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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...

Portsmouth and Southsea lettings agency Chinneck Shaw has been appointed to manage the first purpose-built Build to Rent project from Ravelin...

Agents representing landlords of HMOs In Portsmouth are being warned by the council that their need to be licensed or face...

A new licensing scheme for HMOs, agreed by leaders of Portsmouth council, will be implemented from September 1 2023. Licensing of HMOs...

Portsmouth-based agency Pink Street has completed its fifth acquisition in two years in its bid to create the largest letting agency...

Bhavik Patel, owner of Nicholas Humphreys Southampton & Portsmouth has acquired independent lettings agency Harker and Bullman in Wimborne. This is the...

The owner of a Belvoir lettings franchise has fulfilled a lockdown ambition to write and publish her book ‘Landlords, what’s holding...

Six agencies have been expelled from The Property Ombudsman for failing to pay compensatory awards - five of them for offences...

Room rents in the capital have dropped seven per cent in the past three months as the Coronavirus crisis saps demand...

A council says it’s considering lending funds for improvement to landlords who “behave fairly and appropriately” - and buy into a...

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

Portsmouth council is the latest local authority to offer to rent properties from private landlords to let out to the homeless.  The...

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

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is one of many industry groups in a new coalition calling for S21 repossessions to be...

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

LSL Property Services has acquired LetCo Homes, a lettings and property management specialist based at Whiteley in Hampshire.  LetCo, which operated chiefly...

Grainger says it’s ready to respond to the growing need for longer tenancies for families and older renters - the latter...

Build To Rent operator and long-term volume landlord organisation Grainger says it is pioneering five-year leases “in a bid to overhaul...

Grainger plc, the UK’s largest listed residential landlord, has launched a scheme of 29 two, three and four bedroom houses aimed...

Belvoir's Portsmouth office has acquired the local Lettings Direct business, adding a further 100 managed properties to its portfolio.    The move coincides...

Rents for individual rooms to let are rising fastest in Swansea, Bradford, Portsmouth and Swindon, with all of these locations seeing...

A young independent agency in Manchester is set to hit a £1.5m turnover target after just 18 months following the addition...

A letting agency in Hampshire has doubled in size after acquiring one of its competitors. LetCo, a four branch agency working across...

A former letting agent has received a suspended prison sentence after pleading guilty to ten counts of fraud. Nicholas Dowse, also known...

An officer from The Property Ombudsman Scheme (TPO) and a member of staff from Northwood recently switched roles for a week...