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The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has given Letting Agent Today a statement trying to soothe critics of its...

Two thirds of letting agents will still have staff on furlough next month according to a survey of 231 agencies -...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? My Name is Rob Trotter. I’m married to a vet,...

The short let sector says it’s been agreed that it can open Airbnb and similar platforms for bookings from July 4...

Hunters has revealed that it’s used the lockdown period to train staff with a range of e-learning modules as well as...

Rents in London have dropped by between 10 and 15 per cent as fewer people are willing or able to move...

Propertymark says it’s continuing to talk to government departments about making the furlough scheme flexible enough to meet agency industry needs.  A...

** This Bank Holiday Monday both Letting Agent Today and Estate Agent Today look at how agencies have modified offices and protocols...

** This Bank Holiday Monday both Letting Agent Today and Estate Agent Today look at how agencies have modified offices and protocols...

** This Bank Holiday Monday both Letting Agent Today and Estate Agent Today look at how agencies have modified offices and protocols...

Propertymark has created a 29-point checklist in line with the Government’s current property industry guidance, most recently updated on May 13.  Propertymark...

Inventory BaseAcademy has released new online training to address safeguarding issues that may face the lettings industry. Property professionals, especially managers and...

The Lettings Hub is to roll out its Property Passport free tenant referencing product for letting agents. A beta test exercise already...

Reapit is offering lettings and sales agents free training courses for its CRM software.  The offer will provide non-customers with complimentary access...

Strutt and Parker is an agency that’s got long-standing team spirit and that shows in how different areas have been working...

Lenwell is a busy lettings agency covering Luton, Dunstable, Bedford, Milton Keynes, Biggleswade, Hitchin and Northampton - and now, busy in...

There’s no escaping team activity at epropservices - and in a good way. The company, which is the parent firm of The...

Have you heard of Psych? No, me neither - but that’s our loss according to the London team of Auction House.  The...

A new automated lettings platform claims to automate key processes around compliance, marketing, leasing and management for letting agents. Ringley Group, a...

A surge in rental activity has encouraged a London-focussed agency to un-furlough some of its staff ahead of an expected relaxation...

A new renovation start-up is working with letting agents and landlords to allow key workers to use empty rental properties for...

Hello, and welcome to Wednesday’s guidance and advice for agents and suppliers trying to find a way through the current crisis. If...

A Northern Ireland lettings agent is providing rent-free housing for NHS staff who have moved out of their own homes to...

Birmingham agent Bobby Singh, who runs the Love Your Postcode agency, epitomises the heart of the industry right now.  He has created...

A Wales holiday lettings agency has worked with owner-clients to offer free holidays to frontline healthcare workers when the crisis has...

The Coronavirus pandemic knows no boundaries - and that goes for those helping to fight it too. Medical staff from the UK...

The developers behind the prestigious Television Centre scheme and its nearby White City Place development in west London are showing support...

The lockdown is now a fact of life across almost all of the western world so the team at Chestertons, which...

A project called NHS Homes, run by a number of suppliers within the short lets sector, has now made available some...

The commercial arm of Countrywide is urging landlords currently facing huge void periods because students have been ordered home, to reconfigure...

Lettings management platform Howsy claims it has seen an increase in business since the lockdown 10 days ago.  It says it’s enjoyed...

Like many agencies, the Milton Keynes company Cauldwell Property Services has most of its staff working from home and handling sellers’...

Welcome to the latest edition of our daily service dedicated to advice and guidance on how agents can best cope with the...

When it comes to good works, one frequently-featured agency is Chestertons in London - and again it’s come up trumps during...

Part of the controversial Spicerhaart empire want the government to guarantee that some landlords receive 80 per cent of their usual...

A lettings agency has given a full apology after a letter - not approved by the company - was sent out...

Two lettings agencies have been vandalised by activists who defied the Coronavirus lockdown to damage property. Local media reports in Cheltenham say...

