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16 August 2024
From: Breaking News
OnTheMarket has launched a new report giving details of real-time lettings activity in local markets across the country. OTM says that there;’s...
15 August 2024
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The government has won a landmark legal challenge against a freeholder forcing it to fix serious building safety issues in a...
13 May 2024
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NatWest Group has announced a new package of what it calls ”targeted lending and support” to help local councils provide more...
27 March 2024
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Winkworth is expanding further in Dorset, with the acquisition of Christopher Batten in Wimborne – its seventh office in the county. Christopher...
10 November 2023
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An analysis of lettings data across England and Wales shows that there have been 3,737 rental property repossession orders granted in...
09 August 2022
From: Breaking News
Bhavik Patel, owner of Nicholas Humphreys Southampton & Portsmouth has acquired independent lettings agency Harker and Bullman in Wimborne. This is the...
24 June 2022
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Airbnb is giving away £100 vouchers to anyone in the UK who shifts into the short lets sector for the first...
29 April 2022
From: Breaking News
A trading statement from franchise agency Winkworth has revealed that its network now derives 75 per cent of its revenue from...
12 November 2021
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Local media in Bournemouth report that a man was stopped by the police when he was seen after dark carrying a...
11 November 2021
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A lettings agency’s research has revealed that rental demand has continued to climb across most major UK cities during the third quarter...
05 October 2021
From: Breaking News
Rental demand has started to return to the majority of major UK cities during the second quarter of this year, with...
07 July 2021
From: Breaking News
A lettings agent has told the BBC that he has spotted illegal rental scams using online platforms, but the police have...
28 June 2021
From: Breaking News
If agents want to emphasise the green credentials of their local area, then a new league table may be of help. An...
22 June 2021
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Franchise giant Winkworth has opened a new office in the south west at Ferndown in Dorset. The office has been opened by...
03 June 2021
From: Breaking News
A quarterly index suggests that there’s been a sharp uplift in tenant demand for rental properties across the UK’s major cities...
08 April 2021
From: Breaking News
A rental demand league table produced by a lettings management platform shows the winners and losers across the UK - and...
02 October 2020
From: Breaking News
Who are you and what does it say on your business card? My Name is Rob Trotter. I’m married to a vet,...
22 June 2020
From: 60 Second Interview
Several local authorities at different stages of implementing rental licensing schemes have put their proposals on ice until the Coronavirus crisis...
30 April 2020
From: Breaking News
The Bournemouth branch of Martin & Co has acquired a local independent agent. Bullock & Lees, a local south coast firm, has...
11 March 2020
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A rental management platform has compiled a league table of where tenant demand is strongest for homes to let - and...
14 January 2020
From: Breaking News
The Property Franchise Group has issued an upbeat trading statement indicating that it’s mitigated much of the financial impact of the...
21 November 2019
From: Breaking News
As expected, the Liberal Democrats’ conference in Bournemouth has backed a motion calling for the scrapping of Section 21 - effectively...
18 September 2019
From: Breaking News
The Liberal Democrat conference, which begins on Saturday, is to debate a resolution calling for the scrapping of Section 21 -...
12 September 2019
From: Breaking News
An online room-letting platform claims rents have risen up to eight per cent in wake of the Tenant Fee Act. ideal flatmate...
11 July 2019
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A lettings agent who stole over £350,000 is reported to have been told to pay back…£1. Local media in the south of...
27 March 2019
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A free-to-use ‘Housing Early Prevention Service’ runs by a council on the south coast has been deemed such a success it...
12 February 2019
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An agency claims that the acquisition of a competitor’s lettings department has allowed it to save two companies, avoid cutbacks and...
31 August 2018
From: Breaking News
Sourced, which describes itself as the largest property investment platform in the UK, has secured its 25th franchise some 10 months...
22 June 2018
From: Breaking News
The cash value of tenancy deposits crooked landlords and letting agents have been convicted of pocketing in 2018 has already passed...
27 February 2018
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The sittings of the select committee looking into government proposals to ban letting agents’ fees levied on tenants resume this week...
19 February 2018
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The director of a lettings agency who who stole hundreds of thousands of pounds to spend on holidays and other luxuries...
16 February 2018
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Liverpool and Nottingham are the UK’s best performing property investment locations, according to mortgage broker Private Finance. Both cities enjoy average rental...
29 January 2018
From: Breaking News
Rightmove has revealed the locations where prospective tenants have searched for properties on its portal in 2017 - and the winning...
21 December 2017
From: Breaking News
Research by The Guardian newspaper reveals that massive numbers of local authority councillors are also buy to let investors - and...
22 November 2017
From: Breaking News
The National Landlords Association reports that Bournemouth council has taken the unusual step of rejecting a proposal to introduce a landlord licensing...
10 November 2017
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An estate agency in Bournemouth has amended an advertisement after a complaint to a watchdog about the absence of any reference...
27 September 2017
From: Breaking News
Housing association Radian is to build a £27m scheme of 113 Build To Rent homes in Bournemouth - its fourth BTR...
07 July 2016
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One of Belvoir's newest and youngest franchise owners has completed on a substantial acquisition to kick-start his new business. Luke Marchbanks, 25,...
08 June 2016
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A letting agency in Hampshire has doubled in size after acquiring one of its competitors. LetCo, a four branch agency working across...
01 June 2016
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One of the country's largest franchise agencies has announced that it is opening nine new offices. Belvoir has recently launched branches in...
31 May 2016
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Fast-growing agency chain Leaders has two new lettings and sales offices with the acquisition of Aidan J Reed's Leicestershire outlets in...
28 September 2015
From: Breaking News
A trio of recent acquisitions has ensured a national agency chain not only records its best ever annual growth, but also...