Lomond Capital, which owns Scottish lettings and estate agents Braemore and Stonehouse, is to merge with Yorkshire firm Linley & Simpson. The...
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05 January 2021
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A long-running case about a house divided up and let out without planning permission has resulted in a fine of nearly...
09 December 2020
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One of the most prominent south coast lettings and sales agencies is returning to Zoopla after a five year absence. Mishon Mackay,...
14 October 2020
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A major player in the Build To Rent sector has announced another large scheme - 346 units - on a major...
01 October 2020
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Some 60% of London office workers who rent in the capital say the pandemic has made them reconsider their living situation,...
18 September 2020
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More than a third of furloughed private renters are worried about being able to pay their rent when the coronavirus lockdown...
05 June 2020
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23 March 2020
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A council is lobbying the government to ask for landlords using Airbnb and other short let platforms to be charged business...
17 January 2020
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A Labour council serving one of the largest private rental communities in the country is reported to have failed to have...
09 January 2020
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Campaigning charity Shelter claims 135,000 children in Britain are homeless and living in temporary accommodation this Christmas - the highest number...
19 December 2019
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A mortgage lender’s new Buy to Let City Tracker tool has calculated the best cities in the UK for buy to...
10 December 2019
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A local council claims it has received over 500 complaints from private rental tenants since the start of April - approaching...
19 November 2019
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Belvoir has confirmed that its Brighton franchisees have acquired the independent Homelets agency in the town - for a cool £1m. Existing...
23 October 2019
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Young adults aged 20 to 29 spend up to a third of their pre-tax income on rent for a room according...
16 September 2019
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A husband and wife pair of buy to let investors have been prosecuted after letting out a property that contained serious...
29 August 2019
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London is growing in its importance as a Build To Rent market according to new research released today. International property consultancy JLL...
29 July 2019
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Data from a student accommodation specialist firm shows average rents across many cities are stuck at around a 20-year average of...
17 July 2019
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A buy to let investor has been fined £4,800 and ordered to pay £2,200 in costs for failing to keep his...
19 June 2019
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Administrators have been appointed as a result of action taken by a major creditor of Brighton Holiday Homes, the agency which...
11 June 2019
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Thousands of pounds have been paid to a short let and holiday accommodation agency in Brighton which appears to have closed...
30 May 2019
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Legal & General is to develop a Brighton industrial estate into the town’s first Build To Rent scheme. The work will go on...
29 March 2019
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Bristol is the best city for house shares, according to new research by specialist rental sector broadband and utilities provider Glide. The...
18 February 2019
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The council at Brighton & Hove has won an extra £34,820 in public money from the government to help it build...
23 January 2019
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Home ownership rates for families aged 25 to 34 are rising for the first time in 30 years but high barriers...
27 December 2018
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LAT recently carried a story of a lettings agency diversifying by renting out parking spaces for landlord owners - and now...
21 November 2018
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Another short let management firm, set up in the wake of an explosion of Airbnb-style renting by amateurs and professionals, is...
17 September 2018
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There’s more evidence today that the largest buy to let investment yields are coming from the north of England and the...
16 August 2018
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A buy to let investor has been fined £20,000 after a kitchen fire that occurred in May last year at a...
14 August 2018
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A Member of Parliament who says “the majority of agents” engage in “dirty tactics” when it comes to fees imposed on...
11 June 2018
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Airsorted, one of a number of management services that have sprung up to cater for hosts using Airbnb and similar platforms,...
06 June 2018
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The Lomond Capital acquisition bandwagon continues apace with the latest independent to be snapped up being the well known Bonett’s Estate...
10 May 2018
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Specialist buy to let lender LendInvest has looked at 105 postcodes across England and Wales to find the best (and worst)...
03 April 2018
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A Brighton and Hove lettings agent has been fined more than £3,000 for allowing two properties that he owned himself to...
29 March 2018
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Brighton’s largest lettings agency MTM Property has rebranded under the new name Coapt. The rebranding involved a year of workshops, client and...
28 February 2018
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Legal & General has exchanged contracts to acquire land in the centre of Brighton in order to deliver the city’s first...
01 February 2018
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Liverpool and Nottingham are the UK’s best performing property investment locations, according to mortgage broker Private Finance. Both cities enjoy average rental...
29 January 2018
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UK rents grew by a tiny 0.56 per cent in 2017 according to specialist lender Landbay. However, in a special exercise, the...
08 January 2018
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Lomond Capital has announced its second acquisition in two weeks by acquiring south Manchester lettings and sales agency Hallmark Residential. The deal...
18 December 2017
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Lomond Capital has acquired independent Brighton letting agency Tanat-Jones & Company. The deal marks Lomond’s second acquisition in the city since purchasing...
11 December 2017
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Jeremy Corbyn has used his leader’s speech at the end of this week’s Labour conference in Brighton to commit the party...
27 September 2017
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A tenant appears to be entitled to pay sub-market rent for the rest of his life after a legal case involving...
21 August 2017
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Letting and estate agencies in Brighton and Hove have agreed to voluntary restrictions on the erection of To Let and For...
21 June 2017
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The latest deal by Lomond Capital means the rapidly expanding property group now manages over £2.5 billion of residential units. Lomond has...
24 May 2017
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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...
18 April 2017
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Manchester council is considering a city-wide ban on letting agents’ To Let boards. The local authority says the plethora of boards in some...
28 February 2017
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The head of a major lettings agency in Brighton says fees can work out to be “disproportionately high for tenants” but...
15 December 2016
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A campaign group has been refocussed with the objective of making the government honour its Autumn Statement pledge to ban letting...
08 December 2016
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Brighton and Hove council has failed in its bid to win government backing to ban To Let boards. The council sought government...
22 November 2016
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One the leading letting agencies in Brighton has sharply criticised a proposal by the local council to introduce a selective licensing...
18 November 2016
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The average rent for two bedroom apartments has risen to more than a third of gross average earnings of tenants in...
28 October 2016
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Labour councillors controlling Brighton and Hove council are reported to be writing to the government for premission to charge HMO owners...
30 September 2016
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Two more student houses in Brighton have been ordered to close by a government planning inspector. There have now been four such...
27 July 2016
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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
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A letting agency has been criticised by local students after sending a touting letter to landlords saying it could increase rents...
18 March 2016
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A council has asked agents in its area to tell landlords of additional planning powers taken by the authority which may...
09 March 2016
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New research from HomeLet reveals that Brighton, Bristol, Edinburgh and Newcastle recorded the largest increase in rents last year amongst the...
12 January 2016
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Two landlords of HMOs have been prosecuted for failing to license their properties - and now have to pay fines of...
16 December 2015
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There is uproar in Brighton as a result of students being let rooms in an HMO - despite the property’s owners...
30 October 2015
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A tenants’ campaign group is planning a series of protests this coming weekend outside offices of lettings agencies which allegedly do...
28 October 2015
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HomeLet’s rental index figures for June shows another rise with average rents outside of London now standing at £747 per month,...