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The fast-growing Lomond Group of agencies has acquired a major online lettings service. But it's going to manage the properties through physical...
10 August 2022
From: Breaking News

Student landlords have seen record increases in rental prices of over 20 per cent in some cases, according to a lettings...
10 August 2022
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency says the cost of living crisis calls into question the viability of a selective licensing scheme in its...
05 August 2022
From: Breaking News

A building society which has taken the unprecedented step of stopping lending on second homes has been sharply criticised by a...
02 August 2022
From: Breaking News

London-focussed lettings agency Benham and Reeves says renters who secured bargain properties during the pandemic now face huge rent rises when...
28 July 2022
From: Breaking News

A high profile London lettings agency says some owners of properties in prime areas of the capital have seen capital appreciation...
21 July 2022
From: Breaking News

A jury has ruled that a lettings agency has been guilty of illegally evicting tenants in Margate - with locks changed,...
20 July 2022
From: Breaking News

Tenants’ bills are expected to hit a record £63 billion this year - and much of it is down to the...
19 July 2022
From: Breaking News

Hat and Home announced its third branch this week, in the Berkshire town of Bracknell. The agency is relatively new - it...
18 July 2022
From: Breaking News

Fourteen Trading Standards authorities across a swathe of England are embarking on an enforcement project to check lettings agency compliance. The Central England...
15 July 2022
From: Breaking News

House price growth in prime country and coastal locations is beginning to plateau after two years of runaway growth, with urban...
12 July 2022
From: Breaking News

The boss of an online lettings agency is warning the government against undue delay and greater uncertainty in the rental reform...
11 July 2022
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency in Kent has been drawn into a spat about rent levels following a councillor’s comment on Twitter. Liberal Democrat...
01 July 2022
From: Breaking News

Bhavik Patel, owner of Nicholas Humphreys Southampton & Portsmouth has acquired independent lettings agency Harker and Bullman in Wimborne. This is the...
24 June 2022
From: Breaking News

The franchise owners of a Parkers branch have marked their third year under the brand by opening a second office. Brendan and...
23 June 2022
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency is alleged to have used violence and vandalism over a prolonged period against the tenants of at least...
22 June 2022
From: Breaking News

For the first time since November 2019, rents in London grew faster than any other region in the country. That’s the claim...
22 June 2022
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The most recent interest rate rise has swung the balance making it cheaper to rent than to buy, according to lettings...
20 June 2022
From: Breaking News

The sole director of a lettings agency, who was recently made the subject of an anti-social behaviour injunction and banning order,...
10 June 2022
From: Breaking News

Historic agency Chestertons has appointed its long-serving lettings chief Richard Davies as its new chief executive. This follows the departure of high...
09 June 2022
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The fast-growing Henry Adams Lettings has acquired Interlet Sussex, a long-established independent agency. Interlet Sussex, based in Bognor Regis, was founded in...
09 June 2022
From: Breaking News

High profile Welsh lettings agency Peter Alan has acquired West Quay Estates & Lettings as part of its long term strategy...
08 June 2022
From: Breaking News

Yet another independent lettings agency has been acquired by the Martin & Co brand of The Property Franchise Group. The owner of...
06 June 2022
From: Breaking News

A student-specialising lettings agency has been named as franchise of the year at the brand’s annual awards. Nicholas Humphreys Nottingham, one of...
01 June 2022
From: Breaking News

Another lettings agency is offering a major incentive to landlords switching from Airbnb to traditional long term rentals. Hills Lettings, a south...
30 May 2022
From: Breaking News

The Belvoir Group, one of the country’s largest multi-brand property franchises, is rebranding to distinguish itself from the Belvoir lettings and...
24 May 2022
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency is celebrating winning the obstruction to let and manage a 63 unit Build To Rent scheme for students...
23 May 2022
From: Breaking News

One of the country’s best-regarded lettings agencies celebrates its 50th birthday today. The Oxford-based Finders Keepers was founded in 1972, starting out...
20 May 2022
From: Breaking News

Part of the fast-growing Lomond Group of lettings agencies has signed a new partnership deal with a major football club. Stonehouse in...
19 May 2022
From: Breaking News

A prominent lettings agency chief says the lifecycle of a typical tenancy has been transformed in recent years, as a result...
18 May 2022
From: Breaking News

London rents are rising at a record pace with growth being driven by tenants returning from outside the capital. That’s the suggestion...
16 May 2022
From: Breaking News

A council-run private rental sector lettings agency which so far claims to manage 300 properties it launching an advertising campaign to...
06 May 2022
From: Breaking News

The founder of a leading letting agency coaching organisation has won a coveted international award. Agent Rainmaker was set up by Sally...
03 May 2022
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency is in hot water with advertising regulators for using the phrase “What the flock are you looking at?”...
27 April 2022
From: Breaking News

An activist at the centre of a controversy involving a London letting agent has used a left-wing website to explain how...
25 April 2022
From: Breaking News

An increasing number of house purchases are made by buyers who are not in chains - a trend driven by the...
25 April 2022
From: Breaking News

Another Belvoir franchise has acquired a local independent lettings agency. Belvoir already has offices in Corby, Kettering and Coventry and is now...
20 April 2022
From: Breaking News

Martin & Co’s Plymouth franchisees have taken their branch’s managed portfolio beyond 1,000 properties after a third acquisition in five years. Chris...
07 April 2022
From: Breaking News

A key figure at Propertymark has joined popular lettings agency supplier The Lettings Partnership as commercial director. Sarah Davies’ role at Propertymark...
04 April 2022
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency has identified where tenant demand is strongest right now - and where demand is lower than some agents...
31 March 2022
From: Breaking News

New research from holiday lettings agency Classic Cottages shows that 2021 was a record year in one of the country’s staycation...
30 March 2022
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A leading lettings agency says increasing numbers of tenants are seeking pet-friendly homes to rent. Chestertons claims up to 35 per cent...
29 March 2022
From: Breaking News

An online lettings agency says two thirds of landlords and tenants have ‘issues’ with their agents - and substantial numbers claim...
23 March 2022
From: Breaking News

A business news website is reporting that an agency has been ordered to pay £1,550 for displaying a board illegally. Charles Lear...
16 March 2022
From: Breaking News

A warning has gone out to politicians from lettings agency trade body ARLA Propertymark - don’t try to fix a system...
16 March 2022
From: Breaking News

Connells-owned lettings agency Hamptons is warning that the record-breaking rental growth of the past year has seen tenants pay a rocketing...
14 March 2022
From: Breaking News

A lettings firm specialising in holiday properties is reported to have disappeared with all items taken from its office and calls...
11 March 2022
From: Breaking News

Lettings agency Galbraith reports that landlords are now returning to the residential lets sector from holiday lets after several years without...
10 March 2022
From: Breaking News

A so-called ethical lettings agency run jointly by two local authorities is handling private rental properties but is charging landlords just...
02 March 2022
From: Breaking News

A two-branch lettings agency in Hertfordshire has ceased trading and says it will soon be placed into creditors’ voluntary liquidation. A statement...
01 March 2022
From: Breaking News

A north of England lettings agency has successfully qualified five members of its staff through The Able Agent training programme. The agency...
25 February 2022
From: Breaking News

