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London-based block and facilities services provider SBA Property Management has acquired management agency Paul Samuel Associates. A specialist property management firm with...

A London-focussed lettings agency group has paid £2,000 as a result of breaching the Tenant Fees Act. The issue relates to the...

Leaders Romans Group has launched a partnership with GreenTheUk to plant one tree for every house sold or let through the...

Property fraud is on the rise and early in 2022 agents will have an opportunity to attend a webinar featuring a...

A major Select Committee of MPs has launched an enquiry into so-called exempt rental sector accommodation - a niche sector that...

‘Generation rent’ was a term first coined in 2011 by the Halifax in a survey on the future of homeownership. It...

After becoming the first large agency to move to electric BMW i3s in 2019, Chestertons is urging others in the industry to follow...

Baroness Alicia Kennedy, the director of Generation Rent, is to be one of the speakers in a debate at the ARLA...

Spicerhaart has unveiled a £30m investment programme for its lettings business. The business proposes to more than double the number of properties...

A lack of longer term rental accommodation thanks to the growth of Airbnb and other short lets has led to a...

A dramatic day, which saw a Cabinet reshuffle seemingly come out of the blue, ended with Michael Gove as the new...

There is a report that the private equity owner of Leaders Romans Group has appointed bankers to work on a ‘strategic...

Leaders Romans Group has completed the purchase of Dewhurst Lettings in Swindon - the latest in its acquisition programme announced earlier...

Data from Leaders Romans Group shows that lettings attracted 5,941 requests for viewings in June – an average of 42 per...

Rent controls are to be introduced into part of the UK as a result of a deal between two political parties. The...

One of the UK’s largest agency groups has launched a partnership with an environmental organisation to plant one tree for every...

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

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

It always pays to rely on the services of a reputable referencing company. The lure of free credit checks or basic referencing...

It doesn’t seem that long ago that 2D floorplans were considered cutting edge – but it’s safe to say they’re now...

The Leaders Romans Group has identified four locations which it says have come into their own since the working-from-home craze started...

PropTech property compliance firm CheckDocs says it’s bagged Hamptons as its latest agency - with over 90 branches and a substantial...

Zoopla has revealed the formation of a Lettings Advisory Board, to be chaired by the national lettings managing director of Leaders...

The first short lets sector trade bodies’ conference since 2019 is to be held in London on September 14. The conference -...

A block management company owned by the Leaders Romans Group has been awarded over £6.5m in government building safety funds to...

At least one lettings agency is on a list of targets for socially-distanced protests tomorrow by anti-eviction campaigners in the left...

Leaders Romans Group is launching a consultancy and management service for Build To Rent developers - a bid to engage with institutions in...

Propertymark says its Inspire programme is continuing to help agents via its small group network - and it’s taking bookings for...

An influential group of MPs has called for the replacement of “outdated” Energy Performance Certificates with new ‘Building Renovation Passports’. Currently EPCs...

Leaders Romans Group has acquired another lettings agency - the fourth lettings-led acquisition this year. This time it is Guardian Residential Lettings...

Independent agency EuroLet, operating in Bishop’s Stortford for the past 20 years, has been acquired by Leaders Romans Group. LRG has welcomed...

A PropTech firm claims agents will win a “competitive edge” through the data it provides via its platform. Sprift says its interactive...

The latest shock resignation from Propertymark leaves the lettings agency sector rudderless - although enthusiasm for the organisation has arguably never...

Leaders Romans Group has announced the acquisition of another independent agency, this time in the East Midlands. It’s snapped up Hill &...

It’s now the annual National Apprenticeship Week and Leaders Romans Group has outlined how it’s opening up opportunities to newcomers to...

Deposit alternative provider flatfair says it’s set to make big announcements soon - and in the meantime it’s attracted a key...

Leaders Romans Group has announced another acquisition - this time it’s the EuroLet agency at Bishops Stortford in Hertfordshire. The single-branch office...

A major agency and property consultancy has initiated ‘Wellness Wednesdays’ amongst a programme of activities to prioritise staff mental health during the...

