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Leading property website Zoopla has delivered strong results for letting agents in the run-up to the busiest time of year for...

A 101-home Built To Rent estate is being created by Barratt Homes in Cambridge, as part of a deal with BTR...

One of the longest standing and best known lettings agencies in the south east has opened a new office in Esher.  Curchods...

An interview with a figure from one of the many deposit alternative services reveals a significant rise in interest in this...

Propertymark has issued a no-holds-barred plea to the politician who has been named as the new housing minister in Wales -...

Co-living specialist Built Asset Management has snapped up a fourth rival operator in three years.  ProCo-Living joins the BAM business portfolio with...

New figures from lenders trade body UK Finance show a massive fall in buy to let loans for those aged 55...

The merger of two of the largest names in the lettings industry has passed its final hurdle. Belvoir shareholders have now backed...

The UK government has taken an equity stake in the rental investment platform Shojin through the conversion of a pandemic-era loan...

Airbnb and other short let platforms are from this week required to send data on their clients’ earnings to HMRC. And a...

Dealing in OnTheMarket shares will cease at 7.30am on December 12 following yesterday evening’s announcement that the CoStar takeover had won...

The shareholders of OnTheMarket have reached their decision on the portal's controversial takeover by CoStar.  A statement released this afternoon says: "The...

Property portal Rightmove has increased its key revenue target in a bullish set of results which shows it has not been...

The lettings agency Winkworth has taken the unusual step of criticising policies of a series of councils. The councils are all Labour...

Martin & Co’s Ashford branch is celebrating the countdown to Christmas with another independent agency acquisition. The franchised office, owned by Kevin...

Purplebricks’ board has announced that a general meeting of shareholders will be held on December 19 - and it involves a...

Rebel shareholders at Purplebricks want the current chairman to be replaced by industry veteran Harry Hill. Lecram Holdings Limited - which has...

Famous London agency Foxtons has enjoyed a shares boost on the back of a 25 per cent spike in revenue in...

The Lomond Group has further extended its footprint in North West England for its latest agency acquisition deal. Through its Thornley Groves...

A high profile PropTech entrepreneur is amongst a series of investors linked to a new fund, launched today, cashing in on...

Purplebricks has set a date for a possible showdown with shareholders over the agency’s lettings compliance crisis amongst other controverisies.  It has...

Propertymark has made an uncharacteristically strong attack on the campaigning charity Shelter for its portrayal of letting agents. Ahead of yesterday’s Queen’s...

Campaigning charity Shelter is accusing some letting agents of “cutting corners” and has produced a provocative and satirical video showing a...

An agent’s plea to councillors to renew the HMO license for a landlord client fell on deaf ears in a controversial...

New research shows that despite tax and regulatory changes restricting buy to let returns, this remains a far healthier investment than...

A new property management platform seeking support form letting agents claims to be the ‘Airbnb for shared living’. Vann Vogstad, the entrepreneur...

Another independent lettings agency has been acquired by a fast-expanding giant with plans to become a prominent national agency network. Lomond Group’s John...

The UK’s largest ever additional licensing scheme for HMOs has come into effect over the long weekend.  Westminster council’s scheme will focus...

One of the largest new additional licensing schemes for HMOs anywhere in the country is set to come into force in...

Women now make up 48 per cent of the 2.6m buy to let investors in the UK, according to London lettings...

Fixflo, the well known provider of property repairs and maintenance software across the lettings sector, has been acquired by a European...

One of the London boroughs synonymous with wealth has revealed that 44 per cent of its housing stock is now actually...

OnTheMarket now owns PropTech firm Glanty outright. Glanty is best known for its lettings platform teclet, a cloud-based lettings software service. Glanty's revenues grew...

A fast-growing regional chain of agencies has purchased another independent operator in the lettings sector. Yorkshire's Linley & Simpson has bought Sinclair Properties...

A private rental licensing consultancy has spotted that an additional licensing scheme run by a London borough council has now lapsed...

There’s a warning that buy to let investors will simply hold on to properties and not sell them if rumoured Capital...

Belvoir says it is on the lookout for agencies wanting to sell or join a franchise operation as they come out...

A London council has pressed ahead with the launch of a borough-wide additional licensing scheme despite the lockdown and uncertainty created...

Although the worst of the stock market bloodletting triggered by Coronavirus now appears to have gone, franchise agency group Belvoir has...

A huge survey of students, seeking their views on accommodation, has ended with a question mark over the value for money...

Some 45 per cent of those who don’t yet own a home think they never will, according to a new report.  While...

A letting agency has denied that 'highly toxic' gas is leaking into one of its tenant's homes in Worcester. Leaders has said...

In the last ten years Google's revenue, largely from pay per click ads (Adwords), has grown by 527% (Source: Statista). In...

Six months on from the introduction of stricter licencing for Homes in Multiple Occupation, awareness “remains limited” according to one of...

A lettings agency that has analysed HMRC data says rental income for buy to let landlords has leaped 15 per cent...

Bristol is the best city for house shares, according to new research by specialist rental sector broadband and utilities provider Glide. The...

Online lettings platform HomeRenter says its property listings are now more detailed and more compelling thanks to a new ‘property creation flow’...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has issued a reminder to the industry of the need to understand and abide by...

The landlord of an HMO who subjected his tenants to insanitary and unsafe living conditions has been told he will no...

The Money Laundering Regulations 2017 require estate agents to risk assess their business relationships and apply an appropriate level of investigation...

The ownership of buy to let property is much more evenly split between women and men than amongst other forms of...

John Lewis has announced details of a partnership with rental app Canopy to provide employees with the opportunity to have their rent payments...

Purplebricks has announced that its lettings director, Richard Jacques, has sold a total of 60,000 shares in the hybrid agency.   Jacques sold...

Expanding buy to let lender Landbay says it plans to launch an accounting, reporting and tax compliance service for those holding...

A landlord has set up a company to handle the ownership and management of buy to let properties - and the...

Private landlords’ net income has risen 39 per cent in the last five years, jumping from £10.8 billion to £15 billion...

Sister agencies Leaders and Romans have undertaken research to show that property has been the most lucrative investment in the UK...

A London council has set up a system to allow council tenants to buy into a shared ownership scheme which it...

Airbnb has hit back at a claim by the Residential Landlords Association that lets promoted by the firm effectively worsened London’s housing...

A letting agency in London has announced that it has dropped all fees it charges to tenants.  STANLEY Chelsea, a one branch...

Two of the industry’s biggest estate agency groups have selected the same firm to provide their legal services.  Hillyer McKeown has been...

More criticism of Chancellor George Osborne’s raft of buy to let reforms has appeared in the mainstream media, with much emphasis...

One of Britain’s most senior letting agency bosses is warning landlords to take care if considering setting up a limited company...

The new three per cent stamp duty on buy to let properties coming into force from next April will effectively redraw...

Agency chain Hunters Group plc is to issue shares worth £100,000 to fund the acquistion of a lettings book. This is the...

A residential property investment firm is using a speed-dating theme as the basis of a new TV advertising campaign to attract...

Urban regeneration specialist Sigma Capital is the latest firm to announce it is entering the Build To Rent sector, seeking to...

Labour leadership hopeful Andy Burnham is the latest to say he would consider rent controls in the private sector if he...

Almost 3,000 investors have crowdfunded more than £6m worth of buy-to-let property on one platform alone since its launch early this...

Given that I wrote my last article on the day of the General Election but well before the result was known,...

A £212,900 property in Surrey which was advertising on a crowdfunding platform at 3pm was fully funded by 3.35pm, it is...

The agency industry has been acting with delight over the likelihood that there will be a slim overall majority for the...