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A council says it’s secured the first banning order in its area, securing a stop on a rogue letting agent renting...

A Labour council in London is seeking much greater control over the creation of so-called ‘small HMOs’. Lambeth council wants anyone creating a...

Ascend, which says it’s now the UK’s largest third-party operator of single-family Build To Rent homes, has recruited a new associated...

Fine & Country is holding a recruitment open evening in its flagship office on Park Lane in London next month.  Managing director...

A new lettings market index has been launched by the Skipton Group, parent company of Connells, the country’s largest lettings and...

Deposit alternative provider flatfair claims to have enjoyed a record-breaking start to 2024, forming 61 new partnerships.  These include Concept Estate Agents,...

Property consultancy Knight Frank has appointed Olivia Firmin as Head of Lettings in its Wimbledon office. Firmin, already an associate in the...

The Guild of Property Professionals has launched a new series of educational videos for agents. The Guild’s Learning Platform serves as a...

The failure of Labour and Conservatives to agree that the Renters Reform Bill should become law by July 4 has been...

Londoners looking to buy a home can expect to spend 42% more on monthly mortgage payments than tenants pay on rent,...

The latest market report from Propertymark’s lettings agents suggests the demand is slowing. The latest data - for March - shows that...

A lawyer says radical rental reforms proposed for Scotland - which could be a model for change in England and Wales...

Foxtons says it wants to extend what it calls its “full digitisation of the lettings journey” to its sales side, as...

Law firm Bishop & Sewell is hosting a webinar to give leaseholders information and advice about the Right to Manage, a...

Knight Frank has appointed Louna Del Barrio as lettings associate in a key London office. Del Barrio comes to Knight Frank following...

Housing Secretary Michael Gove has this morning announced wholesale changes to planning and regulations surrounding short lets. His proposals include: - planning permission...

Rental growth across prime London slowed again in January, with average rents falling on a monthly basis for the third time...

One of the highest profile groups in the private rental sector supplier space - Hamilton Fraser - is restructuring. In future the...

A Knight Frank survey of 50 house builders shows a staggering 70 per cent support for Labour to win the next...

The Property Institute has welcomed a Labour Party move to introduce the regulation of property agents across much of the sector. Tabled...

A free webinar for agents is being held next week, again devoted to the Renters Reform Bill as well as the...

An organised crime group involved in producing and distributing an estimated £2.4m of cannabis has been found to have e used...

Lower mortgage rates - still falling in the days since the end of the festive break - may be persuading some...

Two property company bosses have been sentenced following an Insolvency Service investigation which found they had abused a £30,000 Bounce Back...

An analysis of tenants renting between 2020 and 2023 shows a big rise in those on high salaries asked to provide...

A consultation to introduce boilers into homes and the private rented sector needs ‘more carrot than stick’ according to a prominent...

Portsmouth and Southsea lettings agency Chinneck Shaw has been appointed to manage the first purpose-built Build to Rent project from Ravelin...

It’s claimed that as many as one in five tenants has lost out in a rental bidding war during the last...

Knight Frank has bolstered its prime offering across north London with a new head of lettings in its Hampstead office. Jared Kilgarriff...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Gary Wright - Chief Executive Officer. What is flatfair and what...

Knight Frank’s Marylebone residential office has welcomed Luke Hewens as Head of Lettings. Hewens began his property career as lettings negotiator in...

A lettings and property management platform has broken ranks with much of the industry over the Renters Reform Bill.  While most agents...

Harlow council says it wants to take a harder line against agents and landlords who knowingly let unsafe and substandard properties...

A lettings service called Smarter Rent is partnering with agents and developers to provide what it calls ”“an innovative property rental...

Some prospective buy to let landlords may be about to use their equity to snap up investment properties at discounted rates,...

An established High Street agency has launched a “partner’ business model that it claims will be the future shape of the...

A respected measure of investor confidence says it’s on the rise as a result of growing optimism over UK inflation figures...

A law firm says the Renters Reform Bill is driving buy to let investors to quit because of their fears over...

Savills has announced a new head of its lettings department in its Bishops Park office in Fulham. Christina McLean steps into the...

High end lettings agency Knight Frank has appointed Andrew Twagira as head of lettings in its Aldgate office in London. Twagira joined...

Five regional police and crime commissioners have written to letting agents highlighting the problems of cannabis farms in private rental properties.  The...

A property law specialist wants a national register which would allow tenants’ histories to be checked before rental agreements are signed. Nyree...

A regional agent with 3,500 properties under management has written a long letter to Housing Secretary Michael Gove complaining about the...

Agents are being urged to sign a new petition has been launched on the UK Parliament website to reverse the move...

The Scottish Government looks set to extend its rent cap for yet another six months, despite widespread opposition from the lettings...

Housing Secretary Michael Gove says the long-awaited Renters Reform Bill, first promised in 2019, will finally be introduced into Parliament this...

After nine years with the business, Goodlord co-founder Tom Mundy has stepped down as chief operating officer. An official statement from...

Annual staff turnover in the property industry is nearing 30 per cent according to a survey by online agency Nested.  The most...

A proposal to introduce a national register of Airbnb hosts in a bid to curb rowdy behaviour by guests has been...

There’s been a 165 per cent increase in the number of private rental homes with an Energy Performance Certificate rating of...

OnTheMarket Software - part of the OnTheMarket Group - has launched what it claims is “an innovative new product providing website...

