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Two agencies are merging their lettings operations and launching a Joint Venture company to enable continued growth in their respective areas...

The Guild of Property Professionals is launch a new Ezine system for members to market properties to let and for sale. According...

Promising figures from the latest house price index doesn’t mean underlying problems in the market have been solved, warns Propertymark. UK house...

Burns & Webber, a long-established name in the Surrey property market, is rebranding by adopting its parent company’s name, Curchods.  The four...

For first time buyers, renting is cheaper than buying in most of the UK according to new data from the Halifax.  London, the...

The Open Property Data Association has released a new version of its property data standards framework to help letting agents comply...

There’s been a surge in enthusiasm for energy efficient homes according to research from heat pump advocates OVO. It says that a...

A trades union has slammed the Bank of England over its decision to keep base rate at 5.25 per cent, saying...

A return of pent-up demand and mortgage rates falling below five per cent have boosted the start of the year for...

A new Bank of England survey has confirmed a growing outflow of landlords from the private rental sector since 2020. The Bank’s...

Agents’ trade body Propertymark says the current debate on the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill is another example of how agent...

Propertymark has laid out its proposals to the Scottish Government ahead of its 2024-25 Budget next week. The letting agents’ trade body...

I think we can all agree that the National Trading Standards Material Information reforms are a good thing for the property...

Parts B and C of the process to improve material information disclosure in property listings are published today within comprehensive new guidance...

The board of Foxtons is under pressure from a minority of shareholders to put the agency group up for sale, according...

A new report suggests London’s Build To Rent sector is being held back by a “stark inconsistency” from local councils in...

Not for the first time this year, a trading update from London-focussed agency Foxtons has shown that lettings is leading the...

Propertymark has cautiously welcomed the Nationwide’s house price index showing a 5.3 per cent fall in the year to September. It says...

Parliament resumes today following its summer recess but there is still a lack of detail on aspects of the Renters Reform...

A new analysis shows growth in the trend for buy to let properties to be sold with tenants in situ.  The analysis...

A respected measure of investor confidence says it’s on the rise as a result of growing optimism over UK inflation figures...

A new analysis by Rightmove suggests it could take literally decades for the private rental sector to conform with stricter energy...

The Property Redress Scheme has released its latest list of expelled agents - mostly for rental misdemeanours and/or failure to pay...

The vast majority of auctions - widely regarded as a favourite for buy to let investors acquiring properties - are now...

Typical UK rents now account for 28.3 per cent of average pre-tax earnings - slightly above the 10-year average of 27...

A seasoned property lawyer who has specialised in residential landlord and tenant law for 22 years says she is embarrassed at...

Chestertons - London’s oldest estate agency which is itself up for sale - has snapped up a small independent. It has acquired...

OnTheMarket says it’s the first major UK portal to offer a dedicated contact form for Scottish Home Reports. When a property is...

The property market could be emerging from the downturn, Zoopla says.  Annual house price growth remains just 3.0 per cent according to...

More property is likely to come onto the sales market in the weeks and months ahead as rising numbers of landlords...

The number of new prospective tenants registering per Propertymark member branch held at 91 in February - very close to last...

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

“Optimism has survived another difficult month” says business consultancy Hargreaves Lansdown in response to the latest house price index.  Indeed, the industry...

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

The Solihull branch of Hunters has acquired independent agency Searchers, which was set up back in 1995. Becki Dean, lettings director for...

Atomic Consultancy, the specialist acquisition management business, believes that 2023 is likely to present significant opportunities for those looking to sell...

The availability of stock within the owner-occupied market is now back to a pre-pandemic norm, but the reverse is true for...

Rightmove forecasts average asking prices will drop two per cent in 2023 - meaning they will remain higher than after the...

A prominent independent lettings agency says the typical tenant outside of London now spends 63 per cent of their household income...

Property consultancy Walker Singleton has snapped up the independent Daniel & Hirst agency in Yorkshire. The deal, which was for an undisclosed...

London property data business LonRes has launched an app. By downloading the app users can search for properties – for sale or...

A prominent figure in property investment is warning that buy to let is the sector facing the biggest challenges in the...

The Property Ombudsman has reported a big rise in enquiries over last year and a huge rise since the pre-Covid year,...

The Lettings Industry Council, a group of rental industry chiefs, has joined with other property professionals to reveal what they see...

The latest Rightmove asking price market report suggests that the biggest victim of the current market mayhem is the first time...

Five agencies have been expelled from The Property Ombudsman scheme - all for compliance failures. The first is Home Trader Properties, in...

Rightmove has issued a statement to agents to try to steady the nerves about the housing market following the government’s mini-Budget. Portal...

Zoopla is issuing a warning today that price cuts in the sales market are likely to hit pre-pandemic levels as affordability...

Foxtons has issued a welcome statement to its new chief executive as it seeks to return to past glories. Guy Gittins -...

