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![Agency that Refurbs and offers Guaranteed Rent is expanding](/upload/images/shutterstock_1906337941(2).jpg)
A lettings agency that works by giving a fixed rental income to its landlord clients each month, and paying for the...
27 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Most homes cheaper to rent than buy, even with large deposit](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/BuyRent-400x310.png)
A third of homes currently for sale can be bought with a mortgage and monthly repayments that cost less than the...
20 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![City Build To Rent Schemes - two new announcements](/upload/images/shutterstock_1656368827.jpg)
Developer Beech Holdings has secured planning permission for its luxury development of Build To Rent apartments in Sheffield. Sheffield Gardens will include...
17 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![Bank aims to support building of new rental homes](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/NewBuild-3-400x310.png)
NatWest Group has announced a new package of what it calls ”targeted lending and support” to help local councils provide more...
27 March 2024
From: Breaking News
![Built To Rent wins lavish praise from property management report](/upload/images/shutterstock_1197102829.jpg)
A property management firm claims that energy efficiency is apparently renters’ most important quality when choosing a place to live. Centrick says...
30 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![Lomond snaps up another regional lettings agency](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Franchise-400x310.png)
Fast-growing Lomond has snapped up another regional agency - this time one in the Midlands. Centrick - which had a High Street...
12 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![Tenants flee cities as high rents push them to outer areas](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/HousePrices_balancing-400x310.png)
A severe shortage of properties to rent, fierce competition to secure the homes that are available, and rising rental prices led...
11 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![Over 700 CPO homes let by government along doomed HS2 rail line](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews3-400x310.png)
Newspaper report claims some 710 properties have been put into the private rental market by the government - and they are...
03 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![Revealed - Britain’s worst city for rental availability](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews3-400x310.png)
New research has identified locations with the largest volume of available rental stock, based on those units at or below the...
23 November 2023
From: Breaking News
![Oddly-named Build To Rent scheme will have 335 flats](/upload/images/shutterstock_1233239014.jpg)
A 335-unit Build To Rent scheme has reached practical completion stage in Sheffield. Going under the (perhaps bizarre) name of PLATFORM_, the...
22 November 2023
From: Breaking News
![Student rental accommodation - key provider aims for growth](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/StudentResearch2-695x395.jpeg)
A prominent provider of student rental accommodation has appointed an international property consultancy to consider growth options. Study Inn Group has a...
24 July 2023
From: Breaking News
![Training guru takes over two franchise agency branches](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Franchise-400x310.png)
Martin & Co’s Sheffield and Worksop branches are under new ownership, with training guru Dean Gill taking the reins. He succeeds previous...
06 July 2023
From: Breaking News
![Shawbrook becomes bigger player in buy to let mortgage market](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Buy-to-let-2-400x310.png)
Shawbrook is becoming a bigger player in the buy to let lending market following the acquisition of specialist lender Bluestone Mortgages. Launched...
21 March 2023
From: Breaking News
![Renters quit big city centres in search of lower rent locations](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/_RentalHousingUK-400x310.png)
Rightmove says growing numbers of renters are leaving Britain’s cities to find a cheaper place to live or to get more...
17 March 2023
From: Breaking News
![Agency slams government for failing to boost rental supply](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Property-Value_400x310.png)
The way to solve the rental sector supply shortage is through Build To Rent, a leading agency claims. Leaders Romans Group says...
09 January 2023
From: Breaking News
![Another independent agency’s lettings book bought by chain giants](/upload/images/Miscellaneous/MergerAcquisition-1-400x310.jpg)
The acquisition machine that is the Lomond Group has snapped up the lettings book of another independent agency. Lomond has taken over...
22 September 2022
From: Breaking News
![Agency backing Purpose Built Student Accommodation over buy to let](/upload/images/BTR%2C%20PBSA%2C%20Co-living/StudentsTogether400x310.jpeg)
New research claims students in the UK are currently paying as much as £16,500 per year in living costs - a...
16 August 2022
From: Breaking News
![Buyer of online lettings agency shifts customers to High Street branches](/upload/images/Locations/London.jpg)
The fast-growing Lomond Group of agencies has acquired a major online lettings service. But it's going to manage the properties through physical...
10 August 2022
From: Breaking News
![Lomond Group agency snaps up independent’s lettings book](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/PropertyTransaction-400x310.jpg)
A prominent brand in the Lomond Group - Linley & Simpson - has expanded its portfolio by over 600 properties in...
