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The trade body representing the Build To Rent industry wants to recruit people from that sector to sit in its board. The...

Jones Robinson, a lettings and sales agency in Wiltshire, Berkshire and Oxfordshire, has snapped up Manningford Croft, a rival operation in...

Claire Williams, the former team principal of the legendary Williams Formula One Team , has been named as one of the...

Citra Living, part of Lloyds Banking Group, is to bring more than 150 new family homes to the rental market in...

The percentage of tenants borrowing money to fund their cash deposits on their next property has risen over the last 12...

Some 83% of estate agents are proud of their profession, says a new survey. The poll of 1,728 estate agents, commissioned by...

Stephen Castellani has been confirmed as the new owner of Martin & Co’s Tonbridge office, taking the reins from Robert Gordon-James...

An agency has snapped up a substantial regional firm involving 60 staff, 1,100 properties under management, as well as commercial, new...

Paragon Bank’s analysis of its lending data has revealed the top 10 locations for investment by portfolio buy-to-let landlords, those with...

Legal & General’s suburban Build To Rent business, called LGSBTR, has exchanged on 41 new BTR homes in St Neots, Cambridgeshire.   Consisting...

The founder of an agency which started life in a front room is handing the family firm over to her son...

A group founded eight years ago to represent the Build To Rent niche has now rebranded in a bid to win...

A boutique agency with branches in prime central and south west London has expanded its lettings operation by acquiring two agencies...

Two of Martin & Co’s Oxfordshire branches are under new ownership. David Rebe has taken on the Oxford and Thame branches from...

Family-owned agency Boydens has signed a deal to offer deposit alternative service Reposit to landlord clients. Paul Buck, a representative of Boydens,...

A survey from property portal Share to Buy suggests that over three quarters of buyers believe they cannot afford to purchase...

A prominent property expert who runs a buying and property management service for high end clients says London still attracts international...

HM Treasury raked in £6.3 billion in inheritance tax receipts in the 10 months from April 2023 to January 2024 according...

Pattinson Estate Agency has taken over a local firm on Teesside. The agency taken over is Browns Estate Agents in Stockton and...

PropTech player Technology Blueprint Ltd has completed the integration of compliance software firm, CheckDocs.  The move is the first in a series...

Ukrainians who came to the UK following the Russian invasion will be able to apply for 18-month extensions to their visas,...

Legal & General senior executive David Reid has been named as the chair of an influential committee driving forward Build To...

Lettings and sales agency Gascoines is this week celebrating 70 years of serving the property market in Nottinghamshire. Founded by Doug Gascoine...

The Martyn Gerrard agency has acquired a London independent - Range Homes. Range Homes, based in the north London suburb of Palmers...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? My name is Sara Stevenson. I am the Lettings Director...

The latest Build To Rent report prepared by lettings agency Savills claims 2023 saw a total of £4.5 billion of investment...

Government figures suggest the UK population could reach nearly 74m as soon as 2036, largely attributed to rising net migration. This is...

A managing partner at a letting agency has given an insight into the unique forces which he says is “strangling” the...

Savills says prime rental growth across London and the country has stalled for the first time in almost three years. In prime...

Controversy surrounds a government idea - floated over the weekend - to allow renters to secure mortgages with just one per...

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

Two agencies have today joined eXp UK, the platform which now wants existing branch-based firm to convert to its self employed...

Fast-growing Lomond has snapped up another regional agency - this time one in the Midlands. Centrick - which had a High Street...

High end lettings agency Savills has appointed a new head of residential lettings for its offices in Beaconsfield and Amersham. Daniel Spratley...

Rhodri Evans, director of land and new homes at Andrews Property Group, has been named as one of several industry figures...

The UK Apartment Association - effectively a trade body for the Build To Rent sector - is beefing up its top...

The latest figures from HM Revenue and Customs show that inheritance tax receipts increased to £5.2 billion in the eight months...

Berriman Eaton has reported a 30 per cent rise in its dedicated lettings business since 2020, with more than 420 properties...

Low-income renters will get a boost next spring - but a pressure group wants more government help for this sector. The Chancellor’s...

A survey suggests that a third of UK tenants who plan to spend Christmas in their rental property will be alone.  A...

A thieving lettings agent stole over £128,000 which should have gone to landlord clients - and with it she funded an...

Knight Frank has bolstered its prime offering across north London with a new head of lettings in its Hampstead office. Jared Kilgarriff...

Husband and wife Daren and Susan Cope, alongside son James and daughter Annie, are bringing their different agencies under one roof. So...

A prominent lettings agent has called for a wider reform of eviction rules. This follows a demand by a group of...

Young couples are delaying marriage and starting families until they get out of the rental sector, research by Yorkshire Building Society...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Emma Parsons, Head of Partnership Development What is flatfair and what...

Fewer than one in five homeowners support the government’s plans to ban gas boilers in new homes by 2025, with 83...

Law firm Brevis Law is shedding light on the difficulties agents and landlords have in meeting Right To Rent requirements in...

Financial support from family members - not just parents - is expected to help fund 318,400 housing transactions in 2023, according...

New analysis reveals that other family members beyond parents are increasingly lending their financial support to first-time buyers.   So far this year...

Spicerhaart’s veteran chief executive Paul Smith is stepping back to concentrate on company growth - including the acquisition of more lettings...