We'd hoped it was good news but in fact it's just good-news-yet-to-come. The Savills office in Wuhan, the epicentre of the Coronavirus crisis in...

A lettings agency in central London is setting an example to the industry by offering help to its landlords and tenants...

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

Hello and here’s the next batch of guidance and advice from different sectors of the industry, many from influential trade groups. It’s...

Good morning and welcome to the industry’s daily update on how we cope with the challenge of social distancing and self-isolation...

Letting Agent Today is launching a daily service to help agents facing the Coronavirus threat.  This is where you’ll find news, advice...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has postponed its conference until September. In a statement to registered attendees last evening ARLA says: “After...

It’s now been revealed that 112 redundancies have followed the collapse of controversial short lets support firm Hostmaker. The overseas operation of...

The controversial Acorn group of anti-letting agent activists has been accused of intimidation of female staff during a protest outside and...

Two estate agencies in the same city have merged - but it means one long-standing agency’s name will disappear. The Leicester firm...

When Wolverhampton estate agency Thomas Harvey opened its doors more than 50 years ago, mortgages weren’t really part of the equation...

London agency Keatons has acquired a nearby independent rival, JD Property. JD Property’s staff have already been relocated into Keatons existing office in Deptford.  This is Keatons' third acquisition in three years and now...

Generation Rent - an outspoken organisation sharply critical of lettings agents and many aspects of the private rental sector - is...

Leaders Romans Group has snapped up another independent - this time the three office Welsh agency Moginie James. Moginie James - owned by...

It’s back - the five-a-side football tournament which made its successful debut last year with teams from the agency and property...

Another branch of The Property Franchise Groups’s brand Martin & Co has snapped up an independent rival - and it’s the...

It’s been revealed that Upad, the lettings agency which closed at short notice in October last year, had three prospective buyers...

A new lettings platform claims it can help existing agents and staff working for companies quit and fulfil their dream of...

The Gainsborough branch of Martin & Co has become the largest single office within the national agency thanks to a fifth...

Manchester lettings agency Ascend says it’s had a record year in 2019, bolstered by its new Build To Rent involvement. The company...

Martin & Co’s Ashford branch is opening a new office just outside the Kent town following a deal to acquire a...

A trade magazine is reporting that online lettings agency Upad has been bought out by a PropTech platform. The Negotiator says Howsy...

Leaders Romans Group has selected a new PropTech platform after a competitive tendering process. The winning company was PropCo, which already services...

Darlington-based My Property Box has welcomed five new members of staff to its team who between them have amassed more than...

Two long-established lettings and sales agencies on the south coast have merged in a bid to “enhance customer experience.” Smart Property and...

The ESTAS, the national customer service awards recognising the best agents, brokers and suppliers, closes for entry at the end of...

Newton Fallowell, part of the Belvoir Group, has snapped up the Lovelle franchised agency group adding a further 19 offices to...

Luton council has opened Lets Squared, a High Street lettings and estate agency using public funds - even though the town...

[Letting Agent Today was ‘off air’ for some of Wednesday and most of Thursday thanks to technical problems - we apologise to...

Belvoir has acquired another independent sales and lettings agency - this time it’s Onwards and Upwards, a firm in the Morley...

One of the north east of England’s higher profile estate agencies has restructured and merged with a rival ahead of what...

Scottish legal firm Gilson Gray has shaped up Coulters Letting, meaning it now enters the residential rentals sector for the first...

A long-established lettings company in Scotland has acquired a three year old independent with a small portfolio of 45 properties. Riccardo Giovanacci...

A lettings agency that launched just two years ago has snapped up an independent firm in the same city in a...

The property management platform Apropos, scheduled to launch early next year, says it’s signed up 25 business partners ahead of schedule. The...

ESTAS, the national customer service award scheme which recognises estate and letting agents,  conveyancers and mortgage advisors, has now fully launched...

Countrywide has issued an unusual statement saying that the veteran lettings expert recruited to steer the organisation through the tenant fee...

