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A lettings agency chief says the rental market continues to be red hot but with affordability beginning to play a part...

The fast-growing Lomond Group of agencies has acquired a major online lettings service. But it's going to manage the properties through physical...

Student landlords have seen record increases in rental prices of over 20 per cent in some cases, according to a lettings...

A lettings agency says the cost of living crisis calls into question the viability of a selective licensing scheme in its...

A building society which has taken the unprecedented step of stopping lending on second homes has been sharply criticised by a...

London-focussed lettings agency Benham and Reeves says renters who secured bargain properties during the pandemic now face huge rent rises when...

A high profile London lettings agency says some owners of properties in prime areas of the capital have seen capital appreciation...

A jury has ruled that a lettings agency has been guilty of illegally evicting tenants in Margate - with locks changed,...

Tenants’ bills are expected to hit a record £63 billion this year - and much of it is down to the...

Hat and Home announced its third branch this week, in the Berkshire town of Bracknell.  The agency is relatively new - it...

Fourteen Trading Standards authorities across a swathe of England are embarking on an enforcement project to check lettings agency compliance.  The Central England...

House price growth in prime country and coastal locations is beginning to plateau after two years of runaway growth, with urban...

The boss of an online lettings agency is warning the government against undue delay and greater uncertainty in the rental reform...

A lettings agency in Kent has been drawn into a spat about rent levels following a councillor’s comment on Twitter. Liberal Democrat...

Bhavik Patel, owner of Nicholas Humphreys Southampton & Portsmouth has acquired independent lettings agency Harker and Bullman in Wimborne. This is the...

The franchise owners of a Parkers branch have marked their third year under the brand by opening a second office. Brendan and...

A lettings agency is alleged to have used violence and vandalism over a prolonged period against the tenants of at least...

For the first time since November 2019, rents in London grew faster than any other region in the country.   That’s the claim...

The most recent interest rate rise has swung the balance making it cheaper to rent than to buy, according to lettings...

The sole director of a lettings agency, who was recently made the subject of an anti-social behaviour injunction and banning order,...

Historic agency Chestertons has appointed its long-serving lettings chief Richard Davies as its new chief executive. This follows the departure of high...

The fast-growing Henry Adams Lettings has acquired Interlet Sussex, a long-established independent agency. Interlet Sussex, based in Bognor Regis, was founded in...

High profile Welsh lettings agency Peter Alan has acquired West Quay Estates & Lettings as part of its long term strategy...

Yet another independent lettings agency has been acquired by the Martin & Co brand of The Property Franchise Group. The owner of...

A student-specialising lettings agency has been named as franchise of the year at the brand’s annual awards. Nicholas Humphreys Nottingham, one of...

Another lettings agency is offering a major incentive to landlords switching from Airbnb to traditional long term rentals. Hills Lettings, a south...

The Belvoir Group, one of the country’s largest multi-brand property franchises, is rebranding to distinguish itself from the Belvoir lettings and...

A lettings agency is celebrating winning the obstruction to let and manage a 63 unit Build To Rent scheme for students...

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...

Part of the fast-growing Lomond Group of lettings agencies has signed a new partnership deal with a major football club. Stonehouse in...

A prominent lettings agency chief says the lifecycle of a typical tenancy has been transformed in recent years, as a result...

London rents are rising at a record pace with growth being driven by tenants returning from outside the capital.   That’s the suggestion...

A council-run private rental sector lettings agency which so far claims to manage 300 properties it launching an advertising campaign to...

The founder of a leading letting agency coaching organisation has won a coveted international award. Agent Rainmaker was set up by Sally...

A lettings agency is in hot water with advertising regulators for using the phrase “What the flock are you looking at?”...

An activist at the centre of a controversy involving a London letting agent has used a left-wing website to explain how...

An increasing number of house purchases are made by buyers who are not in chains - a trend driven by the...

Another Belvoir franchise has acquired a local independent lettings agency.  Belvoir already has offices in Corby, Kettering and Coventry and is now...

Martin & Co’s Plymouth franchisees have taken their branch’s managed portfolio beyond 1,000 properties after a third acquisition in five years. Chris...

