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Almost two in five UK owners - landlords and homeowners - now consider improving the energy efficiency of their property an...

A consultation to introduce boilers into homes and the private rented sector needs ‘more carrot than stick’ according to a prominent...

I think we can all agree that the National Trading Standards Material Information reforms are a good thing for the property...

Controversial website content by the high profile website GetAgent must never appear again, according to the ad industry watchdog. The Advertising Standards...

Two of the highest profile PropTech suppliers to the lettings and wider property sectors have announced a merger. Reapit and PayProp say...

Sally Lawson of Agent Rainmaker writes: Online information sessions are a vital way to network with landlords and showcase your expertise. That’s what...

Parts B and C of the process to improve material information disclosure in property listings are published today within comprehensive new guidance...

With less than a week to go before the Court Meeting and the General Meeting which will decide the fate of...

More multi-millionaires and billionaires are choosing to rent super-prime homes in London, rather than purchase, reveals a new wealth report Beauchamp Estates’...

Franchise giant Belvoir is the latest agency group to sign a deal with geospatial technology firm Kamma. The partnership will offer all...

Pattinson estate agency in the north east of England has snapped up Ryedales Estate Agents, an independent in Northumberland. Ryedales owners Geoff...

An agency has issued its rental market forecast for 2024. Chestertons says rents are forecast to have increased by 6.5 per cent...

EweMove, the hybrid agency which is part of The Property Franchise Group, claims it is now an industry-leading business as a...

Propertymark has told politicians that an additional homes tax will not succeed in increasing housing supply. Timothy Douglas, head of policy and...

The board of Foxtons is under pressure from a minority of shareholders to put the agency group up for sale, according...

Affordability limits have been reached in several regions of the UK, the Home property website suggests. While some regions are still recording...

The Office for National Statistics official government lettings index shows that private rental prices paid by tenants in the UK increased...

Tickets are now on sale for the next Women in Estate Agency conference in March. Starting as a Facebook group during Covid...

A new report suggests London’s Build To Rent sector is being held back by a “stark inconsistency” from local councils in...

Husband and wife Daren and Susan Cope, alongside son James and daughter Annie, are bringing their different agencies under one roof. So...

Propertymark has written to Housing Secretary Michael Gove to remind him of the importance of regulating letting and estate agents. The trade...

The share of homes sold by a landlord in Britain has fallen from 15.7 per cent last year to 14.0 per...

Strutt & Parker has announced a new National head of lettings. Anna Ambrose brings with her 18-years’ experience within the sector, including...

Winkworth is expanding further in Dorset, with the acquisition of Christopher Batten in Wimborne – its seventh office in the county.  Christopher...

The latest RICS lettings market survey shows another increase in rental demand - but that demand appears to be slowing. The institution’s...

One of the first forecasts for the rental market for 2024 suggests that strong growth will continue. Property consultancy JLL says that...

An overwhelming number of letting and sales agents back the idea of more so-called Material Information on property details.  That’s according to...

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

One of Scotland’s oldest property and legal brands - Simpson & Marwick - has been snapped up by a newcomer to...

The innovative lettings and estate agency Hat and Home has opened its fifth office - and once again it’s an unusual...

The lettings agency Winkworth has taken the unusual step of criticising policies of a series of councils. The councils are all Labour...

One prominent part of the Lomond agency empire is rebranding to fall in line with a larger higher-profile brand under the...

Not for the first time this year, a trading update from London-focussed agency Foxtons has shown that lettings is leading the...

Less than a year since opening the sixth branch of sales and lettings agency Parkers, one of the brand’s most successful...

Lomond has snapped up another lettings book - it’s of the Royston & Lund agency in the East Midlands. The 600 properties...

The latest edition of the Home housing index shows Conti suing close links between both the lettings and sales markets. The Home...

The chief executive of Foxtons, who has been in the job exactly one year, now claims the company has enjoyed “incredible...

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

Propertymark’s regional conferences are now in full swing with the next event at the Canterbury Cathedral Lodge in Kent on  November...

A long-standing Martin & Co franchisee is expanding his network of London offices following an independent agency acquisition. Michael van de Vyver, who...

Propertymark has urged the government to take the potential Help to Buy ‘timebomb’ seriously. The news comes as London lettings agent Benham...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Louis Musgrove – Group Managing Director   What is Southernbrook Lettings and...

The latest lettings market survey by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors shows rental demand continuing to rise.  A net balance of...

A PR exercise has discovered that 89 per cent of UK MPs would not give priority to Build-to-Rent schemes in their...

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

Husband-and-wife team John and Shirley Ounsworth have completed on the acquisition of Osprey Lettings. The couple - who run a Northwood franchise...

Propertymark has urged Labour to licence letting agents under its plans to ‘fundamentally reform the private rented sector’. The trade body also...

Rental growth in prime regional markets has started to slow, following runaway growth over the past three years. That’s the view from...

