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A council says it’s secured the first banning order in its area, securing a stop on a rogue letting agent renting...

A relaunched online lettings agency operation is offering lettings listings deals to landlords from £39.50. The little known Essex-based Griffin Property Co...

A 101-home Built To Rent estate is being created by Barratt Homes in Cambridge, as part of a deal with BTR...

A network uniting so-called ‘ethical agents’ launches today with a promise to be different from the rest of the industry. The Ethical...

Second homes in the area of Essex known as Tendring - including popular holiday lets resort Frinton on Sea and the...

A series of new BTR schemes have been named by developers. In Coggeshall, north Essex, Vistry Group will deliver 36 homes, the...

Agency brothers Matt and Neil Baldock have completed the purchase of one of Chelmsford’s oldest letting agencies, First Choice.  The brothers will...

Elliot Leigh - an agency that is the largest guaranteed rent provider in London and Essex - has completed phase one...

Jackson-Stops has announced the opening of its newest branch in Colchester, Essex.  This follows the launch of its virtual office covering Stockbridge,...

Several lettings agents have been expelled from The Property Ombudsman scheme; they are amongst eight named as having been kicked out...

A proposal to introduce a national register of Airbnb hosts in a bid to curb rowdy behaviour by guests has been...

Independent lettings agents are being invited to book a place at a monthly networking dinner organised by an agency in Essex.  Matt...

UK hosts on Airbnb collectively earned over £1.5 billion in 2021 the short let platform claims. Some £668m of that was over...

London rents are rising at a record pace with growth being driven by tenants returning from outside the capital.   That’s the suggestion...

A new player in the Build To Rent sector says it’s targeting locations in the London commuter belt with chronic supply...

A new trade body is being set up which describes itself as a national network of property managers, specialising in the...

Three lettings agency bosses have been banned from being directors of companies for a total of over 13 years after being...

A local authority in Essex is cracking down on what it claims to be the increase of illegally positioned estate agent...

The director of a company targeting ‘flipping’ property investors has been disqualified from holding directorships for no less than 14 years.  Mitchell...

A lettings agency director has been disqualified for seven years after he emptied its bank account following its liquidation. Ghanshyam Sarup Batra, from...

A letting agent has been fined £11,500 for breaking HMO houses and fire safety rules at a property he manages. Agent Benjamin...

Leaders Romans Group has acquired another lettings agency - the fourth lettings-led acquisition this year. This time it is Guardian Residential Lettings...

Essex Police Force has tweeted a pair of photographs that go to prove agents should check a property before going on a...

A branch of Martin & Co has completed its second independent lettings book acquisition in 18 months. Martin & Co Chelmsford, part...

The takeover of Hunters by The Property Franchise Group means the combined operations will manage over 70,000 tenanted properties across the...

Back in March 2019 we covered the story that Weymouth council in Dorset wanted a landlord licensing scheme for a town...

New research has produced a series of league tables to identify where in Britain the best rental yields can be found. The...

The Property Ombudsman has announced the expulsion of eight agencies, all for contravening TPO codes of practice. Most of the expulsions were...

Hello: so much has happened since the last Conquering Corona column on Friday. Before we get on with it, a reminder...

Arun - which has the brands of Douglas Allen in East London and Essex, Ward & Partners in Kent, Cubitt &...

A lettings agency owner has spoken about his bid to restore his firm's reputation after it was destroyed by a former employee. Earlier...

A seminar roadshow has been announced for letting agents considering quitting the sector.  LegalforLandlords says it’s organised the six events after discovering...

An agent has been disqualified from managing companies for five years after she failed to safeguard £28,000 worth of tenants’ deposits...

The growing deposit alternative sector continues to be ultra-competitive with 15-branch agency Kings Lettings signing up to Zero Deposit. Kings Lettings operates...

The Property Ombudsman has expelled three lettings agencies from its scheme because of unpaid awards to landlord clients. The first is Kingsman...

The Leaders Romans Group has acquired yet another independent agency - this time it is Essex and Suffolk Lettings. Based in Colchester,...

