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The Build To Rent specialist operator Wise Living has announced a new scheme in Lincolnshire being built in partnership with developer Seagate...

A council says it’s issued no fewer than 400 compliance notices to landlords since the Energy Efficiency (Private Rented Property) (England...

A landlord taken to court by a council has ended up with a bill in excess of £20,000.  Dennis Goodwin of Highbury...

The Leaders Romans Group says it’s opening a new virtual office in the East Midlands, with a long-standing lettings expert at...

A lettings agent has completed a £2.6million property acquisition plan in one city on behalf of investors, and will go on...

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

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

A rogue landlord has been found guilty of unlawful harassment and misleading and aggressive practices, and will be sentenced next month. Ragoopathy...

Newton Fallowell, part of the Belvoir Group, has snapped up the Lovelle franchised agency group adding a further 19 offices to...

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

An independent Yorkshire letting agency has broken new ground by extending into Humberside for the first time, after striking a major...

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

Two university dropouts who started their own student letting agency have recorded their busiest ever start to an academic year. Harry Conti,...

A university student who fled from his private rental apartment owing over £1,000 has posted a message on Facebook: “Catch me...

A specialist lettings agency claims it is the first in the UK to only use renewable energy in the accommodation it...

A new online lettings agency called Accommodation.co.uk is looking for franchisees to join ahead of its formal launch next month.  The company...

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

A specialist student accommodation lettings and property management company says it’s preparing to grow through a series of strategic acquisitions. Bankers have...

The agency handling the largest volume of student accommodation in Lincoln is celebrating its fourth birthday by opening a second office...

A Trading Standards team has prosecuted a landlord who allegedly 'knew' criminal activity was taking place in his buy to let...

Another council has been given the go ahead to ban To Let boards in part of a city - with government...

A man who submitted false VAT returns for the Lincoln franchise branch of Martin & Co for a period of six...

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

Belvoir has told shareholders and the City that it now has 57,637 lettings units under management following the addition of 1,310...

Belvoir is recruiting more central office staff to support franchisees, with a 40 per cent increase in workers at the company's...

A letting agent working for Leaders has been appointed as the new ARLA Propertymark board member for the Midlands. Duncan Chambers, who...

A landlord is facing prosecution for failing to comply with various HMO regulations.  For the last two days, Paul Turner has appeared...

A landlord has been found guilty of letting a property with "extremely dangerous electrics" as well as no heating and a...

Lancashire town Blackburn has recorded the highest increase in average rental yield over the last year, according to LendInvest.  The online mortgage...

Failing to provide an energy certificate and not complying with an improvement notice has resulted in a landlord being ordered to...

Property managers operating through a company have been ordered to pay more than £30,000 following a dawn raid that uncovered more...

Two former University of Lincoln students are to launch a students-only lettings portal on June 1, allowing agencies and private landlords...

Countrywide has revealed that it has acquired 30 lettings businesses in the past year alone, expanding the firm’s rental sector headcount...

The Local Government Association says recent prosecutions show that councils are cracking down on illegal evictions by landlords and their agents...

Lettings and sales agency Sharman Quinney has acquired Gilbert & Thomas Estate Agents.   This takes Sharman Quinney’s network total to 20 branches...

A landlord has been ordered to pay a total of £8,680 after failing to comply with formal council notices to improve...

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

A letting agency accounts clerk recruited to replace an employee dismissed because of theft has now herself been found guilty of...

As this year’s SAFEagent Awareness Week draws to a close today and thousands of agents have been raising the profile of...

A landlord has been left with a £1,600 bill for failing to comply with an improvement notice over a four year...