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The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has congratulated Labour on forming the next government but says it must move quickly to...

Southampton council has approved a big new Build To Rent scheme on the site of a disused gasworks. Hawkstone Properties Ltd and...

Housing juggernaut Legal & General says it’s now half way through a £400m Build To Rent scheme in Wandsworth, south London. It...

A prominent agent campaigning for business tax reform is urging Labour to come clean on its policies for business rates and...

Propertymark wants the government to cool down on its enthusiasm for brownfield development. It says in a response to a consultation that...

The UK Apartment Association - a Build To Rent trade body - has given details of an expo it’s hosting in...

The Guild of Property Professionals has given its backing to the concept of mystery shopping as a way of improving agents’...

Savills has announced a new head of its lettings department in its Bishops Park office in Fulham. Christina McLean steps into the...

John Lewis is pushing ahead with its commitment to build and manage rental homes as part of a drive which it...

An agency is claiming a record for the sum at which it is letting a seven bedroom property in north London. Aston...

One of the largest vacation lettings agencies - Sykes Holiday Cottages - says a survey shows that two thirds of holiday...

A franchise lettings agency is reported to have agreed to stop potential tenants bidding against each other to secure rental properties. The...

A London lettings and sales agency has launched an apprenticeship scheme. The JOHNS&CO Academy invites young people to train via courses ranging...

Lettings agency Hamptons is backing Earth Day tomorrow in partnership with removals firm Doree Bonner International and the charity Mind. As part...

Airbnb has come out in favour of a short lets registration scheme across the UK - similar to the one promised...

Winkworth is expanding in the south west with a new office opening in the Bishopston area of Bristol, tapping into a...

The John Lewis Partnership has agreed a £500m multi-decade joint venture with global investment company abrdn to deliver around 1,000 new...

A leading lettings agency has warned the government not to forget the importance of small-scale landlords in its plans for the...

Forty per cent of privately rented homes in England are unlikely to achieve the energy efficiency rating target set to become...

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...

A tourism chief has likened new anti-holiday let regulations to those of a Stalinist dictatorship. Ashford Price, secretary of the Welsh Association...

The John Lewis Partnership has revealed the first three locations where it will build new rental homes. The properties “would offer the...

The Belvoir Group, one of the country’s largest multi-brand property franchises, is rebranding to distinguish itself from the Belvoir lettings and...

The government has released more details of the powers being given to local authorities to levy additional taxes on second homes.  The...

New research appears to be adding to the momentum to have more flexibility over pets in private rental accommodation.  Nearly one in...

An agency has secured what it calls the fastest ever letting of a mansion on the legendary north London street, Bishops...

Propertymark has told the government that imposing the same solution to the Net Zero challenge on all of the private rental...

Data from property investment consultancy London Central Portfolio suggests foreigners are returning to the UK capital as travel restrictions ease -...

A lettings agent who has made a series of outbursts against landlords and councils, has now turned his anger on proposed...

There’s a warning today that office-to-resi conversions - popular with landlords in recent years - are at an increased risk of...

A letter from a tenant’s union is demanding that a Labour councillor “publicly explain” his actions as an accountant advising investors...

The Labour-run Haringey council in London says some housing conditions in the private rental sector lead to anti-social behaviour. Letting Agent Today...

New PropTech company Ministry of Rooms says its platform has 350 landlords and agents signed up in its first six weeks. The property-tenant matching...

Leaders Romans Group has announced another acquisition - this time it’s the EuroLet agency at Bishops Stortford in Hertfordshire. The single-branch office...

A major agency and property consultancy has initiated ‘Wellness Wednesdays’ amongst a programme of activities to prioritise staff mental health during the...

Data from PropTech platform SpareRoom suggests that London’s typical room rent has dropped further, this time in response to the new...

The government has told letting agents in Tier 4 areas that their first priority must be the safety of their tenants. The...

  There is little doubt that the coronavirus has changed the way we live and rapidly created a new normality as different...

Move iQ, the consumer-facing property service led by Phil Spencer, has teamed up with a lettings sector insurance provider which could...