New research shows that despite tax and regulatory changes restricting buy to let returns, this remains a far healthier investment than...
23 February 2022
From: Breaking News

The online lettings agency Howsy is reported to have been acquired by a national chain after a ‘distressed sale’ following its...
22 February 2022
From: Breaking News

A prominent lettings agency chief says a consultation looking at changes to private renting proposed by the Scottish Government is merely...
18 February 2022
From: Breaking News

The leader of one of Britain’s highest profile lettings agency operations has let rip at the government for what he calls...
10 February 2022
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency employee who diverted over £50,000 of landlords’ money into his own account has been given a suspended sentence. Paul...
08 February 2022
From: Breaking News

One of the country's leading agency groups has signed a multi-year deal with PropTech firm Goodlord. Andrews Property Group, which has 49...
08 February 2022
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency says renters must pay an average of up to 77 per cent of their monthly household income to...
04 February 2022
From: Breaking News

Propertymark has expressed a sigh of relief at a decision this week by the Appeal Court, which ruled in favour of...
28 January 2022
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency has gone on the offensive and is publishing landlords who switch from rivals because of allegedly poor service. And...
28 January 2022
From: Breaking News

A key judgment from the Court of Appeal, announced today, is reported to have gone in favour of landlords and letting...
26 January 2022
From: Breaking News

Bowmark Capital is selling its Leaders Romans Group, one of the UK’s largest property services groups, to another private equity operator, Platinum...
25 January 2022
From: Breaking News

A lettings agent who also acts on behalf of tenants against landlords and agents claims to have received 1,000 enquiries from...
25 January 2022
From: Breaking News

Rents are rising at around twice the level of a year ago according to data from Connells-owned lettings agency Hamptons. Despite rental...
18 January 2022
From: Breaking News

EU citizens with settled status in the UK, but who have stayed in their native countries during the pandemic, are likely...
17 January 2022
From: Breaking News

While the number of companies set up by individual landlords to hold buy to lets reached a record high last year,...
17 January 2022
From: Breaking News

Agent Rainmaker is holding another of its ARX Mastery events, in a bid to promote growth in the lettings agency sector...
17 January 2022
From: Breaking News

A little-known law may require tenants to pay stamp duty on the rental properties they do not actually own. London lettings agency...
12 January 2022
From: Breaking News

An agency has made its third acquisition in recent years - this time snapping up a town’s longest established lettings agency. Whitegates...
11 January 2022
From: Breaking News

There’s been a slump in demand for rental properties as a result of tenants staying put in the latter part of...
07 January 2022
From: Breaking News

A leading lettings agent has warned tenants against using social media to find rental properties. David Alexander - head of DJ Alexander,...
06 January 2022
From: Breaking News

Home offices are already the most-demanded must have from prospective tenants says James Hay, director at Surrey lettings agency, The Home...
30 December 2021
From: Breaking News

An agency has issued a statement strongly rejecting the negative mood music surrounding the private rental sector. Chris Wood and Ross McDonald...
29 December 2021
From: Breaking News

Former ARLA Propertymark president Sally Lawson, who now runs the Agent Rainmaker training service, has set out for Letting Agent Today...
24 December 2021
From: Breaking News

A London-focussed lettings agency group has paid £2,000 as a result of breaching the Tenant Fees Act. The issue relates to the...
23 December 2021
From: Breaking News

The lettings agency boss at the centre of a major industry takeover has fired a warning shot about rent controls and...
22 December 2021
From: Breaking News

One of the country’s oldest agencies may be under new ownership soon. The fast-expanding Lomond Group - which just last week announced...
20 December 2021
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency’s new website claims to offer increased support to landlords, tenants, and investors, “while cutting through the noise of...
17 December 2021
From: Breaking News

Three lettings agency bosses have been banned from being directors of companies for a total of over 13 years after being...
14 December 2021
From: Breaking News

For the first time since January 2020, rents in Inner London rose on an annual basis - they were up 3.9...
13 December 2021
From: Breaking News

Paul and Sharon Collins are to mark 25 years as owners of the Belvoir Lincoln lettings agency in the New Year. Looking...
07 December 2021
From: Breaking News

A fake lettings operation has been uncovered by a leading legitimate agency - and now the National Trading Standards Estate and...
06 December 2021
From: Breaking News

Stirling Ackroyd Group has acquired the south east London sales and lettings agency Beresford Residential. It has bought the whole business including the...
30 November 2021
From: Breaking News

A Newcastle lettings agency says it’s cracked how to help reduce tenancy disputes at check out and speed up the return...
29 November 2021
From: Breaking News

The latest market snapshot from lettings agency Hamptons suggests that rents have risen, nationally, 7.9 per cent over the last 12 months. It...
22 November 2021
From: Breaking News

The London and South East property group Stirling Ackroyd - which recently rebranded from its former title, Nick Dunning Associates -...
15 November 2021
From: Breaking News

A north of England lettings agency is claiming an all-time record for enquiries relating to student accommodation - and the biggest...
11 November 2021
From: Breaking News

Media reports in Stoke on Trent say a man was arrested after a police raid on the Homes2Let lettings agency in...
05 November 2021
From: Breaking News

A brand within the fast-expanding Lomond Group has sealed its second acquisition within a fortnight, adding a further 200 properties to...
04 November 2021
From: Breaking News

Data from central London lettings agency Bective shows returning tenant demand in the capital. The agency’s analysis of new lettings applicants shows...
04 November 2021
From: Breaking News

Rents in much of London have not only bounced back from the pandemic but now exceed the levels reached in 2020. Research...
02 November 2021
From: Breaking News

Property group Nick Dunning Associates, which includes the brands Townends and Regents, has rebranded to Stirling Ackroyd Group, effective from today. All...
01 November 2021
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency has been prosecuted by Birmingham council for unlawfully evicting a tenant. Principal Homes is based at Great Barr and was...
29 October 2021
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency in Manchester has received over 10,000 rental enquiries in just one month. Manchester Apartments says it received some 21,000...
27 October 2021
From: Breaking News

Another independent lettings agency has been acquired by a fast-expanding giant with plans to become a prominent national agency network. Lomond Group’s John...
26 October 2021
From: Breaking News

A leading lettings agency wants next week’s Budget to unveil incentives to bolster supply in the long term rental sector. Richard Davies,...
22 October 2021
From: Breaking News

Independent Liverpool-based agency LPS Real Estate has acquired another indie - Maison Lettings. As part of the acquisition, LPS will take over...
21 October 2021
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency with links to Saudi Arabian investors has produced a case study of how faith is returning to the long...
20 October 2021
From: Breaking News

Online lettings agency LettingaProperty.com says it’s using social media platform TikTok to build its brand and drum up business, and claims...
19 October 2021
From: Breaking News

A Foxtons-owned lettings agency says 60 per cent of tenants and would-be buyers say they are not confident negotiating asking rents...
19 October 2021
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency says a new HMO licensing regime in one of London’s highest profile boroughs will reduce the number of rental properties. This...
15 October 2021
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The head of a lettings agency has drawn up a wish list for Chancellor Rishi Sunak to address in his Budget...
14 October 2021
From: Breaking News

