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Property investment and management company The Sourced Group says its new lettings division which “presents franchisees with the chance to generate...

Parkers franchisee Craig Pearson claims to have added a “substantial” number of properties to his Reading branch portfolio after buying an...

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

Knight Frank’s Richmond residential lettings team has welcomed Ivanka Modesteva-Gyurova as Head of Lettings. Modesteva-Gyurova began her career at Foxtons in 2007,...

Repairs and maintenance specialist Fixflo is running a webinar examining how one client, Umega, used PropTech to more than double its...

Data released today from Foxtons has found that the number of new instructions in January 2024 was 25 per cent higher...

The Martyn Gerrard agency has acquired a London independent - Range Homes. Range Homes, based in the north London suburb of Palmers...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? My name is Sara Stevenson. I am the Lettings Director...

Deposit alternative company flatfair has announced a major new agency partnership with the Andrews Property Group.  Andrews branches will be able to...

A new lettings franchise is being launched, which claims its franchisees can earn £100,000-plus annually.  The Sourced Group has launched Sourced Living,...

The president elect of ARLA Propertymark has created a comprehensive list of female experts in different property disciplines. Angharad Trueman, Group Lettings...

The Jackson-Stops agency is warning that the Renters Reform Bill is driving investors away - and making the market worse, not...

The lettings agency Winkworth has taken the unusual step of criticising policies of a series of councils. The councils are all Labour...

Savills has appointed Marielle Papadopoullos as head of lettings in its key Hampstead office.  Papadopoullos, who joins as a director, has over...

A franchise lettings agency is reported to have agreed to stop potential tenants bidding against each other to secure rental properties. The...

High profile Propertymark lettings expert Angharad Trueman is joining Andrews agency as group lettings director. Trueman has been in the property industry...

Oakfield Estate Agents in Hastings has snapped up a rival firm - Redwell Estates - in nearby Bexhill oil Sea. Neil Newstead,...

The Solihull branch of Hunters has acquired independent agency Searchers, which was set up back in 1995. Becki Dean, lettings director for...

The largest lettings agency in Scotland, DJ Alexander Ltd, has opened new premises in Glasgow.  It employed 20 people and lettings director...

Prime London agency Russell Simpson has announced Ed Woolgar as its new head of lettings, after 18 years of work in...

A Purplebricks divisional lettings director has quit the troubled online agency and is returning to Spicerhaart, where she worked until a...

Prime lettings agent John D Wood & Co has announced its new head of lettings.  It’s Tanya Hasking who is currently director...

Troubled online agency Purplebricks says it’s going to finally release its full year figures in the first week of August -...

Maxine Fothergill, who has just completed her year as President of ARLA Propertymark, is the latest recruit to Zoopla’s Lettings Advisory...

The former head of operations at online agency Yopa has been named as East London area lettings director for haart. Andrie Neophytou...

Purplebricks has announced that its lettings division is to follow the pattern of its sales side, and no longer have self-employed...

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

Rightmove is hosting a new webinar this week for agents, focused on navigating the current rental market. Taking place tomorrow the webinar...

Spicerhaart has announced two new lettings directors to support its £30m expansion programme. Liam Davorn, 57, has 30 years in the profession...

A leading agent and member of the Propertymark board says London’s letting agencies and private rental sector need government help -...

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

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

A lettings agency director has been disqualified for seven years after he emptied its bank account following its liquidation. Ghanshyam Sarup Batra, from...

Some of the most prominent names in the rental sector are taking part in a debate on threats and challenges for...

The hyper-active Linley & Simpson agency group has announced its fourth acquisition since the lifting of the national lockdown. The Yorkshire-focussed company...

Repairs and maintenance management software provider Fixflo is hosting a webinar later this week to debate how letting agents can find...

Winkworth says its London offices are reporting significant numbers of landlords who used to advertise on Airbnb and similar short-let platforms...

London-focussed agency Chestertons has become the latest business to use the teclet platform to manage tenancy, renewal and management processes. Around 40...

Veteran Countrywide figure John Hards has joined the board of still-to-launch property portal OpenBrix. In 2018 Hards rejoined Countrywide as national lettings...

