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

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

Husband-and-wife team John and Shirley Ounsworth have completed on the acquisition of Osprey Lettings. The couple - who run a Northwood franchise...

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

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

A fraudster lettings agent must repay £122,922.68 to her old firm within three months - or face yet more time in...

A lettings agency maintenance manager stole almost £100,000 from her company - but has escaped prison. Farida Mughal was working at the...

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...

Propertymark says letting agents should have clear policies and priorities to help ensure properties are kept to the highest standards possible.  The...

The second largest resale in Belvoir’s history has taken place with the husband and wife behind the Southampton franchise buying Belvoir...

A newspaper probe has discovered that sow-called exempt accommodation - often for the most vulnerable tenants - has received a Hugh...

  Belvoir has announced its franchise of the year, selected from the 166 offices in its network.  It’s husband and wife team Ben...

PropTech platform Plentific has snapped up husband-and-wife lettings software company TouchRight Software.  Over 500 clients across the UK use TouchRight, to create...

A lettings agency’s new website claims to offer increased support to landlords, tenants, and investors, “while cutting through the noise of...

The Miles & Barr Group has snapped up two lettings and property management companies  – Roger & Hambidge and Brettsletts.  The acquisitions...

A newspaper claims a lettings agency is battling allegations of overcharging customers and using fake companies to carry out maintenance work. The Daily Record...

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

Two London landlords and their lettings agents will have to pay tens of thousands of pounds after a home they were letting...

PropTech company Goodlord has acquired referencing platform Vouch to form an industry player that will be handling over 500,000 references per...

A regional independent agency generating more than £20 million in rental income annually has snapped up a five-branch independent firm. Alexander & Co,...

The so-called King and Queen of Buy To Let, the controversial husband and wife team of Fergus and Judith Wilson, are...

An agency has rebranded following a ‘de-merger’ with a rival firm. Earlier this week we reported that Chichester husband-and-wife agency Hancock and...

A husband and wife lettings and estate agency in Chichester is re-launching as its own operation, separately from the firm it...

Hello and welcome to today’s Conquering Corona, a service we’re running to share official guidance and agents’ advice in a bid...

The Tunbridge Wells office of Martin & Co has boosted its managed portfolio by 43 per cent by snapping up yet...

A husband and wife pair of buy to let investors have been prosecuted after letting out a property that contained serious...

A national newspaper story suggests that a couple seeking an apartment to rent in Brixton were signed up to the wrong...

A husband and wife must pay joint fines, penalties and costs totalling over £8,000 after complaints about a bungalow they owned...

North Wales agency Dafydd Hardy has snapped up small independent Smith & Wypler as part of a new growth strategy.  Smith &...

Mystery surrounds the whereabouts of a letting agent who appears not to be in any redress scheme, is being investigated by...

A court has ordered a husband and wife pair of buy to let investors to pay back £322,282 in illegal income. A...

Famous buy to let landlord Judith Wilson has been fined £10,000 and ordered to pay almost £15,000 costs for failing to...

One of Britain's highest profile landlords is to be sentenced on December 11 - and she must show the court details of...

Somerset agency Mark Templer Residential has acquired independent company Wrington Vale Lettings. Husband and wife team John and Vanessa Webb with business...

Last week Shelter and the National Housing Federation took a swipe at lettings agents, and now Citizens Advice has joined the...

The Leaders Romans Group has snapped up yet another small independent agency - GPS Property Management based at Ravenshead in Nottinghamshire. For...

A regional newspaper claims that a lettings agency has collapsed, its boss has gone to ground, and thousands of pounds are...

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

It’s been reported that Theresa May and her husband Philip jointly own a London apartment which is now let out and...

Channel 5 tomorrow airs the first episode of Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords, a six-part series which starts with the story of...

It appears that the former presenters of BBC consumer programme Watchdog are amongst those participating in a class action against Foxtons...