A key figure at Propertymark has joined popular lettings agency supplier The Lettings Partnership as commercial director. Sarah Davies’ role at Propertymark...

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

New research from holiday lettings agency Classic Cottages shows that 2021 was a record year in one of the country’s staycation...

A leading lettings agency says increasing numbers of tenants are seeking pet-friendly homes to rent. Chestertons claims up to 35 per cent...

An online lettings agency says two thirds of landlords and tenants have ‘issues’ with their agents - and substantial numbers claim...

A business news website is reporting that an agency has been ordered to pay £1,550 for displaying a board illegally. Charles Lear...

A warning has gone out to politicians from lettings agency trade body ARLA Propertymark - don’t try to fix a system...

Connells-owned lettings agency Hamptons is warning that the record-breaking rental growth of the past year has seen tenants pay a rocketing...

A lettings firm specialising in holiday properties is reported to have disappeared with all items taken from its office and calls...

Lettings agency Galbraith reports that landlords are now returning to the residential lets sector from holiday lets after several years without...

A so-called ethical lettings agency run jointly by two local authorities is handling private rental properties but is charging landlords just...

A two-branch lettings agency in Hertfordshire has ceased trading and says it will soon be placed into creditors’ voluntary liquidation. A statement...

A north of England lettings agency has successfully qualified five members of its staff through The Able Agent training programme. The agency...

New research shows that despite tax and regulatory changes restricting buy to let returns, this remains a far healthier investment than...

The online lettings agency Howsy is reported to have been acquired by a national chain after a ‘distressed sale’ following its...

A prominent lettings agency chief says a consultation looking at changes to private renting proposed by the Scottish Government is merely...

The leader of one of Britain’s highest profile lettings agency operations has let rip at the government for what he calls...

A lettings agency employee who diverted over £50,000 of landlords’ money into his own account has been given a suspended sentence. Paul...

One of the country's leading agency groups has signed a multi-year deal with PropTech firm Goodlord.  Andrews Property Group, which has 49...

A lettings agency says renters must pay an average of up to 77 per cent of their monthly household income to...

Propertymark has expressed a sigh of relief at a decision this week by the Appeal Court, which ruled in favour of...

A lettings agency has gone on the offensive and is publishing landlords who switch from rivals because of allegedly poor service. And...

A key judgment from the Court of Appeal, announced today, is reported to have gone in favour of landlords and letting...

Bowmark Capital is selling its Leaders Romans Group, one of the UK’s largest property services groups, to another private equity operator, Platinum...

A lettings agent who also acts on behalf of tenants against landlords and agents claims to have received 1,000 enquiries from...

Rents are rising at around twice the level of a year ago according to data from Connells-owned lettings agency Hamptons. Despite rental...

EU citizens with settled status in the UK, but who have stayed in their native countries during the pandemic, are likely...

While the number of companies set up by individual landlords to hold buy to lets reached a record high last year,...

Agent Rainmaker is holding another of its ARX Mastery events, in a bid to promote growth in the lettings agency sector...

A little-known law may require tenants to pay stamp duty on the rental properties they do not actually own. London lettings agency...

An agency has made its third acquisition in recent years - this time snapping up a town’s longest established lettings agency. Whitegates...

There’s been a slump in demand for rental properties as a result of tenants staying put in the latter part of...

A leading lettings agent has warned tenants against using social media to find rental properties.  David Alexander - head of DJ Alexander,...

Home offices are already the most-demanded must have from prospective tenants says James Hay, director at Surrey lettings agency, The Home...

An agency has issued a statement strongly rejecting the negative mood music surrounding the private rental sector. Chris Wood and Ross McDonald...

Former ARLA Propertymark president Sally Lawson, who now runs the Agent Rainmaker training service, has set out for Letting Agent Today...

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

The lettings agency boss at the centre of a major industry takeover has fired a warning shot about rent controls and...

One of the country’s oldest agencies may be under new ownership soon. The fast-expanding Lomond Group - which just last week announced...

