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A regional independent lettings agency has launched a new profit share scheme for its staff - but it’s keeping quiet on...

Propertymasrk has thrown its weight behind Lloyds Banking Group making £2 billion of lending available to first time buyers borrowing more...

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

Property professionals gearing up for the 2024 Variety North West Property Awards can look forward to a star-studded evening as TV...

One of the largest lettings portals in Scotland is warning that plans by the government north of the border to introduce rent...

Labour’s target of delivering an average 370,000 new homes a year could bring about a remarkable £161 billion boost in value...

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

A regional agent says the fear of further taxes on the private rental sector may lead to a spurt of landlords...

Leaders Romans Group has acquired Alan Francis Estate Agents and Lettings Ltd, a Milton Keynes company which has operated in the...

Automated rental payment platform PayProp has been named the Overall PropTech Company of the Year at the 2024 PropTech Breakthrough Awards. This...

Johns&Co, an agency specialising in property investment and asset management, is expanding into a new territory - Manchester. Since its establishment in...

Aldermore has cut rates across its buy to let and residential owner occupier mortgages - the latest in a series of...

PropTech management platform Lavanda is to be used to manage the vast 68,000-bed portfolio of Unite Students, the UK’s largest purpose...

Kate Davies, executive director of the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA), says rent controls are not the magic answer to problems...

Landlords generated average rental yields of 6.3% in the second quarter of the year, research for Paragon’s latest PRS Trends Report...

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...

Leaders Romans Group has snapped up Norfolk rental operation Dragonfly Lettings, as part of what LRG describes as “a significant step”...

One of Northern Ireland’s fastest growing agencies has acquired one of the longest running property firms in South Down and established...

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

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...

The John Lewis Partnership has received the green light to transform its Waitrose site in Bromley into a new Build To...

A lettings agent says ‘times are changing with deposits” and claims more landlords and tenants are choosing alternatives.  The comment by Paul...

A lettings and sales agency chain with 14 branches across the north east of England has committed to raising £5,000 in...

Connells’ new chief executive is to be Helen Charlesworth, who for the past eight years has been managing director at Stonegate...

The boss of a rental flatshare agency claims tenants are sacrificing summer holidays because of high rents. Matt Hutchinson, director of the...

Some 51% of young first-time buyers are willing to consider so-called ‘non-traditional routes’ to move out of renting and onto the...

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

A new agency - which describes itself as a “disruptor company” - says it will charge an all-in lettings and management...

Rightmove says the number of available rental properties is currently 14% higher than this time last year, while tenant demand is...

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

Agents are being urged to campaign to change Labour’s Renters Rights Bill to stop it damaging the lettings industry. Neil Cobbold, commercial...

A prominent lettings agent says banning agents and landlords conducting bidding wars for a rental property is not addressing the real...

London high end agency Eccord has bolstered its property management team with two experienced new hires. Steve Wilson joins as Senior Property...

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

The government’s renewed pledge to end Section 21 eviction powers for agents and landlords is fine, a leading industry figure has...

David Cox, the former chief executive of ARLA Propertymark and now a senior executive at Rightmove, says it’s unlikely we’ll see...

The average age of landlords acquiring new rental property with a buy to let mortgage has fallen over the past decade,...

New analysis from the British Property Federation (BPF) shows a dramatic slump in the number of Build To Rent units started. Although...

A lettings agency chief says there’s growing discussion about rent controls in his area - and he fears this may be...

Industry technology provider Reapit is holding a webinar tomorrow giving agents “an opportunity for savvy agents to unlock profits through tried...

Glenigan, regarded as one of the construction industry’s most respected insight and intelligence consultancies, says the sector will enjoy a long-term...

An executive with four decades of experience in the insurance sector has joined the board of accreditation service safeagent as a...

Hamptons, one of the high-end brands owned by Connells, had appointed Graeme Young as regional lettings director.  Young assumes responsibility for 14-branches...

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

Tenancy progression platform Propoly has announced three integrations with other PropTech services - Helpthemove, Zero Deposit and mydeposits. Propoly managing director Sim...

Paragon Bank has reduced rates on its core range of buy-to-let mortgages, taking 15bps off 10 products, in addition to launching...

One of the longest standing and best known lettings agencies in the south east has opened a new office in Esher.  Curchods...

A nationwide survey conducted by Leaders Romans Group shows significant concerns over proposed rent controls, property taxes, and regulatory changes. LRG this...

