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A regional independent agency generating more than £20 million in rental income annually has snapped up a five-branch independent firm. Alexander & Co,...

Some weeks later than usual for understandable reasons, the ESTAS Awards 2020 are almost here - and for the first time...

A company is marketing an app which monitors social distancing; it says this could be applicable in agents’ offices. Called iTWOsafe is...

There’s been a substantial 20 per cent rise in formal complaints about agents taken up by The Property Ombudsman.  The figures refer...

There’s no escaping team activity at epropservices - and in a good way. The company, which is the parent firm of The...

A new automated lettings platform claims to automate key processes around compliance, marketing, leasing and management for letting agents. Ringley Group, a...

Hello and welcome to Conquering Corona, our bid to help agents through the crisis. If you have appropriate advice to share with...

Three more agencies have signed up to the ESTAS customer review platform. The arrival of Newton Fallowell, Lovelle and Goodchilds - all...

“Communication is pretty much everything…” - that’s the key message from Tega Alexander, digital marketing manager at the up-and-coming Homesearch. Thanks so...

A BBC News investigation has exposed some Airbnb and other short let platform users as flouting lockdown regulations. The probe has found...

The ESTAS has launched a new tool which it says will help agents get in pole position for when the market...

Hello and welcome to the latest edition of Conquering Corona, our daily update helping the industry cope with the current crisis. If...

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

We'd hoped it was good news but in fact it's just good-news-yet-to-come. The Savills office in Wuhan, the epicentre of the Coronavirus crisis in...

Hello and welcome to today’s Conquering Corona, our guide to the latest information to help agents and the rest of the...

Good morning and welcome to the industry’s daily update on how we cope with the challenge of social distancing and self-isolation...

Zoopla says it’s now in what it calls “a clear, market-leading position” in terms of rental properties in the capital. In a...

Three more deposit alternative supplier have issued statements seeking to distance their product from criticisms raised in a BBC investigation. Yesterday we carried...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Catherine Shinerock - ARO Account Manager What is your ‘company name’...

It’s back - the five-a-side football tournament which made its successful debut last year with teams from the agency and property...

A new lettings platform claims it can help existing agents and staff working for companies quit and fulfil their dream of...

Accreditation body safeagent has announced a new designation for lettings and management agents who successfully pass its NCFE accredited courses. The designation...

Three lettings agencies have been expelled from TPO - in each case the agency failed to honour a payment as instructed...

You don’t need to go far for news about the UK lettings market. From the banning of tenant fees to proposed...

Almost two thirds of landlords say their next buy to let purchase will be through a limited company, not by themselves...

A new trade body is being set up in a bid to professionalise the short lets sector. The sector - which embraces...

Zoopla is beefing up its customer relationship management programme with the appointment of RAPP UK to evolve the portal’s data infrastructure...

October 31, known as All Hallows' Eve, is now less than three weeks away. While the government continues with its botched Brexit...

1. Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Terry Fisher, Marketing Director at Movebubble 2. What is Movebubble...

First, he was trying his hand in lettings, then he devised a 2.5% commission to take on Purplebricks. Now, after nine months...

An online letting agency which launched last month has announced the recruitment of two former Purplebricks staff. Michael Booth, the hybrid agency's...

An independent letting agency has reported its success in helping two large Build to Rent (BTR) developments to successfully let properties...

North east agency My Property Box has announced it has merged with Sandersons Lettings, the firm which gave its founder his...

A leading lettings and sales agency in West Sussex is launching a hub-style structure centralising branch activities in a town centre. Michael...

An independent previously known as Adams Estate Agents has rebranded as Hunters as the franchise giant’s expansion programme continues. The office is...

A national awareness campaign is required to help landlords get to grip with new Energy Performance Certificate legislation. That’s the view of...

A London-focused PropTech startup has just won another £7m in funding. Residently manages houses and flats for landlords, letting them directly to...

What is your business?    Bonds Estate Agents, the modern hybrid agent bridging the gap between the traditional high street agent and online...

PropTech supplier Movebubble claims that over 450,000 tenants use its app. Users can schedule viewings, share feedback with agents or landlords or...

