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Rents rose 9% on average in the UK in Q1 2024 compared to the same period in 2023, says flatshare site SpareRoom. Out...

Propertymark has urged the Scottish Government to resolve the country’s ongoing housing emergency. The news comes as Scottish Labour MSP Mark Griffin...

It’s not easy for anyone - even professionals like lettings and estate agents - to keep up with the blizzard of...

Fast-growing Lomond has acquired a rental portfolio of in excess of 2,000 units. It has bought Tay Letting and its rental portfolio...

Glasgow has been revealed as the UK city with the biggest rise in the number of buy to let properties in...

Average rents in Scotland for new tenancies in the private rented sector have risen by double digits for the fifth quarter...

Aviva Investors, the global asset management business of Aviva plc, has spent some £150m acquiring a portfolio of six Purpose Built...

New rent control proposals put forward by politicians are unnecessary and too costly according to a leading property expert.  David Alexander -...

A severe shortage of properties to rent, fierce competition to secure the homes that are available, and rising rental prices led...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Neil Cobbold, Managing Director What is PayProp and what does it...

A property portal has announced the inaugural graduation of its first-ever qualification. Some 55 students were awarded the SPC Property Practice Certification,...

The scale of rent rises has peaked with future increases likely to be smaller, says Zoopla. The portal’s latest report into the...

The long-term shortage of rental accommodation is now addressed by a short-term clampdown on second homes and empty properties, a leading...

The Scottish Greens - who are in effect the architects of rent controls north of the border - have welcomed a...

There’s been widespread dismay in the industry as the outcome of a Judicial Review has backed the Scottish Government’s objective of...

One of Scotland’s oldest property and legal brands - Simpson & Marwick - has been snapped up by a newcomer to...

Rental growth in prime regional markets has started to slow, following runaway growth over the past three years. That’s the view from...

Private rents have continued to soar in Scotland according to DJ Alexander, the largest lettings agency in the country.  It says rental...

The owners of one of the first Build To Rent schemes in Edinburgh is bidding to improve the EPC rating while...

Following the merger of the South Scotland and North Cumbria branches of Fine & Country, the  agency has added a further...

The classified ad website Gumtree is issuing an alert about what it claims is the growing threat of rental fraud. It says...

A report being considered by a council says one of the UK’s biggest cities could see an 80 per cent collapse in...

Scotland’s largest letting agent had almost 40,000 viewing requests during July for rental properties in Edinburgh and Glasgow alone. DJ Alexander Ltd...

The Scottish Government does not intend to abandon its licensing scheme for Airbnbs and other short term lets, nor to delay...

Rents continue to soar across the UK according to data released by flatshare website SpareRoom.  It says average UK room rents were...

A family business has been named Residential Letting Team of the Year for the second time. The small At Home In Edinburgh...

Strathspey Capital is to become Scotland’s largest factoring business after acquiring Glasgow-based Speirs Gumley. Factoring is the term commonly used in Scotland...

Typical UK rents now account for 28.3 per cent of average pre-tax earnings - slightly above the 10-year average of 27...

Rettie & Co has appointed Rob Trotter as Director of New Business for Lettings, joining from London’s-owned DJ Alexander where he...

The leader of the council that was rebuffed by a court when it tried to control the spread of Airbnb-style short...

A trade body has criticised the various UK governments for “rushing blindly” into poorly-constructed regulation of short lets. The angry words from...

A buyer has been announced for part of the lettings portfolio of Purplebricks, it has been announced today. The deal, finalised for...

A news service claims that in many UK cities there are now more entire homes listed on Airbnb than there are...

Rightmove says growing numbers of renters are leaving Britain’s cities to find a cheaper place to live or to get more...

A Build To Rent operator has struck a deal with Lloyds Pharmacy to offer a so-called Health Concierge Service allowing tenants...

London has continued to dominate the list of the most attractive cities for buy to let investment for the second year...

Propertymark is one of three lettings organisations behind a bid to get a Judicial Review of the Scottish Government’s rent controls...

A crackdown on Airbnbs and other short lets in the Scottish capital, Edinburgh, has infuriated landlord’s’ representatives. In line with the rest...

A lettings agency in Scotland has played down the impact of the emergency rent freeze and eviction ban which have been...

A holiday letting agency has criticised the introduction of licensing for short term rentals in Scotland as “poorly thought-through and ill-timed”.  Iain...

The first step within the UK to officially monitor Airbnb-style short lets comes into effect on Saturday, which is October 1. Scotland’s...

The Times says some Build to Rent investment has been paused as a result of the rent freeze imposed by the...

The acquisition machine that is the Lomond Group has snapped up the lettings book of another independent agency. Lomond has taken over...

The UK Short Term Accommodation Association says the Scottish Government’s backing of a bid to control short lets in Edinburgh could...

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

New research claims students in the UK are currently paying as much as £16,500 per year in living costs - a...

The fast-growing Lomond Group of agencies has acquired a major online lettings service. But it's going to manage the properties through physical...

HMOs rented by students can be up to £30 a week cheaper than purpose built student accommodation in halls of residence. That’s...

A prominent brand in the Lomond Group - Linley & Simpson - has expanded its portfolio by over 600 properties in...

