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In a surprise move, Housing Secretary Michael Gove has given the stand-in leader of activist group Generation Rent a prime role...

A prominent group of economists has predicted the measures in the Renters Reform Bill will backfire on the government. Matthew Lesh, Director...

The main landlord body wants more details behind the soundbite rhetoric of the Renters Referm Bill, launched today in Parliament. Ben Beadle,...

Shelter is telling the government it “must deliver” on the revolution it pledges under the Renters Reform Bill. Chief executive Polly Neate...

Consumer champion Martin Lewis - the man behind the Money Saving Expert website and TV shows - has backed the Renters...

The Cambridge Building Society has opened applications for its unique Rent to Home scheme. Last month it announced that it had invested...

OnTheMarket has been named amongst the UK’s best employers in The Times Best Places to Work 2023 initiative. The nationwide workplace survey...

A £5,000 fine has been upheld against a landlord who failed to declare himself as a property agent and did not join a mandatory...

OnTheMarket has completed a new integration with Canopy which it claims will provide valuable pre-qualified leads to letting agents. The latest integration...

Propertymark has added inspection and 360° tour software provider Inventory Hive to its industry supplier list. Jason Lee, commercial manager at Propertymark,...

Labour says it will enact a law banning company bosses from contacting staff outside working hours. The Financial Times reported over the weekend that party...

Propertymark has told a group of MPs that many benefit recipients are excluded from the private rented sector due to the...

A company that tries to encourage people to buy a home in ‘chunks’ says few first time buyers are interested in...

A lack of direction and constant shifts in planning policy at local and national government level is putting a block on...

The Propertymark event to be held next month at Wembley Arena has added a musical dimension - and it’s a Spice...

Labour is considering raising the buy to let and holiday home stamp duty surcharge above the current three per cent if...

An estimated 700,000 households across the UK missed rent or mortgage payments in April, according to the consumer body Which? It has...

High profile Propertymark lettings expert Angharad Trueman is joining Andrews agency as group lettings director. Trueman has been in the property industry...

PropTech rental platform  Goodlord has partnered with an open banking platform to enhance its tenant referencing service. Goodlord, which first integrated open...

Two former agents with experience between them of major players such as Countrywide, Leaders Romans and LSL have set up a...

The Bank of England has announced its latest decision on base rate. This has been increased by 0.25 per cent to 4.5...

New government figures show how overdue the government's reform of private renting is, claims campaigning charity Shelter. The charity says the figures...

A newspaper says Labour is seeking to woo renter voters by allowing councils to restrict new build homes to first time...

An unnamed Conservative MP cited in a newspaper claims up to 30 colleagues may vote against the Renters Reform Bill in...

One of the high end lettings agencies dominating the prime London rental landscape says there’s no end in sight to the...

A survey of nearly 700 landlords by Paragon Bank found that 67 per cent experienced increased tenant demand during the first...

Financial analysts are unanimously warning that Bank of England base rate will rise yet again tomorrow. If they are correct this will...

The government has back-tracked on its decision to publish the long-awaited Renters Reform Bill this week. The Mirror newspaper reports that “procedural issues”...

Just as transactions in the mainstream market ramp up for spring and summer, so enquiries about buy to let mortgages have...

Purplebricks has given its most pessimistic trading update yet, admitting its effects to find a buyer are tanking and its financial...

Nearly a third of tenants are borrowing money to fund a cash deposit, a survey claims. A poll of 1,000 current renters...

Renters are being offered a 100 per cent mortgage by the Skipton Building Society - the first time such a product...

Housing Secretary Michael Gove says the long-awaited Renters Reform Bill, first promised in 2019, will finally be introduced into Parliament this...

The number of Build To Rent completions has fallen by 56 per cent in the past year, a decline being very...

OnTheMarket has bagged Arun Estates, one of the UK's largest agency groups, in a deal involving the TecLet lettings platform. TecLet, an...

A keynote speaker at the upcoming Propertymark One event is Gerald Ratner. In 1991 Ratner - then chief executive of a down...

Airbnb is offering a £50 travel voucher to any Liverpool household hosting their first Airbnb guest in a private room in...

LSL Property Services - owners of the Your Move and Reeds Rain brands - is to franchise its entire network of...

A trade body says inventories are set to play an increasingly important role in the private rental sector as fire regulations...

Investors looking to add to their portfolios in 2023 should be urged to consider student housing opportunities, according to a Newcastle...

Propertymark has recognised the Level 3 Certificate for Estate and Lettings Agents (CELA) offered by Rightmove. Both Propertymark and its training arm...

  The Renters’ Reform Bill is finally due to be published and introduced into Parliament next week. Housing Secretary Michael Gove has told Sky...

Senior Labour figures have come out with sharply opposing views on whether the party backs rent controls. Shabana Mahmood, a senior MP...

The property market could be emerging from the downturn, Zoopla says.  Annual house price growth remains just 3.0 per cent according to...

A new consultation by one of the national governments within the UK advocates giving more councils power to make huge rises...

An activist group claims that 54 per cent of students are currently living with damp and mould. The group - Students Organising...

HomeLet has released its latest market figures from April, showing UK average rental prices hitting their highest of all time.  The average...

Move iQ, the consumer-facing online service operated by TV property guru Phil Spencer, is linking with the Build To Rent trade...

A news service claims that in many UK cities there are now more entire homes listed on Airbnb than there are...

Leaders Romans Group has announced another new lettings acquisition. It has snapped up Liberty Gate, a single-office Nottingham-based business which also operates...

