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A lettings expert is advising agents that “congruence” is key to successful acquisition of landlord clients. Former ARLA Propertymark president and the...

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

Self employed agency brand Harding Green, which majors on London and prime country markets, says it’s grown significantly in the lettings...

Self employed agency brand Harding Green has appointed a former Hamptons agent to handle short lets for clients. Nina Wallrock, who has...

London-focused agency Chestertons says it’s enjoyed a record month for lettings. This was driven by increasing demand for short-term rentals from business...

A new manifesto calling for rent controls and a raft of other measures is accusing the current rent rises of being...

Lettings agency Hamptons, now part of Connells, has hired a former Strictly Come Dancing and Countryfile star to front a property...

London-focussed agency chain Dexters says it now has some 10,000 enquiries a year for its rental relocation service. It has 30,000 landlords...

The shortlists for this year’s Propertymark Qualifications Awards have been announced, with four vying for Lettings Candidate of the Year.  The awarding...

The first six months of 2022 saw 171 per cent more enquiries from tenants looking for properties in London compared to...

Prime lettings agent John D Wood & Co has announced its new head of lettings.  It’s Tanya Hasking who is currently director...

Rightmove’s Landlord and Tenant Services division is moving to a new headquarters. It’s 110 staff will shift from Killingworth to Quorum Park in...

There’s still some way to go for the lettings market to return to its pre-pandemic best according to Knight Frank -...

Recovery in the UK is being channeled towards regional cities, says a leading investment expert.  Martha Peyton, managing director and head of...

The lettings market in London and the Home Counties continued its journey back towards normality in July according to data from...

For the first time since the beginning of the pandemic rents across all prime London regions saw a return to positive...

Demand continues to build in prime lettings markets in London and the Home Counties, with Knight Frank data showing the number...

Campaign group Generation Rent has set out a 10-point plan for reform of the private rental sector in favour of tenants. Its...

Knight Frank says the plummeting rents in prime central London have at least managed to attract a surge in the number...

Foxtons has posted what many consider to be disappointing lettings figures for the third quarter of the year. The company’s lettings-related revenue...

Some 60% of London office workers who rent in the capital say the pandemic has made them reconsider their living situation,...

Data from Knight Frank suggests that average rental values in prime central London fell one per cent last month, taking the...

One in eight homes coming onto the rental market in inner London since May has previously been an Airbnb or other...

One of the capital’s largest lettings agencies says business is recovering well, although ironically rents are down 10% and increased activity...

Rents in London have dropped by between 10 and 15 per cent as fewer people are willing or able to move...

A commission investigating affordable homes in the UK has called for annual private sector rent increases to be limited to a...

Hello and here’s the next batch of guidance and advice from different sectors of the industry, many from influential trade groups. It’s...

A survey by lettings agency Carter Jonas has revealed what the firm calls the top priorities for tenants as the 2020s...

A rogue landlord and the property company he ran have been fined £22,000 for dishing out ‘sham licences’ to tenants in...

A university student who fled from his private rental apartment owing over £1,000 has posted a message on Facebook: “Catch me...

The Liberal Democrat conference, which begins on Saturday, is to debate a resolution calling for the scrapping of Section 21 -...

First the good news - investors are still purchasing buy to let properties; the less good news is that it’s a...

One in five UK landlords have entered buy to let without even planning to, finding themselves with a property ‘accidentally’ or...

One of the client money protection schemes operating in the lettings sector says he believes agents and property managers could be...

Knight Frank is warning that changes to regulatory supervision of the European Central Bank could, if they went the wrong way,...

Property sharing platform Ace Relocations has changed the wording of a listing on its website after a complaint was lodged with...

Strutt & Parker has launched a new corporate and relocation department for domestic and international tenants relocating within London and the...

The average UK tenant expects to remain part of the Private Rented Sector for a further decade, according to a new...

The London division of Jackson-Stops & Staff has launched a new residential corporate services department for corporate tenants looking to relocate...

Prime central London’s letting sector appears to be thriving despite the uncertainty leading up to, and since, the shock referendum result.   “Relocation...

  A letting agent who scammed dozens of tenants and landlords out of more than £220,000 of rents and deposits has been...

A removals firm has claimed it is currently dealing with more tenants moving between properties than home buyers.  Aussie Man & Van...

A letting agent and four landlords face bills totalling more than £20,000 after being prosecuted by Islington Council for operating unlicensed...

A senior relocation and human resources expert says Right To Rent will not change the behaviour of any letting agent or...

One of the biggest surveys of tenants in the private rental sector shows that a narrow majority favour a six month...

Holly Pendred from Gibbs Gillespie in Uxbridge, Middlesex, is celebrating after being crowned Relocation Agent Network’s Employee of the Year 2015. The...

Some companies pride themselves on being able to accommodate customers of all kinds. “No job too big or too small,” they...