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29 August 2024
From: Breaking News
More than 20 property organisations and professionals have been named as finalists in a regional agency awards event. The winners of six...
20 August 2024
From: Breaking News
The Law Society claims over 29,000 eviction claims in recent months leave “tens of thousands at risk of losing their homes.” The...
09 August 2024
From: Breaking News
01 August 2024
From: Breaking News
The Propertymark Trust is to help agents donate orphaned funds to support charitable causes, thanks to support from CRM suppliers across...
01 August 2024
From: Breaking News
The John Lewis Partnership has received the green light to transform its Waitrose site in Bromley into a new Build To...
29 July 2024
From: Breaking News
A lettings and sales agency chain with 14 branches across the north east of England has committed to raising £5,000 in...
26 July 2024
From: Breaking News
A prominent industry trainer is working with a fledgling sales agency to launch what it calls a “buyer representation programme” -...
24 July 2024
From: Breaking News
Agents are being urged to campaign to change Labour’s Renters Rights Bill to stop it damaging the lettings industry. Neil Cobbold, commercial...
22 July 2024
From: Breaking News
Zoopla is now describing itself as ’the official data partner’ of the Channel 4 programme ‘Worst House on the Street’. Its data...
19 July 2024
From: Breaking News
A new Renters' Rights Bill is to be introduced into Parliament, it's been confirmed today. The announcement was made in the King's...
17 July 2024
From: Breaking News
Data sourced from millions of Barclays current accounts reveals spending on rent and mortgages rose just 1.5% year-on-year in June –...
11 July 2024
From: Breaking News
Some 8,000 people were forced to sleep rough for the first time in London last year, an increase of 25% on...
28 June 2024
From: Breaking News
Development company Select Property has launched Select Residential, one of the first in-house lettings businesses of its kind by a build-to-sell...
24 June 2024
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The Bank of England has kept base interest rate at 5.25%. Some industry figures hoped for a cut following yesterday’s inflation news,...
20 June 2024
From: Breaking News
Would-be buyers with a 5% deposit face paying £300 per month more in mortgage repayments than if they continued renting, says...
19 June 2024
From: Breaking News
A political party has proposed that Capital Gains Tax be equalised with Income Tax - meaning landlords and investors who sold...
13 June 2024
From: Breaking News
The Conservatives have this afternoon set out a 78-page manifesto, of which just over two pages are given to housing and...
11 June 2024
From: Breaking News
Inflation figures are down - but not as much as many analysts expected. The basic Consumer Price Index figure fell from 3.2%...
23 May 2024
From: Breaking News
Boutique Knightsbridge estate agency Nicolas Van Patrick (NVP) has acquired Chelsea lettings and management company HLR. HLR was established in 1986, growing...
09 May 2024
From: Breaking News
A prominent agent campaigning for business tax reform is urging Labour to come clean on its policies for business rates and...
03 May 2024
From: Breaking News
The ValPal Network has partnered with agency software provider Street.co .uk. This will facilitate the integration of Street’s CRM with TVPN’s lead...
02 May 2024
From: Breaking News
Lomond - a firm that now calls itself “one of the UK’s largest acquirers of estate and letting agency businesses” -...
11 April 2024
From: Breaking News
The Tenancy Deposit Service, the provider of tenancy deposit protection and dispute resolution services, has appointed Fay Selvan as its new...
11 April 2024
From: Breaking News
What appears to be another government housing policy U-turn - this time on ground rents - is being hailed as “a...
26 March 2024
From: Breaking News
Latest inflation figures are announced on Wednesday and the Bank of England makes its next base rate decision on Thursday. The Office...
15 March 2024
From: Breaking News
Agency software suppliers Inventory Base and Street.co.uk has struck an integration partnership that pledges to “drive operational change for property professionals...
08 March 2024
From: Breaking News
The Chancellor has one last chance to come good on the election promise of lowering the burden of business rates –...
06 March 2024
From: Breaking News
National property services group, Leaders Romans Group has snapped up Purplebricks’ lettings chief to become a director in its property management...
28 February 2024
From: Breaking News
Tom Davies has started with Leaders Romans Group as the company’s first group financial services managing director. This new position coincides with...
20 February 2024
From: Breaking News
Lettings, property management and sales agency Johns&Co - which celebrates its 10th year in business in 2024 - is opening a...
16 February 2024
From: Breaking News
A prominent industry expert says lettings agents and other property sector insiders should be extra-vigilant over cybersecurity breaches. Neil Cobbold, managing director...
12 February 2024
From: Breaking News
A wealthy landlord who set up a fake lettings agency in Hull has been jailed for 11 years for allowing ‘ghost tenants’ to...
