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An agency has snapped up a substantial regional firm involving 60 staff, 1,100 properties under management, as well as commercial, new...

Paragon Bank’s analysis of its lending data has revealed the top 10 locations for investment by portfolio buy-to-let landlords, those with...

Regional estate agency group Sheldon Bosley Knight has snapped up its second business in recent weeks. It’s acquired Charles Kimbell Lettings in...

Cotswolds and Midlands agency Sheldon Bosley Knight has snapped up a small independent lettings business. Stratford-based Charles Saville Limited adds more than...

Glasgow has been revealed as the UK city with the biggest rise in the number of buy to let properties in...

Citra Living, the Build To Rent arm of Lloyds Banking Group, has announced another new scheme. It is a 95-flat development at...

Lloyds Banking Group, which announced back in 2020 that it was to become involved in the private rental sector, is buying...

Lomond has consolidated its growing foothold in the lettings sector after sealing its biggest acquisition to date in the Midlands. In what...

Lomond has snapped up another lettings book - it’s of the Royston & Lund agency in the East Midlands. The 600 properties...

Midlands-based land and property company Sheldon Bosley Knight has made another lettings acquisition - its fifth in 2023. Leicestershire-based Andrew Granger &...

A prominent provider of student rental accommodation has appointed an international property consultancy to consider growth options. Study Inn Group has a...

A regional agent with 3,500 properties under management has written a long letter to Housing Secretary Michael Gove complaining about the...

Midlands-based property company Sheldon Bosley Knight has acquired its third business in five months. It’s snapped up Chipping Campden-based Andrew Greenwood Estate...

Hortons lettings agency Hortons has released a new advertisement featuring daytime TV presenter Kerr Drummond - who also happens to be...

Two agents who helped establish a multi-million-pound drugs ring in two cities have been jailed. Ossama Omar and Mohamed Latif ran Platinum...

The letting agents’ trade body Propertymark has slammed the current lack of consistency of council tax on HMOs. It describes today’s system...

Several lettings agents have been expelled from The Property Ombudsman scheme; they are amongst eight named as having been kicked out...

A council is set to renew its war on To Let boards. In summer 2018, Leciester council brought into effect a new...

The owner of a property in the Leicestershire village of Great Dalby has been fined after removing two trees within a...

London has continued to dominate the list of the most attractive cities for buy to let investment for the second year...

New data shows that online agents have failed in their bid to replace traditional agencies - and that there are more...

House prices in York - where the local MP is leading an onslaught on the proliferation of short lets - have...

New research claims students in the UK are currently paying as much as £16,500 per year in living costs - a...

There’s concern in the student lettings sector about the impact of the government’s Fairer Private Rental Sector White Paper. For this specialist...

Connells Group has named what it describes as “four key promotions” across its lettings division, signifying the company’s commitment to nurturing...

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

Online agency Hortons is the latest agency to off-set its environmental impact. Hortons operates from a non-branch office in central Leicester with...

Online agency Hortons, which operates its sales activities across five countries, has opened a lettings department. The new service will initially be...

Birmingham, Bristol and Leicester are seeing the fastest growth in Buy To Let investment according to new figures from a business...

An existing Belvoir franchisee in the Midlands has purchased two additional offices in Manchester. Sharanjit Gill of Belvoir Leicester Central now owns...

Student rent has increased almost 20 per cent over the last year.  In data released as part of the 2021 NatWest Student...

Sulets - a not-for-profit, charitable trust providing accommodation for students - has struck gold. It’s won a Gold award from Investors in...

The Build to Rent market remains small in volume but it is making some inroads, leading to BTR rent rises predominantly...

A lettings agency that failed to pay a compensation award ordered by The Property Ombudsman has been expelled from the scheme...

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,...

One of the biggest commercial property operators in the country is to build 338 apartments to rent on the site of...

The average cost of renting in England is almost unchanged from five years ago - although that masks significant localised variations.  The...

An exercise by PropTech company Goodlord has given an insight into what the lettings market may look like in parts of...

A rental demand league table produced by a lettings management platform shows the winners and losers across the UK - and...

