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The chief executive of one of Britain’s largest franchise agency chains is warning that rents may no longer be able to...

Propertymark will appear in front of the House of Lords’ Industry and Regulators Committee tomorrow morning, urging the regulation of lettings...

A prominent rental activist is tomorrow going to tell a House of Lords committee about the need to regulate letting agents. Conor...

An agency which currently has £350m of property under management and boasts a 98 per cent client retention rate, has opened...

One of the controversial Bruce brothers, founders of the ill-fated Purplebricks venture, is back in the agency business. It’s almost a decade...

Spicerhaart’s veteran chief executive Paul Smith is stepping back to concentrate on company growth - including the acquisition of more lettings...

Connells Group - which at 150,000 tenancies under management claims to be the UK’s largest lettings business - has announced a...

One of the country’s first Belvoir branch franchises has changed hands after approaching three decades.  The resale of Belvoir Lincoln, one of...

Veteran UK actor Rupert Everett, a star in Hollywood movies for over 40 years, is to voice radio adverts for Fine...

A veteran Conservative is calling on his government to clamp down on HMOs and ensure there is better council regulation and...

High end agency UK Sotheby’s International Realty - which has properties to let at up to an eye-watering cost of £80,000...

The Property Redress Service claims to be the largest lettings redress service now, with over 13,250 letting agency branches on board. In...

Purplebricks chairman Paul Pindar has survived a challenge from a rebel investor - but shareholders appear split.  A company general meeting -...

Purplebricks is to reveal its latest trading figures next week in a crucial test for the turnaround strategy of new chief...

Purplebricks’ board has announced that a general meeting of shareholders will be held on December 19 - and it involves a...

Rebel shareholders at Purplebricks want the current chairman to be replaced by industry veteran Harry Hill. Lecram Holdings Limited - which has...

A former marine is the franchise holder of a brand new Belvoir office close to a famous military base in south...

A prominent supporter of new Prime Minister Liz Truss has spoken out against rent controls.  Veteran Conservative MP Sir John Redwood, who...

Winkworth’s latest figures to shareholders show that sales revenues have slumped badly - but lettings have boomed for the moment at...

Rightmove hosts its latest anti-money laundering webinar next week. The hour-long session at 10am on Tuesday July 19 - a week today...

A lettings agency is using its latest podcast to explore the retail-to-resi trend in the housing market. Winkworth’s podcast under The Property...

Keller Williams UK - one of the growing number of agencies to operate with self-employed agents working from a central hub...

A veteran lettings expert says most rental activity will soon be online and conducted outside office hours - a further boost...

Online agency eXp UK has launched a new lettings service allowing agents who join the organisation can now offer a lettings...

The ARLA Propertymark president for the year ahead is a long-standing board member with significant experience in regulation. Angela Davey succeeds Phil...

A high profile former estate agent who was a major figure on the London sales market for over three decades has...

A PropTech service says it wants to by-pass professional agents and cater just for self-managing landlords.  What’s more, it’s promoting the fact...

Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick says the government is “thinking carefully” about what more it can do for private tenants, especially after...

Veteran Countrywide figure John Hards has joined the board of still-to-launch property portal OpenBrix. In 2018 Hards rejoined Countrywide as national lettings...

ARLA Propertymark has named Angela Davey as president elect, following Richard Selwyn stepping down last year due to personal circumstances. Davey has...

A leading property industry figure says Airbnb is attempting to persuade traditional buy to let landlords into going down the short-let...

Countrywide has issued an unusual statement saying that the veteran lettings expert recruited to steer the organisation through the tenant fee...

A PropTech platform that earlier this year was reported to be valued at £2.8m is making an unusual offer to letting...

It’s that time of year again when pencil cases are fully stocked and the smell of dusty books opening fills the...

Belvoir Lettings has announced that industry veteran Michael Stoop has joined the board as a non-executive director, with Nicholas Leeming stepping...

Well known lettings industry figure John Hards is re-joining Countrywide as National Lettings Director with immediate effect. He first joined Countrywide in...

The veteran estate agent Michael Stoop has become a non-executive director of Sorbet, a PropTech company which has created a software...

A Prohibition Order has been served on the owner of a flat being let to an elderly couple - one of...

Michael Robson is to step down from Andrews Property Group after 35 years at the helm. He will stay with the company...

Gillian Kent - once employed by News International to run a portal to rival Rightmove - has now been appointed chairman...

An outspoken attack on Chancellor George Osborne’s fiscal measures against the private rental sector have questioned whether he is really a...

Labour MP David Lammy and Kevin Hollinrake, the founder of Hunters - and now a Conservative MP - have clashed online...

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A pop star has been evicted from his London flat owing his landlord more than £30,000 in rent and causing him...