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Tax fears may drive landlords to sell this autumn, says agent

A regional agent says the fear of further taxes on the private rental sector may lead to a spurt of landlords...

20 August 2024

From: Breaking News

OnTheMarket launches new ‘time to let’ rental report

OnTheMarket has launched a new report giving details of real-time lettings activity in local markets across the country.  OTM says that there;’s...

15 August 2024

From: Breaking News

Ex-Knight Frank lettings bosses are new signings for Broker agency

Two new signings for the fast-growing Harding Green broker-model agency are both former lettings managers at Knight Frank. Milly Englander was formerly...

09 August 2024

From: Breaking News

Connells says: “No sign of landlords quitting buy to let sector”

In a statement which appears to go against the trend of much of the lettings sector, Connells says it sees no...

05 August 2024

From: Breaking News

Material Information consultation launches - YOUR views wanted!

Propertymark is today launching a consultation exercise, seeking the views of lettings and sales agents - amongst others - about Material Information...

02 August 2024

From: Breaking News

Ex-rental properties make up well over 10% of sales listings

A new analysis by Zoopla suggests and one in eight homes currently for sale were previously let out. The portal says this...

02 August 2024

From: Breaking News

Rightmove backs Labour efforts to turn renters into first time buyers

Rightmove has thrown its weight behind the new Labour government’s bid to help first time buyers - and it wants it...

29 July 2024

From: Breaking News

Rents rising in most areas as high interest rates hit long-term supply

Asking rents continue to show posi­tive, albeit lower, growth in most regions according to the property website Home. The site conducts a...

15 July 2024

From: Breaking News

Experts warn against corporates monopolising private rentals

The decision of property developer Berkeley Group to enter the private rental sector is bad news for tenants, it’s claimed. Berkeley plans...

25 June 2024

From: Breaking News

HMO sales agency begins UK-wide roll out in four cities

HMO Sales Expert, a 2024 start-up, has launched a UK-wide partnership programme. It’s commenced with Plymouth, Doncaster, Leicester, and Peterborough, and later...

24 June 2024

From: Breaking News

On-Sale Agency hosting Election Impacts Webinar

Fine & Country - the agency which was recently put up for sale - is hosting a webinar next week to...

20 June 2024

From: Breaking News

Northern Ireland joins The ValPal Network

We’re absolutely delighted to announce that, after 10 years, we’re able to expand The ValPal Network to Northern Ireland. Since our launch...

19 June 2024

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Material Information - PropTech tool launched to help agents

Reapit has launched a new feature to help agents comply with material information guidelines from the National Trading Standards Estate and...

14 June 2024

From: Breaking News

Agents’ Election Briefing - free webinar update on industry issues

The future of the UK lettings market will be determined by the July 4 election and now PropTech player Reapit |...

11 June 2024

From: Breaking News

Rightmove slams major parties for ignoring growing housing crisis

In an unusually outspoken intervention into the election campaign, Rightmove has criticised the absence of debate over housing. The issue has not...

06 June 2024

From: Breaking News

Councils ‘must take over ex-private rental Right To Buy flats’

A pro-tenant group wants the next government to take Right To Buy properties back to public ownership when they come up...

05 June 2024

From: Breaking News

Zoopla welcomes back regional agent as portal rivalry hots up

Zoopla says a prominent regional agency, Dowen, has returned to its site in a bid to ramp up its plans for...

03 June 2024

From: Breaking News

Forget party policies - check interest rate movement

A prominent housing market analyst says people shouldn’t bother reading election literature but instead study interest rates if they want to...

30 May 2024

From: Breaking News

Educational Video Series launched to up-skill lettings agents

The Guild of Property Professionals has launched a new series of educational videos for agents. The Guild’s Learning Platform serves as a...

30 May 2024

From: Breaking News

Most homes cheaper to rent than buy, even with large deposit

A third of homes currently for sale can be bought with a mortgage and monthly repayments that cost less than the...

20 May 2024

From: Breaking News

Agency snaps up lettings book as part of regional expansion plan

Property consultancy Walker Singleton has acquired the book of business of the Boococks agency as part of its West Yorkshire growth...

20 May 2024

From: Breaking News

Tenant Turnover - landlord sales and not evictions are chief cause

Some 50% of tenants who moved last year did so because their landlords decided to sell the property.  By contrast, eviction was...

16 May 2024

From: Breaking News

RICS: Landlord instructions in short supply as market slows

The latest RICS UK Residential Survey results suggests that tenant demand continues to lose momentum.  Alongside this, landlord instructions remain in short...

09 May 2024

From: Breaking News

For Sale! Agency with 42,500 units under management

It's reported that the Lomond estate agency group, which is heavily backed by private equity and which has expanded through serial...

