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A property consultancy says it’s identified the next ‘landmine’ in the building safety saga facing agents and landlords around the country. Mary-Anne...

Californian PropTech firm Trov, specialising in digital insurance for tenants, has announced a deal with major UK rental companies.  The deal is...

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,...

A politician in one of the poorest parts of the UK wants his local authority to declare a ‘housing emergency’. Cornish councillor...

A proposal for one of the country’s largest ever private rental sector licensing schemes has gone out to consultation. Manchester’s Labour council...

Independent agency Hardisty And Co has acquired a fourth branch in Leeds. It will be headed up by former owner and office...

North London agency Home Minders has acquired independent lettings and sales business Alan Goldin Estates. This transaction is Home Minder’s third acquisition,...

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

An agency which has for the past 11 years specialised in south west London is now expanding with a new office...

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...

Letting agency My Property Box is moving into property sales as part of a significant expansion of its business. The decision follows...

Real estate as an industry has remained unchallenged throughout all of these years. For the industry worth more than 217 trillion...

Propertymark - embracing the Association of Residential Letting Agents as well as sales agents, auctioneers and valuers - says it’s been...

LSL Property Services has secured new banking arrangements with a £90m revolving credit facility in anticipation of what it calls “attractive...

HousingAnywhere, a rental platform specialising in accommodation for young professionals and students, has raised some €24m for further expansion. The service covers some UK...

Scottish commercial property firm Bowman Rebecchi has announced an expansion into the residential letting sector with the Glasgow-based agency Newton Letting. Bowman...

A hybrid lettings and sales agency in one of the most exclusive parts of Britain has opened a second office.  Bonds, which...

A prominent lettings agent and property management expert says the industry has been reluctant to recognise the increasing trend of consumers...

Belvoir has opened its third office in Swansea - but like other agency branches in Wales, it’s set to close for...

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

A growing residential estate management company has committed its future to office-working after moving to a new boutique space in Birmingham. Principle...

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

Whilst Estate and Letting Agents have adapted their operations during COVID-19, to ensure safer working practices under Government guidance, ‘virtual property...

The splendidly named East Midlands lettings agency Monkey vs Owl - known as MOVO - has opened a second office. Its first,...

Specialist letting agent My Property Box has teamed up with a private equity firm to go on the acquisition trail. The Darlington-headquartered...

It’s been revealed that a legal group is considering how courts will consider eviction cases when the current ban is lifted...

A lettings sector website claims 40 per cent of tenants have seen their ability to pay full or in some cases...

Franchise giant Winkworth has expanded its presence in Reading with the acquisition of a local independent lettings agency. It’s snapped up AMPM,...

A prominent member of the House of Lords has given a surprising insight into how the fiscal and regulatory clampdown on...

Investment into the purpose-built Build To Rent sector in the UK dropped significantly last year. Some £273.8m was invested in the fourth...

Darlington-based My Property Box has welcomed five new members of staff to its team who between them have amassed more than...

Haart is trying to shift the mood music around the private rental sector from challenging to celebratory, saying there is plenty...

Fast-growing Yorkshire agency Linley & Simpson has opened a new office in Leeds after acquiring a long-standing lettings firm. Snapping up Morgans...

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

Flat-sharing website Ideal Flatmate has raised £2m in a funding round in order to expand to seven new cities in the...

One of West Sussex’s largest agencies, Michael Jones & Company, has acquired an independent rival as part of a move to...

The Leaders Romans Group has announced an acquisition to mark further expansion into the corporate lettings and block management market. The agency...

An agency that specialises in letting and managing properties in one of the country’s investment hotspots is expanding into a new...

Franchise giant Hunters is continuing its expansion with the acquisition of Forte Lettings & Property Management, an independent in Exeter. The Devon...

High profile eviction company Landlord Action says as many as 50 per cent of Section 21 cases it handles involve tenants...

An independent previously known as Adams Estate Agents has rebranded as Hunters as the franchise giant’s expansion programme continues. The office is...

What is your business?    Bonds Estate Agents, the modern hybrid agent bridging the gap between the traditional high street agent and online...