27 July 2022
From: Breaking News
![Yet another independent falls to Lomond Group ambitions](/upload/images/Logos/LinleySimpson-2019-Logo-400x310.jpg)
A leading brand in the fast-growing and heavily-funded Lomond Group has snapped up another independent agency. Linley & Simpson has added another...
27 May 2022
From: Breaking News
![Giant lettings group signs major training deal with Propertymark](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/Property-MagnifyingGlass--1-400x310.jpg)
Many of the country’s leading letting agency brands have joined forces with Propertymark to deliver a training and development strategy for...
19 May 2022
From: Breaking News
![New PropTech ‘Disruptor’ - Major cash injection for lettings platform](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/MillennialTenants-1-400x310.jpg)
A student lettings platform now operating in seven cities is reported to have raised £700,000 in its first funding round. HYBR –...
25 April 2022
From: Breaking News
![Group campaigning against agents must pay £100,000 damages](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/ComplianceStamp-400x310.jpg)
An activist group that has staged many protests against letting agents must pay just under £100,000 in costs and damages to...
07 April 2022
From: Breaking News
![Brexit not hurting growth of Purpose Built Student Accommodation](/upload/images/Brexit/Brexit-People-400x310.jpg)
Research by the UK’s largest student accommodation search platform shows a 3.7 per cent uplift in London’s Purpose-Built Student Accommodation bed...
17 February 2022
From: Breaking News
![24-year-old launches lettings platform to fix ‘toxic’ rental market](/upload/images/Property%20People/Hannah%20Chappatte%20400%20x%20310.png)
A lettings platform set up by a 24 year old is today announcing an expansion from its Bristol start up to...
26 November 2021
From: Breaking News
![Two more cities targeted for major Build To Rent schemes](/upload/images/Locations/SheffieldTownHall-400x310.jpg)
Grainger, the UK’s largest listed residential landlord, has announced two new Build To Rent developments. The company has acquired Exmouth Junction in...
18 November 2021
From: Breaking News
![City rental demand climbs as return to workplaces goes on](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/RisingRents-400x310.jpg)
A lettings agency’s research has revealed that rental demand has continued to climb across most major UK cities during the third quarter...
05 October 2021
From: Breaking News
![Sheffield vote of confidence – Linley & Simpson consolidates with acquisition](/upload/images/Logos/LinleySimpson-2019-Logo-400x310.jpg)
Linley & Simpson, one of the North of England’s leading residential letting agents, has expanded its Sheffield operations just six months...
17 September 2021
From: Breaking News
![Multi-brand agency group signs up with PropTech company](/upload/images/PropTech%20%26%20Online/OnlineProperty-8-400x310.jpg)
Lomond Group has partnered with PropTech player Goodlord to provide IT services across the group's brands, which include Braemore, Stonehouse, Linley...
24 August 2021
From: Breaking News
![Green Light for huge new Build To Rent development](/upload/images/library/BuildtoRent-1-400x310.jpg)
Planners have given the go-ahead for a 23-storey Build To Rent development in Sheffield. The scheme, from Godwin Developments, will have 336...
19 August 2021
From: Breaking News
![New national online agency launched promising “transformation”](/upload/images/PropTech%20%26%20Online/3dhousepic.jpg)
Prop Home, a new online property management and lettings agency, pledges to “transform the way rented homes are managed on behalf...
12 August 2021
From: Breaking News
![Furnished Lets - do the premiums justify the initial cost?](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/UK-Cash-NEW-400x310.jpg)
The Furnished versus Unfurnished debate in the rental sector has been going on for years but new research attempts to quantify...
12 August 2021
From: Breaking News
![Simon Tillyer, founder of Vouch](/img/default/lat.png)
Who are you and what does it say on your business card? That's very retro - I have not had one of...
08 June 2021
From: 60 Second Interview
![Online platform claims its local area has become investment hotspot](/img/default/lat.png)
A major student accommodation platform says its local area has become a regeneration hotspot for proper investment. UniHomes says Sheffield has already...
28 May 2021
From: Breaking News
![Not-for-profit lettings agency wins top People award](/img/default/lat.png)
Sulets - a not-for-profit, charitable trust providing accommodation for students - has struck gold. It’s won a Gold award from Investors in...
