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Property makeover queen and former estate agency owner Sarah Beeny is a late booking for Propertymark One on Friday. Beeny has in recent...

Online agency lettingaproperty.com says it’s bought up the rental portfolio handled by virtual rival Mashroom. The acquisition increases lettingaproperty’s assets under management...

A low profile family company called the Griffin Property Company has acquired Emoov, the online agency which was a pioneering name...

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

Purplebricks has appointed a new media agency - mSix&Partners - as it launches its ‘free’ sales offer to landlords and other...

Although Purplebricks’s Scottish lettings book was sold in a deal over the Bank Holiday weekend, there remains uncertainty over the rest...

A chief executive who pledged to beef up her agency’s lettings division - but failed to do so - is leaving...

Purplebricks has given its most pessimistic trading update yet, admitting its effects to find a buyer are tanking and its financial...

Hortons lettings agency Hortons has released a new advertisement featuring daytime TV presenter Kerr Drummond - who also happens to be...

Annual staff turnover in the property industry is nearing 30 per cent according to a survey by online agency Nested.  The most...

The online agency Yopa is linking with an existing PropTech platform to offer a lettings option to landlord customers. The link is...

An online lettings agency claims some properties are receiving up to 50 viewing requests - prompting landlords to pull listings to...

What many believe to have been one of the nastiest TV adverts in recent years - Purplebricks’ attack on traditional agents’...

A Purplebricks divisional lettings director has quit the troubled online agency and is returning to Spicerhaart, where she worked until a...

Troubles at Purplebricks continue with an activist investor who has a four per cent share in the firm called on the...

The boss of an online lettings agency is warning the government against undue delay and greater uncertainty in the rental reform...

Troubled online agency Purplebricks says it’s going to finally release its full year figures in the first week of August -...

The former head of operations at online agency Yopa has been named as East London area lettings director for haart. Andrie Neophytou...

An online lettings agency says two thirds of landlords and tenants have ‘issues’ with their agents - and substantial numbers claim...

Online agency Hortons is the latest agency to off-set its environmental impact. Hortons operates from a non-branch office in central Leicester with...

The online lettings agency Howsy is reported to have been acquired by a national chain after a ‘distressed sale’ following its...

Online agency Hortons, which operates its sales activities across five countries, has opened a lettings department. The new service will initially be...

During the last year, the industry has experienced a rollercoaster of highs and lows as agents experienced rental peaks, stock shortages,...

LettingaProperty.com has appointed Kevin Neary, ex-GameStop Group managing director and co-founder, as Board Chairman, to help drive the company's growth. This...

An agency says its bizarre list of items left behind by departing tenants shows how many renters actually appear to keep pets. A...

Prop Home, a new online property management and lettings agency, pledges to “transform the way rented homes are managed on behalf...

Online lettings agency Accommodation has pledged to plant a new tree for every property let - it has already planting 1,190...

The online lettings platform Mashroom has set out a list of guidelines it’s offering to prospective tenants to avoid them falling...

Online lettings company Monkey vs Owl - also known as MOVO - has expanded from a regional and mostly student service...

Online agency eXp UK has launched a new lettings service allowing agents who join the organisation can now offer a lettings...

Stockport-based property development company Three Sixty has launched what it calls an online agency - Three Sixty Living - to handle...

Online lettings agency Upad is offering to refund users whose rental listings did not appear on Zoopla and PrimeLocation as they...

An online agency has denied a claim that it is allowing High Street agents to use its platform to avoid paying...

An online lettings agency says landlords should take up mortgage holiday offers and be willing to accept reduced rent during the...

A five branch lettings and sales firm is the latest agency to sign up to love2move, a PropTech platform that allows...

Technology has completely transformed the lettings landscape over the past decade, but perhaps not in the way many expected it would. Letting...

A trade magazine is reporting that online lettings agency Upad has been bought out by a PropTech platform. The Negotiator says Howsy...

The relatively low profile 99home online agency says it is now the UK’s fifth largest operation in the online sector after...

The Property Franchise Group has issued an upbeat trading statement indicating that it’s mitigated much of the financial impact of the...

An online letting agency which launched last month has announced the recruitment of two former Purplebricks staff. Michael Booth, the hybrid agency's...

A new online lettings agency called Accommodation.co.uk is looking for franchisees to join ahead of its formal launch next month.  The company...

The Advertising Standards Authority has stepped in following a complaint about the online lettings agency Upad. The agency had a reference ion...

The newly-formed Federation of Independent Agents (FIA), the network set up by former Property Franchise Group managing director Graham Lock, has...