HomeLet and Let Alliance have announced what they call a market first with a rent guarantee providing cover until vacant possession...

A new rental system allowing licensed lettings agents to offer landlords a year’s rent up-front has had hundreds of responses in...

A warning has been issued by one of the most acquisitive letting agencies that future mergers and takeovers could be hit...

The Advanced Rent Option, which allows licensed lettings agents to offer their landlords a year’s rent upfront as part of their...

Tell us about Airthings, why it was established, the products and what problem they were coming to solve? Airthings was established in...

One of the country’s major lettings agency chiefs says there is a “massive” change in tenant priorities underway. Michael Cook, national lettings...

The group human resources director of the Leaders Romans Group wants the agency industry to improve its reputation by embracing more...

The well-known Lenwell chain, with seven branches, has been acquired by the Leaders Romans Group.  Lenwell was established in 1990 with the...

Countrywide’s latest trading statement covering the first half of 2020 shows it was hit more than most corporates by the market...

The Ringley Group has launched a new estate and block management division targeting high-end London instructions. Ringley Group already has over 12,000...

Deposit alternative service Zero Deposit has revealed significant new investment as its founder - ex-Zoopla commercial director Jon Notley - takes a...

Later this week agents will have the opportunity to hear one of the industry’s leading consultants give advice on preparing for an...

Propertymark, which will from later this year combine both the National Association of Estate Agents and the Association of Residential Letting...

Be proactive, have a plan, and keep prospecting.  After the easing of lockdown measures, it’s safe to say the property market picked...

The Momentum movement on the left wing of the Labour Party is joining forces with housing organisations to argue against private...

An agency chain has opened its second so-called ‘virtual office’ in two weeks - and again it doesn’t involve any bricks...

The Leaders Romans Group says it’s opening a new virtual office in the East Midlands, with a long-standing lettings expert at...

David Cox’s departure as chief executive of ARLA Propertymark last Friday was well signposted, particularly when he was advised he could...

The Prime Minister has stepped into the ongoing row over a Labour claim that last week’s stamp duty holiday was merely...

Activists who praised the government for its eviction ban in recent months have now turned on it in a last-ditch attempt...

Propertymark has announced that the leadership structure of the lettings side is to be merged with the estate agency section, with...

Three groups of rental activists have demanded the government scrap all rent payments immediately and cancel all arrears - but mystery...

Lockdown may be over soon - but who knows what a relaxation of the current restrictions will really mean for our...

Lettings PropTech company teclet has announced that its partnership with the Mortgage Advice Bureau has been extended to offer mortgage and...

Leaders Romans Group has made another acquisition of a multi-office independent agency. It’s snapped up six-branch Outlook Property, which has offices across...

Leaders `Romans Group has snapped up the scottfraser lettings and sales business.  scottfraser has four Oxford offices and a fifth in Witney,...

A newspaper claims multiple councils are opening investigations into agents allegedly defying the tenant fees ban - and at least one...

A row is erupting in Swansea over the number of HMOs in the city. Council leaders in the city want to implement...

Leaders Romans Group has snapped up another independent - this time the three office Welsh agency Moginie James. Moginie James - owned by...

Leaders Romans Group has selected a new PropTech platform after a competitive tendering process. The winning company was PropCo, which already services...

The chief executive of Shelter - the campaigning charity which has been sharply critical of letting agents in the past -...

The government’s Queen’s Speech has confirmed what the industry has effectively been expecting for some months. There will be a new lifetime...

One of the UK’s largest tenant referencing and let insurance providers has announced a new integration with a PropTech firm -...

A roundtable discussion of rental industry leaders has produced a recommendation for the mandatory regulation of lettings agents. The objective, they say,...

A north of England letting agent who conned home owners out of thousands of pounds has been ordered to pay it back...

The Leaders Romans Group has acquired yet another independent agency - this time it is Essex and Suffolk Lettings. Based in Colchester,...

The Leaders Romans Group has announced an acquisition to mark further expansion into the corporate lettings and block management market. The agency...

A letting agency has denied that 'highly toxic' gas is leaking into one of its tenant's homes in Worcester. Leaders has said...

