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Developer Beech Holdings has secured planning permission for its luxury development of Build To Rent apartments in Sheffield. Sheffield Gardens will include...

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...

The search for the best of the property industry is underway as nominations are now open for the 2024 Variety North...

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

It’s not easy for anyone - even professionals like lettings and estate agents - to keep up with the blizzard of...

A new Build To Rent scheme launches in Manchester this summer with the first residents moving in during June. The Castings is...

Latest data from agency Chestertons reveals a 125 per cent increase in the number of landlords choosing to reduce asking rents...

Propertymark has pledged its support for the Good Landlord Charter initiated by Labour Mayor Andy Burnham but has urged for greater...

Shelter is asking for public support for radical changes to the Renters Reform Bill, now going through Parliament. The campaigning charity is...

Aldermore has named Bristol, as the best city for landlords to invest in for 2024.  Manchester, Coventry, Brighton and London make up...

Specialist property management firm Xenia Estates has announced a shake up ahead of entry into the residential lettings sector. Xenia currently looks...

London landlords have started the new year by dropping their rents according to lettings agency Chestertons, whose data suggests that there...

Lomond has snapped up another rental portfolio. It’s been acquired from the Rendall & Rittner Sales & Letting agency which had a...

Lettings agency Edward Mellor, which operates its 15 branches across Greater Manchester, has signed up to OnTheMarket. This follows the controversial CoStar...

The latest Build To Rent report prepared by lettings agency Savills claims 2023 saw a total of £4.5 billion of investment...

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...

Winchester council is setting up its own agency to let and manage privately rented homes. Venta Living pledges to provide “high quality,...

Student accommodation booking platform Housemates is expanding overseas. The expansion will cover several major Canadian cities including Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal. Currently Housemates...

There are more rental properties for tenants to choose from than any other time since Covid, according to London estate agency...

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...

Self employed agency brand Harding Green, which majors on London and prime country markets, says it’s grown significantly in the lettings...

The Leeds- and Manchester-based North Property Group is opening a base in London.  NPG was founded by Oli Banks and Tim Coen...

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

The company which acquired London-focussed agency Chestertons in October has now snapped up another lettings and sales operation. This latest purchase is...

Lomond has announced one more acquisition in the North West of England - the 17th it has completed in the region...

Rightmove has released its annual league table of busiest rental locations. Wrexham is this year’s busiest, with each home available to rent...

Private landlords are abandoning their property portfolios in unprecedented numbers, a group of surveyors claims. The Manchester-based chartered surveyors and auctioneers -...

The scale of rent rises has peaked with future increases likely to be smaller, says Zoopla. The portal’s latest report into the...

Lomond has snapped up another small lettings agency - its fifth acquisition in as many weeks. It’s purchased Sussex-based Howard & Co...

An agency has issued its rental market forecast for 2024. Chestertons says rents are forecast to have increased by 6.5 per cent...

It’s claimed that as many as one in five tenants has lost out in a rental bidding war during the last...

The share of homes sold by a landlord in Britain has fallen from 15.7 per cent last year to 14.0 per...

Some 48 per cent of tenants are currently living with one or more housing disrepair issues, it’s being claimed. The problems include...

The chief executive of Foxtons, who has been in the job exactly one year, now claims the company has enjoyed “incredible...

London-focused agency Chestertons says it’s enjoyed a record month for lettings. This was driven by increasing demand for short-term rentals from business...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Louis Musgrove – Group Managing Director   What is Southernbrook Lettings and...

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

A new manifesto calling for rent controls and a raft of other measures is accusing the current rent rises of being...

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

A Manchester-based company which runs what it calls “an instant booking student accommodation marketplace” has joined forces with Norwegian tech firm...

Lomond has acquired the rental portfolio of a lettings agency operating in Greater Manchester.   Lomond snapped up the lettings book of Harvey...

Strutt & Parker’s Chester operation has become the second tenant in an arcade within a new development in the city. Strutt &...

The historic Cluttons agency has moved its London office HQ to what it calls “a new prime trophy building.” It’s taken a...

Connells’ high end brand John D Wood & Co. Is opening of a new office in Winchester, Hampshire. It occupies a stone-built...

Almost a quarter of England and Wales will become less affordable to buyers by 2025, it’s been claimed. The findings - from...

Chestertons’ latest data on London’s rental market reveals that there were 39 per cent more rental properties on the market in...

The company which owned and was responsible for a five-storey block of rented flats in Bridlington has been ordered to pay...

Fine & Country has announced what it calls “a ground-breaking partnership” between licencees Jonathan Handford and Sean Newman and Jack Rees...

A new northern version of a popular property awards ceremony makes its debut this autumn. The North West PROPS, a northern-focused version...