The chief executive of campaigning charity Shelter says she is expecting a “deluge” of cases when the eviction ban ends, but...

The developers behind the prestigious Television Centre scheme and its nearby White City Place development in west London are showing support...

Registration has opened for the 2020 ARLA Propertymark Conference, with an early bird discount available to members until January 24. The event,...

The government has this week published a learning toolkit for local authorities to help them with enforcement against rogue landlords and...

Letting agents are to be offered free training in managing tenancy deposits and disputes if they operate in Edinburgh. In the last...

Belvoir Group has this morning announced its interim results for the first six months of this year - and they show...

Another independent agency has been acquired by franchise giant Martin & Co.  The firm’s Southend franchisee purchased the managed properties of local...

A buy to let investor has received a hefty fine “for endangering the lives of his tenants by failing to meet...

A Scottish mediation company and the SafeDeposits Scotland Trust are to create eight workshops aiming to improve relationships between agents, landlords,...

A programme of nine new educational workshops takes place next month, some of which target new agents with little or no experience of deposits...

The London-focussed lettings agency Portico is expanding its short-lets service Portico Host into Manchester and Liverpool - but it isn’t spending...

A new survey suggests that the demise of the High Street for shopping could lead to a surge in the supply...

The death of the high street agency is a familiar headline, but PropTech can lower costs for bricks-and-mortar agencies and help...

Tenant deposit protection scheme TDS will be in London in February to host a ‘hands-on’ half-day workshop for agents and landlords. Part...

A lettings agent says the fees ban expected to be introduced next year may end up indirectly helping to save the...

If you’re a landlord who owns a buy to let property or perhaps a portfolio and need to raise money against...

A trade body says the country faces a net loss of 133,000 homes for private rent over the next year -...

The government should scrap the tax on new homes which is punishing those in need of a home to rent, the...

A new property management franchise operation, established late last year, is beefing up its training to cover GDPR, sales and marketing. SDL...

Brighton’s largest lettings agency MTM Property has rebranded under the new name Coapt. The rebranding involved a year of workshops, client and...

London Bishops have written to housing minister Alok Sharma calling on him to do more to protect vulnerable private tenants. The Bishops...

Training organisation Solvo Vir is inviting letting agents and landlords to attend courses to bring them up to date with new...

A company claims to have a package of services which would help letting agents overcome the widely-anticipated ban on fees being...

Twenty agency groups have backed a call by the Association of Residential Letting Agents urging the government to extend or scrap its...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is calling on the government to either extend the consultation period for the proposed ban...

A trade body has suggested that the General Election on June 8 may lead to a government with new priorities, meaning...

A prominent campaigning letting and sales agent predicts that the Conservatives are likely to put their proposed ban on letting agency...

The Department of Communities and Local Government is scrapping a series of workshops for letting agents to discuss the proposed ban...

Build To Rent operator Essential Living has won planning consent for 221 new homes in Brentford - part of the firm’s...

Wembley Park in north London is to host Britain’s largest Build To Rent scheme yet after Quintain revealed a programme for...

The government’s wave of measures to clamp down on the private rental sector and introduce harsher regulations for investors and landlords...

Letting agents and landlords across Scotland have been invited to check they are up to speed with current regulations at a...

The Association of Independent Inventory Clerks (AIIC) has announced that it is now offering a comprehensive range of high quality online...

When renting out a property, most landlords choose to take a deposit from their tenant prior to the tenancy starting. The...

A new scheme governing the letting out of residential property above retail premises is to be launched in September in the London borough of...

A lettings agency in south London has been found to be the front for a cannabis growing operation, with drugs grown...

A leading tax expert says there are likely to be unintended consequences of what he calls “half-cocked legislation” bringing in additional...

The government is proposing a national minimum bedroom size and a re-defining of what constitutes a House in Multiple Occupation in...

Lewisham council in south London is the latest local authority proposing to introduce a licensing scheme - starting, unusually, with residential...

Who are you? Joshua Rayner MIRP What does it say on your business card? Managing Director of Rayner Personnel & Estate Agency...

There has been much debate in recent years about Britain’s desperate need for more housing stock. Demand has been outstripping supply...