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Regulation of lettings and estate agencies must be a priority for the government elected tomorrow, a PropTech entrepreneur demands. Sián Hemming-Metcalfe of...
04 July 2024
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Independent agency Henry Adams says it wants “entrepreneurs and business owners” to “explore new growth avenues” The company is seeking acquisitions, joint...
04 June 2024
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Your Move – part of LSL, which last year underwent a radical restructuring - is trying to woo existing agents and...
31 May 2024
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A prominent PropTech entrepreneur is urging agents and other in the property industry to engage with those wishing to introduce regulation...
12 April 2024
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A Parliamentary committee has heard that thousands of small and medium-sized letting agencies were debanked in 2023, with financial institutions forcibly...
11 March 2024
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Tom Davies has started with Leaders Romans Group as the company’s first group financial services managing director. This new position coincides with...
20 February 2024
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The Property Franchise Group, the UK's largest property franchise brand, wants to merge with long-time rival Belvoir. Both are listed on the...
10 January 2024
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One of Britain’s leading agents - former RICS residential chairman Jeremy Leaf - says he is seeing a change of mood...
21 December 2023
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A Belvoir franchisee has doubled the size of his business by buying out a local independent agency - his third acquisition...
16 November 2023
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A leading PropTech entrepreneur has written to MPs outlining detailed plans that he believes would ensure the controversial Renters Reform Bill...
26 October 2023
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Proposals for rent controls made in a government consultation document have been slammed by a prominent industry commentator and PropTech entrepreneur. The...
06 October 2023
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The apparent rise and rise of Belvoir Group is down to its resilient business model and the entrepreneurs who run its...
05 September 2023
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Franchise giant Winkworth is opening a new office in West Hampstead, extending its north London footprint from existing offices in neighbouring...
01 September 2023
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The head of one of the country’s highest profile franchise agency empires says the self-employed ethos of some advisers and entrepreneurial...
04 August 2023
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Huddersfield entrepreneur Chan Khangura has added another specialist lettings agency to his portfolio. With his father Kashmir he fought off tough competition...
06 June 2023
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LSL Property Services - owners of the Your Move and Reeds Rain brands - is to franchise its entire network of...
05 May 2023
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After announcing a new license in Southwark and Camberwell earlier this month Fine & Country is now expanding further in London...
30 March 2023
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The man who led the sale of prominent lettings agency Finders Keepers to Countrywide has landed a new role as group...
13 February 2023
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Belvoir Group is continuing its long term success record but warns that the Liz Truss mini-Budget is still having a detrimental...
01 February 2023
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A Belvoir branch has made its fifth acquisition - and this time it’s a neighbouring Belvoir office whose owners were retiring. Nathan...
22 November 2022
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The new Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, has been welcomed by the agency establishment - even though some may be wondering how long...
17 October 2022
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The Knight Frank lettings and estate agency is warning that it expects house prices to fall in 2023. Tom Bill, its head...
03 October 2022
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Another small independent agency has been snapped up by a Belvoir franchisee. The Lettings Company has been acquired by Belvoir Tunbridge Wells,...
14 September 2022
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A high profile PropTech entrepreneur is amongst a series of investors linked to a new fund, launched today, cashing in on...
01 September 2022
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A PropTech platform that boasts 200 letting agents and landlords amongst its current clientele has won over £500,000 in additional funding...
10 August 2022
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The sweeping reforms for the private rental sector announced by the government at the end of last week do not go...
21 June 2022
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Agents running their own businesses but attracted to the advantages of a corporate are being targeted by a new Business Integration...
20 June 2022
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The founder of a leading letting agency coaching organisation has won a coveted international award. Agent Rainmaker was set up by Sally...
03 May 2022
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Belvoir has announced its franchise of the year, selected from the 166 offices in its network. It’s husband and wife team Ben...
25 March 2022
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PropTech company Homeppl has launched two products that it calls “revolutionary fraud detection tools” for letting agents. One of the two technologies...
10 February 2022
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A new property management platform seeking support form letting agents claims to be the ‘Airbnb for shared living’. Vann Vogstad, the entrepreneur...
07 February 2022
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A Winkworth franchisee has opened his fourth office in the same region in four years. Jamie Moore has opened a new office...
24 January 2022
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There are fewer than 70 tickets left for December 7's rescheduled 25th ARLA Propertymark Conference and Exhibition. Originally due to take place in...
29 November 2021
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A new bank called Monument is aiming at property investors and established buy to let landlords seeking to grow their portfolios. Its...
09 November 2021
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It’s been announced that UK Sotheby’s International Realty has secured tenants for 20 apartments in record time at Embassy Gardens, a...
22 September 2021
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A Labour council leader has hit after being attacked for his support for buy to let and property investment. Last week we...
02 August 2021
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A letter from a tenant’s union is demanding that a Labour councillor “publicly explain” his actions as an accountant advising investors...
28 July 2021
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Winkworth says its London rental activities have suffered because of a lack of international travel, and students and young professionals returning to...
09 April 2021
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The extension of the furlough scheme might be an indirect saviour for many lettings agencies says a leading PropTech entrepreneur. Neil Cobbold,...
04 March 2021
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Letting agents should help landlords through a blizzard of red tape and regulation cause by local licensing schemes, a PropTech entrepreneur...
10 February 2021
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Today is the start of the official Christmas eviction ban ‘truce’ in the private rental sector - and it continues until...
11 December 2020
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A property entrepreneur critical of the quality of traditional buy to let says the government should create a Minister for Renting...
02 December 2020
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The business model underpinning most lettings agencies is set to change fundamentally if there is the much-anticipated second wave of Coronavirus. That’s...
