The Acorn Group has opened its 40th branch - and it says it’s on the look-out for new acquisitions, including those...
Archive

The largest operator in London for the niche co-living sector has doubled the size of its portfolio in the east of...
20 May 2022
From: Breaking News

A PropTech business just acquired by Iamproperty is warning agents to take advantage of what it calls the digital revolution. Openview -...
08 April 2022
From: Breaking News

Another new Build To Rent scheme has been announced by Grainger. Launching next month, the 158-unit Gilders Yard scheme sits on the...
07 April 2022
From: Breaking News

A fast-expanding PropTech business has opened a new office in London to serve a growing client base in the capital and...
01 April 2022
From: Breaking News

A service which describes itself as Europe’s “largest end-to-end rental accommodation marketplace” has announced a new acquisition. Housing Anywhere has acquired a...
16 February 2022
From: Breaking News

Online agency Hortons, which operates its sales activities across five countries, has opened a lettings department. The new service will initially be...
10 February 2022
From: Breaking News

Franchise estate agency chain Winkworth has expanded its presence in prime south west London with the opening of a new Wimbledon office. The new...
09 February 2022
From: Breaking News

Another report is talking up the Build To Rent niche in the British rental market. Sirius Property Finance has compiled BTR sector...
25 January 2022
From: Breaking News

A Winkworth franchisee has opened his fourth office in the same region in four years. Jamie Moore has opened a new office...
24 January 2022
From: Breaking News

A generally upbeat trading statement from franchise agency giant Winkworth reports that prime London’s rental market’s long term return to normality...
13 January 2022
From: Breaking News

A report from the House of Lords has condemned the private rental sector as being ”increasingly unaffordable” as well as being...
11 January 2022
From: Breaking News

A successful lettings and sales agency in Birmingham has doubled in size in its first year of business. Davidson Estates, which has...
10 January 2022
From: Breaking News

An agency which has been operating for over 160 years has moved to a large and modern new headquarters. Leeds-based Adair Paxton...
06 January 2022
From: Breaking News

Spicerhaart has announced two new lettings directors to support its £30m expansion programme. Liam Davorn, 57, has 30 years in the profession...
08 December 2021
From: Breaking News

Spicerhaart says some 600 hopefuls turned up for a series of recruitment days in three parts of the country. Around a third...
01 December 2021
From: Breaking News

A lettings platform set up by a 24 year old is today announcing an expansion from its Bristol start up to...
26 November 2021
From: Breaking News

A prominent consultancy advising the Build To Rent sector has identified one British city as the prime location for investment in 2022. BNP...
25 November 2021
From: Breaking News

An agent who six months ago expanded his franchise empire to four branches has now added a fifth. Craig Pearson, who opened the...
17 November 2021
From: Breaking News

Home, the property website that publishes an authoritative market snapshot for lettings and sales each month, says the long-standing supply drought...
16 November 2021
From: Breaking News

The London and South East property group Stirling Ackroyd - which recently rebranded from its former title, Nick Dunning Associates -...
15 November 2021
From: Breaking News

A trading statement from franchise agency Winkworth has revealed that its network now derives 75 per cent of its revenue from...
12 November 2021
From: Breaking News

A brand within the fast-expanding Lomond Group has sealed its second acquisition within a fortnight, adding a further 200 properties to...
04 November 2021
From: Breaking News

A property consultancy says it’s identified the next ‘landmine’ in the building safety saga facing agents and landlords around the country. Mary-Anne...
01 September 2021
From: Breaking News

Californian PropTech firm Trov, specialising in digital insurance for tenants, has announced a deal with major UK rental companies. The deal is...
21 July 2021
From: Breaking News

Midlands estate agency Webb’s is expanding its operations after opening a new office in Lichfield city centre. The agency already has offices in Cannock,...
21 July 2021
From: Breaking News

A politician in one of the poorest parts of the UK wants his local authority to declare a ‘housing emergency’. Cornish councillor...
23 June 2021
From: Breaking News

A proposal for one of the country’s largest ever private rental sector licensing schemes has gone out to consultation. Manchester’s Labour council...
22 June 2021
From: Breaking News

Independent agency Hardisty And Co has acquired a fourth branch in Leeds. It will be headed up by former owner and office...
09 June 2021
From: Breaking News

North London agency Home Minders has acquired independent lettings and sales business Alan Goldin Estates. This transaction is Home Minder’s third acquisition,...
21 May 2021
From: Breaking News

The highest profile agency in the big-spending Lomond Group has sealed a trio of deals in the first week of April...
07 May 2021
From: Breaking News