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...

Legal & General, one of the largest specialist builders of so-called retirement communities for the over-55s, is now going to let...

A property education business says it’s targeting a major expansion with the launch of online additions to its nationwide courses in...

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

Rents are rising at the fastest rate since 2017, pushing the average yield on residential property to 4.5 per cent, its...

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...

There will be less buy to let remortgaging in future as landlords consolidate rather than expand their portfolios. The prediction comes from...

A survey of 500 buy to let landlords suggests that well over a third are planning to increase the size of...

More than a third of landlords are looking to cut their annual spending - and many of them are considering ending...

A controversial Labour-controlled local authority which already has 91 per cent of its private rental properties inside licensing schemes is now...

Hunters has announced its first business expansion of 2019 with the acquisition of what it calls “a significant lettings book.” The acquisition...

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

The number of buy to let lenders lending to limited companies has risen by 47 per cent over the past year,...

The proportion of buy to let investors looking to remortgage is now at an all-time high according to respected specialist mortgage...

One of London’s most respected lettings agencies says it’s recorded its best-ever quarter for business - defying claims from some that...

A branch of Martin & Co has substantially boosted its managed portfolio following the acquisition of independent agency County Rentals. The goodwill...

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

Fast-growing regional Yorkshire agency Linley & Simpson has announced the details of two new acquisitions. It has picked up the lettings books...

An agency claims that the acquisition of a competitor’s lettings department has allowed it to save two companies, avoid cutbacks and...

A private equity company has made a £10m investment in Yorkshire estate agency Linley & Simpson to fund further expansion. Founded by...

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

There’s been a big rise in the proportion of landlords remortgaging according to one of the sector’s most prominent lenders, Paragon. In...

The UK’s largest franchise agency has secured funding which it will use to strengthen its growth and acquisition strategy. Belvoir has secured...

A new survey appears to buck the trend of recent rental market snapshots by showing that buy to let investors are...

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

No fewer than 44 per cent of landlords plan to expand their portfolios before July 2018 despite tax obstacles, according to...

Build To Rent developer and operator PLATFORM_ has announced its first scheme in Scotland and an expansion of an existing development...

Two of the leaders of PropTech company Goodlord have revealed some of the issues that this month drove the company to...

The chairman of the Residential Landlords Association has written in the Labour-supporting New Statesman magazine about the need for the lettings...

A digital start-up that uses algorithms to match the requirements of landlords against the entire buy to let mortgage market of...

A company which already runs a student accommodation lettings service online is to expand and open a general online lettings agency...

Connells Group is expanding its head office functions with a further office in Bedfordshire to provide ”capacity for planned business growth...

Belvoir is recruiting more central office staff to support franchisees, with a 40 per cent increase in workers at the company's...

Leaders has returned to ther acquisition trail with its purchase of a local agency in Nottingham.   Leaders has snapped up Bulmer Estates,...

The firm run by former Countrywide lettings director Nick Dunning has announced the details of its latest acquisition. Nick Dunning Associates has...

A growing sales and lettings agency in Leeds has announced the recruitment of nine new members of staff. Morgans, which describes itself...

A growing agency has appointed a new lettings team and is aiming to compete with its successful residential sales division. Heywoods, the...

A US firm that is believed to want a slice of the UK’s growing short-lets market has made a key business...

Online agency OpenRent has secured a £4.4 million investment to help grow its offering. The agency, which was founded in 2012, says...

Jackson-Stops & Staff has surprised the industry by announcing its expansion into holiday lettings.    The agency’s Sherborne branch is expanding its residential...

The head of MartinCo, the country’s largest franchise agency group, says the government’s buy to let tax changes and lettings fee...

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

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

Following a period of substantial growth, Property Service Holdings (PSH) - which operates Leaders and Romans - has a huge variety of...

Yorkshire letting agency Linley & Simpson has announced the acquisition of one of its competitors.  The agency has taken over the rental...

An East Midlands estate agency has opened its third lettings office, saying the rental market has 'defied expectations'. Richard Watkinson and Partners,...

