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One of the UK’s most high profile lettings agents is calling on politicians to change course on rent controls. David Alexander of...

A report from Propertymark has laid out the stark and in some cases unforeseen consequence of the Conservative government’s phased removal...

London high end agency Eccord has bolstered its property management team with two experienced new hires. Steve Wilson joins as Senior Property...

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

A prominent lettings expert and former president of ARLA Propertymark has berated agents who advertise ‘free valuations.’ Sally Lawson, now well known...

Agents have expressed their anger at permanent rent controls proposed by the SNP and Green Party politicians running the Scottish Government. The...

Hamptons has launched a residential investment department - and it’s using the sister Connells brand to give new homes more exposure...

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

Just weeks after announcing that it was launching a new residential lettings and property management division, regional agency Dacre, Son &...

Glasgow agency Rosevale Letting has significantly increased its portfolio of managed properties after acquiring letting properties from a competitor, Ross Sales...

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

A new report suggests that past impressions of Build To Rent and other institution-funded rental units as expensive and concentrating on...

Major regional independent agency Dacre, Son & Hartley is expanding its offering by re-entering the residential lettings and property management market...

Glasgow has been revealed as the UK city with the biggest rise in the number of buy to let properties in...

There are growing fears that the hoped-for Bank of England base rate cut this spring - the first off possibly several...

Online rental platform Lettingaproperty is telling landlords to take a strategic approach to property management in 2024, to help navigate legislative...

Residential buy to let in the North West of England, London industrial property and retail warehouses are set to be the...

Plans for leasehold reform face a major early stumbling block as analysis shows plans to retrospectively introduce a cap on ground...

A lettings agency - Leaders Romans Group - claims that landlords are not quitting the private rental sector in droves after...

In the face of stretched incomes, rising interest rates and escalating consumer prices, an increasing number of tenants are at risk...

Prominent figures from Foxtons and Chestertons are amongst the agency leaders featured on a new six-part podcast series from OnTheMarket.  Hosted by...

It’s no secret – 2023 is a difficult year for the property industry. While rising rents should lead to increased income...

A senior director at Chestertons, one of London’s largest lettings agencies, has warned that tenants in the capital will face an...

A franchise network boss has sharply criticised both Labour and the Tories for their pro-tenant policies. Dominic Agace, chief executive of Winkworth,...

A newspaper says Labour is seeking to woo renter voters by allowing councils to restrict new build homes to first time...

A consultancy that handles lettings agency acquisition says funding options exist for companies wishing to buy others, despite rising interest rates. Lucy...

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

One of Scotland’s largest lettings agencies is voicing concern over what it calls “the lack of balance” in the Scottish government’s...

A senior figure in the financial services sector says only Build To Rent can solve the stock shortage in the lettings...

Cheshire has topped a new ranking of the best places in the UK to invest in a holiday let, according to...

A council is introducing a service which it claims will help identify properties which cannon future be used as private rental...

A buy to let investment site has used Artificial Intelligence to identify 10 top property investment opportunities in 2023.  Based on analysis...

Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng has announced that stamp duty will be cut.  In future there will be no stamp duty on the first...

TDS, the dispute service, has announced an investment in PropTech organisation OpenBrix. This involves a licensing deal that will see OpenBrix’s tlyfe...

Purplebricks has given its interpretation of how much its lettings sector compliance crisis has cost the company. Back in December the Daily...

OnTheMarket claims it’s on track to achieve its strategic aim - to create “a tech-enabled property business across the broader property...

One of the UK’s largest lettings groups has made an outspoken attack on the policies of a political party standing in...

The industry’s main trade body for lettings agents is telling its members to let the BBC know if they believe the...

Unsurprisingly, perhaps, buy to let investors are becoming increasingly keen on upgrading homes to make them more energy efficient according to...

There’s been a broad welcome from letting agents to the Spring Statement not loading more tax or restrictions on buy to...

Politicians across the UK appear to be growing more vocal in their support for rent controls. The Welsh nationalist party Plaid Cymru...

A finance chief is warning that the threat of possible rises in Capital Gains Tax should be dismissed by the government to...

A new Buy To Let ‘tracker’ from a prominent buy to let mortgage lender has revealed what it considers to be...

One of the largest private residential landlords in the Midlands has appointed Principle Estate Management to start collecting various ground rents...

One of the institutions behind Build To Rent in the UK is pledging to have up to 1,000 new rental homes...

The once-popular idea of parents buying a property for their offspring to use while at university, and then letting it to other...

Lettings platform Findingaplace, a matching service between tenants and agents launched last year, is seeking to raise £250,000 - and possibly...

A new bank called Monument is aiming at property investors and established buy to let landlords seeking to grow their portfolios. Its...

A landlord and the property company of which he is director have been convicted and ordered to pay more than £17,000...

A lettings agency is using its latest podcast to explore the retail-to-resi trend in the housing market. Winkworth’s podcast under The Property...

