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An agency has marked its 30th anniversary by sealing a brace of acquisitions. The deals see Thornley Groves, the Lomond Group agency...

Bury council in Greater Manchester has adopted new measures to fine agents or landlords up to £30,000 if their properties fail...

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

A Manchester agency says there’s been a 400 per cent increase in enquiries from international students. This huge number of enquiries for...

A family-owned boutique lettings agency in Salford, Greater Manchester, has taken a significant share in a nearby independent rival - and will...

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...

Lettings agency Intus Lettings has announced the opening of a new Sheffield office — its first base in Yorkshire. The Sheffield office...

A new agency doesn’t hold back about its importance, describing itself as “the future of buy to let property offering a...

Another council wants an extension to the existing ban on bailiff-enforced evictions, which is scheduled to end on February 22.  Yesterday our...

A chartered surveying company has acquired a long established lettings agency in the same town in Greater Manchester. Altrincham based firm Oakwood...

The government is asking bailiffs not to enforce court possession orders in areas with the highest Coronavirus restrictions.  So although evictions can...

The government has revealed the dates of its so-called Christmas eviction truce. Agents will not be able to instruct bailiffs to complete...

Grainger, one of the biggest names in Build To Rent in the UK, says its current BTR pipeline stands at 24...

New analysis by Direct Line for Business reveals a surge in the number of police investigations into the theft of electricity,...

Manchester is becoming a buy to let investment hotspot according to the boss of a leading property management firm.  David Alexander of...

More than 50 councils across the country will share nearly £2.4m of extra government funding to crack down on rogue landlords. Among...

A Manchester lettings agency has teamed up with a bank to fund entry into the Build To Rent management sector.  Two new...

Zero Deposit, one of the insurance-based schemes offering an alternative to traditional tenancy deposits, has signed up its first independent agency...

Savills has announced two acquisitions in the north west, one of an agency and one of an individual branch.  The agency being...

North west lettings and student accommodation specialist Mistoria Group has purchased an independent with 200 properties under management across Greater Manchester.  The...

SDL Group is celebrating its 2,000th tenant in the new but fast-growing Build To Rent sector.  SDL works with developer Sigma Capital Group...

Legal & General has exchanged contracts on the West Tower in Manchester’s Deansgate, bringing the firm’s total of BTR units in...

A Build To Rent operator is marking its 2,000th new-build home - an indication of how the sector is starting to...

One of the biggest and earliest companies investing in Britain’s fast-growing Build To Rent sector has expanded its partnership with one...

Andy Burnham, the mayor of Greater Manchester, will is to reveal his vision for the private rental sector to a Residential...

Liverpool and Nottingham are the UK’s best performing property investment locations, according to mortgage broker Private Finance.  Both cities enjoy average rental...

Media reports suggest the Manchester Arena bomber was renting a short-let property in the centre of the city before he committed...

Sigma, a Build To Rent developer, has completed and let its 1,000th rental home - a symbol of this fast-growing part...

Former shadow Home Secretary Andy Burnham - now Labour’s candidate for Mayor of Greater Manchester - has outlined a string of...

The problem of cannabis ‘farmers’ using privately rented properties to mass-produce the drug is at its worst in the West Midlands,...

Much publicity has been given to the Resolution Foundation’s report into falling home ownership - but the flip side is that...

Urban regeneration specialist Sigma Capital is the latest firm to announce it is entering the Build To Rent sector, seeking to...

Legal & General Capital (LGC) has announced that it is close to securing its second investment in the Build to Rent...