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Purplebricks chairman Paul Pindar has survived a challenge from a rebel investor - but shareholders appear split.  A company general meeting -...

A prominent letting agent has written an open letter to Housing Secretary Michael Gove, calling for a halt on government attacks...

The chief executive of Propertymark says latest data from letting agents suggests rent rises may have peaked - but that could...

One of Connells’ high end branch, Hamptons, is releasing a TV advertisement on Boxing Day.  The advert, in 30 and 60 second...

Over the last decade, the proportion of people aged 24 to 64 living in their own home has fallen and the...

Land and Buildings Transaction Tax - the Scottish equivalent of stamp duty - has risen to six per cent for all...

Rightmove says yesterday’s Bank of England base rate rise to 3.5 per cent - the ninth hike in as many Bank...

A London borough has been identified as having 42 per cent rental inflation in the past year. Lambeth in the south of...

Propertymark pledges that an event being held next summer will be “colossal” - and will haver the likes of lettings agents...

The latest market snapshot by London-focussed data company LonRes shows that a shortage of homes available to rent across all parts...

The Bank of England has increased base rate by 0.5 per cent to 3.5 per cent. This is the ninth consecutive base...

The government is under new pressure to introduce a last minute eviction ban to avoid private renters facing homelessness over Christmas. Liberal...

Data from fraud prevention database CIFAS a marked increase in both identity fraud and false lettings applications in the UK according...

Two members of Ellis & Co’s Mill Hill team have bought out the branch.  Ellis & Co Mill Hill’s Paul Glass has...

PropTech firm PayProp UK claims actual rent rises may be well below those suggested in some surveys. In response to the Scottish...

The Propertynest lettings and sales agency is expanding into Yateley in Hampshire.  This follows the recruitment of experienced agent Mark Holloway into...

Keller Williams UK - which has seen market centre closures in recent months - insists that its lettings business KW Move...

Data from the mortgage lenders’ trade body UK Finance shows the wisdom of agents having a lettings division. The body says: “We...

No fewer than 85 per cent of letting agents say that landlord clients have expressed a wish to sell up in...

Annual rental growth strengthened for the third month running, with average rents up 7.9 per cent across Britain on the same...

This may be 2022’s least surprising research finding - most property professionals want interest rates to fall. A webinar poll undertaken by...

Housing Secretary Michael Gove is being asked to take urgent action over housing conditions across social and private rental sectors.  Following the...

A London lettings agent is offering free interior styling to all his clients. After 16 years working as head stylist for one...

A council wants public views on empty private homes in its patch - but doesn’t want to talk about publicly-owned empty...

The fledgling trade body for the UK’s short lets industry has welcomed the government’s proposal for a registration scheme for hosts. The...

Zoopla has given details of its collaboration with homelessness charity Crisis following the announcement of a three-year partnership earlier this year. Crisis’s...

The Bank of England’s monetary policy committee meets again this week with a further interest rate rise likely if base rate...

A new survey has been launched to gather views from people in a major English city on the idea of introducing...

Investment buyers will snap up a higher proportion of homes in 2022 than they did in 2021, the Hamptons agency forecasts.   So...

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

Agents have expressed their anger at the government effectively scrapping any meaningful house building targets. Housing Secretary Michael Gove scrapped the mandatory...

A consultation proposing a steep rise in council tax for second homes has won strong public support. Flintshire council in north Wales...

A prominent independent lettings agency says the typical tenant outside of London now spends 63 per cent of their household income...

Inventory and property reporting app Inventory Base has partnered with software operator MRI Software. This means that through the MRI Partner Connect...

Trends in the lettings market “do not bode well for renters on low incomes” according to an analyst. Jack Godby of lettings...

The average rent for a new letting has increased by £117 per month since last year, reaching £1,078 per calendar month...

Purplebricks has detailed the price it is paying for a lettings compliance blunder first spotted last year. It predicts that, at worst,...

A Labour MP has attacked Airbnb hosts and others in the short lets business, accusing them of “this exploitation of housing...

Rightmove has created thousands of personalised videos to help letting agency branches highlight this year’s achievements to prospective landlords. The video can...

  John D Wood, one of the high end brands now owned by Connells, has expanded into the Docklands & City area...

The headlines surrounding today’s new RICS market snapshot will concentrate on dramatic house price falls but the drop off in the...

One of the leading deposit alternative services has called for a code of conduct to step, amongst other things, alleged pressure...

The tax on property purchased in one part of the UK has reached a new record figure - and a top...

A crackdown on Airbnbs and other short lets in the Scottish capital, Edinburgh, has infuriated landlord’s’ representatives. In line with the rest...

Housing Secretary Michael Gove has sent a letter to the Competitions and Markets Authority saying the watchdog is independent - but...

A new analysis claims to show how difficult it has become for buy to let investors to secure finance as a...

The volatile economy is forcing small agencies and other modest-sized businesses to put on hold millions of pounds of spending on...

The government is to open a consultation on whether residential properties should require planning consent to be used as short lets...

A well known regional lettings agency has completed a £250,000 investment drive that includes a new office and a recruitment campaign. Berriman...

Three councils will be sharing £1.21m in public cash over the next two years to tackle poor quality properties in the...

