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A new survey suggests Airbnb owners are charging over 300 per cent more to stay at their properties during major events...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? My name is Maxine Fothergill and for the past ‘almost’...

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

A branch of The Property Franchise Group’s Martin & Co brand is stopping potential tenants from booking a physical tour of...

A local authority has explained its role in ensuring that a private landlord could arrange for an electrical safety inspection to...

A local estate agency network says it has hosted an extraordinary 96,524 virtual viewings during lockdown. The Miles & Barr agency -...

The fast-accelerating trend of takeovers and mergers continues this morning with news that two Kent agencies are combining. Oakwood Homes in Thanet...

An agency says it has recently let 26 properties in one month without conducting any physical viewings. Oakwood Homes, operating in Kent,...

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

It’s taken what Propertymark calls “a rigorous selection process” to find the latest four regional representatives for the Association of Residential...

It’s been an unexpected year for the property market, shaped by the effects of the pandemic. We didn’t quite anticipate the...

A business owner who calls himself a “frontline agent” is the new Vice President of ARLA Propertymark.  David Votta, owner of Votta...

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

Two suspended sentences, community service, a fine and disqualification from being a director - those form the penalty for a rogue...

A proposed licensing regime in Kent has been abandoned because of fears it would drive landlords away. Medway council proposed a scheme...

A legal expert says the Court of Appeal ruling on S21 possession orders last week has resolved one of the most...

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

We’re very grateful to Andy Wicking, managing director of Red Door Homes, an agency that punches well above its weight in beautiful...

The Property Ombudsman has announced the expulsion of eight agencies, all for contravening TPO codes of practice. Most of the expulsions were...

The number of mortgage lenders still offering products to landlords is 42 - only seven fewer than at the peak of...

An ambitious Kent agency and management company has secured a £3.8m loan to underwrite a management buyout and an acquisition programme. Miles...

Arun - which has the brands of Douglas Allen in East London and Essex, Ward & Partners in Kent, Cubitt &...

A jailed letting agent in a long-running legal saga has now been told she must repay her victims some £43,000 -...

Martin & Co’s Ashford branch is opening a new office just outside the Kent town following a deal to acquire a...

The owner of a house believed to be occupied by multiple tenants has been prosecuted by a Kent council for failing...

The Property Ombudsman has expelled three lettings agencies from its scheme because of unpaid awards to landlord clients. The first is Kingsman...

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

A respected lettings and sales agent has opened up about his own mental health issues and those which exist thanks to...

A lettings agency is believed to be the first to offer landlords a year's rent in advance in one lump sum...

Rents are rising at the fastest rate since 2017, pushing the average yield on residential property to 4.5 per cent, its...

Agents need to be pro-actively using PropTech and improving their work methods to reduce voids for their landlord clients. That’s the view...

Seven agencies have been expelled from membership of The Property Ombudsman after failing to pay compensation awards made by TPO. All are...

The head of an automated payment system for the rental sector says lettings agents can help offset losses caused by the...

The online property management platform Howsy, formerly known as NoAgent, has launched a new package for landlords. The platform says Howsy Protect...

Fergus Wilson, arguably Britain’s most controversial landlord and almost certainly the individual with the largest number of buy to lets in...

Fergus Wilson - the controversial buy to let landlord who with his wife once owned 1,000 homes - has named his...

More than a third of landlords are looking to cut their annual spending - and many of them are considering ending...

The man who is arguably Britain’s most controversial landlord - Fergus Wilson - is likely to be issuing up to 90...

Three brothers and a property management company have received fines and a confiscation order, and must pay costs, following what a...

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

The controversial landlord Fergus Wilson says he has purchased a Body Worn Camera for £75 in a bid to avoid at...

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

A property investment company operating a Ponzi scheme based on claims of capital appreciation and rental income has been shut down...

Fergus Wilson, frequently labelled Britain’s biggest individual landlord, says he is stopping letting out properties because of a shortage of East...

OneSavings Bank, the parent organisation of specialist buy to let lender Kent Reliance, has given a warning on the possible impact...

Controversial landlord Fergus Wilson has increased rents on all new tenancies in his property portfolio by £50 a week because of...

Britain’s most controversial landlord, Fergus Wilson, says the recent changes in buy to let legislation means that if he was starting...

Britain’s most controversial buy to let investor, Fergus Wilson, has hit back and given his side of events on a series...

Newspapers in Kent are reporting that controversial buy to let multi-millionaire Fergus Wilson has evicted four single mothers from his properties...