A series of new BTR schemes have been named by developers. In Coggeshall, north Essex, Vistry Group will deliver 36 homes, the...

Millions of UK landlords will be adversely affected by the Renters Reform Bill, a solicitor warns - the latest law expert...

Lloyds Banking Group has announced the lettings agency chain that it wants to look after its upcoming Build To Rent units. The...

Details have been given of Lloyds Bank’s latest dive into the Build To Rent market. Its BTR arm, Citra, has acquired 49...

Manchester-based lettings agency Ascend Properties has consolidated its role in the single-family Build To Rent niche with its appointment by investment...

The number of completed Build to Rent homes in the UK has increased 13 per cent in the past year to...

Savills has announced a new head of its lettings department in its Bishops Park office in Fulham. Christina McLean steps into the...

A lettings firm’s takeover of an independent rival agency is the start of a period of “exponential growth” according to its...

A prominent provider of student rental accommodation has appointed an international property consultancy to consider growth options. Study Inn Group has a...

Buy to let investors who want to convert family homes into HMOs in Hounslow for three to six tenants will now...

A landlord who is also the owner of a High Street lettings agency has been fined £17,293 for breaching housing licence...

A property industry commentator wants buy to let mortgage rules to be relaxed so that frustrated sellers can let out their...

A new action plan to tackle issues around HMOs is being drawn up by a Midlands council next week. West Northamptonshire council’s...

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

A leading estate agent on one of the Channel Islands has slammed the way additional homes are now being taxed. Since last...

Concern remains that the mayhem surrounding the mortgage market may yet trigger a housing market crash. At the start of the weekend...

The Cambridge Building Society has selected two tenants by ballot to receive up to 70 per cent of their rent back...

What objections are you hearing when you try and convert let-only landlords to fully-managed? Because the latest figures show just 18 per...

Grosvenor Billinghurst, the Surrey lettings agency that serves the towns and surrounding areas of Cobham, Claygate and Hinchley Wood, is now...

The fast growing agency Lomond - which has snapped up a string of independents in the past two years - is...

Two thirds of pet owning tenants have faced challenges finding a place to rent - at least according to a survey...

Two animal charities - Cats Protection and Dogs Trust - have started recruiting MPs to their campaign in favour of pets...

Two cities have been identified as the UK’s highest-growth cities across multiple property sectors over the next 10 years, according to...

Rising rents mean the share of young people leaving the family home and moving into rented accommodation has plunged, says Hamptons...

Midlands-based property company Sheldon Bosley Knight has acquired its third business in five months. It’s snapped up Chipping Campden-based Andrew Greenwood Estate...

High end lettings agency Aston Chase has let a house modelled on Windsor Castle for the princely sum of £247,000 per...

A respected property lawyer is accusing the government of helping nuisance tenants at the expense of the weak and vulnerable. Ian Narberth,...

A full service lettings and estate agency has snapped up a respected rival, including taking over management of 150-plus rental properties. DC...

The pro-tenant anti-landlord Renters Reform Bill has at last been published by the government which first promised it in 2019. It has...

Shelter is telling the government it “must deliver” on the revolution it pledges under the Renters Reform Bill. Chief executive Polly Neate...

The Cambridge Building Society has opened applications for its unique Rent to Home scheme. Last month it announced that it had invested...

Nearly a third of tenants are borrowing money to fund a cash deposit, a survey claims. A poll of 1,000 current renters...

Renters are being offered a 100 per cent mortgage by the Skipton Building Society - the first time such a product...

Leaders Romans Group has announced another new lettings acquisition. It has snapped up Liberty Gate, a single-office Nottingham-based business which also operates...

A property management firm says it recently compiled a check-out report for a property which was 414 pages in total. The property...

One of the country’s biggest Build To Rent players has secured funding for 1,000 new BTR homes. Legal & General has signed...

A group of activists is trying to raise £15,000 to campaign for local councils to clampdown on AirBnb and other short...

The Cambridge Building Society has invested in two family-sized houses to expand its unique ‘Rent to Home’ rent-return housing scheme. The two...

Retirement housing specialist Pegasus wants to become a big player in Build To Rent and has employed the  Savills agency to...

A veteran Conservative is calling on his government to clamp down on HMOs and ensure there is better council regulation and...

A lettings agency manager stole nearly £140,000 from her company to help clear her son’s drug debt. Wendy Dare, 57, is now...

The Property Ombudsman has ruled that a letting agency’s ban on renting to a family with children was discriminatory against women...

Spicerhaart has recruited the former head of lettings operations at Purplebricks to a regional role. Emma Fagan will be the new property...

Foxtons has worked with house builders the Berkley Group to connect Asia Pacific buyers and landlords with UK property. The initiative, held...

The government must focus on measures in next week’s Budget that will boost significantly the supply of homes, according to lettings...

A combination of regular inspections and pro-active installation of ventilation can help to reduce the risk of dangerous damp and mould...

OnTheMarket is introducing a range of features which it claims will make ‘serious seekers’ stand out to letting agents. And it says...

Father and sons trio Kevin, Lewis and Tom Dudley have joined forces to become the new owners of Martin & Co’s...

Midlands-based agency Sheldon Bosley Knight has snapped up an independent firm. It’s Coventry sales and lettings agency Robin Jones which brings just...