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Rents rose 9% on average in the UK in Q1 2024 compared to the same period in 2023, says flatshare site SpareRoom. Out...
16 April 2024
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The politician widely regarded as being the architect of rent controls in Scotland says he will shortly present a wider package...
27 March 2024
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Propertymark has urged the Scottish Government to resolve the country’s ongoing housing emergency. The news comes as Scottish Labour MSP Mark Griffin...
20 March 2024
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Fast-growing Lomond has acquired a rental portfolio of in excess of 2,000 units. It has bought Tay Letting and its rental portfolio...
07 March 2024
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Glasgow agency Rosevale Letting has significantly increased its portfolio of managed properties after acquiring letting properties from a competitor, Ross Sales...
28 February 2024
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Aldermore has named Bristol, as the best city for landlords to invest in for 2024. Manchester, Coventry, Brighton and London make up...
23 February 2024
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A letting agent who stole over £40,000 from her employer was caught when a bank queried the use of a company...
22 February 2024
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Glasgow has been revealed as the UK city with the biggest rise in the number of buy to let properties in...
26 January 2024
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Average rents in Scotland for new tenancies in the private rented sector have risen by double digits for the fifth quarter...
19 January 2024
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New rent control proposals put forward by politicians are unnecessary and too costly according to a leading property expert. David Alexander -...
12 January 2024
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A severe shortage of properties to rent, fierce competition to secure the homes that are available, and rising rental prices led...
11 January 2024
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A historic former school and hospital building in Glasgow City Centre will be restored as part of a plan to create...
05 January 2024
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The scale of rent rises has peaked with future increases likely to be smaller, says Zoopla. The portal’s latest report into the...
13 December 2023
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Low-income renters will get a boost next spring - but a pressure group wants more government help for this sector. The Chancellor’s...
12 December 2023
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A lettings agency has initiated new systems to ensure there is no repeat of a mistake that left some client properties...
08 December 2023
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New research has identified locations with the largest volume of available rental stock, based on those units at or below the...
23 November 2023
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Glasgow’s lettings market is the strongest it’s been in up to 10 years, with a shortage of rental flats driving demand...
17 November 2023
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Long established property business Newton Letting is rebranding as Rosevale Letting, following the conclusion of a licensing period. Former Newton employee, Riccardo...
12 October 2023
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The classified ad website Gumtree is issuing an alert about what it claims is the growing threat of rental fraud. It says...
05 September 2023
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Scotland’s largest letting agent had almost 40,000 viewing requests during July for rental properties in Edinburgh and Glasgow alone. DJ Alexander Ltd...
18 August 2023
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Rightmove is to provide agents with local market data and easier access to training at a series of Propertymark regional events. Rightmove...
07 August 2023
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One in eight tenants admit to letting out part or all of their rented property - and that rises to a...
26 July 2023
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Strathspey Capital is to become Scotland’s largest factoring business after acquiring Glasgow-based Speirs Gumley. Factoring is the term commonly used in Scotland...
26 June 2023
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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
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A buyer has been announced for part of the lettings portfolio of Purplebricks, it has been announced today. The deal, finalised for...
26 May 2023
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A seminar is to be held to look at the impact of rent controls on the burgeoning Build To Rent sector. Private...
28 March 2023
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London has continued to dominate the list of the most attractive cities for buy to let investment for the second year...
25 January 2023
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The largest lettings agency in Scotland, DJ Alexander Ltd, has opened new premises in Glasgow. It employed 20 people and lettings director...
18 January 2023
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New data from flatshare site SpareRoom reveals that rents reached an all-time high in Q4 2022, with the average UK room...
16 January 2023
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A lettings agency which describes itself as “ethical” has been honoured with an award linked to the United Nations. Homes For Good...
06 January 2023
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A prominent businessman has told the Scottish media that the country’s rent freeze policy has led to two major housing schemes...
29 December 2022
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The Lomond Group has strengthened its position in Scotland by acquiring two more independent agencies and adding some 600 properties to...