An umbrella organisation representing councils is calling for greater freedom to introduce more and larger rental sector licensing schemes, without the...

A typical lettings agent could save some two and a half hours’ time each working day if they adopted more Artificial...

The Association of Residential Lettings Agents appears to have joined the chorus of criticism against Labour’s controversial right to buy policy...

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What is your business?    Bonds Estate Agents, the modern hybrid agent bridging the gap between the traditional high street agent and online...

A leading trade body is urging the candidates to lead the Conservative Party to adopt a more positive approach to the...

Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt have been given a message from a consortium of groups this morning - Scrap Right To...

Foxtons has been named as one of almost 100 firms which will be highlighted for failing to boost the number of...

A dispute concerning a ‘no deposit option’ put forward by a letting agency has reached the Daily Mail. The newspaper’s online service...

A housing minister has pledged that more key reforms for the private rental sector will be revealed soon, despite Brexit political...

Connells Group is backing this week’s National Apprenticeship Week and has launched a new head office programme giving around 100 existing...

The Dispute Service, which operates the Tenancy Deposit Scheme, has been ranked among the Sunday Times’ 100 best not-for-profit companies to...

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

The Leaders Romans Group has revealed its acquisition of yet another independent agency - Property Concept. Based in Clifton, Bristol, Property Concept is...

The Leaders Romans Group has revealed its sixth business acquisition of 2018 - the Worthing and Bognor Regis lettings portfolios of...

An independent agency in Gloucestershire is returning to the lettings business to complement its existing sales and land arms. Perry Bishop and...

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

The Leaders Romans Group has acquired Upp Property Lettings in Oakham and Stamford. The acquisition will see the existing Leaders branch in...

High-profile buy to let mortgage lender LendInvest says it’s going to allow applicants to prove their ID online via photographs. It’s working...

The Leaders Romans Group has announced the details of two new acquisitions to further strengthen its huge network. Sales and lettings business...

MPs want a review of laws surrounding private rental standards, including councils having the right to confiscate buy to let properties...

Trade bodies have been responding to today’s report of the Housing, Communities and Local Government Select Committee deliberations on the private...

Leaders has completed its 10th acquisition in the last nine months. It has snapped up Temples agency which gives it new branches...

Two of the leaders of PropTech company Goodlord have revealed some of the issues that this month drove the company to...

The agency Leaders has been marking the 10th anniversary of the death of its founder Neville Lee, who was a key...

The Leaders Romans Group has announced its fifth acquisition in just six weeks after completing the purchase of South & Co...

The Leaders Romans Group has acquired an independent lettings agency in Bath, taking it into the south western region for the...

Leaders has acquired its fourth agency in the same city, Norwich, in a sign of what it calls its commitment to...

The Leaders Romans Group is continuing on the acquisition trail with two more deals within 24 hours.   On Tuesday the company acquired...

Kitemark-style scheme SAFEagent is calling on the government to ensure plans to make Client Money Protection schemes mandatory are not ignored...

Industry figures have broadly welcomed the latest consultations and proposed additional regulation for the lettings sector, announced by the government yesterday.   The...

The fast-expanding Nick Dunning Associates - which acquired London agency Stirling Ackroyd over the summer - has strengthened its leadership team...

Romans - part of the leading property company, The Leaders Romans Group - is on the acquisition trail again.    Between 2013 and...

According to recent government figures, the average letting agent’s fee is £223 and 4.3 million householders pay this amount or thereabouts...

Leaders has snapped up the 500-plus property portfolio of Derby-based lettings firm MBM Management Limited.   The company was established in 1996 and...

Leaders has returned to ther acquisition trail with its purchase of a local agency in Nottingham.   Leaders has snapped up Bulmer Estates,...

A letting agent working for Leaders has been appointed as the new ARLA Propertymark board member for the Midlands. Duncan Chambers, who...

A string of corporate letting agencies plus ARLA Propertymark have again called on the government to reconsider its proposed ban on agents’...

Uber and a Build To Rent developer have announced a PropTech deal which will see the transport company getting involved in...