Belvoir’s very first franchisee, Andy Campbell, has been awarded the prestigious Belvoir Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of 27 highly successful...

One of the UK governments has backed a call for private landlords to get cash help to meet new Minimum Energy...

A property management firm says it recently compiled a check-out report for a property which was 414 pages in total. The property...

Hortons lettings agency Hortons has released a new advertisement featuring daytime TV presenter Kerr Drummond - who also happens to be...

Small franchise agency Propertynest has expanded into Guildford with a new franchisee offering lettings and sales to the town and its...

Average asking rents for new tenants outside of London have risen to yet another new record of £1,190 per calendar month. This...

The scale of investment in UK commercial property has fallen in all sectors, new research suggests.  Sirius Property Finance has analysed UK...

An online newspaper has named the lettings agency at the heart of a high profile dispute with tenants over mould. The i...

The Guild of Property Professionals says PropTech may be the answer to the ongoing problem with client accounts. Since 2019 many banks...

A London-focused lettings agency says actual rents in the capital are far greater than official average figures produced by the government.  Benham...

After nine years with the business, Goodlord co-founder Tom Mundy has stepped down as chief operating officer. An official statement from...

One of the country’s biggest Build To Rent players has secured funding for 1,000 new BTR homes. Legal & General has signed...

One of the most respected financial organisations says markets are now betting that the Bank of England base rate will hit...

More property is likely to come onto the sales market in the weeks and months ahead as rising numbers of landlords...

Barbon Insurance Group, which describes itself as the UK's largest tenant referencing and specialist lettings insurance intermediary, has a new managing...

One of the lettings industry’s highest profile agents has been shortlisted by the Huntingdon’s Disease Association as Fundraiser of the Year. Kristjan...

Property portal Citylets says average rents in Scotland rose 12.4 per cent in the past year to £1,007 per month -...

Platforms like Facebook are infiltrated by fake review factories, despite the imminent publication of a new Bill which will look to make...

Propertymark has thrown its weight behind the idea of a compulsory national register of landlords and hosts operating Airbnb and other...

The Property Redress Scheme, one of two government-approved redress services, has produced a list of recently-expelled agencies. All agencies must be a...

Outsourced viewing service Viewber has linked with a property report company. The partnership between Viewber and Street Insights means outsourced viewing operatives...

A compliance expert is criticising unnamed agencies for risking fines “and wasting time and money” by relying on inadequate compliance reporting...

A group of activists is trying to raise £15,000 to campaign for local councils to clampdown on AirBnb and other short...

Lettings agency Hamptons, now part of Connells, has hired a former Strictly Come Dancing and Countryfile star to front a property...

PropTech provider OnTheMarket Software has integrated a digital e-signature service, Finch, into its TecLet platform.  The integration within TecLet claims to save...

A lettings guru is calling on agents to embrace social media trends in order to reach new audiences. Agent Rainmaker uses Reels...

Landlords who bought soon after the launch of the first buy-to-let mortgage in 1996 are retiring in increasing numbers.   Research from lettings...

A lettings agency has been accused of falsely claiming deposits were being held in a deposit protection scheme and other related...

New figures today from London-focussed lettings agency Foxtons shows growth in the supply of lettings properties on the market is starting...

The Deposit Protection Service is hosting a webinar to help letting agents better navigate the dispute resolution process.   The service says...

Research from Propertymark highlights a growing concern for the private rental sector in Scotland. As the Scottish National Party lurches from crisis...

A new survey throws light on the scale of the supply shortage hurting the rental market - and in addition shows...

Two agents who helped establish a multi-million-pound drugs ring in two cities have been jailed. Ossama Omar and Mohamed Latif ran Platinum...

A new survey of lettings agents and landlords has put the reinstatement of Section 24 mortgage tax relief at the top...

Lettings agency Fine & Country believes that tenants will continue to feel the pressure this spring with rental growth expected to...

London-focussed agency Foxtons has reported a huge leap in revenue from its lettings division. Lettings revenue was up 27 per cent in...

Lettings agency Hamptons is backing Earth Day tomorrow in partnership with removals firm Doree Bonner International and the charity Mind. As part...

A think tank claims one in six young people live in poor quality housing, often in the private rental sector. The claim...

The Cambridge Building Society has invested in two family-sized houses to expand its unique ‘Rent to Home’ rent-return housing scheme. The two...

The legendary Oxfordshire-based lettings agency Finders Keepers has won gold at the local British Property Lettings Award and silver in the...

Winkworth has told its shareholders that the weak figures posted for 2022 are actually in line with management expectations. The franchise giant...

The number of new prospective tenants registering at each branch of a Propertymark-member lettings agency held steady at 106 in March,...

London’s renters are most at risk from finding their homes either being un-lettable or their landlord selling up due to the...

A lettings agency maintenance manager stole almost £100,000 from her company - but has escaped prison. Farida Mughal was working at the...

Fast-growing agency network Lomond is launching its own national and regional market information - and it claims it’s using data rarely...

London’s rental season is gathering pace according to Chestertons, which says 15 per cent more tenants entered the market in March...

Agents and landlords operating in South Warwickshire are being encouraged to take part in an industry forum on Monday May 15...

Lloyds Banking Group and homelessness charity Crisis have joined forces in a new two-year partnership including the establishment of a so-called...

An agent has spoken out about a proposal to allow huge council tax rises on second homes and empty properties. New Scottish...

Hamptons says rental growth across Britain in March posted its third ever double-digit increase since the agency records began almost a...