07 May 2024

From: Breaking News

Agencies merge lettings teams and set up Joint Venture operation

Two agencies are merging their lettings operations and launching a Joint Venture company to enable continued growth in their respective areas...

16 April 2024

From: Breaking News

AI to drive new property marketing tool from agents’ group

The Guild of Property Professionals is launch a new Ezine system for members to market properties to let and for sale. According...

11 April 2024

From: Breaking News

Improving market doesn’t solve underlying problems - Propertymark

Promising figures from the latest house price index doesn’t mean underlying problems in the market have been solved, warns Propertymark. UK house...

04 April 2024

From: Breaking News

Long-established agency rebrands by taking parent company’s name

Burns & Webber, a long-established name in the Surrey property market, is rebranding by adopting its parent company’s name, Curchods.  The four...

03 April 2024

From: Breaking News

Renting cheaper than owning for most first time buyers says Halifax

For first time buyers, renting is cheaper than buying in most of the UK according to new data from the Halifax.  London, the...

27 March 2024

From: Breaking News

Material Information - new digital tool aims to help letting agents

The Open Property Data Association has released a new version of its property data standards framework to help letting agents comply...

25 March 2024

From: Breaking News

Surge in interest for energy efficient homes - Rightmove data

There’s been a surge in enthusiasm for energy efficient homes according to research from heat pump advocates OVO. It says that a...

20 February 2024

From: Breaking News

Union slams Bank decision as workers face high rents

A trades union has slammed the Bank of England over its decision to keep base rate at 5.25 per cent, saying...

02 February 2024

From: Breaking News

New Year Bounce - strong start to 2024 housing market says Zoopla

A return of pent-up demand and mortgage rates falling below five per cent have boosted the start of the year for...

29 January 2024

From: Breaking News

Recent rise in buy to let landlords quitting, confirms Bank of England

A new Bank of England survey has confirmed a growing outflow of landlords from the private rental sector since 2020. The Bank’s...

22 December 2023

From: Breaking News

Regulate Agents in 2024 - Propertymark explains why it’s needed

Agents’ trade body Propertymark says the current debate on the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill is another example of how agent...

22 December 2023

From: Breaking News

Fairer Rental Sector is key Propertymark demand for Budget

Propertymark has laid out its proposals to the Scottish Government ahead of its 2024-25 Budget next week. The letting agents’ trade body...

15 December 2023

From: Breaking News

How investing in a CRM is the best way to NTS compliance

I think we can all agree that the National Trading Standards Material Information reforms are a good thing for the property...

06 December 2023

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Trading Standards reveal details of new Material Information requirements

Parts B and C of the process to improve material information disclosure in property listings are published today within comprehensive new guidance...

30 November 2023

From: Breaking News

Foxtons Up For Sale? Shareholders put board under pressure

The board of Foxtons is under pressure from a minority of shareholders to put the agency group up for sale, according...

20 November 2023

From: Breaking News

Build To Rent problems highlighted in latest report

A new report suggests London’s Build To Rent sector is being held back by a “stark inconsistency” from local councils in...

15 November 2023

From: Breaking News

Foxtons figures fly for lettings, falter for sales

Not for the first time this year, a trading update from London-focussed agency Foxtons has shown that lettings is leading the...

30 October 2023

From: Breaking News

Surprise move by Propertymark, welcoming house price fall

Propertymark has cautiously welcomed the Nationwide’s house price index showing a 5.3 per cent fall in the year to September. It says...

04 October 2023

From: Breaking News

MPs back to work but Renters Reform Bill clarity still awaited

Parliament resumes today following its summer recess but there is still a lack of detail on aspects of the Renters Reform...

04 September 2023

From: Breaking News

Frantic landlord exodus leaves more tenants in situ during sales

A new analysis shows growth in the trend for buy to let properties to be sold with tenants in situ.  The analysis...

23 August 2023

From: Breaking News

Investor confidence rising ahead of tomorrow’s inflation figures

A respected measure of investor confidence says it’s on the rise as a result of growing optimism over UK inflation figures...

15 August 2023

From: Breaking News

Stricter EPCs - Rightmove warns it could take DECADES to retrofit

A new analysis by Rightmove suggests it could take literally decades for the private rental sector to conform with stricter energy...

28 July 2023

From: Breaking News

Kicked Out! Redress scheme expels five rogue agencies

The Property Redress Scheme has released its latest list of expelled agents - mostly for rental misdemeanours and/or failure to pay...

24 July 2023

From: Breaking News

Virtual auctions rule the roost as pandemic trend now permanent

The vast majority of auctions - widely regarded as a favourite for buy to let investors acquiring properties - are now...

14 July 2023

From: Breaking News

Rents edge above long term ratio to earnings says Zoopla

Typical UK rents now account for 28.3 per cent of average pre-tax earnings - slightly above the 10-year average of 27...

