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Troubled online agency Purplebricks says it’s going to finally release its full year figures in the first week of August -...

Beleaguered landlords increasingly require professional assistance not only to manage their properties but to cope with the growing bureaucracy associated with...

An agency has snapped up its second independent in 12 months. James Douglas Sales and Lettings has acquired Leek and Weston in...

Acquisition is one of the most frequently used words in the lettings sector now as large numbers of agencies are snapped...

Lettings and sales agency FleetMilne has acquired Knight Frank’s private client lettings business in Birmingham.  The purchase will boost FleetMilne’s managed lettings...

Historic agency Chestertons has appointed its long-serving lettings chief Richard Davies as its new chief executive. This follows the departure of high...

The fast-growing Henry Adams Lettings has acquired Interlet Sussex, a long-established independent agency. Interlet Sussex, based in Bognor Regis, was founded in...

High profile Welsh lettings agency Peter Alan has acquired West Quay Estates & Lettings as part of its long term strategy...

Business partners the Post Office and PropTech firm Yoti have become the first certified digital identity service providers to be entitled...

Letting agents are being urged to make better use of technology to try to meet growing demand for out-of-hours service, yet...

The pandemic has fuelled an appetite for working from home amongst those seeking employment at lettings agencies and other parts of...

Leaders Romans Group has entered a three year deal with The Depositary, which is claimed could save the group tens of...

A prominent industry supplier says lettings agents must be increasingly transparent on the services they provide - not just to landlords...

The two main reasons that an agency decides to outsource are: 1.) To reduce costs 2.) To have the ability to focus on...

A lettings agency is in hot water with advertising regulators for using the phrase “What the flock are you looking at?”...

Another Belvoir franchise has acquired a local independent lettings agency.  Belvoir already has offices in Corby, Kettering and Coventry and is now...

The chief executive and founder of an award-winning sales and lettings brand is set to discuss the best practice approaches to...

An agency has made its 11th acquisition in just over a year. Thornley Groves - a brand in the Lomond Group -...

A fast-expanding PropTech business has opened a new office in London to serve a growing client base in the capital and...

Purplebricks has announced that its lettings division is to follow the pattern of its sales side, and no longer have self-employed...

Expanding North East agency Hive Estates has acquired a Newcastle lettings business as part of its plans for growth - and...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Sarah Davies, Commercial Director at The Letting Partnership What is The...

The TrustedStays platform, where users can book short let accommodation, is linking with business-centric service London & Partners. London & Partners’ role...

Family-run independent agency Websters, has made its second acquisition in two years. It’s now snapped up Langford Estates, a Norwich based agency...

A north of England lettings agency has successfully qualified five members of its staff through The Able Agent training programme. The agency...

The central Birmingham branch of franchise giant Belvoir is celebrating its 15th anniversary by moving to a prestigious new city centre...

Hamilton Fraser, well known as a provider of insurance products and services to letting agents and landlords, has been acquired by...

Online property training qualifications service The Able Agent has launched a new apprenticeship programme. The Able Agent says it’s spotted a critical...

High profile PropTech supplier The Depositary is offering free and unlimited training for agents on its platform, beginning this week. A message...

ARLA Propertymark has identified a key weakness in the government’s ambitious plans to reform the private rental sector as part of...

The fast-growing Lomond Group, backed by private equity cash, has snapped up another independent.  Lomond’s John Shepherd brand, which operates throughout the...

A lettings agency has gone on the offensive and is publishing landlords who switch from rivals because of allegedly poor service. And...

Ballantynes agency in Scotland has snapped up Edinburgh letting firm Capital Lettings. Capital founder David Smith is retiring and all existing staff...

A member of staff at a Connells-owned branch has been quoted as saying the agency had “no lawful basis” for passing...

Specialist anti-money laundering service FCS Compliance is beginning its latest series of AML webinars designed for Rightmove members.  What you need to...

A successful lettings and sales agency in Birmingham has doubled in size in its first year of business. Davidson Estates, which has...

