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

The Belvoir 2024 Annual Awards have crowded a father-and-son franchisee pairing as the big winners. Paul Wallace-Tarry and his son Richard Wallace-Tarry...

National property services group, Leaders Romans Group has snapped up Purplebricks’ lettings chief to become a director in its property management...

A wealthy landlord who set up a fake lettings agency in Hull has been jailed for 11 years for allowing ‘ghost tenants’ to...

The Property Institute has welcomed a Labour Party move to introduce the regulation of property agents across much of the sector. Tabled...

Strutt & Parker is leaving its HQ to share premises with other parts of its parent company - and to have a...

Homelessness charity Crisis says the long-standing government pledge to scrap Section 21 eviction powers can’t come soon enough. The charity has backed...

Connells has launched what it calls a “pioneering” Rent to Buy scheme to shift apartments in a 163-unit scheme. The agency likens...

The lettings agency Winkworth has taken the unusual step of criticising policies of a series of councils. The councils are all Labour...

Less than a year since opening the sixth branch of sales and lettings agency Parkers, one of the brand’s most successful...

Propertymark’s regional conferences are now in full swing with the next event at the Canterbury Cathedral Lodge in Kent on  November...

An independent agency managing 115 lettings units has been snapped up its local Belvoir franchise. Tim Hughes, owner of Belvoir Newbury, has...

An agency has been fined by a London council for failing to licence a property it was managing. Gracechurch Property Services has...

Franchise brand Northwood says its strategy of expansion through acquisition is paying dividends - with more to come. Northwood managing director Phil...

Rightmove is to provide agents with local market data and easier access to training at a series of Propertymark regional events. Rightmove...

Landlords of more than 5,000 homes must register for a license and ensure their tenants have good quality housing or face...

A lettings agency maintenance manager stole almost £100,000 from her company - but has escaped prison. Farida Mughal was working at the...

Leaders lettings agency has launched its new sustainable office in Aylesbury. The company insists that by 2030 all of its branches will...

Upmarket lettings agency Savills has moved its 30-strong team in Reading into a prominent new office in the town centre. The firm’s...

An estate agency has been prosecuted and ordered to pay £35,000 for falling foul of property licensing rules. Green House Estate Agents...

High end agency UK Sotheby’s International Realty - which has properties to let at up to an eye-watering cost of £80,000...

Activist shareholders and agency industry analysts alike appear mystified at the latest high-flyer to depart suddenly from Purplebricks Yesterday the troubled agency...

A market snapshot of the growing Build To Rent sector outside of London suggests units are letting rapidly with low voids. Figures...

Midlands-based land and property agency Sheldon Bosley Knight has snapped up two more businesses. The acquisition of Wigwam Estate and Lettings Agents...

A lettings agency is alleged to have used violence and vandalism over a prolonged period against the tenants of at least...

New research from holiday lettings agency Classic Cottages shows that 2021 was a record year in one of the country’s staycation...

Shock figures suggest that Airbnb owners are charging up to 600 per cent more to stay at their properties during major...

The London agency Bective says the prime areas of the capital have enjoyed an eight per cent uplift in rental values...

A PropTech firm says Open Banking could help to transform the lettings industry for the better if it is fully embraced.  And...

A branch of Northwood has snapped up an independent agency. Bassets Lettings, which is based in Salisbury, was set up in 2002...

An agency has marked its 30th anniversary by sealing a brace of acquisitions. The deals see Thornley Groves, the Lomond Group agency...

Bury council in Greater Manchester has adopted new measures to fine agents or landlords up to £30,000 if their properties fail...

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

The Canterbury branch of national sales and lettings agency Martin & Co has a new owner. Angie Collins has taken on the...

Franchise giant Belvoir has held its annual awards including the naming of the prestigious ‘franchise of the year’. The accolade went to...

Another franchise lettings and sales agency has gone green by changing its car fleet to electric vehicles. One of the Midlands branches...

A London council describes two new licensing schemes as ‘making renting fairer’ - even though they are launched during the pandemic. Islington’s Labour...

Three property specialists have joined forces to launch a new branch of franchise brand Martin & Co. Directors Andrew Rowson and Lindsey...

EweMove - one of several agency titles owned by The Property Franchise Group - has incorporated three High Street operations run by...

A EweMove branch has acquired a nearby Martin & Co operation, including its portfolio of 150 managed properties. Both firms are owned...

The average cost of renting in England is almost unchanged from five years ago - although that masks significant localised variations.  The...

It’s taken what Propertymark calls “a rigorous selection process” to find the latest four regional representatives for the Association of Residential...

The well-known Lenwell chain, with seven branches, has been acquired by the Leaders Romans Group.  Lenwell was established in 1990 with the...

It’s been an unexpected year for the property market, shaped by the effects of the pandemic. We didn’t quite anticipate the...

A lettings agent has been awarded the contract to take over the rental properties, marketing and inspections of the entire residential...

Overseas and domestic students have returned to the Central London lettings market 'in force' so far this month, according to Dexters. The...

A landlord taken to court by a council has ended up with a bill in excess of £20,000.  Dennis Goodwin of Highbury...

Coronavirus lockdowns and travel restrictions imposed by the UK and other governments have hit the London rental market badly, an agency...

A six-branch agency has acquired a single-office independent. Lenwell Property Services, which operates in the Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Northamptonshire region, has acquired...

