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The embattled short let and holiday let industry has hit out at what it calls the “rampant hypocrisy” of councils when...

Energy Performance Certificates can be riddled with inaccuracies and give unhelpful advice to property owners. That’s the view of consumer service Which? Which?...

It's reported that the Lomond estate agency group, which is heavily backed by private equity and which has expanded through serial...

Rightmove says it’s now cheaper to buy than rent in each of Great Britain’s biggest cities, highlighting why many determined first-time...

NatWest Group has announced a new package of what it calls ”targeted lending and support” to help local councils provide more...

Average rents in Scotland for new tenancies in the private rented sector have risen by double digits for the fifth quarter...

The fast-growing Lomond Group has announced two lettings book acquisitions in the central belt of Scotland.  Lomond, which has made nearly 50...

One prominent part of the Lomond agency empire is rebranding to fall in line with a larger higher-profile brand under the...

Landlords wanting to make a healthy return from their investment should target student properties in the North of England and Scotland,...

Strathspey Capital is to become Scotland’s largest factoring business after acquiring Glasgow-based Speirs Gumley. Factoring is the term commonly used in Scotland...

An insurance firm claims two thirds of people’s typical budgets are too low to afford the average UK rent of £634...

A buyer has been announced for part of the lettings portfolio of Purplebricks, it has been announced today. The deal, finalised for...

Fast-growing agency network Lomond is launching its own national and regional market information - and it claims it’s using data rarely...

The Lomond Group has strengthened its position in Scotland by acquiring two more independent agencies and adding some 600 properties to...

The acquisition machine that is the Lomond Group has snapped up the lettings book of another independent agency. Lomond has taken over...

The fast-growing Lomond Group of agencies has acquired a major online lettings service. But it's going to manage the properties through physical...

A prominent brand in the Lomond Group - Linley & Simpson - has expanded its portfolio by over 600 properties in...

The fast-growing Lomond Group has consolidated its market dominance in Scotland by snapping up another independent. Lomond’s Stonehouse brand, which operates throughout Aberdeenshire,...

The man behind the Ideal Flatmate rental platform has now set up a Build To Rent portal called Your Place. All properties...

A leading brand in the fast-growing and heavily-funded Lomond Group has snapped up another independent agency.  Linley & Simpson has added another...

Part of the fast-growing Lomond Group of lettings agencies has signed a new partnership deal with a major football club. Stonehouse in...

Many of the country’s leading letting agency brands have joined forces with Propertymark to deliver a training and development strategy for...

The appeal of city living has been reignited across Scotland with new figures showing a surge in demand and rents for...

Rental market stock levels have plummeted further - even to below the pre-pandemic levels of late 2019. New research shows that in...

Large scale Scottish factoring operation James Gibb Residential Factors has acquired the residential division of Aberdeen-based commercial property consultancy FG Burnett. The...

More buy to let properties are being put on the sales market, despite the strength in the lettings sector, says Zoopla. In...

Lomond Group has partnered with PropTech player Goodlord to provide IT services across the group's brands, which include Braemore, Stonehouse, Linley...

If agents want to emphasise the green credentials of their local area, then a new league table may be of help. An...

Linley & Simpson and Lomond Capital - which joined forces at the end of 2020 to create a new national agency...

The lettings book of one of the UK’s oldest property and law companies has been snapped up by a firm in the...

Lomond Capital, which owns Scottish lettings and estate agents Braemore and Stonehouse, is to merge with Yorkshire firm Linley & Simpson. The...

A rental demand league table produced by a lettings management platform shows the winners and losers across the UK - and...

A series of fake scams allegedly advertising apartments to rent have appeared on Zoopla and other property websites. The Edinburgh Live news...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? My Name is Rob Trotter. I’m married to a vet,...

An analysis of buy to let returns from mortgage lender Mojo has produced a league table with no London locations in...

The number of new rental listings reaching the market has soared as much as 44 per cent in some areas following...

The average rent for a newly let property rose 3.3 per cent in the year to the end of February -...

A rental management platform has compiled a league table of where tenant demand is strongest for homes to let - and...

A lettings agency that launched just two years ago has snapped up an independent firm in the same city in a...

There should be open-ended tenancies with reduced rent for long-term contracts and any rent increase tied only to inflation. This dramatic reform...

A flat-sharing website has created a league table of average rents in locations surrounding the top-ranked universities in the United Kingdom....

The latest owner of a Belvoir franchise is a 31-year-old former part-time assistant at the company, who rose to office manager...

New data looking specifically at room rental rates suggest that across the UK rents rose by an average three per cent...

A former employee of Martin & Co has admitted operating a fraud scheme that involved agency clients paying money into his...

Rent in London is the most expensive in Europe for expats, new research shows. The UK capital’s rent averages US$7,189 - that’s...

A programme of nine new educational workshops takes place next month, some of which target new agents with little or no experience of deposits...

A software platform has been launched which allows Build To Rent units to be short-let on the likes of Airbnb during...

Edinburgh has been identified as having the UK’s fastest growing rents with the average annual sum rising by 4.63 per cent...

JLL has been appointed by Aberdeen Standard Investments to manage Aireside, a Build To Rent scheme of 107 apartments in Leeds. The...

Rents in the UK, excluding London, are still increasing but at their slowest rate for five years. Figures from specialist lender Landbay...

A respected letting agency research head says Build To Rent could be a significant step towards solving the overall shortage of...

A company owned by Lomond Capital has snapped up a Scottish lettings operation with an asset value of £45m.   Lomond owns Stonehouse...

Purpose-built and professionally-managed Build To Rent - until now seen as a primarily London phenomenon - appears on the march in Scotland...

Scotland’s rental market swings to extremes, suggests the latest figures from website Citylets.   On the one hand the Scottish average rent has...

Average private rents in Scotland at the national level recorded an uncharacteristic dip in the final quarter of 2016, down 0.9...

The average rent for a UK property grew by a negligible 0.05 per cent in October, despite a tiny fall in...

Location, location, location takes on a whole other meaning in the world of Pokemon Go - as landlord Eric Milne understands...

Tenancy deposits in England and Wales are typically £100 dearer than the Scottish equivalent.  Between June 2015 and May 2016, the average...

Tenants spend an average of 18 months in a rented property before moving on, according to new research by insurer Direct...

Average asking rents in Scotland now stand at £767 per month, up 2.1 per cent over the past year.  The exception to...

Typical rents in Scotland are down from £757 per month to £747 according to Citylets - just as the Private Housing...

Former Conservative housing minister Mark Prisk says the recent clampdowns on the traditional buy to let sector may end up helping...

With perhaps ironic timing, rents across some parts of Scotland are falling - just as the Scottish Government prepares to outline...

Who are you?     Michael Groves, Partner of Lomond Capital which is focused on bringing together good quality regional letting and estate...

A Build To Let scheme led by developer Dandara and property investment operator LaSalle is to be the first of its...