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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
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Fast-growing Lomond has snapped up another regional agency - this time one in the Midlands. Centrick - which had a High Street...
12 January 2024
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A severe shortage of properties to rent, fierce competition to secure the homes that are available, and rising rental prices led...
11 January 2024
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Newspaper report claims some 710 properties have been put into the private rental market by the government - and they are...
03 January 2024
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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
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
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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
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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
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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
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
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
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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
New research claims students in the UK are currently paying as much as £16,500 per year in living costs - a...
16 August 2022
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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
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A prominent brand in the Lomond Group - Linley & Simpson - has expanded its portfolio by over 600 properties in...
27 July 2022
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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A lettings platform set up by a 24 year old is today announcing an expansion from its Bristol start up to...
26 November 2021
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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
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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
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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
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
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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
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Prop Home, a new online property management and lettings agency, pledges to “transform the way rented homes are managed on behalf...
12 August 2021
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The Furnished versus Unfurnished debate in the rental sector has been going on for years but new research attempts to quantify...
12 August 2021
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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
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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
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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
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The Build to Rent market remains small in volume but it is making some inroads, leading to BTR rent rises predominantly...
18 May 2021
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Lettings agency Intus Lettings has announced the opening of a new Sheffield office — its first base in Yorkshire. The Sheffield office...
01 April 2021
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Lomond Capital, which owns Scottish lettings and estate agents Braemore and Stonehouse, is to merge with Yorkshire firm Linley & Simpson. The...
05 January 2021
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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
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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
With no clear end in sight and conflicting Government advice as to whether we should work from home or go to...
24 September 2020
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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 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
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Property development and investment firm SevenCapital has released a top 10 league table of UK cities which it claims will perform...
18 October 2019
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A senior Labour politician in Sheffield and the campaign group Acorn have both expressed support for a selective licensing scheme to...
25 September 2019
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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A survey of 500 buy to let landlords suggests that well over a third are planning to increase the size of...
25 March 2019
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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
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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
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Zero Deposit, the firm set up by former Zoopla commercial director Jon Notley, says it now has around 850 offices using...
07 January 2019
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A buy to let investor has been forced to close down two rat infested homes he owns in Rotherham after they...
22 November 2018
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A council says it has been preparing prosecution and penalty notices “for hundreds of private landlords that have failed to apply...
01 November 2018
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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
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Hybrid brand EweMove says its purchase of a traditional lettings agency with 350 properties on its book constitutes its biggest biggest...
15 March 2018
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Build To Rent developer and operator PLATFORM_ has announced its first scheme in Scotland and an expansion of an existing development...
09 February 2018
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Research by the University of Sheffield is reported to show the apparent damage done by short lets on Airbnb and similar...
05 January 2018
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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
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Rightmove has revealed the locations where prospective tenants have searched for properties on its portal in 2017 - and the winning...
21 December 2017
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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
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New analysis shows how the phasing out of mortgage interest tax relief for buy to let investors may prove a particular...
23 October 2017
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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
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SDL Group - owner of the UK franchise for Century 21 lettings and estate agency branches - has been named as the...
31 August 2017
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Younger people will have more difficulty finding rented accommodation in coming months as a substantial proportion of landlords actively cut back...
02 August 2017
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Police in Yorkshire are on the look out for empty rental properties which could be used for ‘sting’ operations tackling burglaries...
03 July 2017
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In an era when the relationship between local councils, letting agencies and landlords appears permanently fraught, there is good news from...
20 March 2017
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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
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Cushman & Wakefield has added a partner and an associate director to its Residential Investment & Private Rented Sector team. Fergus Jack,...
13 January 2017
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Sheffield council claims it receives 2,000 complaints relating to private rental sector conditions each year - and in one month it...
29 December 2016
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A campaign group has been refocussed with the objective of making the government honour its Autumn Statement pledge to ban letting...
08 December 2016
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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
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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
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A council has taken a landlord to court for failing to licence his two buy to let properties under its selective...
13 October 2016
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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
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Government policy is making it harder than ever for benefits claimants and the homeless to rent homes, according to a new...
26 July 2016
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Sheffield council has prosecuted a private landlord for failing to provide safe accommodation - with a bill of over £10,000 to...
14 June 2016
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A landlord has been prosecuted for both illegal sub-letting and illegal eviction at the same time - an occurrence which is...
26 May 2016
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Unitary local authorities where trading standards and environmental health teams work to the same objectives are more successful at clamping down...
30 July 2015
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Eleven letting agencies in just one city have been fined a total of £37,000 for not being members of any of...