20 May 2021
From: Breaking News
![Revealed - where Build To Rent is threatening Buy To Let](/img/default/lat.png)
The Build to Rent market remains small in volume but it is making some inroads, leading to BTR rent rises predominantly...
18 May 2021
From: Breaking News
![Growing agency operation opens fourth office](/img/default/lat.png)
Lettings agency Intus Lettings has announced the opening of a new Sheffield office — its first base in Yorkshire. The Sheffield office...
01 April 2021
From: Breaking News
![New lettings agency giant created with £100m private equity cash](/img/default/lat.png)
Lomond Capital, which owns Scottish lettings and estate agents Braemore and Stonehouse, is to merge with Yorkshire firm Linley & Simpson. The...
05 January 2021
From: Breaking News
![Six acquisitions in one year for fast-growing lettings agency](/img/default/lat.png)
Fast-growing regional agency Linley & Simpson has taken over the rental portfolios of two more independent firms. The deal has transferred 750...
16 December 2020
From: Breaking News
![Renters aren’t quitting London after all says Zoopla](/img/default/lat.png)
It appears the much-hyped exodus of people from London to the country doesn’t apply to the rental market. Despite rents falling in...
10 November 2020
From: Breaking News
![Commercial office space of the future](/img/default/lat.png)
With no clear end in sight and conflicting Government advice as to whether we should work from home or go to...
24 September 2020
From: Sponsored Content
![Another ‘virtual office’ for agency chain not using High St branches](/img/default/lat.png)
An agency chain has opened its second so-called ‘virtual office’ in two weeks - and again it doesn’t involve any bricks...
11 August 2020
From: Breaking News
![PropTech: Referencing platform snapped up by Goodlord](/img/default/lat.png)
PropTech company Goodlord has acquired referencing platform Vouch to form an industry player that will be handling over 500,000 references per...
14 July 2020
From: Breaking News
![Research reveals best average buy to let yields by property type](/img/default/lat.png)
One bedroom properties provide the best returns to buy to let investors according to new research by a lettings management platform. Single...
18 June 2020
From: Breaking News
![Another 350 Build To Rent homes announced as part of regeneration](/img/default/lat.png)
One of the country’s largest Build To Rent players, Legal & General, says it’s to construct another 350 homes as part...
29 April 2020
From: Breaking News
![Demand drops across UK cities as tenants stay put during pandemic](/img/default/lat.png)
Rental demand has dropped significantly across London and other major UK cities as a result of the pandemic. When comparing current levels...
23 April 2020
From: Breaking News
![Double Trouble as crooks smash offices and steal computers - twice](/img/default/lat.png)
A Sheffield agency has suffered two break-ins over just four days, with computers stolen and offices damaged. MorfittSmith’s sales office was the...
20 February 2020
From: Breaking News
![Fifth acquisition in two years for property management firm](/img/default/lat.png)
Yorkshire-based property management firm Barnsdales has acquired a Nottingham independent for an undisclosed sum. Marriotts Commercial, an arm of Marriotts estate agency,...
13 February 2020
From: Breaking News
![Top cities for buy to let revealed by new market tracker](/img/default/lat.png)
A mortgage lender’s new Buy to Let City Tracker tool has calculated the best cities in the UK for buy to...
10 December 2019
From: Breaking News
![Revealed: the 10 key locations for buy to let investors in 2020](/img/default/lat.png)
Property development and investment firm SevenCapital has released a top 10 league table of UK cities which it claims will perform...
18 October 2019
From: Breaking News
![Labour chief and anti-agent group want city-wide rental licensing](/img/default/lat.png)
A senior Labour politician in Sheffield and the campaign group Acorn have both expressed support for a selective licensing scheme to...
25 September 2019
From: Breaking News
![US firm targets UK’s student lettings sector in major cities](/img/default/lat.png)
A huge US property investment firm valued at over $10 billion is entering the UK’s purpose build student accommodation sector. Chicago-based CA...
25 September 2019
From: Breaking News
![20-somethings spend up to a third of pre-tax income on room rents](/img/default/lat.png)
Young adults aged 20 to 29 spend up to a third of their pre-tax income on rent for a room according...
16 September 2019
From: Breaking News
![Student rents flatline after surge in purpose built accommodation](/img/default/lat.png)
Data from a student accommodation specialist firm shows average rents across many cities are stuck at around a 20-year average of...
