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North east England operator Pattinson Estate Agency is taking over another local rival firm. It’s acquired NS Bennett Estate Agents, in Stanley,...
10 May 2024
From: Breaking News
Fine & Country says it’s staging so-called Masterclass sessions with experts creating strategies “to help agents dominate the prime property market...
02 May 2024
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Paragon Bank’s analysis of its lending data has revealed the top 10 locations for investment by portfolio buy-to-let landlords, those with...
10 April 2024
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Corporate student accommodation provider Unite Group has reported a big jump in earnings on the back of a shortage of lets...
28 February 2024
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Expanding agency group My Property Box has completed its 10th acquisition in six years, buying Teesside lettings and property investment specialist...
08 February 2024
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The scale of rent rises has peaked with future increases likely to be smaller, says Zoopla. The portal’s latest report into the...
13 December 2023
From: Breaking News
Some 48 per cent of tenants are currently living with one or more housing disrepair issues, it’s being claimed. The problems include...
27 October 2023
From: Breaking News
The classified ad website Gumtree is issuing an alert about what it claims is the growing threat of rental fraud. It says...
05 September 2023
From: Breaking News
Rightmove is to provide agents with local market data and easier access to training at a series of Propertymark regional events. Rightmove...
07 August 2023
From: Breaking News
One in eight tenants admit to letting out part or all of their rented property - and that rises to a...
26 July 2023
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Newcastle-based lettings agency Seekers has successfully qualified a further four members of staff and funded their membership of ARLA Propertymark. The four...
21 July 2023
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My Property Box Tyne & Wear has extended its all-inclusive rent deal - and it says it’s in response to concerns...
11 July 2023
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A comparison website has compiled a list of what it claims to be the most common lies on tenancy applications -...
20 June 2023
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Moneyfacts, the respected independent mortgage market monitor, is warning that lenders have been withdrawing buy to let fixed deals. Within the buy...
31 May 2023
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Investors looking to add to their portfolios in 2023 should be urged to consider student housing opportunities, according to a Newcastle...
05 May 2023
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Newcastle-based lettings agency Seekers is backing a clean air zone in its city. The agency’s two cars, both Volkswagen ID-3s, are part...
27 February 2023
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A north of England lettings agency has rebranded after two decades. Walton Robinson - which specialises in residential lettings for students, professionals...
14 February 2023
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Habitans Lettings - just two years old - has purchased the long-standing Heywoods agency in Newcastle Under Lyme. Established in 1881, Heywoods...
30 December 2022
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A buy to let investment site has used Artificial Intelligence to identify 10 top property investment opportunities in 2023. Based on analysis...
28 December 2022
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New research predicts that northern regions of England will see many of the best investment opportunities in 2023. It is also these...
23 December 2022
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Newcastle-based agency Walton Robinson is offering a buy to let property sourcing service. This year, the agency claims it’s secured rental increases...
24 August 2022
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New research claims students in the UK are currently paying as much as £16,500 per year in living costs - a...
16 August 2022
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Student landlords have seen record increases in rental prices of over 20 per cent in some cases, according to a lettings...
10 August 2022
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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...
05 July 2022
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An apprentice working at Newcastle’s Walton Robinson agency has revealed why she believes it’s her dream job. The agency specialises in residential...
14 June 2022
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A company providing virtual tours insists the technology delivers “undeniable results” but is still not used universally by agents. Virtual tours became...
25 May 2022
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Expanding North East agency Hive Estates has acquired a Newcastle lettings business as part of its plans for growth - and...
23 March 2022
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Rental market stock levels have plummeted further - even to below the pre-pandemic levels of late 2019. New research shows that in...
11 March 2022
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Rental guarantor service Housing Hand has announced a new partnership with student accommodation provider Kexgill. The firms claim the arrangement will challenge...
29 December 2021
From: Breaking News
North east of England agency My Property Box has acquired Newcastle independent Groves as part of its strategic growth plan. All 12...
10 December 2021
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A Newcastle lettings agency says it’s cracked how to help reduce tenancy disputes at check out and speed up the return...
29 November 2021
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A north of England lettings agency is claiming an all-time record for enquiries relating to student accommodation - and the biggest...
11 November 2021
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Media reports in Stoke on Trent say a man was arrested after a police raid on the Homes2Let lettings agency in...
05 November 2021
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A lettings agency in Manchester has received over 10,000 rental enquiries in just one month. Manchester Apartments says it received some 21,000...
27 October 2021
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A lettings agency’s research has revealed that rental demand has continued to climb across most major UK cities during the third quarter...
05 October 2021
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The Furnished versus Unfurnished debate in the rental sector has been going on for years but new research attempts to quantify...
12 August 2021
From: Breaking News
Rightmove is to rebrand its Van Mildert platform next month, when it will become Rightmove Landlord and Tenant Services. Van Mildert, a...
16 June 2021
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UK’s largest listed residential landlord, Grainger, has given details of its latest city scheme, in Newcastle. It has spent £57m on the...
14 June 2021
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The Build to Rent market remains small in volume but it is making some inroads, leading to BTR rent rises predominantly...
18 May 2021
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An agency in the north of England has outlined how it proposes to take investors to what it calls “multiple viewings”...
