A tenancy referencing firm approached the Government three years ago and offered an immigrants’ checking service which would have cost taxpayers nothing...

Lettings chain Leaders has expanded into the Cotswolds after an unusual deal with lettings and estate agency business Perry Bishop and Chambers. Leaders has acquired the lettings business, but Perry Bishop and Chambers is retaining its sales side...

Lettings chain Belvoir has acquired a four-branch agency business consisting of both sales and lettings for just over £1.5m – with almost the entire sum paid for goodwill...

Rents in April rose right across England and Wales, with average rents 3.9% higher than the same month last year – but tenants struggled to keep up with their payments...

Residential managing agents are to be regulated for the first time under a new regime. The regime is voluntary, but is also independent, and it was yesterday launched in Westminster by the industry’s trade body, ARMA...

Actor Nigel Havers – who ironically rented his property while playing a conman in Coronation Street – told how he was ripped off by a rogue letting agent who vanished without trace...

The agents featured in last night’s BBC Watchdog programme have strongly denied any wrongdoing. Reeds Rains, Your Move – both part of LSL – and Foxtons were named in the programme, which criticised their links with utility firm Spark Energy...

Landlords and agents face a very real possibility of heavy fines under proposed new immigration laws, a law firm has warned. The fines could well run into millions and they also run the risk of loss of rent...