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The independent Chancellors agency chain has signed an exclusive contract to use The Lettings Hub pre-tenancy platform BOX for the next...

A respected buy to let mortgage monitor is suggesting that investors in the sector may be more successful if they allow...

The Miles & Barr Group has snapped up two lettings and property management companies  – Roger & Hambidge and Brettsletts.  The acquisitions...

Labour’s candidate for London Mayor wants to control private rents - and he wants the capital to be a template for...

Leaders Romans Group has announced the acquisition of another independent agency, this time in the East Midlands. It’s snapped up Hill &...

The director of renters’ campaign group Generation Rent says the long-running scandal of a planning decision made by the Housing Secretary...

It’s been revealed that a legal group is considering how courts will consider eviction cases when the current ban is lifted...

One of the country’s largest independent agencies has emerged out of lockdown with a spring in its step, acquiring two small...

Rent to the value of £10,982.25 is to be returned to tenants by a landlord who was operating without a licence. Mrs...

Chancellors, the independent agency chain with over 50 offices across southern England and mid Wales, is launching a deposit-free renting option. Working with...

Belvoir has confirmed that its Brighton franchisees have acquired the independent Homelets agency in the town - for a cool £1m. Existing...

Franchise giant Hunters is continuing its expansion with the acquisition of Forte Lettings & Property Management, an independent in Exeter. The Devon...

Another Martin & Co franchisee has acquired a nearby independent agency. The franchise firm’s Falmouth branch, run since 2013 by Felicia and...

We may be all-too-familiar with the challenges facing letting agents and landlords in the private rental sector but there is at...

The government has published an independent assessment of its Tenants Fees Bill proposal - the ban on fees levied by letting...

A landlord had been ordered to give back almost £4,000 that was paid to him while operating without a licence. The case...

The independent lettings agency Chilli Residential has been snapped up by a local branch of franchise giant Martin & Co. The Aldershot...

An independent agency in Gloucestershire is returning to the lettings business to complement its existing sales and land arms. Perry Bishop and...

Agents and landlords are being advised to check the status of their HMO licenses in the London Borough of Harrow following...

The government’s announcement that it will bring in mandatory electrical checks in the private rented sector has been welcomed - perhaps...

The independent mortgage market monitor Moneyfacts says there is now a record number of mortgage deals for those entering the buy...

The Independent online newspaper says Conservative MP Gary Streeter will tomorrow meet with Prime Minister Theresa May and urge her to...

The government’s flagship immigration Right To Rent policy is under threat on two fronts. Firstly a cross-party group of MPs has written...

The number of buy to let mortgage products on the open market has passed the 2,000 mark for the first time.  This...

The controversial Right To Rent policy has been attacked as having failed “to demonstrate its worth” in encouraging immigration compliance. Under Right...

A trade body says new figures released by the independent Office for Budget Responsibility show that the government’s recent tax increases...

The independent mortgage market monitor Moneyfacts says some buy to let mortgage rates have gone back to record lows. The monitor says...

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has used a holiday season interview to repeat his pledge to swing powers back towards private tenants...

The National Landlords Association has appointed a new chairman - he’s Adrian Jeakings who comes to the position with many years of...

The Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration has started what is described as an official inspection of Right To Rent. Legislation...

ARLA Propertymark says letting and managing agents should be aware that they can raise ‘safeguarding alerts’ if they are concerned about...

The independent production company making the life-swap series The Week The Landlord Moved In series, now showing on BBC1, is having...

A group of students in Bristol has won a court case after a lettings agency acting for a landlord deducted money...

Airbnb’s decision to enforce the London-specific legislation which limits hosts to letting their properties for no more than 90 nights a...

Data from the Ministry of Justice suggests the number of claims made by private sector landlords to repossess a property has...

The new housing minister, Gavin Barwell, says he is behind the concept of longer tenancies for renters in the private sector.   In...

The Advertising Standards Authority has banned an ad from high-end letting agency Hamptons International because of an apparent lack of clarity...

A trade body has hit out at “clear inconsistencies” in an online news report claiming that renting an ‘average London flat’...

More criticism of Chancellor George Osborne’s raft of buy to let reforms has appeared in the mainstream media, with much emphasis...

A new report from the independent Social Market Foundation think tank has found that almost two million more people have been...

The housing ladder is disappearing for most young working households on modest incomes who are obliged to rent for the indefinite...

The vocal campaign group Generation Rent is making the jaw-dropping claim that one in four private tenants has been evicted “for...

A financial analyst says current buy to let mortgage constraints - with a strong possibility of more later this year - may...

It’s been a bad weekend for the image of the private rental sector with a series of reports and press stories...

The specialist buy to let mortgage sector is set to be an unexpected victim of the buy to let tax changes...

The independent Institute for Fiscal Studies has described the justification given by Chancellor George Osborne for curbing tax breaks for buy to...

A Labour MP was hauled up before the parliamentary expenses body after hitting a credit card problem created by a dispute...