An agency which has for the past 11 years specialised in south west London is now expanding with a new office...
07 May 2021
From: Breaking News
/Andy-Burnham-LAbour-400x310.png)
Greater Manchester’s Labour Mayor, Andy Burnham, says he wants to clamp down on the private rental sector. In his manifesto for next month’s...
19 April 2021
From: Breaking News

Letting agency My Property Box is moving into property sales as part of a significant expansion of its business. The decision follows...
07 April 2021
From: Breaking News

Real estate as an industry has remained unchallenged throughout all of these years. For the industry worth more than 217 trillion...
19 March 2021
From: Sponsored Content

Propertymark - embracing the Association of Residential Letting Agents as well as sales agents, auctioneers and valuers - says it’s been...
18 March 2021
From: Breaking News

LSL Property Services has secured new banking arrangements with a £90m revolving credit facility in anticipation of what it calls “attractive...
25 February 2021
From: Breaking News

HousingAnywhere, a rental platform specialising in accommodation for young professionals and students, has raised some €24m for further expansion. The service covers some UK...
04 February 2021
From: Breaking News

Scottish commercial property firm Bowman Rebecchi has announced an expansion into the residential letting sector with the Glasgow-based agency Newton Letting. Bowman...
04 December 2020
From: Breaking News

A hybrid lettings and sales agency in one of the most exclusive parts of Britain has opened a second office. Bonds, which...
02 December 2020
From: Breaking News

A prominent lettings agent and property management expert says the industry has been reluctant to recognise the increasing trend of consumers...
06 November 2020
From: Breaking News

Belvoir has opened its third office in Swansea - but like other agency branches in Wales, it’s set to close for...
21 October 2020
From: Breaking News

A Czech-based PropTech firm called Flatio says it’s entering the UK market and aims to have at least 10,000 properties listed...
14 October 2020
From: Breaking News

A growing residential estate management company has committed its future to office-working after moving to a new boutique space in Birmingham. Principle...
17 September 2020
From: Breaking News

Scottish agency Tay Letting is set for expansion into Dundee and its surrounding areas with the acquisition of Lickley Proctor Lettings. Just...
09 September 2020
From: Breaking News

Whilst Estate and Letting Agents have adapted their operations during COVID-19, to ensure safer working practices under Government guidance, ‘virtual property...
03 September 2020
From: Sponsored Content

The splendidly named East Midlands lettings agency Monkey vs Owl - known as MOVO - has opened a second office. Its first,...
24 July 2020
From: Breaking News

Specialist letting agent My Property Box has teamed up with a private equity firm to go on the acquisition trail. The Darlington-headquartered...
03 July 2020
From: Breaking News

It’s been revealed that a legal group is considering how courts will consider eviction cases when the current ban is lifted...
17 June 2020
From: Breaking News

A lettings sector website claims 40 per cent of tenants have seen their ability to pay full or in some cases...
15 April 2020
From: Breaking News

Franchise giant Winkworth has expanded its presence in Reading with the acquisition of a local independent lettings agency. It’s snapped up AMPM,...
19 March 2020
From: Breaking News

A prominent member of the House of Lords has given a surprising insight into how the fiscal and regulatory clampdown on...
30 January 2020
From: Breaking News

Investment into the purpose-built Build To Rent sector in the UK dropped significantly last year. Some £273.8m was invested in the fourth...
17 January 2020
From: Breaking News

Darlington-based My Property Box has welcomed five new members of staff to its team who between them have amassed more than...
07 January 2020
From: Breaking News

Haart is trying to shift the mood music around the private rental sector from challenging to celebratory, saying there is plenty...
13 December 2019
From: Breaking News

Fast-growing Yorkshire agency Linley & Simpson has opened a new office in Leeds after acquiring a long-standing lettings firm. Snapping up Morgans...
04 December 2019
From: Breaking News

High-profile property management firm DJ Alexander is set for expansion following a £7m investment from Santander. The capital funding package will be...
22 November 2019
From: Breaking News

Flat-sharing website Ideal Flatmate has raised £2m in a funding round in order to expand to seven new cities in the...
20 November 2019
From: Breaking News

One of West Sussex’s largest agencies, Michael Jones & Company, has acquired an independent rival as part of a move to...
16 October 2019
From: Breaking News

The Leaders Romans Group has announced an acquisition to mark further expansion into the corporate lettings and block management market. The agency...
11 October 2019
From: Breaking News

An agency that specialises in letting and managing properties in one of the country’s investment hotspots is expanding into a new...
27 September 2019
From: Breaking News

