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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...

A council with a large number of short let properties within its boundaries is urging owners to convert them to traditional...

The number of new rental listings reaching the market has soared as much as 44 per cent in some areas following...

One of the country’s largest lettings agencies is to lose 17 jobs out of 100 in what the company founder calls...

A digital property management platform has gone live with a network of local agents covering some of the UK’s key cities.  Apropos has recruited a network of what it calls...

Rental demand has dropped significantly across London and other major UK cities as a result of the pandemic. When comparing current levels...

A lettings agency in one of the most competitive markets in Britain says it’s enjoyed a record year winning landlords from...

Nearly half a million properties could be removed from the long-term lettings market as disenchanted landlords move to short-lets. A survey by...

A leading agency in a part of the UK where local government wants to clamp down on the spread of Airbnb...

A leading property industry figure says Airbnb is attempting to persuade traditional buy to let landlords into going down the short-let...

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

Scottish legal firm Gilson Gray has shaped up Coulters Letting, meaning it now enters the residential rentals sector for the first...

A short lets firm that describes itself as an “Airbnb management service” is launching an advertising campaign to woo landlords away...

High-profile property management firm DJ Alexander is set for expansion following a £7m investment from Santander.  The capital funding package will be...

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

The growing chorus of calls to professionalise the short lets sector has won influential backing from a senior PropTech entrepreneur. Neil Cobbold...

The Scottish Government says it’s looking at whether to regulate Airbnb and other short let activities after a consultation found widespread...

There’s a warning from a leading agent that the unregulated proliferation of Airbnb-style short lets will lead to mainstream rent rises...

Letting agents are to be offered free training in managing tenancy deposits and disputes if they operate in Edinburgh. In the last...

A huge US property investment firm valued at over $10 billion is entering the UK’s purpose build student accommodation sector. Chicago-based CA...

A pioneering lettings agency that allocates second and subsequent year students with private sector and university-owned homes has delivered its best...

A lettings group says the high-profile struggle performers at the Edinburgh Fringe now face to find affordable short-term accommodation was entirely...

A platform which works with independent lettings agents and Build To Rent operators says it is linking them to provide mutual...

The number of landlords admitting to not paying tax has soared in the past year, according to new data. During 2018/2019, 16,110...

A senior Labour politician has claimed that there is a city in the UK where two out of every 13 residential...

A slow rental market in London is weighing down on growth across the rest of the UK, according to the latest...

A rental market expert is urging landlords to be cautious when considering to use short-term lets websites such as Airbnb to...

New data looking specifically at room rental rates suggest that across the UK rents rose by an average three per cent...

Savills has launched a new residential lettings service in one of the country’s most successful buy to let and investment locations...

The rapid growth of Airbnb-style short lets could lead to the loss of private rented homes and displacement of long-term residents...

Rental growth remains in positive territory - just - but on average it’s still well below the general level of inflation...

A programme of nine new educational workshops takes place next month, some of which target new agents with little or no experience of deposits...

A new study suggests that rental properties now account for 40 per cent of the available housing stock.  Looking at the final...

Edinburgh has been identified as having the UK’s fastest growing rents with the average annual sum rising by 4.63 per cent...

LAT recently carried a story of a lettings agency diversifying by renting out parking spaces for landlord owners - and now...

The Scottish private lettings sector is on the march again with the latest index suggesting a 2.2 per cent annual rise,...

New figures show that the Scottish rental market returned to growth in September with average growth of 0.1 per cent across...

Rettie & Co is the first agency north of the border to offer a no-deposit scheme to tenants - although it’s...

The latest rental figures produced by Your Move for Scotland have prompted a claim that the country now has better yields...

Another short let management firm, set up in the wake of an explosion of Airbnb-style renting by amateurs and professionals, is...

The UK's second city Birmingham takes top spot when it comes to student property returns for buy-to-let investors. Analysis by online letting...

A leading letting agent argues that the UK housing market is not prepared to deal with a growing number of lifetime...

The Scottish Government’s private rental reforms are shaking up the sector according to new data, which reveals rental property sales have...

Rents in the UK, excluding London, are still increasing but at their slowest rate for five years. Figures from specialist lender Landbay...

The proportion of visitors to Edinburgh using Airbnb surged 70 per cent in 2017 compared to the previous year. Commercial agency Colliers,...