A regional independent agency generating more than £20 million in rental income annually has snapped up a five-branch independent firm. Alexander & Co,...

Average room rents in the capital have dipped seven per cent compared to this time last year according to a flat-sharing...

Strutt and Parker is an agency that’s got long-standing team spirit and that shows in how different areas have been working...

Winkworth says its London offices are reporting significant numbers of landlords who used to advertise on Airbnb and similar short-let platforms...

Home offices aren’t all about laptops and wifi routers….they’re about gorgeous views too. So thanks to Marc Morrish, a director and auctioneer...

A room-finding portal, along with the owners of a London lettings agency and management firm, must pay over £100,000 for letting...

The owner of a house believed to be occupied by multiple tenants has been prosecuted by a Kent council for failing...

Northwood franchisees have completed four acquisitions, taking the total this year to eight. As part of the Belvoir Group, Northwood and has...

A long-term legal critic of selective licensing is warning that letting agents could be held jointly accountable with the landlords, -...

A Labour councillor on Islington council - which is controlled by the party and has Jeremy Corbyn as a local member...

National agency Martin & Co has announced the acquisition of independent Essex agency Owen Lyons. Martin & Co Chelmsford owner Stephen Frost...

A branch of Whitegates, part of The Property Franchise Group, has purchased an independent local operation to increase its managed property...

A London council has successfully prosecuted a so-called “dodgy operator” landlord for failing to comply with fire safety regulations and carry...

Northwood has snapped up two independent agencies - Northwood Warminster have successfully completed on the acquisition of Wilsons of Westbury while...

The lettings department of a central London independent agency is claiming its busiest January in some years. Russell Simpson, a family-run independent...

A lettings agency and its director have been fined a total of £30,000 for failing to licence HMOs and giving sham...

A lettings market snapshot from Rightmove suggests asking rents in London are now increasing at an annual rate not seen for...

Former owner occupiers who want to be ‘chain-free’ if they buy again are pouring into the private rental sector according to...

A rental management firm has launched a new home-sharing platform which it says is aimed at everyone wanting a place to...

The Bedford Estate, which covers part of Covent Garden and includes Bloomsbury, has linked up with one of the growing number...

A lettings agent described as ‘rogue’ by a London council, along with two lettings companies, have been heavily fined for operating...

Free seminars are to be held next month to help letting agents restructure their business to optimise opportunities in the current...

An independent agency in Gloucestershire is returning to the lettings business to complement its existing sales and land arms. Perry Bishop and...

Data produced by Sainsbury’s Bank Mortgages gives a trend-bucking upbeat assessment of investors’ renewed interest in buy to let.  Figures siuggest that...

Connells Group brand Fox & Sons has added a lettings portfolio in Salisbury to its network after completing the acquisition of...

A head tenant who changed the locks on a property that was illegally sublet to no fewer than 35 men has...

Data from Countrywide’s Hamptons International agency suggests that the number of second homes that were rented rather than purchased last year...

Steven Esom is to take over as group chairman of the Andrews Property Group at the start of 2018.  He succeeds Jim...

Former deputy prime minister Nick Clegg is one of the keynote speakers for the 2018 conference of the Association of Residential...

Belvoir has told shareholders and the City that it now has 57,637 lettings units under management following the addition of 1,310...

This month’s prosecution of a letting agency for issuing ‘sham licences’ that suggested occupiers had no right to challenge eviction and...

London agency Ludlowthompson has just appointed the first manager to emerge from the company’s apprenticeship scheme.    Launched in 2011, the scheme now...

Two independent agencies in Newbury are merging.    After a 40 year career in agency, Jeffery Brown from Atkinson Keene decided to retire...

Government watchdog the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has upheld four complaints made against a Liverpool letting agency. The complaints were made against...

A landlord has set up a company to handle the ownership and management of buy to let properties - and the...

It seems prop-tech is exploding at a scary rate, and the latest brands are all trying to grab our attention by...

Online agency OpenRent has secured a £4.4 million investment to help grow its offering. The agency, which was founded in 2012, says...

MNY Property Management Ltd has been fined £3,390 for offences under the Housing Act - specifically, failing to buy a licence...

The owner of a house in multiple occupation in the leafy Hampstead area of north London has been hit with a...

A fraudster has been jailed after being convicted on nine counts of fraud, theft and forgery relating to property firms which...

Another two independent letting agencies have been acquired by the Property Services Holding Group. comprising Leaders and Romans. Leaders has completed the...

A new app created in partnership with a homelessness charity aims to give independent agencies the ability to push properties direct...

Canterbury is the latest council to consider setting up its own letting agency. The authority hopes to tempt private landlords with promises...

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...

A landlord’s company has been left with a bill of over £14,000 for letting unlicensed flats in north London.   Appearing at Highbury...

Our latest infographic shows figures of how the majority of deposits are repaid at the end of tenancy and goes into...

A landlord has been left with a court bill totalling more than £6,000 after allowing a house in to fall into...

International development firm Westrock has given details of what it calls “the first homes designed specifically for rent in a key...

Countrywide has revealed that it has acquired 30 lettings businesses in the past year alone, expanding the firm’s rental sector headcount...

A London local authority has taken court action against one of its own councillors who has admitted failing to carry out...

A letting agent has been told he faces a possible jail sentence after admitting stealing thousands of pounds from tenants. The Manchester...