11 November 2022
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A property management chief has been disqualified as a director for 12 years after using his firms to take out £135,000...
25 October 2022
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A Labour peer who was to have invested £1 billion in affordable homes has halted his scheme because of the threat...
19 October 2022
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The Times says some Build to Rent investment has been paused as a result of the rent freeze imposed by the...
22 September 2022
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The acquisition machine that is the Lomond Group has snapped up the lettings book of another independent agency. Lomond has taken over...
22 September 2022
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The average rent in the UK has increased by £115 per month since last year, reaching £1,051 per calendar month according...
13 September 2022
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New research claims students in the UK are currently paying as much as £16,500 per year in living costs - a...
16 August 2022
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The fast-growing Lomond Group of agencies has acquired a major online lettings service. But it's going to manage the properties through physical...
10 August 2022
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Property prices in Birmingham are expected to rise more than any other city in the UK following the Commonwealth Games, it’s...
28 July 2022
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A prominent brand in the Lomond Group - Linley & Simpson - has expanded its portfolio by over 600 properties in...
27 July 2022
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One of Britain’s largest cities wants to regulate Airbnb and other short let platforms. The proposed scheme in Glasgow follows legal changes...
27 June 2022
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A leading brand in the fast-growing and heavily-funded Lomond Group has snapped up another independent agency. Linley & Simpson has added another...
27 May 2022
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A company providing virtual tours insists the technology delivers “undeniable results” but is still not used universally by agents. Virtual tours became...
25 May 2022
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Many of the country’s leading letting agency brands have joined forces with Propertymark to deliver a training and development strategy for...
19 May 2022
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The appeal of city living has been reignited across Scotland with new figures showing a surge in demand and rents for...
13 May 2022
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Airbnb is giving away £100 vouchers to anyone in the UK who shifts into the short lets sector for the first...
29 April 2022
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A prominent agent says the shortage of rental property is now so acute, and like to get still worse, that those...
24 January 2022
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The Lomond Group, already reported to be in talks to buy London agency Chestertons, has revealed it’s snapped up another leading...
21 December 2021
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A new Buy To Let ‘tracker’ from a prominent buy to let mortgage lender has revealed what it considers to be...
07 December 2021
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A lettings agency’s research has revealed that rental demand has continued to climb across most major UK cities during the third quarter...
05 October 2021
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Rent controls are to be introduced into part of the UK as a result of a deal between two political parties. The...
23 August 2021
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A new survey suggests Airbnb owners are charging over 300 per cent more to stay at their properties during major events...
30 July 2021
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If agents want to emphasise the green credentials of their local area, then a new league table may be of help. An...
22 June 2021
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A lettings company has paid an undisclosed sum - described only as “a six figure deal” - to acquire a large...
05 May 2021
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Scottish commercial property firm Bowman Rebecchi has announced an expansion into the residential letting sector with the Glasgow-based agency Newton Letting. Bowman...
04 December 2020
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The team behind Glasgow’s first major city centre Build to Rent housing development has announced another multi-million-pound BTR project. Kelvin Properties, which...
28 October 2020
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The investment arm of the Big Issue street newspaper is putting £3m into a new form of lettings agency. Homes for Good was...
02 October 2020
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A rental demand league table produced by a lettings management platform shows the winners and losers across the UK - and...
02 October 2020
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A major player in the Build To Rent sector has announced another large scheme - 346 units - on a major...
01 October 2020
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Zoopla has revealed its top 10 hotspots for buy to let investors seeking high rental yields. The analysis is based on rental returns...
10 September 2020
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A deposit scheme has launched a new service designed to help tenants and landlords who have experienced issues with rent arrears as...
28 August 2020
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A league table has been drawn up to show which large cities in the UK have the highest demand for investment...
25 August 2020
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A property management firm says there’s been a big surge in rentals with the majority of deals being completed using virtual...
