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![RICS urges Labour to move fast on housing pledges](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/NewBuild-3-400x310.png)
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has congratulated Labour on forming the next government but says it must move quickly to...
08 July 2024
From: Breaking News
![Labour must come clean on Business Rates, says agency](/upload/images/shutterstock_414153883.jpg)
A prominent agent campaigning for business tax reform is urging Labour to come clean on its policies for business rates and...
03 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![Business Rates - Agency warns Hunt he has last chance to get them right](/upload/images/shutterstock_2355420851.jpg)
The Chancellor has one last chance to come good on the election promise of lowering the burden of business rates –...
06 March 2024
From: Breaking News
![TV Host to repeat agents’ conference compering gig](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/shutterstock_192595709.jpg)
TV host Jenni Falconer is to reprise her role as compere of Propertymark’s ‘One Conference’ when it’s repeated at London’s ExCel...
17 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![Top agent senses change of mood in rental market](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/MortgageRates1_400x310.png)
One of Britain’s leading agents - former RICS residential chairman Jeremy Leaf - says he is seeing a change of mood...
21 December 2023
From: Breaking News
![Business Rates - ‘last chance for government to help High Street’](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/BusinessTeam-400x310.png)
A prominent agency says tomorrow’s Autumn Statement is the Chancellor’s last chance to come good on the election promise to lower...
21 November 2023
From: Breaking News
![Net Zero - Lettings PropTech firm to provide energy efficiency data](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/_EPC6-400x310.png)
Kamma - the PropTech firm which until now has been best known for monitoring rental sector licensing regimes - is now...
22 August 2023
From: Breaking News
![Large scale investors in optimistic mood despite volatile economy](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Estate_Agent1-400x310.png)
Large portfolio professional landlords are in a confident mood, with the majority planning to acquire at least one new asset in...
25 May 2023
From: Breaking News
![Agency’s outspoken attack on government planning policy](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/UKStreetHousing-400x310.png)
A lack of direction and constant shifts in planning policy at local and national government level is putting a block on...
15 May 2023
From: Breaking News
![Commercial property investment slumps as UK economy weakens](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Statistics-400x310.png)
The scale of investment in UK commercial property has fallen in all sectors, new research suggests. Sirius Property Finance has analysed UK...
02 May 2023
From: Breaking News
![Warnings over conversions of commercial properties into housing](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Developments/PropertyPlanning-400x310.png)
Propertymark is speaking out about problems with some conversions of commercial property into residential.The warning comes in the trade body’s response...
21 March 2023
From: Breaking News
![Tenant demand still on the rise as RICS calls for Budget help](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/HappyLandlord-400x310.png)
The latest market snapshot from the Royal Institution for Chartered Surveyors - out today - shows tenant demand continuing to increase...
09 March 2023
From: Breaking News
![TV presenter to front agents’ big day at Wembley](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/LearningAgents3-400x310.png)
Daytime TV presenter Jenni Falconer is to host the Propertymark One conference on June 27. Tag-lined ‘Raise Your Game’ the event will...
21 February 2023
From: Breaking News
![Propertymark claims “progressive” new qualification is industry first](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/LearningAgents2-400x310.png)
Registrations are now open for Propertymark Qualifications’ multi-discipline Level 4 Certificate in Property Agency Management. The trade body describes this as a...
15 February 2023
From: Breaking News
![Early bird going cheap - massive agency event begins ticket sales](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/ShakingHands-400x310.png)
Early bird tickets are now on sale for estate agent body Propertymark’s biggest event of the year at Wembley on June...
23 January 2023
From: Breaking News
![High end market stronger than expected, agency tells investors](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyStats-400x310.png)
A statement to shareholders by the Savills lettings and estate agency admits that it under-estimated how strong the high end prime...
13 January 2023
From: Breaking News
![Plummeting commercial property - an alternative to buy to let?](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Buy-to-let-2-400x310.png)
A new survey of over 8,000 commercial estate agents indicates a challenging 2023 - suggesting a possible alternative investment option for...
04 January 2023
From: Breaking News
![Two more independents acquired by Lomond Group brand](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Acquisition-2-400x310.png)
The Lomond Group has strengthened its position in Scotland by acquiring two more independent agencies and adding some 600 properties to...
11 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![Stock shortage to worsen unless massive rental targets are met](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/New%20Rental%20Index-400x310.png)
New research commissioned by the landlords’ trade body shows that the UK needs almost 230,000 new private rented homes a year...
18 February 2022
From: Breaking News
![They're Back! City Centre rents and demand on the rise at last](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/RisingRents-400x310.jpg)
New data from Zoopla suggests that lettings demand has now recovered across the central districts of all major cities including Birmingham,...
11 February 2022
From: Breaking News
![Industry heavyweight joins agency to help on growth strategy](/upload/images/Logos/BelvoirNEWESTLogo400x310.jpg)
Franchise giant Belvoir has named a former chief executive of a major housebuilder as a non-executive director, to help with the...
