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

Letting agents keen to scale their business fast are being encouraged to attend what the organisers call “an industry flagship event”...

Fine & Country is holding a recruitment open evening in its flagship office on Park Lane in London next month.  Managing director...

Development company Select Property has launched Select Residential, one of the first in-house lettings businesses of its kind by a build-to-sell...

A 20-branch agency focused on Surrey has relocated its flagship office in the county. Seymours’ new 3,000 square feet office space is...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has launched a new Residential Retrofit Standard in a bid to help the housing industry...

Fast-growing Lomond has acquired a rental portfolio of in excess of 2,000 units. It has bought Tay Letting and its rental portfolio...

London lettings agency Martyn Gerrard has opened a new flagship office in Hampstead, expanding its network across the North and Northwest...

Agents’ group Propertymark is discounting early-bird tickets for its flagship Propertymark One event. The day, run in partnership with Rightmove, is billed...

Propertymark is revamping the big London conference it trialled this year - and it’s fired an entire hotel for the after-party...

Savills has moved into a new office in Bath, occupying over 2,500 square feet in a prominent on a prominent shopping...

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says the Renters Reform Bill will be mentioned in today’s King’s Speech - and is part of...

John Lewis is pushing ahead with its commitment to build and manage rental homes as part of a drive which it...

Details have emerged of a flagship agent training event to be held later this year. Agent Rainmaker Live is to be a...

A Midlands-based agency is celebrating its 180th year with the opening of a new flagship office. Sheldon Bosley Knight has launched the...

Speculation is growing that the deadline for the private rental sector to meet new Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards for new tenants...

The new Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, says the limited cut in stamp duty in England and Northern Ireland announced in the mini-Budget...

Following new business wins, PropTech leaders Technology Blueprint Ltd now handles over a sixth of the entire UK’s agent-managed rental properties. After...

The Acorn Group has opened its 40th branch - and it says it’s on the look-out for new acquisitions, including those...

Another new Build To Rent scheme has been announced by Grainger. Launching next month, the 158-unit Gilders Yard scheme sits on the...

The Lomond Group - which has ambitions to become a national operation - has announced two further acquisitions for one of...

A developer says its new state-of-the-art sales centre in Hong Kong in set to boost Chinese investment in London. Galliard, the developer...

One of the country's leading agency groups has signed a multi-year deal with PropTech firm Goodlord.  Andrews Property Group, which has 49...

The government’s new Levelling Up White Paper, revealed this morning, includes a radical reshaping of the private rental sector. Section 21 eviction...

Two front line success stories in the lettings agency industry are to address a webinar on the importance of qualifications. Megan Eighteen...

One of the country’s largest independent agencies has emerged out of lockdown with a spring in its step, acquiring two small...

The government has been told it needs to provide tenants with better information about their rights and responsibilities if it’s to...

With the government already on the ropes over Brexit, there’s a call today for one of its flagship immigration policies to...

The High Court has ruled that the government’s Right to Rent scheme breaches human rights law. Under the Right to Rent landlords are...

A Manchester lettings agency has teamed up with a bank to fund entry into the Build To Rent management sector.  Two new...

A new investment company has launched offering what it calls “opportunities to invest in key residential and commercial developments across the...

The government’s flagship immigration Right To Rent policy is under threat on two fronts. Firstly a cross-party group of MPs has written...

The High Court has this afternoon agreed to allow a judicial review of the government’s Right to Rent policy. Right to Rent...

The Residential Landlords Association has reiterated its support for a legal challenge to Right To Rent which is to be made...

A young independent agency in Manchester is set to hit a £1.5m turnover target after just 18 months following the addition...

A final decision on the legal challenge to a flagship council landlord licensing scheme has been set for next Thursday.  The Croydon...

The council which became a standard bearer for so-called ‘landlord licensing’ - Enfield in north London - appears to have abandoned...

I write this article on the day of the General Election so you’ll forgive the political analogies. In particular, how any...