01 October 2020
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A leading PropTech entrepreneur is warning agents to prepare for increased rent arrears from as soon as next month. Neil Cobbold, chief...
30 July 2020
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There’s a warning that buy to let investors will simply hold on to properties and not sell them if rumoured Capital...
16 July 2020
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The UK’s largest property franchise group says the current Coronavirus crisis shows precisely how robust its franchise business model is. In a...
22 May 2020
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A former estate agent who has set up an online platform giving information on property values for London renters and buyers...
28 April 2020
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Airbnb and similar platforms have seen a collapse of business since the start of the Coronavirus crisis with some 70 per...
02 April 2020
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Councils that have been awarded additional cash injections by government could use their windfalls to enhance their enforcement of the private...
20 January 2020
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Letting agents can beat the upcoming ban on Section 21 by updating key documentation and automating arrears management to reduce the...
31 December 2019
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If letting agents want more satisfied clients and fewer disputes they should provide better information to tenants. That’s the view of PropTech...
17 December 2019
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The London Airbnb property management company previously known as AirAgents, has rebranded as Nestor. Established in 2015, AirAgents went on to win...
28 November 2019
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The growing chorus of calls to professionalise the short lets sector has won influential backing from a senior PropTech entrepreneur. Neil Cobbold...
13 November 2019
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Belvoir has confirmed that its Brighton franchisees have acquired the independent Homelets agency in the town - for a cool £1m. Existing...
23 October 2019
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In addition to the apparent collapse of Upad at the weekend, there has been unconfirmed speculation about redundancies at a second...
14 October 2019
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North east agency My Property Box has announced it has merged with Sandersons Lettings, the firm which gave its founder his...
02 October 2019
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A call has been made for the best letting agencies and other rental sector professionals to show how they comply with...
01 October 2019
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A specialist student accommodation lettings and property management company says it’s preparing to grow through a series of strategic acquisitions. Bankers have...
25 June 2019
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Fergus Wilson, arguably Britain’s most controversial landlord and almost certainly the individual with the largest number of buy to lets in...
02 April 2019
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The mandatory Client Money Protection scheme membership that comes into effect today will protect landlords and tenants from letting agents that...
01 April 2019
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The tenants’ fees ban coming into effect from June 1 could help traditional lettings agents keep their place on High Streets,...
05 February 2019
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A leading PropTech exponent is supporting the government’s Housing Court initiative, suggesting it could make redress for agents, landlords and tenants...
22 January 2019
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A leading PropTech entrepreneur says letting agents must provide value for their landlord clients through technology, transparency and service if they...
03 January 2019
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Increased use of PropTech by letting agents can cut rent arrears, minimise voids and reduce the financial and legal fall out...
11 December 2018
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A leading PropTech entrepreneur says agents who accept that the lettings fee ban is coming and who plan positively for its...
27 November 2018
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The agency industry has reacted in a broadly downbeat way at the relatively few housing-related proposals that were announced in yesterday’s...
30 October 2018
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A PropTech entrepreneur says all agents would benefit from the introduction of more automation, but that those with student tenants may...
03 October 2018
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Another short let management firm, set up in the wake of an explosion of Airbnb-style renting by amateurs and professionals, is...
17 September 2018
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The emerging Proptech platform BestAgent has announced its latest partnership - this one is with InventoryBase, a software supplier which has...
10 August 2018
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A lettings agency has teamed up with a university to give young students an insight into how small businesses operate. Priestley’s, a...
07 August 2018
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A leading PropTech entrepreneur says lettings agents should be more vocal in providing the government with feedback on council rental licensing...
03 August 2018
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Air Agents, a London Airbnb Management company, has signed what it calls “a significant investment deal” with BBC Dragon’s Den entrepreneur...
16 July 2018
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Channel 4’s hit comedy Stath Lets Flats shows the funny side of running a lettings agency but one of the country’s...
12 July 2018
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Propio, another crowdfunding platform, has launched with the ambitious claim of expecting returns from residential investments of between six and 15...
21 June 2018
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A leading PropTech entrepreneur has renewed his call for letting agents to use more technology to clean up their act when...
05 June 2018
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A leading PropTech entrepreneur says he welcomes reforms currently moving through Parliament to professionalise the lettings sector - but he wants...
09 May 2018
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The government says that later this year it will allocate a further £1.4m to PropTech firms looking at how tenants’ rent...
21 March 2018
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PropTech repairs company Fixflo has appointed digital guru Michael Murphy as non-executive chairman. Murphy has previously worked in high-growth and digital subscription...
19 February 2018
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A new website called Vesta has launched aiming to sell investment properties with tenants in place. The team behind the site describe...
08 February 2018
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The chief operating officer of a leading PropTech company says government proposals to increase mandatory licensing of Houses in Multiple Occupation...
25 January 2018
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The troubled PropTech firm Goodlord - which creates software to allow tenancies to be handled on a single system - has...
16 January 2018
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The government is offering £2m to budding PropTech and financial technology entrepreneurs who can develop an application that will enable Britain’s 11...
07 December 2017
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Property investment platform LendInvest has raised £50m thanks to the over-subscription of its first retail bond, launched on the London Stock...
11 August 2017
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One of the world’s largest ‘temporary furnished accommodation’ specialists is reported to have £20m to spend on renting property to re-let...
03 February 2017
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The rural agency team at Bidwells says it is concerned the Conservative government may - by accident or design - be...
15 December 2015
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The property crowdfunding platform The House Crowd - which was the subject of derision by the entrepreneurs on TV’s Dragon’s Den...
02 November 2015
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Former Conservative cabinet minister Michael Portillo and the woman behind one of the world’s most successful fragrance brands, Jo Malone, are...