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A new partnership being launched today aims to see if the private rented sector can contribute to ending homelessness. It takes the...

LSL Estate Agency Franchising says it’s got “ambitious growth plans” for expanding franchisee patches across the country. In spring 2023 the company...

Leading property website Zoopla has delivered strong results for letting agents in the run-up to the busiest time of year for...

Propertymark is inviting letting agents to find out more about the latest legislative changes at one of its upcoming regional conferences.   As...

A luxury development of 15-storey and 45-storey towers housing 581 one and two-bedroomed apartments in the heart of Birmingham is to...

New figures show the scale of the rental supply slump in recent years. The respected Home website, which produces a monthly lettings...

One in 10 UK tenants are now spending at least 60% of their take home salary on their rent, according to...

A housing group is launching a campaign to recruit more young people to the property industry in general and the building...

OnTheMarket has launched a new report giving details of real-time lettings activity in local markets across the country.  OTM says that there;’s...

An agency has issued a statement massively congratulating itself on its own social media strategy. Fine & Country doesn't go easy on...

The Fine & Country Foundation says it’s reached almost £1m since its inception in 2014.  Jon Cooke, trustee of the foundation, says:...

Two new signings for the fast-growing Harding Green broker-model agency are both former lettings managers at Knight Frank. Milly Englander was formerly...

In a statement which appears to go against the trend of much of the lettings sector, Connells says it sees no...

The Bank of England has cut base rate from 5.25% to 5.0% - its first cut in four years. It was a...

A high end agency has created a new senior role to oversee co-ordinate lettings activities with sales, and oversee a raft of...

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

Fine & Country is expanding its operations thanks to two brothers. From Thursday this week the brothers James and Henry Carver, who...

Robert Jenrick, who was appointed Housing Secretary by Robert Jenrick in 2019, is to run for Tory party leader. During his time...

Actual lettings and sales clients were contacted during a training event led by a renowned property industry coach. Fine & Country hosted...

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

Zoopla is now describing itself as ’the official data partner’ of the Channel 4 programme ‘Worst House on the Street’.  Its data...

Letting industry doyen Valerie Bannister has celebrated 40 years in the industry with a party thrown by her employer, Your Move.  Valerie...

A new Renters' Rights Bill is to be introduced into Parliament, it's been confirmed today. The announcement was made in the King's...

Scotland needs to match Labour’s English housebuilding target to tackle the country’s housing emergency according to a high profile lettings agency...

Labour’s proposed planning reforms indicates that the new government is serious about change and grasping the nettle on housebuilding. That’s the view...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has congratulated Labour on forming the next government but says it must move quickly to...

Leading property players and analysts suggest that the lacklustre housing market figures produced by the Halifax over the weekend owe more...

The biggest rental sector headline from Labour’s manifesto may well be its pledge for the “immediate” abolition of Section 21 eviction...

Angharad Trueman, the group lettings director of Andrews Group, is the new President of ARLA Propertymark.  She says her role as President...

A lettings agency that works by giving a fixed rental income to its landlord clients each month, and paying for the...

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

PropTech - not more staff - can make letting agencies more productive and reduce costs. A new rental confidence survey of lettings...

The decision of property developer Berkeley Group to enter the private rental sector is bad news for tenants, it’s claimed. Berkeley plans...

Work has started on yet another Build To Rent scheme - this time a £13m project in Nottingham. The project, on a...

The next Government should create a separate Ministry of Housing and encourage MPs of all parties to work together to solve...

Deposit alternative supplier flatfair says it’s seen a 30% year-on-year increase in No Deposit tenancies. It also claims 14% more landlords are...

Fine & Country - the agency which was recently put up for sale - is hosting a webinar next week to...

A lettings agency director is suggesting the short lets boom may be over. Marc von Grundherr, director of Benham and Reeves, says...

Would-be buyers with a 5% deposit face paying £300 per month more in mortgage repayments than if they continued renting, says...

John D Wood & Co., one of the UK’s oldest lettings and estate agents dating back over 150 years, has expanded...

Labour’s manifesto, just released, makes a pledge to enact the “immediate” abolition of Section 21 eviction powers, along with other private...

Agents, and others in the lettings industry, have given a sceptical response to the Conservative manifesto and its varied pledges about...

The Conservatives have this afternoon set out a 78-page manifesto, of which just over two pages are given to housing and...

The Property Franchise Group, which calls itself the UK’s largest multi-brand property franchisor, says its merging with lettings giant Belvoir has...

Labour is launching a new Freedom to Buy scheme to get 80,000 young people on the housing ladder, over the next...

More details have emerged of the deal - reported on Letting Agent Today and Sky News on Sunday - for Property...

Citra Living, the Build To Rent offshoot of Lloyds Banking Group, continues with its growth strategy into the private rental sector. Citra...

The Property Franchise Group is buying the Fine and Country chain, plus the membership body the Guild of Property Professionals. The deal is worth...

Build To Rent provider Sigma Capital says it’s enjoyed a record breaking period of growth. Over 2023 and so far in 2024...

The chief executive of Goodlord, the prominent PropTech supplier to the lettings sector, has been revealed as one of the 121...