Franchise giant Hunters is continuing its expansion with the acquisition of Forte Lettings & Property Management, an independent in Exeter. The Devon...
26 September 2019
From: Breaking News

High profile eviction company Landlord Action says as many as 50 per cent of Section 21 cases it handles involve tenants...
23 September 2019
From: Breaking News

An independent previously known as Adams Estate Agents has rebranded as Hunters as the franchise giant’s expansion programme continues. The office is...
11 September 2019
From: Breaking News

What is your business? Bonds Estate Agents, the modern hybrid agent bridging the gap between the traditional high street agent and online...
15 August 2019
From: 60 Second Interview

Manchester-based agency Ascend has revealed it’s now taken over the management of a Build To Rent fund’s portfolio of almost 1,000...
08 August 2019
From: Breaking News

Legal & General, one of the largest specialist builders of so-called retirement communities for the over-55s, is now going to let...
26 July 2019
From: Breaking News

A property education business says it’s targeting a major expansion with the launch of online additions to its nationwide courses in...
26 July 2019
From: Breaking News

A platform which works with independent lettings agents and Build To Rent operators says it is linking them to provide mutual...
25 July 2019
From: Breaking News

Rents are rising at the fastest rate since 2017, pushing the average yield on residential property to 4.5 per cent, its...
12 July 2019
From: Breaking News

A former footballer's estate agency has completed the first stage of its expansion programme with an acquisition. Hamilton Bower, co-founded by ex-Bradford...
08 July 2019
From: Breaking News

There will be less buy to let remortgaging in future as landlords consolidate rather than expand their portfolios. The prediction comes from...
11 April 2019
From: Breaking News

A survey of 500 buy to let landlords suggests that well over a third are planning to increase the size of...
25 March 2019
From: Breaking News

More than a third of landlords are looking to cut their annual spending - and many of them are considering ending...
08 March 2019
From: Breaking News

A controversial Labour-controlled local authority which already has 91 per cent of its private rental properties inside licensing schemes is now...
17 January 2019
From: Breaking News

Hunters has announced its first business expansion of 2019 with the acquisition of what it calls “a significant lettings book.” The acquisition...
10 January 2019
From: Breaking News

The agency industry has reacted in a broadly downbeat way at the relatively few housing-related proposals that were announced in yesterday’s...
30 October 2018
From: Breaking News

The number of buy to let lenders lending to limited companies has risen by 47 per cent over the past year,...
25 October 2018
From: Breaking News

The proportion of buy to let investors looking to remortgage is now at an all-time high according to respected specialist mortgage...
24 October 2018
From: Breaking News

One of London’s most respected lettings agencies says it’s recorded its best-ever quarter for business - defying claims from some that...
23 October 2018
From: Breaking News

A branch of Martin & Co has substantially boosted its managed portfolio following the acquisition of independent agency County Rentals. The goodwill...
17 October 2018
From: Breaking News

Another short let management firm, set up in the wake of an explosion of Airbnb-style renting by amateurs and professionals, is...
17 September 2018
From: Breaking News

Fast-growing regional Yorkshire agency Linley & Simpson has announced the details of two new acquisitions. It has picked up the lettings books...
07 September 2018
From: Breaking News

An agency claims that the acquisition of a competitor’s lettings department has allowed it to save two companies, avoid cutbacks and...
31 August 2018
From: Breaking News

A private equity company has made a £10m investment in Yorkshire estate agency Linley & Simpson to fund further expansion. Founded by...
02 July 2018
From: Breaking News

Airsorted, one of a number of management services that have sprung up to cater for hosts using Airbnb and similar platforms,...
06 June 2018
From: Breaking News

There’s been a big rise in the proportion of landlords remortgaging according to one of the sector’s most prominent lenders, Paragon. In...
31 May 2018
From: Breaking News

The UK’s largest franchise agency has secured funding which it will use to strengthen its growth and acquisition strategy. Belvoir has secured...
21 May 2018
From: Breaking News

A new survey appears to buck the trend of recent rental market snapshots by showing that buy to let investors are...
18 April 2018
From: Breaking News

Airsorted, which describes itself as “the world’s largest hosting management service” says it has secured £5m in funding to expand. Airsorted provides...
14 March 2018
From: Breaking News

No fewer than 44 per cent of landlords plan to expand their portfolios before July 2018 despite tax obstacles, according to...
09 February 2018
From: Breaking News

Build To Rent developer and operator PLATFORM_ has announced its first scheme in Scotland and an expansion of an existing development...
09 February 2018
From: Breaking News

