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Five Labour MPs have put forward an Early Day Motion in the House of Commons calling for rent controls - even...

Lomond - a firm that now calls itself “one of the UK’s largest acquirers of estate and letting agency businesses” -...

Paragon Bank’s analysis of its lending data has revealed the top 10 locations for investment by portfolio buy-to-let landlords, those with...

The Belvoir 2024 Annual Awards have crowded a father-and-son franchisee pairing as the big winners. Paul Wallace-Tarry and his son Richard Wallace-Tarry...

A survey of local council private rental licensing schemes says 19 selective and additional licensing schemes and consultations will be taking...

Lettings and sales agency Gascoines is this week celebrating 70 years of serving the property market in Nottinghamshire. Founded by Doug Gascoine...

Glasgow has been revealed as the UK city with the biggest rise in the number of buy to let properties in...

Fast-growing Lomond has snapped up another regional agency - this time one in the Midlands. Centrick - which had a High Street...

A severe shortage of properties to rent, fierce competition to secure the homes that are available, and rising rental prices led...

Citra Living, the Build To Rent arm of Lloyds Banking Group, has announced another new scheme. It is a 95-flat development at...

Lloyds Banking Group, which announced back in 2020 that it was to become involved in the private rental sector, is buying...

Lomond has consolidated its growing foothold in the lettings sector after sealing its biggest acquisition to date in the Midlands. In what...

Some 48 per cent of tenants are currently living with one or more housing disrepair issues, it’s being claimed. The problems include...

Lomond has snapped up another lettings book - it’s of the Royston & Lund agency in the East Midlands. The 600 properties...

Reapit has inked a deal with fast-expanding PropTech service Kamma to automate information about private rental sector council licensing. This year is...

Leaders Romans Group has made three internal promotions at a senior level to beef up its property management team. Karen Shepherd, George...

Police are encouraging letting agents and landlords to regularly check properties following the discovery on a cannabis factory. Police attended the address...

Details have been given of Lloyds Bank’s latest dive into the Build To Rent market. Its BTR arm, Citra, has acquired 49...

Belvoir franchisee Lloyd Rumbold has completed on the acquisition of Belvoir West Bridgford, adding a fourth franchise to his portfolio of...

A prominent provider of student rental accommodation has appointed an international property consultancy to consider growth options. Study Inn Group has a...

Letting agents have a final chance today to have their say on a consultation into a newly proposed licensing scheme for...

Lavanda, a student lettings property management tech supplier, has announced a partnership with UPP, a student accommodation provider working in partnership...

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

Two agents who helped establish a multi-million-pound drugs ring in two cities have been jailed. Ossama Omar and Mohamed Latif ran Platinum...

Franchise giant Belvoir has once again held a lavish annual conference and awards event. Sponsored by iamproperty, Let Alliance and PayProp, the...

Rental yields have increased by as much as 2.5 per cent in the past year as rent values outperform house prices.  The...

Derby-based serviced apartment provider The Stay Company has snapped up another site for its portfolio. The development in Gedling, Nottinghamshire, is called...

London has continued to dominate the list of the most attractive cities for buy to let investment for the second year...

Nottinghamshire estate agency Gascoines has bolstered its lettings team with the appointment of Callum Holmes as lettings co-ordinator.  With more than 10...

A scheme which some regard as the most controversial landlord licensing regime in the country is coming under scrutiny. Labour councillors on...

The Lettings Candidate of the Year has been named by Propertymark Qualifications, at an awards event at the British Museum. The successful...

Five agencies have been expelled from The Property Ombudsman scheme - all for compliance failures. The first is Home Trader Properties, in...

Private renters’ average floor space per person in England has fallen by 16 per cent over the past 20 years while...

New research claims students in the UK are currently paying as much as £16,500 per year in living costs - a...

Belvoir says that during the six months to the end of June income increased 11 per cent on the year before,...

Acquisition is one of the most frequently used words in the lettings sector now as large numbers of agencies are snapped...

Connells Group has named what it describes as “four key promotions” across its lettings division, signifying the company’s commitment to nurturing...

A student-specialising lettings agency has been named as franchise of the year at the brand’s annual awards. Nicholas Humphreys Nottingham, one of...

Another new Build To Rent scheme has been announced by Grainger. Launching next month, the 158-unit Gilders Yard scheme sits on the...

Research by the UK’s largest student accommodation search platform shows a 3.7 per cent uplift in London’s Purpose-Built Student Accommodation bed...

Lettings franchisees under the Belvoir banner delivered the group an additional 10 per cent management service fees last year according to...

Rental guarantor service Housing Hand has announced a new partnership with student accommodation provider Kexgill. The firms claim the arrangement will challenge...

A new Buy To Let ‘tracker’ from a prominent buy to let mortgage lender has revealed what it considers to be...

Belvoir Group has given yet another upbeat trading report to shareholders. It says in the 10 months to the end of October...

A lettings platform set up by a 24 year old is today announcing an expansion from its Bristol start up to...

Research by a student accommodation search platform suggests that the sector may rely too heavily on the apparent year-on-year growth in...

Tenants returning to the office and city centres has triggered strong rental growth in the largest urban centres. Rightmove’s Quarterly Rental Trends...