A leading trade body says the government’s latest injection of funds to help local councils root out rogue operators in the...

Belvoir has confirmed that its Brighton franchisees have acquired the independent Homelets agency in the town - for a cool £1m. Existing...

The Leaders Romans Group has acquired yet another independent agency - this time it is Essex and Suffolk Lettings. Based in Colchester,...

Several lettings agencies have stepped up to offer help to stranded customers of the collapsed online service Upad. A notice on Upad’s...

The online lettings agency Upad has this weekend published an immediate closure announcement on its website. It reads: “We regret to inform...

The Leaders Romans Group has announced an acquisition to mark further expansion into the corporate lettings and block management market. The agency...

October 31, known as All Hallows' Eve, is now less than three weeks away. While the government continues with its botched Brexit...

A Plymouth sales and letting agency has taken a number of measures to help raise awareness of climate change in its...

An online letting agency which launched last month has announced the recruitment of two former Purplebricks staff. Michael Booth, the hybrid agency's...

An independent letting agency has reported its success in helping two large Build to Rent (BTR) developments to successfully let properties...

North east agency My Property Box has announced it has merged with Sandersons Lettings, the firm which gave its founder his...

A leading lettings and sales agency in West Sussex is launching a hub-style structure centralising branch activities in a town centre. Michael...

The Tunbridge Wells office of Martin & Co has boosted its managed portfolio by 43 per cent by snapping up yet...

safeagent’s Rent Smart Wales training course has been given the scheme’s top ‘High Assurance’ rating following its latest audit. Rent Smart Wales,...

Landlords in a part of Teesside are to be allowed to operate a “collaborative” licensing scheme after a council backed down...

An agency in the north of England is continuing its strategy of acquisitions in a bid to offset the effects of...

An independent previously known as Adams Estate Agents has rebranded as Hunters as the franchise giant’s expansion programme continues. The office is...

A council has used a drone with a thermal imaging camera to identify illegal ‘sheds’ where tenants are being rented beds...

A husband and wife pair of buy to let investors have been prosecuted after letting out a property that contained serious...

A long-established agency in Wales says it’s shutting the sales side of its business and going to focus solely on lettings...

Telephone answering service Moneypenny says agents’ missed calls typically double during the summer months while staff are on leave - meaning...

The Ministry of Justice says it takes private landlords an average of 22.5 weeks from making a repossession claim to the...

PropTech, and specifically Artificial Intelligence, could help letting agents better cope with new demands created by further industry regulation. That’s the view...

Manchester-based agency Ascend has revealed it’s now taken over the management of a Build To Rent fund’s portfolio of almost 1,000...

The vast majority of letting agents and private landlords with experience of using the courts to repossess properties say the system...

A property education business says it’s targeting a major expansion with the launch of online additions to its nationwide courses in...

We all know that certain business functions are quicker to achieve and more cost-effective than others. By considering the services you provide...

Northwood, one of the Belvoir Group brand agencies, has acquired independent agency Daisy Lets in Forest Hill. “Daisy Lets is a great...

The number of film-related enquiries for short lets received by Knight Frank in the year to May has shown a rise...

Another Martin & Co franchisee has acquired a nearby independent agency. The franchise firm’s Falmouth branch, run since 2013 by Felicia and...

The government has published proposals for far-reaching changes to the way estate and letting agents are regulated, trained and licensed. The proposals...

The Southampton branch of Martin & Co has more than doubled its business after acquiring an independent agent in the city. It’s...

The future of the lettings industry will be tech-driven says one of the industry’s leading consultants, who is now also director...

National agency Martin & Co has announced the acquisition of independent Essex agency Owen Lyons. Martin & Co Chelmsford owner Stephen Frost...

The Tenancy Deposit Scheme, which suggested a devastating fire in early January, has been recognised for the professional, efficient and calm...

