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Rightmove says it’s now cheaper to buy than rent in each of Great Britain’s biggest cities, highlighting why many determined first-time...

Two of Martin & Co’s Oxfordshire branches are under new ownership. David Rebe has taken on the Oxford and Thame branches from...

A figure in one of the country’s highest profile lettings companies has hit out at a government proposal to penalise the...

Prominent MPs from the Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties have renewed their onslaught on Airbnb and other short let platforms.  Former Lib...

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

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Neil Cobbold, Managing Director What is PayProp and what does it...

A trade body representing short lets operators has slammed government housing failures. The Short Term Accommodation Association says it’s analysed local authority...

The well know Finders Keepers lettings agency, which operates across Oxfordshire, has acquired a local independent to bring its total number...

Landlords wanting to make a healthy return from their investment should target student properties in the North of England and Scotland,...

Connells’ high end brand John D Wood & Co. Is opening of a new office in Winchester, Hampshire. It occupies a stone-built...

Professional cleaning firm Prompt Cleaners has created a league table of regions and local authorities where renting is cheapest and dearest. The...

  A council has told letting agents to ‘get a move on’ as it admits there’s been a slow start to its...

The legendary Oxfordshire-based lettings agency Finders Keepers has won gold at the local British Property Lettings Award and silver in the...

Cheshire has topped a new ranking of the best places in the UK to invest in a holiday let, according to...

West Oxfordshire council is the latest to demand new government legislation to increase council tax on empty and second homes in...

The growth of the short term rentals sector has helped create an economy featuring jobs that benefit local communities and fit...

The man who led the sale of prominent lettings agency Finders Keepers to Countrywide has landed a new role as group...

The fledgling trade body for the UK’s short lets industry has welcomed the government’s proposal for a registration scheme for hosts. The...

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

A lettings agent has taken the surprising step of encouraging tenants to seek compensation if their landlords fail to abide by...

In a late night announcement it was confirmed by the Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities that Lee Rowley MP...

Midlands-based land and property agency Sheldon Bosley Knight has snapped up two more businesses. The acquisition of Wigwam Estate and Lettings Agents...

The franchise owners of a Parkers branch have marked their third year under the brand by opening a second office. Brendan and...

One of the country’s best-regarded lettings agencies celebrates its 50th birthday today. The Oxford-based Finders Keepers was founded in 1972, starting out...

A new study has compiled a league table of the best cities in the UK for investment in student accommodation. CIA Landlord...

Airbnb is giving away £100 vouchers to anyone in the UK who shifts into the short lets sector for the first...

All private rented homes in Oxford will need a licence from this September, following a green light from the government. Some 49.3...

The latest forecast for the UK lettings market this year is that there will be a four per cent rise in...

Proceedings against a bankrupt letting agent have been delayed 10 weeks to allow mental health reports to be prepared.  Madelaina Eftekhari is...

Renters are amongst the three groups likely to suffer worst as the cost of living crisis unfolds, an analyst has warned.  Sarah...

A developer says its new state-of-the-art sales centre in Hong Kong in set to boost Chinese investment in London. Galliard, the developer...

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

Agents should go further in allowing tenants to have digital access to key documents such as contracts and fees information. That’s one...

A council has written to Housing Minister Chris Pincher calling for a new approach to the short lets issue. Oxford council leader...

Two lettings agencies are amongst three property agents which have been fined by HM Revenue & Customs for breaching anti-money laundering...

A lettings agency has apologised after a campaign by activists about the condition of a rental property it manages. Protesters outside the...

If agents want to emphasise the green credentials of their local area, then a new league table may be of help. An...

The Oxfordshire based PropTech founders and software developers of Openview, today announced they have welcomed Pattinson Estate Agents to their list of clients.   Peter Grant,...

Police were called to a protect outside a lettings firm in Oxfordshire after a crowd picketed the office over a dispute...

The Build to Rent market remains small in volume but it is making some inroads, leading to BTR rent rises predominantly...

Activists from the Acorn renters' campaign group have held a protest outside a branch of Chancellors in Oxford. The group says the...

A letting agent has been fined £11,500 for breaking HMO houses and fire safety rules at a property he manages. Agent Benjamin...

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

Prime Minister Boris Johnson is to let his Oxfordshire cottage out - and predictably, he’s chosen an upmarket letting agent. Strutt &...

Real estate as an industry has remained unchallenged throughout all of these years. For the industry worth more than 217 trillion...

The Daily Mail says it has informed Trading Standards of a lettings agent which is claims is “illegally working” despite not...

The takeover of Hunters by The Property Franchise Group means the combined operations will manage over 70,000 tenanted properties across the...

ARLA Propertymark has hit out at a growing number of local councils introducing licensing schemes, calling it “socially irresponsible” to do...

