disproportionately high for tenants” but...

A campaign group has been refocussed with the objective of making the government honour its Autumn Statement pledge to ban letting...

Brighton and Hove council has failed in its bid to win government backing to ban To Let boards. The council sought government...

One the leading letting agencies in Brighton has sharply criticised a proposal by the local council to introduce a selective licensing...

The average rent for two bedroom apartments has risen to more than a third of gross average earnings of tenants in...

Labour councillors controlling Brighton and Hove council are reported to be writing to the government for premission to charge HMO owners...

Two more student houses in Brighton have been ordered to close by a government planning inspector. There have now been four such...

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

A letting agency has been criticised by local students after sending a touting letter to landlords saying it could increase rents...

A council has asked agents in its area to tell landlords of additional planning powers taken by the authority which may...

New research from HomeLet reveals that Brighton, Bristol, Edinburgh and Newcastle recorded the largest increase in rents last year amongst the...

Two landlords of HMOs have been prosecuted for failing to license their properties - and now have to pay fines of...

There is uproar in Brighton as a result of students being let rooms in an HMO - despite the property’s owners...

A tenants’ campaign group is planning a series of protests this coming weekend outside offices of lettings agencies which allegedly do...

HomeLet’s rental index figures for June shows another rise with average rents outside of London now standing at £747 per month,...

Leaders has acquired Home Counties estate agency Aston Mead in a deal which brings it additional branches in two new areas,...