31 January 2022
From: Breaking News
![Historic agency moves to large new headquarters](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/HousingMarket-400x310.png)
An agency which has been operating for over 160 years has moved to a large and modern new headquarters. Leeds-based Adair Paxton...
06 January 2022
From: Breaking News
![Residential wing of commercial firm snapped up by growing agency](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/PropertyChain-1-400x310.jpg)
Large scale Scottish factoring operation James Gibb Residential Factors has acquired the residential division of Aberdeen-based commercial property consultancy FG Burnett. The...
08 November 2021
From: Breaking News
![Major agency rebrands and promises a flurry of acquisitions](/upload/images/new-story-stock-images/Staff-Recruitment-Image-400x310.jpg)
Property group Nick Dunning Associates, which includes the brands Townends and Regents, has rebranded to Stirling Ackroyd Group, effective from today. All...
01 November 2021
From: Breaking News
![New Boiler Ban: Letting agents put the heat on government](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/BOXTBoilerInstallation-400x310.jpg)
ARLA Propertymark has blasted the government over its net zero policy of banning new boilers from 2035 and giving landlords £5,000...
21 October 2021
From: Breaking News
![New rental homes to replace some existing shopping centres](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/RentalMarketImage-1-400x310.jpg)
One of the country’s largest commercial and retail landlords - Capital & Regional - is to expand is current programme of...
10 September 2021
From: Breaking News
![Relief for letting agents as mandatory mediation threat is lifted](/img/default/lat.png)
The government has surprised observers by announcing that compulsory mediation over Covid-related arrears would happen in the commercial sector - but not...
17 June 2021
From: Breaking News
![Building Renovation Passports - MPs want these for rental sector](/img/default/lat.png)
An influential group of MPs has called for the replacement of “outdated” Energy Performance Certificates with new ‘Building Renovation Passports’. Currently EPCs...
23 March 2021
From: Breaking News
![Propertymark says it’s been standing up for members during pandemic](/img/default/lat.png)
Propertymark - embracing the Association of Residential Letting Agents as well as sales agents, auctioneers and valuers - says it’s been...
18 March 2021
From: Breaking News
![Arrests made as protesting activists try to enter lettings agency](/img/default/lat.png)
Local media in the Homes Counties report that two arrests were made after police were called by a lettings agency where...
05 March 2021
From: Breaking News
![Stamp duty break prompts surge in multi-property landlord deals](/img/default/lat.png)
Some 60 per cent of multi-property landlords have expanded their portfolio since the introduction of the Stamp Duty Holiday last summer...
24 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![Long-standing property firm to launch new brand following acquisition](/img/default/lat.png)
Property specialist PS&B has acquired the Graves Jenkins management portfolio - both firms deal in residential and commercial property management on...
26 January 2021
From: Breaking News
![Retail Future? Debenhams store to become 338 flats to rent](/img/default/lat.png)
One of the biggest commercial property operators in the country is to build 338 apartments to rent on the site of...
09 December 2020
From: Breaking News
![Commercial agency expands into residential with strong ambitions](/img/default/lat.png)
Scottish commercial property firm Bowman Rebecchi has announced an expansion into the residential letting sector with the Glasgow-based agency Newton Letting. Bowman...
04 December 2020
From: Breaking News
![Independent agency snapped up by chartered surveying business](/img/default/lat.png)
A chartered surveying company has acquired a long established lettings agency in the same town in Greater Manchester. Altrincham based firm Oakwood...
27 November 2020
From: Breaking News
![Countrywide rentals division suffers almost one third drop in lets](/img/default/lat.png)
Countrywide’s latest trading statement covering the first half of 2020 shows it was hit more than most corporates by the market...
23 October 2020
From: Breaking News
![Fourth acquisition since lockdown for ever-hungry agency group](/img/default/lat.png)
The hyper-active Linley & Simpson agency group has announced its fourth acquisition since the lifting of the national lockdown. The Yorkshire-focussed company...
06 October 2020
From: Breaking News
![New editor for Landlord Today from tomorrow](/img/default/lat.png)
There’s to be a new editor for Landlord Today from tomorrow, Thursday October 1. It’s to be Graham Norwood, currently editor of...
30 September 2020
From: Breaking News
![Commercial office space of the future](/img/default/lat.png)
With no clear end in sight and conflicting Government advice as to whether we should work from home or go to...
24 September 2020
From: Sponsored Content
![High street decline forces commercial investors to shift to residential](/img/default/lat.png)
The decline of the high street - which has been accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic - is forcing commercial investors to...
17 September 2020
From: Breaking News
![Second lettings agency merger in same city in two weeks](/img/default/lat.png)
Longstanding Leeds based property company Adair Paxton has acquired boutique estate agency firm, Hudson Moody Wass. Founded in 2001, Hudson Moody Wass...
09 December 2019
From: Breaking News
![Online agency targets lettings with new one-stop-shop services](/img/default/lat.png)
The relatively low profile 99home online agency says it is now the UK’s fifth largest operation in the online sector after...
26 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Regional agency scraps traditional offices in move to ‘hub’ concept](/img/default/lat.png)
A leading lettings and sales agency in West Sussex is launching a hub-style structure centralising branch activities in a town centre. Michael...
