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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...
24 June 2024
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Owners of vacant properties are being offered an improved incentive to bring their house back into use. Plymouth council is re-launching its...
14 March 2024
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Government figures suggest the UK population could reach nearly 74m as soon as 2036, largely attributed to rising net migration. This is...
31 January 2024
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Belvoir has snapped up a regional mortgage provider for £1m. It’s acquired MAB (South West) Ltd and follows the earlier acquisition of...
30 August 2023
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A comparison website has compiled a list of what it claims to be the most common lies on tenancy applications -...
20 June 2023
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A full service lettings and estate agency has snapped up a respected rival, including taking over management of 150-plus rental properties. DC...
30 May 2023
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Yet another independent agency has disappeared after being acquired by a national brand. The Huddersfield branch of Martin & Co has snapped...
30 May 2022
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Martin & Co’s Plymouth franchisees have taken their branch’s managed portfolio beyond 1,000 properties after a third acquisition in five years. Chris...
07 April 2022
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A petition calling on Chancellor Rishi Sunak to increase tax on holiday lettings has still not hit its 45,000-signature target. Former long...
23 November 2021
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A lettings agency’s research has revealed that rental demand has continued to climb across most major UK cities during the third quarter...
05 October 2021
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A tenant who says his former rental property has been turned into an Airbnb has set up a petition demanding Chancellor...
06 August 2021
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Rental demand has started to return to the majority of major UK cities during the second quarter of this year, with...
07 July 2021
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A local Trading Standards team is clamping down on rogue letting agents. Devon, Plymouth, Somerset and Torbay Trading Standards Service has launched...
23 June 2021
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If agents want to emphasise the green credentials of their local area, then a new league table may be of help. An...
22 June 2021
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The Build to Rent market remains small in volume but it is making some inroads, leading to BTR rent rises predominantly...
18 May 2021
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Trading Standards in one region of the UK is staging Twitter quizzes aimed at students, and asking about agents’ fees surrounding...
09 October 2020
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One bedroom properties provide the best returns to buy to let investors according to new research by a lettings management platform. Single...
18 June 2020
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Rental demand has dropped significantly across London and other major UK cities as a result of the pandemic. When comparing current levels...
23 April 2020
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Demand for rental properties with gardens or other outdoor space has soared in terms of portal listings - perhaps no surprise...
08 April 2020
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A landlord from Plymouth has been sentenced after failing to maintain gas appliances and failing to have landlord’s gas safety checks...
18 March 2020
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A jailed letting agent in a long-running legal saga has now been told she must repay her victims some £43,000 -...
25 February 2020
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Another branch of The Property Franchise Groups’s brand Martin & Co has snapped up an independent rival - and it’s the...
29 January 2020
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A rental management platform has compiled a league table of where tenant demand is strongest for homes to let - and...
14 January 2020
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A lettings agent jailed in March for taking £220,000 from tenants and landlords is now in trouble over her legal representation. Heather...
14 October 2019
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A Plymouth sales and letting agency has taken a number of measures to help raise awareness of climate change in its...
09 October 2019
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An online room-letting platform claims rents have risen up to eight per cent in wake of the Tenant Fee Act. ideal flatmate...
11 July 2019
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A lettings agency has withdrawn a leaflet which featured a woman’s cleavage; the leaflet had been the subject of a complaint...
20 March 2019
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A crooked letting agent took £220,000 from tenants and landlords and has been exposed as buying a home in Florida, renting...
18 March 2019
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Property management firm Mcilroy Smith has launched a mental health policy for its employees - possibly the first company in the...
04 March 2019
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A rental campaigner claims the amount of money stolen this year by crooked lettings agents and landlords has topped the £1.3m...
20 December 2018
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A former lettings agent in Plymouth has finally admitted taking hundreds of thousands of pounds from tenants and landlords - the...
19 November 2018
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Manchester’s rental market is rising higher than in any other UK city according to property consultancy Cushman & Wakefield. Rents were up...
15 November 2018
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The former owner of a lettings agency has admitted charges of fraud, false accounting and theft involving some hundreds of thousands...
29 October 2018
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The Independent online newspaper says Conservative MP Gary Streeter will tomorrow meet with Prime Minister Theresa May and urge her to...
19 June 2018
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The owner of a Plymouth lettings agency is to stand trial in November and faces charges of fraud, false accounting and...
27 April 2018
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The former owner and director of a Plymouth lettings agency are to stand trial on charges of fraud, false accounting and...
12 March 2018
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The former director of a lettings agency in Plymouth is to appear in court in March facing charges of fraud, false...
31 January 2018
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The Property Ombudsman scheme has launched the third and latest phase of its national campaign with the Chartered Trading Standards Institute...
14 November 2017
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The director of a Plymouth letting agency has been re-bailed and will appear in court again in January. Heather Crabb, owner of...
05 October 2017
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The Property Franchise Group has revealed that is has made one of its largest ever single office acquisitions. Martin & Co Plymouth...
13 July 2017
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A 27 year old father of two has secured over 140,000 signatures for an online petition demanding that rent payments be...
09 March 2017
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The director of a letting agency in Devon has been released on bail until June 2. In November and December, Letting Agent...
22 February 2017
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A local newspaper says a Plymouth lettings agent has been arrested by police on suspicion of theft, fraud and money laundering. Last...
23 December 2016
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The landlord of a property risked the lives of his tenants and their young family by not undertaking annual safety checks...
19 December 2016
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A letting agent whose office closure prompted a police investigation has issued a statement saying she has had a stroke. The agency, Drake...
05 December 2016
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A letting agent is on trial after being accused of rape. John Evans, 53, has pleaded not guilty to six counts of...
27 September 2016
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A leading trade body says it’s time for the private rental sector to take gas safety more seriously following a spate...
11 May 2016
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The landlord of a property in Plymouth risked the lives of his tenants through a dangerous gas boiler installed in the...
12 April 2016
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Countrywide has revealed that it has acquired 30 lettings businesses in the past year alone, expanding the firm’s rental sector headcount...
04 February 2016
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On October 6 2015 we published an article concerning Clever Student Lets Ltd, entitled “Agents back political probe into deal between...
14 January 2016
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The landlord of a property in Plymouth risked the lives of his tenants through a dangerous gas boiler installed in the...
02 December 2015
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A landlord man has been fined more than £20,000 after admitting renting out substandard houses to 30 people without obtaining a...
06 November 2015
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A landlord has admitted letting sub-standard HMOs to 30 people without being registered with his local authority. Plymouth landlord John Mayer pleaded...
21 October 2015
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The Advertising Standards Authority has praised a letting agency after it agreed to amend an advertisement following a complaint - meaning...
09 September 2015
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Unitary local authorities where trading standards and environmental health teams work to the same objectives are more successful at clamping down...
30 July 2015
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Manchester based Ascend Properties says it has smashed its 1,000-unit target within just one year of trading - and is now expanding across...