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Zoopla lettings chiefs have told the government it should tighten up its imminent Renters Rights Bill by demanding all lettings agents...

A new survey from law firm Weightmans has found that only 24% of renters read tenancy agreements.  It says this is largely...

Boutique Knightsbridge estate agency Nicolas Van Patrick (NVP) has acquired Chelsea lettings and management company HLR. HLR was established in 1986, growing...

Top tips will be provided for landlords in the private rental market in a seminar next month organised by high profile...

Cotswolds and Midlands agency Sheldon Bosley Knight has snapped up a small independent lettings business. Stratford-based Charles Saville Limited adds more than...

One of Scotland’s oldest property and legal brands - Simpson & Marwick - has been snapped up by a newcomer to...

Three branches of Hunters have been acquired by a successful duo of agents with years of experience in the company. Sam Lakin...

Private landlords should hold fire on plans to quit the private rental sector and give the government a chance to incentivise...

Propertymark has given advice to the new Scottish National Party leader and Scotland’s First Minister, Humza Yousaf. The trade group’s head of...

New Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf is bad news for the private rental sector, a prominent lettings agent warns. David Alexander -...

Numbers of possessions have soared in Scotland since the introduction of a rent cap and eviction ban according to DJ Alexander,...

An agent claims that if Labour wins the next General Election there will be what he calls “misguided meddling” across the...

A prominent Scottish lettings agent says the decision of Nicola Sturgeon to resign as Scotland’s First Minister may offer a chance...

One of the politicians backing a tax surcharge on the purchase of second homes and buy to lets has been put...

A prominent agent has been appointed to head the ongoing expansion of a well known firm’s lettings team. James Gwynne has joined...

The Times says some Build to Rent investment has been paused as a result of the rent freeze imposed by the...

A prominent supporter of new Prime Minister Liz Truss has spoken out against rent controls.  Veteran Conservative MP Sir John Redwood, who...

Activist renters want Liz Truss to follow Scotland’s lead and introduce a rent freeze and eviction ban.  The emergency measures - announced...

A prominent lettings agency chief executive has lashed out at the “cheap political points” being scored by politicians in Scotland who...

An emergency rent freeze in the private and public sectors has been announced this afternoon in Scotland. It will last until...

Lettings and sales agency FleetMilne has acquired Knight Frank’s private client lettings business in Birmingham.  The purchase will boost FleetMilne’s managed lettings...

Scotland’s controversial Green Party housing chief - who is part of a governing arrangement with Nicola Sturgeon’s Scottish National Party -...

ARLA Propertymark has voiced its concern over rent controls to a politicians who is leading the charge to introduce them to...

The deal to introduce rent controls in Scotland - the result of a deal between two parties in the Scottish Parliament...

Rent controls are to be introduced into part of the UK as a result of a deal between two political parties. The...

Lettings agencies should continue to use IT solutions like livestream viewings even as the pandemic eases, according to one of the...

A PropTech firm says agencies adopting livestream viewing could win more instructions and save thousands of pounds, all the while abiding...

There’s been a small change to the Coronavirus regulations as they apply to the maintenance and upkeep of properties in Scotland. First...

The ban on private rental evictions in Scotland has been formally extended by two months, with a high expectation that a...

A family-run lettings and sales agency has launched an employee of the year award in memory of a late colleague.   The...

The ban on evictions in the private rented sector looks almost certain to be extended until March next year in Scotland...

Politicians from several parties say they want their local council in Bristol to have the powers to regulate the number and...

A 23 year old lettings agent has tragically died from a bacterial form of meningitis, a serious infection of the thin...

Another Build To Rent scheme has been unveiled, this time in Berkshire. Crest Nicolson and M&G Real Estate have joined forces to...

A legal firm has added its weight to the warning that many Airbnb hosts could be, by accident or design, breaching...

Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says she has been “horrified” to read allegations of some property owners offering rent-free accommodation in...

The BBC is claiming that vulnerable families are being exploited by rogue landlords in Glasgow - including in the constituency for...

A landlord in Milton Keynes has been ordered to pay a total of £24,168.29 for serious breaches of fire safety regulations...

The Mirror has exposed what it believes is a scam letting agency website attempting to get would-be renters to part with...

A licensing system for private landlords and letting agents is the way forward for the Northern Ireland rental sector according to...

With another hung parliament looking increasingly likely, the so-called ‘challenger parties’ look set to have a major say in who forms...