Technology has completely transformed the lettings landscape over the past decade, but perhaps not in the way many expected it would. Letting...

The giant Hunters franchise chain, which has over 200 offices across the UK, Is boosting its technology through a strategic partnership...

Countrywide has issued an unusual statement saying that the veteran lettings expert recruited to steer the organisation through the tenant fee...

A lettings guru who worked at Purplebricks for five years in a string of key roles has quit the company to...

The race for dominance in the deposit alternative field continues apace. Now franchise giant Hunters has teamed up with flatfair to bring...

The owners of Cardiff’s branch of national sales and lettings agency Martin & Co have more than doubled their managed portfolio...

High end lettings agency Harrods Estates says it has seen a 10 per cent rise in tenancy renewals in the Knightsbridge...

Lettings software provider teclet is launching its platform across the network of franchise agency Hunters. teclet has been working with Hunters on...

London agency giant Kinleigh Folkard and Hayward is the latest to offer its tenant clients a no-deposit service.  It's going to use...

Rents are rising very gently across almost all of England and Wales with only London and East Anglia showing falls in...

The latest rental figures produced by Your Move for Scotland have prompted a claim that the country now has better yields...

The lettings director at Urban, the online agency recently snapped up by Emoov, says the rental market is faced with significant...

Yet another leading lettings agent has hit out at the government over its proposals for three year tenancies being the norm...

Countrywide is introducing the ARLA Level 2 qualification throughout its branch network.  All customer-facing lettings staff who joined the business on or...

Well known lettings industry figure John Hards is re-joining Countrywide as National Lettings Director with immediate effect. He first joined Countrywide in...

The lettings director of high-end London lettings agency Russell Simpson says he expects the capital’s rentals market to blossom next year...

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

Humberts has launched an online-only lettings option for landlords with a PropTech firm which has previously operated a service described as...

Haslams, a prominent agency in the Reading area, has appointed ex-Countrywide figure Martin Hembra as director of lettings.   Hembra has over 20...

Purplebricks has announced that its lettings director, Richard Jacques, has sold a total of 60,000 shares in the hybrid agency.   Jacques sold...

The firm run by former Countrywide lettings director Nick Dunning has announced the details of its latest acquisition. Nick Dunning Associates has...

Chelsea estate agency Russell Simpson has appointed a new senior lettings director in a bid to boost the firm’s rental offering.  Having...

Andrews Property Group has announced that Hannah Norris to lead its lettings business across its three major regions of Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire...

Humberts has announced the setting up of a new lettings department to be headed by a former Countrywide branch manager.   Suzanne Diamond has...

A total of 17 letting agencies have signed up to a rental charter set up by a Labour MP.   Alan Whitehead, Labour...

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

Belvoir's Portsmouth office has acquired the local Lettings Direct business, adding a further 100 managed properties to its portfolio.    The move coincides...

Connells has appointed a new lettings area manager for Essex and Suffolk.    Tracey Dumont, who has over 17 years in the industry,...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has formally welcomed its new presidential team for the year ahead. Nik Madan succeeds Peter Savage...

A chef who is reported to have battered a letting agent over the head with a cricket bat in a row...

Developers of major London developments, including Battersea Power Station, may be considering 'downsizing' apartments that can't sell to make them more suitable...

Connells Residential Lettings has announced three new lettings area managers to grow its central division offering, covering Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Wiltshire, Berkshire...

Scottish tenants are paying off late rent amid improving household finances, according to Your Move.  As of January the proportion of late...

George Osborne has done more for the rental market than any other chancellor in history claims Marc von Grundherr, lettings director...

The average rent in Scotland has plateaued, remaining at an all-time record high of £549 a month, according to Your Move's...

The central London sales market dip of recent weeks has directly led to a surge in the lettings sector according to...

Scotland is to be officially represented within the Association of Residential Lettings Agents with the appointment of a Your Move area...

It’s been a fantastic month here at TenTel as more and more tenants and home owners switch their phone and broadband...

Ahead of the next academic year, a letting agency has been advising prospective students on how to rent a property while...