A lettings agency’s new website claims to offer increased support to landlords, tenants, and investors, “while cutting through the noise of...

Three lettings agency bosses have been banned from being directors of companies for a total of over 13 years after being...

For the first time since January 2020, rents in Inner London rose on an annual basis - they were up 3.9...

Paul and Sharon Collins are to mark 25 years as owners of the Belvoir Lincoln lettings agency in the New Year.  Looking...

A fake lettings operation has been uncovered by a leading legitimate agency - and now the National Trading Standards Estate and...

Stirling Ackroyd Group has acquired the south east London sales and lettings agency Beresford Residential.  It has bought the whole business including the...

A Newcastle lettings agency says it’s cracked how to help reduce tenancy disputes at check out and speed up the return...

The latest market snapshot from lettings agency Hamptons suggests that rents have risen, nationally, 7.9 per cent over the last 12 months. It...

The London and South East property group Stirling Ackroyd - which recently rebranded from its former title, Nick Dunning Associates -...

A north of England lettings agency is claiming an all-time record for enquiries relating to student accommodation - and the biggest...

Media reports in Stoke on Trent say a man was arrested after a police raid on the Homes2Let lettings agency in...

A brand within the fast-expanding Lomond Group has sealed its second acquisition within a fortnight, adding a further 200 properties to...

Data from central London lettings agency Bective shows returning tenant demand in the capital. The agency’s analysis of new lettings applicants shows...

Rents in much of London have not only bounced back from the pandemic but now exceed the levels reached in 2020. Research...

Property group Nick Dunning Associates, which includes the brands Townends and Regents, has rebranded to Stirling Ackroyd Group, effective from today.  All...

A lettings agency has been prosecuted by Birmingham council for unlawfully evicting a tenant. Principal Homes is based at Great Barr and was...

A lettings agency in Manchester has received over 10,000 rental enquiries in just one month. Manchester Apartments says it received some  21,000...

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...

A leading lettings agency wants next week’s Budget to unveil incentives to bolster supply in the long term rental sector. Richard Davies,...

Independent Liverpool-based agency LPS Real Estate has acquired another indie - Maison Lettings. As part of the acquisition, LPS will take over...

A lettings agency with links to Saudi Arabian investors has produced a case study of how faith is returning to the long...

Online lettings agency LettingaProperty.com says it’s using social media platform TikTok to build its brand and drum up business, and claims...

A Foxtons-owned lettings agency says 60 per cent of tenants and would-be buyers say they are not confident negotiating asking rents...

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...

The head of a lettings agency has drawn up a wish list for Chancellor Rishi Sunak to address in his Budget...

Average annual rental growth across Britain hit 8.0 per cent in September, the third fastest annual rate of growth recorded this...

Lettings agency Hamptons, part of Connells, says there’s little sign that the stamp duty holiday led to large numbers of new...

More and more people are committing tenancy fraud and it’s having a massive impact on the industryAs a lettings agency, you...

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

A lettings agency’s research has revealed that rental demand has continued to climb across most major UK cities during the third quarter...

A London lettings agency - that has now entered bankruptcy - has been cleared of any involvement in a rental scandal...

The rapid pace of growth in the rental market will slow in 2022 but the enduring rate of increase should still...

An estate and lettings agent has analysed how the level of rental arrears has grown between each wave of the pandemic. The...

The latest research by lettings agency Benham and Reeves has analysed how the pandemic has affected the UK rental market when...

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...

Portfolio landlords can be the key to running a successful lettings agency. That is the latest claim from lead generation software provider...

A branch of national lettings agency Martin & Co is under new ownership. Landlord and property developer Grant Simpson has purchased the...

A council has just launched it own publicly-funded lettings agency and wants private landlords to sign up. The 'Your Choice' lettings agency,...

A lettings agent has taken the unorthodox approach of advising tenants to take their landlords to court in a bid to...

The new owner of a lettings agency is aiming to fuel growth in his new business after swapping petrol stations and...

A prominent lettings agency owner has given his verdict on the concept of charging renters to view a property - “it...

The tide is turning for the London rental market at last according to data from the Benham and Reeves lettings agency. In...