17 July 2019
From: Breaking News
![Room rents up 8% since the Tenant Fees Act, claims online platform](/img/default/lat.png)
An online room-letting platform claims rents have risen up to eight per cent in wake of the Tenant Fee Act. ideal flatmate...
11 July 2019
From: Breaking News
![Northern universities top yield and capital appreciation league table](/img/default/lat.png)
University towns in the north of England and the Midlands score highest when it comes to yields and capital appreciation. The assessment...
21 June 2019
From: Breaking News
![Investors retain faith in buy to let, especially in high yield areas](/img/default/lat.png)
A survey of 500 buy to let landlords suggests that well over a third are planning to increase the size of...
25 March 2019
From: Breaking News
![Private rental stock 'now accounts for 40% of all available housing'](/img/default/lat.png)
A new study suggests that rental properties now account for 40 per cent of the available housing stock. Looking at the final...
21 January 2019
From: Breaking News
![Agency reveals first acquisition of 2019 - with more to come, it pledges](/img/default/lat.png)
Hunters has announced its first business expansion of 2019 with the acquisition of what it calls “a significant lettings book.” The acquisition...
10 January 2019
From: Breaking News
![Zoopla-backed Zero Deposit scheme targets independent agents](/img/default/lat.png)
Zero Deposit, the firm set up by former Zoopla commercial director Jon Notley, says it now has around 850 offices using...
07 January 2019
From: Breaking News
![Rat-infested homes let to tenants - owner to face criminal charges](/img/default/lat.png)
A buy to let investor has been forced to close down two rat infested homes he owns in Rotherham after they...
22 November 2018
From: Breaking News
![Council to send hundreds of buy to let fixed-penalty notices today](/img/default/lat.png)
A council says it has been preparing prosecution and penalty notices “for hundreds of private landlords that have failed to apply...
01 November 2018
From: Breaking News
![OnTheMarket weighs cost benefit of letting furnished v unfurnished](/img/default/lat.png)
A two bedroom furnished flat can cost up to 21 per cent more to rent than a comparable property that’s unfurnished. Research...
24 September 2018
From: Breaking News
![EweMove’s biggest acquisition yet as it snaps up independent agency](/img/default/lat.png)
Hybrid brand EweMove says its purchase of a traditional lettings agency with 350 properties on its book constitutes its biggest biggest...
15 March 2018
From: Breaking News
![Build To Rent operator and developer announces two new projects](/img/default/lat.png)
Build To Rent developer and operator PLATFORM_ has announced its first scheme in Scotland and an expansion of an existing development...
09 February 2018
From: Breaking News
![Short lets damage long term rental stock, research alleges](/img/default/lat.png)
Research by the University of Sheffield is reported to show the apparent damage done by short lets on Airbnb and similar...
05 January 2018
From: Breaking News
![Build To Rent giant Grainger makes fourth acquisition in two months](/img/default/lat.png)
Grainger, which is already the UK’s largest listed residential landlord, is reported to have acquired an under-construction Build To Rent scheme...
04 January 2018
From: Breaking News
![Rightmove reveals top 10 lettings searches - and the south wins...](/img/default/lat.png)
Rightmove has revealed the locations where prospective tenants have searched for properties on its portal in 2017 - and the winning...
21 December 2017
From: Breaking News
![Drug dealer's business seized after letting agent tips off police](/img/default/lat.png)
Police officers have seized well over £6,000 worth of cannabis and drug manufacturing equipment after being tipped off by a letting...
07 November 2017
From: Breaking News
![Mortgage interest change particularly hits large-portfolio BTL investors](/img/default/lat.png)
New analysis shows how the phasing out of mortgage interest tax relief for buy to let investors may prove a particular...
23 October 2017
From: Breaking News
![Landlord hit with fine for illegally evicting tenant](/img/default/lat.png)
A landlord has been prosecuted and fined for evicting a tenant illegally. Last week, Suhail Mahmood, 30, was convicted at Sheffield Magistrates'...
04 September 2017
From: Breaking News
![Century 21 franchise company wins new Build To Rent contract](/img/default/lat.png)
SDL Group - owner of the UK franchise for Century 21 lettings and estate agency branches - has been named as the...
