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Daily property news in the UK residential sector focused on estate and letting agency, property auctions and property managers.
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Reshuffle latest: Lee Rowley appointed as Housing Minister
Rowley becomes the sixth housing minister in 17 months in what has become a revolving door at the Department for…
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Latest housing minister sacked after just nine months
Rachel Maclean has lost her job as housing minister as the revolving door removes another politician.
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Connells chief reveals plans to start growing again via acquisition
Two years after the Countrywide deal made it an industry behemoth, interim CEO Richard Twigg says he knows many smaller…
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Industry boss reignites debate over mandatory agent qualifications
Nathan Emerson says renting and leasehold bills within King's Speech must be backed up by compulsory regulation of industry and…
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Property sales stock shortage ‘officially over’ says Rightmove
2023 is turning into a better-than-predicted year as sellers price more competitively and the market moves back towards more normal…
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Landlords sell-off slows but 140,000 properties still to disappear
Although the buy-to-let sell off is slowing – down from 15.7% in 2022 to 14.0% – investors are still set…
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SDLT and inheritance tax cuts main industry hopes for Autumn statement
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt delivers the Autumn statement next week and agents are on tenterhooks as to what he has in…
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Agents facing six month wait to evict tenants, latest figures show
Update from the Ministry of Justice reveals that despite attempts to recruit more judges, landlords and agents still face huge…
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Generation Rent accuses letting agents of ‘racial profiling’
Research was conducted during mystery shopper interactions via renting platform Spareroom.co.uk
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BTL investors going North for better returns, claims leading agent
Areas like Hartlepool and Liverpool offer better yields as high mortgage rates and falling house prices put a dampener on…
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