The UK's largest franchise agency has expanded into the Orkney Islands.  Belvoir's Amjed Rasul, owner of its Inverness franchise, has acquired Orkney...

Connells has appointed a new lettings area manager for Essex and Suffolk.    Tracey Dumont, who has over 17 years in the industry,...

Government policy is making it harder than ever for benefits claimants and the homeless to rent homes, according to a new...

Cambridge-based agency Bidwells is expanding its lettings division.  The lettings team has grown from eight to 10 professionals thanks to the recent...

A management buy out appears to be on the cards for Spark Energy, an energy supplier to the lettings and social...

A new report claims that over a third of student property investors plan to expand their portfolios in 2016, despite the...

A London estate and letting agency has announced the appointment of 19 new members of staff as a result of a...

A letting agency in Hampshire has doubled in size after acquiring one of its competitors. LetCo, a four branch agency working across...

One of the country's largest franchise agencies has announced that it is opening nine new offices.  Belvoir has recently launched branches in...

National estate agency chain Leaders has announced the acquisition of two property businesses in the north of England. Yesterday it took over...

A firm which claims to be London's fastest growing letting agency has opened its fifteenth branch. Benham & Reeves Residential Lettings' latest...

Connells Group has acquired another letting agency - Touchstone Residential Lettings, which has nine offices in Kent, Buckinghamshire and the west country. TRL's...

The Romans Group has snapped up Handovers in Guildford, another acquisition using its £30m facility for expansion purchases. Handovers is now fully-incorporated...

Connells Residential Lettings has announced three new lettings area managers to grow its central division offering, covering Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Wiltshire, Berkshire...

Publicly quoted property franchise giant MartinCo has reported strong figures to the City with group revenue up 38 per cent and...

Property software firm VTUK has announced the appointment of a new sales director in response to 'increased demand for automation'. Ian Mclaughlin...

A fledgling estate agency has announced its entrance into the lettings market, despite the uncertainty currently surrounding the sector. Hibbert Homes, which...

L&Q has launched its programme to create 5,000 new homes for the Build To Rent sector in London and south east...

Connells Group says it wants an additional six lettings offices to add to its Barnard Marcus brand in London this year.  It...

Oxford-based agency Finders Keepers is opening a new office in the Headington area of the city.  The new branch marks a return...

Rendall & Rittner, which currently manages 40,000 residential properties for institutions and developers, is opening a new office as part of...

  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...

Countrywide chief executive Alison Platt has said the acquisition of best-in-class urban-based lettings agencies will be a major plank of her...

Another independent sales and lettings agency group has been snapped up by Belvoir, which takes it over the 200-office threshold. The 16-office...

Agency chain Hunters Group plc is to issue shares worth £100,000 to fund the acquistion of a lettings book. This is the...

Fast-growing agency chain Leaders has two new lettings and sales offices with the acquisition of Aidan J Reed's Leicestershire outlets in...

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The Council for Mortgage Lenders is warning the government not to interfere with the Buy To Let sector in such a...

Romans Group has made yet another acquisition - this time it is letting agency Gregory & Company in Windsor. This is in...

Countrywide has snapped up another independent letting agency - this time it is Thomas C Adams in Chester which has become...

Flat fees, of the kind now offered by many online letting and sales agencies, will become the norm in the industry...

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The Bank of England says excessive lending to fund buy to let purchases could pose a risk to the financial well-being...

A letting agency chain is claiming to be London’s largest independent letting agent after opening its 13th office. Benham & Reeves Residential...

Sales and lettings agency Jones & Chapman - part of the Sequence network - has snapped up the Liverpool arm of...

Countrywide Residential Lettings has announced another expansion with the purchase of PIP Lettings in the East Midlands. Countrywide says this another step...

Belvoir Lettings, one of the UK's largest agency franchises, is continuing its expansion programme with three new offices. Rayson Wilshaw, a sales...

There has been much debate in recent years about Britain’s desperate need for more housing stock. Demand has been outstripping supply...

The general election result was greeted with a sigh of relief throughout the lettings industry. Thanks to the Conservatives' victory, the threat...

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

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

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