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An agency has snapped up a substantial regional firm involving 60 staff, 1,100 properties under management, as well as commercial, new...

Regional estate agency group Sheldon Bosley Knight has snapped up its second business in recent weeks. It’s acquired Charles Kimbell Lettings in...

The Chancellor has used his Budget to confirm a 2p cut in National Insurance, from April 6. This will take it...

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

A new networking service for letting agents and all other property insiders, including landlords and investors, is being launched today by...

Midlands-based land and property company Sheldon Bosley Knight has made another lettings acquisition - its fifth in 2023. Leicestershire-based Andrew Granger &...

A long-established agency has created what it calls a “super office” in its city. John Payne Estate Agents, which has been active...

Propertymark is backing a call for financial help for landlords who improve the energy efficiency of their properties. The think tank E3G...

A prominent provider of student rental accommodation has appointed an international property consultancy to consider growth options. Study Inn Group has a...

Midlands-based property company Sheldon Bosley Knight has acquired its third business in five months. It’s snapped up Chipping Campden-based Andrew Greenwood Estate...

Midlands-based agency Sheldon Bosley Knight has snapped up an independent firm. It’s Coventry sales and lettings agency Robin Jones which brings just...

New plans to help control the numbers of residential properties turned into HMOs in parts of Coventry are moving a step...

A market snapshot of the growing Build To Rent sector outside of London suggests units are letting rapidly with low voids. Figures...

Another Belvoir franchise has acquired a local independent lettings agency.  Belvoir already has offices in Corby, Kettering and Coventry and is now...

  Belvoir has announced its franchise of the year, selected from the 166 offices in its network.  It’s husband and wife team Ben...

Another council is considering dramatic moves to limit the numbers of houses in multiple occupation. A public consultation is being planned this...

Research by a student accommodation search platform suggests that the sector may rely too heavily on the apparent year-on-year growth in...

A former agent who was most recently a car salesman has been named as Spicerhaart’s first home-based lettings partner. Marc West will...

New research reveals that student property portfolios based in smaller university towns or cities typically generate the best returns. The findings, from...

The Furnished versus Unfurnished debate in the rental sector has been going on for years but new research attempts to quantify...

If agents want to emphasise the green credentials of their local area, then a new league table may be of help. An...

A council says it’s let 21 properties thanks to a rent guarantee system launched to woo private landlords to supply homes...

It appears the much-hyped exodus of people from London to the country doesn’t apply to the rental market. Despite rents falling in...

Activists from the controversial renters’ group Acorn have picketed the headquarters of a national rental firm in a dispute over a...

West Midlands Police have revealed that a major drugs racket being run by a rogue landlord from his properties in Coventry...

A  buy to let investor has been sentenced to two years in prison after claiming income support despite being a professional portfolio...

Rent to the value of £10,982.25 is to be returned to tenants by a landlord who was operating without a licence. Mrs...

Coventry council has been branded as irresponsible by a leading trade body for allegedly ignoring government advice on licensing schemes during...

Research by the National Residential Landlords Association and the Which? consumer body has revealed that some 53 councils in England alone...

A Build To Rent developer has revealed plans to construct over 10,000 units in just five years. Wise Living, part of SDL,...

A compliance consultant has explained why a local council’s penalty on a rogue landlord - initially £31,499 - was slashed to...

A mortgage lender’s new Buy to Let City Tracker tool has calculated the best cities in the UK for buy to...

The property management platform Apropos, scheduled to launch early next year, says it’s signed up 25 business partners ahead of schedule. The...

A local authority is being warned that its landlord licensing and accreditation scheme is potentially unlawful. The Residential Landlords Association, which represents...

A two bedroom furnished flat can cost up to 21 per cent more to rent than a comparable property that’s unfurnished. Research...

Online lettings agency LettingaProperty has moved into a new home and says it plans to double its staff by adding five...

Liverpool and Nottingham are the UK’s best performing property investment locations, according to mortgage broker Private Finance.  Both cities enjoy average rental...

Allsopp & Allsopp, an agency operating across Warwickshire, has launched a lettings division and has immediately scored big thanks to its...

The Coventry building society is the latest buy to let lender to tighten its portfolio buy to let criteria ahead of new...

A buy to let investment search portal has produced an interactive map based on a pull-together of research into the lettings market...

A letting agent has been jailed after reportedly tricking students into paying deposits totalling thousands of pounds for flats they could...

Peer-to-peer lender Lendinvest, using data from Zoopla and the Land Registry, says Manchester, Liverpool, Cardiff, Coventry and Oldham produce the highest...

Ahead of expected restrictions on buy to let lending to be introduced next year by the Bank of England, some individual...

The prospect of lending restraints for landlords next year has done little to deter lenders offering a wide range of deals...

Connells Group has announced the acquisition of another lettings business – Kingsford Letting in Leamington Spa.  Kingsford Letting was a local, independently...

HomeLet’s rental index figures for June shows another rise with average rents outside of London now standing at £747 per month,...

The immigration charity the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants says it is working with a range of other bodies...

A landlord in Coventry has been handed a £3,350 fine after a house in multiple occupation under his ownership was found...