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25 July 2024
From: Breaking News
![Election result already priced-in to housing market, says top analyst](/upload/images/Election%20housing%20.jpg)
The result of the election isn’t likely to be a gamechanger for the housing market, a prominent business consultancy says. An analysis...
02 July 2024
From: Breaking News
![Warning - ‘new normal’ interest rates to be far higher than before](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/MortgageRatesIncrease_400x310.png)
Although much focus is on the Bank of England and when it will begin to cut interest rates, a sobering warning...
01 July 2024
From: Breaking News
![Experts warn against corporates monopolising private rentals](/upload/images/shutterstock_467960120.jpg)
The decision of property developer Berkeley Group to enter the private rental sector is bad news for tenants, it’s claimed. Berkeley plans...
25 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Lloyd’s Bank private rental offshoot begins £13m city project](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews2-400x310.png)
Work has started on yet another Build To Rent scheme - this time a £13m project in Nottingham. The project, on a...
24 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Lloyds Bank rental property initiative signs PropTech deal](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/BTR%20and%20affordable%20housing%20-%20By%20Andy%20Jones%20Property%20Investor%20Today%20BuildToRent-400x310.png)
Citra Living, the Build To Rent offshoot of Lloyds Banking Group, continues with its growth strategy into the private rental sector. Citra...
04 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Independent agency snapped up by private equity cash](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/BusinessTeam-400x310.png)
An agency group with an acquisition programme funded by a private equity operation has snapped up another independent agency. Lomond - which...
03 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Second homes and incomer buyers are good news - Propertymark](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/A%20surveyor's%20guide%20to%20finding%20a%20profitable%20HMO.jpg)
Propertymark has stepped into the row over whether there should be more controls over second homes, holiday lets and people from...
28 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![Lloyds Banking Group rental project now has 2,000 properties](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews2-400x310.png)
Citra Living, part of Lloyds Banking Group, is to bring more than 150 new family homes to the rental market in...
30 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![Third of landlords may sell this year - shock buy to let statistics](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyStats-400x310%20(1).png)
Almost one in three buy to let landlords are set to sell up in the next 12 months. That’s the shock statistic...
08 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![Massive PropTech boost from Rightmove and finance institutions](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/PropTech/PropTech2-400x310.png)
Lloyds Banking Group, Nationwide, NatWest and Rightmove have announced a strategic investment in Coadjute, a prominent PropTech business. This is the first...
03 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![Material Information - new digital tool aims to help letting agents](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/PropTech/PropertySearch-400x310.png)
The Open Property Data Association has released a new version of its property data standards framework to help letting agents comply...
25 March 2024
From: Breaking News
![Will tumbling mortgage rates turn tenants into buyers?](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/2_MortgageCalculated.png)
Lower mortgage rates - still falling in the days since the end of the festive break - may be persuading some...
04 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![Lloyds Bank’s Build To Rent offshoot announces new scheme](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/BuildToRent1-400x310.png)
Citra Living, the Build To Rent arm of Lloyds Banking Group, has announced another new scheme. It is a 95-flat development at...
11 December 2023
From: Breaking News
![Lloyds Bank buys homes from house builder to let to tenants](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/HouseForSale_400x310.png)
Lloyds Banking Group, which announced back in 2020 that it was to become involved in the private rental sector, is buying...
28 November 2023
From: Breaking News
![Lloyds Bank names agency to manage its private rental stock](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Estate_Agent1-400x310.png)
Lloyds Banking Group has announced the lettings agency chain that it wants to look after its upcoming Build To Rent units. The...
09 August 2023
From: Breaking News
![Lloyds Bank announces latest private rental sector initiative](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/BuildToRent-400x310.png)
Details have been given of Lloyds Bank’s latest dive into the Build To Rent market. Its BTR arm, Citra, has acquired 49...
07 August 2023
From: Breaking News
![New national lettings agency set up by Lloyds Banking Group](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/AgentHouseInHand_400x310.png)
Lloyds Banking Group and homelessness charity Crisis have joined forces in a new two-year partnership including the establishment of a so-called...
18 April 2023
From: Breaking News
![Lloyds surveys housing market ahead of huge rental investment](/upload/images/Logos/LloydsBank-logo400x310.png)
Lloyds Banking Group, which is known to be investing huge sums in the UK private rental sector, has published the results...
10 December 2021
From: Breaking News
![Lloyds Bank rental plans much larger than originally announced](/upload/images/Logos/LloydsBank-logo400x310.png)
Lloyds Banking Group - which this year announced its intention to become a private landlord through the acquisition of new build...
07 December 2021
From: Breaking News
![Improve rentals as many tenants can’t buy, government told](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/TenantsLandlordTalking-400x310.png)
A think tank says it would take a major policy change to fulfil Boris Johnson’s goal to turn generation rent into...
02 December 2021
From: Breaking News
![Opinion - what does Lloyds’ entry into the private rented sector reveal?](/upload/images/Logos/LloydsBank-logo400x310.png)
An investment firm has flagged up the recently announced move by banking giant Lloyds to enter the private rented sector as...
23 September 2021
From: Breaking News
![Lloyds Bank may use local agents to find tenants for new rental units](/upload/images/Logos/LloydsBank-logo400x310.png)
It is understood that Lloyds Bank may use local agencies to find tenants for new private rental sector activities. In recent weeks...
08 September 2021
From: Breaking News
![Another warning to John Lewis and Lloyds - stay out of rental sector](/img/default/lat.png)
Last week the tax firm Blick Rothenberg advised John Lewis and Lloyds Bank to stay out of the private rental sector...
20 July 2021
From: Breaking News
![First tenants to move into Lloyds Bank rental units this summer](/img/default/lat.png)
Lloyds Bank says tenants will “within the next few weeks” move into the first of a series of new developments it...
08 July 2021
From: Breaking News
![Lloyds Bank sets up management firm to handle apartments to let](/img/default/lat.png)
It’s been reported that the Lloyds Banking Group is set to buy its first property as it seeks to become a...
21 June 2021
From: Breaking News
![Investigation underway into collapse of agency £1.3m in debt](/img/default/lat.png)
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
![High Street bank set to become major UK landlord by the end of 2021](/img/default/lat.png)
A report in the Financial Times over the weekend suggests that Lloyds Bank is poised to become a major residential landlord,...
08 March 2021
From: Breaking News
![Professional client account solutions for modern letting agents](/img/default/lat.png)
Professional client account solutions for modern letting agents Letting agents will need to come up with new ways to manage client money...
05 September 2019
From: Sponsored Content
![Bank client account changes: Agents urged to have a Plan B](/img/default/lat.png)
A leading industry figure is calling on agents to have a Plan B ready if their bank closes undesignated client accounts. This...
21 August 2019
From: Breaking News
![Crisis for agents as banks set to insist on individual client accounts](/img/default/lat.png)
Lloyds Bank appears to have contacted at least some of its letting agent clients to say that it is closing all...