A call by Shelter for England to adopt Scotland’s model of indefinite tenancies in the private rented sector has been attacked...

Some observers think it may be unwise for agencies to reveal too many details of perks for staff but Connells has...

A branch of the Property Franchise Group brand Whitegates has acquired a local independent lettings agency. Whitegates Huddersfield now has over 700...

A leading lettings expert insists that greater regulation in the private rental sector can work for the benefit of landlords and...

A branch of national agency Parkers has bolstered its managed portfolio by acquiring independent company Samuel James. Parkers’ Reading branch has also...

The owners of Cardiff’s branch of national sales and lettings agency Martin & Co have more than doubled their managed portfolio...

Belvoir brand Newton Fallowell has acquired the sales and lettings business of Grantham’s oldest independent agency, Escritt Barrell Golding.  EBG, which was...

The head of the country's oldest agency recruitment consultancy says the tenant fee ban will hit staffing levels in the industry...

One of the country’s youngest lettings franchise holders has opened a second branch by acquiring an independent agency. Kuljeet Aujla, owner of...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Simon Paul Skinner, Operations manager at LetHQ. My business card...

London agency Stirling Ackroyd - owned by Nick Dunning Associates, led by senior ex-Countrywide staff - has snapped up another independent...

Letting agents are being urged to consider how they can reduce their administrative workload, following huge growth in the size of...

The Scottish Government is investigating 114 businesses suspected of carrying out letting agency work without registration and has issued 86 compliance...

Increased use of PropTech by lettings agencies should allow staff to be freed up to engage in all-important face-to-face contact with...

Connells Group has acquired the lettings business portfolio of an independent agency in a move it describes as “part of its...

Staff are usually a business’s biggest fixed cost, but did you know that the true cost of an employee is almost...

The final - and some say most prestigious - shortlist for this year’s ESTAS awards has been revealed. The People Awards, sponsored...

At PayProp we recognise that it’s the hard-working agents and other staff that make the industry a success, so training should...

An independent letting agency in the north of England is offering landlords two free cinema tickets when they book a valuation...

Connells Group is backing this week’s National Apprenticeship Week and has launched a new head office programme giving around 100 existing...

There’s been general support for last week’s judgment by the High Court that the government’s Right To Rent policy breaches human...

Property management firm Mcilroy Smith has launched a mental health policy for its employees - possibly the first company in the...

North Wales agency Dafydd Hardy has snapped up small independent Smith & Wypler as part of a new growth strategy.  Smith &...

The head of a Hertfordshire lettings agency has pleaded guilty to managing a brothel, according to a statement from the police. He’s...

A local authority in the Midlands has admitted what many people have believed for some time - despite a slew of...

Connells-owned Gascoigne Halman - the agency at the centre of the long-running legal dispute with OnTheMarket - has acquired the Rowcliffes...

Ambitious regional chain Linley & Simpson has opened a new branch in the Yorkshire market town of Pudsey after snapping up...

The Let Leeds agency has completed on the acquisition of another firm in the city, Milnes Walker - and the purchase...

Outsourcing. Everyone has an opinion on it and there’s a stigma surrounding it in the lettings industry. But get this…letting agents ARE...

ARPM  Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Simon Duce, Managing Director. What is ARPM and what does it...

Collyers, an Experts in Property estate and lettings agency with two branches in North Devon, has hoovered up a lettings firm...

The council at Brighton & Hove has won an extra £34,820 in public money from the government to help it build...

More than 50 councils across the country will share nearly £2.4m of extra government funding to crack down on rogue landlords. Among...

Hunters has announced its first business expansion of 2019 with the acquisition of what it calls “a significant lettings book.” The acquisition...

LSL Property Services has acquired LetCo Homes, a lettings and property management specialist based at Whiteley in Hampshire.  LetCo, which operated chiefly...

The automated lettings payment platform PayProp has revealed that it comes from charitable roots. PayProp is part of Humanstate, a private technology...

