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A fast-growing regional chain of agencies has purchased another independent operator in the lettings sector. Yorkshire's Linley & Simpson has bought Sinclair Properties...

A private rental licensing consultancy has spotted that an additional licensing scheme run by a London borough council has now lapsed...

There’s a warning that buy to let investors will simply hold on to properties and not sell them if rumoured Capital...

Belvoir says it is on the lookout for agencies wanting to sell or join a franchise operation as they come out...

A London council has pressed ahead with the launch of a borough-wide additional licensing scheme despite the lockdown and uncertainty created...

Although the worst of the stock market bloodletting triggered by Coronavirus now appears to have gone, franchise agency group Belvoir has...

A huge survey of students, seeking their views on accommodation, has ended with a question mark over the value for money...

Some 45 per cent of those who don’t yet own a home think they never will, according to a new report.  While...

A letting agency has denied that 'highly toxic' gas is leaking into one of its tenant's homes in Worcester. Leaders has said...

In the last ten years Google's revenue, largely from pay per click ads (Adwords), has grown by 527% (Source: Statista). In...

Six months on from the introduction of stricter licencing for Homes in Multiple Occupation, awareness “remains limited” according to one of...

A lettings agency that has analysed HMRC data says rental income for buy to let landlords has leaped 15 per cent...

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

Online lettings platform HomeRenter says its property listings are now more detailed and more compelling thanks to a new ‘property creation flow’...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has issued a reminder to the industry of the need to understand and abide by...

The landlord of an HMO who subjected his tenants to insanitary and unsafe living conditions has been told he will no...

The Money Laundering Regulations 2017 require estate agents to risk assess their business relationships and apply an appropriate level of investigation...

The ownership of buy to let property is much more evenly split between women and men than amongst other forms of...

John Lewis has announced details of a partnership with rental app Canopy to provide employees with the opportunity to have their rent payments...

Purplebricks has announced that its lettings director, Richard Jacques, has sold a total of 60,000 shares in the hybrid agency.   Jacques sold...

Expanding buy to let lender Landbay says it plans to launch an accounting, reporting and tax compliance service for those holding...

A landlord has set up a company to handle the ownership and management of buy to let properties - and the...

Private landlords’ net income has risen 39 per cent in the last five years, jumping from £10.8 billion to £15 billion...

Sister agencies Leaders and Romans have undertaken research to show that property has been the most lucrative investment in the UK...

A London council has set up a system to allow council tenants to buy into a shared ownership scheme which it...

Airbnb has hit back at a claim by the Residential Landlords Association that lets promoted by the firm effectively worsened London’s housing...

A letting agency in London has announced that it has dropped all fees it charges to tenants.  STANLEY Chelsea, a one branch...

Two of the industry’s biggest estate agency groups have selected the same firm to provide their legal services.  Hillyer McKeown has been...

More criticism of Chancellor George Osborne’s raft of buy to let reforms has appeared in the mainstream media, with much emphasis...

One of Britain’s most senior letting agency bosses is warning landlords to take care if considering setting up a limited company...

The new three per cent stamp duty on buy to let properties coming into force from next April will effectively redraw...

Agency chain Hunters Group plc is to issue shares worth £100,000 to fund the acquistion of a lettings book. This is the...

A residential property investment firm is using a speed-dating theme as the basis of a new TV advertising campaign to attract...

Urban regeneration specialist Sigma Capital is the latest firm to announce it is entering the Build To Rent sector, seeking to...

Labour leadership hopeful Andy Burnham is the latest to say he would consider rent controls in the private sector if he...

Almost 3,000 investors have crowdfunded more than £6m worth of buy-to-let property on one platform alone since its launch early this...

Given that I wrote my last article on the day of the General Election but well before the result was known,...

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

The agency industry has been acting with delight over the likelihood that there will be a slim overall majority for the...