Propertymark has stepped into the row over whether there should be more controls over second homes, holiday lets and people from...

Letting agents are being encouraged to sign up so a mystery shopper can assess their performance. KnowYourMarket, a market research firm in...

A previously low-profile property and land research platform, has entered a partnership with Rightmove. Addland, which claims to have “a community” of...

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

A stamp duty cut in the run up to a General Election would see house prices go up and evictions soar,...

The Cotswolds is the most lucrative place in the UK to own a holiday let, according to Sykes Holiday Cottages. With annual...

The corporate freeholder which has been obliged to fix serious building safety issues at a tower block has issued a statement...

The government has won a landmark legal challenge against a freeholder forcing it to fix serious building safety issues in a...

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

An estate agency that promotes the self-employed model claims that three areas of the country lead when it comes to industry...

Propertymark has urged Scotland’s new First Minister to end the country’s housing emergency. John Swinney is now First Minister and says he...

It claims that “following a significant increase in the number of new homes advertised on the site” its new build listings...

A lettings agent who is also on the executive of Propertymark claims one of Britain’s tourist hotspots has been over-run with...

Fine & Country says it’s staging so-called Masterclass sessions with experts creating strategies “to help agents dominate the prime property market...

The Housing Secretary in Wales says that nation is unlikely to follow the example of Scotland by introducing rent controls. At a...

Citra Living, part of Lloyds Banking Group, is to bring more than 150 new family homes to the rental market in...

Winkworth has appointed an ex-Chestertons and ex-Strutt and Parker industry figure to recruit new offices to the agency’s network. Chris Brand, who...

A coalition of higher education and student housing organisations have called on the government to make further changes to the Renters...

Some 83% of estate agents are proud of their profession, says a new survey. The poll of 1,728 estate agents, commissioned by...

The chief executive of one of Britain’s largest franchise agency chains is warning that rents may no longer be able to...

Property investment and management company The Sourced Group says its new lettings division which “presents franchisees with the chance to generate...

Political parties should stop bickering and instead work together to improve the private rental sector. That’s the view of the Lettings industry...

Property management and facilities firm Pinnacle is to become the leading managing agent for Legal & General Affordable Homes. In recent weeks, the...

The UK's rental market is experiencing a slowdown says a lettings chief. Nicky Stevenson, Managing Director of Fine & Country notes that...

Propertymark wants the government to cool down on its enthusiasm for brownfield development. It says in a response to a consultation that...

Curchods is making a bid to expand its activities in the high end Surrey market with a rebrand of its latest...

The latest rental data from PropTech supplier Goodlord has shown that March rents are now up by over 6% year-on-year.  And looking...

Legal & General’s suburban Build To Rent business, called LGSBTR, has exchanged on 41 new BTR homes in St Neots, Cambridgeshire.   Consisting...

Promising figures from the latest house price index doesn’t mean underlying problems in the market have been solved, warns Propertymark. UK house...

Prime London rental values ticked up 0.3% over the first three months of 2024, according to Savills, as the market continues...

Tenant groups and charities reacted angrily over the Easter weekend to the proposed changes to the Renters Reform Bill being advocated...

For first time buyers, renting is cheaper than buying in most of the UK according to new data from the Halifax.  London, the...

England’s county councils want the next government to set out a long-term plan for housing, as a new report claims there’s...

A think tank is urging the UK government to consider tax perks for private renters to help them save faster for...

The largest lettings agency in Scotland says purchases by landlords and other investor buyers in that country have risen sharply despite...

Propertymark has urged the Scottish Government to resolve the country’s ongoing housing emergency. The news comes as Scottish Labour MSP Mark Griffin...

A former housing minister responsible for the sell off of huge numbers of social homes has told the Prime Minister he...

safeagent, the UK’s largest not-for-profit accreditation scheme for lettings and management agents, has appointed John Midgley as chair of its board...

Propertymark is urging the government to tackle the problem of banks closing down undesignated or pooled client accounts of letting agents. HM...

Hamptons has launched a residential investment department - and it’s using the sister Connells brand to give new homes more exposure...

A Parliamentary committee has heard that thousands of small and medium-sized letting agencies were debanked in 2023, with financial institutions forcibly...

Despite several fires in rented properties, the government is proposing to double the maximum legal power of e-bikes. A Department of Transport...

The PropTech sector has mostly agreed with the rest of the industry in its view on yesterday’s Budget - that it...

OnTheMarket is starting another round of its Town Hall in-person sessions - once again in a bid to win agents. Jason Tebb...

London lettings agency Martyn Gerrard has opened a new flagship office in Hampstead, expanding its network across the North and Northwest...

A figure in one of the country’s highest profile lettings companies has hit out at a government proposal to penalise the...

Propertymark has again urged the UK government to continue with its target of building 300,000 new homes in England a year...

Countryside campaigning charity CPRE has given a warm welcome to Michael Gove’s clampdown on short lets. Earlier this week Housing Secretary Michael...

There’s growing anger over restrictions on private homeowners using their properties via Airbnb and other short let platforms. Earlier this week Housing...

The trade body representing short lets providers and support companies has reacted angrily to government proposals for a radical shake up. Housing...