With 2019 almost upon us, letting agents are finally unburying their heads from the ignorant bliss of the sand pit and...

The charity Shelter, which regularly campaigns against lettings agencies and landlords, is bracing itself for a strike next week - and...

The controversial landlord Fergus Wilson says he has purchased a Body Worn Camera for £75 in a bid to avoid at...

A leading PropTech entrepreneur says agents who accept that the lettings fee ban is coming and who plan positively for its...

Salford-based student-focussed lettings agency Student Haus has been acquired by the Mistoria Group, which runs Mistoria Estate Agents in the north...

Local press reports say that one of the country’s most controversial buy to let licensing schemes has seen thousands of applications...

Figures drawn up for the London region of the GMB union claim that across the capital’s 33 boroughs private rents have...

The online lettings agency Urban is continuing to operate as normal despite the shock revelation that parent company Emoov is looking...

A branch of The Property Franchise Group’s CJ Hole brand in Bristol has snapped up an independent lettings agency elsewhere in...

The area of staffing can be a very uncomfortable one, but as the future of the lettings industry crystalises, it’s clear...

After reporting record summer figures from its lettings division, Chestertons says it’s on the acquisition trail and looking for agencies to...

PropTech company PayProp has been announced as the sponsor of the ESTAS People Awards category for 2019. The ESTAS is a customer...

Fergus Wilson, frequently labelled Britain’s biggest individual landlord, says he is stopping letting out properties because of a shortage of East...

A branch of Martin & Co has substantially boosted its managed portfolio following the acquisition of independent agency County Rentals. The goodwill...

Rental platform Goodlord - which in January made around 40 staff redundant in a restructuring move - has now announced that...

A landlord who rented out an unlicenced HMO has been fined more than £22,000 after the local council found five people...

North west lettings and student accommodation specialist Mistoria Group has purchased an independent with 200 properties under management across Greater Manchester.  The...

Yorkshire estate agency Linley & Simpson has acquired another independent firm, Angus Roberts. The deal will see Linley & Simpson, which operates...

The local branch of franchise operation Martin & Co has acquired family business Oliver James’s Witney office to become the largest...

The Leaders Romans Group has revealed its sixth business acquisition of 2018 - the Worthing and Bognor Regis lettings portfolios of...

Managing agency Rendall & Rittner has scooped a Platinum Investors in People award, demonstrating commitment to high performance through good people...

The lettings book of My London Home will be absorbed into the Stirling Ackroyd portfolio and rebranded this autumn. Consisting of nearly...

Fast-growing regional Yorkshire agency Linley & Simpson has announced the details of two new acquisitions. It has picked up the lettings books...

The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) has this week launched a new Training Academy which aims to help landlords, agents and property...

An agency claims that the acquisition of a competitor’s lettings department has allowed it to save two companies, avoid cutbacks and...

High end agency Knight Frank is reorganising a regional lettings division in a bid to create a ‘hub’ system which should...

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

Belvoir, the UK’s largest high street franchised agency network, has made major changes to its top table with promotions for two...

The Leaders Romans Group has snapped up yet another small independent agency - GPS Property Management based at Ravenshead in Nottinghamshire. For...

Online lettings agency LettingaProperty has moved into a new home and says it plans to double its staff by adding five...

The concept of deposit alternatives is gathering pace and now one PropTech firm closely involved in it - Reposit - has...

Britain’s most controversial buy to let investor, Fergus Wilson, has hit back and given his side of events on a series...

The lettings agency Elet, based in Harrogate, has appointed liquidators.  A Letting Agent Today reader spotted an announcement about the move in...

The three-branch London agency Kay & Co has been named the Smaller Managing Agent of the Year at the ARMA ACE...

Well-respected London lettings agent and former ARLA president Lucy Morton is the latest key figure to pour cold water on government...

Connells Group brand Fox & Sons has added a lettings portfolio in Salisbury to its network after completing the acquisition of...

