Property data consultancy LonRes has named five winners in its so-called ‘Let Of The Year’ awards. The London-focussed consultancy has revealed the...
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![Two new London offices for Connells’ high-end brand](/upload/images/shutterstock_2153864217(2).jpg)
John D Wood & Co., one of the UK’s oldest lettings and estate agents dating back over 150 years, has expanded...
18 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Huge 1,000-flat scheme will be one of UK’s biggest Build To Rent estates](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/BuildToRent1-400x310.png)
Housing juggernaut Legal & General says it’s now half way through a £400m Build To Rent scheme in Wandsworth, south London. It...
06 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Sadiq Khan housing tax policies criticised by Left-wingers](/upload/images/shutterstock_2259917245.jpg)
Even as he was being elected as Mayor of London for a record-beating third successive time, Sadiq Khan was under pressure...
07 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![Foxtons’ internal lettings data shows market returning to normal](/upload/images/shutterstock_2271512647.jpg)
Data from in-the-news agency Foxtons reveals rental applicant demand has increased 9% from February, yet is now still 14% lower year...
24 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![Foxtons issues warning to landlords as tenant demand drops](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/HousePriceDrop-400x310.png)
The number of new rental instructions in February was 20 per cent higher year-on-year, says London-focused agency Foxtons. Average rent achieved rose...
12 March 2024
From: Breaking News
![Agency’s London expansion taps into growing foreign investment](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/ForeignMoney-400x310.png)
Lettings, property management and sales agency Johns&Co - which celebrates its 10th year in business in 2024 - is opening a...
16 February 2024
From: Breaking News
![Foxtons’ internal data shows ‘balanced market’ likely this year](/upload/images/shutterstock_200541344.jpg)
Foxtons’ internal lettings data shows that the 2024 lettings market in the capital is likely to be more balanced than in...
23 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![Small autumn dip in London rents as market returns to normality](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/3-MortgageRates1.png)
Data from London-focussed lettings agency Foxtons has found that rent is up eight per cent year-on-year, with the London average now...
15 December 2023
From: Breaking News
![Foxtons reveals latest London lettings market statistics](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyStats-400x310.png)
New figures from Foxtons show that average weekly rent in July 2023 was 12 per cent higher than July 2022. The agency’s...
15 August 2023
From: Breaking News
![Summer rents soar with 18% annual rises in places](/upload/images/shutterstock_1929426920.jpg)
Data from London-focussed agency Foxtons reveals that average weekly rental prices in May have surpassed the peak of 2022. The average weekly...
16 June 2023
From: Breaking News
![Rental affordability improving at last, says Foxtons](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/ManSavingMoney_400x310.png)
New figures today from London-focussed lettings agency Foxtons shows growth in the supply of lettings properties on the market is starting...
24 April 2023
From: Breaking News
![Foxtons reveals rental figures for 2022 - a record high](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Estate_Agents-400x310.png)
New figures from London-focussed agency Foxtons show that rents climbed steadily throughout 2022, finishing 20 per cent higher than in 2021. High...
19 January 2023
From: Breaking News
![Rents stalling in London as market cools slightly - Foxtons](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Flags%20%26%20Locations/London1-400x310.png)
Foxtons says London’s market is finally cooling - at least a little - for the Christmas period. November followed the seasonal downward...
22 December 2022
From: Breaking News
![Another London council ponders licensing scheme with fees](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/_licensing1-400x310.png)
Wandsworth council in south London is considering a review into the feasibility of introducing discretionary landlord licencing. A statement from the authority...
07 October 2022
From: Breaking News
![New lettings guru named for agency’s key London office](/upload/images/Logos/Savills-NEW-logo400x310.png)
Savills London has promoted Charlotte Whitmarsh to head of lettings in the Wimbledon office. She steps into her new position with seven...
19 August 2022
From: Breaking News
![Foxtons selects new portal for advertising lettings properties](/upload/images/Logos/OnTheMarketLogo-New-2022-400x310.jpg)
Foxtons is to advertise all of its lettings properties on OnTheMarket with immediate effect. The agency say it already “facilitates” 10 per...
19 July 2022
From: Breaking News
![Foxtons buys two more agencies to expand lettings portfolio](/upload/images/Logos/Foxtons-logo400x310.png)
Foxtons has this morning announced the acquisition of two smaller agencies to expand its lettings portfolio. It has bought Gordon & Co...
