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High profile independent lettings agency base property specialists is marking its 20th anniversary with a new video-first website. The agency - located...
24 May 2024
From: Breaking News
A low profile family company called the Griffin Property Company has acquired Emoov, the online agency which was a pioneering name...
22 May 2024
From: Breaking News
The Property Franchise Group is to roll out a partnership with PropTech firm Coadjute TPFG, the largest franchise estate agency group in...
17 May 2024
From: Breaking News
Number one portal Rightmove has upgraded growth expectations in its latest statement to shareholders - and is again growing its average...
13 May 2024
From: Breaking News
A new survey from law firm Weightmans has found that only 24% of renters read tenancy agreements. It says this is largely...
09 May 2024
From: Breaking News
A prominent agent campaigning for business tax reform is urging Labour to come clean on its policies for business rates and...
03 May 2024
From: Breaking News
HMRC has launched a pilot for the proposed Making Tax Digital service for quarterly reporting - and agents can sign up...
26 April 2024
From: Breaking News
Foxtons says it wants to extend what it calls its “full digitisation of the lettings journey” to its sales side, as...
15 April 2024
From: Breaking News
The Guild of Property Professionals is launch a new Ezine system for members to market properties to let and for sale. According...
11 April 2024
From: Breaking News
Propertymark wants HM Land Registry to provide more accessible and affordable services to its members. HMLR launched a consultation last month as...
10 April 2024
From: Breaking News
Seymours, one of the largest independent agency networks operating in the South East of England, is to advertise its lettings and sales...
09 April 2024
From: Breaking News
A deposit alternative company is calling on agents to help tenants save an average of £1,000 on up-front costs. Flatfair chief executive...
04 April 2024
From: Breaking News
Lloyds Banking Group, Nationwide, NatWest and Rightmove have announced a strategic investment in Coadjute, a prominent PropTech business. This is the first...
03 April 2024
From: Breaking News
Property logbook company Chimni is trialling a new form of Digital Property Logbook aimed at the Lettings markets. The new logbooks...
02 April 2024
From: Breaking News
The Open Property Data Association has released a new version of its property data standards framework to help letting agents comply...
25 March 2024
From: Breaking News
PropTech platform Goodlord has launched a new referencing service for letting agents, offering what it calls ”a carefully curated balance of...
22 March 2024
From: Breaking News
Home Counties agency Bridges today launches Platinum Homes, which it describes as “a bespoke sales and lettings service catering to premium...
29 February 2024
From: Breaking News
A free webinar next week will explore how agents can use technology solutions to attract and win new landlords for their...
16 February 2024
From: Breaking News
Letting agents looking to boost the power of lead generation are invited to an exclusive event later this week. Agent Rainmaker is...
13 February 2024
From: Breaking News
Expanding agency group My Property Box has completed its 10th acquisition in six years, buying Teesside lettings and property investment specialist...
08 February 2024
From: Breaking News
A five year old consumer reviews website has been acquired by Rightmove. Homeviews was set up in 2019 and at the time...
02 February 2024
From: Breaking News
Aereon - a European software provider that owns high profile PropTech operator Fixflo - has entered a strategic partnership with automated...
23 January 2024
From: Breaking News
The long-running aspiration of many to allow rental payments to be counted towards credit ratings appears to have taken a step...
15 January 2024
From: Breaking News
Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Neil Cobbold, Managing Director What is PayProp and what does it...
08 January 2024
From: 60 Second Interview
The Guild of Property Professionals has given its backing to the concept of mystery shopping as a way of improving agents’...
04 January 2024
From: Breaking News
Propertymark has listed a string of legal reforms it wants as part of the government’s modernisation of the court process -...
21 December 2023
From: Breaking News
Propertymark has urged the government to do more to help the country’s most vulnerable citizens heat their homes. Office for National Statistics...
19 December 2023
From: Breaking News
The partners of high end agency and property consultancy Cluttons have announced the completion of a management buyout. James Gray continues as...
06 December 2023
From: Breaking News
Two of the highest profile PropTech suppliers to the lettings and wider property sectors have announced a merger. Reapit and PayProp say...
05 December 2023
From: Breaking News
Propertymark is urging the government to use next month’s Autumn Statement to support low-income households in the private rented sector in...
26 October 2023
From: Breaking News
Airbnb’s global chief executive has suggested that the short lets platform may handle longer term rentals in future. Brian Chesky, in an...
11 October 2023
From: Breaking News
A website and digital services supplier has partnered with a social media marketing firm. Property Webmasters is working with flow to provide...
26 September 2023
From: Breaking News
A lettings trade body is urging the government to make clear how it will help courts tackle a growing backlog of...
19 September 2023
From: Breaking News
Airbnb is launching a UK campaign this month aimed at luring first-time customers. It’s part of a local campaign that launched last...
