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A prominent PropTech entrepreneur is urging agents and other in the property industry to engage with those wishing to introduce regulation...

A Parliamentary committee has heard that thousands of small and medium-sized letting agencies were debanked in 2023, with financial institutions forcibly...

Tom Davies has started with Leaders Romans Group as the company’s first group financial services managing director. This new position coincides with...

The Property Franchise Group, the UK's largest property franchise brand, wants to merge with long-time rival Belvoir. Both are listed on the...

One of Britain’s leading agents - former RICS residential chairman Jeremy Leaf - says he is seeing a change of mood...

A Belvoir franchisee has doubled the size of his business by buying out a local independent agency - his third acquisition...

A leading PropTech entrepreneur has written to MPs outlining detailed plans that he believes would ensure the controversial Renters Reform Bill...

Proposals for rent controls made in a government consultation document have been slammed by a prominent industry commentator and PropTech entrepreneur. The...

The apparent rise and rise of Belvoir Group is down to its resilient business model and the entrepreneurs who run its...

Franchise giant Winkworth is opening a new office in West Hampstead, extending its north London footprint from existing offices in neighbouring...

The head of one of the country’s highest profile franchise agency empires says the self-employed ethos of some advisers and entrepreneurial...

Huddersfield entrepreneur Chan Khangura has added another specialist lettings agency to his portfolio. With his father Kashmir he fought off tough competition...

LSL Property Services - owners of the Your Move and Reeds Rain brands - is to franchise its entire network of...

After announcing a new license in Southwark and Camberwell earlier this month Fine & Country is now expanding further in London...

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

Belvoir Group is continuing its long term success record but warns that the Liz Truss mini-Budget is still having a detrimental...

A Belvoir branch has made its fifth acquisition - and this time it’s a neighbouring Belvoir office whose owners were retiring. Nathan...

The new Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, has been welcomed by the agency establishment - even though some may be wondering how long...

The Knight Frank lettings and estate agency is warning that it expects house prices to fall in 2023. Tom Bill, its head...

Another small independent agency has been snapped up by a Belvoir franchisee. The Lettings Company has been acquired by Belvoir Tunbridge Wells,...

A high profile PropTech entrepreneur is amongst a series of investors linked to a new fund, launched today, cashing in on...

A PropTech platform that boasts 200 letting agents and landlords amongst its current clientele has won over £500,000 in additional funding...

The sweeping reforms for the private rental sector announced by the government at the end of last week do not go...

Agents running their own businesses but attracted to the advantages of a corporate are being targeted by a new Business Integration...

The founder of a leading letting agency coaching organisation has won a coveted international award. Agent Rainmaker was set up by Sally...

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

PropTech company Homeppl has launched two products that it calls “revolutionary fraud detection tools” for letting agents. One of the two technologies...

A new property management platform seeking support form letting agents claims to be the ‘Airbnb for shared living’. Vann Vogstad, the entrepreneur...

A Winkworth franchisee has opened his fourth office in the same region in four years. Jamie Moore has opened a new office...

There are fewer than 70 tickets left for December 7's rescheduled 25th ARLA Propertymark Conference and Exhibition. Originally due to take place in...

A new bank called Monument is aiming at property investors and established buy to let landlords seeking to grow their portfolios. Its...

It’s been announced that UK Sotheby’s International Realty has secured tenants for 20 apartments in record time at Embassy Gardens, a...

A Labour council leader has hit after being attacked for his support for buy to let and property investment. Last week we...

A letter from a tenant’s union is demanding that a Labour councillor “publicly explain” his actions as an accountant advising investors...

Winkworth says its London rental activities have suffered because of a lack of international travel, and students and young professionals returning to...

The extension of the furlough scheme might be an indirect saviour for many lettings agencies says a leading PropTech entrepreneur. Neil Cobbold,...

Letting agents should help landlords through a blizzard of red tape and regulation cause by local licensing schemes, a PropTech entrepreneur...

Today is the start of the official Christmas eviction ban ‘truce’ in the private rental sector - and it continues until...

A property entrepreneur critical of the quality of traditional buy to let says the government should create a Minister for Renting...

The business model underpinning most lettings agencies is set to change fundamentally if there is the much-anticipated second wave of Coronavirus. That’s...

A leading PropTech entrepreneur is warning agents to prepare for increased rent arrears from as soon as next month. Neil Cobbold, chief...