Two of the leaders of PropTech company Goodlord have revealed some of the issues that this month drove the company to...
30 January 2018
From: Breaking News

The chairman of the Residential Landlords Association has written in the Labour-supporting New Statesman magazine about the need for the lettings...
22 January 2018
From: Breaking News

A digital start-up that uses algorithms to match the requirements of landlords against the entire buy to let mortgage market of...
16 January 2018
From: Breaking News

A company which already runs a student accommodation lettings service online is to expand and open a general online lettings agency...
18 August 2017
From: Breaking News

Connells Group is expanding its head office functions with a further office in Bedfordshire to provide ”capacity for planned business growth...
30 June 2017
From: Breaking News

Belvoir is recruiting more central office staff to support franchisees, with a 40 per cent increase in workers at the company's...
29 June 2017
From: Breaking News

Leaders has returned to ther acquisition trail with its purchase of a local agency in Nottingham. Leaders has snapped up Bulmer Estates,...
22 June 2017
From: Breaking News

The firm run by former Countrywide lettings director Nick Dunning has announced the details of its latest acquisition. Nick Dunning Associates has...
14 June 2017
From: Breaking News

A growing sales and lettings agency in Leeds has announced the recruitment of nine new members of staff. Morgans, which describes itself...
13 June 2017
From: Breaking News

A growing agency has appointed a new lettings team and is aiming to compete with its successful residential sales division. Heywoods, the...
12 June 2017
From: Breaking News

A US firm that is believed to want a slice of the UK’s growing short-lets market has made a key business...
12 April 2017
From: Breaking News

Online agency OpenRent has secured a £4.4 million investment to help grow its offering. The agency, which was founded in 2012, says...
07 March 2017
From: Breaking News

Jackson-Stops & Staff has surprised the industry by announcing its expansion into holiday lettings. The agency’s Sherborne branch is expanding its residential...
02 March 2017
From: Breaking News

The head of MartinCo, the country’s largest franchise agency group, says the government’s buy to let tax changes and lettings fee...
03 February 2017
From: Breaking News

One of the world’s largest ‘temporary furnished accommodation’ specialists is reported to have £20m to spend on renting property to re-let...
03 February 2017
From: Breaking News

A Scottish agency group has announced that it has acquired a lettings business in order to move into the short-term lettings...
24 January 2017
From: Breaking News

Following a period of substantial growth, Property Service Holdings (PSH) - which operates Leaders and Romans - has a huge variety of...
24 November 2016
From: Sponsored Content

Yorkshire letting agency Linley & Simpson has announced the acquisition of one of its competitors. The agency has taken over the rental...
16 September 2016
From: Breaking News

An East Midlands estate agency has opened its third lettings office, saying the rental market has 'defied expectations'. Richard Watkinson and Partners,...
16 September 2016
From: Breaking News

The UK's largest franchise agency has expanded into the Orkney Islands. Belvoir's Amjed Rasul, owner of its Inverness franchise, has acquired Orkney...
13 September 2016
From: Breaking News

Connells has appointed a new lettings area manager for Essex and Suffolk. Tracey Dumont, who has over 17 years in the industry,...
17 August 2016
From: Breaking News

Government policy is making it harder than ever for benefits claimants and the homeless to rent homes, according to a new...
26 July 2016
From: Breaking News

Cambridge-based agency Bidwells is expanding its lettings division. The lettings team has grown from eight to 10 professionals thanks to the recent...
24 June 2016
From: Breaking News

A management buy out appears to be on the cards for Spark Energy, an energy supplier to the lettings and social...
15 June 2016
From: Breaking News

A new report claims that over a third of student property investors plan to expand their portfolios in 2016, despite the...
07 June 2016
From: Breaking News

A London estate and letting agency has announced the appointment of 19 new members of staff as a result of a...
03 June 2016
From: Breaking News

A letting agency in Hampshire has doubled in size after acquiring one of its competitors. LetCo, a four branch agency working across...
01 June 2016
From: Breaking News

One of the country's largest franchise agencies has announced that it is opening nine new offices. Belvoir has recently launched branches in...
31 May 2016
From: Breaking News

National estate agency chain Leaders has announced the acquisition of two property businesses in the north of England. Yesterday it took over...
27 May 2016
From: Breaking News

A firm which claims to be London's fastest growing letting agency has opened its fifteenth branch. Benham & Reeves Residential Lettings' latest...
23 May 2016
From: Breaking News