The 7,000 units under SDL’s block management are now with rival HML Group following an acquisition deal which took place last...

Letting Agent Today would like to wish all agents and their families, staff and colleagues a wonderful Christmas 2021. It’s been an...

John D Wood & Co. Is the latest agency to go green with a move to making its fleet of company...

ARLA Propertymark has launched a radical programme of reform for the private rental sector - getting in before the government’s own...

North east of England agency My Property Box has acquired Newcastle independent Groves as part of its strategic growth plan. All 12...

After becoming the first large agency to move to electric BMW i3s in 2019, Chestertons is urging others in the industry to follow...

Airbnb is adding property characteristics such as verified WiFi speed to its details in a bid to win more business and...

Jersey is calling for views on whether the island’s estate agents should be subject to greater regulation.  The island’s Economic and International...

Two lettings agencies in Cornwall are campaigning for more affordable rental accommodation for NHS staff in the county. Camel and Homequest Lettings...

Large scale Scottish factoring operation James Gibb Residential Factors has acquired the residential division of Aberdeen-based commercial property consultancy FG Burnett. The...

Five PropTech firms have linked up to produce a so-called White Paper giving a glimpse in what they think the agency...

A brand within the fast-expanding Lomond Group has sealed its second acquisition within a fortnight, adding a further 200 properties to...

Early results from a survey into wellbeing suggest that agents are changing their working practices to help staff have a greater...

Why CRMs should not be relied upon for contract creation and management. Customer relationship management platforms (CRMs) are useful tools that...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I’m Nathan Abbott, Head of Change Management at The Lettings...

Another independent lettings agency has been acquired by a fast-expanding giant with plans to become a prominent national agency network. Lomond Group’s John...

North of England agency Robert Watts is expanding into Halifax after completing the acquisition of independent firm Bennett Kaye for an...

The telecoms solutions company behind "Phone-in-a-Phone" (PiP) now brings property professionals the UK's first mobile-only business phone system in an app...

Henry Adams Lettings has acquired Country & Coastal Lettings, a small independent in Hampshire.  Ian Wiggett, chief executive of Henry Adams, says:...

A branch of Northwood has snapped up an independent agency. Bassets Lettings, which is based in Salisbury, was set up in 2002...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I’m Vince Demilio, Sales Director of The Lettings Hub What services...

One of the leading estate agency groups in the UK has said it places high value on internal development following the...

Linley & Simpson, one of the North of England’s leading residential letting agents, has expanded its Sheffield operations just six months...

Agents are being invited to take part in a free online wellbeing programme. PropTech company Rlet has partnered with wellbeing experts to...

Portfolio landlords can be the key to running a successful lettings agency. That is the latest claim from lead generation software provider...

Senior managers in the lettings and sales side of independent chain Spicerhaart are reducing their carbon footprint by taking up the...

An existing Belvoir franchisee in the Midlands has purchased two additional offices in Manchester. Sharanjit Gill of Belvoir Leicester Central now owns...

The majority of short lets operators in a sector trade body say they will maintain Covid-safe protocols for the foreseeable future,...

A letting agency has appeared on a ‘name and shame’ list of companies which failed to pay staff the minimum wage. Tetsuo...

A Conservative MP says he is to declare a “state of housing emergency” in his constituency because of the loss of...

Flexible working for letting agents, so much a part of activities for the past 18 months, is here to stay according...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? My name is Maxine Fothergill and for the past ‘almost’...

The franchisee of a new Martin & Co branch in his hometown has opened with the recruitment of five new staff. Hamza...

There may be bad news for agencies with reliance on office workers who rent - a new survey suggests 10 per...

New guidance has been issued to agents as the government confirms that most remaining Coronavirus restrictions are to be lifted from...

Two major south of England agency have merged in what they describe as a “transformational deal.”  Brand Vaughan, part of the expanding...

The John Lewis Partnership has released more details of an ambitious plan to build and furnish private rental properties. In a bid...

A private agency and management firm that says it’s grown from a one man band into a large team of 35...