Zillios looking to become the leading portal for international property listings, appealing to property owners, estate agents, and property hunters alike....

Hunters has expanded its franchise network once again with the opening of a new branch in Reading. Chas Shukla, director of Hunters...

Legal & General, one of the largest specialist builders of so-called retirement communities for the over-55s, is now going to let...

We all know that certain business functions are quicker to achieve and more cost-effective than others. By considering the services you provide...

In the last ten years Google's revenue, largely from pay per click ads (Adwords), has grown by 527% (Source: Statista). In...

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

Airbnb and short let management service Hostmaker - at the centre of a dispute involving a landlord trade body and the...

A company appearing to call on landlords to abandon tenants and instead let their properties to short-let visitors is now trying...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Simon Paul Skinner, Operations manager at LetHQ. My business card...

The scores have been counted and the results are in for the 2019 ESTAS Awards, sponsored by Zoopla. On Friday May 10,...

With the tenants’ fees ban just five weeks away focus is shifting to how agents can make up for lost income...

Rightmove has fallen in line with Zoopla and is banning the term ‘No DSS’ from its lettings agents’ listings from the...

Flatfair, which describes itself as the UK’s fastest-growing tenancy deposit alternative, has been shortlisted in the Best Newcomer category of the...

Staff are usually a business’s biggest fixed cost, but did you know that the true cost of an employee is almost...

Northwood, which is part of the Belvoir group, is launching a new TV advertising campaign to highlight its Guaranteed Rent Scheme. “We...

Another client money protection scheme has been given approval to launch itself before regulations go live on April 1.  From that date...

Who are you? I’m the Director of Sales for both the well-known industry leading Today publications and The ValPal Network. Leading publications: Estate...

Collyers, an Experts in Property estate and lettings agency with two branches in North Devon, has hoovered up a lettings firm...

Hunters has announced its first business expansion of 2019 with the acquisition of what it calls “a significant lettings book.” The acquisition...

With 2019 almost upon us, letting agents are finally unburying their heads from the ignorant bliss of the sand pit and...

The number of tenants saying they are using letting agents to find a place to live has increased 12 per cent...

The online agency Home Made, which says it’s London’s only premium online platform for the rental sector, has raised a further...

A lettings agency in Oxford has diversified into marketing car parking spaces as well as apartments and houses. Scottfraser Summertown has told...

A former City marketing executive is suing a lettings agency for £1.4m in a row over alleged harassment in 2010. Agent Caroline...

What are the magic ingredients for building a strong brand, attracting new customers and building trust with your target market? Gareth Helm,...

The popular belief that equity release damages the housing market is being challenged by claims from ER company Retirement Advantage. It claims...

In our previous 2 blogs we have covered the definitions of the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations (CPRs) and what...

A London lettings agency is warning landlords who let out their properties via Airbnb or similar short let platforms to ensure...

In a world increasingly obsessed with all things digital, it's no surprise that many estate agents are choosing to experiment with...

The Zoopla-backed Zero Deposit scheme has launched what it calls “a heavyweight advertising campaign” - and unsurprisingly, it’s across the Zoopla...

Knight Knox, a property consultancy specialising in investment, has launched an online platform, yieldit, which aims to simplify the sale and...

How can you use data to benefit and better your business? It’s something you’ll no doubt have asked yourself down the...

A new property management franchise operation, established late last year, is beefing up its training to cover GDPR, sales and marketing. SDL...

Kay & Co, Carter Jonas and Druce have been appointed as joint sole letting agent for the entire Howard de Walden...

Airbnb has announced that it has teamed up with three hosting agencies in the UK in a bid to make the...

Two agencies in Cheshire have merged, allowing a lettings business to now offer sales, mortgages and other home mover packages to...

Online agency easyProperty has announced the launch of two new lettings options.  One, called easyLet, is broadly a listings service: for £99...

A lettings trade body has announced a rebrand - the second organisation in the sector to do so in a matter...

When it comes to growing your business sustainably, maintaining a brand that is eye-catching and identifiable with your audience is vital...

Brighton’s largest lettings agency MTM Property has rebranded under the new name Coapt. The rebranding involved a year of workshops, client and...

