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09 July 2024
From: Breaking News
![Build To Rent hits the suburbs with new eco scheme](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/Energy_EfficientHome-400x310.png)
Legal & General’s suburban Build To Rent business, called LGSBTR, has exchanged on 41 new BTR homes in St Neots, Cambridgeshire. Consisting...
05 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![New London branch is first of three for high end lettings operation](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Franchise-400x310.png)
UKSotheby’s International Realty - which handles high end lettings and sales - has opened a new London office. It’s in St John’s...
07 September 2023
From: Breaking News
![Show Green! Tenants want agents to display eco-credentials](/upload/images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/green-deal400x310.png)
Tenants want letting agents, landlords and other property industry figures to more openly demonstrate their green credentials. That’s the message from a...
07 July 2023
From: Breaking News
![Lettings chief steps up to become agency partner](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/NewHomeowners1-400x310.png)
The long-standing head of an agency’s property management and lettings divisions is stepping up to become a partner in the company. Andrew...
10 January 2023
From: Breaking News
![Massive scale of Build To Rent revealed by top investor's figures](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Buy-to-let-2-400x310.png)
Legal & General Capital helped fund over 17,000 new homes last year across a range of tenures, chiefly Build To Rent. Chief...
05 January 2023
From: Breaking News
![Covid reversal as search for city living drives capital appreciation](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Flags%20%26%20Locations/London1-400x310.png)
Increasing demand for homes in cities was the driving force behind the rapid house price inflation witnessed earlier this year, with...
27 October 2022
From: Breaking News
![Capital appreciation in prime rentals will be best outside southern England](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/PropertyTax-Wide-InArticle.jpg)
Capital appreciation over the next five years amongst properties in prime areas of cities and countryside will be strongest in the...
08 August 2022
From: Breaking News
![Ditch AirBnb and we’ll charge you nothing - agency offer to landlords](/upload/images/Logos/Airbnb-Alt-400x310.jpg)
Another lettings agency is offering a major incentive to landlords switching from Airbnb to traditional long term rentals. Hills Lettings, a south...
30 May 2022
From: Breaking News
![Mind The Gap! Here’s the rent gap between London and the suburbs](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/Homes-MaginifyingGlass-400x310.jpg)
New research claims to show the rent gap between lets in London and those in suburbs up to an hour from the...
08 April 2022
From: Breaking News
![At last - Inner London rents rising for first time in two years](/upload/images/Locations/LondonMap400x310-min.png)
For the first time since January 2020, rents in Inner London rose on an annual basis - they were up 3.9...
13 December 2021
From: Breaking News
![Two more independent agencies fall to fast-growing brand](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/landlord-licencing400x310.png)
An agency that is part of the fast-growing Lomond Group has itself acquired another two independent agencies. Thornley Groves, is expanding its...
07 December 2021
From: Breaking News
![Rents leap 11 per cent outside big cities according to Rightmove](/upload/images/Logos/RightmoveNewLogo2016-400x310.jpg)
New data from Rightmove reveals that the imbalance of supply and demand for rental properties in suburban and rural areas has...
06 October 2021
From: Breaking News
![Sheffield vote of confidence – Linley & Simpson consolidates with acquisition](/upload/images/Logos/LinleySimpson-2019-Logo-400x310.jpg)
Linley & Simpson, one of the North of England’s leading residential letting agents, has expanded its Sheffield operations just six months...
17 September 2021
From: Breaking News
![Just Grand! Rents hit £1,000 pcm as supply stays low](/img/default/lat.png)
Record tenant demand and record-fast lettings have combined to create an average asking rent above £1,000 per calendar month for homes...
15 July 2021
From: Breaking News
![Record number of Build To Rent planning consents, with big suburban surge](/img/default/lat.png)
Research by the British Property Federation shows that 6,937 new Build To Rent homes won full planning permission in the first...
26 May 2021
From: Breaking News
![Bal Arora – Managing Director at Orlando Reid](/img/default/lat.png)
Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Bal Arora – Managing Director In your experience, what is the...
13 May 2021
From: 60 Second Interview
![Booming demand for suburbs according to buy to let specialist](/img/default/lat.png)
Booming demand for homes in commuter zones and well-connected towns is causing a mini-boom in the lettings market. That’s the view of...
20 April 2021
From: Breaking News
![Rental demand still swinging away from cities, says Rightmove](/img/default/lat.png)
Demand is still moving away from cities and towards suburbs and rural areas, according to Rightmove. “Areas around the North and South...
14 April 2021
From: Breaking News
![Lockdown one year on: Renters search for space says Rightmove](/img/default/lat.png)
Almost one year to the day since the first national lockdown began, Rightmove has analysed millions of data points to confirm...
22 March 2021
From: Breaking News
![Tenants heading to suburbs mean big falls for city centre rents](/img/default/lat.png)
A new lettings market snapshot from Rightmove suggests that asking rents in some major city centres have seen annual falls up...
27 January 2021
From: Breaking News
![City centre rental premium quantified - but how long will it last?](/img/default/lat.png)
A survey by a personal finance service has identified the traditional premium for a city centre rental property, and attempts to...
19 January 2021
From: Breaking News
![All change! Rent gap between City and Country narrows dramatically](/img/default/lat.png)
The gap between typical City rents and Country rents is closing according to an analysis of Countrywide properties by the company’s...
16 November 2020
From: Breaking News
![Renters willing to pay more for larger homes in towns and suburbs](/img/default/lat.png)
New research from Countrywide brand Hamptons International suggest tenants are joining vendors in a trend towards leaving cities and heading for more...
14 September 2020
From: Breaking News
23 March 2020
From: Breaking News
![Corporate makes 150 acquisitions - and now says it wants more](/img/default/lat.png)
Leaders Romans Group has snapped up another independent - this time the three office Welsh agency Moginie James. Moginie James - owned by...
03 February 2020
From: Breaking News
![Big regional firm announces its latest agency acquisition](/img/default/lat.png)
Fast-growing Yorkshire agency Linley & Simpson has opened a new office in Leeds after acquiring a long-standing lettings firm. Snapping up Morgans...
04 December 2019
From: Breaking News
![Another independent agency snapped up by large regional chain](/img/default/lat.png)
Ambitious regional chain Linley & Simpson has opened a new branch in the Yorkshire market town of Pudsey after snapping up...
14 February 2019
From: Breaking News
![Zoopla-backed Zero Deposit scheme targets independent agents](/img/default/lat.png)
Zero Deposit, the firm set up by former Zoopla commercial director Jon Notley, says it now has around 850 offices using...
07 January 2019
From: Breaking News
![Tenant demand slides in London, warns industry body](/img/default/lat.png)
The central London rental market is beginning to show signs of topping out as tenant demand slides and landlords look to...
20 January 2017
From: Breaking News
![ARLA warns that new London tube service will trigger rent increases](/img/default/lat.png)
This week’s long-awaited launch of an overnight tube service on two lines of the London Underground will trigger private sector rent...