Women now make up 48 per cent of the 2.6m buy to let investors in the UK, according to London lettings...

The new co-owner of two branches of Martin & Co is combining legal work with sales and lettings. Barrister Tom Fazackerley has...

The director of a company targeting ‘flipping’ property investors has been disqualified from holding directorships for no less than 14 years.  Mitchell...

A major student accommodation platform says its local area has become a regeneration hotspot for proper investment. UniHomes says Sheffield has already...

The lettings sector is giving a sigh of relief at the absence of any change to Capital Gains Tax by HM Treasury. CGT...

A property lawyer is forecasting a surge in buy to let purchasing in the coming months as the stamp duty extension...

A new agency doesn’t hold back about its importance, describing itself as “the future of buy to let property offering a...

The Law Society is raising concerns about the government’s mediation scheme announced at the time of the last eviction ban decision. The...

Connells has made it clear that the innovation and technology it has put into lettings are key to identifying the approach it...

Letting agencies should review banking and payment systems in the light of rule changes and the ongoing challenge of the pandemic. This advice...

Independent agent uses innovative ‘feet up’ campaign to win business. An independent letting agency has invited landlords to put their ‘feet up’...

Some 25,000 investors and landlords have signed up to receive a free expert guide from Zoopla in just over a week...

The latest house price index, produced by the website Home, gives a broadly optimistic outlook for landlords and other buy to...

Chancellor Rishi Sunak has requested a review of Capital Gains Tax rules from the Office for Tax Simplification - leading to...

PropTech company Goodlord, already used by hundreds of agencies across the UK, has revealed a £10m investment windfall after its latest...

One of the country’s leading buying agencies says buy to let is changing in prime central London, as corporate structures replace...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Catherine Shinerock - ARO Account Manager What is your ‘company name’...

A Build To Rent developer has revealed plans to construct over 10,000 units in just five years. Wise Living, part of SDL,...

Just over third of private landlords are planning to quit the sector or cut the number of homes they let in...

One of the highest profile buy to let mortgage lenders predicts that 2020 will see increasing numbers of investors going into...

A mortgage lender’s new Buy to Let City Tracker tool has calculated the best cities in the UK for buy to...

The London Airbnb property management company previously known as AirAgents, has rebranded as Nestor. Established in 2015, AirAgents went on to win...

Labour’s controversial proposal to oblige landlords to sell their buy to let properties to tenants who wished to purchase them, unveiled...

Property development and investment firm SevenCapital has released a top 10 league table of UK cities which it claims will perform...

New research from Rightmove shows almost a quarter of landlords are planning to sell at least one property from their current...

A group of landlords in the North East are the latest to criticise Labour's plans to introduce a Right to Buy...

The number of landlords looking to sell properties decreased slightly between Q2 and Q3 2019, according to a survey by Paragon. The...

An influential think tank says Capital Gains Tax on buy to let properties and second homes should be levied at the...

There should be open-ended tenancies with reduced rent for long-term contracts and any rent increase tied only to inflation. This dramatic reform...

A lettings agent in London has been fined for the third time in as many years – this time for failing...

Campaigning charity Shelter has made a remarkable attack on a lettings agency, accusing it of “an abuse of power” over its...

If the government follows through with its plan to scrap Section 21 there could be more work for agents as a...

 – use technology to build a trusted brand as a people-focused custodian of client money Non-stop regulatory changes in the industry are...

Agents and landlords are being warned to prepare for a surge in tenants moving property once the fees ban kicks in...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card?  My name is Daniel and I’m a director at...

New ‘best practice’ guidance to letting agents and landlords has been introduced ahead of the introduction of the tenants’ fees ban...

A lettings agency that has analysed HMRC data says rental income for buy to let landlords has leaped 15 per cent...

The Money Laundering Regulations require estate agents to risk assess their business relationships and apply an appropriate level of investigation to...

A software platform has been launched which allows Build To Rent units to be short-let on the likes of Airbnb during...

CGT Lettings Limited has acquired Gloucestershire based residential lettings company All About Property. All About Property has been run by Darren Loftus...

JLL has been appointed by Aberdeen Standard Investments to manage Aireside, a Build To Rent scheme of 107 apartments in Leeds. The...

Rents in major regional cities are growing significantly faster than both London and the UK average, according to data from buy...

Letting Agent Today can reveal that the agency at the centre of the scandal over alleged charges for viewings has been...

A new investment company says its latest tool, powered by Artificial Intelligence, helps buy to let investors search for the best...

The head of a lettings agency has launched a petition in opposition to a bid by a local council to extend...

Rental sector experts are expressing growing fears that the relatively low-key Budget announcements made on Monday could herald something more dramatic...

A property management firm chief who had to pay over £20,000 after being found guilty of nine offences relating to an...

The ownership of buy to let property is much more evenly split between women and men than amongst other forms of...

Over a third of London investors no longer view property as a good investment, according to a survey of over 1,000...

One of London’s leading letting agencies says in the current neutral rental market, buy to let owners must work hard to...