Average annual rental growth across Britain hit 8.0 per cent in September, the third fastest annual rate of growth recorded this...
12 October 2021
From: Breaking News

Lettings agency Hamptons, part of Connells, says there’s little sign that the stamp duty holiday led to large numbers of new...
11 October 2021
From: Breaking News

More and more people are committing tenancy fraud and it’s having a massive impact on the industryAs a lettings agency, you...
07 October 2021
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A lack of longer term rental accommodation thanks to the growth of Airbnb and other short lets has led to a...
05 October 2021
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency’s research has revealed that rental demand has continued to climb across most major UK cities during the third quarter...
05 October 2021
From: Breaking News

A London lettings agency - that has now entered bankruptcy - has been cleared of any involvement in a rental scandal...
04 October 2021
From: Breaking News

The rapid pace of growth in the rental market will slow in 2022 but the enduring rate of increase should still...
27 September 2021
From: Breaking News

An estate and lettings agent has analysed how the level of rental arrears has grown between each wave of the pandemic. The...
21 September 2021
From: Breaking News

The latest research by lettings agency Benham and Reeves has analysed how the pandemic has affected the UK rental market when...
17 September 2021
From: Breaking News

LettingaProperty.com has appointed Kevin Neary, ex-GameStop Group managing director and co-founder, as Board Chairman, to help drive the company's growth. This...
16 September 2021
From: Breaking News

Portfolio landlords can be the key to running a successful lettings agency. That is the latest claim from lead generation software provider...
13 September 2021
From: Breaking News

A branch of national lettings agency Martin & Co is under new ownership. Landlord and property developer Grant Simpson has purchased the...
10 September 2021
From: Breaking News

A council has just launched it own publicly-funded lettings agency and wants private landlords to sign up. The 'Your Choice' lettings agency,...
03 September 2021
From: Breaking News

A lettings agent has taken the unorthodox approach of advising tenants to take their landlords to court in a bid to...
31 August 2021
From: Breaking News

The new owner of a lettings agency is aiming to fuel growth in his new business after swapping petrol stations and...
26 August 2021
From: Breaking News

A prominent lettings agency owner has given his verdict on the concept of charging renters to view a property - “it...
20 August 2021
From: Breaking News

The tide is turning for the London rental market at last according to data from the Benham and Reeves lettings agency. In...
19 August 2021
From: Breaking News

Prop Home, a new online property management and lettings agency, pledges to “transform the way rented homes are managed on behalf...
12 August 2021
From: Breaking News

A lettings agent who has made a series of outbursts against landlords and councils, has now turned his anger on proposed...
10 August 2021
From: Breaking News

The Merthyr Tydfil branch of sales and lettings agency Martin & Co has completed a second acquisition in 12 months –...
02 August 2021
From: Breaking News

A ruling of the First Tier Property Tribunal has put a London property management firm in the clear following a dispute...
23 July 2021
From: Breaking News

Online lettings agency Accommodation has pledged to plant a new tree for every property let - it has already planting 1,190...
16 July 2021
From: Breaking News

A London lettings agency is exposed on TV this evening over what turns out to be a sham guaranteed rent scheme. Landlords...
15 July 2021
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency is using its latest podcast to explore the retail-to-resi trend in the housing market. Winkworth’s podcast under The Property...
14 July 2021
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency has apologised after a campaign by activists about the condition of a rental property it manages. Protesters outside the...
13 July 2021
From: Breaking News

Rental demand has started to return to the majority of major UK cities during the second quarter of this year, with...
07 July 2021
From: Breaking News

London’s rental market gathered momentum in June as tenants anticipated a return to the office with 24 per cent more tenancies...
07 July 2021
From: Breaking News

Two front line success stories in the lettings agency industry are to address a webinar on the importance of qualifications. Megan Eighteen...
02 July 2021
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency that works closely with Build To Rent developers says half of the schemes allow pets. Pet rentals have been...
01 July 2021
From: Breaking News

A lettings agent who wants tenants to take out policies to fund complaints against agencies and landlords has branded the social...
28 June 2021
From: Breaking News

High profile London lettings agency Chestertons says there’s been an increase in Hong Kong residents looking to rent a home in...
24 June 2021
From: Breaking News

London’s rental market is witnessing a strong recovery in spite of the pandemic, according to the latest analysis by lettings agency...
18 June 2021
From: Breaking News

Rental growth accelerated in May to reach a new record high according to Connells-owned lettings agency Hamptons. Last month the average cost...
15 June 2021
From: Breaking News
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A lettings agency with branches in Corby and Kettering has been shortlisted for two awards this summer. Belvoir has been nominated for...
15 June 2021
From: Breaking News

The local media in Manchester have published photographs of a property operated by a lettings agency was found to have multiple...
09 June 2021
From: Breaking News

South East of England sales and lettings agency Parkers is continuing to expand across Berkshire with the opening of a new...
08 June 2021
From: Breaking News

The Miles & Barr Group has snapped up two lettings and property management companies – Roger & Hambidge and Brettsletts. The acquisitions...
07 June 2021
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency which markets private rental properties and units operated by a housing association has apologised for its ‘No DSS’...
27 May 2021
From: Breaking News

Fixflo has pledged that it’s business as usual for its lettings agency clients, after news broke that it was to be...
26 May 2021
From: Breaking News

A new independent agency is to specialise in lettings and property management across Hertfordshire. Led by Luke Mason and Jonathan Fiducia, the...
26 May 2021
From: Breaking News

North London agency Home Minders has acquired independent lettings and sales business Alan Goldin Estates. This transaction is Home Minder’s third acquisition,...
21 May 2021
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency director has been disqualified for seven years after he emptied its bank account following its liquidation. Ghanshyam Sarup Batra, from...
20 May 2021
From: Breaking News

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
From: Breaking News

A former employee at the Staines-upon-Thames office of lettings agency Martin & Co has returned – as the branch’s new owner. Doreen...
18 May 2021
From: Breaking News

Lettings agency Hamptons says there’s been “an unprecedented fall” in the number of rental homes on the market, leading to double-digit...
17 May 2021
From: Breaking News

The five years since the introduction of the three per cent stamp duty surcharge on additional homes has led to a...
17 May 2021
From: Breaking News

London lettings agency Kalmar is thought to be the first to use the increasingly-fashionable social media platform TikTok to let and...
12 May 2021
From: Breaking News

High-end lettings agency Knight Frank says there’s been a huge loss of houses available for renters in prime London in the...
10 May 2021
From: Breaking News

A lettings company has paid an undisclosed sum - described only as “a six figure deal” - to acquire a large...
05 May 2021
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency director has been issued with a Criminal Behaviour Order for unlawfully evicting a tenant back in 2019. CFDP Ltd, trading as...
30 April 2021
From: Breaking News

A rival trade body to the Association of Residential Letting Agents has announced what it calls “a robust membership result.” The UK...
30 April 2021
From: Breaking News

A family-owned boutique lettings agency in Salford, Greater Manchester, has taken a significant share in a nearby independent rival - and will...
29 April 2021
From: Breaking News

A Manchester-based lettings agency has won a long-term deal with one of the UK’s most prominent Build To Rent operators. Ascend Properties...
27 April 2021
From: Breaking News