07 February 2024
From: Breaking News
There were 12,000 first time buyers over the age of 50 in the UK in 2022, the latest figures available. This means...
30 January 2024
From: Breaking News
Two agencies have today joined eXp UK, the platform which now wants existing branch-based firm to convert to its self employed...
18 January 2024
From: Breaking News
Fast-growing Lomond has snapped up another regional agency - this time one in the Midlands. Centrick - which had a High Street...
12 January 2024
From: Breaking News
New rent control proposals put forward by politicians are unnecessary and too costly according to a leading property expert. David Alexander -...
12 January 2024
From: Breaking News
The Property Franchise Group, the UK's largest property franchise brand, wants to merge with long-time rival Belvoir. Both are listed on the...
10 January 2024
From: Breaking News
An organised crime group involved in producing and distributing an estimated £2.4m of cannabis has been found to have e used...
10 January 2024
From: Breaking News
The Jackson-Stops agency is warning that the Renters Reform Bill is driving investors away - and making the market worse, not...
28 December 2023
From: Breaking News
A group of rental activists claims that police in England are disproportionately using a 19th century law that criminalises rough sleeping...
28 December 2023
From: Breaking News
Citra Living, the Build To Rent arm of Lloyds Banking Group, has announced another new scheme. It is a 95-flat development at...
11 December 2023
From: Breaking News
A prominent agency says tomorrow’s Autumn Statement is the Chancellor’s last chance to come good on the election promise to lower...
21 November 2023
From: Breaking News
Savills has moved into a new office in Bath, occupying over 2,500 square feet in a prominent on a prominent shopping...
10 November 2023
From: Breaking News
The ValPal Network - a lead generation product from Angels Media, publisher of Letting Agent Today and other Today titles -...
08 November 2023
From: Breaking News
New figures have shown that 2,086 people were found to be sleeping on London’s streets for the first time between July...
07 November 2023
From: Breaking News
There’s growing optimism that tomorrow’s Bank of England monetary policy committee meeting will see base rate held for another month -...
01 November 2023
From: Breaking News
The lettings agency Winkworth has taken the unusual step of criticising policies of a series of councils. The councils are all Labour...
30 October 2023
From: Breaking News
Lomond has snapped up another lettings book - it’s of the Royston & Lund agency in the East Midlands. The 600 properties...
26 October 2023
From: Breaking News
An online lettings platform is attacking agents for their fees, which it describes as a “waste” of landlord funds. Hello Neighbour, a...
23 October 2023
From: Breaking News
There are growing fears of yet another Bank of England base rate rise next month following the surprise inflation figure released...
19 October 2023
From: Breaking News
The Times is reporting that a delay to the controversial ban on gas boilers is being considered by the government as...
20 September 2023
From: Breaking News
An established High Street agency has launched a “partner’ business model that it claims will be the future shape of the...
01 September 2023
From: Breaking News
HSBC is increasing its maximum mortgage term to 40 years for buy to let, purchase, remortgaging and additional borrowing. Second homes will...
30 August 2023
From: Breaking News
The historic Cluttons agency has moved its London office HQ to what it calls “a new prime trophy building.” It’s taken a...
29 August 2023
From: Breaking News
An overseas agency trying to establish itself in the UK has taken a swipe at domestic agencies’ love of High Street...
15 August 2023
From: Breaking News
An online lettings platform is warning that some landlords are being give “too good to be true" promises of rent increases by...
01 August 2023
From: Breaking News
Airbnb has issued a statement responding to the call for a clampdown on short lets demanded by Labour’s outspoken London Mayor,...
24 July 2023
From: Breaking News
A landlord who is also the owner of a High Street lettings agency has been fined £17,293 for breaching housing licence...
13 July 2023
From: Breaking News
Martin & Co’s Sheffield and Worksop branches are under new ownership, with training guru Dean Gill taking the reins. He succeeds previous...
06 July 2023
From: Breaking News
Over half of the agency branches sold to franchisees by LSL Property Services have signed up to a large PropTech deal. As...
20 June 2023
From: Breaking News
High end lettings agency Aston Chase has let a house modelled on Windsor Castle for the princely sum of £247,000 per...
06 June 2023
From: Breaking News
Leaders Romans Group has announced another new lettings acquisition. It has snapped up Liberty Gate, a single-office Nottingham-based business which also operates...
03 May 2023
From: Breaking News
Outsourced viewing service Viewber has linked with a property report company. The partnership between Viewber and Street Insights means outsourced viewing operatives...
26 April 2023
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Leaders lettings agency has launched its new sustainable office in Aylesbury. The company insists that by 2030 all of its branches will...
12 April 2023
From: Breaking News
A veteran Conservative is calling on his government to clamp down on HMOs and ensure there is better council regulation and...