The Stirling Ackroyd Group says it’s delivered 20 per cent revenue growth alongside the opening of five lettings and sales offices...

Habitans Lettings - just two years old - has purchased the long-standing Heywoods agency in Newcastle Under Lyme. Established in 1881, Heywoods...

Keller Williams UK - which has seen market centre closures in recent months - insists that its lettings business KW Move...

Purplebricks has detailed the price it is paying for a lettings compliance blunder first spotted last year. It predicts that, at worst,...

The volatile economy is forcing small agencies and other modest-sized businesses to put on hold millions of pounds of spending on...

Three councils will be sharing £1.21m in public cash over the next two years to tackle poor quality properties in the...

Data from different firms suggest there’s been an upsurge in the purchase of rent protection insurance by agents. Firstly Goodlord and Vouch...

OnTheMarket is today revealing another deal for agents - and this time it’s with insurance broker Simply Business. There are four new...

The latest high end agency to predict the mainstream market next year is Strutt & Parker - and it’s less downbeat...

The time taken to introduce legislation reforming the private rented sector is triggering an exodus of landlords, a lettings industry chief...

The Keller Williams UK agency has launched an online learning platform for agents called KW University. A statement from the company says...

A group wanting pets to be allowed in private rental properties says its research shows the issue is not opposition from...

Wandsworth council in south London is considering a review into the feasibility of introducing discretionary landlord licencing. A statement from the authority...

Keller Williams UK, which recently announced the closure of two of its franchise operations, has bounced back with what it calls...

Leaders Romans Group has launched what it claims is its first sustainable branch lettings office.  Its Brighton city centre branch, operating under...

Knight Frank has appointed Sofia Lira Salas as head of lettings in its Hyde Park office in Prime Central London. Salas joined...

Fine & Country will be hosting masterclasses in October focussing on recruitment and retention.  Held in London and Leeds the sessions will...

The government is intervening further in the running of Liverpool council, which operates a controversial private rental sector licensing scheme. Housing Secretary...

Prime London agency Russell Simpson has announced Ed Woolgar as its new head of lettings, after 18 years of work in...

Knight Frank has appointed a new head of lettings for its King’s Cross office in Central London.  Chris Nguyen joined Knight Frank’s...

Propertymark has spoken out against a possible loophole that might allow tenant arrears to go unpaid in certain circumstances. The trade body...

Knight Frank has named Camillo Degregorio as head of lettings in its Richmond office in London. Degregorio started his career in 2010...

A rogue tenant occupying a property for up to nine months and refusing to pay rent could cost a combined £10,000...

Prime lettings agent John D Wood & Co has announced its new head of lettings.  It’s Tanya Hasking who is currently director...

Scotland’s new Coronavirus (Recovery and Reform) (Scotland) Bill - passed this week by politicians at Holyrood - represents a dark day...

Beleaguered landlords increasingly require professional assistance not only to manage their properties but to cope with the growing bureaucracy associated with...

An agency has snapped up its second independent in 12 months. James Douglas Sales and Lettings has acquired Leek and Weston in...

Part of the Connells empire, John D Wood & Co., is moving to a larger office in a lettings hotspot in...

OnTheMarket says its innovations with partnerships in the lettings sector have played a part in its successful growth. In the 12 months...

The sole director of a lettings agency, who was recently made the subject of an anti-social behaviour injunction and banning order,...

Two of the most respected figures in the lettings sector are calling on agents, landlords and tenants to consider the future...

Speculation is growing that a high profile former leader of the Association of Residential Letting Agents may become the next chief...

A lettings agency is in hot water with advertising regulators for using the phrase “What the flock are you looking at?”...

Industry trade body Propertymark says no Right To Rent checks will be required to be conducted by letting agents on Ukranian...

High end agency Knight Frank has made two key lettings appointments in recent weeks. Oliver Hepplewhite, already an associate within the firm,...

The lettings and management platform teclet, owned by OnTheMarket, is now available to agents and property managers in Scotland. The product offer...

A so-called ethical lettings agency run jointly by two local authorities is handling private rental properties but is charging landlords just...

An agency has secured what it calls the fastest ever letting of a mansion on the legendary north London street, Bishops...

A lettings agency says renters must pay an average of up to 77 per cent of their monthly household income to...

A new trade body is being set up which describes itself as a national network of property managers, specialising in the...

Bowmark Capital is selling its Leaders Romans Group, one of the UK’s largest property services groups, to another private equity operator, Platinum...

A prominent agent says the shortage of rental property is now so acute, and like to get still worse, that those...

London-based block and facilities services provider SBA Property Management has acquired management agency Paul Samuel Associates. A specialist property management firm with...

One of the most respected figures in British housing has joined one of the growing number of Rent To Buy companies. Lord...

The London and South East property group Stirling Ackroyd - which recently rebranded from its former title, Nick Dunning Associates -...

Property group Nick Dunning Associates, which includes the brands Townends and Regents, has rebranded to Stirling Ackroyd Group, effective from today.  All...

Savills says an increase in the number of new builds bought for buy to let and other property investment will help...

It’s been announced that UK Sotheby’s International Realty has secured tenants for 20 apartments in record time at Embassy Gardens, a...

Specialist property lender Castle Trust Bank has agreed a £13.2m development loan for a Build To Rent scheme within a mixed...