Lloyds Banking Group has announced the lettings agency chain that it wants to look after its upcoming Build To Rent units. The...

Details have been given of Lloyds Bank’s latest dive into the Build To Rent market. Its BTR arm, Citra, has acquired 49...

Well known lettings agency Gascoigne Halman has seen the move of two letting agents to one of its branches. Heather Wynn and...

Manchester-based lettings agency Ascend Properties has consolidated its role in the single-family Build To Rent niche with its appointment by investment...

The Bank of England’s monetary policy committee has announced its decision on base rate. It will rise by 0.25 per cent to...

Prominent figures from Foxtons and Chestertons are amongst the agency leaders featured on a new six-part podcast series from OnTheMarket.  Hosted by...

A planning committee meeting discussion on an application for 100 new apartments in Manchester turned into a forum for complaints about...

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

High profile regional lettings and sales agency Gascoigne Halman has unveiled a fresh new look at its Alderley Edge office. The agency...

A lettings firm’s takeover of an independent rival agency is the start of a period of “exponential growth” according to its...

Chester-based Residential Estates, established over 30 years ago, has been rebranded as Guestz.  The firm says it’s from a local lettings and...

London-focussed lettings and sales agency Chestertons has announced its second acquisition in six weeks and third of the year, having snapped...

Latest data from London-focussed lettings agency Chestertons confirms that the traditionally busy ‘summer season’ has kicked off. In June some 19 per...

Rents continue to soar across the UK according to data released by flatshare website SpareRoom.  It says average UK room rents were...

Jackson-Stops has announced the opening of its newest branch in Colchester, Essex.  This follows the launch of its virtual office covering Stockbridge,...

London agency Chestertons has warned tenants in the capital to be prepared for a highly competitive property search this summer. The firm’s...

Chestertons, one of London’s largest lettings and sale s agencies, has appointed Giles Milner as its first chief marketing officer. Having worked...

A fraudster lettings agent must repay £122,922.68 to her old firm within three months - or face yet more time in...

Typical UK rents now account for 28.3 per cent of average pre-tax earnings - slightly above the 10-year average of 27...

A newspaper is reporting that almost 1,500 homes which could be used for long-term mainstream rentals have been ‘lost’ to short...

A comparison website has compiled a list of what it claims to be the most common lies on tenancy applications -...

Chestertons - London’s oldest estate agency which is itself up for sale - has snapped up a small independent. It has acquired...

Two cities have been identified as the UK’s highest-growth cities across multiple property sectors over the next 10 years, according to...

A senior director at Chestertons, one of London’s largest lettings agencies, has warned that tenants in the capital will face an...

A news service claims that in many UK cities there are now more entire homes listed on Airbnb than there are...

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

London’s rental season is gathering pace according to Chestertons, which says 15 per cent more tenants entered the market in March...

A lettings agency says an improvement in stock levels is allowing negotiations on rent levels between landlords and tenants. London-focused agency Chestertons...

Cornwall is the hottest spot in the rental market, not only home to the highest level of tenant demand, but also...

A lettings agency manager stole nearly £140,000 from her company to help clear her son’s drug debt. Wendy Dare, 57, is now...

Chestertons, one of London’s oldest and largest estate agencies, has snapped the letting and management business of Henry & James, described...

New figures from London lettings agency Chestertons reveal that 10 per cent more tenants moved in February this year compared to...

Rightmove says growing numbers of renters are leaving Britain’s cities to find a cheaper place to live or to get more...

Foxtons’ latest trading statement suggests that it’s heavily reliant on lettings revenue as the sales market stutters and the whole company...

Foxtons has this morning confirmed that it’s acquired a rival London lettings agency. It has snapped up Atkinson McLeod for £7.4m: Foxtons...

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...

A former lettings manager has pleaded guilty to defrauding her agency employers for almost five years - but there’s uncertainty over...

The latest market analysis by London lettings agency Chestertons, comparing January 2023 to the same month last year, shows the rental...

A national campaign warning about the dangers of damp and mould could help save lives, a property industry insider says. A recent...

One of the first companies to promote the self-employed ‘broker’ business model is appealing to letting agents to sign up. Harding Green...

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

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

Today we are publishing a letter sent to us regarding the death of a relative who was living in rental accommodation.  We...

New research predicts that northern regions of England will see many of the best investment opportunities in 2023. It is also these...

Activists say they are planning protests outside lettings agency offices this weekend. Activists in the London Renters Union and Greater Manchester Tenants...

Propertymark has given its backing to a clampdown by Housing Secretary Michael Gove on private landlords - although landlords themselves appear...

The number of long-term empty homes has risen in every region of the UK during 2022 according to new government figures. The...