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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...

Some of the richest people on the world, who use London as one of their bases, are choosing to rent rather...

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

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

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...

New figures show the average inheritance tax (IHT) bill in 2021/22  rose to a new high of £215,000.  The number of estates...

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

Propertymark has struck a lukewarm tone in its response to Labour’s housing ambitions. The trade body says that to meet its manifesto...

Knight Frank has named Francesca Fox as Head of Super Prime Lettings in North London.  The agency says this newly created role...

Property data consultancy LonRes has named five winners in its so-called ‘Let Of The Year’ awards. The London-focussed consultancy has revealed the...

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

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

Housing juggernaut Legal & General says it’s now half way through a £400m Build To Rent scheme in Wandsworth, south London. It...

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

Birmingham property agency Davidson Estates has completed the first of what it pledges to be a number of acquisitions with the...

HM Treasury raked in £6.3 billion in inheritance tax receipts in the 10 months from April 2023 to January 2024 according...

Specialist property management firm Xenia Estates has announced a shake up ahead of entry into the residential lettings sector. Xenia currently looks...

Expanding agency group My Property Box has completed its 10th acquisition in six years, buying Teesside lettings and property investment specialist...

Arun Estates - parent company of 100 branches in south east England, including brands Cubitt & West, Douglas Allen, Pittis and...

A wealthy landlord who set up a fake lettings agency in Hull has been jailed for 11 years for allowing ‘ghost tenants’ to...

Figures released by HMRC show that the Treasury raked in £5.7 billion in inheritance tax receipts in the nine months from...

An organised crime group involved in producing and distributing an estimated £2.4m of cannabis has been found to have e used...

Airbnb and other short let platforms are from this week required to send data on their clients’ earnings to HMRC. And a...

The latest figures from HM Revenue and Customs show that inheritance tax receipts increased to £5.2 billion in the eight months...

The partners of high end agency and property consultancy Cluttons have announced the completion of a management buyout.  James Gray continues as...

Michael Gove’s Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill, currently going through Parliament, has won praise from the industry body The Property Institute. There...

The long-term shortage of rental accommodation is now addressed by a short-term clampdown on second homes and empty properties, a leading...

More multi-millionaires and billionaires are choosing to rent super-prime homes in London, rather than purchase, reveals a new wealth report Beauchamp Estates’...

Inheritance Tax totalled £4.6 billion for the HM Treasury between April and October - that’s £500,000 up on the same period...

David Wilson Homes has launched a scheme where prospective buyers who can muster a 2.5 per cent deposit can reserve a...

Propertymark has donated £5,200 to the industry charity Agents Giving, which works with lettings and estate agents to encourage, support and...

West Wales Home Rentals - part of an agency group set up three decades ago - has snapped up the property...

A lettings firm’s takeover of an independent rival agency is the start of a period of “exponential growth” according to its...

Chester-based Residential Estates, established over 30 years ago, has been rebranded as Guestz.  The firm says it’s from a local lettings and...

A landlord who is also the owner of a High Street lettings agency has been fined £17,293 for breaching housing licence...

Three property management companies and a landlord have been fined approaching £80,000 for health and safety failings. Mohammed Ali Abbas Rasool, Cadogan...

OnTheMarket has bagged Arun Estates, one of the UK's largest agency groups, in a deal involving the TecLet lettings platform. TecLet, an...

Oakfield Estate Agents in Hastings has snapped up a rival firm - Redwell Estates - in nearby Bexhill oil Sea. Neil Newstead,...

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

The head of a property investment firm has been disqualified from being a director for 12 years following the discovery that...

An agent claims that if Labour wins the next General Election there will be what he calls “misguided meddling” across the...

A new block of apartments on the banks of a photogenic canal has been given the planning green light - but...

A new dedicated Build To Rent company, Adler Estates, has launched in the westcountry. It’s part of the Eagle One group of private property companies...

It’s been revealed that agents have been kicked out of The Property Ombudsman in recent months for failing to pay compensatory...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Director Fariview Estates & Director keyhive.io What is ‘company name’...

Propertymark is one of three lettings organisations behind a bid to get a Judicial Review of the Scottish Government’s rent controls...

The Property Redress Service claims to be the largest lettings redress service now, with over 13,250 letting agency branches on board. In...

The Stirling Ackroyd Group says it’s delivered 20 per cent revenue growth alongside the opening of five lettings and sales offices...

The long-standing head of an agency’s property management and lettings divisions is stepping up to become a partner in the company. Andrew...

A lettings agency chief has listed how rent controls have failed across the world. Writing in The Scotsman, David Alexander - chief...

An agent operating an HMO on Deeside without a licence and breaking other housing laws has been fined £28,000. Flintshire council carried...

It’s being reported in Scotland that Propertymark, along with other lettings sector trade bodies, are seeking legal advice on that country’s...

There’s been a wide range of angry reactions to the Scottish Government’s passing of an emergency rent freeze and eviction ban...

Five agencies have been expelled from The Property Ombudsman scheme - all for compliance failures. The first is Home Trader Properties, in...

