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A group of top agents are putting together a new national property portal which would be owned by agents themselves and aimed at toppling – or cutting down to size – the duopoly of Rightmove and Zoopla...
Housing minister Mark Prisk has said that more competition in deposit protection schemes should mean that more tenants become aware of their rights...
The immigration status of tenants will only have to be checked under a ‘light touch’ regime, housing minister Mark Prisk has said...
Claims on a website advertising “unlimited access” for £4.99 to properties that accept tenants on housing benefits have been banned by the advertising watchdog...
A new report has said that there are major opportunities for large-scale investment into the UK private residential rental market...
Software supplier CML is launching bespoke portals for letting agencies which allow both landlords and tenants to keep individual track of events...
Capita has launched a new insured tenancy deposit scheme which has been approved by the Government Capita Tenancy Deposit Protection (TDP) will offer dispute resolution services via an existing ombudsman scheme, Ombudsman Services, and becomes the fourth provider in England and Wales...
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...
Lettings chain Belvoir has acquired a four-branch agency business consisting of both sales and lettings for just over £1...
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...
Landlords and agents face a very real possibility of heavy fines under proposed new immigration laws, a law firm has warned...
The ratio of deposit disputes in England & Wales is just over 1% according to official figures released by the Department for Communities and Local Government...
Angels Media, publishers of Letting Agent Today and Estate Agent Today, have been announced as media partner for next year’s ESTAs...
The Labour party has produced a policy paper on Britain’s housing crisis, with a twin focus on building new homes and the private rented sector...
Rents across Greater London are 4.8% higher than this time last year, says tenancy referencing firm HomeLet...
BBC’s Watchdog programme this week is set to focus on private lettings. While the precise nature of the programme is not known, sources say that researchers for the programme, due to go out at 8pm tomorrow, have been looking into letting contracts which insist that tenants use certain utility companies, with the agents picking up lucrative payments from the firms...
SAFEagent week is running this week – until May 18. It is the second annual SAFEagent week and comes shortly after the refusal of the Government to accept a House of Lords proposal to regulate letting agents...
Letting agencies in membership of The Property Ombudsman scheme now exceed 10,000 branches for the first time...
Serious question marks have been raised by MPs over government plans, outlined in the Queen’s Speech, to make private landlords legally responsible for checking the immigration status of tenants...
Sunday was ‘freedom day’ for tenants. According to Halifax, May 12, the 132nd day of the year, is when the average tenant in the UK will have earned enough to pay off the annual cost of their rent...
A property investment show is being held this Thursday at the Croydon Park Hotel, Croydon, Surrey...
Private landlords will have to vet their tenants under new immigration laws announced in yesterday’s Queen’s Speech...
Average monthly rents across Britain rose for the sixth month running, to £842. The figure is from Countrywide, the UK’s largest chain of agents, which said that the best yields for landlords are being achieved in Wales at 6...
The Deposit Protection Service (DPS) has now returned over £1bn in tenancy deposits to tenants and landlords in England and Wales...
Shelter is calling for all letting agents in Scotland to be regulated. It has used the words ‘Wild West’ to describe the industry – a phrase originally coined by the RICS...
A peer-to-peer lending scheme has been launched, providing loans for overseas buyers of rental property in the UK who cannot get mortgages...
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