A new website specifically dedicated to marketing rented property with tenants in place has raised over £2m investment in the past...

PropTech repairs company Fixflo has appointed digital guru Michael Murphy as non-executive chairman. Murphy has previously worked in high-growth and digital subscription...

We’re grateful to The Property Group, an agency in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, for alerting us to an incident involving its Mayfair Town...

A Birmingham-based student lettings agency says it has seen improved response rates from student tenants and viewers thanks to the use...

A new website called Vesta has launched aiming to sell investment properties with tenants in place.  The team behind the site describe...

Two of the leaders of PropTech company Goodlord have revealed some of the issues that this month drove the company to...

The ESTAS Group has just announced record entries for its 2018 letting and estate agents awards.  The national award scheme - which...

Virtual Staging is about presenting a property in the most appealing way to potential buyers. Many consider virtual staging is deceiving...

The troubled PropTech firm Goodlord - which creates software to allow tenancies to be handled on a single system - has...

A new online service backed by newspaper publisher Trinity Mirror says it wants to enable tenants to bypass lettings agents. HomeRenter offers what...

The lettings market typically heats up in autumn, with landlords and tenants back off their holidays and ready to start the...

A Leicestershire agency chain has acquired a rival Leicester-based independent.  Whitegates, which has offices in Loughborough, Mountsorrel and central Leicester, has acquired...

Rokstone has launched a new lettings division, operating out of the firm’s existing Marylebone offices and covering both short and long term...

Over the past few months, hundreds of agents across the UK have been improving their photography skills by taking part in...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has started work on a TV advertisement to highlight the importance of landlords instructing agents. The...

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

Let’s start with a quick fire quiz. How many more leads do you think you’d get with photos that have been...

An online agency claims landlords who use online operators are likely to reduce average void periods by up to a week.    In...

Q: What does it say on your business card? Tim Wright, Product Director, KeyAGENT Q: What does KeyAGENT do? We’re a team of multi-award...

Rightmove is testing an experimental Facebook Messenger bot in the London lettings market.    For the unitiated a bot is software that can...

With a host of changing regulations hitting the private rental sector, some landlords may be put off using letting agents, but...

Bristol council is resuscitating a so-called ‘rental standard’ which it expects local letting agents to meet. Back in January 2016 Letting Agent...

**The free photography course for estate agents (part one) offer has now expired. It is still available in special circumstances so...

A PropTech company claims its new software platform will make it easier for letting agents and property managers to co-ordinate maintenance...

Letting agents and landlords are being encouraged to promote and increase Direct Debit sign-ups for rental payments. Bacs Payment Schemes Limited (Bacs)...

A new rental auction website is inviting letting agents to preview its launch at an event later this month. LetsBid4Lets.com, which claims...

Letting agents and property managers will soon have a new way to coordinate maintenance reports and inspections, thanks to a refreshing...

A property described as Europe’s largest rental co-living block, The Collective Old Oak in London’s Paddington, is up for sale with bids...

Investors in buy to let are the marketing target for a service which describes itself as the UK’s first digital mortgage...

Agents are being warned to ensure they serve eviction notices correctly as the ‘peak eviction’ summer period arrives.  Specialist tenant referencing service...

What does it say on your business card? Luke Burton Sales and Marketing Director, Rent4sure Who is Rent4sure? Rent4sure, is an established tenant referencing company. We provide...

It seems prop-tech is exploding at a scary rate, and the latest brands are all trying to grab our attention by...

Wembley Park in north London is to host Britain’s largest Build To Rent scheme yet after Quintain revealed a programme for...

A short-let platform says overseas students may be a new market sector for agents who handle Airbnb-style bookings on behalf of...

Harrison Murray Lettings is holding a roadshow to showcase what it calls “its experienced and professional service for landlords and tenants.”   Over...

A new survey suggests that a letting agent saves a landlord an estimated £1,910 a year.   The result of an investigation into 500...

A digital property management platform that automates the rental process including marketing, bookings, reference checks, maintenance and compliance, claims it is now...

Many agencies have spoken out in dismay at the announcement by government that letting agency fees on tenants would be banned...

The key lies in improving your customer experience through technology For Agents, the tremendous growth in online estate agents highlights a strong...

