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Stephen Castellani has been confirmed as the new owner of Martin & Co’s Tonbridge office, taking the reins from Robert Gordon-James...

A former housing minister responsible for the sell off of huge numbers of social homes has told the Prime Minister he...

Lettings and sales agency Gascoines is this week celebrating 70 years of serving the property market in Nottinghamshire. Founded by Doug Gascoine...

A thieving lettings agent stole over £128,000 which should have gone to landlord clients - and with it she funded an...

Husband and wife Daren and Susan Cope, alongside son James and daughter Annie, are bringing their different agencies under one roof. So...

Husband-and-wife team John and Shirley Ounsworth have completed on the acquisition of Osprey Lettings. The couple - who run a Northwood franchise...

A lettings firm’s takeover of an independent rival agency is the start of a period of “exponential growth” according to its...

A family business has been named Residential Letting Team of the Year for the second time. The small At Home In Edinburgh...

The second largest resale in Belvoir’s history has taken place with the husband and wife behind the Southampton franchise buying Belvoir...

An investment firm which has helped guide £100m into the UK buy to let market is to set up its second...

A lettings agency group has made two moves to signal its commitment to being a forces-friendly employer.  Spicerhaart has signed the Armed...

Purplebricks has set a date for a possible showdown with shareholders over the agency’s lettings compliance crisis amongst other controverisies.  It has...

A newspaper probe has discovered that sow-called exempt accommodation - often for the most vulnerable tenants - has received a Hugh...

  Belvoir has announced its franchise of the year, selected from the 166 offices in its network.  It’s husband and wife team Ben...

Franchise estate agency chain Winkworth has expanded its presence in prime south west London with the opening of a new Wimbledon office. The new...

PropTech platform Plentific has snapped up husband-and-wife lettings software company TouchRight Software.  Over 500 clients across the UK use TouchRight, to create...

A lettings agency’s new website claims to offer increased support to landlords, tenants, and investors, “while cutting through the noise of...

A branch of Northwood has snapped up an independent agency. Bassets Lettings, which is based in Salisbury, was set up in 2002...

A lettings agent has expressed his amazement after an emotional LinkedIn post about paying himself a salary for the first time...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? That's very retro - I have not had one of...

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

Prime Minister Boris Johnson is to let his Oxfordshire cottage out - and predictably, he’s chosen an upmarket letting agent. Strutt &...

Franchise giant Belvoir has held its annual awards including the naming of the prestigious ‘franchise of the year’. The accolade went to...

An investigation is underway into a lettings agency which has gone into liquidation owing almost £500,000 in rent to landlords and in...

A fast-growing regional chain of agencies has purchased another independent operator in the lettings sector. Yorkshire's Linley & Simpson has bought Sinclair Properties...

A family-run lettings and sales agency has launched an employee of the year award in memory of a late colleague.   The...

A newspaper claims a lettings agency is battling allegations of overcharging customers and using fake companies to carry out maintenance work. The Daily Record...

Belvoir has opened its third office in Swansea - but like other agency branches in Wales, it’s set to close for...

A family-run agency that describes itself as “plucky” has rebranded and moved to larger premises in one of the UK’s most...

PropTech company Goodlord has acquired referencing platform Vouch to form an industry player that will be handling over 500,000 references per...

A regional independent agency generating more than £20 million in rental income annually has snapped up a five-branch independent firm. Alexander & Co,...

The so-called King and Queen of Buy To Let, the controversial husband and wife team of Fergus and Judith Wilson, are...

An agency has rebranded following a ‘de-merger’ with a rival firm. Earlier this week we reported that Chichester husband-and-wife agency Hancock and...

A husband and wife lettings and estate agency in Chichester is re-launching as its own operation, separately from the firm it...

Hello and welcome to today’s Conquering Corona, a service we’re running to share official guidance and agents’ advice in a bid...

A landlord who made a perverted request to take photographs of a teenager in her underwear has had his request for...

The Tunbridge Wells office of Martin & Co has boosted its managed portfolio by 43 per cent by snapping up yet...

