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The owners of Martin & Co’s Aldershot branch have grown their managed portfolio by more than a fifth after acquiring local...
14 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

The Property Franchise Group says that in the past year the number of managed properties it handles has risen from 58,000...
06 April 2022
From: Breaking News

Major London agency Dexters has acquired the lettings business Howsy, which handles the property management of 6,000 units across the country. Dexters...
11 March 2022
From: Breaking News
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Housing ministers come and go with brutal frequency in UK governments of all colours, so yesterday’s departure of Chris Pincher -...
09 February 2022
From: Breaking News

The Property Franchise Group now manages in excess of 74,000 rental properties on behalf of landlords, according to a new trading...
02 February 2022
From: Breaking News

The owner of Martin & Co’s Blackpool branch has made it a year to remember after securing another independent acquisition. Hamza Anwar...
26 November 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

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

The franchisee of a new Martin & Co branch in his hometown has opened with the recruitment of five new staff. Hamza...
26 July 2021
From: Breaking News

A lettings agent has told the BBC that he has spotted illegal rental scams using online platforms, but the police have...
28 June 2021
From: Breaking News

The new co-owner of two branches of Martin & Co is combining legal work with sales and lettings. Barrister Tom Fazackerley has...
28 June 2021
From: Breaking News

A branch of The Property Franchise Group’s Martin & Co brand is stopping potential tenants from booking a physical tour of...
03 June 2021
From: Breaking News

The owners of a branch of Martin & Co have taken their managed portfolio to approaching 400 properties after securing a...
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

The owner of the Bedford branch of Martin & Co has grown his business by more than 50 per cent thanks...
07 May 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

The Property Franchise Group has made another acquisition, this time in the seaside town of Weymouth. TPFG’s Martin & Co brand has...
22 April 2021
From: Breaking News

A branch of Martin & Co has completed its second independent lettings book acquisition in 18 months. Martin & Co Chelmsford, part...
02 February 2021
From: Breaking News

The takeover of Hunters by The Property Franchise Group means the combined operations will manage over 70,000 tenanted properties across the...
29 January 2021
From: Breaking News

Three property specialists have joined forces to launch a new branch of franchise brand Martin & Co. Directors Andrew Rowson and Lindsey...
26 January 2021
From: Breaking News

EweMove - one of several agency titles owned by The Property Franchise Group - has incorporated three High Street operations run by...
20 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

A EweMove branch has acquired a nearby Martin & Co operation, including its portfolio of 150 managed properties. Both firms are owned...
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

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

Another market snapshot from HomeLet suggests that there was a 2.2 per cent average rent increase across the UK in the...
04 November 2020
From: Breaking News

The property market, and therefore, estate agents have been accused of being the 'weak link' in the UK’s money laundering defences. This...
29 October 2020
From: Legislation & Compliance

Martin & Co has completed major acquisitions from local independents in three areas. Martin & Co Falmouth completed its fifth acquisition in...
19 October 2020
From: Breaking News

The latest monthly rental index produced by insurance provider HomeLet shows a four per cent surge in the all-UK average rent...
06 October 2020
From: Breaking News

The average rent across the UK is now £985 per calendar month, up some 2.1 per cent on four weeks ago...
02 September 2020
From: Breaking News
04 August 2020
From: Breaking News

Average rents in most regions of the UK have fallen slightly in the past month according to the latest HomeLet market...
10 July 2020
From: Breaking News

The Property Academy’s latest webinar, to be held this afternoon, is to be addressed by a behavioural economist and frequent contributor...
21 April 2020
From: Breaking News

The Bournemouth branch of Martin & Co has acquired a local independent agent. Bullock & Lees, a local south coast firm, has...
11 March 2020
From: Breaking News

The manager of an agency in West Lothian has bought the franchise for the office she’s run for the past six...
18 February 2020
From: Breaking News

The Property Franchise Group, which has a string of major agency brands, has reported a strong performance in 2019 despite the...
29 January 2020
From: Breaking News

Another branch of The Property Franchise Groups’s brand Martin & Co has snapped up an independent rival - and it’s the...
29 January 2020
From: Breaking News

The Gainsborough branch of Martin & Co has become the largest single office within the national agency thanks to a fifth...
22 January 2020
From: Breaking News

The Widnes branch of franchise firm Martin & Co has grown its business by almost a quarter after acquiring a local...
20 January 2020
From: Breaking News

Martin & Co’s Ashford branch is opening a new office just outside the Kent town following a deal to acquire a...
14 January 2020
From: Breaking News

The Property Franchise Group has issued an upbeat trading statement indicating that it’s mitigated much of the financial impact of the...
21 November 2019
From: Breaking News

A leading London lettings agent wants increased regulation over Airbnb in a bid to deter criminal activity and anti-social behaviour. Martin Bikhit, managing...
07 November 2019
From: Breaking News

Industry supplier Let Alliance has merged with the Barbon Insurance Group, which includes HomeLet and Rentshield The announcement was made at...
06 November 2019
From: Breaking News

