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Lettings giant Foxtons has hired merger and acquisition bankers from Rothschild following pressure from shareholders to sell itself for £160m, the...

The chief executive of Propertymark has made an outspoken attack on the government in response to its latest attempt to extract...

The Budget on Wednesday will contain a £300m tax raid on the rental sector according to a report this morning -...

The board of Foxtons is under pressure from a minority of shareholders to put the agency group up for sale, according...

Housing Secretary Michael Gove has this morning said his government should ‘relax the pace’ of EPC reforms expected from private landlords. In...

Energy Performance Certificates must change to properly support reaching net zero, tackling fuel poverty and improving buildings, according to an energy...

Shocking new research shows that Energy Performance Certificates are inaccurate at best, useless at worst, and easily rigged. A Sunday Times report...

The man who led the sale of prominent lettings agency Finders Keepers to Countrywide has landed a new role as group...

The allAgents review website has removed a claim suggesting it had been ‘endorsed’ by The Times and the Sunday Times newspapers. The...

An agency has opened its 10th residential lettings office in south west London. The new Savills branch, which will also handle sales,...

Baroness Alicia Kennedy, the director of Generation Rent, is to be one of the speakers in a debate at the ARLA...

Airbnb is doing a U-turn with its global leader pledging to slash the number of professional landlords using the platform and...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Nick Lyons CEO What is No Letting Go and what does...

A newspaper claims that a short lets management firm that handles properties let on Airbnb and similar platforms is scrambling for...

A national newspaper story suggests that a couple seeking an apartment to rent in Brixton were signed up to the wrong...

The Dispute Service, which operates the Tenancy Deposit Scheme, has been ranked among the Sunday Times’ 100 best not-for-profit companies to...

The party conferences of the two main political parties threw up some interesting developments with regards to housing and the rental...

A newspaper claims landlords who ‘game’ the current tax regime for short term lets and lodging may be in the firing...

Media speculation over the weekend has suggested that the government may be about to give tax breaks to landlords agreeing to...

Countrywide has announced that Dan Channer - a well-known figure in the lettings industry generally, and managing director of Oxford-based Finders...

Former Conservative Party leader and Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith is set to speak at a lettings sector event...

Lenwell Property Services, a five-office lettings agency in the Home Counties, is spreading its wings into Hertfordshire with the acquisition of...

The Movebubble digital rental service is launching a 'virtual assistant' facility - a person who will use a scooter to attend...

The new chief executive of Grainger has started setting out her company’s Build To Rent strategy. Helen Gordon has told the Sunday...

The new three per cent stamp duty on buy to let properties coming into force from next April will effectively redraw...

Housing minister Brandon Lewis has backtracked on suggestions that the government may introduce longer standard tenancy agreements in the private rental...

A newspaper claims that Labour leadership hopeful Andy Burnham will this week announce that, should he head the party and eventually...

Debate over spending cuts and taxation is increasingly asking whether landlords should continue to receive an estimated £10 billion - or...