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The pressure on rents for new tenancies in Scotland’s private rented sector have started to ease with all major cities now...

Propertymark has urged Scotland’s new First Minister to end the country’s housing emergency. John Swinney is now First Minister and says he...

It's reported that the Lomond estate agency group, which is heavily backed by private equity and which has expanded through serial...

A call has gone out from an industry group for letting agents to be sure they know the distinctions between statutory...

Campaigning charity Shelter is demanding an overhaul of the Renters Reform Bill, which will shortly begin its passage through the House...

The political chaos in Scotland presents sensible politicians with an ideal chance to resent housing policies and ditch rent controls. That’s the...

The ESTAS, the customer review and awards platform, has unveiled new headline partners for 2024. Reapit and PayProp will become the Headline...

Rightmove is hosting a webinar tomorrow for owners and managers of lettings agencies, focused on growing their business to the maximum...

Two agencies are merging their lettings operations and launching a Joint Venture company to enable continued growth in their respective areas...

The UK's rental market is experiencing a slowdown says a lettings chief. Nicky Stevenson, Managing Director of Fine & Country notes that...

Lettings giant Foxtons has hired merger and acquisition bankers from Rothschild following pressure from shareholders to sell itself for £160m, the...

There’s been at most a one per cent reduction in landlords in the buy to let sector, a think tank claims...

Promising figures from the latest house price index doesn’t mean underlying problems in the market have been solved, warns Propertymark. UK house...

Agents have expressed their anger at permanent rent controls proposed by the SNP and Green Party politicians running the Scottish Government. The...

Propertymark has urged the Scottish Government to resolve the country’s ongoing housing emergency. The news comes as Scottish Labour MSP Mark Griffin...

A Hunters franchisee has made his first acquisition - after 14 years. Lester Hurst, who has owned the Otley and Ilkley branches...

The PropTech sector has mostly agreed with the rest of the industry in its view on yesterday’s Budget - that it...

Shelter is calling for the construction of 90,000 rental properties each year for a decade - and it claims this would...

Propertymark has used its website and link with a property inspection service to urge letting agents to work with private tenants...

Renters are less financially resilient than recent remortgagers according to an analysis by business consultants Hargreaves Lansdown. It says over two thirds...

The merger of two of the largest names in the lettings industry has passed its final hurdle. Belvoir shareholders have now backed...

A property management firm claims that energy efficiency is apparently renters’ most important quality when choosing a place to live.  Centrick says...

Student accommodation booking platform Housemates is expanding overseas. The expansion will cover several major Canadian cities including Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal. Currently Housemates...

Leaders Romans Group has acquired three major lettings, sales and surveying businesses operating multiple branches across London, Surrey, Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire. The...

Average rents in Scotland for new tenancies in the private rented sector have risen by double digits for the fifth quarter...

Knight Frank has revised its housing market forecasts for 2024, just two weeks into the new year. It’s done this on the...

The Property Franchise Group, the UK's largest property franchise brand, wants to merge with long-time rival Belvoir. Both are listed on the...

The controversial minister who steered rent controls through the Scottish Parliament has contacted Propertymark to reveal details of the next stage. Patrick...

The Liberal Democrats have called on the government to bring in an emergency ban on no fault evictions and banks repossessing people’s homes...

Plans for leasehold reform face a major early stumbling block as analysis shows plans to retrospectively introduce a cap on ground...

An analysis of tenants renting between 2020 and 2023 shows a big rise in those on high salaries asked to provide...

Propertymark has laid out its proposals to the Scottish Government ahead of its 2024-25 Budget next week. The letting agents’ trade body...

A survey of more than 1,000 landlords in the Deposit Protection Service shows the scale of change in the private rental...

Berriman Eaton has reported a 30 per cent rise in its dedicated lettings business since 2020, with more than 420 properties...

Two of the highest profile PropTech suppliers to the lettings and wider property sectors have announced a merger. Reapit and PayProp say...

Shelter says there are nearly 139,000 children officially homeless and living in temporary accommodation - and it’s blaming the private rental...

The long-term shortage of rental accommodation is now addressed by a short-term clampdown on second homes and empty properties, a leading...

Propertymark has issued a strongly-worded statement aimed at politicians demanding rent controls. Labour Members of the Scottish Parliament have urged the declaration...

The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents is issuing a stark warning to be aware of the dangers of carbon...

Husband and wife Daren and Susan Cope, alongside son James and daughter Annie, are bringing their different agencies under one roof. So...

Two well known agencies are to merge in Scotland. Cullen Kilshaw LLP, a solicitors and lettings and estate agency, is to merge...

New figures have shown that 2,086 people were found to be sleeping on London’s streets for the first time between July...

Introduction The lettings market is no stranger to the complexities and challenges that come with finding the right tenants for the right...

Average rents in Scotland for new tenancies in the private sector have risen by double digits for the fourth quarter in a...

A council has launched its own social lettings agency to work with private sector landlords in tackling the record numbers living...

More details have emerged of what appears to be a sort of stay of execution for Section 21 eviction powers. The abolition...

Propertymark has backed the idea of a new property tribunal system for Wales to simplify court processes. The proposal merges nine current...

Labour deputy leader and shadow housing secretary Angela Rayner has given her party’s conference an outline of future policy plans. She says:...

The Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities says a new How To Rent guide will be issued today, October 2. Letting...

Young couples are delaying marriage and starting families until they get out of the rental sector, research by Yorkshire Building Society...

