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A leading London lettings agent wants increased regulation over Airbnb in a bid to deter criminal activity and anti-social behaviour. Martin Bikhit, managing...

Industry supplier Let Alliance has merged with the Barbon Insurance Group, which includes HomeLet and Rentshield     The announcement was made at...

Martin & Co says it has compensated clients fully after a rogue lettings agent in Cornwall added sums to invoices sent...

The Tunbridge Wells office of Martin & Co has boosted its managed portfolio by 43 per cent by snapping up yet...

Rents have reached an all time high across the UK according to HomeLet. Its latest index says the average rent in the...

One of the key players in the ultra-competitive deposit alternative sector has announced a massive and new $11m investment. Flatfair says that...

Another Martin & Co franchisee has acquired a nearby independent agency. The franchise firm’s Falmouth branch, run since 2013 by Felicia and...

The Southampton branch of Martin & Co has more than doubled its business after acquiring an independent agent in the city. It’s...

Data from rental insurance firm HomeLet suggests that the Tenant Fees Act may already be causing more movement amongst tenants. The firm...

National agency Martin & Co has announced the acquisition of independent Essex agency Owen Lyons. Martin & Co Chelmsford owner Stephen Frost...

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

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

An MP says he will raise with local police chiefs a series of claims from landlords and tenants concerning a lettings...

National sales and lettings agency Martin & Co has launched what it calls a 'pioneering new service' in the North East. The...

A former employee of Martin & Co has admitted operating a fraud scheme that involved agency clients paying money into his...

Property Franchise Group brand Martin & Co has snapped up West Yorkshire independent agent Red Box Residential. Martin & Co’s Saltaire branch, operated...

The High Court has ruled that the government’s Right to Rent scheme breaches human rights law. Under the Right to Rent landlords are...

The Nottinghamshire branch of Martin & Co has snapped up the local independent agency SOLOS Residential. The family-run Martin & Co branches...

The average UK rental values continued to grow towards the end of last year according to data with the average rent now...

Oxfordshire sales and lettings agency Parkers - one of the brands of The Property Franchise Group - has snapped up the...

The independent lettings agency Chilli Residential has been snapped up by a local branch of franchise giant Martin & Co. The Aldershot...

A lettings agent says the fees ban expected to be introduced next year may end up indirectly helping to save the...

A branch of Martin & Co has substantially boosted its managed portfolio following the acquisition of independent agency County Rentals. The goodwill...

Brexit is causing concern among landlords, according to HomeLet. The initial results of HomeLet’s annual landlord survey says nine out of 10...

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

The local branch of franchise operation Martin & Co has acquired family business Oliver James’s Witney office to become the largest...

HomeLet says the average rent in the UK is now £947, up 0.9 per cent on last year - or up...

Barbon Insurance Group, which trades as HomeLet and Rentshield Direct, has now snapped up Movem. Movem uses personal online banking transaction data...

A series of acquisitions by The Property Franchise Group this year has added over 3,000 managed properties to its portfolio this year...

Buy to let is still an attractive investment compared to other asset classes but to make the best of the opportunity...

Essex-based Balgores Property Group, which operates across that county and in Kent, has snapped up Woollens estate agents in Dagenham. Woollens has...

Hybrid agency EweMove is claiming massive growth for its branch in south Manchester, which it says has seen its lettings and...

The Lomond Capital acquisition bandwagon continues apace with the latest independent to be snapped up being the well known Bonett’s Estate...

Rents have risen a negligible 0.9 per cent across the UK in the last 12 months according to HomeLet. The average monthly...

The Property Franchise Group has given an insight into the effect of the ban on lettings fees likely to be introduced...

Ian Wilson, chief executive of The Property Franchise Group, says new rules for regulating the lettings sector will probably be clumsily...

Belvoir Lettings has announced that industry veteran Michael Stoop has joined the board as a non-executive director, with Nicholas Leeming stepping...