26 May 2022
From: Breaking News
![Letting agent abused by activist in eviction demo](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/Property-MagnifyingGlass--1-400x310.jpg)
The mainstream media today is reporting that a group of anti-landlord/anti-agent activists called an agent a “w*****” at a protest. This apparently prompted...
22 April 2022
From: Breaking News
![London’s sharp rent variations laid bare by new research](/upload/images/Locations/LondonMap400x310-min.png)
A rental platform has revealed the wide disparity in rents to the north and south of the Thames in London, and...
16 February 2022
From: Breaking News
![TikTok is the latest social media way of letting homes](/img/default/lat.png)
London lettings agency Kalmar is thought to be the first to use the increasingly-fashionable social media platform TikTok to let and...
12 May 2021
From: Breaking News
![34-storey block of flats set to dominate new Build To Rent scheme](/img/default/lat.png)
A Build To Rent scheme of 322 flats will include a 34 storey tower, it’s been revealed. Developer and property management firm...
19 January 2021
From: Breaking News
![Massive Build To Rent scheme underway at gritty location](/img/default/lat.png)
The first part of a massive Build To Rent scheme from developer Lendlease is nearing completion at Elephant Park in the...
20 November 2020
From: Breaking News
![Another huge Build To Rent scheme set for big city centre site](/img/default/lat.png)
A major player in the Build To Rent sector has announced another large scheme - 346 units - on a major...
01 October 2020
From: Breaking News
![Exposed - fake lettings agency with the Lithuanian connection](/img/default/lat.png)
Which? is warning prospective renters to beware scam lettings agencies and scam landlords following a case where £5,600 was conned out...
03 August 2020
From: Breaking News
![Labour council wants rent controls in London borough](/img/default/lat.png)
A London Labour council wants to introduce rent controls to its borough. The South London Press reports that Lambeth councillors have voted through...
06 February 2020
From: Breaking News
![Fatal fire in unlicensed house leads to fine and entry on rogues database](/img/default/lat.png)
A judge has ordered two landlords to pay a total of £14,858 for illegally renting out an unlicensed house without working...
30 January 2020
From: Breaking News
![New ethical letting agency launches with focus on 'people, not fees'](/img/default/lat.png)
A new ethical letting agency has launched in partnership with a housing association and is promoting its low fee structure. Home Makers,...
08 October 2019
From: Breaking News
![Tip off to council leads to £4,000 fine for owner of unlicensed HMO](/img/default/lat.png)
A local council says it has now successfully prosecuted a landlord for flouting the law that protects the health and safety...
22 August 2019
From: Breaking News
![Unsafe and unlicensed: big fine for investor after past warnings ignored](/img/default/lat.png)
A buy to let investor who let out an unsafe and unlicensed property in London has now been hit with a...
21 June 2019
From: Breaking News
![Huge London Build To Rent scheme unveiled by Legal & General](/img/default/lat.png)
Legal & General has exchanged contracts on two adjacent sites in south London to deliver its largest Built To Rent scheme...
16 May 2019
From: Breaking News
![Foxtons denies bait-and-switch after tenant couple rent “dud” flat](/img/default/lat.png)
A national newspaper story suggests that a couple seeking an apartment to rent in Brixton were signed up to the wrong...
23 April 2019
From: Breaking News
![Husband and wife must pay £8,000 after 17 beds found in bungalow to let](/img/default/lat.png)
A husband and wife must pay joint fines, penalties and costs totalling over £8,000 after complaints about a bungalow they owned...
23 April 2019
From: Breaking News
![Bring on ban of ‘beyond cheeky’ tenant fees, says high-profile landlord](/img/default/lat.png)
A high-profile landlord says the upcoming ban on letting agent fees 'can't come soon enough'. Writing a column in the Evening Standard's...
30 May 2018
From: Breaking News
![Lettings management firm must pay almost £40,000 after 'record' fine](/img/default/lat.png)
A property management company which ignored a series of housing safety regulations and flouted laws designed to protect tenants’ rights has...
03 April 2018
From: Breaking News
![Fake letting agent is finally arrested - a month after being sentenced to jail](/img/default/lat.png)
A fake agent who made thousands from letting out rooms that didn’t exist has been arrested - a month after being...
01 February 2018
From: Breaking News
![Crooked agents helped to steal £1m from tenants in 2017 - claim](/img/default/lat.png)
Crooked letting agents and landlords have raided close to £1m from tenancy deposit accounts in 2017, new figures show. Campaigning agent Ajay Jagota,...