31 August 2017
From: Breaking News
![Young renters likely to have tough task finding places to live](/img/default/lat.png)
Younger people will have more difficulty finding rented accommodation in coming months as a substantial proportion of landlords actively cut back...
02 August 2017
From: Breaking News
![Police seek void rental properties to use in burglary 'stings'](/img/default/lat.png)
Police in Yorkshire are on the look out for empty rental properties which could be used for ‘sting’ operations tackling burglaries...
03 July 2017
From: Breaking News
![Local authority reveals its local Letting Agent of the Year](/img/default/lat.png)
In an era when the relationship between local councils, letting agencies and landlords appears permanently fraught, there is good news from...
20 March 2017
From: Breaking News
![Prosecution after tenant harassed and property poorly-managed](/img/default/lat.png)
A private landlord in Sheffield has been prosecuted for harassing a tenant and failing to manage his property adequately. Nilendu Das was...
17 March 2017
From: Breaking News
![Consultancy beefs up team for Build To Rent and resi investment](/img/default/lat.png)
Cushman & Wakefield has added a partner and an associate director to its Residential Investment & Private Rented Sector team. Fergus Jack,...
13 January 2017
From: Breaking News
![Council claims it receives 2,000 private rental complaints annually](/img/default/lat.png)
Sheffield council claims it receives 2,000 complaints relating to private rental sector conditions each year - and in one month it...
29 December 2016
From: Breaking News
![Campaign set up to 'force' government to honour fees ban](/img/default/lat.png)
A campaign group has been refocussed with the objective of making the government honour its Autumn Statement pledge to ban letting...
08 December 2016
From: Breaking News
![Build To Rent developer reaches landmark 1,000th property](/img/default/lat.png)
Sigma, a Build To Rent developer, has completed and let its 1,000th rental home - a symbol of this fast-growing part...
25 November 2016
From: Breaking News
![£29,000 fine for landlord who also acted as letting agent](/img/default/lat.png)
A buy to let investor has been fined £29,200 after being prosecuted for 56 offences in what a local authority describes...
11 November 2016
From: Breaking News
![Prosecution - but no fine - over unlicensed buy to let properties](/img/default/lat.png)
A council has taken a landlord to court for failing to licence his two buy to let properties under its selective...
13 October 2016
From: Breaking News
![Repeat offender fined after serial breaches of licensing regime](/img/default/lat.png)
A landlord that continually refused to sign up to a council’s selective licensing regime has been found guilty by the courts...
05 September 2016
From: Breaking News
![Government 'makes it hard for claimants and homeless to privately rent'](/img/default/lat.png)
Government policy is making it harder than ever for benefits claimants and the homeless to rent homes, according to a new...
26 July 2016
From: Breaking News
![Bill of over £10,000 after unsafe accommodation is let to tenants](/img/default/lat.png)
Sheffield council has prosecuted a private landlord for failing to provide safe accommodation - with a bill of over £10,000 to...
14 June 2016
From: Breaking News
![Sub-letting: Council wins landmark case against landlord](/img/default/lat.png)
A landlord has been prosecuted for both illegal sub-letting and illegal eviction at the same time - an occurrence which is...
26 May 2016
From: Breaking News
![Revealed: where to find Britain's highest rental yields (apparently)](/img/default/lat.png)
A buy to let investment search portal has produced an interactive map based on a pull-together of research into the lettings market...
09 May 2016
From: Breaking News
![Average rent is the equivalent of a house deposit in five years](/img/default/lat.png)
A typical tenant in a two-bed property in England will have paid over £40,000 in rent in the past five years...
04 March 2016
From: Breaking News
![Council brands property manager unscrupulous in HMO licensing case](/img/default/lat.png)
A local authority has issued a press release branding a landlord as “unscrupulous” after he was ordered to pay £7,300 in...
24 November 2015
From: Breaking News
![Police want to use private rental voids as 'traps' for criminals](/img/default/lat.png)
A police force is appealling to landlords and letting agents to allow their void privately-let properties to be used as potential...
28 October 2015
From: Breaking News
![Redress chief names councils strongest on policing agents](/img/default/lat.png)
Unitary local authorities where trading standards and environmental health teams work to the same objectives are more successful at clamping down...
30 July 2015
From: Breaking News
![11 agents fined £37k for not joining redress schemes](/img/default/lat.png)
Eleven letting agencies in just one city have been fined a total of £37,000 for not being members of any of...