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

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

Countrywide is introducing the ARLA Level 2 qualification throughout its branch network.  All customer-facing lettings staff who joined the business on or...

Outsourcing has long been an effective strategy in business. It enables you to provide a new, improved or more streamlined service...

A council tax fraud totaling over £2,800 across three properties and over six years has resulted in the buy to let...

York's largest letting agency has completed the biggest acquisition in its 21-year history. Eleven-branch network Linley & Simpson - which operates across...

The Leaders Romans Group has announced the details of two new acquisitions to further strengthen its huge network. Sales and lettings business...

An agent has been banned from letting properties under ‘fit and proper person’ legislation in Scotland, following an incident in which...

The Citizens Advice consumer charity claims that 28 per cent of private tenants who have experienced problems while renting have not...

Goodlord, the PropTech company which restructured earlier this year and laid off a reported 40 members of staff, is fighting back...

Franchise agency Redstones, which has 13 offices across the Midlands, has acquired student letting company Housemates. Redstones, now one of the largest...

A property management company which ignored a series of housing safety regulations and flouted laws designed to protect tenants’ rights has...

The ESTAS has announced its final and, to many, its most prestigious shortlist for this year’s awards - a special category...

Hybrid brand EweMove says its purchase of a traditional lettings agency with 350 properties on its book constitutes its biggest biggest...

The National Landlords Association is seeking property professionals to be its local representatives across the country. The association says these representatives “are...

Spotahome, a London-based student lettings platform, has acquired another platform aimed at students, Erasmusu, in a bid to expand its international...

A lettings agency apparently trying to get around HMO regulations has been prosecuted for licensing and housing offences.  Easy Let Agency let...

The troubled PropTech firm Goodlord - which creates software to allow tenancies to be handled on a single system - has...

Rendall & Rittner, a major operator in the residential block management sector, has completed its purchase of Braemar Estates from the...

Gascoines agency at Southwell in Nottinghamshire is celebrating the retirement of one of its most loved staff members after no less...

A report on progress into the Suzy Lamplugh Trust’s new code - introduced precisely a year ago - suggests more still...

Agency groups have spoken in favour of the government’s call for letting agents to be trained as a mandatory part of...

The Leaders Romans Group is continuing on the acquisition trail with two more deals within 24 hours.   On Tuesday the company acquired...

You may think there are enough horror stories going around the agency industry and Britain as a whole right now -...

Manchester city centre-based agency Ascend Properties has acquired local independent company Living Quarter. The deal will see Ascend’s number of managed properties...

A Leicestershire agency chain has acquired a rival Leicester-based independent.  Whitegates, which has offices in Loughborough, Mountsorrel and central Leicester, has acquired...

A company which already runs a student accommodation lettings service online is to expand and open a general online lettings agency...

The UK Association of Letting Agents is putting out an appeal to the agency industry to ensure it is not accidentally...

William H Brown, part of Sequence UK, has revealed it has snapped up another small independent - just days after its...

Belvoir is recruiting more central office staff to support franchisees, with a 40 per cent increase in workers at the company's...

Stoke-on-Trent has been named as the UK's buy-to-let 'sweet spot'. Analysis of data from Home.co.uk by property crowdfunding plaform Property Partner shows...

A growing sales and lettings agency in Leeds has announced the recruitment of nine new members of staff. Morgans, which describes itself...

A growing agency has appointed a new lettings team and is aiming to compete with its successful residential sales division. Heywoods, the...

Research by the National Approved Letting Scheme (NALS) has identified that some 93% of local authorities have failed to issue a...

The first letting agents to have completed a new training course aimed at improving services for tenants and landlords have graduated.    Some...

The founder of a PropTech start up called No Agent says despite his firm’s name he does not want to see...

An agency staff member has received a suspended prison sentence after stealing £11,500 in unclaimed deposits from a branch of Connells.   Amy...

Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward has opened a new lettings branch in Clapham, south London, moving into an office already occupied by...