Online lettings agency RentMyHome is partnering with a trade group for home stagers in order to offer clients discounted services. MyHomeGroup owns...

The average age of those buying investment property has fallen by more than three and a half years in the past...

Online agency Upad has made another change to its charging structure. It has recently introduced revised packages for landlords, payment via Direct...

A lettings agency boss who says she is actually in favour of the agents’ fees ban nonetheless admits there will be...

An online agency specialising in the sale of investment properties with tenants in situ claims the average time for a tenanted...

Online letting agency MakeUrMove has launched a new subscription model which it claims will ”ready landlords for the incoming tenant fee...

Another online lettings agency launches in March with a claim that it “will streamline and automate the majority of admin tasks...

New data from online buy to let agency Yieldit claims to give an insight into which property types produce the best...

Online lettings agency Upad says it’s to offer landlords a proprietary system to collect rental payments via Direct Debit. Its system, called...

The online agency Home Made, which says it’s London’s only premium online platform for the rental sector, has raised a further...

The online lettings agency Urban is continuing to operate as normal despite the shock revelation that parent company Emoov is looking...

The lettings director at Urban, the online agency recently snapped up by Emoov, says the rental market is faced with significant...

An online lettings agency is the latest to voice opposition to the government’s proposed three year standard tenancies for the private...

An online agency selling only buy to let units to would-be investors says it’s experiencing “positive growth” despite the challenges of...

Two million tenants will this year be hit with rent rises totalling a combined £46m a month according to an online...

Online agency easyProperty has announced the launch of two new lettings options.  One, called easyLet, is broadly a listings service: for £99...

An online agency claims that serious portfolio landlords are staying faithful to buy to let despite recent tax and regulation changes...

Online letting agency Upad is linking with high profile independent finance service John Charcol in a bid to make it easier...

A claim has been made that as many as 80 per cent of prospective tenants have been put off renting a...

Student rents in some parts of the country have risen by as much as 18 per cent in the past year...

Online lettings agency Upad says landlords are concerned that insurance-based alternatives to traditional deposit schemes may not cover them for repairs...

EweMove - the online agency which is at the centre of a merger battle between its parent company and a rival...

An online agency is urging landlords to try to avoid unnecessary voids or tenant gripes by preparing their investment properties for...

An online agency aimed at the student market is launching a sister service for the mainstream rental sector.  ClickTenant - set up...

A company which already runs a student accommodation lettings service online is to expand and open a general online lettings agency...

An online agency claims landlords who use online operators are likely to reduce average void periods by up to a week.    In...

New research shows that thousands of landlords are using what are described as “risky online sites” in their bid to avoid...

A seven per cent fall in the number of EU students seeking places at UK universities, matched with a 4.3 per...

Upad, which claims to be Britain's larges online lettings agency, says Manchester has seen a 100 per cent increase in buy to...

Online agency OpenRent has secured a £4.4 million investment to help grow its offering. The agency, which was founded in 2012, says...

An online lettings agency specialising in student accommodation has raised £310,000 to grow its business.    StudentTenant says its aim is to rival conventional...

Online letting agency Upad has appointed the chairman of the new UK PropTech Association to its advisory board.   Eddie Holmes, who announced...

Online agency Upad claims it has seen a 44 per cent annual growth in repeat business for its digital lettings service,...

A group of landlords and buy to let investors that has already successfully persuaded a council to scrap plans for a...

Online estate agent Urban.co.uk says it has created a league table of fees that tenants are charged by agencies in different locations...

An online lettings agency says tenants’ arrears are likely to be the biggest issue facing the rental sector next year unless...

Gillian Kent - once employed by News International to run a portal to rival Rightmove - has now been appointed chairman...

An online agency says it has attracted ”many hundreds” of landlords by giving 12 months’ rent up-front. LetMe also offers a guarantee...

An experiment by an online agency and an interiors firm suggests professionally shot pictures of a furnished flat will generate six...

An online lettings agency claims that 58 per cent of tenants who have requested energy improvements to their properties have been...

Tenants could be trying to avoid eviction by damaging property and abusing the new legal system designed to ban revenge evictions,...

One of the industry debates of the year will be held next week when the inaugural FUTURE : Property Tech conference...

The most common complaint about high street lettings agents amongst landlords is that they charge extortionate fees - that is the...

OK, you’ve had your fun. Now let’s leave the regulators regulate and work for the public. If you don’t know what...

The founder of online agency Rentify has made a vicious verbal attack on high street letting agents, their quality of service...