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18 April 2024
From: Breaking News
The number of private tenants in properties that are hard to heat has fallen, a council claims. As agents will know private...
06 February 2024
From: Breaking News
It’s all change for a regional agents’ group which has announced a new chair and new directors. Cornwall-based former estate agent Steve...
12 December 2023
From: Breaking News
Tenants in Bristol are paying 41 per cent more for a rental property than they did just five years ago, it...
05 October 2023
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Five regional police and crime commissioners have written to letting agents highlighting the problems of cannabis farms in private rental properties. The...
21 July 2023
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A long-standing and respected property firm has slammed the government for presiding over the “mess” of taxes applied to holiday lets...
05 July 2023
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The Competition and Markets Authority is beefing up its enforcement work against illegal cartels and offering a reward of up to...
08 June 2023
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The letting agents’ trade body Propertymark has slammed the current lack of consistency of council tax on HMOs. It describes today’s system...
17 April 2023
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A Conservative MP in a tourist region has blamed the switch of rental accommodation to Airbnbs for a shortage of places...
27 March 2023
From: Breaking News
Trading Standards is reminding letting agents of their legal obligation to protect money they are holding on behalf of a client...
10 March 2023
From: Breaking News
CJ Hole, part of The Property Franchise Group, has expanded with the acquisition of an independent firm in Bristol. CJ Hole owner...
30 January 2023
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Housebuilders have branded a west country council’s decision to ask for all new homes to be net zero as ‘unaffordable' and...
30 January 2023
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Lettings and sales agents, along with other members of the property industry, have been celebrating at the ESTAS Customer Service Awards...
20 October 2022
From: Breaking News
A retired estate agent has pleaded guilty to three charges of breaching fire safety in Devon. Retired Force and Sons agent David...
18 August 2022
From: Breaking News
Local and central government is losing out on millions of pounds of council tax income this year because of the business...
30 May 2022
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Bookings for staycations continue to surpass pre-pandemic levels, according to holiday home rental agency Sykes Holiday Cottages. The company has revealed that...
14 February 2022
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The Liberal Democrats have proposed sharp restrictions on holiday rentals at the heart of the party’s plans to solve the housing...
11 January 2022
From: Breaking News
Shocking figures produced by a council in the south west show the vast number of short lets available - and by...
06 December 2021
From: Breaking News
A local Trading Standards team is clamping down on rogue letting agents. Devon, Plymouth, Somerset and Torbay Trading Standards Service has launched...
23 June 2021
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A council says it’s looking for lettings agencies that worked with a rogue landlord who's been issued with a four year banning order. Bristol...
03 March 2021
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Another local authority is considering a clampdown on the spread and condition of HMOs. Bath and North East Somerset Council, which is...
10 December 2020
From: Breaking News
Anger continues to mount over government plans to make rental properties more energy efficient, with one agent advising his landlords to make...
15 October 2020
From: Breaking News
A police force has issued a warning to agents and owners of short-let properties to look for signs of modern slavery...
28 October 2019
From: Breaking News
A joint operation between Avon and Somerset Police and North Somerset council has uncovered a string of issues connected with rental...
02 September 2019
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The Property Ombudsman has announced a slew of expulsions after six agents failed to comply with redress rules. They failed to abide...
12 August 2019
From: Breaking News
Tenancy deposit alternative provider Reposit has been taken on by Devon-based agency chain Webbers. The agency’s 15 offices operate in north Cornwall,...
10 June 2019
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The Yeovil branch of hybrid agency EweMove now has over 200 managed properties following the acquisition of the lettings book of...
24 January 2019
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Somerset agency Mark Templer Residential has acquired independent company Wrington Vale Lettings. Husband and wife team John and Vanessa Webb with business...
12 November 2018
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A PropTech company chief is backing the controversial idea of spot checks on private rental sector properties in a bid to...
28 June 2018
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The Independent online newspaper says Conservative MP Gary Streeter will tomorrow meet with Prime Minister Theresa May and urge her to...
19 June 2018
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A new lettings agency set up at Burnham-on-Sea in Somerset says it’s setting out to atone for the misdemeanours of nearby...
13 June 2018
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A council says it is adopting a new approach to proactively tackling poor housing conditions in privately rented homes in one...
04 April 2018
From: Breaking News
We’re grateful to The Property Group, an agency in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, for alerting us to an incident involving its Mayfair Town...
15 February 2018
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A group of landlords that mounted a successful legal challenge to a council’s proposed licensing scheme is continuing to recruit letting...
31 January 2017
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A group of landlords and buy to let investors that has already successfully persuaded a council to scrap plans for a...
07 December 2016
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The campaign group ACORN, which has in the past organised protests outside letting agency offices, is up in arms that a...
30 August 2016
From: Breaking News
A council has scrapped its proposal to introduce a licensing campaign for private sector landlords following large-scale opposition and the formation...
22 August 2016
From: Breaking News
An organisation called Somerset Property Network has organised over 50 landlords in the course of little over one month and it...
09 August 2016
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A former letting agent has pleaded guilty of nine offences of fraud involving the retention of deposits and rents belonging to...
22 February 2016
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Countrywide has revealed that it has acquired 30 lettings businesses in the past year alone, expanding the firm’s rental sector headcount...
04 February 2016
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Connells Group has acquired two further lettings agencies - Pullin Rose at Frome in Somerset and Sky Lettings in Southampton. The acquisitions...
26 January 2016
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We’ve seen large numbers of local councils set up private rental accreditation systems, and a string of politicians from all major...
08 January 2016
From: Breaking News
Countrywide has acquired Woods Estate Agents, a Bristol-based lettings and sales agency with five branches covering the city and north Somerset. Woods...
07 January 2016
From: Breaking News
A series of raids on privately let properties in the westcountry appear to have taken place as a way of holding...