Agency software company Eurolink says there are ’10 easy ways for letting agents to grow their businesses’ - with most of...

What does it say on your business card? Luke Burton Sales and Marketing Director, Rent4sure Who is Rent4sure? Rent4sure, is an established tenant referencing company. We provide...

Tenant referencing company Rent4sure is celebrating its one millionth tenant move after expanding from five staff on start-up in 2009 to...

In an era when the relationship between local councils, letting agencies and landlords appears permanently fraught, there is good news from...

The landlord of an HMO above a Chinese takeway in Cornwall has been fined for failing to comply with the requirements...

Jackson-Stops & Staff has surprised the industry by announcing its expansion into holiday lettings.    The agency’s Sherborne branch is expanding its residential...

Scotland’s largest professional organisation for letting agents is urging all those in the rental sector to ensure they are fully compliant with...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has repeated it call for the government to ban up-front letting agent fees at the...

An interesting article in London’s Evening Standard free-newspaper reveals that an increasing number of letting agents appear to be using social...

A Scottish agency group has announced that it has acquired a lettings business in order to move into the short-term lettings...

A letting agency specialising in student accommodation in Nottingham city centre and its director have admitted a series of breaches of...

Lettings agents have been issued fines totalling £14,100 by a local authority for failing to comply with consumer rights laws.   Officers from...

The chief executive of an agency in Stoke is offering £500 for information leading to the conviction of individuals who ransacked...

A lettings agency office at Longton in Staffordshire has suffered a break in, less than 24 hours after what it believed...

A campaign group has been refocussed with the objective of making the government honour its Autumn Statement pledge to ban letting...

The local council in Nottingham wants to introduce a city-wide licensing scheme of all landlords across its estimated 43,000 private rental...

Curchods, the privately-owned, 21-branch Surrey agency which also trades as Burns & Webber, has acquired Aspire Management Services Surrey Ltd, an...

In the week that the government announced a ban on letting agents levying fees on tenants, one multi-office estate agency has...

Following a period of substantial growth, Property Service Holdings (PSH) - which operates Leaders and Romans - has a huge variety of...

Many agencies have spoken out in dismay at the announcement by government that letting agency fees on tenants would be banned...

Halloween's over, Guy Fawkes' Night has been and gone - now it's a slide through the Awards season and downhill to...

Who are you? Peter Grant, currently serving year 27 of my sentence in the property industry and still loving every moment of working...

Strutt & Parker has launched a new corporate and relocation department for domestic and international tenants relocating within London and the...

Zoopla has moved into a new headquarters, a 45,000 square foot property adjacent to Tower Bridge in central London.   The new offices...

Canterbury is the latest council to consider setting up its own letting agency. The authority hopes to tempt private landlords with promises...

A Bairstow Eves letting agent who stole over £21,000 in tenants’ deposits over two years to pay her own payday loan...

The UK's largest franchise agency has expanded into the Orkney Islands.  Belvoir's Amjed Rasul, owner of its Inverness franchise, has acquired Orkney...

A raft of regulatory and legal changes for letting agents in Scotland in 2018 is being flagged up by the Association...

Ensuring potential tenants have passed reference checks is the key priority for landlords when selecting an agent to let their property,...

The London division of Jackson-Stops & Staff has launched a new residential corporate services department for corporate tenants looking to relocate...

Two letting agencies feature amongst the winners of The ESTAS Agent of the Month competition for July.     Each secured their success...

Five new staff have been appointed at Leeds-based Morgans, bolstering the sales division of a company once known solely for its...

A House in Multiple Occupation located on the third floor of a property with a restaurant at ground level was one...

Belvoir has been celebrating its very first franchise owner, 20 years ago this month - and the business, in Moray, is...

There has been yet another prosecution over an unsafe house in multiple occupation.   Syed Masum Ali appeared in Stafford Magistrates Court and...

A London estate and letting agency has announced the appointment of 19 new members of staff as a result of a...