Essex-based Balgores Property Group, which operates across that county and in Kent, has snapped up Woollens estate agents in Dagenham. Woollens has...

The growth of the private rental sector has slowed thanks to government intervention and economic uncertainty - but it will expand...

Time to put the gloom and doom about buy to let to one side - a new analysis shows that a...

The government has confirmed that all property agents in England will need to be part of an approved Client Money Protection...

Rightmove has revealed that the 10 year average growth in asking rents across London has been 25 per cent, and over...

A specialist buy to let lender is making changes to its lending conditions to ensure its residential and commercial borrowers conform...

A Kent county councillor says letting agents “would have to be pretty dumb” to allow a situation arise whereby they would...

A lettings agency has written to MPs setting out an eloquent case for a cap on agents’ fees levied on tenants...

Tunbridge Wells independent Alexandre Boyes has snapped up the lettings and sales book of Edenbridge agency Foxwood Maclean. First established in 1877...

A cocktail of tax reform and tighter regulation is slowing growth across the private rental sector, despite its value hitting a new...

Larger scale landlords with 10 properties or more appear to be the most confident about the private rental sector, and are...

A lettings agent who stole thousands of pounds collected from tenants has been jailed for 20 months. Kent Online reports that gambling...

The average UK private rental tenancy is now 20 months, almost a fifth longer than in 2014 according to research from...

The latest Kent Reliance Buy to Let Britain report - seen as a snapshot of the state of health of the...

Landlords are increasingly looking to reduce the fees they pay to letting agents due to industry tax changes and increasing management...

The founder of a PropTech start up called No Agent says despite his firm’s name he does not want to see...

The controversial landlord who made provocative remarks about some tenants leaving ‘curry smells’ in his properties is now complaining to the...

Fergus Wilson, long-regarded as Britain’s biggest buy to let investor and landlord despite recent attempts to sell some of his homes,...

Annoying isn’t it. You take on a stunning property, agree a compelling asking price and your Vendor is desperate to get the...

A buy to let mortgage lender claims that five out of six areas affected by the long-running spate of strikes on...

Asking rents rose 3.0 per cent outside of London in 2016 - but will rise 4.0 per cent in 2017. That’s the...

The couple believed to be the owners of Britain’s largest buy to let portfolio have defended sending letting agents an 11-point...

Specialist mortgage lender OneSavings Bank is the latest to announce that it is introducing stricter affordability assessments for all new buy...

Britain’s biggest buy to let landlord, Fergus Wilson, says new investors now will never be able to enjoy the scale of...

A digital property management platform that automates the rental process including marketing, bookings, reference checks, maintenance and compliance, claims it is now...

Landlord confidence has returned despite government tax changes to the private rental sector - although research for the survey that produced...

Strutt & Parker has launched a new corporate and relocation department for domestic and international tenants relocating within London and the...

Canterbury is the latest council to consider setting up its own letting agency. The authority hopes to tempt private landlords with promises...

Gillian Kent - once employed by News International to run a portal to rival Rightmove - has now been appointed chairman...

Our latest infographic shows figures of how the majority of deposits are repaid at the end of tenancy and goes into...

Connells has made a key appointment to drive the growth of its lettings division in the south of England.  Stuart Cornwall, who...

A mortgage firm specialising in buy to let products says lending to landlords set up as limited companies surged in the...

Connells Group has acquired another letting agency - Touchstone Residential Lettings, which has nine offices in Kent, Buckinghamshire and the west country. TRL's...

A London landlord has been given an eight week suspended prison sentence after failing to have a gas boiler in a...

Fergus and Judith Wilson, regarded as Britain’s biggest buy to let landlords, are reported to have sold their empire of hundreds...

A respected survey of the buy to let market says proposed tax changes and the increased stamp duty on additional homes...

Two of Britain's most controversial landlords, Fergus and Judith Wilson, claim demand from prospective tenants is at a record high with...

The country’s biggest buy to let landlord is to raise rents by up to 33 per cent, and puts the blame...

A letting agency has announced that it has formed a partnership with a heating installer to provide support for its managed...

Fergus Wilson, the controversial buy to let guru who reportedly owns around 1,000 rental properties, is to stand for Police and...

Controversial buy to let property mogul Fergus Wilson has given his backing to the government over its controversial extension of Right...

Known as Britain’s biggest landlords, Fergus and Judith Wilson have started to sell off their 1,000 strong property portfolio. The ex-teachers from...

Gentrification is a divisive, provocative issue, but why are estate agents (especially Foxtons) appearing to bear the brunt of the public’s...