Connells Group has acquired another letting agency - Touchstone Residential Lettings, which has nine offices in Kent, Buckinghamshire and the west country. TRL's...
09 May 2016
From: Breaking News

The Romans Group has snapped up Handovers in Guildford, another acquisition using its £30m facility for expansion purchases. Handovers is now fully-incorporated...
06 May 2016
From: Breaking News

Connells Residential Lettings has announced three new lettings area managers to grow its central division offering, covering Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Wiltshire, Berkshire...
03 May 2016
From: Breaking News

Publicly quoted property franchise giant MartinCo has reported strong figures to the City with group revenue up 38 per cent and...
06 April 2016
From: Breaking News

Property software firm VTUK has announced the appointment of a new sales director in response to 'increased demand for automation'. Ian Mclaughlin...
16 March 2016
From: Breaking News

A fledgling estate agency has announced its entrance into the lettings market, despite the uncertainty currently surrounding the sector. Hibbert Homes, which...
14 March 2016
From: Breaking News

L&Q has launched its programme to create 5,000 new homes for the Build To Rent sector in London and south east...
21 January 2016
From: Breaking News

Connells Group says it wants an additional six lettings offices to add to its Barnard Marcus brand in London this year. It...
06 January 2016
From: Breaking News

Oxford-based agency Finders Keepers is opening a new office in the Headington area of the city. The new branch marks a return...
22 December 2015
From: Breaking News

Rendall & Rittner, which currently manages 40,000 residential properties for institutions and developers, is opening a new office as part of...
10 November 2015
From: Breaking News

Who are you? Ellie Hall. What does it say on your business card? Head of Acquisitions. You're on the hunt for acquisitions, what makes a...
26 October 2015
From: 60 Second Interview

Countrywide chief executive Alison Platt has said the acquisition of best-in-class urban-based lettings agencies will be a major plank of her...
23 October 2015
From: Breaking News

Another independent sales and lettings agency group has been snapped up by Belvoir, which takes it over the 200-office threshold. The 16-office...
06 October 2015
From: Breaking News

Agency chain Hunters Group plc is to issue shares worth £100,000 to fund the acquistion of a lettings book. This is the...
29 September 2015
From: Breaking News

Fast-growing agency chain Leaders has two new lettings and sales offices with the acquisition of Aidan J Reed's Leicestershire outlets in...
28 September 2015
From: Breaking News

Watch the latest weekly video round-up of news from Estate Agent Today and Letting Agent Today, featuring stories on expansion for...
25 September 2015
From: Video Articles

The Council for Mortgage Lenders is warning the government not to interfere with the Buy To Let sector in such a...
23 September 2015
From: Breaking News

Romans Group has made yet another acquisition - this time it is letting agency Gregory & Company in Windsor. This is in...
23 September 2015
From: Breaking News

Countrywide has snapped up another independent letting agency - this time it is Thomas C Adams in Chester which has become...
28 August 2015
From: Breaking News

Flat fees, of the kind now offered by many online letting and sales agencies, will become the norm in the industry...
13 August 2015
From: Breaking News

Watch the latest weekly video roundup of news from Estate Agent Today and Letting Agent Today, featuring stories on complaints lodged...
03 July 2015
From: Video Articles

The Bank of England says excessive lending to fund buy to let purchases could pose a risk to the financial well-being...
02 July 2015
From: Breaking News

A letting agency chain is claiming to be London’s largest independent letting agent after opening its 13th office. Benham & Reeves Residential...
09 June 2015
From: Breaking News

Sales and lettings agency Jones & Chapman - part of the Sequence network - has snapped up the Liverpool arm of...
21 May 2015
From: Breaking News

Countrywide Residential Lettings has announced another expansion with the purchase of PIP Lettings in the East Midlands. Countrywide says this another step...
18 May 2015
From: Breaking News

Belvoir Lettings, one of the UK's largest agency franchises, is continuing its expansion programme with three new offices. Rayson Wilshaw, a sales...
18 May 2015
From: Breaking News

There has been much debate in recent years about Britain’s desperate need for more housing stock. Demand has been outstripping supply...
15 May 2015
From: Features

The general election result was greeted with a sigh of relief throughout the lettings industry. Thanks to the Conservatives' victory, the threat...
15 May 2015
From: Sponsored Content

Gentrification is a divisive, provocative issue, but why are estate agents (especially Foxtons) appearing to bear the brunt of the public’s...
06 May 2015
From: Features

Leaders’ acquisition and expansion programme continues apace, snapping up another agency in a new area - Nottinghamshire. Leaders this week acquired lettings...