A block management company owned by the Leaders Romans Group has been awarded over £6.5m in government building safety funds to...
27 April 2021
From: Breaking News

The Canterbury branch of national sales and lettings agency Martin & Co has a new owner. Angie Collins has taken on the...
23 April 2021
From: Breaking News

Another lettings agency has been found to have unlawfully discriminated against a tenant receiving benefits. Worthing County Court declared that Michael Jones & Company unlawfully...
21 April 2021
From: Breaking News
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Greater Manchester’s Labour Mayor, Andy Burnham, says he wants to clamp down on the private rental sector. In his manifesto for next month’s...
19 April 2021
From: Breaking News

Another lettings agency has been expelled from The Property Ombudsman scheme for failing to pay an outstanding compensation award - but...
16 April 2021
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency that failed to pay a compensation award ordered by The Property Ombudsman has been expelled from the scheme...
15 April 2021
From: Breaking News

London rents have started to fall again - just as every other region of Britain is showing significant annual increases. Figures for...
12 April 2021
From: Breaking News

At least one lettings agency is on a list of targets for socially-distanced protests tomorrow by anti-eviction campaigners in the left...
09 April 2021
From: Breaking News

A quarterly index suggests that there’s been a sharp uplift in tenant demand for rental properties across the UK’s major cities...
08 April 2021
From: Breaking News

Letting agency My Property Box is moving into property sales as part of a significant expansion of its business. The decision follows...
07 April 2021
From: Breaking News

Some 39 agents and landlords have had banning orders over the past three years according to a report in The Guardian. Under the...
06 April 2021
From: Breaking News

Lettings agency Intus Lettings has announced the opening of a new Sheffield office — its first base in Yorkshire. The Sheffield office...
01 April 2021
From: Breaking News

After years of deliberation there still appears to many to be little progress on the recommendations of the Regulation of Property...
19 March 2021
From: Breaking News

Leaders Romans Group has acquired another lettings agency - the fourth lettings-led acquisition this year. This time it is Guardian Residential Lettings...
18 March 2021
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency in central London has been issued with a fine for not belonging to a Client Money Protection scheme. The...
17 March 2021
From: Breaking News

The vast majority of tenants would pay more if rental properties better suited their needs, a prominent lettings agency claims. Manchester-based Ascend...
17 March 2021
From: Breaking News

An investigation is underway into a lettings agency which has gone into liquidation owing almost £500,000 in rent to landlords and in...
15 March 2021
From: Breaking News

The week begins with news of another agency acquiring an independent. This time it’s Alexander & Co, a Bedfordshire firm, which has...
15 March 2021
From: Breaking News

The head of a lettings agency says there are up to 60 enquiries for every rental property he lists - and those...
12 March 2021
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency in the growing Lomond Group has purchased a rental portfolio on the south coast. Brand Vaughan has bought the lettings...
09 March 2021
From: Breaking News

Local media in the Homes Counties report that two arrests were made after police were called by a lettings agency where...
05 March 2021
From: Breaking News

A fast-growing regional chain of agencies has purchased another independent operator in the lettings sector. Yorkshire's Linley & Simpson has bought Sinclair Properties...
04 March 2021
From: Breaking News

The latest shock resignation from Propertymark leaves the lettings agency sector rudderless - although enthusiasm for the organisation has arguably never...
18 February 2021
From: Breaking News

The rate of rental growth picked up for the sixth month running according to lettings agency Hamptons. Across Great Britain rents rose 4.3...
15 February 2021
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency is warning that fraudsters have copied property listings and put them on Facebook Marketplace, demanding deposits from the...
11 February 2021
From: Breaking News

An enterprising mother and daughter are bouncing back from being made redundant due to Covid-19 by setting up their own lettings...
01 February 2021
From: Breaking News

An online lettings agency that claims to have analysed the costs of “a selection” of 12 High Street agencies has accused...
28 January 2021
From: Breaking News

The new chief executive of Propertymark says being a member of the Association of Residential Letting Agents is a sign of...
26 January 2021
From: Breaking News

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
From: Breaking News

A regional lettings agency says its better-than-expected 2020 performance is down at least partly to having what it calls a unique...
15 January 2021
From: Breaking News

Congratulations from all of us at Letting Agent Today - and probably most of the rest of the industry - to Martin...
11 January 2021
From: Breaking News

Lomond Capital, which owns Scottish lettings and estate agents Braemore and Stonehouse, is to merge with Yorkshire firm Linley & Simpson. The...
05 January 2021
From: Breaking News

UniHomes, a student accommodation platform, has snapped up Split The Bills, a bill sharing service aimed at the student market. UniHomes -...
05 January 2021
From: Breaking News

Lettings agency Carter Jonas predicts the housing market - for both owner-occupiers and landlords - will become increasingly eco-focussed in 2021. It says...
30 December 2020
From: Breaking News

A senior lettings agency figure says virtual viewings have transformed the rental sector. “The increased level of requests for virtual viewings has...
29 December 2020
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency has called in the police after a protest involving anti-agent activists demanding compensation for past tenants. The Eastern Daily...
24 December 2020
From: Breaking News

Belvoir’s agency in Grantham is making a fantastic gesture by donating crates of produce to the local Foodbank. Over 100 kilos of...
24 December 2020
From: Breaking News

Fast-growing regional agency Linley & Simpson has taken over the rental portfolios of two more independent firms. The deal has transferred 750...
16 December 2020
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency is in the news because it has asked a student to stop using a specific room in a...
08 December 2020
From: Breaking News

A newspaper claims a lettings agency is battling allegations of overcharging customers and using fake companies to carry out maintenance work. The Daily Record...
30 November 2020
From: Breaking News

A chartered surveying company has acquired a long established lettings agency in the same town in Greater Manchester. Altrincham based firm Oakwood...
27 November 2020
From: Breaking News

A London lettings agency has described a £3,600 charge to a tenant as “entirely reasonable and legal.” The i newspaper has featured a...
26 November 2020
From: Breaking News

Foxtons has acquired a London lettings agency and along with it a lettings book comprising 689 tenancies. The deal is worth £2.2m. In...
25 November 2020
From: Breaking News

Activists from the so-called renters’ union Acorn have held a protest outside the office of a lettings agency in Oxford. A photograph...
19 November 2020
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency specialising in managing Build To Rent developments says it’s collected 99 per cent of all invoiced rent during...
18 November 2020
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency is marking its 15th anniversary with news that it now has over £100m worth of property in its portfolio. Berriman...
18 November 2020
From: Breaking News

PropTech platform MakeUrMove, which launched back in 2008 as the first online lettings agency, has secured a £1.3m funding package from...
17 November 2020
From: Breaking News

London lettings agency Benham and Reeves has drawn up a league table of which boroughs in the capital have had their...
17 November 2020
From: Breaking News

Wakefield Trinity rugby league club has announced that local lettings agency Cooper & Cutt has renewed its sponsorship with the club,...
12 November 2020
From: Breaking News

One of the country’s major lettings agency chiefs says there is a “massive” change in tenant priorities underway. Michael Cook, national lettings...
11 November 2020
From: Breaking News

