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A north west England lettings agency has expanded with a swoop on a Preston-based business. Keenans Group has acquired Letting Locations for...

UK hosts on Airbnb collectively earned over £1.5 billion in 2021 the short let platform claims. Some £668m of that was over...

New research predicts a record year for holiday home owners in the UK with more people than ever planning to staycation...

A new investment league table has been drawn up to show best aggregate rent and capital appreciation income for those in...

A lettings agency has identified where tenant demand is strongest right now - and where demand is lower than some agents...

The franchisee of a new Martin & Co branch in his hometown has opened with the recruitment of five new staff. Hamza...

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

A new Lancashire estate agency, Jusa Homes, has opened new premises thanks to a £10,000 local council grant.  Julie Hardy and Sarah...

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

Manchester-based Ascend Properties has acquired its second company in as many months.  Ascend has now purchased Rent Smart UK, a Lancashire firm...

The anti-letting agent group ACORN is to stage protests in 10 to 15 UK cities this weekend according to an activists’...

The huge backlog of eviction and other cases anticipated in the coming months will be helped by the creation of a...

A lettings agent who stole over £23,000 from tenants to pay for his gambling habit and pay off debt has escaped...

The Yorkshire agency Linley & Simpson has revealed more acquisitions of independent agencies as it tightens its grip on the regional...

New data looking specifically at room rental rates suggest that across the UK rents rose by an average three per cent...

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

A new analysis of rental yields across all of the UK’s local authorities has revealed exactly where the best places are for...

A lettings agency that started life as an idea between two friends 15 years ago is now celebrating managing over £100m...

Lancashire town Blackburn has recorded the highest increase in average rental yield over the last year, according to LendInvest.  The online mortgage...

A landlord has been fined just £440 after he effectively left a tenant homeless.    Warrington Magistrates Court heard that Peter Lamont, the...

An industry body says agents and landlords who ignore tenants' complaints about damp and mould could be putting their property at...

A landlord is to be sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court next week after pleading guilty to seven charges relating to fire...

Countrywide is continuing its aggressive acquisition programme in the rental sector by snapping up The Letting Bureau agency in Colne, Lancashire. The...

A landlord has been fined £6,160 by St Helens magistrates after he admitted failing to tidy up two properties he owned. The...

A letting agent featured on a BBC Watchdog ‘Rogue Traders’ show has told a local newspaper that he is pursuing legal...

Letting Agent Today last week reported on Lancaster Property Network Management when it went into voluntary liquidation - now the agency...

The manager of a Lancaster letting agency dealing chiefly with students says he will co-operate with any police investigation into his...