Prop Home, a new online property management and lettings agency, pledges to “transform the way rented homes are managed on behalf...

A lettings agent who has made a series of outbursts against landlords and councils, has now turned his anger on proposed...

The Merthyr Tydfil branch of sales and lettings agency Martin & Co has completed a second acquisition in 12 months –...

A ruling of the First Tier Property Tribunal has put a London property management firm in the clear following a dispute...

Online lettings agency Accommodation has pledged to plant a new tree for every property let - it has already planting 1,190...

A London lettings agency is exposed on TV this evening over what turns out to be a sham guaranteed rent scheme. Landlords...

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...

A lettings agency has apologised after a campaign by activists about the condition of a rental property it manages. Protesters outside the...

Rental demand has started to return to the majority of major UK cities during the second quarter of this year, with...

London’s rental market gathered momentum in June as tenants anticipated a return to the office with 24 per cent more tenancies...

Two front line success stories in the lettings agency industry are to address a webinar on the importance of qualifications. Megan Eighteen...

A lettings agency that works closely with Build To Rent developers says half of the schemes allow pets. Pet rentals have been...

A lettings agent who wants tenants to take out policies to fund complaints against agencies and landlords has branded the social...

High profile London lettings agency Chestertons says there’s been an increase in Hong Kong residents looking to rent a home in...

London’s rental market is witnessing a strong recovery in spite of the pandemic, according to the latest analysis by lettings agency...

Rental growth accelerated in May to reach a new record high according to Connells-owned lettings agency Hamptons.   Last month the average cost...

A lettings agency with branches in Corby and Kettering has been shortlisted for two awards this summer. Belvoir has been nominated for...

The local media in Manchester have published photographs of a property operated by a lettings agency was found to have multiple...

South East of England sales and lettings agency Parkers is continuing to expand across Berkshire with the opening of a new...

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

A lettings agency which markets private rental properties and units operated by a housing association has apologised for its ‘No DSS’...

Fixflo has pledged that it’s business as usual for its lettings agency clients, after news broke that it was to be...

A new independent agency is to specialise in lettings and property management across Hertfordshire. Led by Luke Mason and Jonathan Fiducia, the...

North London agency Home Minders has acquired independent lettings and sales business Alan Goldin Estates. This transaction is Home Minder’s third acquisition,...

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

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

A former employee at the Staines-upon-Thames office of lettings agency Martin & Co has returned – as the branch’s new owner. Doreen...

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

The five years since the introduction of the three per cent stamp duty surcharge on additional homes has led to a...

London lettings agency Kalmar is thought to be the first to use the increasingly-fashionable social media platform TikTok to let and...

High-end lettings agency Knight Frank says there’s been a huge loss of houses available for renters in prime London in the...

A lettings company has paid an undisclosed sum - described only as “a six figure deal” - to acquire a large...

A lettings agency director has been issued with a Criminal Behaviour Order for unlawfully evicting a tenant back in 2019. CFDP Ltd, trading as...

A rival trade body to the Association of Residential Letting Agents has announced what it calls “a robust membership result.” The UK...

A family-owned boutique lettings agency in Salford, Greater Manchester, has taken a significant share in a nearby independent rival - and will...

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...

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

The Canterbury branch of national sales and lettings agency Martin & Co has a new owner. Angie Collins has taken on the...

Another lettings agency has been found to have unlawfully discriminated against a tenant receiving benefits. Worthing County Court declared that Michael Jones & Company unlawfully...

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...

Another lettings agency has been expelled from The Property Ombudsman scheme for failing to pay an outstanding compensation award - but...

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

London rents have started to fall again - just as every other region of Britain is showing significant annual increases. Figures for...

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

A quarterly index suggests that there’s been a sharp uplift in tenant demand for rental properties across the UK’s major cities...

Letting agency My Property Box is moving into property sales as part of a significant expansion of its business. The decision follows...

Some 39 agents and landlords have had banning orders over the past three years according to a report in The Guardian. Under the...