19 August 2020
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New research has produced a series of league tables to identify where in Britain the best rental yields can be found. The...
23 June 2020
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One bedroom properties provide the best returns to buy to let investors according to new research by a lettings management platform. Single...
18 June 2020
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An analysis of buy to let returns from mortgage lender Mojo has produced a league table with no London locations in...
04 June 2020
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The number of new rental listings reaching the market has soared as much as 44 per cent in some areas following...
20 May 2020
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New research suggested that yields across the UK rental market are remaining broadly unchanged despite the Coronavirus crisis. The current average sits...
11 May 2020
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A project called NHS Homes, run by a number of suppliers within the short lets sector, has now made available some...
09 April 2020
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23 March 2020
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High-profile property management firm DJ Alexander is set for expansion following a £7m investment from Santander. The capital funding package will be...
22 November 2019
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A long-established lettings company in Scotland has acquired a three year old independent with a small portfolio of 45 properties. Riccardo Giovanacci...
21 November 2019
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A lettings agency that launched just two years ago has snapped up an independent firm in the same city in a...
15 November 2019
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A landlord who made a perverted request to take photographs of a teenager in her underwear has had his request for...
29 October 2019
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A huge US property investment firm valued at over $10 billion is entering the UK’s purpose build student accommodation sector. Chicago-based CA...
25 September 2019
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Young adults aged 20 to 29 spend up to a third of their pre-tax income on rent for a room according...
16 September 2019
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An online room-letting platform claims rents have risen up to eight per cent in wake of the Tenant Fee Act. ideal flatmate...
11 July 2019
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Institutional investment in the Build to Rent (BTR) sector reached a record high last year, according to fresh research from Bidwells. The...
03 July 2019
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Two housing organisations have come together to fund a major research programme to improve standards in the private rental sector. They are...
17 June 2019
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A slow rental market in London is weighing down on growth across the rest of the UK, according to the latest...
10 May 2019
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Northwood has snapped up two independent agencies - Northwood Warminster have successfully completed on the acquisition of Wilsons of Westbury while...
01 May 2019
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The senior executive who has bought out the lettings side of a Glasgow agency business says increased use of PropTech is...
24 April 2019
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A controversial new survey claims to have identified the best cities for millennials to live in based on factors such as...
04 April 2019
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A programme of nine new educational workshops takes place next month, some of which target new agents with little or no experience of deposits...
06 March 2019
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One of the country’s major Build To Rent providers has signed a deal to deliver 324 flats in a major city...
01 February 2019
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A new study suggests that rental properties now account for 40 per cent of the available housing stock. Looking at the final...
21 January 2019
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A lettings agency has been banned from running an Airbnb let in a residential block. It relates to a block in Glasgow...
28 December 2018
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The Scottish private lettings sector is on the march again with the latest index suggesting a 2.2 per cent annual rise,...
07 November 2018
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New figures show that the Scottish rental market returned to growth in September with average growth of 0.1 per cent across...
31 October 2018
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One of Scotland’s top lettings agents is warning of “an air of criminality” in the rental industry north of the border. His...
26 September 2018
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A two bedroom furnished flat can cost up to 21 per cent more to rent than a comparable property that’s unfurnished. Research...
24 September 2018
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A new analysis of rental yields across all of the UK’s local authorities has revealed exactly where the best places are for...
29 June 2018
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A letting agency says it is on course to manage 1,000 properties before it marks its tenth anniversary next year. Tay Letting,...
30 May 2018
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An agent has been banned from letting properties under ‘fit and proper person’ legislation in Scotland, following an incident in which...
08 May 2018
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Build To Rent provider Get Living has revealed plans to invest up to £180m in 756 units in Leeds. Acquired by Get...
29 March 2018
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Rents in Scotland continue to grow but the rate is slowing according to the latest data from Your Move. The average rental...
29 March 2018
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Build To Rent developer and operator PLATFORM_ has announced its first scheme in Scotland and an expansion of an existing development...