HMO Sales Expert, a 2024 start-up, has launched a UK-wide partnership programme. It’s commenced with Plymouth, Doncaster, Leicester, and Peterborough, and later...
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![Rent Ceilings Have Been Reached - agency's stark warning](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews3-400x310.png)
The chief executive of one of Britain’s largest franchise agency chains is warning that rents may no longer be able to...
18 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![Top 10 Hotspots for portfolio buy to let investors](/upload/images/shutterstock_1640429362(2).jpg)
Paragon Bank’s analysis of its lending data has revealed the top 10 locations for investment by portfolio buy-to-let landlords, those with...
10 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![Father and Son win big at agency awards ceremony](/upload/images/shutterstock_1137101828.jpg)
The Belvoir 2024 Annual Awards have crowded a father-and-son franchisee pairing as the big winners. Paul Wallace-Tarry and his son Richard Wallace-Tarry...
28 March 2024
From: Breaking News
![Ex-Countrywide and LRG personnel launch compliance service](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Estate_Agent1-400x310.png)
Two former agents with experience between them of major players such as Countrywide, Leaders Romans and LSL have set up a...
12 May 2023
From: Breaking News
![Ethical agency recruits Propertymark guru to lettings team](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Flags%20%26%20Locations/London1-400x310.png)
A lettings and sales agency that describes itself as “ethical” and has built up strong links with local community groups has...
18 April 2023
From: Breaking News
![Agent Alert - City Trading Standards team begins clampdown](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Compliance-Image-400x310.png)
A council’s Trading Standards team is warning letting agents of a new clampdown on compliance failures. Stoke-on-Trent Trading Standards says it’s received...
09 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![Husband-and-wife franchisees snap up second office](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/CoupleMakingOffer-400x310.png)
The second largest resale in Belvoir’s history has taken place with the husband and wife behind the Southampton franchise buying Belvoir...
04 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![Franchise Agency of the Year named at award ceremony](/upload/images/Miscellaneous/Conference1400x310.jpg)
A student-specialising lettings agency has been named as franchise of the year at the brand’s annual awards. Nicholas Humphreys Nottingham, one of...
01 June 2022
From: Breaking News
![57 varieties as national agency opens its latest branch](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/open-image400x310.png)
Chancellors Estate Agents is opening its 57th branch early in the New Yesr. The office is in central Basingstoke and will offer...
29 December 2021
From: Breaking News
![Named and shamed - landlords told ‘check this agency before using’](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/Court-Fine-400x310.jpg)
Bristol-based lettings management company Iletpro Ltd has been ordered to pay a total of £2,700.06 in fines and costs for failing...
09 December 2021
From: Breaking News
![Gangmasters Raid: Police arrest at lettings agency](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/Court-Fine-400x310-min.jpg)
Media reports in Stoke on Trent say a man was arrested after a police raid on the Homes2Let lettings agency in...
05 November 2021
From: Breaking News
![Revealed - the rental market’s most lucrative sector](/upload/images/library/New%20Rental%20Index-400x310.png)
Research by Paragon Bank has revealed the sector that has out-performed the rest of the private rental investment landscape - student...
31 August 2021
From: Breaking News
![HMO to charge NHS workers just £10 a week in rent](/img/default/lat.png)
A council is being asked to prioritise consent to use a property as an HMO during the pandemic, with its four...
04 May 2020
From: Breaking News
![Under Investigation! Agents probed for alleged Fees Ban breaches](/img/default/lat.png)
A newspaper claims multiple councils are opening investigations into agents allegedly defying the tenant fees ban - and at least one...
03 March 2020
From: Breaking News
![Possession order ‘hotspots’ identified as eviction process faces reform](/img/default/lat.png)
A league table has been drawn up revealing the UK’s possession order hotspots - just as the government seems keen to...
17 December 2019
From: Breaking News
![Blocked! Government refuses to back council licensing plan](/img/default/lat.png)
The government has blocked a council rolling out selective licensing across no fewer than 3,000 homes in its patch. Under Stoke on...
13 August 2019
From: Breaking News
![Two new services for agents emphasise use of Artificial Intelligence](/img/default/lat.png)
A new white-labelled outsourced lettings management service is launching today, claiming to undercut all rivals. F%ur - a brand from 4percentproperty -...
15 July 2019
From: Breaking News
![Hybrid agency buys independent rival’s lettings book](/img/default/lat.png)
The Yeovil branch of hybrid agency EweMove now has over 200 managed properties following the acquisition of the lettings book of...
24 January 2019
From: Breaking News
![London council threatens bans and fines as it brings in new licensing](/img/default/lat.png)
The Labour-led local authority in Hackney has issued a statement pledging fines or even bans if landlords fail to get appropriate...
27 September 2018
From: Breaking News
![Rightmove reveals top 10 rental growth areas over the past decade](/img/default/lat.png)
Rightmove has revealed that the 10 year average growth in asking rents across London has been 25 per cent, and over...
28 March 2018
From: Breaking News
![Lettings firm owner jailed for failing to repay 'illegal' rent](/img/default/lat.png)
The owner of a property firm who reportedly misled tenants and let an illegally converted property has been jailed for 155...
29 November 2017
From: Breaking News
![Rent is 60 per cent or more of tenants' income in 12 UK areas](/img/default/lat.png)
Research by independent fact-checking organisation Full Fact has revealed that there are 12 local authority areas in the UK where a...
29 November 2017
From: Breaking News
![Ombudsman launches latest phase of clampdown on rogue lettings agents](/img/default/lat.png)
The Property Ombudsman scheme has launched the third and latest phase of its national campaign with the Chartered Trading Standards Institute...
14 November 2017
From: Breaking News
![Tenant's mammoth dispute with agency over fees and redress](/img/default/lat.png)
A former tenant is the subject of a major investigation by a London newspaper after she claimed to have spent eight...
09 August 2017
From: Breaking News
![Northern locations still the best for buy-to-let investment](/img/default/lat.png)
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...
19 June 2017
From: Breaking News
![Agents beware: new campaign to catch those ignoring law on fees](/img/default/lat.png)
The Property Ombudsman and the Chartered Trading Standards Institute have announced a second phase of their campaign to tackle letting agents...
28 March 2017
From: Breaking News
![Agency boss offers reward for information on office ransacking](/img/default/lat.png)
The chief executive of an agency in Stoke is offering £500 for information leading to the conviction of individuals who ransacked...
23 December 2016
From: Breaking News
![Letting agency office suffers arson and break-in within 24 hours](/img/default/lat.png)
A lettings agency office at Longton in Staffordshire has suffered a break in, less than 24 hours after what it believed...
21 December 2016
From: Breaking News
![Online agency makes league table of highest/lowest tenant fees](/img/default/lat.png)
Online estate agent Urban.co.uk says it has created a league table of fees that tenants are charged by agencies in different locations...
25 November 2016
From: Breaking News
![Two more acquisitions for Leaders as it takes branch total to 115](/img/default/lat.png)
National estate agency chain Leaders has announced the acquisition of two property businesses in the north of England. Yesterday it took over...