The Oxfordshire based PropTech founders and software developers of Openview, today announced they have welcomed Pattinson Estate Agents to their list of clients.   Peter Grant,...

Your Move, Reeds Rains and other parts of the LSL Group are to hold an Act of Kindness day to encourage...

Reliable referencing remains the cornerstone of every letting agent’s business. Landlords rely on their agents to get it right, and to protect...

A survey of property professionals and IT experts across a range of industries has revealed that better remote working technology is...

Independent agency Hardisty And Co has acquired a fourth branch in Leeds. It will be headed up by former owner and office...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? That's very retro - I have not had one of...

Spicerhaart is restructuring its lettings activities to include more working-from-home, mirroring what it’s done to its sales side in the past...

Prominent property lawyer David Smith - recently in the news for his guidance for agents and landlords over the eviction ban...

There are just two weeks left for letting agents to register with HM Revenue & Customs if they want to be...

A study by a trade group representing the short lets sector says it’s confident of recovering to 2019 levels of business...

Now is the ideal time for agents to consider their PropTech needs, as lockdown restrictions ease significantly and firms draw up...

After a recent incident involving an Estate Agent based in Devon in which a property virtual tour they published revealed a...

Last week’s bid by PropTech referencing firm Goodlord to draw a line under its long-running ‘fire and rehire’ industrial dispute has...

A new CRM which calls itself as “a transformative new technology” says its latest app aids safety for agents. The latest version of the...

North London agency Home Minders has acquired independent lettings and sales business Alan Goldin Estates. This transaction is Home Minder’s third acquisition,...

The industrial dispute involving Goodlord has ended with nine of the affected staff leaving the company after a lengthy strike. The Unite...

Propertymark has produced new guidance for letting agents in the wake of the latest step on the roadmap out of Covid restrictions. It says:...

A compliance specialist is reminding the industry that the deadline by which letting agents must register with HMRC if they are...

Leeds agency HOP - previously well known as Let Leeds - is expanding its office network with the launch of a...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card?  Bal Arora – Managing Director In your experience, what is the...

Preventative measures are everything where referencing is concerned. But with so many solutions out there, promising so much, it can be difficult...

The owner of the Bedford branch of Martin & Co has grown his business by more than 50 per cent thanks...

A lettings company has paid an undisclosed sum - described only as “a six figure deal” - to acquire a large...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents' wing of Propertymark says the recent expulsion of three agents from The Property Ombudsman demonstrates the...

Yorkshire’s Verity Frearson lettings and sales company has unveiled a new fleet of electric vehicles, and says it is the first agency...

The Canterbury branch of national sales and lettings agency Martin & Co has a new owner. Angie Collins has taken on the...

Ascend Properties in Manchester has acquired another small independent agency. It’s snapped up Elavace Estates, a lettings management portfolio on Merseyside.  This follows acquisitions...

A Scottish agency has strengthened its specialism in managing HMOs with the acquisition of a lettings book of 90 more units. Braemore Sales...

A property company and its director will have to shell out £10,000 after a blaze left six tenants homeless in the...

Virtual tour suppliers have been keen to reassure agents that there need be no repeat of problems which befell a Devon agent. Fowlers,...

A regional agency group is providing training courses free of charge to members “for the foreseeable future.” The training - usually heavily...

A branch in The Property Franchise Group has snapped up a local independent - and almost 200 additional properties under management.  The...

Knight Frank is this year’s headline sponsor of the LandAid Sleep Out, one of the causes many in the industry support. This...

Propertymark says its Inspire programme is continuing to help agents via its small group network - and it’s taking bookings for...

A House of Lords committee is urging the government to find alternatives to court possession cases in a bid to deal...

ARLA Propertymark is asking agent members to ensure the safety of lone workers in branches and on viewings. A statement from the association...

The lettings book of one of the UK’s oldest property and law companies has been snapped up by a firm in the...

Leaders Romans Group has acquired another lettings agency - the fourth lettings-led acquisition this year. This time it is Guardian Residential Lettings...

Another franchise lettings and sales agency has gone green by changing its car fleet to electric vehicles. One of the Midlands branches...