30 September 2019
From: Breaking News
![Belvoir brand snaps up resi portfolio of town’s largest independent](/img/default/lat.png)
Belvoir brand Newton Fallowell has acquired the sales and lettings business of Grantham’s oldest independent agency, Escritt Barrell Golding. EBG, which was...
05 June 2019
From: Breaking News
![Investment trust to compete against Buy To Let and Build To Rent](/img/default/lat.png)
An investment trust has been launched and looks likely to be competing for individual investors who may see it as an...
13 September 2018
From: Breaking News
![Second charge loan on Buy to let property? We can help](/img/default/lat.png)
If you’re a landlord who owns a buy to let property or perhaps a portfolio and need to raise money against...
28 August 2018
From: Sponsored Content
![Growing number of buy to let investors looking beyond residential](/img/default/lat.png)
Over half of mortgage brokers say they have been approached by buy to let investors seeking to diversify their portfolios within...
20 April 2018
From: Breaking News
![Ex-Countrywide man joins fast-expanding Nick Dunning Associates](/img/default/lat.png)
The fast-expanding Nick Dunning Associates - which acquired London agency Stirling Ackroyd over the summer - has strengthened its leadership team...
12 October 2017
From: Breaking News
![Letting agents - how are you coping with digital modernisation?](/img/default/lat.png)
Angels Media and a property technology consultancy are joining forces to conduct the first-ever survey into how agents and other property...
10 October 2017
From: Breaking News
![LSL unveils new partnership to strengthen Build To Rent activities](/img/default/lat.png)
LSL Property Services’ new consultancy and management service for the Build To Rent sector - PRSim - has teamed up with...
12 September 2017
From: Breaking News
![Council acts over cockroaches and overcrowding at rental property](/img/default/lat.png)
A buy to let investor who kept 24 adults and children in what a local council calls “appalling conditions” has a...
12 September 2017
From: Breaking News
![Agents invited to courses on new lettings energy requirements](/img/default/lat.png)
Training organisation Solvo Vir is inviting letting agents and landlords to attend courses to bring them up to date with new...
03 August 2017
From: Breaking News
![Reminder for agents and landlords - act now ahead of MEES](/img/default/lat.png)
An investment company says agents and landlords should start taking measures to ensure their properties comply with the new Minimum Energy...
19 May 2017
From: Breaking News
![Industry's 'outstanding learners' recognised at Propertymark Awards](/img/default/lat.png)
A selection of letting agents, estate agents and property professionals were recognised as 'outstanding learners' at the Propertymark Qualifications Awards last...
16 May 2017
From: Breaking News
![Buy to let investors target smaller cheaper properties](/img/default/lat.png)
Data from the first three months of this year suggests that investors are increasingly purchasing smaller, cheaper properties. Specialist lender Mortgages for...
12 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![Almost half of 'victimised' buy to let investors ready to quit](/img/default/lat.png)
A new study of landlords reveals that far more believe they will be affected by today’s buy to let mortgage interest...
06 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![UK 'has highest property tax in developed world' claims consultancy](/img/default/lat.png)
An assessment undertaken by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development shows property taxes accounted for 12.7 per cent of the...
13 December 2016
From: Breaking News
![Franchise giant opens latest lettings and sales office](/img/default/lat.png)
The franchise giant Century 21 UK has opened its latest estate and letting agency office - and it's in Southampton. The office,...
08 November 2016
From: Breaking News
![SDL Group aiming to becomes UK's largest Build to Rent provider](/img/default/lat.png)
The SDL Group says it is on course to become the UK's largest provider of Build to Rent services. The firm, which...
23 September 2016
From: Breaking News
![New online lettings agency being tested in commercial sector](/img/default/lat.png)
A new online commercial property letting agency is using the residential model of offering a fixed fee-based service. Virtual Commercial, which is...
28 June 2016
From: Breaking News
![Angels Media welcomes one of Britain's top property journalists](/img/default/lat.png)
Angels Media, publisher of Letting Agent Today, is delighted to welcome on board one of Britain’s top property industry journalists, Marc...
21 June 2016
From: Breaking News
![UK's first online commercial estate agency launches today](/img/default/lat.png)
Today sees the launch of what claims to be the UK's first online commercial estate and letting agency. Virtual Commercial will offer...
03 June 2016
From: Breaking News
![NFoPP celebrates agents' outstanding property qualifications](/img/default/lat.png)
The NFoPP Awarding Body has announced those candidates scoring outstanding achievements in property qualifications completed during 2015. In total, 11 winners were...
17 May 2016
From: Breaking News
![Countrywide to buy more independent agencies despite profits slump](/img/default/lat.png)
Countrywide chief executive Alison Platt has confirmed to Letting Agent Today that her group’s strategy of acquiring independent letting agencies continues...
26 February 2016
From: Breaking News
![Countrywide, Connells and Zoopla sign up to online lettings software deal](/img/default/lat.png)
Countrywide is to lead a group including Connells and Zoopla in a partnership with the proptech company Fixflo, currently best known...