Hybrid lettings agency Accommodation is launching a drive to recruit agents in 10 regions across the UK. The company says this is...
04 November 2020
From: Breaking News

A heroic lettings agency in the south west of England has stepped up to the plate this half-term week by offering...
28 October 2020
From: Breaking News

A hybrid has been named lettings agency of the year by comparison website Rentround. Accommodation.co.uk has won the award after being the most...
23 October 2020
From: Breaking News

Deposit alternative service flatfair has teamed up with a rewards provider to offer 500 letting agencies one year of free access. Agents...
21 October 2020
From: Breaking News

A new agency set up in Wiltshire says it goes beyond the traditional lettings services of existing operators, and instead seeks...
15 October 2020
From: Breaking News

The investment arm of the Big Issue street newspaper is putting £3m into a new form of lettings agency. Homes for Good was...
02 October 2020
From: Breaking News

A new proposal from the government says agents and portals will be banned from advertising rental properties with non-compliant Energy Performance...
01 October 2020
From: Breaking News

North of England lettings agency Matthew & Evans Rentals has been kicked out of the Property Redress Scheme, one of the two...
28 September 2020
From: Breaking News

Hamptons International has given a rental market forecast for 2021 - and it doesn’t make for happy reading. The agency says the rental...
28 September 2020
From: Breaking News

Stockport-based property development company Three Sixty has launched what it calls an online agency - Three Sixty Living - to handle...
24 September 2020
From: Breaking News

The private rental sector dedicated to student accommodation in London could see a 24 per cent drop in income in the...
23 September 2020
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency that told a prospective tenant it had a policy of not offering tenancies to housing benefit recipients has...
10 September 2020
From: Breaking News

A city lettings agency has rebranded in what it calls “a step change for the business.” Let Leeds is now known as...
21 August 2020
From: Breaking News

The author of a book described as being about “insecure renters haemorrhaging cash” has used her newspaper column to make a...
19 August 2020
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency has relaunched its property management service after it was acquired by Purplebricks in 2017. The agreement back then meant...
12 August 2020
From: Breaking News

Media reports from Gateshead claim two brothers opened fire on a lettings agency with an air pistol when they were told they...
11 August 2020
From: Breaking News

The lettings agency Portico is partnering with Goodlord to offer a new insurance policy to its landlords. Portico landlords can now benefit...
07 August 2020
From: Breaking News

Research by a lettings agency suggests the pandemic has radically reshaped tenants’ demands. - and the process is still going on. Benham...
06 August 2020
From: Breaking News

Online lettings agency Upad is offering to refund users whose rental listings did not appear on Zoopla and PrimeLocation as they...
05 August 2020
From: Breaking News

High-end London agency chain Chestertons has snapped up an independent lettings agency in the east of the capital. Morgan Randall operated across Canary...
05 August 2020
From: Breaking News

The chief executive of campaigning charity Shelter claims some lettings agencies are ignoring the recent ruling that private landlords cannot discriminate against...
04 August 2020
From: Breaking News

Which? is warning prospective renters to beware scam lettings agencies and scam landlords following a case where £5,600 was conned out...
03 August 2020
From: Breaking News

David Cox’s departure as chief executive of ARLA Propertymark last Friday was well signposted, particularly when he was advised he could...
28 July 2020
From: Breaking News

The splendidly named East Midlands lettings agency Monkey vs Owl - known as MOVO - has opened a second office. Its first,...
24 July 2020
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency is launching a service that allows landlords to list their properties on Rightmove, Zoopla and OnTheMarket for just...
24 June 2020
From: Breaking News

One of the country’s largest independent agencies has emerged out of lockdown with a spring in its step, acquiring two small...
10 June 2020
From: Breaking News

For Jill Griffiths, working exactly 25 years at the same agency is a cause for celebration - and her time serving...
02 June 2020
From: Breaking News

Rents in London have dropped by between 10 and 15 per cent as fewer people are willing or able to move...
29 May 2020
From: Breaking News

** This Bank Holiday Monday both Letting Agent Today and Estate Agent Today look at how agencies have modified offices and protocols...
25 May 2020
From: Breaking News

An online lettings agency says landlords should take up mortgage holiday offers and be willing to accept reduced rent during the...
21 May 2020
From: Breaking News

One of the country’s largest lettings agencies is to lose 17 jobs out of 100 in what the company founder calls...
19 May 2020
From: Breaking News

Lenwell is a busy lettings agency covering Luton, Dunstable, Bedford, Milton Keynes, Biggleswade, Hitchin and Northampton - and now, busy in...
08 May 2020
From: Breaking News

Agents and landlords who use unorthodox methods of securing obligations from tenants to pay their rent during the Coronavirus crisis may...
06 May 2020
From: Breaking News

Coventry council has been branded as irresponsible by a leading trade body for allegedly ignoring government advice on licensing schemes during...
06 May 2020
From: Breaking News

A leading London lettings agency is reporting only a very low rent default rate so far, despite fears that the Coronavirus...
22 April 2020
From: Breaking News

High-end lettings agency Knight Frank says the lettings market “could explode quite quickly” when the lockdown ends. The agency says that in...
20 April 2020
From: Breaking News

New and newly-refurbished properties are letting more readily as virtual viewings become more widespread during the lockdown. That’s the view of Knight...
16 April 2020
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency is asking tenants who cannot afford to pay rent during the Coronavirus crisis to sign a ‘moral contract’ that...
14 April 2020
From: Breaking News

A Wales holiday lettings agency has worked with owner-clients to offer free holidays to frontline healthcare workers when the crisis has...
13 April 2020
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency has given a full apology after a letter - not approved by the company - was sent out...
30 March 2020
From: Breaking News

The former operations director at Purplebricks says he is waiving fees for letting agents who want to join his new online...
30 March 2020
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency in central London is setting an example to the industry by offering help to its landlords and tenants...
25 March 2020
From: Breaking News

Although the worst of the stock market bloodletting triggered by Coronavirus now appears to have gone, franchise agency group Belvoir has...
24 March 2020
From: Breaking News

Hello: so much has happened since the last Conquering Corona column on Friday. Before we get on with it, a reminder...
23 March 2020
From: Breaking News

Franchise giant Winkworth has expanded its presence in Reading with the acquisition of a local independent lettings agency. It’s snapped up AMPM,...
19 March 2020
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency and its director have pleaded guilty to renting out an overcrowded house in the first case brought to...
17 March 2020
From: Breaking News

Foxtons has snapped up a lettings agency in suburban London. It’s bought London Stone Properties Limited and its subsidiary company London Stone...
03 March 2020
From: Breaking News

Demand for rental properties in January increased to the highest level on record with 88 prospective tenants registered per lettings agency...
26 February 2020
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency owner has spoken about his bid to restore his firm's reputation after it was destroyed by a former employee. Earlier...
21 February 2020
From: Breaking News

An online lettings agency has accused High Street rivals of being “inefficient” and making voids longer than necessary. Home Made, which operates...
20 February 2020
From: Breaking News

A survey by lettings agency Carter Jonas has revealed what the firm calls the top priorities for tenants as the 2020s...
19 February 2020
From: Breaking News