The shortlists for this year’s Propertymark Qualifications Awards have been announced, with four vying for Lettings Candidate of the Year.  The awarding...

Chestertons has named a new lettings manager for its Chelsea branch. Jonathan James has been working in the industry for the past...

Prime London agency Russell Simpson has announced Ed Woolgar as its new head of lettings, after 18 years of work in...

Dexters, the London-focussed agency, has snapped up a four-branch chain operating in the capital. Dexters already has 30,000 landlords on its books...

Samuel Estates, an agency based in south west London, has snapped up local independent Home Lets. Established in 2004 the first Samuel...

Six agencies have been excluded from The Property Ombudsman for failing to pay compensation to wronged complainants. One was the Belvoir...

The agency operated by the immediate past president of ARLA Propertymark has received a government award for its work with apprentices.  Maxine...

A prominent agency says it believes a city in northern England is the UK’s top spot for Chinese property investment -...

A newspaper probe has discovered that sow-called exempt accommodation - often for the most vulnerable tenants - has received a Hugh...

The former president of ARLA Propertymark has made an outspoken attack on the government for failing to regulate the agency industry. Maxine...

Housing groups have united to appeal to politicians to step back from new laws that threaten to “devastate” the number of...

High profile Welsh lettings agency Peter Alan has acquired West Quay Estates & Lettings as part of its long term strategy...

An agency in an Airbnb hotspot is offering incentives to landlords who switch from short lets to long-term mainstream letting. Dan Roskilly,...

A lettings agency is celebrating winning the obstruction to let and manage a 63 unit Build To Rent scheme for students...

Three organisations have written a joint open letter to the Scottish Government warning that the supply of homes for rent –...

The launch of a new collection of high end homes aimed at renters aged 60-plus has triggered enthusiastic responses from agents. Developer...

Expanding North East agency Hive Estates has acquired a Newcastle lettings business as part of its plans for growth - and...

Family-run independent agency Websters, has made its second acquisition in two years. It’s now snapped up Langford Estates, a Norwich based agency...

A two-branch lettings agency in Hertfordshire has ceased trading and says it will soon be placed into creditors’ voluntary liquidation. A statement...

UK software company Lavanda is working with a Middle East developer to export the concept of Airbnb-style short lets to the...

New measures to reduce the impact of Airbnb and other short lets in Scotland are “hugely disproportionate” a property group claims. The Scottish...

Two agencies have been expelled from The Property Ombudsman scheme for failing to pay compensation awards. Thamlet Estates, based in east London,...

A successful lettings and sales agency in Birmingham has doubled in size in its first year of business. Davidson Estates, which has...

ARLA Propertymark President Maxine Fothergill has lifted the lid on what is required of a letting agent holding that position in...

A leading agency handling international investors and buyers says Russians will displace the Chinese as the main purchasers of buy to...

Six agencies have been expelled from The Property Ombudsman for failing to pay compensatory awards - five of them for offences...

A London lettings agency - that has now entered bankruptcy - has been cleared of any involvement in a rental scandal...

New rules out for consultation concerning block management aim to improve professionalism across the sector, root out rogue agents, and increase...

The Property Ombudsman and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors are seeking views of agents, landlords and tenants on a new...

Flats, so long the favourite of buy to let investors, still constitute 15 per cent of all homes purchased according to...

The Merthyr Tydfil branch of sales and lettings agency Martin & Co has completed a second acquisition in 12 months –...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? My name is Maxine Fothergill and for the past ‘almost’...

An experienced buy to let mortgage specialist has completed on its largest and most complex loan to date — a £17.35m...

An anti-money laundering PropTech consultancy claims agents are in serious danger of non-compliance with new regulations, unless they ditch paper documents and...

North London agency Home Minders has acquired independent lettings and sales business Alan Goldin Estates. This transaction is Home Minder’s third acquisition,...

A London council has taken a landlord company to court after complaints of poor housing conditions in five of its rented...

A lettings company has paid an undisclosed sum - described only as “a six figure deal” - to acquire a large...

The Property Franchise Group has made another acquisition, this time in the seaside town of Weymouth. TPFG’s Martin & Co brand has...

Ascend Properties in Manchester has acquired another small independent agency. It’s snapped up Elavace Estates, a lettings management portfolio on Merseyside.  This follows acquisitions...

At least one lettings agency is on a list of targets for socially-distanced protests tomorrow by anti-eviction campaigners in the left...

Agents and other industry players have penned an open letter to government demanding a radical overhaul of targets for energy efficiency in the...

Foxtons says the reason behind its purchase of rival London agency Douglas & Gordon was to get its lettings book. The deal, for...

Manchester-based Ascend Properties has acquired independent firm NW Estates in Warrington, for an undisclosed sum. Ascend says the acquisition - which includes the...

A first attempt to regulate Airbnb-style short lets through licensing has been withdrawn. The SNP-led Scottish Government had drawn up a licensing...

A lettings agent has spoken out at a local council landlord licensing scheme, suggesting it might just be nothing more than...

Samuel Estates, a south west London agency, has acquired its third independent local firm in 2020. The latest to be snapped up...