Archive

A lettings agency director is suggesting the short lets boom may be over. Marc von Grundherr, director of Benham and Reeves, says...

Propertymark has stepped into the row over whether there should be more controls over second homes, holiday lets and people from...

Property investment and management company The Sourced Group says its new lettings division which “presents franchisees with the chance to generate...

The number of private tenants in properties that are hard to heat has fallen, a council claims. As agents will know private...

It’s all change for a regional agents’ group which has announced a new chair and new directors. Cornwall-based former estate agent Steve...

Tenants in Bristol are paying 41 per cent more for a rental property than they did just five years ago, it...

Five regional police and crime commissioners have written to letting agents highlighting the problems of cannabis farms in private rental properties.  The...

A long-standing and respected property firm has slammed the government for presiding over the “mess” of taxes applied to holiday lets...

The Competition and Markets Authority is beefing up its enforcement work against illegal cartels and offering a reward of up to...

The letting agents’ trade body Propertymark has slammed the current lack of consistency of council tax on HMOs. It describes today’s system...

A Conservative MP in a tourist region has blamed the switch of rental accommodation to Airbnbs for a shortage of places...

Trading Standards is reminding letting agents of their legal obligation to protect money they are holding on behalf of a client...

CJ Hole, part of The Property Franchise Group, has expanded with the acquisition of an independent firm in Bristol. CJ Hole owner...

Housebuilders have branded a west country council’s decision to ask for all new homes to be net zero as ‘unaffordable' and...

Lettings and sales agents, along with other members of the property industry, have been celebrating at the ESTAS Customer Service Awards...

A retired estate agent has pleaded guilty to three charges of breaching fire safety in Devon. Retired Force and Sons agent David...

Local and central government is losing out on millions of pounds of council tax income this year because of the business...

Bookings for staycations continue to surpass pre-pandemic levels, according to holiday home rental agency Sykes Holiday Cottages.  The company has revealed that...

The Liberal Democrats have proposed sharp restrictions on holiday rentals at the heart of the party’s plans to solve the housing...

Shocking figures produced by a council in the south west show the vast number of short lets available - and by...

A local Trading Standards team is clamping down on rogue letting agents. Devon, Plymouth, Somerset and Torbay Trading Standards Service has launched...

A council says it’s looking for lettings agencies that worked with a rogue landlord who's been issued with a four year banning order. Bristol...

Another local authority is considering a clampdown on the spread and condition of HMOs. Bath and North East Somerset Council, which is...

Anger continues to mount over government plans to make rental properties more energy efficient, with one agent advising his landlords to make...

A police force has issued a warning to agents and owners of short-let properties to look for signs of modern slavery...

A joint operation between Avon and Somerset Police and North Somerset council has uncovered a string of issues connected with rental...

The Property Ombudsman has announced a slew of expulsions after six agents failed to comply with redress rules. They failed to abide...

Tenancy deposit alternative provider Reposit has been taken on by Devon-based agency chain Webbers.  The agency’s 15 offices operate in north Cornwall,...

The Yeovil branch of hybrid agency EweMove now has over 200 managed properties following the acquisition of the lettings book of...

Somerset agency Mark Templer Residential has acquired independent company Wrington Vale Lettings. Husband and wife team John and Vanessa Webb with business...

A PropTech company chief is backing the controversial idea of spot checks on private rental sector properties in a bid to...

The Independent online newspaper says Conservative MP Gary Streeter will tomorrow meet with Prime Minister Theresa May and urge her to...

A new lettings agency set up at Burnham-on-Sea in Somerset says it’s setting out to atone for the misdemeanours of nearby...

A council says it is adopting a new approach to proactively tackling poor housing conditions in privately rented homes in one...

We’re grateful to The Property Group, an agency in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, for alerting us to an incident involving its Mayfair Town...

A group of landlords that mounted a successful legal challenge to a council’s proposed licensing scheme is continuing to recruit letting...

A group of landlords and buy to let investors that has already successfully persuaded a council to scrap plans for a...

The campaign group ACORN, which has in the past organised protests outside letting agency offices, is up in arms that a...

A council has scrapped its proposal to introduce a licensing campaign for private sector landlords following large-scale opposition and the formation...

An organisation called Somerset Property Network has organised over 50 landlords in the course of little over one month and it...

A former letting agent has pleaded guilty of nine offences of fraud involving the retention of deposits and rents belonging to...

Countrywide has revealed that it has acquired 30 lettings businesses in the past year alone, expanding the firm’s rental sector headcount...

Connells Group has acquired two further lettings agencies - Pullin Rose at Frome in Somerset and Sky Lettings in Southampton. The acquisitions...

We’ve seen large numbers of local councils set up private rental accreditation systems, and a string of politicians from all major...

Countrywide has acquired Woods Estate Agents, a Bristol-based lettings and sales agency with five branches covering the city and north Somerset. Woods...

A series of raids on privately let properties in the westcountry appear to have taken place as a way of holding...

Poldark, a period drama recently on the BBC, has inspired a new trend dubbed the 'Poldark Effect'.  Rather than an increase in...