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Connells Group has named what it describes as “four key promotions” across its lettings division, signifying the company’s commitment to nurturing...
09 June 2022
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A lettings agency has identified where tenant demand is strongest right now - and where demand is lower than some agents...
31 March 2022
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Online agency Hortons is the latest agency to off-set its environmental impact. Hortons operates from a non-branch office in central Leicester with...
04 March 2022
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Online agency Hortons, which operates its sales activities across five countries, has opened a lettings department. The new service will initially be...
10 February 2022
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Birmingham, Bristol and Leicester are seeing the fastest growth in Buy To Let investment according to new figures from a business...
27 January 2022
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An existing Belvoir franchisee in the Midlands has purchased two additional offices in Manchester. Sharanjit Gill of Belvoir Leicester Central now owns...
11 August 2021
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Student rent has increased almost 20 per cent over the last year. In data released as part of the 2021 NatWest Student...
05 August 2021
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Sulets - a not-for-profit, charitable trust providing accommodation for students - has struck gold. It’s won a Gold award from Investors in...
20 May 2021
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The Build to Rent market remains small in volume but it is making some inroads, leading to BTR rent rises predominantly...
18 May 2021
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A lettings agency that failed to pay a compensation award ordered by The Property Ombudsman has been expelled from the scheme...
15 April 2021
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A Midlands not-for-profit student lettings agency is giving a rent discount to students who live in its leased houses. The offer comes from Sulets,...
25 January 2021
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One of the biggest commercial property operators in the country is to build 338 apartments to rent on the site of...
09 December 2020
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The average cost of renting in England is almost unchanged from five years ago - although that masks significant localised variations. The...
18 November 2020
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An exercise by PropTech company Goodlord has given an insight into what the lettings market may look like in parts of...
13 November 2020
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A rental demand league table produced by a lettings management platform shows the winners and losers across the UK - and...
02 October 2020
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The government has revealed the dates of its so-called Christmas eviction truce. Agents will not be able to instruct bailiffs to complete...
24 September 2020
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For Jill Griffiths, working exactly 25 years at the same agency is a cause for celebration - and her time serving...
02 June 2020
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Rental demand has dropped significantly across London and other major UK cities as a result of the pandemic. When comparing current levels...
23 April 2020
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A newspaper claims multiple councils are opening investigations into agents allegedly defying the tenant fees ban - and at least one...
03 March 2020
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Two estate agencies in the same city have merged - but it means one long-standing agency’s name will disappear. The Leicester firm...
03 March 2020
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A rental management platform has compiled a league table of where tenant demand is strongest for homes to let - and...
14 January 2020
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The chief executive of Shelter - the campaigning charity which has been sharply critical of letting agents in the past -...
30 December 2019
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Property development and investment firm SevenCapital has released a top 10 league table of UK cities which it claims will perform...
18 October 2019
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Several lettings agencies have stepped up to offer help to stranded customers of the collapsed online service Upad. A notice on Upad’s...
14 October 2019
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A flat-sharing website has created a league table of average rents in locations surrounding the top-ranked universities in the United Kingdom....
09 August 2019
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Campaigning charity Shelter has made a remarkable attack on a lettings agency, accusing it of “an abuse of power” over its...
05 August 2019
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An online room-letting platform claims rents have risen up to eight per cent in wake of the Tenant Fee Act. ideal flatmate...
11 July 2019
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University towns in the north of England and the Midlands score highest when it comes to yields and capital appreciation. The assessment...
21 June 2019
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Agents have reacted angrily to the way in which the government released a new set of rental documents updated to include...
03 June 2019
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A slow rental market in London is weighing down on growth across the rest of the UK, according to the latest...
10 May 2019
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A regional property developer and investment firm has unveiled a Build To Rent division with a target of building 2,500 homes. The...
03 April 2019
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Leicester is the latest council to begin consultations on selective licensing in six parts of the city - with the threat...
22 March 2019
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Bristol is the best city for house shares, according to new research by specialist rental sector broadband and utilities provider Glide. The...
18 February 2019
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A new Build To Rent developer brand, Core Living, has been launched by development and investment company Godwin Group. Godwin is targeting...
25 January 2019
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A new study suggests that rental properties now account for 40 per cent of the available housing stock. Looking at the final...
21 January 2019
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An angry lettings agent has emailed Cabinet minister James Brokenshire to show his disgust at the government’s U-turn over deposit caps. In...
06 December 2018
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A buy to let investor that let at least eight people from six different families rent space in his three-storey property...
03 October 2018
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Sourced, which describes itself as the largest property investment platform in the UK, has secured its 25th franchise some 10 months...
22 June 2018
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Letting agents and landlords will have to win planning consent to erect To Let signs in student areas of Leicester from...
12 June 2018
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Specialist buy to let lender LendInvest has looked at 105 postcodes across England and Wales to find the best (and worst)...
03 April 2018
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09 March 2018
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Liverpool and Nottingham are the UK’s best performing property investment locations, according to mortgage broker Private Finance. Both cities enjoy average rental...
29 January 2018
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Four landlords have been fined and ordered to pay costs totalling £232,155.68 in the first prosecutions of its kind brought by...
19 October 2017
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A Leicestershire agency chain has acquired a rival Leicester-based independent. Whitegates, which has offices in Loughborough, Mountsorrel and central Leicester, has acquired...
04 October 2017
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Consumer group Which? says ‘micro-apartments’ - which have proliferated in recent years - may not be good investments. The group has focussed...
22 August 2017
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A local authority has clamped down on what it describes as illegal advertising boards, fining agencies thousands of pounds in the...
20 June 2017
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Manchester council is considering a city-wide ban on letting agents’ To Let boards. The local authority says the plethora of boards in some...
28 February 2017
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Harrison Murray Lettings is holding a roadshow to showcase what it calls “its experienced and professional service for landlords and tenants.” Over...
23 January 2017
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In the week that the government announced a ban on letting agents levying fees on tenants, one multi-office estate agency has...
25 November 2016
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The government is considering a ban on the display of To Let boards in parts of Leicester following a council bid...
21 October 2016
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An enterprising letting agency in the east Midlands is to stage a series of events under the title The Future of...
12 August 2016
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A buy to let investment search portal has produced an interactive map based on a pull-together of research into the lettings market...
09 May 2016
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It’s not been a happy Christmas for a Leicestershire landlord who has been banned from renting out a converted garage after...
30 December 2015
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Two agents are organising a week-long motivational speaking tour set within Dragons’ Den-style warehouse venues in a bid to show the...
27 November 2015
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Fast-growing agency chain Leaders has two new lettings and sales offices with the acquisition of Aidan J Reed's Leicestershire outlets in...
28 September 2015
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A letting agency has been ordered to pay more than £12,000 in fines and court costs after being convicted of seven...