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Property management and facilities firm Pinnacle is to become the leading managing agent for Legal & General Affordable Homes. In recent weeks, the...

The search for the best of the property industry is underway as nominations are now open for the 2024 Variety North...

Property professionals have less than 48 hours to submit entries for the Midlands PROPs Awards.  The search for the very best of...

The letting agents’ trade body Propertymark says one of the UK governments should go further in ensuring the safety of tenants...

The Property Franchise Group, the UK's largest property franchise brand, wants to merge with long-time rival Belvoir. Both are listed on the...

Propertymark has written to Housing Secretary Michael Gove to remind him of the importance of regulating letting and estate agents. The trade...

A new northern version of a popular property awards ceremony makes its debut this autumn. The North West PROPS, a northern-focused version...

Interim inspections are a necessity if you want to avoid property issues and tenant relationship breakdowns. They’re a no brainer –...

Jackson-Stops has announced the opening of its newest branch in Colchester, Essex.  This follows the launch of its virtual office covering Stockbridge,...

Spicerhaart Lettings has expanded expands its property management division with two key appointments. Natalie Giles has been appointed as the new Property...

Online lettings agency Hortons has launched an Investors Club search portal, aimed at property investors and developers. The agency describes this as...

High profile Propertymark lettings expert Angharad Trueman is joining Andrews agency as group lettings director. Trueman has been in the property industry...

Outsourced viewing service Viewber has linked with a property report company. The partnership between Viewber and Street Insights means outsourced viewing operatives...

A lettings guru is calling on agents to embrace social media trends in order to reach new audiences. Agent Rainmaker uses Reels...

A lettings agency chief says tighter EPC targets will be “devastating” for the private rental sector. Ben Quaintrell - managing director of...

An agency brand says it’s “astounded” at how many of its member branches want to take part in an international investment...

A prominent lettings agent says educating landlords about the need to use agents should be the industry’s number one priority. Agent Rainmaker...

Fine & Country has diversified its marketing to include podcasts and radio advertising.  Chief marketing officer Emilie Despois says: “We have always...

Airbnb says that its so-called ‘party ban’ - introduced in 2020 at the height of the pandemic - is being made...

Nowadays, we rely on social media platforms to stay informed and updated about topics that are of interest to us.  These platforms...

Agents have voiced their reservations over aspects of the widespread rental sector reform announced by the government in the Queen’s Speech. Yesterday...

Research by the UK’s largest student accommodation search platform shows a 3.7 per cent uplift in London’s Purpose-Built Student Accommodation bed...

PropTech company Homeppl has launched two products that it calls “revolutionary fraud detection tools” for letting agents. One of the two technologies...

For landlords, finding a tenant for a property can be challenging. Today, people expect modern, high quality, clean appliances as standard...

A new Buy To Let ‘tracker’ from a prominent buy to let mortgage lender has revealed what it considers to be...

ARLA Propertymark has listed tell tale signs which letting agents should look for to spot incidents of modern day slavery. It says...

The lettings arm of a leading Edinburgh-based property portal has reported a surge of Edinburgh properties being rented on the same...

Two lettings agencies are amongst three property agents which have been fined by HM Revenue & Customs for breaching anti-money laundering...

A PropTech company has revealed what letting agent hate and love most about their work. On the plus side the RentProfile platform’s...

One of the UK’s largest agency groups has launched a partnership with an environmental organisation to plant one tree for every...

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

A lettings trade body says the sector - and local councils - should do more to cater for the older and...

Marketing platform TheHouseShop says letting agents can secure over £300 per property listed as it is “redefining the relationship between agents...

The National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agents Team is appealing to the industry to be eagle-eyed for scams. This follows the...

A major agency and property consultancy has initiated ‘Wellness Wednesdays’ amongst a programme of activities to prioritise staff mental health during the...

Letting agents should stand proud of their record helping both landlords and tenants, especially in these more difficult times. That’s the view...

The debate over rental properties listed on portals with ‘No DSS’ statements has reignited over the weekend. This follows a BBC investigation...

The UK’s largest property franchise group says the current Coronavirus crisis shows precisely how robust its franchise business model is. In a...

Have you heard of Psych? No, me neither - but that’s our loss according to the London team of Auction House.  The...

Hello: so much has happened since the last Conquering Corona column on Friday. Before we get on with it, a reminder...

Nearly four out of 10 landlords believe that tenant demand will rise this year, according to a study by high-profile buy...

The fast-growing Federation of Independent Agents has this morning revealed that it’s linking with Training For Professionals, the largest provider of...

The Leaders Romans Group has announced an acquisition to mark further expansion into the corporate lettings and block management market. The agency...

Airbnb and short let management service Hostmaker - at the centre of a dispute involving a landlord trade body and the...

A PropTech platform launched three years ago acting as a search system for students wanting purpose-built accommodation is evolving into a...

A trade body has spoken out about the lack of detail in government plans for Right To Rent, as contained in...

Increased use of PropTech by letting agents can cut rent arrears, minimise voids and reduce the financial and legal fall out...

Fewer than one per cent of private tenancies end in a dispute over the deposit - and the figure is this...

One of the lettings industry’s senior figures has welcomed the introduction of mandatory five yearly inspections of electrical installations in private...

The Scottish Government’s private rental reforms are shaking up the sector according to new data, which reveals rental property sales have...

The government has suggested that it is at least considering changing the terms of its Rent A Room system which could...

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

Specialist lender Together has lowered interest rates across a range of products including right to buy - and it’s making a...

London agency Ludlowthompson has just appointed the first manager to emerge from the company’s apprenticeship scheme.    Launched in 2011, the scheme now...

The imminent mortgage interest tax relief changes coming into effect in April has triggered a surge in the number of mortgage...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is warning the government that some of its proposed changes to regulations governing HMOs may...

Following a period of substantial growth, Property Service Holdings (PSH) - which operates Leaders and Romans - has a huge variety of...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has responded to the latest government recommendations for tighter controls on the private rental sector...

Research undertaken by one of Britain’s leading rental sector experts and the Tenancy Deposit Scheme Charitable Foundation gives perhaps the most...

  A letting agent who scammed dozens of tenants and landlords out of more than £220,000 of rents and deposits has been...

It is safe to say that in the cyber world of today, a reviewing culture has been born. We have review...

Countrywide is to lead a group including Connells and Zoopla in a partnership with the proptech company Fixflo, currently best known...

A letting agent's life is a varied one, with the profession requiring agents to undertake a wide range of activities in...

A campaign targeting residential landlords has given HM Revenue and Customs an additional tax take of over £50m.  The Let Property Campaign,...

There has been a 94 per cent increase in prime central London tenancies year-on-year claims Lucy Morton of W A Ellis,...

Gentrification is a divisive, provocative issue, but why are estate agents (especially Foxtons) appearing to bear the brunt of the public’s...