Lettings agency Intus Lettings has announced the opening of a new Sheffield office — its first base in Yorkshire. The Sheffield office...

After years of deliberation there still appears to many to be little progress on the recommendations of the Regulation of Property...

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

A lettings agency in central London has been issued with a fine for not belonging to a Client Money Protection scheme. The...

The vast majority of tenants would pay more if rental properties better suited their needs, a prominent lettings agency claims. Manchester-based Ascend...

An investigation is underway into a lettings agency which has gone into liquidation owing almost £500,000 in rent to landlords and in...

The week begins with news of another agency acquiring an independent. This time it’s Alexander & Co, a Bedfordshire firm, which has...

The head of a lettings agency says there are up to 60 enquiries for every rental property he lists - and those...

A lettings agency in the growing Lomond Group has purchased a rental portfolio on the south coast.  Brand Vaughan has bought the lettings...

Local media in the Homes Counties report that two arrests were made after police were called by a lettings agency where...

A fast-growing regional chain of agencies has purchased another independent operator in the lettings sector. Yorkshire's Linley & Simpson has bought Sinclair Properties...

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

The rate of rental growth picked up for the sixth month running according to lettings agency Hamptons.  Across Great Britain rents rose 4.3...

A lettings agency is warning that fraudsters have copied property listings and put them on Facebook Marketplace, demanding deposits from the...

An enterprising mother and daughter are bouncing back from being made redundant due to Covid-19 by setting up their own lettings...

An online lettings agency that claims to have analysed the costs of “a selection” of 12 High Street agencies has accused...

The new chief executive of Propertymark says being a member of the Association of Residential Letting Agents is a sign of...

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,...

A regional lettings agency says its better-than-expected 2020 performance is down at least partly to having what it calls a unique...

Congratulations from all of us at Letting Agent Today - and probably most of the rest of the industry - to Martin...

Lomond Capital, which owns Scottish lettings and estate agents Braemore and Stonehouse, is to merge with Yorkshire firm Linley & Simpson. The...

UniHomes, a student accommodation platform, has snapped up Split The Bills, a bill sharing service aimed at the student market. UniHomes -...

Lettings agency Carter Jonas predicts the housing market - for both owner-occupiers and landlords - will become increasingly eco-focussed in 2021. It says...

A senior lettings agency figure says virtual viewings have transformed the rental sector. “The increased level of requests for virtual viewings has...

A lettings agency has called in the police after a protest involving anti-agent activists demanding compensation for past tenants. The Eastern Daily...

Belvoir’s agency in Grantham is making a fantastic gesture by donating crates of produce to the local Foodbank. Over 100 kilos of...

Fast-growing regional agency Linley & Simpson has taken over the rental portfolios of two more independent firms. The deal has transferred 750...

A lettings agency is in the news because it has asked a student to stop using a specific room in a...

A newspaper claims a lettings agency is battling allegations of overcharging customers and using fake companies to carry out maintenance work. The Daily Record...

A chartered surveying company has acquired a long established lettings agency in the same town in Greater Manchester. Altrincham based firm Oakwood...

A London lettings agency has described a £3,600 charge to a tenant as “entirely reasonable and legal.” The i newspaper has featured a...

Foxtons has acquired a London lettings agency and along with it a lettings book comprising 689 tenancies. The deal is worth £2.2m. In...

Activists from the so-called renters’ union Acorn have held a protest outside the office of a lettings agency in Oxford. A photograph...

A lettings agency specialising in managing Build To Rent developments says it’s collected 99 per cent of all invoiced rent during...

A lettings agency is marking its 15th anniversary with news that it now has over £100m worth of property in its portfolio. Berriman...

PropTech platform MakeUrMove, which launched back in 2008 as the first online lettings agency, has secured a £1.3m funding package from...

London lettings agency Benham and Reeves has drawn up a league table of which boroughs in the capital have had their...

Wakefield Trinity rugby league club has announced that local lettings agency Cooper & Cutt has renewed its sponsorship with the club,...

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

Hybrid lettings agency Accommodation is launching a drive to recruit agents in 10 regions across the UK. The company says this is...

