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Johns&Co, an agency specialising in property investment and asset management, is expanding into a new territory - Manchester. Since its establishment in...

Figures from the National House Building Council show that housebuilding is currently running at only half the rate the new Labour...

Planning permission has been given to the biggest-ever Build To Rent scheme in Milton Keynes. A company under the name PLATFORM_ has...

The major Scottish agency in the Lomond Group empire - DJ Alexander - has snapped up Sandstone Management and its lettings...

A review of Edinburgh’s controversial short term lets licensing will take place this summer. City councillors agreed to publicly consult on the...

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...

Two webinars between now and General Election Day will seek to explain what the manifesto pledges mean for the lettings and...

The 85 branches of Spicerhaart have signed a three-year partnership with The Lettings Hub to use its tenancy management platform. Spicerhaart also...

Political parties should not allow the lengthy General Election campaign to delay work on a new and beefed-up Energy Performance Certificate...

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

Rightmove is rolling out displaying the new Material info Parts B & C fields on listings, following a number of months...

Despite once claiming it would abolish Section 21 evictions “on its first day in office”, Labour appears to have gone cool...

Rightmove is hosting a webinar tomorrow for owners and managers of lettings agencies, focused on growing their business to the maximum...

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

An influential Labour website says a raft of proposed reforms for the private rental sector will be unveiled next month -...

A new Build To Rent scheme launches in Manchester this summer with the first residents moving in during June. The Castings is...

Tenant reference and tech supplier The Lettings Hub claims 25 per cent of fraudulent documents submitted by would-be tenants were identified...

The Chancellor has used his Budget to confirm a 2p cut in National Insurance, from April 6. This will take it...

The number of private tenants in properties that are hard to heat has fallen, a council claims. As agents will know private...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? My name is Sara Stevenson. I am the Lettings Director...

A PropTech supplier this week hosts a free webinar for agents to shed light on the rise of attempted tenancy fraud...

Rhodri Evans, director of land and new homes at Andrews Property Group, has been named as one of several industry figures...

Agents, landlords and others’ views are being sought in a consultation on proposals to introduce a borough-wide additional licensing scheme for...

Rightmove has teamed up with the National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agency Team to create a new course on compliance...

PropTech service The Lettings Hub has announced a new strategic partnership with client accounting platform LettsPay.  This follows on from four additional...

The innovative lettings and estate agency Hat and Home has opened its fifth office - and once again it’s an unusual...

One prominent part of the Lomond agency empire is rebranding to fall in line with a larger higher-profile brand under the...

The historic Cluttons agency has moved its London office HQ to what it calls “a new prime trophy building.” It’s taken a...

Spicerhaart’s veteran chief executive Paul Smith is stepping back to concentrate on company growth - including the acquisition of more lettings...

Lloyds Banking Group has announced the lettings agency chain that it wants to look after its upcoming Build To Rent units. The...

Rightmove has launched a new tool to help agencies manage Rightmove training and make the most of the ever-growing range of...

Tomorrow sees the start of a month of webinars hosted by Rightmove to help agents understand compliance changes and how they...

Proptech firm The Lettings Hub has launched a trio of integrations - with Reapit, Home Telecom, and Live Chat software Tawk. Reapit...

There’s another free webinar for agents to learn about the Renters Reform Bill next week. This one is organised by lettings-focussed PropTech...

The fledgling Build To Rent trade organisation, called the UK Apartment Association, is setting up regional hubs. It’s already established ones in...

Agents wanting to get to grips with the Renters Reform Act are invited to a learning webinar hosted by Rightmove. It’s at...

Propertymark has recognised the Level 3 Certificate for Estate and Lettings Agents (CELA) offered by Rightmove. Both Propertymark and its training arm...

A new survey of lettings agents and landlords has put the reinstatement of Section 24 mortgage tax relief at the top...

A team managing tenancies across the UK has clocked up half a century of working together. The staff at Tenancy Management Hub,...

A seminar is to be held to look at the impact of rent controls on the burgeoning Build To Rent sector. Private...

Shocking new research shows that Energy Performance Certificates are inaccurate at best, useless at worst, and easily rigged. A Sunday Times report...

The Lettings Hub is celebrating its 10th birthday this week with 10 days of giveaways to customers, clients, employees, suppliers and...

Lomond, which in the past two years has made 40 acquisitions of mostly small independent agencies, has marked its second anniversary...

OnTheMarket’s software off-shoot - called, appropriately enough, OnTheMarket Software - is launching a new management tool that it claims is the...

A warning letter signed by 330 major players in the private rental sector has been delivered to Housing Secretary Michael Gove. The...

A prominent letting agent has written an open letter to Housing Secretary Michael Gove, calling for a halt on government attacks...

The relentless expansion of Lomond Group continues apace with the acquisition of a Leeds-based independent, ERE Lettings. ERE’s 600 units under management...

The latest update from industry discussions about allowing more pets in private rental properties suggests there’s not been a solution yet...

Lettings Hub says there were 91,593 cases of tenant application fraud in 2021 alone, with the most common form of fraud...

The acquisition machine that is the Lomond Group has snapped up the lettings book of another independent agency. Lomond has taken over...

OnTheMarket has rebranded the lettings software product it recently purchased in a bid to lift its profile. What was previously known as...