A London borough is tomorrow holding an online training session for agents and landlords on how to submit a licence application...

The Observer newspaper has investigated the way letting agents apply so-called zero deposit schemes - and claims that in some cases...

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

The latest rental index from Goodlord shows rents down over the past month, with voids inching up.  All seven English regions monitored...

Savills has promoted Sophie Candlin, a negotiator in its south west London Teddington office, to become its head of lettings. She takes...

OnTheMarket is to host a series of Meet Our Partners webinars to showcase suppliers with links to the portals.  Since Jason Tebb...

Purplebricks is to reveal its latest trading figures next week in a crucial test for the turnaround strategy of new chief...

A PropTech supplier is claiming that a new link with a Facebook expert will help supercharge the social media experience of...

The UK Short Term Accommodation Association has named a new chief executive.  Andy Fenner will support STAA chairperson Merilee Karr and director...

A financial expert says the latest house price index, showing the biggest monthly fall for over two years, is the “first...

Research released today by Legal & General, a player in the Build To Rent sector, claims that renters are willing to...

Activists say they are planning protests outside lettings agency offices this weekend. Activists in the London Renters Union and Greater Manchester Tenants...

Agents have only until the end of tomorrow, December 2, to feed into Propertymark’s response to a new consultation on the...

The Association of Independent Inventory Clerks is hosting a webinar this evening for letting agents and other industry employers responsible for...

Propertymark is doubling the number of full-scale regional conferences in 2023, and for the first time they will be free to...

Nottinghamshire estate agency Gascoines has bolstered its lettings team with the appointment of Callum Holmes as lettings co-ordinator.  With more than 10...

A new lettings regime that is described as the biggest change in many decades comes into effect tomorrow in Wales, with...

The government is urging all overseas entities who own property in the UK to register at Companies House. The Register of Overseas...

A not-for-profit company that matches rental properties with vulnerable tenants in need of accommodation has partnered with a maintenance firm to...

A new licensing scheme for HMOs, agreed by leaders of Portsmouth council, will be implemented from September 1 2023. Licensing of HMOs...

Following the recent inquest into the tragic death of two-year old Awaab Ishak in Rochdale, agents are being offered free awareness...

A senior Savills figure, who chairs the trade body known as The Lettings Industry Council, has issued a warning to the...

A respected agent is warning that a proposal to increase stamp duty on additional homes could kill off the rental market...

Airbnb-style short-lets in another part of Scotland are to be subject to new licensing rules. The scheme, introduced by the Scottish Government,...

Property consultancy Walker Singleton has snapped up the independent Daniel & Hirst agency in Yorkshire. The deal, which was for an undisclosed...

Shelter claims government figures show 5,940 households were “threatened with homelessness” in England as a result of Section 21 evictions between April...

OnTheMarket is launching its own proprietary customer relationship management platform for estate agents - and it’s billed as the first ever...

The downbeat results of a survey by a finance company suggest that half of tenants are worried that they will be...

A new survey from Aviva has revealed that over a million people may rule themselves out of the first-time buyer market,...

Lettings income for LSL Property Services increased two per cent in the past year - at just the time the company...

The well-known York agency Blenkin & Co has launched a prime lettings service to complement its long-established sales side. The new service...

A survey among letting agents on Rightmove has found that on average they are managing 36 enquiries per property and spending...

ARLA Propertymark President David Votta and Propertymark chief executive Nathan Emerson are amongst a group of trade body figures who have...

The government has made a general commitment to work with those who want council tax reforms for Homes in Multiple Occupation. Earlier...

Propertymark has given its backing to a clampdown by Housing Secretary Michael Gove on private landlords - although landlords themselves appear...

London property data business LonRes has launched an app. By downloading the app users can search for properties – for sale or...

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

Data from different firms suggest there’s been an upsurge in the purchase of rent protection insurance by agents. Firstly Goodlord and Vouch...

A new PropTech integration with the Tenancy Deposit Scheme’s API will help streamline deposit protection, it’s claimed. According to Debbie Davies of...

The head of an estate agency and property investment firm says the government should do more to reform the rental sector...

The number of long-term empty homes has risen in every region of the UK during 2022 according to new government figures. The...

The large majority of players in the lettings industry wants the rental reform programme outlined by the government, an agent claims. Laura...

Propertymark says letting agents should have clear policies and priorities to help ensure properties are kept to the highest standards possible.  The...

The allAgents review website has removed a claim suggesting it had been ‘endorsed’ by The Times and the Sunday Times newspapers. The...

A lettings network is urging landlords to back a campaign to abolish council tax re-banding for shared houses. Platinum Property Partners says...

A short trading statement from Stock Market-listed London agency chain Winkworth shows just how vital the lettings sector is to its...

A news website is reporting that a landlord cut the asking rent of a property after social media criticism of its...

The controversial Boiler Upgrade Scheme - which Propertymark say is so complex many people don’t think it’s worth applying to -...

A Belvoir branch has made its fifth acquisition - and this time it’s a neighbouring Belvoir office whose owners were retiring. Nathan...

Over 1,000 agents attended an online launch event for a new lettings platform product from PropTech supplier Street Group. Some 150 agents...