A room-finding portal, along with the owners of a London lettings agency and management firm, must pay over £100,000 for letting...
12 February 2020
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency in one of the most competitive markets in Britain says it’s enjoyed a record year winning landlords from...
05 February 2020
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency is calling on local councils to tackle the growing problem of long-term empty homes. My Property Box says that...
30 January 2020
From: Breaking News

A London council has caught out a rogue lettings agency for illegally operating two properties, with issues ranging from gas safety...
27 January 2020
From: Breaking News

It’s been revealed that Upad, the lettings agency which closed at short notice in October last year, had three prospective buyers...
23 January 2020
From: Breaking News

Manchester lettings agency Ascend says it’s had a record year in 2019, bolstered by its new Build To Rent involvement. The company...
21 January 2020
From: Breaking News

A campaign group that has held protests outside letting agents’ branches and has been fiercely critical of fees, says it’s seen a...
16 January 2020
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency admits that the proportion of net income required to cover rent has hit 75 per cent in some...
16 January 2020
From: Breaking News

Specialist letting agency and property management company Student Housing has had its busiest quarter, it says. The Lincoln-based agency added 30 new...
16 January 2020
From: Breaking News

Durham county council wants to spend just over £250,000 setting up a lettings agency to place tenants with private landlords. The authority...
13 January 2020
From: Breaking News

A trade magazine is reporting that online lettings agency Upad has been bought out by a PropTech platform. The Negotiator says Howsy...
13 January 2020
From: Breaking News

A protest has been held outside a lettings agency in Manchester by tenants demanding that the firm ‘sacks’ one of its...
10 January 2020
From: Breaking News

Darlington-based My Property Box has welcomed five new members of staff to its team who between them have amassed more than...
07 January 2020
From: Breaking News

A high end lettings agency says the most expensive rural rental market in the north west of England is dominated by...
31 December 2019
From: Breaking News

The chief executive of Shelter - the campaigning charity which has been sharply critical of letting agents in the past -...
30 December 2019
From: Breaking News

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has given a brief but optimistic assessment of the private rental market for next year. “As...
24 December 2019
From: Breaking News

A Southampton lettings agency owner has been jailed after defrauding landlords and tenants out of £230,000. Andrew Whitehead has been jailed for...
19 December 2019
From: Breaking News

Luton council has opened Lets Squared, a High Street lettings and estate agency using public funds - even though the town...
12 December 2019
From: Breaking News

The sales market in London continues to wreak havoc with agencies, as yesterday’s Foxtons story revealed, but one lettings agency is...
12 December 2019
From: Breaking News

Longstanding Leeds based property company Adair Paxton has acquired boutique estate agency firm, Hudson Moody Wass. Founded in 2001, Hudson Moody Wass...
09 December 2019
From: Breaking News

Belvoir has acquired another independent sales and lettings agency - this time it’s Onwards and Upwards, a firm in the Morley...
04 December 2019
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency has marked six months in business by embarking on a £100,000 project to create what it calls its...
26 November 2019
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency that launched just two years ago has snapped up an independent firm in the same city in a...
15 November 2019
From: Breaking News

The growing chorus of calls to professionalise the short lets sector has won influential backing from a senior PropTech entrepreneur. Neil Cobbold...
13 November 2019
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency has voluntarily decided to scrap To Let boards in densely populated areas, because they are unsightly and in...
07 November 2019
From: Breaking News

A lettings guru who worked at Purplebricks for five years in a string of key roles has quit the company to...
05 November 2019
From: Breaking News

Belvoir has confirmed that its Brighton franchisees have acquired the independent Homelets agency in the town - for a cool £1m. Existing...
23 October 2019
From: Breaking News

An east London lettings agency must pay more than £2,500 after a six-foot-high pile of waste was found fly-tipped on land...
21 October 2019
From: Breaking News

Three criminals have been sentenced after pleading guilty to money laundering involving an online lettings agency. The sentences follow an investigation spearheaded...
18 October 2019
From: Breaking News

The Leaders Romans Group has acquired yet another independent agency - this time it is Essex and Suffolk Lettings. Based in Colchester,...
18 October 2019
From: Breaking News

A London-focussed lettings agency is hosting a seminar for landlords in association with a rental sector trade body. The key theme of...
18 October 2019
From: Breaking News

Another online lettings agency has come forward with a deal to help landlords and tenants stranded after the closure of Upad. Last...
16 October 2019
From: Breaking News

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
From: Breaking News

The online lettings agency Upad has this weekend published an immediate closure announcement on its website. It reads: “We regret to inform...
12 October 2019
From: Breaking News

The lettings agency owners behind the Advanced Rent Option, which provides landlords with up to 12 months’ rent in advance, says...
26 September 2019
From: Breaking News

High end London estate agency Chestertons has signed up with Zero Deposits, one of the deposit replacement services expanding across the...
26 September 2019
From: Breaking News

A new lettings agency has sprung up, catering almost entirely for the burgeoning Airbnb-style short lets market. Shoreside Lettings, based at Cowes...
24 September 2019
From: Breaking News

PropTech firm Goodlord is hosting a webinar this week when the chief executive of the Association of Residential Letting Agents, David...
10 September 2019
From: Breaking News

Online rental services platform Howsy - which last week revealed £5m new investment from backers - has acquired online lettings agency...
09 September 2019
From: Breaking News

There is increasing evidence of the so-called unintended consequences of the tenant fee ban according to a major regional lettings agency. Linley &...
09 September 2019
From: Breaking News

Not-for-profit accreditation scheme safeagent has partnered with Landlord Accreditation Scotland to provide specialist training for agents north of the border. LAS is...
04 September 2019
From: Breaking News

Cobbletons - a portal dedicated to advertising only prime off-market properties - has teamed up with the lettings division of high...
03 September 2019
From: Breaking News

A specialist lettings agency claims it is the first in the UK to only use renewable energy in the accommodation it...
02 September 2019
From: Breaking News

London-focussed lettings agency Portico, which has expanded into the north of England, has identified part of Liverpool as the area where...
27 August 2019
From: Breaking News

A new online lettings agency called Accommodation.co.uk is looking for franchisees to join ahead of its formal launch next month. The company...
23 August 2019
From: Breaking News

A pioneering lettings agency that allocates second and subsequent year students with private sector and university-owned homes has delivered its best...
19 August 2019
From: Breaking News

The first ‘state of the industry’ report on the lettings agency sector since the introduction of the fees ban suggests individual...
15 August 2019
From: Breaking News

A London lettings agency that has already acquired an independent has now received what is described as a “six figure” loan...
15 August 2019
From: Breaking News

The Haart lettings agency says the government’s plan to abolish landlords’ Section 21 eviction powers may not be a bad thing. The...
12 August 2019
From: Breaking News

Two tenants who campaign against lettings fees are claiming victory after refusing to pay charges for renewing their tenancies. The agency was...
06 August 2019
From: Breaking News

Campaigning charity Shelter has made a remarkable attack on a lettings agency, accusing it of “an abuse of power” over its...
05 August 2019
From: Breaking News

A London lettings agency is launching a service to enable landlords to invest in mainstream buy to let or Airbnb-style short...
01 August 2019
From: Breaking News