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

A long-established agency in Wales says it’s shutting the sales side of its business and going to focus solely on lettings...

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

A husband and wife must pay joint fines, penalties and costs totalling over £8,000 after complaints about a bungalow they owned...

Fergus Wilson, arguably Britain’s most controversial landlord and almost certainly the individual with the largest number of buy to lets in...

Fergus Wilson - the controversial buy to let landlord who with his wife once owned 1,000 homes - has named his...

North Wales agency Dafydd Hardy has snapped up small independent Smith & Wypler as part of a new growth strategy.  Smith &...

Who are you? I’m the Director of Sales for both the well-known industry leading Today publications and The ValPal Network. Leading publications: Estate...

The man who is arguably Britain’s most controversial landlord - Fergus Wilson - is likely to be issuing up to 90...

Mystery surrounds the whereabouts of a letting agent who appears not to be in any redress scheme, is being investigated by...

A court has ordered a husband and wife pair of buy to let investors to pay back £322,282 in illegal income. A...

A couple from east London who illegally converted a town centre office block into 14 flats have been ordered to pay...

The controversial landlord Fergus Wilson says he has purchased a Body Worn Camera for £75 in a bid to avoid at...

Somerset agency Mark Templer Residential has acquired independent company Wrington Vale Lettings. Husband and wife team John and Vanessa Webb with business...

Fergus Wilson, frequently labelled Britain’s biggest individual landlord, says he is stopping letting out properties because of a shortage of East...

The Leaders Romans Group has snapped up yet another small independent agency - GPS Property Management based at Ravenshead in Nottinghamshire. For...

Britain’s most controversial landlord, Fergus Wilson, says the recent changes in buy to let legislation means that if he was starting...

Britain’s most controversial buy to let investor, Fergus Wilson, has hit back and given his side of events on a series...

Newspapers in Kent are reporting that controversial buy to let multi-millionaire Fergus Wilson has evicted four single mothers from his properties...

A gas safety engineer has pleaded guilty with a landlord of falsifying gas safety certificates for a string of private rental...

A Derby-based agency says it’s on the acquisition trail and seeking lettings operations to take over. Birchover Sales and Lettings - led...

A couple who illegally converted an office block into 14 flats have been found guilty for disregarding planning laws - and...

Two landlords and two tenants were fined a total of over £11,000 after losing their appeal against housing convictions concerning property...

A family-run lettings agency says its viability is seriously threatened by the likely fees ban to be introduced in 2018 -...

A man who illegally housed tenants inside his converted garage has been ordered to pay £173,141 by a court.   Amir Golesorkhi turned...

A landlord has set up a company to handle the ownership and management of buy to let properties - and the...

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

Britain’s biggest buy to let landlord, Fergus Wilson, says new investors now will never be able to enjoy the scale of...

One of Britain's best-known landlords, Fergus Wilson, has launched an appeal after losing a case regarding a damp property. The tenants, Attila...

The key lies in improving your customer experience through technology For Agents, the tremendous growth in online estate agents highlights a strong...

A self-employed property investor and caterer who stole over £70,000 in a tax credit fraud, has been jailed.   Khalid Farid, 59, from...

Our latest infographic shows figures of how the majority of deposits are repaid at the end of tenancy and goes into...

A former letting agent has received a suspended prison sentence after pleading guilty to ten counts of fraud. Nicholas Dowse, also known...

A lettings and sales agent has admitted to a court that he tried to cheat an elderly pensioner by buying her flat...

There is uproar in Brighton as a result of students being let rooms in an HMO - despite the property’s owners...

The country’s biggest buy to let landlord is to raise rents by up to 33 per cent, and puts the blame...

A couple from Cambridgeshire have been fined £10,000 and ordered to hand over in excess of £75,000 after repeatedly renting out...

Mystery surrounds the fate of Kirby Property Management, a letting agency with offices at Cambourne, Cambridge and St Neots in the...

The Advertising Standards Authority has banned a radio advertisement for Direct Line Landlord Insurance because it has been judged to be...