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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...

A buy to let investor has been fined £1,750 because of his alleged “aggressive practices”.  Shafaqat Ali Sadiq, of Derby, has been...

Rents in the UK, excluding London, are still increasing but at their slowest rate for five years. Figures from specialist lender Landbay...

A self-employed gas fitter has been sentenced to 16 months in prison after he carried out unsafe gas work while falsely...

It appears that take-up of an apparently compulsory licensing scheme in one city has been shockingly low - and the scheme...

From August 1 Nottingham council is introducing a new selective licensing regime covering an estimated 32,000 privately rented homes. This is an...

Rents in London rose by 0.1 per cent in the 12 months to June - it’s the first annual rental increase...

A petition has appeared on the government’s e-petition website calling for a review of a city council’s newly-introduced selective licensing system. Nottingham...

Sourced, which describes itself as the largest property investment platform in the UK, has secured its 25th franchise some 10 months...

Belvoir has published what it calls ‘a decade of data’ tracking the changes in the private rental sector since 2008, when...

A Derby-based agency says it’s on the acquisition trail and seeking lettings operations to take over. Birchover Sales and Lettings - led...

A property management company has been landed with a legal bill of almost £2,000 after admitting that it failed to keep...

Rents in the UK grew by an average, and tiny, 0.69 per cent in the year to the end of February,...

The government has given the go ahead to what will be one of the UK’s largest selective licensing scheme outside of...

The city council in Nottingham claims it has taken action against no fewer than 561 unauthorised To Let boards under powers...

Liverpool and Nottingham are the UK’s best performing property investment locations, according to mortgage broker Private Finance.  Both cities enjoy average rental...

Harrison Murray, the lettings division of the Nottingham Building Society, has launched a portal for landlords and tenants. The agency says it...

Rightmove has revealed the locations where prospective tenants have searched for properties on its portal in 2017 - and the winning...

Gascoines agency at Southwell in Nottinghamshire is celebrating the retirement of one of its most loved staff members after no less...

A league table drawn up by a rental sector insurance specialist claims private rental accommodation in university locations can produce yields...

A new licensing scheme in Nottingham has moved a step closer with the proposal being sent to the government for approval.    The council’s...

Leaders has returned to ther acquisition trail with its purchase of a local agency in Nottingham.   Leaders has snapped up Bulmer Estates,...

Manchester council is considering a city-wide ban on letting agents’ To Let boards.   The local authority says the plethora of boards in some...

The Nottingham-based Harrison Murray lettings agency is continuing its innovative roadshow aimed at demonstrating to landlords and tenants how its services...

A letting agency specialising in student accommodation in Nottingham city centre and its director have admitted a series of breaches of...

Harrison Murray Lettings is holding a roadshow to showcase what it calls “its experienced and professional service for landlords and tenants.”   Over...

Consultation has begun on a new licensing scheme for landlords being proposed by Nottingham council.    It runs until March 31 and gives...

The local council in Nottingham wants to introduce a city-wide licensing scheme of all landlords across its estimated 43,000 private rental...

Some 21 per cent of landlords wait four months or longer from purchasing their buy to let property before signing up...

Letting agents and landlords are being reminded to comply with an obligation to remove ‘to let’ signs in certain parts of...

An East Midlands estate agency has opened its third lettings office, saying the rental market has 'defied expectations'. Richard Watkinson and Partners,...

A firm has been fined £29,000 after a rental property was found to be - in the words of Nottingham city...

A buy to let investment search portal has produced an interactive map based on a pull-together of research into the lettings market...

Another letting agent has spoken out at the threat of the new Right to Rent legislation leading to possible discrimination against...

Fast-growing agency chain Leaders has two new lettings and sales offices with the acquisition of Aidan J Reed's Leicestershire outlets in...

A lettings agency has issued a warning to tenants to protect themselves following a claim that the city in which it...

HomeLet’s rental index figures for June shows another rise with average rents outside of London now standing at £747 per month,...

In case we didn’t learn the lesson last time around, we appear to be on the brink of a refresher course...

Leaders has just completed its biggest acquisition deal to date, taking its UK-wide branch network to 99. It has acquired Derby’s agency...

Landlords and agents are being warned to remain vigilant as new figures reveal the extent of cannabis cultivation in the UK.  Direct...

A letting agent in Newark, Nottinghamshire, has become the first in its area to adopt rental feedback scheme Consider-Rate.  Buttercross Estates has...

Leaders’ acquisition and expansion programme continues apace, snapping up another agency in a new area - Nottinghamshire.  Leaders this week acquired lettings...