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Hamptons has launched a residential investment department - and it’s using the sister Connells brand to give new homes more exposure...

A five year old consumer reviews website has been acquired by Rightmove. Homeviews was set up in 2019 and at the time...

Almost six years after her departure as chief executive of Countrywide, Alison Platt has been appointed to a new senior position. She...

PropTech service Propoly says it’s handled £50m of rental transactions so far this year. Propoly - launched in 2020 and boasting early...

One of the controversial Bruce brothers, founders of the ill-fated Purplebricks venture, is back in the agency business. It’s almost a decade...

Connells Group - which at 150,000 tenancies under management claims to be the UK’s largest lettings business - has announced a...

The latest data shows that while rents continue to climb, growth is starting to slow down.  According to Nicky Stevenson, managing director...

Two former agents with experience between them of major players such as Countrywide, Leaders Romans and LSL have set up a...

The man who led the sale of prominent lettings agency Finders Keepers to Countrywide has landed a new role as group...

Purplebricks is set to cut 10 per cent of its staff within hours according to The Times. The company is reportedly laying...

This may be 2022’s least surprising research finding - most property professionals want interest rates to fall. A webinar poll undertaken by...

Purplebricks’ board has announced that a general meeting of shareholders will be held on December 19 - and it involves a...

Rebel shareholders at Purplebricks want the current chairman to be replaced by industry veteran Harry Hill. Lecram Holdings Limited - which has...

Lettings and sales agents, along with other members of the property industry, have been celebrating at the ESTAS Customer Service Awards...

Connells makes no reference about its lettings division in a terse statement about its business performance in the first half of...

Connells Group has named what it describes as “four key promotions” across its lettings division, signifying the company’s commitment to nurturing...

One of the country’s best-regarded lettings agencies celebrates its 50th birthday today. The Oxford-based Finders Keepers was founded in 1972, starting out...

Ex-Reapit and ex-Countrywide tech guru Gary Barker has joined co-living HMO platform COHO as a non-executive director - just weeks after...

John D Wood - one of two high end brands formerly owned by Countrywide but recently acquired by Connells - is...

A PropTech lettings platform boasting investment from the Foxtons agency has been snapped up by LegalforLandlords for an undisclosed figure. Propoly, launched...

PropTech property compliance firm CheckDocs says it’s bagged Hamptons as its latest agency - with over 90 branches and a substantial...

Keller Williams UK - one of the growing number of agencies to operate with self-employed agents working from a central hub...

Agents and other industry players have penned an open letter to government demanding a radical overhaul of targets for energy efficiency in the...

LSL Property Services has secured new banking arrangements with a £90m revolving credit facility in anticipation of what it calls “attractive...

Research by Countrywide agency Hamptons shows that during 2020 some 41,700 new buy to let limited companies were formed. That’s a record...

The rate of rental growth accelerated sharply in December according to Countrywide agency brand Hamptons. Its research department shows that over the...

A new property identification system which has won the backing of ARLA Propertymark and substantial parts of the industry has said...

Connells has made it clear that the innovation and technology it has put into lettings are key to identifying the approach it...

There is mounting evidence that rental growth is picking up steam, according to the latest analysis by Countrywide brand Hamptons. Average rents...

Around one in seven residential properties purchased in November were snapped up by buy to let investors, according to Countrywide research. A...

The gap between typical City rents and Country rents is closing according to an analysis of Countrywide properties by the company’s...

Countrywide’s latest trading statement covering the first half of 2020 shows it was hit more than most corporates by the market...

New research from Countrywide brand Hamptons International suggest tenants are joining vendors in a trend towards leaving cities and heading for more...

Long-standing industry figure Robin Paterson has described how a company has re-shaped its service post-pandemic to offer high quality short lets...

The Leaders Romans Group says it’s opening a new virtual office in the East Midlands, with a long-standing lettings expert at...

A family-run property management and lettings business has opened its new office - five years after the same family’s previous business...

The research department of Countrywide’s Hamptons International brand says the stamp duty holiday introduced yesterday on homes selling for £500,000 or...

A new PropTech platform backed by Countrywide and Foxtons says it offers agents an opportunity to reduce admin, increase revenue and...

Veteran Countrywide figure John Hards has joined the board of still-to-launch property portal OpenBrix. In 2018 Hards rejoined Countrywide as national lettings...

The proportion of homes bought last month by buy to let investors plummeted to a record low of just eight per...

The commercial arm of Countrywide is urging landlords currently facing huge void periods because students have been ordered home, to reconfigure...

The average rent for a newly let property rose 3.3 per cent in the year to the end of February -...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? My name is Jon Notley and I am the co-founder...

Cynics who rejected claims that landlords would quit the buy to let sector because of increasing bureaucracy and higher taxes may...

The average cost of a rental home in Great Britain rose to £999 pcm in December according to figures just released...

Research from Hamptons International suggests that millennials are paying a lower proportion of the total rental burden in Britain than a...

Leaders Romans Group has selected a new PropTech platform after a competitive tendering process. The winning company was PropCo, which already services...

Countrywide has calculated that with many landlords exiting the buy to let market, the number of homes available to rent has...

