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A prominent lettings expert and former president of ARLA Propertymark has berated agents who advertise ‘free valuations.’ Sally Lawson, now well known...

Fine & Country says it’s staging so-called Masterclass sessions with experts creating strategies “to help agents dominate the prime property market...

Student accommodation listings service StuRents has added three new hires as it expands. Chris Glen is the new head of customer success....

There's good news for the buy to let sector as mortgage product availability is showing signs of stability, according to the...

An analysis of over 600,000 tenancy applications has found that fraudulent applications rose by 140% last year.  The analysis, carried out by...

Curchods is making a bid to expand its activities in the high end Surrey market with a rebrand of its latest...

Legal & General’s suburban Build To Rent business, called LGSBTR, has exchanged on 41 new BTR homes in St Neots, Cambridgeshire.   Consisting...

A deposit alternative company is calling on agents to help tenants save an average of £1,000 on up-front costs. Flatfair chief executive...

Lloyds Banking Group, Nationwide, NatWest and Rightmove have announced a strategic investment in Coadjute, a prominent PropTech business.  This is the first...

Propertymark says its Lettings Helpline for agent members in England and Wales has become “an essential membership benefit for dealing with...

A boutique agency with branches in prime central and south west London has expanded its lettings operation by acquiring two agencies...

PropTech platform Goodlord has launched a new referencing service for letting agents, offering what it calls ”a carefully curated balance of...

Hamptons is linking with retirement rental specialist provider Birchgrove, pledging to offer “a unique proposition for those seeking quality senior rental...

Knight Frank’s Richmond residential lettings team has welcomed Ivanka Modesteva-Gyurova as Head of Lettings. Modesteva-Gyurova began her career at Foxtons in 2007,...

Asking rents continue to show pos­itive annualised growth in all regions except Greater London and Scotland.  That’s according to respected property website...

Family-owned agency Boydens has signed a deal to offer deposit alternative service Reposit to landlord clients. Paul Buck, a representative of Boydens,...

Hamptons has launched a residential investment department - and it’s using the sister Connells brand to give new homes more exposure...

Just weeks after announcing that it was launching a new residential lettings and property management division, regional agency Dacre, Son &...

Home Counties agency Bridges today launches Platinum Homes, which it describes as “a bespoke sales and lettings service catering to premium...

Automated rental payment service PayProp has revealed a revamped website.  The service described the new site as “a refreshed web presence that...

One of the first Building To Rent schemes in Wales - a 22 storey tower - has seen its first residents...

Foxtons says the Build To Rent sector has vast growth potential - and even now in its infancy it is enjoying...

Alto says it’s introducing new Lettings Progression functionality which will roll out in the first half of this year - so...

Letting agents are reported to be making special offers to students in one of the biggest UK university cities. Durham’s student newspaper...

PropTech player Technology Blueprint Ltd has completed the integration of compliance software firm, CheckDocs.  The move is the first in a series...

Knight Frank has appointed Louna Del Barrio as lettings associate in a key London office. Del Barrio comes to Knight Frank following...

Ukrainians who came to the UK following the Russian invasion will be able to apply for 18-month extensions to their visas,...

Major regional independent agency Dacre, Son & Hartley is expanding its offering by re-entering the residential lettings and property management market...

Belvoir Group has linked up with Propertymark in a deal which they say will “help further improve standards and enhance financial...

Legal & General senior executive David Reid has been named as the chair of an influential committee driving forward Build To...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? My name is Sara Stevenson. I am the Lettings Director...

The benefits for letting agents to outsource their client accounting is well documented, however with an increasing number of options available,...

There were 12,000 first time buyers over the age of 50 in the UK in 2022, the latest figures available. This means...

A Knight Frank survey of 50 house builders shows a staggering 70 per cent support for Labour to win the next...

Winchester council is setting up its own agency to let and manage privately rented homes. Venta Living pledges to provide “high quality,...

Reposit is the latest deposit alternative service to announce strategic partnerships with agencies - the latest signings are Symonds & Sampson,...

Foxtons’ internal lettings data shows that the 2024 lettings market in the capital is likely to be more balanced than in...

Aereon - a European software provider that owns high profile PropTech operator Fixflo - has entered a strategic partnership with automated...

Aviva Investors, the global asset management business of Aviva plc, has spent some £150m acquiring a portfolio of six Purpose Built...

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

A new lettings franchise is being launched, which claims its franchisees can earn £100,000-plus annually.  The Sourced Group has launched Sourced Living,...

Self employed agency brand Harding Green, which majors on London and prime country markets, says it’s grown significantly in the lettings...

A series of lenders have slashed their buy to let mortgage rates in a bid to win business. These include: - LendInvest Mortgages...

Lomond has more than doubled its footprint spanning the South Coast after a major deal involving a 10 branch agency, Beal's. Beal’s employs...

Lower mortgage rates - still falling in the days since the end of the festive break - may be persuading some...

The Housing Ombudsman - currently active in the social housing sector but tipped to take a wider role involving private renting...

Strutt & Parker’s London New Homes staff attribute 50 per cent of their market this year as dollar-based - 30 per...

Homelessness charity Crisis says the long-standing government pledge to scrap Section 21 eviction powers can’t come soon enough. The charity has backed...

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

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

Propertymark has announced an extensive regional 19-meeting schedule for 2024. A statement from the trade body says the schedule “will blend together...

