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

The Belvoir 2024 Annual Awards have crowded a father-and-son franchisee pairing as the big winners. Paul Wallace-Tarry and his son Richard Wallace-Tarry...

The latest Rental Index from PropTech supplier Goodlord has recorded a rent rise and a reduction in void lengths over the...

Lomond has more than doubled its footprint spanning the South Coast after a major deal involving a 10 branch agency, Beal's. Beal’s employs...

Media reports in Brighton say that a lettings agency which serve tenants with illegal eviction notices and unjustified legal threats has...

Local media on the south coast are reporting that a lettings agent crashed his Bentley into two parked cars and then...

The Green Party - which ran the Brighton and Hove council until being swept from office in May’s local elections -...

New figures from London-focussed agency Foxtons show that rents climbed steadily throughout 2022, finishing 20 per cent higher than in 2021.  High...

A Belvoir branch has made its fifth acquisition - and this time it’s a neighbouring Belvoir office whose owners were retiring. Nathan...

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer picked on the buy to let and holiday home sectors as targets for future restrictions, in...

Two major south of England agency have merged in what they describe as a “transformational deal.”  Brand Vaughan, part of the expanding...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents says the government is willing to listen to agents and other industry players ahead of...

With Prime Minister Boris Johnson confirming the next phase of the roadmap out of lockdown, a PropTech firm has reflected on...

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

What’s life-changing, involves months of anticipation, and ends with a big arrival? You might think we’re talking about pregnancy. But research...

A long-running case about a house divided up and let out without planning permission has resulted in a fine of nearly...

One of the most prominent south coast lettings and sales agencies is returning to Zoopla after a five year absence.  Mishon Mackay,...

Some 60% of London office workers who rent in the capital say the pandemic has made them reconsider their living situation,...

The average cost of a rental home in Great Britain rose to £999 pcm in December according to figures just released...

A council is lobbying the government to ask for landlords using Airbnb and other short let platforms to be charged business...

A Labour council serving one of the largest private rental communities in the country is reported to have failed to have...

Campaigning charity Shelter claims 135,000 children in Britain are homeless and living in temporary accommodation this Christmas - the highest number...

A local council claims it has received over 500 complaints from private rental tenants since the start of April - approaching...

Bristol is the best city for house shares, according to new research by specialist rental sector broadband and utilities provider Glide. The...

The council at Brighton & Hove has won an extra £34,820 in public money from the government to help it build...

A Member of Parliament who says “the majority of agents” engage in “dirty tactics” when it comes to fees imposed on...

A Derby-based agency says it’s on the acquisition trail and seeking lettings operations to take over. Birchover Sales and Lettings - led...

A Brighton and Hove lettings agent has been fined more than £3,000 for allowing two properties that he owned himself to...

The Property Ombudsman has released details of two letting agencies expelled over financial issues, and the extension of an expulsion period...

Lomond Capital has announced its second acquisition in two weeks by acquiring south Manchester lettings and sales agency Hallmark Residential.  The deal...

Letting and estate agencies in Brighton and Hove have agreed to voluntary restrictions on the erection of To Let and For...

A landlord of a shared house in Hove, near Brighton, has been found to be ‘putting people’s lives at risk’ and ordered to pay...

Manchester council is considering a city-wide ban on letting agents’ To Let boards.   The local authority says the plethora of boards in some...

The head of a major lettings agency in Brighton says fees can work out to be “disproportionately high for tenants” but...

Brighton and Hove council has failed in its bid to win government backing to ban To Let boards. The council sought government...

One the leading letting agencies in Brighton has sharply criticised a proposal by the local council to introduce a selective licensing...

The average rent for two bedroom apartments has risen to more than a third of gross average earnings of tenants in...

Labour councillors controlling Brighton and Hove council are reported to be writing to the government for premission to charge HMO owners...

Two more student houses in Brighton have been ordered to close by a government planning inspector. There have now been four such...

A study published by the GMB union claims that London’s well-documented high private rents are now leading to other steep rises...

A letting agency has been criticised by local students after sending a touting letter to landlords saying it could increase rents...

A council has asked agents in its area to tell landlords of additional planning powers taken by the authority which may...

Two landlords of HMOs have been prosecuted for failing to license their properties - and now have to pay fines of...

There is uproar in Brighton as a result of students being let rooms in an HMO - despite the property’s owners...

A tenants’ campaign group is planning a series of protests this coming weekend outside offices of lettings agencies which allegedly do...

A letting agent has been disqualified from acting as a director for 10 years following the collapse of his Hove agency,...