Rental growth in Great Britain picked up throughout 2019 according to Countrywide.   In an analysis of the market released under the name...

A roundtable discussion of rental industry leaders has produced a recommendation for the mandatory regulation of lettings agents. The objective, they say,...

Flat-sharing website Ideal Flatmate has raised £2m in a funding round in order to expand to seven new cities in the...

The average rent of a newly let property in Great Britain rose to £999 pcm in October according to data from...

The proportion of homes in Great Britain let by overseas based landlords is 11 per cent, up from seven per cent...

Countrywide has issued an unusual statement saying that the veteran lettings expert recruited to steer the organisation through the tenant fee...

Countrywide’s high-end Hamptons International brand says it’s growing its lettings business “ethically and sustainably, regardless of market conditions.” It has ended the...

Countrywide’s monthly rental index - based on achieved rather than advertised rents on newly let properties - says the average rent...

In addition to the apparent collapse of Upad at the weekend, there has been unconfirmed speculation about redundancies at a second...

One of the UK’s highest profile lettings agencies - Countrywide band Beresford Adams - has been fined £22,500 for health and...

Data from Countrywide estate agents analysed by Hamptons International reveals that the average rent of a newly-let property in the UK...

Young adults aged 20 to 29 spend up to a third of their pre-tax income on rent for a room according...

If you want a barometer of a stable lettings market, this appears to be it - rents are now rising at...

It took an average of just 20 days to let a home between January and July this year according to a...

Rental growth continues to accelerate, reaching the highest level since April 2016 according to data from Hamptons International, part of Countrywide.   The...

Some 12 per cent of homes to let are operated by a ‘company landlord’ according to an analysis by Countrywide high-end...

A family-run property management and letting agency, launched at the start of the year, has doubled its year one target within...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? That depends on which business card. One says ‘Properganda PR,...

A specialist student accommodation lettings and property management company says it’s preparing to grow through a series of strategic acquisitions. Bankers have...

The average cost of a new let in Great Britain has risen to £977 per calendar month.  That’s a 2.6 per cent...

New figures out this morning show that the over-50s are becoming a larger part of the rental market.  So far this year...

London agency Stirling Ackroyd - owned by Nick Dunning Associates, led by senior ex-Countrywide staff - has snapped up another independent...

Data from a Countrywide agency shows that 59 per cent of landlords who live in London purchased their buy to let...

The average cost of a new let in Great Britain is now £969 pcm as rental growth continues to rise.  Data from Hamptons...

The proportion of landlords purchasing buy to let homes in London with cash rose from 33 per cent in 2017 to...

Countrywide’s upmarket lettings and sales brand, Hamptons International, has launched branded taxis in celebration of its 150th birthday.  The taxis will operate...

Private tenants in Britain in 2018 paid £59.1 billion on rent - that’s £1.9 billion less than in 2017 and the...

The chief executive of a still-to-be-launched property portal says Christmas may have come early for letting agents because of the “huge...

As 2018 ticks away and 2019 beckons, it’s time for everyone at Letting Agent Today to wish you, your family and...

Rents are likely to rise 2.5 per cent in 2019, then 3.0 per cent in 2020 and a further 2.0 per...

The proportion of homes let by an overseas based landlord has more than halved in the last eight years according to...

So-called ‘real rents’ - those adjusted for inflation - have fallen by 2.2 per cent since October 2008.   This means that the...

New data from Countrywide’s luxury brand agency Hamptons International says the average price of a home bought by a landlord in...

Countrywide says landlords spent £12.1 billion buying rental properties in the first half of this year - a full 30 per...

Franchise giant Belvoir Lettings has told the City and the firm’s shareholders that revenues and profits have risen in the first...

The lettings book of My London Home will be absorbed into the Stirling Ackroyd portfolio and rebranded this autumn. Consisting of nearly...

The latest figures produced by Countrywide show a slow rise in rents across most of the country with the notable exception of...

The proportion of landlords of British buy to let properties who are themselves based overseas has fallen to a record low...

Some 18 per cent of properties let in the first half of 2018 were registered in the name of a company...

Legal & General, one of the biggest players in Britain’s burgeoning Build To Rent market, has exchanged contracts on its largest...

Startling figures from the Countrywide high-end brand Hamptons International show how tough it is for young people to buy. The agency says...

Countrywide is introducing the ARLA Level 2 qualification throughout its branch network.  All customer-facing lettings staff who joined the business on or...

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

There are now five per cent fewer homes to let now than two years ago, says Countrywide in its rebranded Hamptons...

Countrywide - which is making the lettings sector a key part of its ‘back to basics’ programme - is proposing to...

The average cost of a new let reached £951 per month in Great Britain in March - that’s up 1.7 per...

The number of landlords re-mortgaging to release money for home improvements has reached a record high according to Countrywide. In the last...

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

Countrywide has announced that Dan Channer - a well-known figure in the lettings industry generally, and managing director of Oxford-based Finders...

The average landlord who sold their rental property in 2017 did so for £86,651 more than they paid for it, having...

Countrywide’s latest analysis of the lettings market says millennials are slowly but surely becoming homeowners, giving ground in the rentals sector...

For the second month running, rental growth in London has outstripped the rest of the country according to data released today...