Only just over a week remains before the end of the formal consultation on the government’s proposal to ban letting fees...

One of the UK’s largest independent letting agency chains, Leaders, has entered into a partnership with specialist energy provider Spark Energy.    Leaders...

Twenty agency groups have backed a call by the Association of Residential Letting Agents urging the government to extend or scrap its...

Leaders and Romans have announced that both brands are seeking to expand this year through acquisitions following what they call "a...

Following a period of substantial growth, Property Service Holdings (PSH) - which operates Leaders and Romans - has a huge variety of...

Another two independent letting agencies have been acquired by the Property Services Holding Group. comprising Leaders and Romans. Leaders has completed the...

The NALS Fair Fee forum - an initiative launched last month - has now set up a working group to consider,...

Sister agencies Leaders and Romans have undertaken research to show that property has been the most lucrative investment in the UK...

A dramatic legal spat between New York’s civic leaders and online short-lets platform Airbnb escalated over the weekend in a dispute...

Fixflo has stolen a march over other PropTech companies by being the sole representative from the sector to be invited to...

Leaders has launched a new online opportunity for investors to buy, sell and compare available buy to let properties   It provides access...

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

Jeremy Corbyn’s plans for rent controls and “secure tenancies” in the private rented sector would spell disaster for tenants, reducing the...

National estate agency chain Leaders has announced the acquisition of two property businesses in the north of England. Yesterday it took over...

The Romans Group has snapped up Handovers in Guildford, another acquisition using its £30m facility for expansion purchases. Handovers is now fully-incorporated...

Adrian Gill, whose resignation as LSL Property Services was announced last week after just nine months in post, is to become...

Sales and letting agents who enter a new awards event will be given the chance to promote their property business on...

Mark Alcroft, the former managing director of Bridgfords Estate Agents, has joined Leaders with the aim of growing the business in...

Countrywide is to lead a group including Connells and Zoopla in a partnership with the proptech company Fixflo, currently best known...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has teamed up with 62 other property bodies to launch “a global consultation on ethics...

Estate Agency AllStars is to take its training nationwide next year.  The company runs courses on What is Estate Agency, Prospecting School,...

Leaders has acquired another lettings independent, Faulkner Property Management. Faulkner has two branches in Milton Keynes and Buckingham - new areas for...

Leaders has added another seven branches to its 110-plus network in recent weeks.  The firm has just completed the purchases of Lloyds...

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

Fast-growing agency chain Leaders has two new lettings and sales offices with the acquisition of Aidan J Reed's Leicestershire outlets in...

A trio of recent acquisitions has ensured a national agency chain not only records its best ever annual growth, but also...

London Mayor and Tory leadership wannabee Boris Johnson wants rogue operators in the private rental sectors to be banned with repeat...

Some 60% of landlords have no intention of investing in their property to make it more efficient, despite new energy efficiency...

Labour leadership hopeful Andy Burnham is the latest to say he would consider rent controls in the private sector if he...

An interesting point of view from a young sales negotiator working for Spicerhaart, whose chief executive Paul Smith recently wrote an...

Leaders has acquired Home Counties estate agency Aston Mead in a deal which brings it additional branches in two new areas,...

A newspaper claims that Labour leadership hopeful Andy Burnham will this week announce that, should he head the party and eventually...

One of four MP candidates standing for the Labour Party leadership says Right To Buy should be extended - to private...

Leaders has just completed its biggest acquisition deal to date, taking its UK-wide branch network to 99. It has acquired Derby’s agency...

The National Landlords Association has issued a briefing note which it says is a warning to Labour’s leadership and deputy leadership...

Nominations for Labour’s deputy leadership race close at midday today with Stella Creasy, an MP who has campaigned fiecely against letting...

A portal dedicated to investment and buy-to-let property has launched this week.  Buy2Let.com, which describes itself as the first of its kind,...

The chief executive of Leaders letting and estate agency is demanding that the new Conservative government brings in the formal regulation...

Leaders’ acquisition and expansion programme continues apace, snapping up another agency in a new area - Nottinghamshire.  Leaders this week acquired lettings...