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Owners of second homes who abuse a tax loophole by claiming their often-empty properties are holiday lets will be forced to...

A six-month prison sentence, suspended for 12 months, has been handed to a former lettings agent from Eastbourne for charges of...

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

The Leaders Romans Group has identified four locations which it says have come into their own since the working-from-home craze started...

Two lettings and property management firms have merged with the aim of increasing market share in Surrey, Hampshire and West Sussex. Property...

One person had to be rescued from a fire after their landlord failed to ensure they had a working fire alarm...

A south coast agency has snapped up a local independent - the latest of several acquisitions it's made in recent years. Worthing’s...

It’s taken what Propertymark calls “a rigorous selection process” to find the latest four regional representatives for the Association of Residential...

One of the most prominent south coast lettings and sales agencies is returning to Zoopla after a five year absence.  Mishon Mackay,...

Arun - which has the brands of Douglas Allen in East London and Essex, Ward & Partners in Kent, Cubitt &...

A BBC investigation suggests some agents may be mis-selling deposit alternative schemes. Tenants are then hit by what the probe says are...

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

One of West Sussex’s largest agencies, Michael Jones & Company, has acquired an independent rival as part of a move to...

There has been a significant spike in activity in the East Hampshire lettings market, according to analysis from Zoopla. Over the last...

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

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

Legal & General, one of the largest specialist builders of so-called retirement communities for the over-55s, is now going to let...

A regional lettings agency claims it’s seen a 26 per cent surge in tenant and prospect views on properties listed as...

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

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

There’s more evidence today that the largest buy to let investment yields are coming from the north of England and the...

A local authority has described a lettings property as “a real House of Horrors that put the health and safety of...

Latest lettings findings from franchise agency Belvoir shows that in the third quarter of this year average rents were just £3 a...

A tenant appears to be entitled to pay sub-market rent for the rest of his life after a legal case involving...

A league table drawn up by a rental sector insurance specialist claims private rental accommodation in university locations can produce yields...

Spark Energy - the specialist energy supplier to the UK lettings sector - has announced the acquisition of broadband firm Home...

Andrews Property Group has announced that Hannah Norris to lead its lettings business across its three major regions of Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire...

A buy to let mortgage lender claims that five out of six areas affected by the long-running spate of strikes on...

Connells has made a key appointment to drive the growth of its lettings division in the south of England.  Stuart Cornwall, who...

A letting agent and four landlords face bills totalling more than £20,000 after being prosecuted by Islington Council for operating unlicensed...

A letting agency is being investigated by a local council and the police after it closed suddenly last month. Dukes Letting Department,...

No action is to be taken over a lettings agency which has closed leaving landlords and tenants with a reported combined loss...