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The winners of the 2024 allAgents customer experience awards have been announced.  A room filled with estate agents at the Crowne Plaza in Glasgow eagerly waited to hear from celebrity guest host Martin Roberts of Homes Under the Hammer last Friday, to…

LDC, the private equity investor part of Lloyds Banking Group, has exited its investment in Lomond. LDC will reinvest in Lomond alongside new investor, the asset manager ICG, as well as the founding chairman Stuart Pender and management. The transaction…

HMRC data shows UK residential property transactions numbered 100,410 in October – the highest figure since November 2022. The October number represents a 10% rise on September’s 91,690. Non-seasonally adjusted residential transactions also increased by 17% relative to September, to…

Standing left to right: Chris Thornton, Chrissie Clancy, Simon Cusiter and Colin Finlayson. Seated left to right: Richard Mackie and Chris Macfarlane. Independent property advisory firm Lismore Real Estate Advisors is growing its Edinburgh-based operation after nearly five years in…

David Alexander The Scottish Budget needs to detail immediate actions to address the housing emergency according to property firm DJ Alexander.  The lettings and estate agency said that the Scottish Government needs to provide stimulus for the private building sector,…

Timothy Douglas Propertymark has welcomed a commitment from Matthew Pennycook, the minister of state for housing and planning, to reform the leasehold system in England and Wales and to regulate the property sector by revisiting Lord Best’s Regulation of Property…

Most landlords feel let down by the recent Budget but some are taking a longer view of the buy-to-let market, a new survey from Landbay has found. Seventy two percent of landlords told buy-to-let lender Landbay that they were disappointed…

Since 2016, nearly £6bn in suspicious funds funnelled through companies registered in the British Overseas Territories have been used to purchase UK properties, according to new research. Transparency International UK (TI UK), a campaign group focused on combating corruption, revealed…

Annual housing supply in England fell 6% to an eight-year low of 221,071 net additional dwellings in the 12 months to the end of March 2024, according to the latest government data. All England regions bar one saw a drop…

Ben Beadle Plans for a database of private rented properties risk providing little help to tenants unless it includes meaningful information, according to the National Residential Landlords Association (NRLA). The warning comes as the Renters’ Rights Bill sets out to…