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London high end agency Eccord has bolstered its property management team with two experienced new hires. Steve Wilson joins as Senior Property...

Owners of vacant properties are being offered an improved incentive to bring their house back into use. Plymouth council is re-launching its...

Sharpened rules to double council tax on long term empty properties will come into force from April 1, says the government.  A...

Portsmouth and Southsea lettings agency Chinneck Shaw has been appointed to manage the first purpose-built Build to Rent project from Ravelin...

Propertymark has told politicians that an additional homes tax will not succeed in increasing housing supply. Timothy Douglas, head of policy and...

A letting agent with a background in renovation has been able to grow her business by offering investors a swathe of...

Elliot Leigh - an agency that is the largest guaranteed rent provider in London and Essex - has completed phase one...

It’s no secret – 2023 is a difficult year for the property industry. While rising rents should lead to increased income...

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

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Bekki Leaves, Director What is FCC Paragon and what services...

One of the country’s best-regarded lettings agencies celebrates its 50th birthday today. The Oxford-based Finders Keepers was founded in 1972, starting out...

Another new Build To Rent scheme has been announced by Grainger. Launching next month, the 158-unit Gilders Yard scheme sits on the...

New research from holiday lettings agency Classic Cottages shows that 2021 was a record year in one of the country’s staycation...

There’s been an increase in demand for rental properties with electric charging points for cars, according to ARLA Propertymark. The news has...

The director of a company targeting ‘flipping’ property investors has been disqualified from holding directorships for no less than 14 years.  Mitchell...

An influential group of MPs has called for the replacement of “outdated” Energy Performance Certificates with new ‘Building Renovation Passports’. Currently EPCs...

An influential think-tank wants private rental properties to have a minimum EPC rating of B by 2030. The Institute for Public Policy...

A council wants buy to let landlords with one-bed flats or rooms in shared homes to help it find homes for...

A council is being asked to prioritise consent to use a property as an HMO during the pandemic, with its four...

A new renovation start-up is working with letting agents and landlords to allow key workers to use empty rental properties for...

A mortgage company has attempted to quantify how much private landlords inject into local economies. Aldermore’s research, surveying 1,000 UK-based landlords, discovered...

Research by London agency Benham and Reeves says the cumulative cost of a landlord suffering a bad tenant and then evicting...

Buy to let investors in the UK are spending nearly £4.7 billion a year on their rental properties, an average of...

The landlord of a London flat is almost £18,000 worse off and has a criminal record after failing to make renovations to...

A local council has closed down what it describes as a ‘House of Horrors’ let to a family despite being in...