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A jailed letting agent in a long-running legal saga has now been told she must repay her victims some £43,000 -...

A new service called Cornwall Housing Private Lets has been set up in the west country to try to lure private...

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

Martin & Co says it has compensated clients fully after a rogue lettings agent in Cornwall added sums to invoices sent...

Another Martin & Co franchisee has acquired a nearby independent agency. The franchise firm’s Falmouth branch, run since 2013 by Felicia and...

Tenancy deposit alternative provider Reposit has been taken on by Devon-based agency chain Webbers.  The agency’s 15 offices operate in north Cornwall,...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is one of many industry groups in a new coalition calling for S21 repossessions to be...

A local authority has written to purchasers of former council houses and apartments warning them against illegally letting them out -...

Cornwall council has confirmed that it’s to use the Proceeds of Crime Act to try to win compensation for victims of...

Mother and daughter lettings agency fraudsters have been told to expect jail sentences after defrauding landlords and tenants of £266,000 over...

The holiday lets market is just starting to pick up and new research shows that 80 per cent of those who...

Well known lettings industry figure John Hards is re-joining Countrywide as National Lettings Director with immediate effect. He first joined Countrywide in...

A landlord from Cornwall has been fined after failing to maintain gas appliances at his rental properties in Launceston.   Truro Crown Court...

The Property Ombudsman scheme (TPO) has extended its expulsion of a letting agency by an additional four years. Premier Property Management, based...

The weakness of the pound since Britain’s decision to quit the European Union a year ago means that holiday properties are...

The landlord of an HMO above a Chinese takeway in Cornwall has been fined for failing to comply with the requirements...

Conservative MP Oliver Colvile is calling for urgent action following a recent spate of fraud involving rogue letting agents.   When approached by...

No fewer than 14 ‘pop up brothels’ have been discovered in one seaside town in six months, with all of them...

A landlord has been given a conditional discharge and a four-figure bill after being found guilty of unlawfully evicting a tenant.   Cornwall...

Connells has appointed a new lettings area manager for Essex and Suffolk.    Tracey Dumont, who has over 17 years in the industry,...

Connells has made a key appointment to drive the growth of its lettings division in the south of England.  Stuart Cornwall, who...

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

A landlord has been cautioned and has agreed to pay £1,000 compensation to a tenant, and pay £2,000 towards legal costs,...

A landlord who did not remedy a string of safety concerns about a property he was letting has been ordered to...

Poldark, a period drama recently on the BBC, has inspired a new trend dubbed the 'Poldark Effect'.  Rather than an increase in...