Northwood, one of the Belvoir Group brand agencies, has acquired independent agency Daisy Lets in Forest Hill. “Daisy Lets is a great...
24 July 2019
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency is believed to be the first to offer landlords a year's rent in advance in one lump sum...
16 July 2019
From: Breaking News

A director of a lettings agency has been fined for creating false tenancies in a bid to avoid paying council tax...
25 June 2019
From: Breaking News

A specialist student accommodation lettings and property management company says it’s preparing to grow through a series of strategic acquisitions. Bankers have...
25 June 2019
From: Breaking News

The Advertising Standards Authority has stepped in following a complaint about the online lettings agency Upad. The agency had a reference ion...
12 June 2019
From: Breaking News

A branch of the Property Franchise Group brand Whitegates has acquired a local independent lettings agency. Whitegates Huddersfield now has over 700...
11 June 2019
From: Breaking News

Two landlords will this evening be seen securing the £16,000 they are owed by a rogue lettings agent - and TV...
10 June 2019
From: Breaking News

A lettings agent and investment adviser says there is a positive interpretation of the fees ban introduced this month in England. Abi...
06 June 2019
From: Breaking News

The owners of Cardiff’s branch of national sales and lettings agency Martin & Co have more than doubled their managed portfolio...
05 June 2019
From: Breaking News

Agents have reacted angrily to the way in which the government released a new set of rental documents updated to include...
03 June 2019
From: Breaking News

Controversial London lettings agency Flintons has again been named by a BBC TV programme for allegedly unreasonable behaviour in relation to...
03 June 2019
From: Breaking News

The Tenant Fees Act coming into effect tomorrow and banning fees on tenants in England has been given a ringing endorsement...
31 May 2019
From: Breaking News

An online lettings agency that has been operating for 12 years has now opened a High Street office. Nantwich-based LetLord, founded in...
29 May 2019
From: Breaking News

One of the country’s youngest lettings franchise holders has opened a second branch by acquiring an independent agency. Kuljeet Aujla, owner of...
29 May 2019
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency chief in Scotland says the upcoming ban on agents levying fees on tenants - to be introduced in...
24 May 2019
From: Breaking News

A Midlands MP says he has spoken with housing minister Kit Malthouse about the case of a two-branch lettings agency that...
24 May 2019
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency in the West Midlands is reported to have closed its two offices at short notice, leaving clients angry...
22 May 2019
From: Breaking News

A council claims that its decision to set up its own lettings agency has prevented homelessness for almost 50 families and...
20 May 2019
From: Breaking News

An MP says he will raise with local police chiefs a series of claims from landlords and tenants concerning a lettings...
16 May 2019
From: Breaking News

National sales and lettings agency Martin & Co has launched what it calls a 'pioneering new service' in the North East. The...
09 May 2019
From: Breaking News

Online lettings agency RentMyHome is partnering with a trade group for home stagers in order to offer clients discounted services. MyHomeGroup owns...
02 May 2019
From: Breaking News

Senior lettings agency figures are amongst those who will this morning give evidence to a committee of MPs investigating so-called ‘DSS...
24 April 2019
From: Breaking News

Belvoir has snapped up another independent lettings agency in the south east. Grey & Co, located at Wembley Park in north London,...
17 April 2019
From: Breaking News

Mother and daughter lettings agency fraudsters have been told to expect jail sentences after defrauding landlords and tenants of £266,000 over...
10 April 2019
From: Breaking News

High end lettings agency Harrods Estates says it has seen a 10 per cent rise in tenancy renewals in the Knightsbridge...
09 April 2019
From: Breaking News

Flatfair, which describes itself as the UK’s fastest-growing tenancy deposit alternative, has been shortlisted in the Best Newcomer category of the...
08 April 2019
From: Breaking News

One of the country’s largest networks of franchised lettings agents says the impact of the Fees Ban coming into effect in...
05 April 2019
From: Breaking News

Lettings agency Northwood has been told by the Advertising Standards Authority to ensure that photographs of a specific property are updated...
03 April 2019
From: Breaking News

There’s been a big boost to the movement towards deposit alternatives in the private rental sector following a survey released this...
29 March 2019
From: Breaking News

A lettings agent who stole over £350,000 is reported to have been told to pay back…£1. Local media in the south of...
27 March 2019
From: Breaking News

Another think-tank has come up with reforms which it wants the government to make to the private rental sector - and...
21 March 2019
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency has withdrawn a leaflet which featured a woman’s cleavage; the leaflet had been the subject of a complaint...
20 March 2019
From: Breaking News

The JLL lettings agency is warning that the five week deposit cap enshrined in the Tenant Fees Act is likely to...
19 March 2019
From: Breaking News

The average age of those buying investment property has fallen by more than three and a half years in the past...
19 March 2019
From: Breaking News

A crooked letting agent took £220,000 from tenants and landlords and has been exposed as buying a home in Florida, renting...
18 March 2019
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency that has analysed HMRC data says rental income for buy to let landlords has leaped 15 per cent...
07 March 2019
From: Breaking News

PropTech company teclet has announced it will this year once again be a main category partner at The ESTAS estate and...
27 February 2019
From: Breaking News

The head of a Hertfordshire lettings agency has pleaded guilty to managing a brothel, according to a statement from the police. He’s...
26 February 2019
From: Breaking News

London lettings agency Benham and Reeves has produced figures showing, indirectly at least, exactly why buy to let and property investment...
22 February 2019
From: Breaking News

Latest official figures show that private rental prices paid by tenants in the UK rose by 1.0 per cent in the...
15 February 2019
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency and its director have been fined a total of £30,000 for failing to licence HMOs and giving sham...
13 February 2019
From: Breaking News

Sometimes, running a lettings agency can feel as if you’re losing control of client money. Recent cases of property management fraud such...
07 February 2019
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High-end lettings agency Strutt & Parker says the take-up of new rental tenancies decreased by 5.4 per cent over 2018 as...
07 February 2019
From: Breaking News

High-end lettings agency Knight Frank is predicting that £75 billion of investment will be committed to the Build To Rent sector...
06 February 2019
From: Breaking News

The London-focussed lettings agency Portico is expanding its short-lets service Portico Host into Manchester and Liverpool - but it isn’t spending...
05 February 2019
From: Breaking News

A leading landlord has hit out at a lettings agency’s portrayal of buy to let tax changes. Rosalind Beck, a campaigning landlord...
01 February 2019
From: Breaking News

Andrews lettings agency in Oxford has emerged as the hero in an episode which saw a family evicted from their home...
29 January 2019
From: Breaking News

London-focussed lettings agency ludlowthompson says buy to let landlords across the country claimed a record £17.7 billion in tax relief last...
29 January 2019
From: Breaking News

Collyers, an Experts in Property estate and lettings agency with two branches in North Devon, has hoovered up a lettings firm...
28 January 2019
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency boss who says she is actually in favour of the agents’ fees ban nonetheless admits there will be...
18 January 2019
From: Breaking News

A regional lettings agency claims it’s seen a 26 per cent surge in tenant and prospect views on properties listed as...
18 January 2019
From: Breaking News