A lettings agency in the growing Lomond Group has purchased a rental portfolio on the south coast.  Brand Vaughan has bought the lettings...

Manchester-based Ascend Properties has acquired its second company in as many months.  Ascend has now purchased Rent Smart UK, a Lancashire firm...

One of the lettings industry’s most prominent suppliers says it’s dispelled five myths surrounding the employment of apprentices.  The Letting Partnership insists apprentices...

A fast-growing regional chain of agencies has purchased another independent operator in the lettings sector. Yorkshire's Linley & Simpson has bought Sinclair Properties...

The extension of the furlough scheme might be an indirect saviour for many lettings agencies says a leading PropTech entrepreneur. Neil Cobbold,...

A PropTech supplier says rental market activity remains relatively robust through this third lockdown, with a 25 per cent drop in...

One of the first franchisees for a new business model put forward by the Century 21 UK agency is a buy...

Manchester-based Ascend Properties has acquired independent firm NW Estates in Warrington, for an undisclosed sum. Ascend says the acquisition - which includes the...

The industrial dispute involving Goodlord has escalated with protests outside agency offices using the lettings platform, and the creation of a...

A PropTech firm says agencies adopting livestream viewing could win more instructions and save thousands of pounds, all the while abiding...

A trades union claims that lettings software provider Goodlord is slashing some staff salaries by a quarter - that’s £6,000 per...

Chestertons in London says it wants to become the country’s greenest estate agency and has taken a first step by being...

The biggest awards event in the residential property sector, The ESTAS, has confirmed an autumn date for its main 2021 ceremony.  Traditionally...

An agency says it has recently let 26 properties in one month without conducting any physical viewings. Oakwood Homes, operating in Kent,...

Leaders Romans Group has announced another acquisition - this time it’s the EuroLet agency at Bishops Stortford in Hertfordshire. The single-branch office...

A major agency and property consultancy has initiated ‘Wellness Wednesdays’ amongst a programme of activities to prioritise staff mental health during the...

Members of a short lets group are offering free or discounted accommodation to NHS and other frontline workers during this current...

A trading announcement by Belvoir reveals the company has seen another year of significant growth - its 24th on the trot. The...

Property specialist PS&B has acquired the Graves Jenkins management portfolio - both firms deal in residential and commercial property management on...

The head of industry recruitment consultancy Property Personnel is calling on agencies to be more tolerant of the struggles working parents...

Congratulations from all of us at Letting Agent Today - and probably most of the rest of the industry - to Martin...

A EweMove branch has acquired a nearby Martin & Co operation, including its portfolio of 150 managed properties. Both firms are owned...

What’s life-changing, involves months of anticipation, and ends with a big arrival? You might think we’re talking about pregnancy. But research...

Belvoir’s agency in Grantham is making a fantastic gesture by donating crates of produce to the local Foodbank. Over 100 kilos of...

Entrants for the 2021 ESTAS Customer Service Awards have only until December 31 to sign up. Founder Simon Brown says: “The bounce...

Restaurant staff were kept in “dangerous and overcrowded” conditions by a property company and its landlord-director, a court has heard. The company...

A new rental system allowing licensed lettings agents to offer landlords a year’s rent up-front has had hundreds of responses in...

The Tenant Fees Act 2019’s 12-month transition period came to an end on 31 May, prohibiting various payments and charges that...

A warning has been issued by one of the most acquisitive letting agencies that future mergers and takeovers could be hit...

Scottish commercial property firm Bowman Rebecchi has announced an expansion into the residential letting sector with the Glasgow-based agency Newton Letting. Bowman...

Industry supplier The Letting Partnership is calling for businesses to take on more apprentices and support young people in a challenging...

An extremely upbeat trading statement from Stock Market-quoted agency Belvoir suggests business has been ahead of even its pre-Coronavirus expectations in...

Rightmove is hosting a live webinar this morning to help agents protect and maintain mental health.  Agents will be able to watch live...

