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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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Uncertainty over the coming recession, wholesale reforms of the rental sector, higher interest rates and National Insurance payments are all reasons...

The Association of Residential Managing Agents and the Institute of Residential Property Management have been merged under the name The Property...

Bowmark Capital is selling its Leaders Romans Group, one of the UK’s largest property services groups, to another private equity operator, Platinum...

One of the country’s oldest agencies may be under new ownership soon. The fast-expanding Lomond Group - which just last week announced...

Charters Group, the south of England agency, has announced a further acquisition that will grow its residential lettings operations. Charters Estate Agents will combine...

Henry Adams Lettings has acquired Country & Coastal Lettings, a small independent in Hampshire.  Ian Wiggett, chief executive of Henry Adams, says:...

It is understood that Lloyds Bank may use local agencies to find tenants for new private rental sector activities. In recent weeks...

The Association of Residential Managing Agents and The Institute of Residential Property Management have informed their respective memberships that they are pondering combining forces. The...

Two major south of England agency have merged in what they describe as a “transformational deal.”  Brand Vaughan, part of the expanding...

Lettings franchise giant Hunters has struck a commercial deal with a geospatial technology firm. The partnership offers immediate access to Kamma’s full...

Leaders Romans Group has acquired another lettings agency - the fourth lettings-led acquisition this year. This time it is Guardian Residential Lettings...

The fast-accelerating trend of takeovers and mergers continues this morning with news that two Kent agencies are combining. Oakwood Homes in Thanet...

As we emerge out of the pandemic there is a growing need for agents to reflect on how the lettings business...

A veteran lettings expert says most rental activity will soon be online and conducted outside office hours - a further boost...

Two lettings and property management firms have merged with the aim of increasing market share in Surrey, Hampshire and West Sussex. Property...

Lomond Capital, which owns Scottish lettings and estate agents Braemore and Stonehouse, is to merge with Yorkshire firm Linley & Simpson. The...

A warning has been issued by one of the most acquisitive letting agencies that future mergers and takeovers could be hit...

Henry Adams Lettings in Bognor Regis has joined forces with AC Lettings, one of the largest and most successful independent lettings...

A south coast agency has snapped up a local independent - the latest of several acquisitions it's made in recent years. Worthing’s...

The well-known Lenwell chain, with seven branches, has been acquired by the Leaders Romans Group.  Lenwell was established in 1990 with the...

Agents spend their whole careers telling vendors and landlords why they will be able to achieve a better sale price or...

An agency has rebranded following a ‘de-merger’ with a rival firm. Earlier this week we reported that Chichester husband-and-wife agency Hancock and...

A husband and wife lettings and estate agency in Chichester is re-launching as its own operation, separately from the firm it...

The much delayed merger of the UK’s two landlord bodies has officially happened today. The National Residential Landlords Association has been formed...

Leaders Romans Group has made another acquisition of a multi-office independent agency. It’s snapped up six-branch Outlook Property, which has offices across...

Leaders `Romans Group has snapped up the scottfraser lettings and sales business.  scottfraser has four Oxford offices and a fifth in Witney,...

The chief executive of a new lettings sector trade body is to address his first conference next month, giving an indication...

Darlington-based My Property Box has welcomed five new members of staff to its team who between them have amassed more than...

Two long-established lettings and sales agencies on the south coast have merged in a bid to “enhance customer experience.” Smart Property and...

Longstanding Leeds based property company Adair Paxton has acquired boutique estate agency firm, Hudson Moody Wass. Founded in 2001, Hudson Moody Wass...

One of the north east of England’s higher profile estate agencies has restructured and merged with a rival ahead of what...

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

The Leaders Romans Group has announced an acquisition to mark further expansion into the corporate lettings and block management market. The agency...

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

Ben Beadle is to be the chief executive of the new National Residential Landlords Association, launching in January. The new body comes...

Members of the industry’s two major landlord bodies have backed a merger which will now take place on January 1. Members of...

The two largest landlord trade groups are to merge. The National Landlords Association and the Residential Landlords Association will unite to form...

A London lettings agency that has already acquired an independent has now received what is described as a “six figure” loan...

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

The head of the online lettings agency recently scooped up by Emoov says traditional lettings agents have made a rod for...

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

The lettings director at Urban, the online agency recently snapped up by Emoov, says the rental market is faced with significant...

The Leaders Romans Group has snapped up yet another small independent agency - GPS Property Management based at Ravenshead in Nottinghamshire. For...

There are now well over 125 pieces of legislation and regulations - most introduced in modern times - governing the private...

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

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

Belvoir Lettings, the UK's largest property franchise, has been named as Franchise of the Year at the Negotiator Awards.  Belvoir has been...

EweMove - the online agency which is at the centre of a merger battle between its parent company and a rival...

Two independent agencies in Newbury are merging.    After a 40 year career in agency, Jeffery Brown from Atkinson Keene decided to retire...

A lettings and sales agency in the West Midlands has merged with its franchise outlet.   Lawsons was founded by Sally Lawson in...

Andrews Property Group has announced that Hannah Norris to lead its lettings business across its three major regions of Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire...

The Lettings Hub is broadening its offer to agents by launching a utility management service on top of its traditional referencing...

Adrian Gill, whose resignation as LSL Property Services was announced last week after just nine months in post, is to become...

The Romans Group - which made seven acquisitions of independent agencies in 2015 - has appointed a new lettings managing director. Michael...