Midlands-based land and property company Sheldon Bosley Knight has made another lettings acquisition - its fifth in 2023. Leicestershire-based Andrew Granger &...

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

Propertymark has cautiously welcomed the Nationwide’s house price index showing a 5.3 per cent fall in the year to September. It says...

London lettings and sales agency Dexters is the first in the UK to gain OFSTED accreditation for its training. Its academy offers...

The buy to let sector appears more heavily reliant on mortgages than some analysts have previously suggested. Specialist lending service Octane Capital has...

It’s getting worse - the supply-demand mismatch in the rental sector is now “drastic” says Propertymark. The number of new prospective tenants...

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

A leading agent has welcomed the dramatic U turn by the government on how it is to meet its net zero...

A new survey reveals that rental properties with an EPC rating below C are already more difficult to sell to other...

Rental value growth in prime London postcodes declined further in August as supply built and demand cooled.  That’s the view of high...

Rightmove is launching a new marketing campaign which it calculates will reach 51m people - the overwhelming majority of the UK...

The latest lettings market snapshot from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors shows that a significant majority of members expect yet...

The Property Franchise Group has reported a bumper half year of trading with revenue at £13.2m and pre-tax profits up 11...

A long-established agency has created what it calls a “super office” in its city. John Payne Estate Agents, which has been active...

Lettings income has saved the bacon of franchise agency Winkworth after a sales slump hit profits.  A trading statement from the agency...

UKSotheby’s International Realty - which handles high end lettings and sales - has opened a new London office. It’s in St John’s...

Scottish agency and chartered surveyor firm DM Hall is to incorporate the identity of its rural property specialist arm, Baird Lumsden,...

Following the merger of the South Scotland and North Cumbria branches of Fine & Country, the  agency has added a further...

The Competition and Markets Authority’s in depth investigation into the controversial deposit alternative concept has been welcomed by one of the...

Parliament resumes today following its summer recess but there is still a lack of detail on aspects of the Renters Reform...

One of the controversial Bruce brothers, founders of the ill-fated Purplebricks venture, is back in the agency business. It’s almost a decade...

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

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

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...

A new analysis shows growth in the trend for buy to let properties to be sold with tenants in situ.  The analysis...

Annual rental growth in July was 9.1 per cent across prime London according to LonRes.   This figure took rents to 28.4 per...

Propertymark has welcomed what it calls the “clarity” given to advertising terminology following the publication of new guidelines from the National...

Franchise brand Northwood says its strategy of expansion through acquisition is paying dividends - with more to come. Northwood managing director Phil...

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

The National Trading Standards Estate and Lettings Agency Team has issued new guidance on terminology used in property advertising - particularly lettings. The...

An overseas agency trying to establish itself in the UK has taken a swipe at domestic agencies’ love of High Street...

A respected measure of investor confidence says it’s on the rise as a result of growing optimism over UK inflation figures...

A property website has produced startling figures giving an insight into the frenzied rental market. Property Pal, which looks at the housing...

The long-awaited supply increase in the prime London lettings market is underway, says high-end agency Knight Frank.  The agency says the underlying...

The head of one of the country’s highest profile franchise agency empires says the self-employed ethos of some advisers and entrepreneurial...

The Bank of England’s monetary policy committee has announced its decision on base rate. It will rise by 0.25 per cent to...

Increased lettings income proved a valuable balance to a declining sales market for The Property Franchise Group in the first half...

Prominent figures from Foxtons and Chestertons are amongst the agency leaders featured on a new six-part podcast series from OnTheMarket.  Hosted by...

A new analysis by Rightmove suggests it could take literally decades for the private rental sector to conform with stricter energy...

A strong lettings division has allowed Foxtons to record strong growth in its latest trading statement, despite the challenging sales market. The...

High profile regional lettings and sales agency Gascoigne Halman has unveiled a fresh new look at its Alderley Edge office. The agency...

Belvoir franchisee Lloyd Rumbold has completed on the acquisition of Belvoir West Bridgford, adding a fourth franchise to his portfolio of...

A lettings firm’s takeover of an independent rival agency is the start of a period of “exponential growth” according to its...

The Property Redress Scheme has released its latest list of expelled agents - mostly for rental misdemeanours and/or failure to pay...

London-focussed lettings and sales agency Chestertons has announced its second acquisition in six weeks and third of the year, having snapped...

The latest market snapshot from ARLA Propertymark shows a familiar story for the lettings sector.  It says that in June the number...

Property Academy guru Peter Knight has made an unusual revelation in a new podcast - he’s told of his link to...

A sales agency specialising in disposing of buy to let portfolios says it’s now received an averaged 240 enquires a month...

The vast majority of auctions - widely regarded as a favourite for buy to let investors acquiring properties - are now...

The results of the latest RICS UK Residential Survey, out today, point to a renewed worry about the housing market. The survey...

The directors of Winkworth are warning shareholders of a challenging period thanks to higher and faster-raising interest rates - with only...