Regulation of lettings and estate agencies must be a priority for the government elected tomorrow, a PropTech entrepreneur demands. Sián Hemming-Metcalfe of...

Labour is likely to make rental sector reform and regulation a priority - at least partly because it will be low-cost...

Fines totalling £108,000 have been issued to letting agents and landlords breaching HMO rules in part of London.  An additional HMO licensing...

The result of the election isn’t likely to be a gamechanger for the housing market, a prominent business consultancy says.  An analysis...

A lettings agency which has given broad support to the Renters Reform Bill now says it’s concerned that shadow housing Secretary...

Propertymark has named its new ARLA leaders for the year ahead. They are:  - Vice President ARLA Propertymark: Kim Lidbury; - Vice President NAEA...

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

This year has seen a two-decade high of 181,000 first time buyers secure their first foot on London’s housing ladder, marking...

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

A female-run block management company says it’s achieved a 30% growth in its client base - and it doesn’t take kickbacks...

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

The Deposit Protection Service's charitable foundation claims that a significant proportion of tenants who have recently moved are cutting back on...

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...

Three directors from two letting agencies and a landlord have been fined £27,500 after failing to secure the appropriate license for...

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

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

An increase in property listings is helping to create a more normalised market which is a welcome relief to renters, landlords...

Leasehold reform still has a long way to run, according to the Association of Leasehold Enfranchisement Practitioners (ALEP). The major party manifestos...

Southampton council has approved a big new Build To Rent scheme on the site of a disused gasworks. Hawkstone Properties Ltd and...

Two webinars between now and General Election Day will seek to explain what the manifesto pledges mean for the lettings and...

Any lingering hope of a pre-election interest rate cut by the Bank of England has been hurt by the government’s Office...

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

The future of the UK lettings market will be determined by the July 4 election and now PropTech player Reapit |...

Over the weekend the Conservatives pledged that if elected on July 4 they would permanently scrap stamp duty for first time...

An accountancy firm is warning those using Airbnb and similar short let platforms that new tax rules mean they could lose...

The director of a London lettings agency says buy to let landlords are entitled to feel downtrodden but claims it’s still...

The franchisees of Martin & Co’s Rochdale branch have completed their first independent acquisition less than a year after taking on...

Zoopla says a prominent regional agency, Dowen, has returned to its site in a bid to ramp up its plans for...

Your Move – part of LSL, which last year underwent a radical restructuring - is trying to woo existing agents and...

Political parties should not allow the lengthy General Election campaign to delay work on a new and beefed-up Energy Performance Certificate...

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

London lettings and sales agency Martyn Gerrard has this month celebrated 60 years of fulfilling the property dreams of those living...

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

Internal data from Foxtons, London’s largest lettings agent, indicates sentiment may be improving across the capital as data shows a 12%...

Pattinson Estate Agency has taken the unusual step of saying it’s looking for rival lettings operations to buy.  The family-owned agency is...

Inflation figures are down - but not as much as many analysts expected. The basic Consumer Price Index figure fell from 3.2%...

A low profile family company called the Griffin Property Company has acquired Emoov, the online agency which was a pioneering name...

Half of all tenants who moved during the past 12 months found it ‘difficult’ or ‘very difficult’ to secure a new...

Build To Rent developer and operator Dandara Living has struck a partnership with deposit alternative service flatfair. Dandara joins other BTR operators...

Property consultancy Walker Singleton has acquired the book of business of the Boococks agency as part of its West Yorkshire growth...

An AI-powered Customer Relationship Management system tailored specifically for letting and estate agents has been launched by an individual agency.  Preston Baker...

The Property Franchise Group is to roll out a partnership with PropTech firm Coadjute TPFG, the largest franchise estate agency group in...

Some 50% of tenants who moved last year did so because their landlords decided to sell the property.  By contrast, eviction was...

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

The husband-and-wife directors of a Cornish lettings and estate agency have been disqualified from being company directors for a combined 12...

Savills has moved to a new office in Petworth town centre, from which its lettings and other services will operate.  Savills, and...

The agency Centrick has been appointed to launch and operate a new multi-million-pound Build To Rent development in Leicester.  Centrick will provide...

The pressure on rents for new tenancies in Scotland’s private rented sector have started to ease with all major cities now...

North east England operator Pattinson Estate Agency is taking over another local rival firm. It’s acquired NS Bennett Estate Agents, in Stanley,...

The trade body representing the Build To Rent industry wants to recruit people from that sector to sit in its board. The...