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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...

Countrywide’s Hamptons International is to work with a PropTech firm to try out a no-deposit lettings scheme in four of its offices. Hamptons’...

Last year saw a significant drop in the number of homes bought by landlords according to data released this morning by...

Rental growth across Great Britain picked up in 2017 according to data released today by Countrywide.   Last year rents rose by an...

The annual rate of rental growth picked up in November, with the cost of a new let across Great Britain rising...

Countrywide says one in every 12 homes that came on to the rental market in 2017 was for sale at some...

Stamp duty reform for first time buyers has taken pride of place in the Budget speech of Chancellor Phillip Hammond.   From today,...

A record 65 per cent of landlord purchases over the last 12 months were made by cash buyers according to Countrywide. In the...

The annual rate of rental growth slowed between September and October according to Countrywide. The cost of the average new let in...

Countrywide is reported to be launching its next online offer - a mortgage brokerage called Mojo Mortgages - early next year. The...

Countrywide says a record 64,672 tenants left London over the last 12 months with an unusually-high proportion going on to rent elsewhere. Some...

The fast-expanding Nick Dunning Associates - which acquired London agency Stirling Ackroyd over the summer - has strengthened its leadership team...

The Nationwide Building Society says it is assembling what it calls ‘an industry alliance’ to support the increasingly-beleaguered private rental sector.   The...

The number of landlords has fallen over the last two years despite a rise in supply of homes available to rent,...

Average rents for newly-let property across Great Britain rose to £954 per month in August, reflecting a 1.6 per cent annual...

Humberts has launched an online-only lettings option for landlords with a PropTech firm which has previously operated a service described as...

The annual rate of rental growth across Britain doubled between June and July driven by a turnaround in the London market,...

Former Countrywide chief executive and chairman Grenville Turner is one of a number of high profile new investors unveiled for Zero...

Haslams, a prominent agency in the Reading area, has appointed ex-Countrywide figure Martin Hembra as director of lettings.   Hembra has over 20...

Stirling Ackroyd’s lettings book, with which it manages 1,400 properties, lies at the heart of the London agency’s acquisition by Nick...

The typical rent paid by tenants across Britain rose by an average of 1.8 per cent in the 12 months to...

Countrywide says that the average price of a new let in Britain rose by 1.1 per cent year-on-year in June 2017...

One of Countrywide’s high-end brands, Hamptons International, is launching its first app to give landlords and tenants “a single integrated point...

Countrywide says the rapid growth in the size of the private rental sector in recent years is not down to a...

At the latest meeting of the Fair Fees Forum, members described the current approach towards landlord licensing as a 'post code...

The firm run by former Countrywide lettings director Nick Dunning has announced the details of its latest acquisition. Nick Dunning Associates has...

Retired tenants are becoming a larger part of the rental market, according to the UK's largest letting agency. Countrywide reports that pensioners...

A string of corporate letting agencies plus ARLA Propertymark have again called on the government to reconsider its proposed ban on agents’...

Only just over a week remains before the end of the formal consultation on the government’s proposal to ban letting fees...

Property investors based in the capital are increasingly purchasing buy-to-let properties outside of London, according to Countrywide. The UK's largest agency's latest...

Over 1,000 guests celebrated the success of the industry at the 14th annual ESTAS awards on Friday. The event, which is sponsored...

Agencies are responding to the latest criticism of their fees on tenants, levied by the pressure group Generation Rent.    The group -...

Twenty agency groups have backed a call by the Association of Residential Letting Agents urging the government to extend or scrap its...

A remarkable one in five properties now being let are operated by a company landlord - and the figure surges to...

The founder of Rightmove and former chief executive of Countrywide, Harry Hill, has joined a lettings start-up company called Lavanda which...

Andrews Property Group has announced that Hannah Norris to lead its lettings business across its three major regions of Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire...

Humberts has announced the setting up of a new lettings department to be headed by a former Countrywide branch manager.   Suzanne Diamond has...

Organisers of the Future:PropTech2017 conference on May 4 have revealed new sponsors involved with the event - including Angels Media, publisher...

Countrywide claims that the proportion of landlords paying in cash for a property reached 61 per cent in January, the highest...

Countrywide says that last month the cost of a new let was 2.6 per cent higher than in the same month...

A firm run by the former commercial director of Countrywide has made its first large scale acquisition with the purchase of...

The Fair Fees Forum, a platform for letting agencies and trade bodies set up by the National Approved Lettings Scheme, has...

The average London rent in November was 0.7 per cent lower than last year - not an enormous fall but nonetheless...

Affordability pressures in the private rental sector mean that far fewer tenants are now renting properties with spare bedrooms according to...

Rents are rising faster in northern cities than those in the south, narrowing the divide between the two halves of the...

LGIM Real Assets has announced the appointment of a former Countrywide fund manager as part of its Build to Rent (BTR)...

SafeDeposits Scotland has announced that Ian Potter will succeed Sir Andrew Cubie as the organisation's chairman. Potter, who has been on the...