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

A global rental transaction processing firm has reported rapid growth since launching in the UK.  PayProp says it has appointed several new...

VanHan, the prime London agency run by Rory Penn and Thomas van Straubenzee, has set up a lettings and management division...

As one of the UK’s most trusted suppliers to the lettings industry, swift and dependable referencing is our priority. Credit Checks come...

Connells Group has acquired another letting agency - Touchstone Residential Lettings, which has nine offices in Kent, Buckinghamshire and the west country. TRL's...

The Romans Group has moved into London’s zone 6 by acquiring Bennett Residential agency in Uxbridge. Established in 1988, Bennett Residential handles...

Louise Griffiths, currently a board member on the Association of Residential Letting Agents, has joined Romans as director of the agency’s...

The British Property Federation says George Osborne’s stamp duty surcharge will threaten the success of the Build To Rent sector, which...

An outspoken attack on Chancellor George Osborne’s fiscal measures against the private rental sector have questioned whether he is really a...

An investigation by the BBC has exposed that a London council's new private lettings agency - scheduled to cost well over...

This week the ESTAS has announced the shortlist for one of its most prestigious awards categories, The People Awards. Twenty members of...

The proposed stamp duty surcharge on the purchase of second homes and buy-to-let properties will fail to deter landlords from expanding...

A tenant has been found guilty of an assault of a letting agency staff member and has been ordered to do...

So you’ve decided to advertise on Rightmove, Zoopla or another online property listing agent. You’ve agreed the budget, made the bold...

A London lettings has tweeted that it does not share the view of one of its own branch managers who said...

Countrywide is next week formally announcing that it is acquiring the large Oxford-based lettings agency Finders Keepers. Countrywide says the agency -...

A think-tank is calling for the creation of ‘social’ letting agencies with staff who not only find housing but also get...

The ability of the government to enforce controversial elements of the Right To Rent policy has been thrown into doubt by...

An industry body is suggesting that the outcome of a court case may significantly reduce the government’s ability to enforce its Right...

A four-branch estate agency in the north west of England, Sure Move, has become the latest recruits to the fast-expanding Hunters...

A senior relocation and human resources expert says Right To Rent will not change the behaviour of any letting agent or...

Who are you? I am David d’Orton-Gibson What does it say on your business card? It says I am the Managing Director of an...

Letting agents have been ticked off by an official watchdog for the way many of them handle clients' personal data. The Information Commissioner’s Office...

Connells Group has acquired two further lettings agencies - Pullin Rose at Frome in Somerset and Sky Lettings in Southampton. The acquisitions...

Prime Minister David Cameron has dismissed out of hand appeals and comments from Letting Agent Today readers to reconsider the recent...

One of Scotland’s largest independent letting agencies has entered into two deals adding over 600 properties to its inventory. The Edinburgh-based DJ...

Eviction specialists at Landlord Action say county courts are still overwhelmed by the number of possession claims being put forward, a...

Leaders has acquired another lettings independent, Faulkner Property Management. Faulkner has two branches in Milton Keynes and Buckingham - new areas for...

LSL Property Services has snapped up another independent letting agency - and says it’s looking for more.  The agency, PHP Lettings in...

Congratulations to Buckley Frayne Estate Agents and SageWard Residential Lettings - the latest winners of the ESTAS Agent Of The Month...

A series of raids on privately let properties in the westcountry appear to have taken place as a way of holding...

The sales market in Prime Central London may be in the doldrums but the lettings sector is on the rise with...

The Chartered Institute of House is setting up a new online qualification for anyone wishing to understand tenancies, property and tenancy...

Leeds company Morgans is expanding its lettings and sales operations - putting to bed once and for all the city’s former...

They might be set to squirm in discomfort under Lord Sugar's scrutiny in the boardroom, but Zoopla has revealed the luxurious...

Countrywide has announced plans to recruit over 200 apprentices in the next year, working on a training programme drawn up with...