05 April 2023
From: Breaking News
A charity is claiming that new powers to evict anti-social private tenants could lead to more homelessness, while those already living...
28 March 2023
From: Breaking News
Landlords and agents acting on their behalf are to be given more powers to evict unruly tenants who ruin neighbours’ lives...
27 March 2023
From: Breaking News
Chestertons, one of London’s oldest and largest estate agencies, has snapped the letting and management business of Henry & James, described...
27 March 2023
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The Bank of England’s monetary policy committee meets today to decide on its base interest rate amidst shock at the latest...
23 March 2023
From: Breaking News
Shawbrook is becoming a bigger player in the buy to let lending market following the acquisition of specialist lender Bluestone Mortgages. Launched...
21 March 2023
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Leaders Romans Group has snapped up another independent lettings firm in what it calls a five year acquisition programme. Stanley & Partners...
20 March 2023
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A council is set to renew its war on To Let boards. In summer 2018, Leciester council brought into effect a new...
16 March 2023
From: Breaking News
Father and sons trio Kevin, Lewis and Tom Dudley have joined forces to become the new owners of Martin & Co’s...
21 February 2023
From: Breaking News
An online lettings platform used by 20,000 landlords has beaten its target to raise £850,000 In investment - and it’s still...
15 February 2023
From: Breaking News
Derby-based serviced apartment provider The Stay Company has snapped up another site for its portfolio. The development in Gedling, Nottinghamshire, is called...
15 February 2023
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An online lettings platform used by 20,000 landlords is seeking an additional £850,000 In investment. Lettingaproperty is using crowdfunding site Seedrs for...
26 January 2023
From: Breaking News
Letting agents and landlords are invited to join a virtual forum for a further update on new licensing requirements and to...
25 January 2023
From: Breaking News
High end agency UK Sotheby’s International Realty - which has properties to let at up to an eye-watering cost of £80,000...
24 January 2023
From: Breaking News
New data shows that online agents have failed in their bid to replace traditional agencies - and that there are more...
18 January 2023
From: Breaking News
The largest lettings agency in Scotland, DJ Alexander Ltd, has opened new premises in Glasgow. It employed 20 people and lettings director...
18 January 2023
From: Breaking News
The private rented sector is enjoying record demand. According to Hometrack, rental enquiries per estate agency branch were 46% higher in...
16 January 2023
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A new survey of over 8,000 commercial estate agents indicates a challenging 2023 - suggesting a possible alternative investment option for...
04 January 2023
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UK banks are closing client accounts held by established letting agents and refusing to open accounts for new businesses. The Problem A growing...
19 December 2022
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The Bank of England’s monetary policy committee meets again this week with a further interest rate rise likely if base rate...
12 December 2022
From: Breaking News
A Labour MP has attacked Airbnb hosts and others in the short lets business, accusing them of “this exploitation of housing...
08 December 2022
From: Breaking News
A new survey from Aviva has revealed that over a million people may rule themselves out of the first-time buyer market,...
28 November 2022
From: Breaking News
Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I'm Vik Tara and on my business card it says...
22 November 2022
From: 60 Second Interview
Over 1,000 agents attended an online launch event for a new lettings platform product from PropTech supplier Street Group. Some 150 agents...
22 November 2022
From: Breaking News
A PropTech supplier claims to be shaking up the lettings market with the launch of its revolutionary Property Management software this...
16 November 2022
From: Breaking News
Knight Frank says it expects house prices to drop in the coming year - but only to those levels seen in...
31 October 2022
From: Breaking News
University students have queued on the street overnight to secure a home for next year in one of the UK’s most...
28 October 2022
From: Breaking News
The relentless expansion of Lomond Group continues apace with the acquisition of a Leeds-based independent, ERE Lettings. ERE’s 600 units under management...
13 October 2022
From: Breaking News
The Property Franchise Group - which includes a host of High Street brands - saw a rise in managed properties of...
14 September 2022
From: Breaking News
The fast-growing Lomond Group of agencies has acquired a major online lettings service. But it's going to manage the properties through physical...
10 August 2022
From: Breaking News
Sibling businessmen Jonathan and Matthew Daines are to create 15 new jobs at the Warwickshire-based PropTech platform Lettingaproperty over the next...
09 August 2022
From: Breaking News
A lettings agency says the cost of living crisis calls into question the viability of a selective licensing scheme in its...
05 August 2022
From: Breaking News
PropTech operator Lettingaproperty has won £750,000 to build a new rental platform of landlords and tenants. The cash boost, from the MEIF...
21 July 2022
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A jury has ruled that a lettings agency has been guilty of illegally evicting tenants in Margate - with locks changed,...