Across the UK as a whole there has been a slight increase in the number of tenants who agree to pay...

Countrywide’s latest lettings index shows rental growth slowing in every region of Britain because of a glut of homes coming to...

In the three months after the introduction of the three per cent stamp duty surcharge on April 1, landlord purchases accounted...

Agents have been giving their reaction to the shock Brexit referendum result - and their comments have ranged from the gloomy...

Purplebricks needs to expand its lettings activities to boost the volume of business it has and increase cash flow, according to...

A young independent agency in Manchester is set to hit a £1.5m turnover target after just 18 months following the addition...

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

The average cost of renting a one-bedroom home in Britain has risen to £746 per month - this is the equivalent...

The number of valuations for buy to let purposes last month was eight per cent up on the May 2015 level...

Average price for a property paid by investors in April fell by 8.3 per cent from £194,000 a month earlier to...

Countrywide is continuing its aggressive acquisition programme in the rental sector by snapping up The Letting Bureau agency in Colne, Lancashire. The...

Two of the industry’s biggest estate agency groups have selected the same firm to provide their legal services.  Hillyer McKeown has been...

Countrywide - which has already acquired a string of letting agencies in recent months - continues to demonstrate its emphasis on...

Countrywide says £28 billion worth of home sales were completed in March ahead of the stamp duty surcharge deadline, a 76...

It has been confirmed that letting agency Underwoods Town and Country has been snapped up by Countrywide for a seven figure...

The Guardian newspaper has taken a perhaps-predictable swipe at letting agents and property portals for the way in which they display...

Property software firm VTUK has announced the appointment of a new sales director in response to 'increased demand for automation'. Ian Mclaughlin...

In the last year 12% of lets were agreed at more than the initial asking price, according to the latest figures...

Countrywide is next week formally announcing that it is acquiring the large Oxford-based lettings agency Finders Keepers. Countrywide says the agency -...

Countrywide has made what it calls “a significant investment” in The Buy to Let Business, a Camberley-based company which has been...

Countrywide chief executive Alison Platt has confirmed to Letting Agent Today that her group’s strategy of acquiring independent letting agencies continues...

Countrywide is to lead a group including Connells and Zoopla in a partnership with the proptech company Fixflo, currently best known...

Countrywide says average rents across the UK are now at their highest-ever levels, some 12 per cent above their pre-recession peak.  This...

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

Britain's largest letting agency says rents grew by an average of 3.1 per cent in 2015, taking the average monthly rent...

Countrywide has acquired Woods Estate Agents, a Bristol-based lettings and sales agency with five branches covering the city and north Somerset. Woods...

Countrywide is calling on the Greater London Assembly to implement a single landlord licensing scheme which individual borough councils can opt...

The scores are in - we have asked 20 senior agents and analysts for their forecasts for capital values the 2016...

The new three per cent stamp duty rate surcharge is the equivalent to 11 months income for the average mortgaged landlord,...

The new three per cent stamp duty on buy to let properties coming into force from next April will effectively redraw...

Countrywide may have been criticised by some for recent management and strategy changes but one thing appears to have been proven...

Watch the latest weekly video round-up of news from Estate Agent Today and Letting Agent Today, featuring stories on the latest...

Countrywide chief executive Alison Platt has said the acquisition of best-in-class urban-based lettings agencies will be a major plank of her...

Watch the latest weekly video round-up of news from Estate Agent Today and Letting Agent Today, featuring stories on Countrywide's on-going...

In an unusual boost for the benefits of the private rental sector, new data suggests tenants routinely rent in more expensive...

Countrywide has announced plans to recruit over 200 apprentices in the next year, working on a training programme drawn up with...

One of the industry debates of the year will be held next week when the inaugural FUTURE : Property Tech conference...

No fewer than 45 per cent of tenants renewing their tenancies were given rent increases in August, the highest since Countrywide's...

Countrywide has snapped up another independent letting agency - this time it is Thomas C Adams in Chester which has become...

UK landlords own their properties for an average of 17 years before selling up, according to Countrywide's latest Lettings Index. This is...

An analysis by Britain’s biggest letting agency, Countrywide, has thrown up a little known fact - with applications for school places...

With the lettings market at a near-record level of activity, Countrywide is seeking recruits for its fifth two-year graduate management programme.  Since...

Watch the latest weekly video round-up of news from Estate Agent Today and Letting Agent Today, featuring stories on George Osborne's...

The largest national letting agency, Countrywide, says the market is now so buoyant that a third of landlords are able to...

An East Midland lettings agency sold to Countrywide in what is reported to be a seven-figure deal. Underwoods has been trading for...

The proportion of properties bought by landlords with a sitting tenant has reached the highest level since 2005, according to Countrywide. The...

Countrywide Residential Lettings has announced another expansion with the purchase of PIP Lettings in the East Midlands. Countrywide says this another step...

The agency industry has been acting with delight over the likelihood that there will be a slim overall majority for the...

The pressure group Generation Rent - which has been sharply critical of letting agents, landlords and the private rental sector in...