YORKSHIRE residential letting specialists Linley & Simpson has added more than 600 homes to its portfolio after another major acquisition following the unsolicited approach and subsequent purchase of the residential lettings and management division of Dacre, Son & Hartley, the 200-year-old fellow independent Yorkshire estate agent which operates a network of 20 branches. The deal will now see Dacre, Son & Hartley strengthen its key focus on residential sales, as well as a raft of other property services including land and new homes, commercial agency and property management, its nationally-active healthcare investment business and agricultural division. The deal, completed for an undisclosed sum, is the seventh struck by Leeds-headquartered Linley & Simpson since the outbreak of COVID-19.