There’s a warning that buy to let investors will simply hold on to properties and not sell them if rumoured Capital...

The UK’s largest property franchise group says the current Coronavirus crisis shows precisely how robust its franchise business model is. In a...

A former estate agent who has set up an online platform giving information on property values for London renters and buyers...

Airbnb and similar platforms have seen a collapse of business since the start of the Coronavirus crisis with some 70 per...

Councils that have been awarded additional cash injections by government could use their windfalls to enhance their enforcement of the private...

Letting agents can beat the upcoming ban on Section 21 by updating key documentation and automating arrears management to reduce the...

If letting agents want more satisfied clients and fewer disputes they should provide better information to tenants. That’s the view of PropTech...

The London Airbnb property management company previously known as AirAgents, has rebranded as Nestor. Established in 2015, AirAgents went on to win...

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

Belvoir has confirmed that its Brighton franchisees have acquired the independent Homelets agency in the town - for a cool £1m. Existing...

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

North east agency My Property Box has announced it has merged with Sandersons Lettings, the firm which gave its founder his...

A call has been made for the best letting agencies and other rental sector professionals to show how they comply with...

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

Fergus Wilson, arguably Britain’s most controversial landlord and almost certainly the individual with the largest number of buy to lets in...

The mandatory Client Money Protection scheme membership that comes into effect today will protect landlords and tenants from letting agents that...

The tenants’ fees ban coming into effect from June 1 could help traditional lettings agents keep their place on High Streets,...

A leading PropTech exponent is supporting the government’s Housing Court initiative, suggesting it could make redress for agents, landlords and tenants...

A leading PropTech entrepreneur says letting agents must provide value for their landlord clients through technology, transparency and service if they...

Increased use of PropTech by letting agents can cut rent arrears, minimise voids and reduce the financial and legal fall out...

A leading PropTech entrepreneur says agents who accept that the lettings fee ban is coming and who plan positively for its...

The agency industry has reacted in a broadly downbeat way at the relatively few housing-related proposals that were announced in yesterday’s...

A PropTech entrepreneur says all agents would benefit from the introduction of more automation, but that those with student tenants may...

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

The emerging Proptech platform BestAgent has announced its latest partnership - this one is with InventoryBase, a software supplier which has...

A lettings agency has teamed up with a university to give young students an insight into how small businesses operate. Priestley’s, a...

A leading PropTech entrepreneur says lettings agents should be more vocal in providing the government with feedback on council rental licensing...

Air Agents, a London Airbnb Management company, has signed what it calls “a significant investment deal” with BBC Dragon’s Den entrepreneur...

Channel 4’s hit comedy Stath Lets Flats shows the funny side of running a lettings agency but one of the country’s...

Propio, another crowdfunding platform, has launched with the ambitious claim of expecting returns from residential investments of between six and 15...

A leading PropTech entrepreneur has renewed his call for letting agents to use more technology to clean up their act when...

A leading PropTech entrepreneur says he welcomes reforms currently moving through Parliament to professionalise the lettings sector - but he wants...

The government says that later this year it will allocate a further £1.4m to PropTech firms looking at how tenants’ rent...

PropTech repairs company Fixflo has appointed digital guru Michael Murphy as non-executive chairman. Murphy has previously worked in high-growth and digital subscription...

A new website called Vesta has launched aiming to sell investment properties with tenants in place.  The team behind the site describe...

The chief operating officer of a leading PropTech company says government proposals to increase mandatory licensing of Houses in Multiple Occupation...

The troubled PropTech firm Goodlord - which creates software to allow tenancies to be handled on a single system - has...

The government is offering £2m to budding PropTech and financial technology entrepreneurs who can develop an application that will enable Britain’s 11...

Property investment platform LendInvest has raised £50m thanks to the over-subscription of its first retail bond, launched on the London Stock...

One of the world’s largest ‘temporary furnished accommodation’ specialists is reported to have £20m to spend on renting property to re-let...

The rural agency team at Bidwells says it is concerned the Conservative government may - by accident or design - be...

The property crowdfunding platform The House Crowd - which was the subject of derision by the entrepreneurs on TV’s Dragon’s Den...

Former Conservative cabinet minister Michael Portillo and the woman behind one of the world’s most successful fragrance brands, Jo Malone, are...

A web portal which radically changes the way investors search for their next investment property has signed up 5,000 agents, less...