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The relentless acquisition programme of the private equity-funded Lomond Group continues apace with another acquisition announced today - the second this...

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

A third of homes currently for sale can be bought with a mortgage and monthly repayments that cost less than the...

A property management firm claims that energy efficiency is apparently renters’ most important quality when choosing a place to live.  Centrick says...

Lomond has more than doubled its footprint spanning the South Coast after a major deal involving a 10 branch agency, Beal's. Beal’s employs...

It’s claimed that as many as one in five tenants has lost out in a rental bidding war during the last...

Fine & Country has announced what it calls “a ground-breaking partnership” between licencees Jonathan Handford and Sean Newman and Jack Rees...

Rightmove is to provide agents with local market data and easier access to training at a series of Propertymark regional events. Rightmove...

Typical UK rents now account for 28.3 per cent of average pre-tax earnings - slightly above the 10-year average of 27...

The second largest resale in Belvoir’s history has taken place with the husband and wife behind the Southampton franchise buying Belvoir...

It’s been reported that the lettings book owned by a long-standing agency has been sold to a rival firm. A message on...

Bhavik Patel, owner of Nicholas Humphreys Southampton & Portsmouth has acquired independent lettings agency Harker and Bullman in Wimborne. This is the...

Airbnb is giving away £100 vouchers to anyone in the UK who shifts into the short lets sector for the first...

Charters Group, the south of England agency, has announced a further acquisition that will grow its residential lettings operations. Charters Estate Agents will combine...

A lettings agency’s research has revealed that rental demand has continued to climb across most major UK cities during the third quarter...

A branch of Northwood has snapped up an independent agency. Bassets Lettings, which is based in Salisbury, was set up in 2002...

A new £40m Build To Rent scheme has opened in Leeds city centre. The Headline, from Grainger, features 242 new homes and...

The Build to Rent market remains small in volume but it is making some inroads, leading to BTR rent rises predominantly...

Despite rent controls being a vote-catching policy for some local election candidates next week, the reality is that asking rents in...

A quarterly index suggests that there’s been a sharp uplift in tenant demand for rental properties across the UK’s major cities...

Hampshire independent agency Harcourts Property Agents in Southampton has been acquired by another independent, Beal’s. Harcourts has over 35 years experience in...

Rental demand has dropped significantly across London and other major UK cities as a result of the pandemic. When comparing current levels...

A Southampton lettings agency owner has been jailed after defrauding landlords and tenants out of £230,000. Andrew Whitehead has been jailed for...

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

The Southampton branch of Martin & Co has more than doubled its business after acquiring an independent agent in the city. It’s...

An online room-letting platform claims rents have risen up to eight per cent in wake of the Tenant Fee Act. ideal flatmate...

Seven agencies have been expelled from membership of The Property Ombudsman after failing to pay compensation awards made by TPO. All are...

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

Grainger, the UK's largest listed residential landlord, has snapped up a 132-flat Build To Rent scheme in Southampton for £27m.  The project...

Liverpool and Nottingham are the UK’s best performing property investment locations, according to mortgage broker Private Finance.  Both cities enjoy average rental...

One of the senior figures in the UK’s burgeoning Build To Rent sector has called on the Chancellor to help this...

A total of 17 letting agencies have signed up to a rental charter set up by a Labour MP.   Alan Whitehead, Labour...

The franchise giant Century 21 UK has opened its latest estate and letting agency office - and it's in Southampton.  The office,...

A Labour MP has told the House of Commons that letting agents are “completely unregulated” and that tenants are being “held...

A letting agency in Hampshire has doubled in size after acquiring one of its competitors. LetCo, a four branch agency working across...

As we reported yesterday, The Property Ombudsman has expelled two letting agencies and is warning consumers about the firms, which are...

Consumers are being warned by The Property Ombudsman redress scheme about the actions of two lettings agents based in Southampton.  Both agencies,...

One of the leading investors in Britain’s fast-growing Build To Rent sector says this new tenure will lift the lettings sector’s...

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

Atlas Residential - a US Build To Rent company which operates 18,000 rental units across 13 states valued at a total...

A tenant referencing and insurance firm has announced that it has completed the acquisition of one of its competitors. Let Insurances Ltd,...