Record tenant demand and record-fast lettings have combined to create an average asking rent above £1,000 per calendar month for homes...

Rental demand has started to return to the majority of major UK cities during the second quarter of this year, with...

The Leaders Romans Group has identified four locations which it says have come into their own since the working-from-home craze started...

A major student accommodation platform says its local area has become a regeneration hotspot for proper investment. UniHomes says Sheffield has already...

A branch in The Property Franchise Group has snapped up a local independent - and almost 200 additional properties under management.  The...

Franchise giants Belvoir has revealed strong figures in a trading statement to shareholders - but it’s warning that 2021 remains shrouded...

Unite Students, the UK’s largest owner, manager and developer of purpose-built student accommodation, has been granted planning approval for a new...

An online petition is voicing opposition to government calls for ever-improving EPCs in the private rental sector.  Nottingham landlord Tricia Urquhart has started the...

A new lettings market snapshot from Rightmove suggests that asking rents in some major city centres have seen annual falls up...

A warning about illegal fees by letting agents has been produced by a local council Trading Standards team.  It has come from...

A crooked lettings agent stole almost £30,000 from dozens of clients to prevent his business from going bankrupt. Tim Catherall, of Nottinghamshire,...

A local authority is urging letting agents within its boundary to get in touch before serving eviction notices on private tenants. Gedling council...

A law firm is warning that agents and landlords should carefully follow correct procedures if they suspect a rented property is...

Student lettings and management company Uni2 Rent has expanded its business with the acquisition of Nottingham West Lettings, for an undisclosed...

Demand for rental properties with gardens or other outdoor space has soared in terms of portal listings - perhaps no surprise...

The departure of almost all students from UK universities and colleges back to their parental homes for possibly several months has...

A lettings agent has completed a £2.6million property acquisition plan in one city on behalf of investors, and will go on...

Grainger, one of the biggest names in Build To Rent, has agreed to buy a proposed 348 home-scheme in central Nottingham. The...

Yorkshire-based property management firm Barnsdales has acquired a Nottingham independent for an undisclosed sum. Marriotts Commercial, an arm of Marriotts estate agency,...

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

A council getting government cash for rental enforcement is using it to introduce a review service allowing tenants to comment on...

A rental management platform has compiled a league table of where tenant demand is strongest for homes to let - and...

A mortgage lender’s new Buy to Let City Tracker tool has calculated the best cities in the UK for buy to...

A lettings agency has marked six months in business by embarking on a £100,000 project to create what it calls its...

There’s been a steep rise in the costs of landlord joining a compulsory licensing scheme operated by Labour-controlled Nottingham city council. The...

A controversial private rental licensing regime that has already made the headlines for the wrong reasons has now been branded a...

The property management platform Apropos, scheduled to launch early next year, says it’s signed up 25 business partners ahead of schedule. The...

A Labour council is leading a trial by local authorities of a new digital platform that checks whether agents, landlords and...

Former QPR and Nottingham Forest striker Dexter Blackstock has been fined over £25,000 and branded a rogue landlord after admitting 12 licencing offences. He...

Property development and investment firm SevenCapital has released a top 10 league table of UK cities which it claims will perform...

As expected, the Liberal Democrats’ conference in Bournemouth has backed a motion calling for the scrapping of Section 21 - effectively...

The most controversial local council rental licensing scheme in the country has been deemed a success - at least by the...

A specialist lettings agency claims it is the first in the UK to only use renewable energy in the accommodation it...

A flat-sharing website has created a league table of average rents in locations surrounding the top-ranked universities in the United Kingdom....

A buy to let investor has been fined almost £5,000 after admitting overcrowding.  Matteo Mariano, from Gedling in Nottinghamshire, pleaded guilty at...

An online room-letting platform claims rents have risen up to eight per cent in wake of the Tenant Fee Act. ideal flatmate...

University towns in the north of England and the Midlands score highest when it comes to yields and capital appreciation. The assessment...

As competition hots up between different deposit replacement scheme providers, three new Build To Rent sign-ups have been announced by one...

The agency handling the largest volume of student accommodation in Lincoln is celebrating its fourth birthday by opening a second office...

A slow rental market in London is weighing down on growth across the rest of the UK, according to the latest...

Rental growth remains in positive territory - just - but on average it’s still well below the general level of inflation...

A survey of 500 buy to let landlords suggests that well over a third are planning to increase the size of...

Bristol is the best city for house shares, according to new research by specialist rental sector broadband and utilities provider Glide. The...

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

A new study suggests that rental properties now account for 40 per cent of the available housing stock.  Looking at the final...

A controversial Labour-controlled local authority which already has 91 per cent of its private rental properties inside licensing schemes is now...

Edinburgh has been identified as having the UK’s fastest growing rents with the average annual sum rising by 4.63 per cent...

Research released this morning reveals that university cities offer some of the highest buy to let yields in the country. The Free...

Nottingham council - which recently introduced one of the largest and most controversial selective licensing schemes in the country - now...

Local press reports say that one of the country’s most controversial buy to let licensing schemes has seen thousands of applications...

The UK's second city Birmingham takes top spot when it comes to student property returns for buy-to-let investors. Analysis by online letting...

The council behind a controversial private rental sector licensing scheme is trying to justify its introduction on health and safety grounds. On...

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