A heroic lettings agency in the south west of England has stepped up to the plate this half-term week by offering...

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...

Deposit alternative service flatfair has teamed up with a rewards provider to offer 500 letting agencies one year of free access. Agents...

A new agency set up in Wiltshire says it goes beyond the traditional lettings services of existing operators, and instead seeks...

The investment arm of the Big Issue street newspaper is putting £3m into a new form of lettings agency.  Homes for Good was...

A new proposal from the government says agents and portals will be banned from advertising rental properties with non-compliant Energy Performance...

North of England lettings agency Matthew & Evans Rentals has been kicked out of the Property Redress Scheme, one of the two...

Hamptons International has given a rental market forecast for 2021 - and it doesn’t make for happy reading. The agency says the rental...

Stockport-based property development company Three Sixty has launched what it calls an online agency - Three Sixty Living - to handle...

The private rental sector dedicated to student accommodation in London could see a 24 per cent drop in income in the...

A lettings agency that told a prospective tenant it had a policy of not offering tenancies to housing benefit recipients has...

A city lettings agency has rebranded in what it calls “a step change for the business.” Let Leeds is now known as...

The author of a book described as being about “insecure renters haemorrhaging cash” has used her newspaper column to make a...

A lettings agency has relaunched its property management service after it was acquired by Purplebricks in 2017. The agreement back then meant...

Media reports from Gateshead claim two brothers opened fire on a lettings agency with an air pistol when they were told they...

The lettings agency Portico is partnering with Goodlord to offer a new insurance policy to its landlords. Portico landlords can now benefit...

Research by a lettings agency suggests the pandemic has radically reshaped tenants’ demands. - and the process is still going on.  Benham...

Online lettings agency Upad is offering to refund users whose rental listings did not appear on Zoopla and PrimeLocation as they...

High-end London agency chain Chestertons has snapped up an independent lettings agency in the east of the capital. Morgan Randall operated across Canary...

The chief executive of campaigning charity Shelter claims some lettings agencies are ignoring the recent ruling that private landlords cannot discriminate against...

Which? is warning prospective renters to beware scam lettings agencies and scam landlords following a case where £5,600 was conned out...

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

The splendidly named East Midlands lettings agency Monkey vs Owl - known as MOVO - has opened a second office. Its first,...

A lettings agency is launching a service that allows landlords to list their properties on Rightmove, Zoopla and OnTheMarket for just...

One of the country’s largest independent agencies has emerged out of lockdown with a spring in its step, acquiring two small...

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

Rents in London have dropped by between 10 and 15 per cent as fewer people are willing or able to move...

** This Bank Holiday Monday both Letting Agent Today and Estate Agent Today look at how agencies have modified offices and protocols...

An online lettings agency says landlords should take up mortgage holiday offers and be willing to accept reduced rent during the...

One of the country’s largest lettings agencies is to lose 17 jobs out of 100 in what the company founder calls...

Lenwell is a busy lettings agency covering Luton, Dunstable, Bedford, Milton Keynes, Biggleswade, Hitchin and Northampton - and now, busy in...

Agents and landlords who use unorthodox methods of securing obligations from tenants to pay their rent during the Coronavirus crisis may...

Coventry council has been branded as irresponsible by a leading trade body for allegedly ignoring government advice on licensing schemes during...

A leading London lettings agency is reporting only a very low rent default rate so far, despite fears that the Coronavirus...

High-end lettings agency Knight Frank says the lettings market “could explode quite quickly” when the lockdown ends. The agency says that in...

New and newly-refurbished properties are letting more readily as virtual viewings become more widespread during the lockdown. That’s the view of Knight...

A lettings agency is asking tenants who cannot afford to pay rent during the Coronavirus crisis to sign a ‘moral contract’ that...

A Wales holiday lettings agency has worked with owner-clients to offer free holidays to frontline healthcare workers when the crisis has...

A lettings agency has given a full apology after a letter - not approved by the company - was sent out...

The former operations director at Purplebricks says he is waiving fees for letting agents who want to join his new online...

A lettings agency in central London is setting an example to the industry by offering help to its landlords and tenants...

