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The boss of a prominent UK lettings and property management agency says new regulations planned for the industry are to be...

Spicerhaart is setting up a remote centralised lettings management service which it says will operate “from Cardiff to Colchester, and Birmingham...

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

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

Spicerhaart has recruited the former head of lettings operations at Purplebricks to a regional role. Emma Fagan will be the new property...

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

A Purplebricks divisional lettings director has quit the troubled online agency and is returning to Spicerhaart, where she worked until a...

The former head of operations at online agency Yopa has been named as East London area lettings director for haart. Andrie Neophytou...

Spicerhaart has announced two new lettings directors to support its £30m expansion programme. Liam Davorn, 57, has 30 years in the profession...

Spicerhaart says some 600 hopefuls turned up for a series of recruitment days in three parts of the country. Around a third...

Some agents allied with deposit alternative service flatfair - and who previously offered the service to new tenants - are now going...

A former agent who was most recently a car salesman has been named as Spicerhaart’s first home-based lettings partner. Marc West will...

Spicerhaart has unveiled a £30m investment programme for its lettings business. The business proposes to more than double the number of properties...

One of the leading estate agency groups in the UK has said it places high value on internal development following the...

Senior managers in the lettings and sales side of independent chain Spicerhaart are reducing their carbon footprint by taking up the...

Spicerhaart is restructuring its lettings activities to include more working-from-home, mirroring what it’s done to its sales side in the past...

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

Agents and other industry players have penned an open letter to government demanding a radical overhaul of targets for energy efficiency in the...

A business owner who calls himself a “frontline agent” is the new Vice President of ARLA Propertymark.  David Votta, owner of Votta...

Part of the controversial Spicerhaart empire want the government to guarantee that some landlords receive 80 per cent of their usual...

Haart has announced a strategic partnership with software platform teclet which will now be adopted in all lettings offices in the...

Lettings PropTech platform teclet says its product is key for agents seeking to comply with new electrical safety regulations in a...

Haart is trying to shift the mood music around the private rental sector from challenging to celebratory, saying there is plenty...

A leading agent is the latest industry figure to speak out against rent controls, which continue to be advocated by Labour...

One of the key players in the ultra-competitive deposit alternative sector has announced a massive and new $11m investment. Flatfair says that...

The Haart lettings agency says the government’s plan to abolish landlords’ Section 21 eviction powers may not be a bad thing. The...

High profile agency Haart has issued a warning to landlords on what it sees as the three key risks to successful letting...

The operations director of letting agency haart has told landlords not to 'stress too much' over Brexit. Paul Sloan says it's easy...

Three years after the introduction of the second homes stamp duty surcharge, landlords are “beginning to come to terms with the...

Flatfair, which describes itself as the UK’s fastest-growing tenancy deposit alternative, has been shortlisted in the Best Newcomer category of the...

PropTech company teclet has announced it will this year once again be a main category partner at The ESTAS estate and...

Lettings agency Haart says it will return up to £20m in deposits to existing tenants if they sign up to a...

Continued political and economic uncertainty is likely to fuel increased tenant demand in the private rented sector, says Haart.  The company’s latest...

The agency industry has reacted in a broadly downbeat way at the relatively few housing-related proposals that were announced in yesterday’s...

The Haart agency is calling on the government to give the private rental sector a break in the autumn Budget, as...

Lettings agents’ representatives have hit back at an accusation of discrimination made against the industry. A report by Shelter and the National...

Spicerhaart says that with the lettings agency industry under attack there is a danger of some within the sector focussing too...

Spicerhaart has signed up with a deposit-free renting platform to offer landlords and tenants the option of working with a no-deposit system...

A head of a major agency says it is misleading to suggest that tenants are evicted ‘for no reason’. Mark Pilling, the...

Lettings agency Haart says the government should go much further than the legislation it is supporting giving tenants the right to...

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

Letting agency Saxons has been fined more than £3,000 after pleading guilty to the offence of displaying an unauthorised To Let...

Letting agency Spicerhaart has been fined £2,670 after pleading guilty to operating an unlicensed house in multiple occupation.   A prosecution was brought...

The number of tenants entering the market across the UK has risen by 7.3 per cent on the month - but...

A string of corporate letting agencies plus ARLA Propertymark have again called on the government to reconsider its proposed ban on agents’...

Only just over a week remains before the end of the formal consultation on the government’s proposal to ban letting fees...

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

Twenty agency groups have backed a call by the Association of Residential Letting Agents urging the government to extend or scrap its...

Agents and many industry bodies have expressed their disappointment and anger at many provisions of the Housing White Paper produced by...

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

Letting agencies and landlords must club together to campaign for a cap on agents' fees charged to tenants, rather than an...

The number of buy to let transactions across England and Wales has fallen 8.2 per cent in one month and is down an...

Agency chain Spicerhaart is warning that tenants could pay up to three times as much as they currently do, if tenant...

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,...

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

Two of the industry’s biggest estate agency groups have selected the same firm to provide their legal services.  Hillyer McKeown has been...

The controversial campaign group ACORN, which has made headlines by protesting outside letting agency offices in Bristol, is launching a new...

An interesting point of view from a young sales negotiator working for Spicerhaart, whose chief executive Paul Smith recently wrote an...