Ensuring potential tenants have passed reference checks is the key priority for landlords when selecting an agent to let their property,...

Hybrid letting and sales agency Purplebricks is ramping up its attack on high street agents with a claim that prospective tenants...

Gillian Kent - once employed by News International to run a portal to rival Rightmove - has now been appointed chairman...

Andrea Morgan - known to many property Twitter users as @RightmoveAddict - is joining the Agency Mentors estate agency training and...

A new online commercial property letting agency is using the residential model of offering a fixed fee-based service.  Virtual Commercial, which is...

The high-end agency Pastor Real Estate is marketing what it believes may be the capital’s smallest grade II listed duplex apartment - it...

An investment company claims government and councils should do more to stamp out so-called rogue landlords who, it says, are giving...

Today sees the launch of what claims to be the UK's first online commercial estate and letting agency.  Virtual Commercial will offer...

A letting agent has launched its own management service for landlords organising short-term lets on Airbnb.  ACEProperty, an estate and letting agency...

Sales and letting agents who enter a new awards event will be given the chance to promote their property business on...

It is safe to say that in the cyber world of today, a reviewing culture has been born. We have review...

It's more important than ever that letting agents stand out with their marketing messages. The British rental market is more crowded than...

We look at a few of the best ways to make your property stand out from the crowd. In a market...

Leaders has acquired another lettings independent, Faulkner Property Management. Faulkner has two branches in Milton Keynes and Buckingham - new areas for...

The Resort Group are looking for sales agents to help sell our 5-star property developments in Cape Verde. With a proven...

Rightmove says letting agents are reporting “extraordinary demand” in many parts of the country, with an increasing number of tenants positively...

There has been a sharp rise in lettings-related calls taken by answering service Moneypenny in the third quarter of the year. In...

It's in the bag for Karl Tatler, who runs his lettings and sales business on the Wirral. He has enterprisingly marked this...

Our team of heroes have been helping thousands of UK letting agents for the past 20 years, during this time we...

A new service attempting to match prospective renters with available properties is emphasising its similarity to Tinder, the controversial online dating...

Henry Adams returns to the lettings field by combining with Gibson Gammon Residential Lettings to launch a full lettings service in...

A residential property investment firm is using a speed-dating theme as the basis of a new TV advertising campaign to attract...

At HomeLet we have a team of heroes who have been helping the UK's letting agents with rent guarantees, tenant referencing...

A letting agent is warning of apparently inaccurate information being sent out as part of a new agent and landlord accreditation...

An interesting point of view from a young sales negotiator working for Spicerhaart, whose chief executive Paul Smith recently wrote an...

The ESTAS, the longest and largest awards ceremony in the residential agency industry, has outgrown its old venue and is moving...

The rising phenomenon of agent-rating and review websites is a topic that seems to have caused considerable division and controversy among...

The internet and rapidly evolving digital landscape has revolutionised the way people buy and sell properties. With some reports suggesting 95 per...

What do we actually do as estate agents to serve our wonderful public? Some might think we go out, value houses, advise...

OK, you’re being spoilt. This column is now going to be on a bi-weekly rather than monthly basis. You lucky people,...

Anyone who doubts the enormity of the marketing budget for global short-lets firm Airbnb may have to think again - for...

Hello and welcome to my brand new blog! Every month I’ll be giving you an insight into the varied, exciting and...

A portal dedicated to investment and buy-to-let property has launched this week.  Buy2Let.com, which describes itself as the first of its kind,...

This publication recently reported on Russell Quirk's latest attempt to upset the establishment, this time by attacking the hallowed ground of...

The general election result was greeted with a sigh of relief throughout the lettings industry. Thanks to the Conservatives' victory, the threat...

The presupposed notion still exists that new online agents are ‘tech savvy’ whilst the seemingly old fashioned high street agents are...

Landlords and letting agents are at risk of overestimating the profitability of Buy To Let investments by neglecting to take into...

Hamptons International has been appointed sole agent for two of the latest private Build To Let schemes in the capital. Hamptons will...

Q: What does it say on your business card? I’m actually new at the company so haven’t got mine yet but when...