CityLets, Scotland’s largest online lettings listings service, says it’s business as usual for the market north of the border despite a...

Sourced, which describes itself as the largest property investment platform in the UK, has secured its 25th franchise some 10 months...

An analysis of over 580,000 properties has produced a league table of Britain’s best and worst buy to let postcodes in...

Airsorted, one of a number of management services that have sprung up to cater for hosts using Airbnb and similar platforms,...

The Scottish rental market performed solidly in the last year, with the average rent rising by 0.6 per cent to hit...

Rents in Scotland continue to grow but the rate is slowing according to the latest data from Your Move. The average rental...

Rightmove has revealed that the 10 year average growth in asking rents across London has been 25 per cent, and over...

As students begin their search for housing for the next academic year, a university has relaunched a dedicated lettings agency service The...

Politicians in London and Scotland are looking at new controls which could be imposed on home owners letting out their properties...

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

The government has been accused by a lettings sector trade body of skewing the market to encourage more short-lets.  The claim comes...

Research by the University of Sheffield is reported to show the apparent damage done by short lets on Airbnb and similar...

The Scottish rental market continued to perform strongly in the year to the end of October with the average property let for £572 on...

A respected letting agency research head says Build To Rent could be a significant step towards solving the overall shortage of...

A report into the Scottish rental market by Your Move says letting agents north of the border are already preparing for...

Green Party politician Andy Wightman claims that £10.6m in taxes are being avoided this year due to the boom in private...

Purpose-built and professionally-managed Build To Rent - until now seen as a primarily London phenomenon - appears on the march in Scotland...

Uber and a Build To Rent developer have announced a PropTech deal which will see the transport company getting involved in...

Scotland’s rental market swings to extremes, suggests the latest figures from website Citylets.   On the one hand the Scottish average rent has...

A tenant has been tracked down after a year-long exercise and has now picked up the deposit he forgot to collect...

ARLA Propertymark representatives have met with Home Office officials in Cardiff and Edinburgh ahead of the government’s roll-out of Right To...

A Scottish agency group has announced that it has acquired a lettings business in order to move into the short-term lettings...

Average private rents in Scotland at the national level recorded an uncharacteristic dip in the final quarter of 2016, down 0.9...

The managing director of one of the most prominent letting agencies in Edinburgh and Glasgow - where agents’ fees on tenants...

The average rent for a UK property grew by a negligible 0.05 per cent in October, despite a tiny fall in...

The average UK tenant expects to remain part of the Private Rented Sector for a further decade, according to a new...

Data produced by Scottish lettings agency DJ Alexander Lettings appears to show a growing trend towards long-term letting over buying. The agency,...

Tenancy deposits in England and Wales are typically £100 dearer than the Scottish equivalent.  Between June 2015 and May 2016, the average...

A letting agent has launched its own management service for landlords organising short-term lets on Airbnb.  ACEProperty, an estate and letting agency...

Annual rent rises in Scotland hit a three-year low in April, according to new figures. Your Move's Scotland Buy-to-Let Index shows that...

Average asking rents in Scotland now stand at £767 per month, up 2.1 per cent over the past year.  The exception to...

Robert Watts Lettings has secured the latest Lettings Landlord award from the ESTAS.  Kate Watts, head of lettings of the agency based...

People coming to work in Scotland from overseas are making up an increasing proportion of private sector tenants according to a...

New research from HomeLet reveals that Brighton, Bristol, Edinburgh and Newcastle recorded the largest increase in rents last year amongst the...

One of Scotland’s largest independent letting agencies has entered into two deals adding over 600 properties to its inventory. The Edinburgh-based DJ...

With perhaps ironic timing, rents across some parts of Scotland are falling - just as the Scottish Government prepares to outline...

The shortage of rental accommodation in some university towns is so great that up to 22 people are competing for every...

Who are you?     Michael Groves, Partner of Lomond Capital which is focused on bringing together good quality regional letting and estate...

David Alexander, managing director of the letting agency DJ Alexander, has come across some unusual requests in over 30 years doing business...

A Scottish agent has warned that government proposals to restrict landlord repossessions could negatively impact accommodation costs at the Edinburgh Festival. David...

A new director of The Property Ombudsman in Scotland and chief executive of one of that country’s major letting agencies ia...

Edinburgh is set to become the first local authority in Scotland to move into the private landlord business, building up to...