The government has revealed the dates of its so-called Christmas eviction truce. Agents will not be able to instruct bailiffs to complete...

For Jill Griffiths, working exactly 25 years at the same agency is a cause for celebration - and her time serving...

Rental demand has dropped significantly across London and other major UK cities as a result of the pandemic. When comparing current levels...

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

Two estate agencies in the same city have merged - but it means one long-standing agency’s name will disappear. The Leicester firm...

A rental management platform has compiled a league table of where tenant demand is strongest for homes to let - and...

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

Property development and investment firm SevenCapital has released a top 10 league table of UK cities which it claims will perform...

Several lettings agencies have stepped up to offer help to stranded customers of the collapsed online service Upad. A notice on Upad’s...

A flat-sharing website has created a league table of average rents in locations surrounding the top-ranked universities in the United Kingdom....

Campaigning charity Shelter has made a remarkable attack on a lettings agency, accusing it of “an abuse of power” over its...

An online room-letting platform claims rents have risen up to eight per cent in wake of the Tenant Fee Act. ideal flatmate...

University towns in the north of England and the Midlands score highest when it comes to yields and capital appreciation. The assessment...

Agents have reacted angrily to the way in which the government released a new set of rental documents updated to include...

A slow rental market in London is weighing down on growth across the rest of the UK, according to the latest...

A regional property developer and investment firm has unveiled a Build To Rent division with a target of building 2,500 homes. The...

Leicester is the latest council to begin consultations on selective licensing in six parts of the city - with the threat...

Bristol is the best city for house shares, according to new research by specialist rental sector broadband and utilities provider Glide. The...

A new Build To Rent developer brand, Core Living, has been launched by development and investment company Godwin Group. Godwin is targeting...

A new study suggests that rental properties now account for 40 per cent of the available housing stock.  Looking at the final...

An angry lettings agent has emailed Cabinet minister James Brokenshire to show his disgust at the government’s U-turn over deposit caps. In...

A buy to let investor that let at least eight people from six different families rent space in his three-storey property...

Sourced, which describes itself as the largest property investment platform in the UK, has secured its 25th franchise some 10 months...

Letting agents and landlords will have to win planning consent to erect To Let signs in student areas of Leicester from...

Specialist buy to let lender LendInvest has looked at 105 postcodes across England and Wales to find the best (and worst)...

Rents in the UK grew by an average, and tiny, 0.69 per cent in the year to the end of February,...

Liverpool and Nottingham are the UK’s best performing property investment locations, according to mortgage broker Private Finance.  Both cities enjoy average rental...

Four landlords have been fined and ordered to pay costs totalling £232,155.68 in the first prosecutions of its kind brought by...

A Leicestershire agency chain has acquired a rival Leicester-based independent.  Whitegates, which has offices in Loughborough, Mountsorrel and central Leicester, has acquired...

Consumer group Which? says ‘micro-apartments’ - which have proliferated in recent years - may not be good investments.    The group has focussed...

A local authority has clamped down on what it describes as illegal advertising boards, fining agencies thousands of pounds in the...

Manchester council is considering a city-wide ban on letting agents’ To Let boards.   The local authority says the plethora of boards in some...

Harrison Murray Lettings is holding a roadshow to showcase what it calls “its experienced and professional service for landlords and tenants.”   Over...

In the week that the government announced a ban on letting agents levying fees on tenants, one multi-office estate agency has...

The government is considering a ban on the display of To Let boards in parts of Leicester following a council bid...

An enterprising letting agency in the east Midlands is to stage a series of events under the title The Future of...

A buy to let investment search portal has produced an interactive map based on a pull-together of research into the lettings market...

It’s not been a happy Christmas for a Leicestershire landlord who has been banned from renting out a converted garage after...

Two agents are organising a week-long motivational speaking tour set within Dragons’ Den-style warehouse venues in a bid to show the...

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

A letting agency has been ordered to pay more than £12,000 in fines and court costs after being convicted of seven...

A property being let out in Lincolnshire produced an unexpected surprise for the agent and landlord handling a routine inspection -...