A 335-unit Build To Rent scheme has reached practical completion stage in Sheffield. Going under the (perhaps bizarre) name of PLATFORM_, the...

Knight Frank has bolstered its prime offering across north London with a new head of lettings in its Hampstead office. Jared Kilgarriff...

The autumn roadshow being hosted by Fine & Country resumes next week with the first of six dates throughout the rest...

A letting agent with a background in renovation has been able to grow her business by offering investors a swathe of...

Self employed agency brand Harding Green has appointed a former Hamptons agent to handle short lets for clients. Nina Wallrock, who has...

A client account is essential to your lettings business, but the rules and regulations you need to follow to keep this...

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

Trade body Propertymark says fees will remain unchanged next year.  “We’d like to thank all our members for their continued commitment to...

Belvoir has expanded its presence in Scotland following the opening of a brand-new office in Kirkcaldy.  The branch is the sixth Belvoir...

A new rental property listings platform - called Krispyhouse - can completely by-pass letting agents. It describes itself as a ‘dating service’...

In September last year, flatfair, a deposit alternative provider, released their latest rental solution called flatfair Deposits, to the lettings market....

An independent agency managing 115 lettings units has been snapped up its local Belvoir franchise. Tim Hughes, owner of Belvoir Newbury, has...

Hunters’ first ever franchised branch in the North Yorkshire town of Selby is under new ownership after 16 years. James Powell, who...

Local media in one of Britain’s busiest cities for rentals says tenants have been left in tears as a result of...

The lettings chief in a prominent regional agency says she’s delighted that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has done a dramatic U-turn...

Propertymark is introducing a new dedicated Lettings Helpline for ARLA members in England and Wales.  Until now Propertymark has provided members with access...

A lettings service called Smarter Rent is partnering with agents and developers to provide what it calls ”“an innovative property rental...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? My name is Nakul Patel and on my business card...

A lettings service called Smarter Rent claims to be “an innovative property rental agency with a difference” which lets high quality...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Annalese Walmsley - Commercial Director at flatfair What is flatfair and...

Financial support from family members - not just parents - is expected to help fund 318,400 housing transactions in 2023, according...

Belvoir has snapped up a regional mortgage provider for £1m. It’s acquired MAB (South West) Ltd and follows the earlier acquisition of...

Deposit alternative provider flatfair has announced their latest integration with the property technology platform, Reapit. A statement from flatfair says: “Existing users...

Spicerhaart’s veteran chief executive Paul Smith is stepping back to concentrate on company growth - including the acquisition of more lettings...

Reposit has increased the number of agencies offering its deposit alternative product.   This increase in agent customers comes as Reposit reports growth...

Fine & Country has announced what it calls “a ground-breaking partnership” between licencees Jonathan Handford and Sean Newman and Jack Rees...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Ross Nichols, and it says i’m Co-Founder at Just Move...

A rogue lettings agency in London has been expelled from The Property Ombudsman scheme but is still thought to be trading. Hawks...

Newcastle-based lettings agency Seekers has successfully qualified a further four members of staff and funded their membership of ARLA Propertymark. The four...

Buy to let mortgages have seen the largest interest rate increase of any mortgage category according to new research. Barrows and Forrester...

Finances have never been more stretched in the UK, with almost every bill and expense soaring for employees and employers alike,...

An attempt to introducing statutory licensing for Airbnbs and some other tourist accommodation has got a frosty reception. The Welsh Government -...

Propertymark has revealed its latest top table of elected and unelected spokespeople forming its new leadership team. The new chair of the...

Utility management service Helpthemove has rebranded. The refresh, which has been produced alongside creative agency partner Jam, aims - in the words...

Build To Rent operator Apo is partnering with PropTech platform Lavanda to offer increased exposure to Airbnb-style short-lets. The partnership will see Apo...

Ukrainians in the UK will be helped into private rental homes as part of a £150m government injection.  The funding will be...

A three branch lettings and sales business which describes itself as one of its region’s fastest growing agencies has named a...

The fast growing agency Lomond - which has snapped up a string of independents in the past two years - is...

The Competition and Markets Authority is beefing up its enforcement work against illegal cartels and offering a reward of up to...

Online lettings agency Hortons has launched an Investors Club search portal, aimed at property investors and developers. The agency describes this as...

Lettings platform Seven Living has appointed a longstanding figure from the Leaders Romans Group to be its senior head of lettings.  James...

Although Purplebricks’s Scottish lettings book was sold in a deal over the Bank Holiday weekend, there remains uncertainty over the rest...

Free legal help for agents on what Renters Reform Bill really means A free webinar hosted by PropTech firm Goodlord is being...

Not for profit accreditation service safeagent has seen two of its lettings qualifications officially recognised by exam watchdog Ofqual.  Safeagent as an...

The pro-tenant anti-landlord Renters Reform Bill has at last been published by the government which first promised it in 2019. It has...

OnTheMarket has completed a new integration with Canopy which it claims will provide valuable pre-qualified leads to letting agents. The latest integration...

As an estate or letting agent, you may already know that having a strong online presence is crucial for success in...

The Bank of England has announced its latest decision on base rate. This has been increased by 0.25 per cent to 4.5...

Nearly a third of tenants are borrowing money to fund a cash deposit, a survey claims. A poll of 1,000 current renters...