22 June 2023

From: Breaking News

Lawyer hits out at court delays and growing anti-rental sentiment

A seasoned property lawyer who has specialised in residential landlord and tenant law for 22 years says she is embarrassed at...

16 June 2023

From: Breaking News

Historic agency snaps up independent boutique property firm

Chestertons - London’s oldest estate agency which is itself up for sale - has snapped up a small independent. It has acquired...

12 June 2023

From: Breaking News

Portal claims industry-first over lettings numbers

OnTheMarket says it’s the first major UK portal to offer a dedicated contact form for Scottish Home Reports. When a property is...

07 June 2023

From: Breaking News

High rents push more first timers into buying - claim

The property market could be emerging from the downturn, Zoopla says.  Annual house price growth remains just 3.0 per cent according to...

04 May 2023

From: Breaking News

Sales market supply set to rise as more landlords quit - prediction

More property is likely to come onto the sales market in the weeks and months ahead as rising numbers of landlords...

27 April 2023

From: Breaking News

Rental market is badly out of balance warns agents’ leader

The number of new prospective tenants registering per Propertymark member branch held at 91 in February - very close to last...

23 March 2023

From: Breaking News

Former Purplebricks lettings supremo joins rival agency

Spicerhaart has recruited the former head of lettings operations at Purplebricks to a regional role. Emma Fagan will be the new property...

22 March 2023

From: Breaking News

Agents’ hopes rise for a soft landing for sales

“Optimism has survived another difficult month” says business consultancy Hargreaves Lansdown in response to the latest house price index.  Indeed, the industry...

08 March 2023

From: Breaking News

We Are Family! Father and sons take over agency branch

Father and sons trio Kevin, Lewis and Tom Dudley have joined forces to become the new owners of Martin & Co’s...

21 February 2023

From: Breaking News

Franchise giant snaps up long-standing independent agency

The Solihull branch of Hunters has acquired independent agency Searchers, which was set up back in 1995. Becki Dean, lettings director for...

14 February 2023

From: Breaking News

The top 5 things to prepare for when selling your business

Atomic Consultancy, the specialist acquisition management business, believes that 2023 is likely to present significant opportunities for those looking to sell...

10 February 2023

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Shock figures show lettings market running out of homes to rent

The availability of stock within the owner-occupied market is now back to a pre-pandemic norm, but the reverse is true for...

26 January 2023

From: Breaking News

Downturn? Maybe, but viewings are UP on last December!

Rightmove forecasts average asking prices will drop two per cent in 2023 - meaning they will remain higher than after the...

21 December 2022

From: Breaking News

Agent wants rental properties to have their own planning class

A prominent independent lettings agency says the typical tenant outside of London now spends 63 per cent of their household income...

09 December 2022

From: Breaking News

Rebrand in 2023 after agency group snaps up independent

Property consultancy Walker Singleton has snapped up the independent Daniel & Hirst agency in Yorkshire. The deal, which was for an undisclosed...

29 November 2022

From: Breaking News

New app and new feature for LonRes member agents

London property data business LonRes has launched an app. By downloading the app users can search for properties – for sale or...

25 November 2022

From: Breaking News

Buy To Let may be a busted flush, warns investment guru

A prominent figure in property investment is warning that buy to let is the sector facing the biggest challenges in the...

17 November 2022

From: Breaking News

Big rise in lettings enquiries to The Property Ombudsman

The Property Ombudsman has reported a big rise in enquiries over last year and a huge rise since the pre-Covid year,...

02 November 2022

From: Breaking News

Lettings bosses reveal climate change risks to industry

The Lettings Industry Council, a group of rental industry chiefs, has joined with other property professionals to reveal what they see...

19 October 2022

From: Breaking News

Rental demand to rise as first time buyers frustrated - Rightmove

The latest Rightmove asking price market report suggests that the biggest victim of the current market mayhem is the first time...

17 October 2022

From: Breaking News

Named, Shamed, Expelled - rogue agents thrown out by Ombudsman

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

04 October 2022

From: Breaking News

Rightmove tries to steady housing market nerves

Rightmove has issued a statement to agents to try to steady the nerves about the housing market following the government’s mini-Budget. Portal...

30 September 2022

From: Breaking News

Sales market now favours buyers - how will this affect rentals?

Zoopla is issuing a warning today that price cuts in the sales market are likely to hit pre-pandemic levels as affordability...

29 September 2022

From: Breaking News

Foxtons banks on new boss to return to past glories

Foxtons has issued a welcome statement to its new chief executive as it seeks to return to past glories. Guy Gittins -...

06 September 2022

From: Breaking News

Some buy to let investors get £800 capital appreciation PER DAY - claim

A high profile London lettings agency says some owners of properties in prime areas of the capital have seen capital appreciation...