Martin & Co says it has compensated clients fully after a rogue lettings agent in Cornwall added sums to invoices sent...
04 November 2019
From: Breaking News

The Tunbridge Wells office of Martin & Co has boosted its managed portfolio by 43 per cent by snapping up yet...
25 September 2019
From: Breaking News

Rents have reached an all time high across the UK according to HomeLet. Its latest index says the average rent in the...
13 September 2019
From: Breaking News

One of the key players in the ultra-competitive deposit alternative sector has announced a massive and new $11m investment. Flatfair says that...
16 August 2019
From: Breaking News

Another Martin & Co franchisee has acquired a nearby independent agency. The franchise firm’s Falmouth branch, run since 2013 by Felicia and...
22 July 2019
From: Breaking News

The Southampton branch of Martin & Co has more than doubled its business after acquiring an independent agent in the city. It’s...
15 July 2019
From: Breaking News

Data from rental insurance firm HomeLet suggests that the Tenant Fees Act may already be causing more movement amongst tenants. The firm...
11 July 2019
From: Breaking News

National agency Martin & Co has announced the acquisition of independent Essex agency Owen Lyons. Martin & Co Chelmsford owner Stephen Frost...
04 July 2019
From: Breaking News

Another independent agency has been acquired by franchise giant Martin & Co. The firm’s Southend franchisee purchased the managed properties of local...
13 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

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

A former employee of Martin & Co has admitted operating a fraud scheme that involved agency clients paying money into his...
26 April 2019
From: Breaking News

Property Franchise Group brand Martin & Co has snapped up West Yorkshire independent agent Red Box Residential. Martin & Co’s Saltaire branch, operated...
19 March 2019
From: Breaking News

The High Court has ruled that the government’s Right to Rent scheme breaches human rights law. Under the Right to Rent landlords are...
01 March 2019
From: Breaking News

The Nottinghamshire branch of Martin & Co has snapped up the local independent agency SOLOS Residential. The family-run Martin & Co branches...
04 February 2019
From: Breaking News

The average UK rental values continued to grow towards the end of last year according to data with the average rent now...
11 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 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 lettings agent says the fees ban expected to be introduced next year may end up indirectly helping to save the...
18 October 2018
From: Breaking News

A branch of Martin & Co has substantially boosted its managed portfolio following the acquisition of independent agency County Rentals. The goodwill...
17 October 2018
From: Breaking News

Brexit is causing concern among landlords, according to HomeLet. The initial results of HomeLet’s annual landlord survey says nine out of 10...
15 October 2018
From: Breaking News

A man who submitted false VAT returns for the Lincoln franchise branch of Martin & Co for a period of six...
08 October 2018
From: Breaking News

The local branch of franchise operation Martin & Co has acquired family business Oliver James’s Witney office to become the largest...
25 September 2018
From: Breaking News
17 September 2018
From: Breaking News

Barbon Insurance Group, which trades as HomeLet and Rentshield Direct, has now snapped up Movem. Movem uses personal online banking transaction data...
14 September 2018
From: Breaking News

A series of acquisitions by The Property Franchise Group this year has added over 3,000 managed properties to its portfolio this year...
15 August 2018
From: Breaking News

Buy to let is still an attractive investment compared to other asset classes but to make the best of the opportunity...
24 July 2018
From: Breaking News

Essex-based Balgores Property Group, which operates across that county and in Kent, has snapped up Woollens estate agents in Dagenham. Woollens has...
02 July 2018
From: Breaking News

Hybrid agency EweMove is claiming massive growth for its branch in south Manchester, which it says has seen its lettings and...
29 June 2018
From: Breaking News

The Lomond Capital acquisition bandwagon continues apace with the latest independent to be snapped up being the well known Bonett’s Estate...
10 May 2018
From: Breaking News

Rents have risen a negligible 0.9 per cent across the UK in the last 12 months according to HomeLet. The average monthly...
16 April 2018
From: Breaking News

The Property Franchise Group has given an insight into the effect of the ban on lettings fees likely to be introduced...
11 April 2018
From: Breaking News

Ian Wilson, chief executive of The Property Franchise Group, says new rules for regulating the lettings sector will probably be clumsily...
06 April 2018
From: Breaking News

Belvoir Lettings has announced that industry veteran Michael Stoop has joined the board as a non-executive director, with Nicholas Leeming stepping...
27 March 2018
From: Breaking News

Reaction to the government’s call for developers and planning authorities to be more flexible in their approach to increasing the housing...
07 March 2018
From: Breaking News

The veteran estate agent Michael Stoop has become a non-executive director of Sorbet, a PropTech company which has created a software...
06 February 2018
From: Breaking News

A former councillor says letting agents should be responsible for ensuring student tenants know how to organise their bins in a...
04 January 2018
From: Breaking News

Angela Newark, owner of two franchises of The Property Franchise Group in West Yorkshire, has acquired the portfolio of another agency taking...
19 December 2017
From: Breaking News

