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Number one portal Rightmove has upgraded growth expectations in its latest statement to shareholders - and is again growing its average...

Knight Frank’s residential operation has won the ‘Best Customer Satisfaction Strategy Award’ at the UK Customer Satisfaction Awards 2024. The agency says its...

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

An agency which currently has £350m of property under management and boasts a 98 per cent client retention rate, has opened...

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

More details have emerged of what appears to be a sort of stay of execution for Section 21 eviction powers. The abolition...

One of the country’s first Belvoir branch franchises has changed hands after approaching three decades.  The resale of Belvoir Lincoln, one of...

Spicerhaart Lettings has expanded expands its property management division with two key appointments. Natalie Giles has been appointed as the new Property...

Online training and qualifications provider The Able Agent is launching a new white label training platform. The ‘In-House by the Able Agent’...

The private rented sector is enjoying record demand. According to Hometrack, rental enquiries per estate agency branch were 46% higher in...

Grainger, the UK’s largest landlord and a huge player in the Build To Rent sector, says it’s going to implement only...

Fine & Country will be hosting masterclasses in October focussing on recruitment and retention.  Held in London and Leeds the sessions will...

A major lettings sector supplier says the industry must do more to appeal to win employees from the TikTok generation. These typically...

The chief executive and founder of an award-winning sales and lettings brand is set to discuss the best practice approaches to...

The government says it’s finalising plans for a new tax regime to apply to additional homes, and in particular those used...

The government has updated its guidance for agents, landlords and tenants to explain the possession action process in the county courts...

Spicerhaart is restructuring its lettings activities to include more working-from-home, mirroring what it’s done to its sales side in the past...

Official figures show that far from seeing a rise during the pandemic, there has been what the government calls “a massive...

The extension of the furlough scheme might be an indirect saviour for many lettings agencies says a leading PropTech entrepreneur. Neil Cobbold,...

A new assessment of legislation and council rules surrounding the private rental sector suggests a severe crackdown may be coming in...

Two industry training firms say the lockdown beginning this week gives agents an opportunity to prepare for 2021. Agency Mentors and The Able Agent...

Countrywide’s latest trading statement covering the first half of 2020 shows it was hit more than most corporates by the market...

Many have speculated, though much of it is anecdotal – how is the UK rental market coping with the fallout from...

A specialist mortgage operator is warning letting agents and landlords to gear up for a winter of discontent as a result...

A leading PropTech entrepreneur is warning agents to prepare for increased rent arrears from as soon as next month. Neil Cobbold, chief...

A lettings sector trade body, acting with homelessness charities, is urging the government to do more as young people in rented...

A pro-tenant campaign group has this morning kicked off its campaign to have the eviction ban - already extended until late...

One of the country’s largest lettings agencies is to lose 17 jobs out of 100 in what the company founder calls...

The plethora of support companies around Airbnb and other short let platforms in the UK have told the government that it...

The government’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme will be essential to keeping payments flowing through the rental sector, according to a leading...

Hello and welcome to Conquering Corona, our bid to help agents through the crisis. If you have appropriate advice to share with...

Airbnb and similar platforms have seen a collapse of business since the start of the Coronavirus crisis with some 70 per...

Welcome to the latest edition of our daily service dedicated to advice and guidance on how agents can best cope with the...

All court possession orders are being suspended from today as part of the changes to the private rental sector to cope...

Letting agents can beat the upcoming ban on Section 21 by updating key documentation and automating arrears management to reduce the...

Registration has opened for the 2020 ARLA Propertymark Conference, with an early bird discount available to members until January 24. The event,...

Two university dropouts who started their own student letting agency have recorded their busiest ever start to an academic year. Harry Conti,...

An agency in the north of England is continuing its strategy of acquisitions in a bid to offset the effects of...

Manchester’s rental market is rising higher than in any other UK city according to property consultancy Cushman & Wakefield.  Rents were up...

A Select Committee of MPs investigating the proposed ban on agents’ fees levied on tenants says the measure could save renters...

A leading figure in the PropTech sector is urging letting agents to use the 2019 lettings fee ban as an opportunity...

Repairs service provider Fixflo is this week opening its annual call for comments from letting agents on repairs and maintenance issues.   Although...

Who are you? Peter Grant, currently serving year 27 of my sentence in the property industry and still loving every moment of working...

A former letting agent has pleaded guilty of nine offences of fraud involving the retention of deposits and rents belonging to...

The Property Redress Scheme has expelled a letting agency following non-compliance with a redress decision. The complaint regarded a holding deposit. The...

Glyn Trott from LetMC Just like having a customer retention strategy, we also have a staff retention strategy, learn some of the...