Although the worst of the stock market bloodletting triggered by Coronavirus now appears to have gone, franchise agency group Belvoir has...

Hello: so much has happened since the last Conquering Corona column on Friday. Before we get on with it, a reminder...

Franchise giant Winkworth has expanded its presence in Reading with the acquisition of a local independent lettings agency. It’s snapped up AMPM,...

A lettings agency and its director have pleaded guilty to renting out an overcrowded house in the first case brought to...

Foxtons has snapped up a lettings agency in suburban London. It’s bought London Stone Properties Limited and its subsidiary company London Stone...

Demand for rental properties in January increased to the highest level on record with 88 prospective tenants registered per lettings agency...

A lettings agency owner has spoken about his bid to restore his firm's reputation after it was destroyed by a former employee. Earlier...

An online lettings agency has accused High Street rivals of being “inefficient” and making voids longer than necessary.  Home Made, which operates...

A survey by lettings agency Carter Jonas has revealed what the firm calls the top priorities for tenants as the 2020s...

A room-finding portal, along with the owners of a London lettings agency and management firm, must pay over £100,000 for letting...

A lettings agency in one of the most competitive markets in Britain says it’s enjoyed a record year winning landlords from...

A lettings agency is calling on local councils to tackle the growing problem of long-term empty homes. My Property Box says that...

A London council has caught out a rogue lettings agency for illegally operating two properties, with issues ranging from gas safety...

It’s been revealed that Upad, the lettings agency which closed at short notice in October last year, had three prospective buyers...

Manchester lettings agency Ascend says it’s had a record year in 2019, bolstered by its new Build To Rent involvement. The company...

A campaign group that has held protests outside letting agents’ branches and has been fiercely critical of fees, says it’s seen a...

A lettings agency admits that the proportion of net income required to cover rent has hit 75 per cent in some...

Specialist letting agency and property management company Student Housing has had its busiest quarter, it says. The Lincoln-based agency added 30 new...

Durham county council wants to spend just over £250,000 setting up a lettings agency to place tenants with private landlords. The authority...

A trade magazine is reporting that online lettings agency Upad has been bought out by a PropTech platform. The Negotiator says Howsy...

A protest has been held outside a lettings agency in Manchester by tenants demanding that the firm ‘sacks’ one of its...

Darlington-based My Property Box has welcomed five new members of staff to its team who between them have amassed more than...

A high end lettings agency says the most expensive rural rental market in the north west of England is dominated by...

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

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has given a brief but optimistic assessment of the private rental market for next year. “As...

A Southampton lettings agency owner has been jailed after defrauding landlords and tenants out of £230,000. Andrew Whitehead has been jailed for...

Luton council has opened Lets Squared, a High Street lettings and estate agency using public funds - even though the town...

The sales market in London continues to wreak havoc with agencies, as yesterday’s Foxtons story revealed, but one lettings agency is...

Longstanding Leeds based property company Adair Paxton has acquired boutique estate agency firm, Hudson Moody Wass. Founded in 2001, Hudson Moody Wass...

Belvoir has acquired another independent sales and lettings agency - this time it’s Onwards and Upwards, a firm in the Morley...

A lettings agency has marked six months in business by embarking on a £100,000 project to create what it calls its...

A lettings agency that launched just two years ago has snapped up an independent firm in the same city in a...

The growing chorus of calls to professionalise the short lets sector has won influential backing from a senior PropTech entrepreneur. Neil Cobbold...

A lettings agency has voluntarily decided to scrap To Let boards in densely populated areas, because they are unsightly and in...

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

Belvoir has confirmed that its Brighton franchisees have acquired the independent Homelets agency in the town - for a cool £1m. Existing...

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...

Three criminals have been sentenced after pleading guilty to money laundering involving an online lettings agency. The sentences follow an investigation spearheaded...

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

A London-focussed lettings agency is hosting a seminar for landlords in association with a rental sector trade body. The key theme of...

Another online lettings agency has come forward with a deal to help landlords and tenants stranded after the closure of Upad. Last...

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