A lettings platform has joined forces with - wait for it - an astrologer, to find ideal places for people with...

A Parliamentary group currently investigating the possible implementation of rent controls is to be joined by a senior figure from Propertymark. The...

A leading brand in the fast-growing and heavily-funded Lomond Group has snapped up another independent agency.  Linley & Simpson has added another...

Many of the country’s leading letting agency brands have joined forces with Propertymark to deliver a training and development strategy for...

The appeal of city living has been reignited across Scotland with new figures showing a surge in demand and rents for...

One of the UK’s largest lettings groups has made an outspoken attack on the policies of a political party standing in...

Airbnb, so often criticised for operating in the largely-unregulated short lets market, has called on the UK government to scrap Section...

Rental market stock levels have plummeted further - even to below the pre-pandemic levels of late 2019. New research shows that in...

A lettings agent says his client landlords are already turning their back on short let platforms including Airbnb ahead of likely...

New data from Zoopla suggests that lettings demand has now recovered across the central districts of all  major cities including Birmingham,...

A lettings agency has gone on the offensive and is publishing landlords who switch from rivals because of allegedly poor service. And...

A prominent agent says the shortage of rental property is now so acute, and like to get still worse, that those...

Ballantynes agency in Scotland has snapped up Edinburgh letting firm Capital Lettings. Capital founder David Smith is retiring and all existing staff...

Wales and Scotland are ahead of the game when it comes to limiting the impact of short term lets on the...

There’s been a slump in demand for rental properties as a result of tenants staying put in the latter part of...

The Lomond Group, already reported to be in talks to buy London agency Chestertons, has revealed it’s snapped up another leading...

A lettings agency’s new website claims to offer increased support to landlords, tenants, and investors, “while cutting through the noise of...

A new Buy To Let ‘tracker’ from a prominent buy to let mortgage lender has revealed what it considers to be...

A scam in one city has reportedly seen scores of individuals robbed of thousands of pounds as short lets have been...

An agent in one major university city says it’s faced with 50 students applying for each available property. Edinburgh residential property lettings,...

Airbnb has backed the Scottish Government's backtrack on pledges to exercise more centralised regulation over short let properties. The country’s ruling SNP-Green coalition...

The Scottish Government - which earlier this year suggested it would be clamping down heavily on Airbnbs, especially in Edinburgh -...

A lettings agency’s research has revealed that rental demand has continued to climb across most major UK cities during the third quarter...

The lettings arm of a leading Edinburgh-based property portal has reported a surge of Edinburgh properties being rented on the same...

Lomond Group has partnered with PropTech player Goodlord to provide IT services across the group's brands, which include Braemore, Stonehouse, Linley...

One HMO had 78 viewings while in the same city a £7,000 rental property was let after just one day of...

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

A consultation is to begin next month regarding the designation of an entire city as a Short Term Let Control Area. If...

Record tenant demand and record-fast lettings have combined to create an average asking rent above £1,000 per calendar month for homes...

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

Airbnb, which has been criticised by some for its impact on local rental markets, is to set up its own ‘tax’...

The city centre rental market, considered to be one of the industry’s losers during the worst of the pandemic, is beginning...

A landlord who appealed against a local council decision regarding the letting of her apartment on Airbnb has lost - and...

The highest profile agency in the big-spending Lomond Group has sealed a trio of deals in the first week of April...

A Scottish agency has strengthened its specialism in managing HMOs with the acquisition of a lettings book of 90 more units. Braemore Sales...

Linley & Simpson and Lomond Capital - which joined forces at the end of 2020 to create a new national agency...

FirstPort, the residential property services provider, has teamed up with The Turing Trust to help equip a new computer lab at...

There's been a warning that tenants should not be deceived when a landlords wants possession of their property. Lindsays law firm says...

A first attempt to regulate Airbnb-style short lets through licensing has been withdrawn. The SNP-led Scottish Government had drawn up a licensing...

Lomond - which recently merged with Linley & Simpson - has acquired four smaller independent agencies in three different cities. Two of...

A new lettings market snapshot from Rightmove suggests that asking rents in some major city centres have seen annual falls up...

Lomond Capital, which owns Scottish lettings and estate agents Braemore and Stonehouse, is to merge with Yorkshire firm Linley & Simpson. The...

A council in Scotland is set to be the first to introduce regulations for Airbnb and similar platforms in the short lets sector. ARLA...

Activists are attempting to build rent strike momentum amongst students who rent property across the country. ‘Rent Strike” is a national network...

A family-run agency that describes itself as “plucky” has rebranded and moved to larger premises in one of the UK’s most...

Scottish agency Tay Letting is set for expansion into Dundee and its surrounding areas with the acquisition of Lickley Proctor Lettings. Just...

A property management firm says there’s been a big surge in rentals with the majority of deals being completed using virtual...

A new student accommodation property platform has been launched which aims to deliberately by-pass letting agents.  Housemates is for students, landlords and...

A series of fake scams allegedly advertising apartments to rent have appeared on Zoopla and other property websites. The Edinburgh Live news...

New data from Zoopla shows that a two-speed rental market is operating across the UK, with London in particular hitting major...

Room rents in the capital have dropped seven per cent in the past three months as the Coronavirus crisis saps demand...