Housing Secretary Michael Gove will address the main Conservative party Conference on Tuesday morning next week - but perhaps his most...

An estimated seven million UK households are struggling to keep up with their rent or mortgage payments, Which? warns, with millions...

Shelter has published what it calls a General Election manifesto with rent controls at its heart. Called The Way Home: a manifesto to...

The Build To Rent sector has now joined those parts of the property sector with a dedicated awards event. The awards -...

More people are struggling to pay their rent according to a new government survey. The study, by the Office for National Statistics,...

Following the merger of the South Scotland and North Cumbria branches of Fine & Country, the  agency has added a further...

Propertymark has issued another plea to the government to be fair to the private rental sector - this time regarding a...

The Law Society is raising concerns over the effectiveness of a new support service aimed at tenants at risk of losing...

The new Housing Loss Prevention Advice Service kicks in today - it offers early legal advice, free of charge, to anyone...

Propertymark has branded the plans by Housing Secretary Michael Gove to increase housebuilding “disappointing”. Nathan Emerson, Propertymark chief executive, says: “The UK...

A new study claims to reveal what it calls “a significant disparity in the spare room rental market.”  The research shows that...

Details have emerged of a flagship agent training event to be held later this year. Agent Rainmaker Live is to be a...

Chestertons, one of London’s largest lettings and sale s agencies, has appointed Giles Milner as its first chief marketing officer. Having worked...

What objections are you hearing when you try and convert let-only landlords to fully-managed? Because the latest figures show just 18 per...

Trading Standards has stopped a lettings agency owner from being a company director after he defrauded customers by over £80,000. Francis Smart,...

A management company and a lettings agency involved in running a London HMO have been prosecuted for fire safety failures. Monsoon Properties...

The Scottish Government looks set to extend its rent cap for yet another six months, despite widespread opposition from the lettings...

Shelter is telling the government it “must deliver” on the revolution it pledges under the Renters Reform Bill. Chief executive Polly Neate...

Renters are being offered a 100 per cent mortgage by the Skipton Building Society - the first time such a product...

A trade body says inventories are set to play an increasingly important role in the private rental sector as fire regulations...

Leaders Romans Group has announced another new lettings acquisition. It has snapped up Liberty Gate, a single-office Nottingham-based business which also operates...

Numbers of possessions have soared in Scotland since the introduction of a rent cap and eviction ban according to DJ Alexander,...

Campaigning charity Shelter is angry with Chancellor Jeremy Hunt over his Budget  While most in the property industry have expressed relief that there...

The head of a property management company has been fined £25,800 after serious safety issues were discovered at a shared house...

The latest restrictions imposed on holiday lets by a UK government are hurting local economies. The Welsh Government has confirmed there will...

Agency giant Leaders Romans Group has launched a nationwide partnership with the Trussell Trust, which operates many of the country’s food...

The Herbert R Thomas agency, known as HRT, is merging with Rawlins & Madley. The two South Wales firms announced the merger on...

Propertymark has told a UK government to stop ignore the damaging effect of its policies on the private rental sector. An outspoken...

Jeffrey Ross, an independent lettings and sales agency in Cardiff, has acquired ACJ Sales and Lettings in Penarth. Jeffrey Ross has acquired...

Ruling politicians in Scotland have agreed that from April private rents can rise by 3.0 per cent in a 12 month period...

The controversial ban on private rental sector rent rises and evictions is to continue in Scotland for another six months at...

This may be 2022’s least surprising research finding - most property professionals want interest rates to fall. A webinar poll undertaken by...

Investment buyers will snap up a higher proportion of homes in 2022 than they did in 2021, the Hamptons agency forecasts.   So...

Purplebricks is to reveal its latest trading figures next week in a crucial test for the turnaround strategy of new chief...

Lucy Noonan, founder of Atomic Consultancy, reviews how partnering with Atomic can help property and lettings companies buy or sell their...

Agents have only until the end of tomorrow, December 2, to feed into Propertymark’s response to a new consultation on the...

Small and medium sized lettings agencies which have had running disputes with banks are being offered a lifeline - but must...

With EPC ratings now a prominent part of letting a property, with stricter government regulations likely, new research suggests substantial numbers...

Labour’s new housing spokesperson, Matthew Pennycook, says his party would go further than the government on the subject of private rental...

A safety training service is warning of “alarming statistics” showing an increase in the number of fires and fatalities and a...

The government has released new figures on the amount being spent by local councils on temporary accommodation for homeless households in...

A lettings agency in Scotland has played down the impact of the emergency rent freeze and eviction ban which have been...

There’s been a wide range of angry reactions to the Scottish Government’s passing of an emergency rent freeze and eviction ban...

Propertymark says there’s already been a decline in the number of homes available for rent in Scotland because of rising costs...

Emergency legislation containing a private sector rent freeze is to be debated by Scottish politicians this week - and the surprise...

The Belvoir Group is warning that the housing crisis within the Scottish private rental sector is rapidly worsening, thanks to the...

The Times says some Build to Rent investment has been paused as a result of the rent freeze imposed by the...

This is a crunch week for the UK economy - and likely the housing market too - with a meeting of...

A high profile agent has renewed his attack on politicians. David Alexander - who heads up DJ Alexander, part of the Lomond...

Propertymark, the letting agents’ trade body, has issued this guidance for agents to pass to landlords. It coincides with Gas Safety Week,...