Gloucester independent lettings agency R M C Hardcastles has been acquired by Martin & Co franchisees Peter and Rani Grieve -...
13 December 2017
From: Breaking News

The Oxford franchisee of Martin & Co has acquired the nearby Kidlington office of independent local agency Oliver James. This takes the number...
23 November 2017
From: Breaking News

One of the senior figures in the UK’s burgeoning Build To Rent sector has called on the Chancellor to help this...
22 November 2017
From: Breaking News

A Leicestershire agency chain has acquired a rival Leicester-based independent. Whitegates, which has offices in Loughborough, Mountsorrel and central Leicester, has acquired...
04 October 2017
From: Breaking News

Letting agency Saxons has been fined more than £3,000 after pleading guilty to the offence of displaying an unauthorised To Let...
03 October 2017
From: Breaking News

Rents are gently rising again after some months of small dips according to HomeLet. It says the average new tenancy signed during...
07 August 2017
From: Breaking News

Haslams, a prominent agency in the Reading area, has appointed ex-Countrywide figure Martin Hembra as director of lettings. Hembra has over 20...
03 August 2017
From: Breaking News

The Property Franchise Group has revealed that is has made one of its largest ever single office acquisitions. Martin & Co Plymouth...
13 July 2017
From: Breaking News

Average UK rents fell in May, according to the latest HomeLet Rental Index. The figures show that the average UK rent on...
06 June 2017
From: Breaking News

Only just over a week remains before the end of the formal consultation on the government’s proposal to ban letting fees...
25 May 2017
From: Breaking News

Twenty agency groups have backed a call by the Association of Residential Letting Agents urging the government to extend or scrap its...
26 April 2017
From: Breaking News

A total of 17 letting agencies have signed up to a rental charter set up by a Labour MP. Alan Whitehead, Labour...
16 February 2017
From: Breaking News

The head of MartinCo, the country’s largest franchise agency group, says the government’s buy to let tax changes and lettings fee...
03 February 2017
From: Breaking News

Martin & Co claims to have identified the 10 key factors that influence local rental markets in terms of tenant numbers...
14 December 2016
From: Breaking News

More than 92 per cent of landlords believe the government is anti-landlord and want the Chancellor to back them in this...
21 November 2016
From: Breaking News

A new app created in partnership with a homelessness charity aims to give independent agencies the ability to push properties direct...
27 October 2016
From: Breaking News

Franchise agency MartinCO's revenue increased by 12% in the first half of 2016, it announced yesterday in its half-year trading update. Overall...
15 September 2016
From: Breaking News

A letting agent who scammed dozens of tenants and landlords out of more than £220,000 of rents and deposits has been...
29 June 2016
From: Breaking News

A buy to let property in London is going to be “very difficult to make viable” in the near future unless...
27 June 2016
From: Breaking News

Agents have been giving their reaction to the shock Brexit referendum result - and their comments have ranged from the gloomy...
24 June 2016
From: Breaking News

A business start-up service says the cost of joining a franchise lettings agency can range from £2,495 to a hefty £150,000...
04 May 2016
From: Breaking News

Ian Wilson, chief executive officer of Martin & Co, has given David Cameron’s government a “two out of 10” score for...
11 April 2016
From: Breaking News

Six letting agents have all pleaded not guilty to charges of fraud. The Ham & High says they were all employees of...
08 April 2016
From: Breaking News

Publicly quoted property franchise giant MartinCo has reported strong figures to the City with group revenue up 38 per cent and...
06 April 2016
From: Breaking News

Martin & Co - one of Britain’s largest letting agency networks with 192 offices across the country - says it may...
03 March 2016
From: Breaking News

The private rental sector could expand to cover 40 per cent of households and the UK population is likely to split...
02 March 2016
From: Breaking News

A survey by HomeLet suggests that nine in 10 landlords do not intend to raise rents on their existing tenancies during...
09 December 2015
From: Breaking News

A property investment search portal has launched an online petition via the UK Parliament website, calling for a national register of...
23 November 2015
From: Breaking News

The man behind a new competition for agents says he has taken the initiative to try to redress the negative press...
03 November 2015
From: Breaking News

Estate agents shying away from sales of buy to let properties because of recent government clampdowns on the sector risk missing...
02 November 2015
From: Breaking News

Research by a prominent letting agency chain suggests that despite the onslaught of red tape thrown at landlords, almost half are...
16 September 2015
From: Breaking News

A letting agency has announced its support for new rules which will allow landlords to evict illegal immigrants without a court...
27 August 2015
From: Breaking News

A letting agent is urging landlords to try to circumnavigate tax changes aimed at the buy to let sector by incorporating...
27 July 2015
From: Breaking News

Two agents charged with fraud are expected to appear in court tomorrow Martin Marcus and Nadim Khan will appear at Harrow Crown...
09 July 2015
From: Breaking News

Hello and welcome to my brand new blog! Every month I’ll be giving you an insight into the varied, exciting and...
05 June 2015
From: Features

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,...