East Midlands estate and lettings agency John German has revealed that it’s snapped up an independent based in Derby - Sowter...
17 January 2019
From: Breaking News

Lettings agency Haart says it will return up to £20m in deposits to existing tenants if they sign up to a...
15 January 2019
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency has agreed to amend its website after a complaint to the Advertising Standards Authority over its use of...
09 January 2019
From: Breaking News
08 January 2019
From: Breaking News

Another online lettings agency launches in March with a claim that it “will streamline and automate the majority of admin tasks...
04 January 2019
From: Breaking News

Oxfordshire sales and lettings agency Parkers - one of the brands of The Property Franchise Group - has snapped up the...
04 January 2019
From: Breaking News

The Daily Mail has unveiled an extensive network of homes advertised on Airbnb but actually being sub-let by tenants who are...
03 January 2019
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency has been banned from running an Airbnb let in a residential block. It relates to a block in Glasgow...
28 December 2018
From: Breaking News

Research by franchise lettings agency company Belvoir suggests that landlords are continuing to exit the property market, although not at the...
19 December 2018
From: Breaking News

A lettings company’s management director has been disqualified for failing to protect thousands of pounds of tenants’ deposits. Kari Jade Ridout from...
13 December 2018
From: Breaking News

We hope you’ve found time to look at the huge number of Christmas agency pictures we’ve been running on Estate Agent...
12 December 2018
From: Breaking News

High end lettings agency Knight Frank says the proportion of properties listed for rent in prime London residential markets in October...
12 December 2018
From: Breaking News

One of London’s most respected independent lettings agencies has given a hugely upbeat report on the capital’s lettings market performance throughout...
10 December 2018
From: Breaking News

Continued political and economic uncertainty is likely to fuel increased tenant demand in the private rented sector, says Haart. The company’s latest...
06 December 2018
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency says proposals for landlords to pay more council tax on homes they leave empty could indirectly help the...
05 December 2018
From: Breaking News

Rent increases seen in London this year are likely to continue in 2019 because of the diminishing supply of homes to...
05 December 2018
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency owner in Norfolk has been arrested on suspicion of fraud and theft following a newspaper probe. Earlier this year...
04 December 2018
From: Breaking News

Thanks so much for your fantastic response to our call for Christmas videos and pictures to show how your office is...
04 December 2018
From: Breaking News

Online lettings agency Upad says it’s to offer landlords a proprietary system to collect rental payments via Direct Debit. Its system, called...
03 December 2018
From: Breaking News

The BBC claims that a lettings agency has been demanding hundreds of pounds in payment before prospective tenants are allowed to...
29 November 2018
From: Breaking News

The head of a lettings agency has launched a petition in opposition to a bid by a local council to extend...
27 November 2018
From: Breaking News

LAT recently carried a story of a lettings agency diversifying by renting out parking spaces for landlord owners - and now...
21 November 2018
From: Breaking News

Salford-based student-focussed lettings agency Student Haus has been acquired by the Mistoria Group, which runs Mistoria Estate Agents in the north...
21 November 2018
From: Breaking News

A Manchester lettings agency has teamed up with a bank to fund entry into the Build To Rent management sector. Two new...
16 November 2018
From: Breaking News

The take up of new rental tenancies across prime central London decreased by no less than 12.7 per cent in the...
16 November 2018
From: Breaking News

Darlington lettings agency My Property Box has signed a new deal to let properties in the area on behalf of developer...
15 November 2018
From: Breaking News

The JLL lettings agency has launched a ‘virtual property manager’ for a small number of Build To Rent tenants, claiming it...
14 November 2018
From: Breaking News

The online agency Home Made, which says it’s London’s only premium online platform for the rental sector, has raised a further...
13 November 2018
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency in Oxford has diversified into marketing car parking spaces as well as apartments and houses. Scottfraser Summertown has told...
12 November 2018
From: Breaking News

A former City marketing executive is suing a lettings agency for £1.4m in a row over alleged harassment in 2010. Agent Caroline...
06 November 2018
From: Breaking News

The online lettings agency Urban is continuing to operate as normal despite the shock revelation that parent company Emoov is looking...
02 November 2018
From: Breaking News

A branch of The Property Franchise Group’s CJ Hole brand in Bristol has snapped up an independent lettings agency elsewhere in...
30 October 2018
From: Breaking News

The former owner of a lettings agency has admitted charges of fraud, false accounting and theft involving some hundreds of thousands...
29 October 2018
From: Breaking News

The independent lettings agency Chilli Residential has been snapped up by a local branch of franchise giant Martin & Co. The Aldershot...
25 October 2018
From: Breaking News

A council-run lettings agency looks likely to be scrapped after it apparently lost some £53,000 - even though it manages only...
23 October 2018
From: Breaking News

One of London’s most respected lettings agencies says it’s recorded its best-ever quarter for business - defying claims from some that...
23 October 2018
From: Breaking News

The head of the online lettings agency recently scooped up by Emoov says traditional lettings agents have made a rod for...
12 October 2018
From: Breaking News

The head of an online lettings agency says tenants are now left confused by what she calls “ill thought-out policy changes”...
10 October 2018
From: Breaking News

Online lettings agency Upad has drastically overhauled its product range, introducing a ‘pick and mix’ option allowing landlords to choose services...
26 September 2018
From: Breaking News

A family-run hybrid based in the North East has secured the £300,000 contract to manage a new student accommodation development in...
10 September 2018
From: Breaking News

Members of the Guild of Property Professionals will be given access to a series of training videos put together by former...
07 September 2018
From: Breaking News

An agency in the Experts In Property trade group has snapped up the lettings side of a rival independent company. Collyers Properties,...
29 August 2018
From: Breaking News

A London lettings agency is warning landlords who let out their properties via Airbnb or similar short let platforms to ensure...
28 August 2018
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One of the lettings industry’s senior figures has welcomed the introduction of mandatory five yearly inspections of electrical installations in private...
17 August 2018
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A Luton lettings agency and its director, plus a landlord, have all been found guilty of offences related to a breach...
15 August 2018
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Negative media portrayals of the buy to let sector could help to tip Britain into a housing crisis, claims an online...
08 August 2018
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A lettings agency has teamed up with a university to give young students an insight into how small businesses operate. Priestley’s, a...
07 August 2018
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It appears that take-up of an apparently compulsory licensing scheme in one city has been shockingly low - and the scheme...
31 July 2018
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The former office manager of an estate agency in Scunthorpe conned her employer out of over £34,000, a court has heard. Local...
30 July 2018
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Online lettings agency LettingaProperty has moved into a new home and says it plans to double its staff by adding five...
30 July 2018
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The number of lettings transactions in Prime Central London in the second quarter of this year slumped 15 per cent compared...
25 July 2018
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The lettings agency Elet, based in Harrogate, has appointed liquidators. A Letting Agent Today reader spotted an announcement about the move in...
20 July 2018
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An online lettings agency is the latest to voice opposition to the government’s proposed three year standard tenancies for the private...
19 July 2018
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Prime central London lettings agency Draker has teamed up with a luxury interiors retailer and interior designer to launch what it...
19 July 2018
From: Breaking News

Airbnb, which is facing tough local restrictions in many of the largest cities in which it operates, says its new link...