A 47-year-old south coast lettings and sales agency has been acquired by Oakfield Estate Agents. Andrews Estate Agents first opened a branch...

A newspaper claims a lettings agency is battling allegations of overcharging customers and using fake companies to carry out maintenance work. The Daily Record...

Foxtons has acquired a London lettings agency and along with it a lettings book comprising 689 tenancies. The deal is worth £2.2m. In...

One of Britain’s largest purpose built student accommodation providers says there’s been a 10 per cent slump in the number of...

Henry Adams Lettings in Bognor Regis has joined forces with AC Lettings, one of the largest and most successful independent lettings...

A new report from the Nationwide and campaigning charity Shelter puts letting agents in the dock over the standards in the...

Two industry training firms say the lockdown beginning this week gives agents an opportunity to prepare for 2021. Agency Mentors and The Able Agent...

The well-known Lenwell chain, with seven branches, has been acquired by the Leaders Romans Group.  Lenwell was established in 1990 with the...

The absence of traditional holiday and business users of short let accommodation has prompted a trade body to introduce a discount...

The 2021 ESTAS Customer Service Awards are to be held on Friday June 11. For the first time the awards will host...

There’s no denying it, job hunting can be hard work – even more so at the moment, with all that’s going...

Agents spend their whole careers telling vendors and landlords why they will be able to achieve a better sale price or...

Putting fingers to keyboard to create blogs and articles isn’t always the easiest job for agents, particularly when meetings, viewings and...

It’s a given these days that your business needs to be on social media. Consumers spend a large portion of their...

Pressure appears to be building for more pet-friendly lettings properties with two Build To Rent operators promoting animal-friendly tenancies. BTR operator Fizzy Living...

Countrywide’s latest trading statement covering the first half of 2020 shows it was hit more than most corporates by the market...

Belvoir has opened its third office in Swansea - but like other agency branches in Wales, it’s set to close for...

The Ringley Group has launched a new estate and block management division targeting high-end London instructions. Ringley Group already has over 12,000...

The Welsh government has given details of the rentals and sales house moving process during the 16 day lockdown beginning 6pm on Friday...

The fledgling trade association representing short lets companies wants public cash and other forms of aid to help the sector through winter. Merilee...

Martin & Co has completed major acquisitions from local independents in three areas.  Martin & Co Falmouth completed its fifth acquisition in...

A Conservative MP is urging his colleagues in government to end “cruel” discrimination against pet owners by much of the private...

A Czech-based PropTech firm called Flatio says it’s entering the UK market and aims to have at least 10,000 properties listed...

The hyper-active Linley & Simpson agency group has announced its fourth acquisition since the lifting of the national lockdown. The Yorkshire-focussed company...

One of the highest profile figures in the rental sector says rogue letting agents should be named and shamed as a...

With no clear end in sight and conflicting Government advice as to whether we should work from home or go to...

A growing residential estate management company has committed its future to office-working after moving to a new boutique space in Birmingham. Principle...

The latest announcement from Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick suggests the eviction ban WILL end at last on September 20. However, more concessions...

A prominent PropTech company has given its 134 staff the right to work anywhere they wish on a permanent basis -...

The anti-letting agent group ACORN is to stage protests in 10 to 15 UK cities this weekend according to an activists’...

The acquisition of an independent agency in Yorkshire has resulted in a branch closure and the two staff being transferred to...

Media reports from Gateshead claim two brothers opened fire on a lettings agency with an air pistol when they were told they...

Hampshire independent agency Harcourts Property Agents in Southampton has been acquired by another independent, Beal’s. Harcourts has over 35 years experience in...

High-end London agency chain Chestertons has snapped up an independent lettings agency in the east of the capital. Morgan Randall operated across Canary...

Tenants who want to pop downstairs to the shop may soon be able to do so - thanks to the John...

A leading PropTech entrepreneur is warning agents to prepare for increased rent arrears from as soon as next month. Neil Cobbold, chief...

New figures on pay and perks in the industry show that letting agents are better rewarded than their sales counterparts. A survey...

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...

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...