05 March 2021
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Letting agents should help landlords through a blizzard of red tape and regulation cause by local licensing schemes, a PropTech entrepreneur...
10 February 2021
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The average cost of renting in England is almost unchanged from five years ago - although that masks significant localised variations. The...
18 November 2020
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It appears the much-hyped exodus of people from London to the country doesn’t apply to the rental market. Despite rents falling in...
10 November 2020
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Two former Keller Williams agents have their own BBC Three TV show now available on the iPlayer. It’s called Rent Like a...
20 October 2020
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The acquisition of a Newcastle independents has allowed Northwood to become one of the city’s largest lettings agencies. Inderpal Dhillon and Aman Singh of...
11 September 2020
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Media reports from Gateshead claim two brothers opened fire on a lettings agency with an air pistol when they were told they...
11 August 2020
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03 July 2020
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New research has produced a series of league tables to identify where in Britain the best rental yields can be found. The...
23 June 2020
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One bedroom properties provide the best returns to buy to let investors according to new research by a lettings management platform. Single...
18 June 2020
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A buy to let investor who kept a group of men as slaves – making them work 90-hour weeks in return...
04 June 2020
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One of the country’s largest Build To Rent players, Legal & General, says it’s to construct another 350 homes as part...
29 April 2020
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A local authority has postponed the extension of its private rental sector licensing regime - but it’s warning agents not to...
03 April 2020
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A leading property industry figure says Airbnb is attempting to persuade traditional buy to let landlords into going down the short-let...
13 January 2020
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The property management platform Apropos, scheduled to launch early next year, says it’s signed up 25 business partners ahead of schedule. The...
15 November 2019
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A group of landlords in the North East are the latest to criticise Labour's plans to introduce a Right to Buy...
04 October 2019
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Data from a student accommodation specialist firm shows average rents across many cities are stuck at around a 20-year average of...
17 July 2019
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An online room-letting platform claims rents have risen up to eight per cent in wake of the Tenant Fee Act. ideal flatmate...
11 July 2019
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University towns in the north of England and the Midlands score highest when it comes to yields and capital appreciation. The assessment...
21 June 2019
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A group of activists has expressed outrage over a council’s private rental licensing scheme, claiming it is too small to catch...
20 June 2019
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New research shows that some buy to let investors in London could typically lose over £19,000 a year if Berlin-style rent...
19 June 2019
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An agency in the north east of England is moving its HQ off the High Street and into an office block...
29 April 2019
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A survey of 500 buy to let landlords suggests that well over a third are planning to increase the size of...
25 March 2019
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A mortgage firm claims the lettings industry is ripping off students by overcharging them. Mojo Mortgages says it has compared the rent...
21 January 2019
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A new study suggests that rental properties now account for 40 per cent of the available housing stock. Looking at the final...
21 January 2019
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Research released this morning reveals that university cities offer some of the highest buy to let yields in the country. The Free...
03 December 2018
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Manchester’s rental market is rising higher than in any other UK city according to property consultancy Cushman & Wakefield. Rents were up...
15 November 2018
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A two bedroom furnished flat can cost up to 21 per cent more to rent than a comparable property that’s unfurnished. Research...
24 September 2018
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A family-run hybrid based in the North East has secured the £300,000 contract to manage a new student accommodation development in...
10 September 2018
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A newspaper in Northumbria says local police are treating a fire at a lettings agency as a deliberate arson attack. Police are...
27 June 2018
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Sourced, which describes itself as the largest property investment platform in the UK, has secured its 25th franchise some 10 months...
22 June 2018
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An analysis of over 580,000 properties has produced a league table of Britain’s best and worst buy to let postcodes in...
18 June 2018
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A rental investment platform is claiming to have succeeded with the world’s largest property crowdfunding exercise, raising £2,992,800. Property Partner says it...
26 October 2017
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A growing agency has appointed a new lettings team and is aiming to compete with its successful residential sales division. Heywoods, the...
12 June 2017
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A prominent campaigning letting agent has discovered that more than 6,000 tenants in one region alone have complained to local authorities...
08 May 2017
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Airbnb’s new protocol seeking to stop London hosts short-letting their properties for more than 90 days a year without formal consent,...
22 December 2016
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A campaign group has been refocussed with the objective of making the government honour its Autumn Statement pledge to ban letting...
08 December 2016
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A plentiful supply of freehold properties in our cities may become a thing of the past as urban areas become increasingly...
04 November 2016
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Economic uncertainty in China could spill over to cause problems for the student letting sector in the UK, an agent is...
16 February 2016
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New research from HomeLet reveals that Brighton, Bristol, Edinburgh and Newcastle recorded the largest increase in rents last year amongst the...
12 January 2016
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Countrywide has announced plans to recruit over 200 apprentices in the next year, working on a training programme drawn up with...
08 October 2015
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A row has broken out between one of the north east’s most prominent letting agents and Zoopla over the worst place...
21 September 2015
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A London agency has announced the launch of an educational property investment seminar business. RE/MAX London launched RE/MAX Why What Where last...
20 August 2015
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A letting agent is angry that there has not been a single prosecution in his region as a result of agencies...