08 September 2023
From: Breaking News
A marketing expert is encouraging agents to invest more time and money in digital activities. Richard Combellack, commercial product officer at PropTech...
06 September 2023
From: Breaking News
Propertymark has set out a five point plan to improve the status and usefulness of the Energy Performance Certificate and to...
18 August 2023
From: Breaking News
Well known broker Mortgage Advice Bureau will be showcasing a suite of new digital products today at an event organised by...
16 June 2023
From: Breaking News
PropTech supplier Goodlord has announced a partnership with an identity verification technology service which would allow agents to conduct digital Right...
30 May 2023
From: Breaking News
The pro-tenant anti-landlord Renters Reform Bill has at last been published by the government which first promised it in 2019. It has...
17 May 2023
From: Breaking News
OnTheMarket has bagged Arun Estates, one of the UK's largest agency groups, in a deal involving the TecLet lettings platform. TecLet, an...
09 May 2023
From: Breaking News
Platforms like Facebook are infiltrated by fake review factories, despite the imminent publication of a new Bill which will look to make...
26 April 2023
From: Breaking News
Outsourced viewing service Viewber has linked with a property report company. The partnership between Viewber and Street Insights means outsourced viewing operatives...
26 April 2023
From: Breaking News
PropTech provider OnTheMarket Software has integrated a digital e-signature service, Finch, into its TecLet platform. The integration within TecLet claims to save...
25 April 2023
From: Breaking News
Lettings agencies which rely on manual means of verification are risking repetitional damage caused by anti-money laundering regulations, a digital compliance...
11 April 2023
From: Breaking News
Twitter owner Elon Musk and 1,000 other technology leaders including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak have called for a pause on the...
11 April 2023
From: Breaking News
Rightmove says it’s helping to digitise the rental processes, making the process less fragmented and frustrating for agents. In its trading statement...
06 March 2023
From: Breaking News
The UK Short Term Accommodation Association says the high profile digital platform Booking.com is to become a member. Available in 43 languages...
20 February 2023
From: Breaking News
Letting agents say the latest review of how Right To Rent has been carried out demonstrates “a knowledge gap” by landlords. This...
15 February 2023
From: Breaking News
Agents are confused over so-called digital identity verification - and some suppliers may be trying to dupe agents. That’s the claim from...
10 February 2023
From: Breaking News
Prop-tech platform OpenBrix has revealed a strategic partnership with a digital identity provider, Yoti. Through its app tlyfe, the collaboration will enable tenants...
09 February 2023
From: Breaking News
Technology Blueprint Ltd (TBL) has just announced the integration of Document Signing and ID Verification provider Yoti Sign into its market-leading...
03 January 2023
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One of Connells’ high end branch, Hamptons, is releasing a TV advertisement on Boxing Day. The advert, in 30 and 60 second...
19 December 2022
From: Breaking News
Rightmove has created thousands of personalised videos to help letting agency branches highlight this year’s achievements to prospective landlords. The video can...
08 December 2022
From: Breaking News
Agents have only until the end of tomorrow, December 2, to feed into Propertymark’s response to a new consultation on the...
01 December 2022
From: Breaking News
Leaders Romans Group is offering its landlord clients a new investment service. ‘Smart Investment’, powered by GetGround, is described as a fully...
16 November 2022
From: Breaking News
The vexed subject of letting agents and landlords preparing for the Making Tax Digital regime is to be examined in a...
16 November 2022
From: Breaking News
Referencing service Homeppl is expanding into Right to Rent checks. A digital R2R check can be integrated into Homeppl tenant referencing checks...
11 November 2022
From: Breaking News
Rightmove’s new agent qualification - launching later this month - has been officially approved by the government’s regulatory body, The Office...
10 November 2022
From: Breaking News
Love to Rent, which describes itself as “the first and only digital marketing platform for the Build to Rent sector”, has written...
09 November 2022
From: Breaking News
The lettings agency operated by controversial agent Ajay Jagota has been sold for an undisclosed sum. Jagota set up KIS Lettings with...
01 November 2022
From: Breaking News
The new chief executive of Rightmove is a former McDonalds digital executive. Johan Svanström will succeed Peter Brooks-Johnson at the helm of...
24 October 2022
From: Breaking News
Letting Agent Today has been approached by researchers at the University of York and University of Bristol doing a study on...
21 October 2022
From: Breaking News
Changes to Right to Rent checks will be explained in detail in the latest free webinar to be organised by Propertymark...
17 October 2022
From: Breaking News
An industry supplier says the recent Right To Rent changes have flown under the radar - and many agents don’t know...
06 October 2022
From: Breaking News
Fine & Country is preparing to start an eight-stop roadshow in which it will take a deep dive into local property...