* Angels Media and Letting Agent Today are deeply saddened by the passing of HM Queen Elizabeth II * - Rightmove will host...

One of the industry’s most respected legal experts is staging a teach-in for letting agents ahead of new Right To Rent...

The fast-growing Lomond Group of agencies has acquired a major online lettings service. But it's going to manage the properties through physical...

A Build To Rent operator is cashing in on the surge in demand for allotments by creating mini-versions at one London...

The Lettings Hub has announced a two-year partnership with HooYu, a Know Your Customer specialist. As the deadline to end the temporary...

Next week a webinar will give landlords and other property professionals an opportunity to put questions directly to one of the...

Landlords and agents face a growing risk of rent arrears and tenant fraud because of the cost of living crisis. That’s the...

A consultation over the summer looks set to be the first part of a radical change to the structure of communal...

A leading brand in the fast-growing and heavily-funded Lomond Group has snapped up another independent agency.  Linley & Simpson has added another...

Many of the country’s leading letting agency brands have joined forces with Propertymark to deliver a training and development strategy for...

An agency tomorrow opens a new lettings and sales office in a location about to hear whether it’s won city status...

PropTech supplier The Lettings Hub has launched a tenant referencing service that it claims allows letting agents to conduct their own...

Rightmove’s April webinars for agents continue today with Daryl Mcintosh, Policy Manager at Propertymark, giving a legal and compliance update for...

Rightmove’s latest webinar tomorrow will focus on the revenue generation opportunities that exist at every stage of the process of letting...

A suite of new ‘pet-let’ products is to be offered by The Lettings Hub, which already has some 1,000-plus agents on...

PropTech supplier The Lettings Hub has launched a new Tenancy Compliance service through its pre-tenancy progression software, BOX.  The Lettings Hub says...

Gary Barker - the ex-Reapit supremo who controversially did not take up the role of chief executive at Boomin - is...

A lettings agency’s new website claims to offer increased support to landlords, tenants, and investors, “while cutting through the noise of...

Three Rightmove webinars in the next fortnight have significant interest for lettings agents. Tomorrow, December 1, sees Malcolm Driscoll, Lead AML Consultant...

PropTech platform Lavanda says urban property is changing thanks to the pandemic, and it tells agents, landlords and other providers to...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I’m Nathan Abbott, Head of Change Management at The Lettings...

PropTech supplier The Lettings Hub has announced a new integration with deposit alternative service Reposit.  Agents were already able to offer their...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I’m Vince Demilio, Sales Director of The Lettings Hub What services...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I’m Heidi Shackell, CEO of The Lettings Hub. How has your...

The independent Chancellors agency chain has signed an exclusive contract to use The Lettings Hub pre-tenancy platform BOX for the next...

Californian PropTech firm Trov, specialising in digital insurance for tenants, has announced a deal with major UK rental companies.  The deal is...

Keller Williams UK - one of the growing number of agencies to operate with self-employed agents working from a central hub...

An agency which has for the past 11 years specialised in south west London is now expanding with a new office...

Linley & Simpson and Lomond Capital - which joined forces at the end of 2020 to create a new national agency...

Rightmove has revealed its new TV advertisement, which it claims will reach 59 per cent of the UK during its campaign...

Rightmove says falling rents in central London have led to a surge in interest from prospective tenants. Rightmove has analysed over 23 million...

Movinghub, the platform that showcases a range of home moving services, is now available on the Reapit Marketplace app. This new Marketplace...

The Guild of Property Professionals and The Lettings Hub is to continue its partnership. Iain McKenzie, The Guild’s chief executive, says: “Having...

Industry supplier The Lettings Hub has launched what it calls a free to use pre-tenancy management platform for agents. Called BOX it...

Movinghub UK has announced its latest integration with Reapit. Movinghub allows agents to assist tenants and other home movers to organise services...

With the Government announcement this week of another national lockdown across England amid the surging coronavirus infections, it once again puts...

Brown & Co’s new regional hub has opened in Lincoln, which will be the new base for the company’s team relocated...

A senior lettings agency figure says virtual viewings have transformed the rental sector. “The increased level of requests for virtual viewings has...

Recent debate about urgent need for reform and better collaboration within the property industry, has once again come under the spotlight...

Rightmove is hosting a live webinar this morning to help agents protect and maintain mental health.  Agents will be able to watch live...

There’s been a flurry of new PropTech products launched, mostly focussed on lettings agencies. Australian-based supplier Movinghub, which works the UK market...

It’s been an unexpected year for the property market, shaped by the effects of the pandemic. We didn’t quite anticipate the...

A student accommodation search portal has speculated on how the sector could change in the long term as Coronavirus hits education. “Whilst...

Prospective tenants are increasingly searching for properties outside of commuter hubs and urban areas, according to Rightmove. Its analysis of over 60 million...

New research by lettings management platform Howsy shows which major London commuter hubs make the most attractive potential for buy to...

Registration is open for The Property Ombudsman’s annual conference, being held as a webinar later this month. The event can be watched...

The Lettings Hub is to roll out its Property Passport free tenant referencing product for letting agents. A beta test exercise already...

There’s no escaping team activity at epropservices - and in a good way. The company, which is the parent firm of The...

Hello - we hope you had as good an Easter as possible in these unusual circumstances, and welcome back to work. Now...