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Propertymasrk has thrown its weight behind Lloyds Banking Group making £2 billion of lending available to first time buyers borrowing more...

It’s being reported that Lomond Group, the chain of lettings agencies owned by a division of Lloyds Banking Group, is likely...

Some 51% of young first-time buyers are willing to consider so-called ‘non-traditional routes’ to move out of renting and onto the...

The result of the election isn’t likely to be a gamechanger for the housing market, a prominent business consultancy says.  An analysis...

Although much focus is on the Bank of England and when it will begin to cut interest rates, a sobering warning...

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

Work has started on yet another Build To Rent scheme - this time a £13m project in Nottingham. The project, on a...

Citra Living, the Build To Rent offshoot of Lloyds Banking Group, continues with its growth strategy into the private rental sector. Citra...

An agency group with an acquisition programme funded by a private equity operation has snapped up another independent agency. Lomond - which...

Propertymark has stepped into the row over whether there should be more controls over second homes, holiday lets and people from...

Citra Living, part of Lloyds Banking Group, is to bring more than 150 new family homes to the rental market in...

Almost one in three buy to let landlords are set to sell up in the next 12 months. That’s the shock statistic...

Lloyds Banking Group, Nationwide, NatWest and Rightmove have announced a strategic investment in Coadjute, a prominent PropTech business.  This is the first...

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

A Parliamentary committee has heard that thousands of small and medium-sized letting agencies were debanked in 2023, with financial institutions forcibly...

Lower mortgage rates - still falling in the days since the end of the festive break - may be persuading some...

Citra Living, the Build To Rent arm of Lloyds Banking Group, has announced another new scheme. It is a 95-flat development at...

Lloyds Banking Group, which announced back in 2020 that it was to become involved in the private rental sector, is buying...

A government minister has pledged to act on the threat to lettings agents posed by banks acting against pooled client accounts. Many...

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

Details have been given of Lloyds Bank’s latest dive into the Build To Rent market. Its BTR arm, Citra, has acquired 49...

Lloyds Banking Group and homelessness charity Crisis have joined forces in a new two-year partnership including the establishment of a so-called...

A Build To Rent operator has struck a deal with Lloyds Pharmacy to offer a so-called Health Concierge Service allowing tenants...

Lloyds Banking Group, which is known to be investing huge sums in the UK private rental sector, has published the results...

Lloyds Banking Group - which this year announced its intention to become a private landlord through the acquisition of new build...

A think tank says it would take a major policy change to fulfil Boris Johnson’s goal to turn generation rent into...

An investment firm has flagged up the recently announced move by banking giant Lloyds to enter the private rented sector as...

It is understood that Lloyds Bank may use local agencies to find tenants for new private rental sector activities. In recent weeks...

Last week the tax firm Blick Rothenberg advised John Lewis and Lloyds Bank to stay out of the private rental sector...

Supermarket chains like John Lewis and banks like Lloyds - both entering the private rental sector as large scale landlords -...

Lloyds Bank says tenants will “within the next few weeks” move into the first of a series of new developments it...

It’s been reported that the Lloyds Banking Group is set to buy its first property as it seeks to become a...

Letting agents have only 10 days to open segregated client accounts or they could face being expelled by their client money...

An investigation is underway into a lettings agency which has gone into liquidation owing almost £500,000 in rent to landlords and in...

A report in the Financial Times over the weekend suggests that Lloyds Bank is poised to become a major residential landlord,...

Professional client account solutions for modern letting agents Letting agents will need to come up with new ways to manage client money...

A leading industry figure is calling on agents to have a Plan B ready if their bank closes undesignated client accounts.  This...

Anyone underestimating the size of the UK’s growing private rental sector ought to think again - new research shows its value...

Lloyds Bank appears to have contacted at least some of its letting agent clients to say that it is closing all...

Yorkshire estate agency Linley & Simpson has acquired another independent firm, Angus Roberts. The deal will see Linley & Simpson, which operates...

Leaders has added another seven branches to its 110-plus network in recent weeks.  The firm has just completed the purchases of Lloyds...