A council claims that as many as a fifth of all the private rental sector homes in its area have a...

Activists are attempting to build rent strike momentum amongst students who rent property across the country. ‘Rent Strike” is a national network...

A lettings agency is in the news because it has asked a student to stop using a specific room in a...

Activists from the so-called renters’ union Acorn have held a protest outside the office of a lettings agency in Oxford. A photograph...

The average cost of renting in England is almost unchanged from five years ago - although that masks significant localised variations.  The...

One of the country’s first specialist residential property fund managers has named the agency to handle its latest Build To Rent...

Oxford council, which has 49 per cent of its housing stock in the private rental sector, is starting a formal consultation...

A league table has been drawn up to show which large cities in the UK have the highest demand for investment...

A council has won a planning appeal banning the use of a property for short lets - considered a landmark case...

One in eight homes coming onto the rental market in inner London since May has previously been an Airbnb or other...

A regional independent agency generating more than £20 million in rental income annually has snapped up a five-branch independent firm. Alexander & Co,...

Deposits have risen as much as 24 per cent in the past year in some parts of the UK - according...

A local council is warning the HMO rental sector that tenants may be put at unnecessary risk as a result of...

The number of new rental listings reaching the market has soared as much as 44 per cent in some areas following...

Rental demand has dropped significantly across London and other major UK cities as a result of the pandemic. When comparing current levels...

The average rent for a newly let property rose 3.3 per cent in the year to the end of February -...

A massive £250m has been raised from a Swedish pension fund towards UK Build To Rent projects. Property development firm Oxford Properties...

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

Another Labour council wants to introduce a city-wide landlord licensing scheme - a proposal that would require government approval to implement. Last...

Technology has completely transformed the lettings landscape over the past decade, but perhaps not in the way many expected it would. Letting...

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

[Letting Agent Today was ‘off air’ for some of Wednesday and most of Thursday thanks to technical problems - we apologise to...

A council has used a drone with a thermal imaging camera to identify illegal ‘sheds’ where tenants are being rented beds...

A local authority is being warned that its landlord licensing and accreditation scheme is potentially unlawful. The Residential Landlords Association, which represents...

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

New research shows that some buy to let investors in London could typically lose over £19,000 a year if Berlin-style rent...

The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) is threatening Oxford Council with a judicial review of its landlord and letting agent accreditation scheme. The...

New data looking specifically at room rental rates suggest that across the UK rents rose by an average three per cent...

The council for one of the wealthiest areas in the country says it will be “educating and advising letting agents” on...

Andrews lettings agency in Oxford has emerged as the hero in an episode which saw a family evicted from their home...

Oxfordshire sales and lettings agency Parkers - one of the brands of The Property Franchise Group - has snapped up the...

LAT recently carried a story of a lettings agency diversifying by renting out parking spaces for landlord owners - and now...

A lettings agency in Oxford has diversified into marketing car parking spaces as well as apartments and houses. Scottfraser Summertown has told...

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

The Independent online newspaper says Conservative MP Gary Streeter will tomorrow meet with Prime Minister Theresa May and urge her to...

Countrywide has announced that Dan Channer - a well-known figure in the lettings industry generally, and managing director of Oxford-based Finders...

Local media in Bristol say politicians in the city are considering supporting a controversial website that allows tenants to rate and...

Oxford’s Labour council has given its support to a lettings review website because it claims it will help drive up the...

The Oxford franchisee of Martin & Co has acquired the nearby Kidlington office of independent local agency Oliver James. This takes the number...

The pressure group Generation Rent - often identified with highlighting issues concerning young tenants - is now warning of a massive...

A landlord has been fined a total of £7,298 for operating an unlicensed house in multiple occupation in Oxford that was...

Romans - part of the leading property company, The Leaders Romans Group - is on the acquisition trail again.    Between 2013 and...

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

Benham & Reeves Residential Lettings says it is encouraging its London landlords to avoid rent rises and instead focus on retaining...

A campaign group has been refocussed with the objective of making the government honour its Autumn Statement pledge to ban letting...

Affordability pressures in the private rental sector mean that far fewer tenants are now renting properties with spare bedrooms according to...

The latest demand by anti-letting agent pressure group Generation Rent is for the government to abolish the right of landlords or...

The average rent for two bedroom apartments has risen to more than a third of gross average earnings of tenants in...

Rents are rising faster in northern cities than those in the south, narrowing the divide between the two halves of the...

A London couple have used a lettings website to advertise for flat sharers in their property overlooking the Thames - it...

Average rents in some of the UK's most popular university locations have increased significantly over the last year, according to SpareRoom.co.uk. As...

A House in Multiple Occupation located on the third floor of a property with a restaurant at ground level was one...