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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...

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

A government-supporting newspaper says the Renters Reform Bill will be back in the House of Commons next week. Observers have been expecting...

Propertymark has batted away any possible market pessimism as a result of a downbeat price index result from the Halifax  Just before...

Propertymark is urging agents to get ahead of the curve and be ready for the next big initiative - Regulation.  Propertymark has...

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

The government has written to Conservative MPs promising changes to the Renters Reform Bill to ease concerns over its anti-landlord bias. Jacob...

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

A council is considering borrowing £50m to buy properties to rent on the private market and for affordable housing. West Norfolk council...

Newspaper report claims some 710 properties have been put into the private rental market by the government - and they are...

Professional cleaning firm Prompt Cleaners has created a league table of regions and local authorities where renting is cheapest and dearest. The...

The city centre rental market, considered to be one of the industry’s losers during the worst of the pandemic, is beginning...

The highest profile agency in the big-spending Lomond Group has sealed a trio of deals in the first week of April...

The Yorkshire town immortalised in the long-running BBC comedy Last of the Summer Wine - Holmfirth - is the location of the latest...

Consolidation within the industry continues apace with the Belvoir Group acquiring the Nicholas Humphreys Franchise Limited in a move announced over...

Changes to electrical safety standards rules applying to existing tenancies came into force at the start of the Easter break and...

Knight Frank is this year’s headline sponsor of the LandAid Sleep Out, one of the causes many in the industry support. This...

An industry partner has donated more than £10,000 to local charities and community good causes over the past 18 months. Former journalist...

'Forward in Unity' is a mural painted by Gent48, a renowned Birmingham street artist. It's situated in the centre of Digbeth...

There’s been great work by Auction House over the past year, working with local charities at the heart of communities thrown...

FirstPort, the residential property services provider, has teamed up with The Turing Trust to help equip a new computer lab at...

Britain’s largest supplier of purpose-built student accommodation, Unite, says students are bored with Zoom and will return en masse to their rental...

A lettings agency has called in the police after a protest involving anti-agent activists demanding compensation for past tenants. The Eastern Daily...

A lettings management company has been selected by a Far Eastern developer to manage units on a new 756 home scheme...

The hyper-active Linley & Simpson agency group has announced its fourth acquisition since the lifting of the national lockdown. The Yorkshire-focussed company...

The rental market effectively disintegrated in the early days of lockdown before showing signs of a rebound which are still active...

Hello - we hope you had as good an Easter as possible in these unusual circumstances, and welcome back to work. Now...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors warns that rents are likely to stagnate for the rest of the year - although...

A Northern Ireland lettings agent is providing rent-free housing for NHS staff who have moved out of their own homes to...

Birmingham agent Bobby Singh, who runs the Love Your Postcode agency, epitomises the heart of the industry right now.  He has created...

A Wales holiday lettings agency has worked with owner-clients to offer free holidays to frontline healthcare workers when the crisis has...

The Coronavirus pandemic knows no boundaries - and that goes for those helping to fight it too. Medical staff from the UK...

The developers behind the prestigious Television Centre scheme and its nearby White City Place development in west London are showing support...

Working from home is all about juggling domestic life with professional activities, and here’s a terrific video to show what it’s...

“Communication is pretty much everything…” - that’s the key message from Tega Alexander, digital marketing manager at the up-and-coming Homesearch. Thanks so...

Here are two sets of advice from the good folk at Aston Mead Land & Planning - some more appropriate than...

The lockdown is now a fact of life across almost all of the western world so the team at Chestertons, which...

Home offices aren’t all about laptops and wifi routers….they’re about gorgeous views too. So thanks to Marc Morrish, a director and auctioneer...

For many this coming Easter weekend will be the strangest ever - for agents and industry suppliers it will not be...

A judge has ordered two landlords to pay a total of £14,858 for illegally renting out an unlicensed house without working...

Institutional investment in the Build to Rent (BTR) sector reached a record high last year, according to fresh research from Bidwells.  The...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is one of many industry groups in a new coalition calling for S21 repossessions to be...

A lettings agency owner in Norfolk has been arrested on suspicion of fraud and theft following a newspaper probe. Earlier this year...

A lettings agent says the fees ban expected to be introduced next year may end up indirectly helping to save the...

The police have launched a fraud probe against a Norfolk estate agency which closed in June.  The Eastern Daily Press (EDP) reports...

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

It’s been revealed that a church is amongst those owed thousands of pounds by a letting agent who has gone to...

A regional newspaper claims that a lettings agency has collapsed, its boss has gone to ground, and thousands of pounds are...

Rents have risen a negligible 0.9 per cent across the UK in the last 12 months according to HomeLet. The average monthly...

Letting agents have responded with enthusiasm to the government’s announcement over the Easter weekend that the industry would in future have...

The government has this morning - Easter Sunday - announced a crackdown on rogue letting agents in the shape of a...

A short lets management firm claims Londoners who let their homes over the upcoming Easter weekend could bag themselves a small...

Rents in the UK grew by an average, and tiny, 0.69 per cent in the year to the end of February,...

The government has pledged to begin a review of the selective licensing across the private rental sector once MPs return from...

Countrywide says the rapid growth in the size of the private rental sector in recent years is not down to a...

The number of EU nationals looking to move to the UK and rent has fallen in the year since the UK...

You might not want to read this as you’re tucking into an early Easter egg, but an interiors firm has compiled...

All good wishes for a happy and successful Easter for everyone in the industry from Letting Agent Today, and from our publisher...

No fewer than 14 ‘pop up brothels’ have been discovered in one seaside town in six months, with all of them...

Average rents across the UK are up eight per cent over the past 15 months according to Connells Group - but...

A management buy out appears to be on the cards for Spark Energy, an energy supplier to the lettings and social...

The Bank of England has released new buy to let mortgage underwriting standards which are expected to set out stricter borrowing...

It’s a particularly busy spring season this year - we hope that’s because of plenty of business coming to your agency,...

We hope you enjoy the stories on Letting Agent Today’s Breaking News section today - we thought it important to bring...

The controversial three per cent stamp duty surcharge on buy to let and other second home purchases will cause conveyancing “mayhem”...