Reaction to the government’s call for developers and planning authorities to be more flexible in their approach to increasing the housing...

The veteran estate agent Michael Stoop has become a non-executive director of Sorbet, a PropTech company which has created a software...

A former councillor says letting agents should be responsible for ensuring student tenants know how to organise their bins in a...

Angela Newark, owner of two franchises of The Property Franchise Group in West Yorkshire, has acquired the portfolio of another agency taking...

Gloucester independent lettings agency R M C Hardcastles has been acquired by Martin & Co franchisees Peter and Rani Grieve -...

The Oxford franchisee of Martin & Co has acquired the nearby Kidlington office of independent local agency Oliver James. This takes the number...

One of the senior figures in the UK’s burgeoning Build To Rent sector has called on the Chancellor to help this...

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

Letting agency Saxons has been fined more than £3,000 after pleading guilty to the offence of displaying an unauthorised To Let...

Rents are gently rising again after some months of small dips according to HomeLet.    It says the average new tenancy signed during...

Haslams, a prominent agency in the Reading area, has appointed ex-Countrywide figure Martin Hembra as director of lettings.   Hembra has over 20...

The Property Franchise Group has revealed that is has made one of its largest ever single office acquisitions. Martin & Co Plymouth...

Average UK rents fell in May, according to the latest HomeLet Rental Index. The figures show that the average UK rent on...

Only just over a week remains before the end of the formal consultation on the government’s proposal to ban letting fees...

Twenty agency groups have backed a call by the Association of Residential Letting Agents urging the government to extend or scrap its...

A total of 17 letting agencies have signed up to a rental charter set up by a Labour MP.   Alan Whitehead, Labour...

The head of MartinCo, the country’s largest franchise agency group, says the government’s buy to let tax changes and lettings fee...

Martin & Co claims to have identified the 10 key factors that influence local rental markets in terms of tenant numbers...

More than 92 per cent of landlords believe the government is anti-landlord and want the Chancellor to back them in this...

A new app created in partnership with a homelessness charity aims to give independent agencies the ability to push properties direct...

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

  A letting agent who scammed dozens of tenants and landlords out of more than £220,000 of rents and deposits has been...

A buy to let property in London is going to be “very difficult to make viable” in the near future unless...

Agents have been giving their reaction to the shock Brexit referendum result - and their comments have ranged from the gloomy...

A business start-up service says the cost of joining a franchise lettings agency can range from £2,495 to a hefty £150,000...

Ian Wilson, chief executive officer of Martin & Co, has given David Cameron’s government a “two out of 10” score for...

Six letting agents have all pleaded not guilty to charges of fraud. The Ham & High says they were all employees of...

Publicly quoted property franchise giant MartinCo has reported strong figures to the City with group revenue up 38 per cent and...

Martin & Co - one of Britain’s largest letting agency networks with 192 offices across the country - says it may...

The private rental sector could expand to cover 40 per cent of households and the UK population is likely to split...

A survey by HomeLet suggests that nine in 10 landlords do not intend to raise rents on their existing tenancies during...

A property investment search portal has launched an online petition via the UK Parliament website, calling for a national register of...

The man behind a new competition for agents says he has taken the initiative to try to redress the negative press...

Estate agents shying away from sales of buy to let properties because of recent government clampdowns on the sector risk missing...

Research by a prominent letting agency chain suggests that despite the onslaught of red tape thrown at landlords, almost half are...

A letting agency has announced its support for new rules which will allow landlords to evict illegal immigrants without a court...

A letting agent is urging landlords to try to circumnavigate tax changes aimed at the buy to let sector by incorporating...

Two agents charged with fraud are expected to appear in court tomorrow Martin Marcus and Nadim Khan will appear at Harrow Crown...

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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,...

Ian Wilson, the head of Martin & Co, recently threw his hat into the ring regarding Labour’s stated intention to cap...