05 October 2022
From: Breaking News
Lettings Hub says there were 91,593 cases of tenant application fraud in 2021 alone, with the most common form of fraud...
23 September 2022
From: Breaking News
One of the industry’s most respected legal experts is staging a teach-in for letting agents ahead of new Right To Rent...
02 September 2022
From: Breaking News
A high profile PropTech entrepreneur is amongst a series of investors linked to a new fund, launched today, cashing in on...
01 September 2022
From: Breaking News
The residential arm of global property consultancy Knight Frank - one of the highest profile lettings services in the UK -...
30 August 2022
From: Breaking News
Agents can now sign up to register their interest in Rightmove’s new qualification, the Level 3 Certificate for Estate and Letting...
19 August 2022
From: Breaking News
A Build To Rent promotional website appears to be ruing the day that Boris Johnson sacked Michael Gove from his role...
16 August 2022
From: Breaking News
A PropTech supplier says streamlining processes in the lettings sector could benefit agents, landlords and tenants alike, by producing a simpler...
11 August 2022
From: Breaking News
The Lettings Hub has announced a two-year partnership with HooYu, a Know Your Customer specialist. As the deadline to end the temporary...
27 July 2022
From: Breaking News
A digital platform that claims it will “finally bring renting into the modern age” says it has secured £4.5m in funding. A...
22 July 2022
From: Breaking News
An Austrian-based property management PropTech service, which already has links to Knight Frank, is now launching in the UK. iDWELL, which describes...
20 July 2022
From: Breaking News
Propertymark is warning that higher Right To Rent costs are likely to hit agents when new processes kick in this autumn. From...
18 July 2022
From: Breaking News
The National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agency Team has published fresh guidance to help letting agents meet new requirements regarding...
12 July 2022
From: Breaking News
A cloud-based software firm that’s been snapped up by a major PropTech company is urging agents to embrace the cloud. Openview -...
06 July 2022
From: Breaking News
At Tenancy Deposit Scheme (TDS), we're committed to making the deposit protection process as pain-free as possible. From our beginning of...
23 June 2022
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Since the Tenant Fees Act ban came into force, agents have been responsible for covering tenancy referencing costs, whether that’s by...
22 June 2022
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Nowadays, we rely on social media platforms to stay informed and updated about topics that are of interest to us. These platforms...
17 June 2022
From: Marketing & Social Media
Letting agents have been told they must have the right technology to reduce the risk of fraud. Olly Thornton-Berry, co-founder of risk...
09 June 2022
From: Breaking News
Business partners the Post Office and PropTech firm Yoti have become the first certified digital identity service providers to be entitled...
08 June 2022
From: Breaking News
Property management platform and CRM provider teclet - owned by the OnTheMarket Group - has revealed another integration into its platform. This...
31 May 2022
From: Breaking News
Leaders Romans Group has entered a three year deal with The Depositary, which is claimed could save the group tens of...
23 May 2022
From: Breaking News
The UK lettings and estate agency is being targeted by crime syndicates in order to launder dirty money. That’s the claim of...
27 April 2022
From: Breaking News
An independent agency in London has ditched its company cars and gone over to e-bikes instead when it’s representatives attend viewings. Taylor...
11 April 2022
From: Breaking News
A PropTech business just acquired by Iamproperty is warning agents to take advantage of what it calls the digital revolution. Openview -...
08 April 2022
From: Breaking News
A new Home Office code of practice comes into force today making changes to what letting agents in England need to...
06 April 2022
From: Breaking News
A business news website is reporting that an agency has been ordered to pay £1,550 for displaying a board illegally. Charles Lear...
16 March 2022
From: Breaking News
The growing importance of virtual tours for properties to let and for sale during the pandemic shows little sign of easing,...
16 March 2022
From: Breaking News
One of the country’s most respected property lawyers is to discuss changes to rental processes live at a webinar aimed at...
15 March 2022
From: Breaking News
Major London agency Dexters has acquired the lettings business Howsy, which handles the property management of 6,000 units across the country. Dexters...
11 March 2022
From: Breaking News
Property management specialist Pinnacle Group has strengthened its digital offer for customers across its residential portfolio, signing a three-year deal with...
09 March 2022
From: Breaking News
Rightmove says added functionality for its tenant referencing portal is now being tested and will be rolled out later this year. In...
28 February 2022
From: Breaking News
A senior figure in an industry trade body says lettings agents are going to have their hands full dealing with legislative...
16 February 2022
From: Breaking News
Online property training qualifications service The Able Agent has launched a new apprenticeship programme. The Able Agent says it’s spotted a critical...
10 February 2022
From: Breaking News
Propertymark is advising agents to prepare for substantial changes to the Right To Rent process arriving in just two months time. As...