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A private rental licensing consultancy has spotted that an additional licensing scheme run by a London borough council has now lapsed...
07 September 2020
From: Breaking News

There’s a warning that buy to let investors will simply hold on to properties and not sell them if rumoured Capital...
16 July 2020
From: Breaking News

Belvoir says it is on the lookout for agencies wanting to sell or join a franchise operation as they come out...
25 June 2020
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A London council has pressed ahead with the launch of a borough-wide additional licensing scheme despite the lockdown and uncertainty created...
16 April 2020
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Although the worst of the stock market bloodletting triggered by Coronavirus now appears to have gone, franchise agency group Belvoir has...
24 March 2020
From: Breaking News

A huge survey of students, seeking their views on accommodation, has ended with a question mark over the value for money...
03 January 2020
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Some 45 per cent of those who don’t yet own a home think they never will, according to a new report. While...
19 November 2019
From: Breaking News

A letting agency has denied that 'highly toxic' gas is leaking into one of its tenant's homes in Worcester. Leaders has said...
08 October 2019
From: Breaking News

In the last ten years Google's revenue, largely from pay per click ads (Adwords), has grown by 527% (Source: Statista). In...
03 July 2019
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Six months on from the introduction of stricter licencing for Homes in Multiple Occupation, awareness “remains limited” according to one of...
21 May 2019
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A lettings agency that has analysed HMRC data says rental income for buy to let landlords has leaped 15 per cent...
07 March 2019
From: Breaking News

Bristol is the best city for house shares, according to new research by specialist rental sector broadband and utilities provider Glide. The...
18 February 2019
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Online lettings platform HomeRenter says its property listings are now more detailed and more compelling thanks to a new ‘property creation flow’...
20 December 2018
From: Breaking News

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has issued a reminder to the industry of the need to understand and abide by...
19 September 2018
From: Breaking News

The landlord of an HMO who subjected his tenants to insanitary and unsafe living conditions has been told he will no...
13 September 2018
From: Breaking News

The Money Laundering Regulations 2017 require estate agents to risk assess their business relationships and apply an appropriate level of investigation...
29 August 2018
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The ownership of buy to let property is much more evenly split between women and men than amongst other forms of...
21 August 2018
From: Breaking News

John Lewis has announced details of a partnership with rental app Canopy to provide employees with the opportunity to have their rent payments...
24 May 2018
From: Breaking News

Purplebricks has announced that its lettings director, Richard Jacques, has sold a total of 60,000 shares in the hybrid agency. Jacques sold...
02 August 2017
From: Breaking News

Expanding buy to let lender Landbay says it plans to launch an accounting, reporting and tax compliance service for those holding...
27 June 2017
From: Breaking News

A landlord has set up a company to handle the ownership and management of buy to let properties - and the...
02 May 2017
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Private landlords’ net income has risen 39 per cent in the last five years, jumping from £10.8 billion to £15 billion...
13 April 2017
From: Breaking News

Sister agencies Leaders and Romans have undertaken research to show that property has been the most lucrative investment in the UK...
25 October 2016
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A London council has set up a system to allow council tenants to buy into a shared ownership scheme which it...
20 October 2016
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Airbnb has hit back at a claim by the Residential Landlords Association that lets promoted by the firm effectively worsened London’s housing...
01 September 2016
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A letting agency in London has announced that it has dropped all fees it charges to tenants. STANLEY Chelsea, a one branch...
01 June 2016
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Two of the industry’s biggest estate agency groups have selected the same firm to provide their legal services. Hillyer McKeown has been...
19 April 2016
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More criticism of Chancellor George Osborne’s raft of buy to let reforms has appeared in the mainstream media, with much emphasis...
01 April 2016
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One of Britain’s most senior letting agency bosses is warning landlords to take care if considering setting up a limited company...
17 December 2015
From: Breaking News

The new three per cent stamp duty on buy to let properties coming into force from next April will effectively redraw...
07 December 2015
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Agency chain Hunters Group plc is to issue shares worth £100,000 to fund the acquistion of a lettings book. This is the...
29 September 2015
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A residential property investment firm is using a speed-dating theme as the basis of a new TV advertising campaign to attract...
08 September 2015
From: Breaking News

Urban regeneration specialist Sigma Capital is the latest firm to announce it is entering the Build To Rent sector, seeking to...
13 August 2015
From: Breaking News

Labour leadership hopeful Andy Burnham is the latest to say he would consider rent controls in the private sector if he...
07 August 2015
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Almost 3,000 investors have crowdfunded more than £6m worth of buy-to-let property on one platform alone since its launch early this...
28 July 2015
From: Breaking News

Given that I wrote my last article on the day of the General Election but well before the result was known,...
19 June 2015
From: Features

A £212,900 property in Surrey which was advertising on a crowdfunding platform at 3pm was fully funded by 3.35pm, it is...