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The latest rental market survey by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors suggests there’s still a significant mismatch between supply and...

The BBC is reporting that councillors in Manchester have launched a series of attacks on users of Airbnb and other short...

Jones Robinson, a lettings and sales agency in Wiltshire, Berkshire and Oxfordshire, has snapped up Manningford Croft, a rival operation in...

The latest RICS UK Residential Survey results suggests that tenant demand continues to lose momentum.  Alongside this, landlord instructions remain in short...

The ESTAS awards event in October has a new principal partner. It’s Landmark Information Group, which includes Landmark Estate Agency Services, Searchflow,...

Today’s new market snapshot from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors shows tenant demand rising but at a rather more modest...

Scottish councils must engage with letting agents and landlords if radical rental reforms have any chance of working. Propertymark argues that the...

Midlands-based land and property company Sheldon Bosley Knight has made another lettings acquisition - its fifth in 2023. Leicestershire-based Andrew Granger &...

A leading agent has welcomed the dramatic U turn by the government on how it is to meet its net zero...

There’s a blunt warning to renters this morning from the man behind the monthly lettings market snapshot from the Royal Institution...

The auction - often seen as an ideal opportunity for investment buyers - is going through a torrid time in the...

Investors looking to add to their portfolios in 2023 should be urged to consider student housing opportunities, according to a Newcastle...

Several lettings agents have been expelled from The Property Ombudsman scheme; they are amongst eight named as having been kicked out...

Newcastle-based lettings agency Seekers is backing a clean air zone in its city.  The agency’s two cars, both Volkswagen ID-3s, are part...

A north of England lettings agency has rebranded after two decades. Walton Robinson - which specialises in residential lettings for students, professionals...

Newcastle-based agency Walton Robinson is offering a buy to let property sourcing service.  This year, the agency claims it’s secured rental increases...

Student landlords have seen record increases in rental prices of over 20 per cent in some cases, according to a lettings...

An apprentice working at Newcastle’s Walton Robinson agency has revealed why she believes it’s her dream job. The agency specialises in residential...

A property management company has been punished with a hefty fine for failing to both clear up and also keep free...

A north of England lettings agency has successfully qualified five members of its staff through The Able Agent training programme. The agency...

A north of England agency is going green as it replaces its existing car fleet electric vehicles. The purchase of two Volkswagen...

Letting agency growth experts are set to take to the virtual stage and use the latest tech to share their insights...

Agent Rainmaker is holding another of its ARX Mastery events, in a bid to promote growth in the lettings agency sector...

Flatfair has named a series of agents now signed up to its deposit alternative products. These include Jones Robinson, Haslams, Andrew Craig,...

A Newcastle lettings agency says it’s cracked how to help reduce tenancy disputes at check out and speed up the return...

The once-popular idea of parents buying a property for their offspring to use while at university, and then letting it to other...

A north of England lettings agency is claiming an all-time record for enquiries relating to student accommodation - and the biggest...

A bizarre fine imposed on a managing agent by a local authority appears to have been reversed because the council flouted...

If you haven’t been to the Agent Rainmaker LIVE event before, then it is pretty difficult to explain how this event...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? My name is Maxine Fothergill and for the past ‘almost’...

A Labour council in London is taking the unusual measure of threatening landlords with community protection notices - associated with anti-social...

There could be 700,000 private tenants in arrears by the end of this year - an unsustainable burden on agents and landlords,...

You don’t need to be Greta Thunberg to know that climate change is a big issue that’s impacting our day-to-day lives....

If you think 2020 has been complicated, just wait until 2021: that’s the claim of a rental guarantor service which warns...

A major north of England local authority wants to introduce landlord licensing for HMOs where three or four tenants live, following analysis...

A rent guarantor service says the rental sector has investors and landlords who are happy for tenants to defer rent payments...

Private rents are expected to fall across the UK in the coming three months, but stabilise over the course of the...

Have you heard of Psych? No, me neither - but that’s our loss according to the London team of Auction House.  The...

Hello and welcome to the latest edition of Conquering Corona, our daily update helping the industry cope with the current crisis. If...

Zoopla is beefing up its customer relationship management programme with the appointment of RAPP UK to evolve the portal’s data infrastructure...

A group of landlords in the North East are the latest to criticise Labour's plans to introduce a Right to Buy...

A rogue landlord who housed more than 25 tenants in a rundown property has been found guilty of serious housing and...

A rent guarantor service says it’s already chosen 25 lettings agents to take part in a trial of what it calls...

A lettings agency in the West Midlands is reported to have closed its two offices at short notice, leaving clients angry...

A rent guarantor provider claims that deposits which prospective tenants are required to pay are often reduced if such a service...

The Association of Residential Lettings Agents says it backs a new Trading Standards-led body which will enforce the Fees Ban starting  on...

The Money Laundering Regulations require estate agents to risk assess their business relationships and apply an appropriate level of investigation to...

An overcrowded property let by an unlicensed company with inadequate fire precautions and unheated rooms has led to a £46,620 fine...

It is now just three weeks until licensing of Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMO) is extended. The new rules, which will require...

In 2014 The Properties Misdescriptions Act was repealed and replaced with the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations, otherwise known as...

The Money Laundering Regulations 2017 require estate agents to risk assess their business relationships and apply an appropriate level of investigation...

Councillors in Stockton-on-Tees are under pressure to rethink plans to introduce Selective Licensing of private rented housing in two areas of...

Three agencies have been heavily fined after a property in London was being used for multiple occupation with 11 people living...

The Money Laundering Regulations 2017 require estate agents to risk assess their business relationships and apply an appropriate level of investigation...

The Money Laundering Regulations 2017 require estate agents to risk assess their business relationships and apply an appropriate level of investigation...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Ben Robinson, Director of Agency Services at Landmark What is Landmark...

A former councillor says letting agents should be responsible for ensuring student tenants know how to organise their bins in a...

Police officers have seized well over £6,000 worth of cannabis and drug manufacturing equipment after being tipped off by a letting...

Some 61 per cent of chartered surveyors believe there will be a net exodus of landlords over the coming year thanks...

Two independent agencies in Newbury are merging.    After a 40 year career in agency, Jeffery Brown from Atkinson Keene decided to retire...

A total of 17 letting agencies have signed up to a rental charter set up by a Labour MP.   Alan Whitehead, Labour...

Annoying isn’t it. You take on a stunning property, agree a compelling asking price and your Vendor is desperate to get the...

A rogue landlord faces a court bill of almost £40,000 after being caught cramming 24 people into a house in north...

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

Two professional property investors are giving away a Manchester flat valued at £110,000 in a protest against Chancellor George Osborne’s attacks...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors is predicting that rents are likely to increase even faster than house prices in the...

A letting agency has announced that it has formed a partnership with a heating installer to provide support for its managed...

A landlord has been prosecuted and fined for failing to carry out vital works on his rental property.  Victor Robbins of Leigh-on-Sea,...