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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...

Winkworth has appointed a new franchisee to take over its Worthing office on the South Coast. After 15 years working in estate...

Winkworth’s first trading statement of 2024 reveals that it saw a five per cent rise in rental revenues in 2023 -...

Winkworth is expanding further in Dorset, with the acquisition of Christopher Batten in Wimborne – its seventh office in the county.  Christopher...

The lettings agency Winkworth has taken the unusual step of criticising policies of a series of councils. The councils are all Labour...

Lettings income has saved the bacon of franchise agency Winkworth after a sales slump hit profits.  A trading statement from the agency...

Franchise giant Winkworth is opening a new office in West Hampstead, extending its north London footprint from existing offices in neighbouring...

The directors of Winkworth are warning shareholders of a challenging period thanks to higher and faster-raising interest rates - with only...

A franchise network boss has sharply criticised both Labour and the Tories for their pro-tenant policies. Dominic Agace, chief executive of Winkworth,...

A lack of direction and constant shifts in planning policy at local and national government level is putting a block on...

LSL Property Services - owners of the Your Move and Reeds Rain brands - is to franchise its entire network of...

Winkworth has told its shareholders that the weak figures posted for 2022 are actually in line with management expectations. The franchise giant...

The Bank of England has raised base rate by 0.25 per cent to 4.25 per cent - the highest level since...

The government must focus on measures in next week’s Budget that will boost significantly the supply of homes, according to lettings...

There will be up to six new branches opened this year for the franchise brand Winkworth. The agency made its announcement in...

Winkworth is expanding in the south west with a new office opening in the Bishopston area of Bristol, tapping into a...

A short trading statement from Stock Market-listed London agency chain Winkworth shows just how vital the lettings sector is to its...

Just about every agency that has commented on yesterday’s Autumn Statement are in agreement - changes to Capital Gains Tax, Inheritance...

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

The Shepherd’s Bush office has the largest lettings portfolio of all the Winkworth offices across the capital - and now it...

Demand for pied a terres from those working in offices for only three days of the week is fuelling demand for...

Winkworth has told its shareholders that the rental market is to boom - a lot. “In lettings we anticipate that prices will...

There’s been a broad welcome from letting agents to the Spring Statement not loading more tax or restrictions on buy to...

Winkworth has expanded its presence in London with the opening of a new Maida Vale office following the acquisition of an...

A platform that says it wants to help reduce letting agents’ reliance on traditional portals such as Rightmove and Zoopla has...

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

A Winkworth franchisee has opened his fourth office in the same region in four years. Jamie Moore has opened a new office...

A generally upbeat trading statement from franchise agency giant Winkworth reports that prime London’s rental market’s long term return to normality...

A trading statement from franchise agency Winkworth has revealed that its network now derives 75 per cent of its revenue from...

Lettings platform Findingaplace, a matching service between tenants and agents launched last year, is seeking to raise £250,000 - and possibly...

The head of a lettings agency has drawn up a wish list for Chancellor Rishi Sunak to address in his Budget...

The chancellor Rishi Sunak has been urged to make it more attractive for landlords to invest in the private rental sector. Sunak...

New data released by franchise agency Winkworth showed that the rental market so far this year has been divided between house...

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...

Franchise giant Winkworth has opened a new office in the south west at Ferndown in Dorset. The office has been opened by...

Crowdhaus, which describes its product as a property discovery app, has secured almost £200,000 to take the next step forward following...

Winkworth says its London rental activities have suffered because of a lack of international travel, and students and young professionals returning to...

A new rentals platform claims to have signed up 150 London agencies prior to launch this spring. Findingaplace says it has signed up...

** This Bank Holiday Monday both Letting Agent Today and Estate Agent Today look at how agencies have modified offices and protocols...

Winkworth says its London offices are reporting significant numbers of landlords who used to advertise on Airbnb and similar short-let platforms...

Franchise giant Winkworth has expanded its presence in Reading with the acquisition of a local independent lettings agency. It’s snapped up AMPM,...

A newspaper claims multiple councils are opening investigations into agents allegedly defying the tenant fees ban - and at least one...

Franchise agency group Winkworth claims the lettings fee ban impact has been less severe on its agents than on other companies,...

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

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

Kitemark-style scheme SAFEagent is calling on the government to ensure plans to make Client Money Protection schemes mandatory are not ignored...

At the latest meeting of the Fair Fees Forum, members described the current approach towards landlord licensing as a 'post code...

Agencies are responding to the latest criticism of their fees on tenants, levied by the pressure group Generation Rent.    The group -...

Hybrid agency Purplebricks has entered the debate over the £835.38p reportedly charged by a branch of Winkworth when it changed the...

The Guardian has accused a branch of Winkworth letting agency in south London of “grubby overcharging” for allegedly asking a new...

The Fair Fees Forum, a platform for letting agencies and trade bodies set up by the National Approved Lettings Scheme, has...

The NALS ‘Fair Fees Forum’ - set up before last week’s announcement on the banning of letting agency fees levied on tenants...

The NALS Fair Fee forum - an initiative launched last month - has now set up a working group to consider,...

Franchise estate agency Winkworth has reported its figures for the first half of 2016, noting a particularly strong performance in its...

Franchise letting agency giant Winkworth is warning that London’s tenants face higher rents as some landlords sell investment properties in the...