21 July 2022

From: Breaking News

Beefed Up Property Details - industry bosses back call for Material Information

Senior figures in the agency industry have backed new guidance from the National Trading Standards Estate and Lettings Agent Team regarding...

13 July 2022

From: Breaking News

Trading Standards issue new guidelines for property details

The National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agency Team has published fresh guidance to help letting agents meet new requirements regarding...

12 July 2022

From: Breaking News

Backlash over wide-ranging holiday lets rules change

A tourism chief has likened new anti-holiday let regulations to those of a Stalinist dictatorship. Ashford Price, secretary of the Welsh Association...

23 June 2022

From: Breaking News

Lettings chief takes over at high-end agency which is still for sale

Historic agency Chestertons has appointed its long-serving lettings chief Richard Davies as its new chief executive. This follows the departure of high...

09 June 2022

From: Breaking News

Agent regulation needed on top of rental sector reforms - Propertymark

Greater regulation of lettings agents, and all other property professionals, is required to ‘finish the job’ of reforming the industry which...

26 May 2022

From: Breaking News

Higher taxes on empty homes? OK with us, says Propertymark

Propertymark says it welcomes measures in the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill that will mean swifter action to get the hundreds...

25 May 2022

From: Breaking News

‘Price on application’ in property listings deemed unlawful

The small number of rental properties listed on websites and portals as Price on Application have now been deemed illegal by...

05 May 2022

From: Breaking News

Rent to rise this year and the long term - latest market info

The latest market sentiment survey of the lettings market from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors suggests that rent rises will...

19 April 2022

From: Breaking News

Using more data makes huge improvements to lettings process - claim

Huge improvements could be made to the lettings process if agents used the property data available to them, it’s been claimed. PropTech...

30 March 2022

From: Breaking News

Agents should get fewer time-wasters if property details improve

The UK Association of Letting Agents says new requirements for additional upfront property information should end up actually saving agents time. By...

22 March 2022

From: Breaking News

Virtual Tours here to stay for renters, even post-pandemic

The growing importance of virtual tours for properties to let and for sale during the pandemic shows little sign of easing,...

16 March 2022

From: Breaking News

New Listings Requirements - lettings supremo welcomes compulsory changes

Theresa Wallace, the chair of The Lettings Industry Council, has given her backing to compulsory changes to rental property listings introduced...

22 February 2022

From: Breaking News

Agents Beware - compulsory new info on lettings listings coming soon

Trading Standards and the government have jointly announced compulsory new data which must appear on property listings. A property's council tax band or...

21 February 2022

From: Breaking News

New Hong Kong sales centre set to boost investment in London

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...

15 February 2022

From: Breaking News

Massive demand for pet-friendly lets, says Foxtons-owned agency

An agency owned by Foxtons says there’s been a 120 per cent surge in demand for pet-friendly rental properties since the...

10 January 2022

From: Breaking News

Expelled! Rogue letting agents kicked out by The Property Ombudsman

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

11 October 2021

From: Breaking News

More buy to lets being sold despite rental market strength - data

More buy to let properties are being put on the sales market, despite the strength in the lettings sector, says Zoopla. In...

30 September 2021

From: Breaking News

Generation Rent re-runs argument with government over Section 21

Campaign group Generation Rent, led by former Labour Baroness Alicia Kennedy, has renewed its call for the scrapping of Section 21...

27 September 2021

From: Breaking News

Landlord takes over branch of national lettings agency

A branch of national lettings agency Martin & Co is under new ownership. Landlord and property developer Grant Simpson has purchased the...

10 September 2021

From: Breaking News

Snap! Can YOU improve on this agency favourite photo?

Does this photo drive you mad? Do you see it everywhere (including on Letting Agent Today stories)?  Who are these people and...

08 September 2021

From: Breaking News

Viewings - lettings far busier than sales, says leading agent

Data from Leaders Romans Group shows that lettings attracted 5,941 requests for viewings in June – an average of 42 per...

31 August 2021

From: Breaking News

Clampdown on boards after code of conduct ‘ignored’ by agents

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

24 August 2021

From: Breaking News

Charging for Viewings? Trading Standards revises advice

The controversy over whether a new PropTech service can be used by agents to charge people to view a property to...

19 August 2021

From: Breaking News

Tenant Fees Act “does not ban charging for some viewings”

Guidance from Trading Standards suggests that it is possible, in some cases, to charge tenants to view a property to let...

10 August 2021

From: Breaking News

Virtual tours only on seven per cent of rental listings, despite surge

A 360-degree virtual tour supplier says there’s been a 600 per cent increase in use of the technology since late 2019...

20 July 2021

From: Breaking News

Live streaming app attracts offers over asking - claim

A firm creating an app showing live streams of properties to let or for sale claims one agency attracted 18 offers...

06 July 2021

From: Breaking News

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