29 December 2017
From: Breaking News
![Property management firm may have to repay 12 months' rent after fine](/img/default/lat.png)
A south London property firm has been prosecuted by a local authority over its HMO management and may now have to...
14 July 2017
From: Breaking News
![London council steps up action to curb Airbnb-style short lets](/img/default/lat.png)
Southwark council in south London is sending leaflets to all its leaseholders to warn them that letting out homes on any...
20 June 2017
From: Breaking News
![London agency chain opens its 43rd lettings office](/img/default/lat.png)
Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward has opened a new lettings branch in Clapham, south London, moving into an office already occupied by...
26 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![Purplebricks sticks the knife in after Winkworth fee controversy](/img/default/lat.png)
Hybrid agency Purplebricks has entered the debate over the £835.38p reportedly charged by a branch of Winkworth when it changed the...
20 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![Another 68 units unveiled at south London Build To Rent scheme](/img/default/lat.png)
Build To Rent operator L&Q has delivered another 68 homes in part of a drive which it says will eventually produce...
20 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![Agency accused of grubby overcharging by national newspaper](/img/default/lat.png)
The Guardian has accused a branch of Winkworth letting agency in south London of “grubby overcharging” for allegedly asking a new...
18 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![Illegal eviction lands property firm owner with electronic tag](/img/default/lat.png)
A property company owner who waged a campaign of harassment and intimidation against a young mother he wanted to illegally evict...
17 March 2017
From: Breaking News
![The Property Ombudsman expels four lettings and estate agencies](/img/default/lat.png)
Four separate estate and letting agencies have been expelled from membership of The Property Ombudsman and from registration for lettings redress...
30 September 2016
From: Breaking News
![Build To Rent pioneering new and 'better' construction method](/img/default/lat.png)
One of Britain’s burgeoning group of Build To Rent operators has struck a deal for 249 of its new homes to...
26 August 2016
From: Breaking News
![Letting agents ran £2m drugs factory in properties they managed](/img/default/lat.png)
A lettings agency in south London has been found to be the front for a cannabis growing operation, with drugs grown...
19 April 2016
From: Breaking News
![Letting agent angered by Lib Dem canvassing email](/img/default/lat.png)
A London letting agent has expressed their dismay with a canvassing email sent by Liberal Democrat London mayoral candidate Caroline Pidgeon. The...
14 March 2016
From: Breaking News
![Agency welcomes sentence for manager in forged tenancies case](/img/default/lat.png)
Andrews Property Group says it welcomes the sentence imposed on one of its branch managers after a long-running court case involving...
08 March 2016
From: Breaking News
![London agency increases portfolio by taking over small independent](/img/default/lat.png)
Beresford Residential, an agency with three offices in south London, is taking over the lettings and management portfolio of smaller independent, XanderMatthew. Beresford has...
02 February 2016
From: Breaking News
![Letting agent and landlord fined over unlicensed HMO](/img/default/lat.png)
A landlord and his letting agent who failed to declare they were operating a series of bedsits at an address in...
16 November 2015
From: Breaking News
![Regulator to probe link between charity and letting agency](/img/default/lat.png)
The Charity Commission is to probe the links between a letting agency that has allegedly been paid more than £5.5m in...
10 November 2015
From: Breaking News
![Spotlight on letting agency receiving £5.5m in housing benefit](/img/default/lat.png)
The BBC is investigating a letting agency that has allegedly been paid more than £5.5m in housing benefit after its owner...
09 November 2015
From: Breaking News
![Huge £400,000 bill for landlord letting flats without planning consent](/img/default/lat.png)
A landlord has been ordered to pay more than £400,000 after converting a property into flats without permission. Gilbert Garrick let the...
13 October 2015
From: Breaking News
![Key meeting tomorrow over 'flats above shops' rental licensing](/img/default/lat.png)
Lewisham council in south London is the latest local authority proposing to introduce a licensing scheme - starting, unusually, with residential...
14 September 2015
From: Breaking News
![Labour's London mayoral candidate threatens rent controls](/img/default/lat.png)
Sadiq Khan, Labour’s choice for London mayoral candidate, has set out his housing policies - with possible rent controls high on...
14 September 2015
From: Breaking News
![The Best Areas To Buy Property In London](/img/default/lat.png)
Whether you are single or a family, looking to invest in rental property or want to lay down roots of your...
15 June 2015
From: Sponsored Content
!['Watchdog' presenters amongst those in class action against Foxtons](/img/default/lat.png)
It appears that the former presenters of BBC consumer programme Watchdog are amongst those participating in a class action against Foxtons...