A high profile London lettings agency says some owners of properties in prime areas of the capital have seen capital appreciation...

Senior figures in the agency industry have backed new guidance from the National Trading Standards Estate and Lettings Agent Team regarding...

The National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agency Team has published fresh guidance to help letting agents meet new requirements regarding...

A tourism chief has likened new anti-holiday let regulations to those of a Stalinist dictatorship. Ashford Price, secretary of the Welsh Association...

Historic agency Chestertons has appointed its long-serving lettings chief Richard Davies as its new chief executive. This follows the departure of high...

Greater regulation of lettings agents, and all other property professionals, is required to ‘finish the job’ of reforming the industry which...

Propertymark says it welcomes measures in the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill that will mean swifter action to get the hundreds...

The small number of rental properties listed on websites and portals as Price on Application have now been deemed illegal by...

The latest market sentiment survey of the lettings market from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors suggests that rent rises will...

Huge improvements could be made to the lettings process if agents used the property data available to them, it’s been claimed. PropTech...

The UK Association of Letting Agents says new requirements for additional upfront property information should end up actually saving agents time. By...

The growing importance of virtual tours for properties to let and for sale during the pandemic shows little sign of easing,...

Theresa Wallace, the chair of The Lettings Industry Council, has given her backing to compulsory changes to rental property listings introduced...

Trading Standards and the government have jointly announced compulsory new data which must appear on property listings. A property's council tax band or...

A developer says its new state-of-the-art sales centre in Hong Kong in set to boost Chinese investment in London. Galliard, the developer...

An agency owned by Foxtons says there’s been a 120 per cent surge in demand for pet-friendly rental properties since the...

Six agencies have been expelled from The Property Ombudsman for failing to pay compensatory awards - five of them for offences...

More buy to let properties are being put on the sales market, despite the strength in the lettings sector, says Zoopla. In...

Campaign group Generation Rent, led by former Labour Baroness Alicia Kennedy, has renewed its call for the scrapping of Section 21...

A branch of national lettings agency Martin & Co is under new ownership. Landlord and property developer Grant Simpson has purchased the...

Does this photo drive you mad? Do you see it everywhere (including on Letting Agent Today stories)?  Who are these people and...

Data from Leaders Romans Group shows that lettings attracted 5,941 requests for viewings in June – an average of 42 per...

A local authority in Essex is cracking down on what it claims to be the increase of illegally positioned estate agent...

The controversy over whether a new PropTech service can be used by agents to charge people to view a property to...

Guidance from Trading Standards suggests that it is possible, in some cases, to charge tenants to view a property to let...

A 360-degree virtual tour supplier says there’s been a 600 per cent increase in use of the technology since late 2019...

A firm creating an app showing live streams of properties to let or for sale claims one agency attracted 18 offers...

Crowdhaus, which describes its product as a property discovery app, has secured almost £200,000 to take the next step forward following...

There’s been a spectacular surge in demand for lettings properties as vendors take advantage of the stamp duty holiday by selling...

Fledgling portal MoveStreets has signed over 100 agents, with an inventory of 16,500 properties to let and for sale. It says its latest...

Major players in the Build To Rent sector are joining forces to see if they can give the industry a more...

Recent debate about urgent need for reform and better collaboration within the property industry, has once again come under the spotlight...

Agents spend their whole careers telling vendors and landlords why they will be able to achieve a better sale price or...

A new PropTech app called Acaboom claims to send an alert when a landlord is viewing the agency’s marketing proposal. This means...

With no clear end in sight and conflicting Government advice as to whether we should work from home or go to...

A league table has been drawn up to show which large cities in the UK have the highest demand for investment...

The next formal review of lockdown processes in Wales takes place today, with high expectation that the housing market is likely...

From midnight lettings agents in England have been able to resume work thanks to an amendment to Coronavirus legislation that was...

There’s been a 12 per cent increase in the number of Built To Rent homes across the UK that have been...

The Guild of Property Professionals is reminding the rental sector that owners of properties to let have only until April 1...

Another housing market snapshot suggests demand and confidence are improving as a result of the new political and economic landscape following...

It’s here - the Fifth EU Money Laundering Directive comes into force today with significant challenges and implications for letting agents. The...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents says it will be issuing resources to support for lettings agents in the coming days...

A fifth of buy-to-let landlords claim they have reduced the number of properties in their portfolios due to a range of...

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

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

The supply of lettings property has begun to increase in higher price brackets in prime central London, leading rents to fall...

Thousands of pounds have been paid to a short let and holiday accommodation agency in Brighton which appears to have closed...

The Property Redress Scheme, one of the two government-backed redress operators for the lettings and sales service, has outlined its work...

The Property Ombudsman has issued a reminder to all agents to ensure they have the correct redress membership to cover the...

Belvoir, the UK's largest property franchise, says its trading during the first quarter of this year suggests it’s outperforming its expectation...