Build To Rent developer Simple Life has launched 28 new BTR family homes in Newhall Harlow, Essex.  Part of a larger development of...

The Property Ombudsman has announced a slew of expulsions after six agents failed to comply with redress rules. They failed to abide...

The Mirror newspaper says eight members of the new Boris Johnson-led Cabinet are buy to let investors - and it accuses...

National agency Martin & Co has announced the acquisition of independent Essex agency Owen Lyons. Martin & Co Chelmsford owner Stephen Frost...

A managing agent and several landlords have been fined almost £5,000 after forcing tenants to live in unacceptable conditions in a...

One of the most pro-licensing local authorities in the country has extended its own scheme to include the entire centre of...

A controversial new survey claims to have identified the best cities for millennials to live in based on factors such as...

The Tenancy Deposit Scheme - which was hit by a serious fire at its Hemel Hempstead headquarters last evening - has appointed...

A property investment company operating a Ponzi scheme based on claims of capital appreciation and rental income has been shut down...

A London council has fined a letting agency over £10,000 for failing to install smoke alarms in a rental property. Waltham Forest...

An Essex council claims it is one of the first to be granted a rent repayment order - part of legislation...

Essex-based Balgores Property Group, which operates across that county and in Kent, has snapped up Woollens estate agents in Dagenham. Woollens has...

The Independent online newspaper says Conservative MP Gary Streeter will tomorrow meet with Prime Minister Theresa May and urge her to...

The local media in Bristol are reporting that landlords in the city are complaining that they face backruptcy if a hugely...

An agency operating in London and Essex has launched an online petition to oppose the ban on credit and debit card...

An Essex lettings agent has explained why he has set up an online petition calling for a reversal of the government’s...

A buy to let property owner has received a four month prison sentence for letting out a property he had already...

Letting agency Spicerhaart has been fined £2,670 after pleading guilty to operating an unlicensed house in multiple occupation.   A prosecution was brought...

Two letting agents who have run their town centre business for 24 years are starting well-earned retirements.   Nicky Nettelfield and Irene Brown...

Two lettings agencies have been expelled from The Property Ombudsman redress scheme.   As we reported when the story broke yesterday afternoon, one...

Two lettings agencies have this afternoon been expelled from The Property Ombudsman redress scheme. In one case, TPO expelled Lettings Solutions Ltd...

What appears at first sight to be a low-level dispute between a landlord and a council has raised what may be...

Strutt & Parker has launched a new corporate and relocation department for domestic and international tenants relocating within London and the...

Connells has appointed a new lettings area manager for Essex and Suffolk.    Tracey Dumont, who has over 17 years in the industry,...

Our latest infographic shows figures of how the majority of deposits are repaid at the end of tenancy and goes into...

Connells has made a key appointment to drive the growth of its lettings division in the south of England.  Stuart Cornwall, who...

A London estate and letting agency has announced the appointment of 19 new members of staff as a result of a...

Average rents for single rooms across the UK increased at a faster rate than those in London, according to spareroom.co.uk. The rental...

A local agency in Essex is accusing an unspecified number of rival firms in the area of not publicising their fees...

A lettings agency in south London has been found to be the front for a cannabis growing operation, with drugs grown...

Holly Pendred from Gibbs Gillespie in Uxbridge, Middlesex, is celebrating after being crowned Relocation Agent Network’s Employee of the Year 2015. The...

A letting agency has received a maximum £5,000 fine after apparently ignoring a request for information from a local council.  Hamlet Homes...

Rightmove says rents across England and Wales, outside London, are up 1.3 per cent in the past three months according to...

The Insolvency Service, which probes all compulsory liquidations and individual bankruptcies, has wound up two letting agencies.  Morgan Fox (Lettings) Limited, formerly...

Peter Savage is to become the new president of the Association of Residential Lettings Agents, with an emphasis on trying to...

A local council has announced its support for a new scheme which is aiming to improve quality of housing as well...

Some companies pride themselves on being able to accommodate customers of all kinds. “No job too big or too small,” they...

An analysis by The Guardian newspaper shows that 153 MPs from the last Parliament declared an income from renting out at...