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A buy to let investor has been found guilty of 35 HMO-related offences - and has to pay a total fine...

Labour insists that if it forms the next government it will introduce ‘living rents’ in a new range of affordable homes...

A survey has revealed that with over 145 individual laws and more than 400 regulations to follow, it’s dangerous for landlords...

A leading property law specialist has warned that many buy to let investors remain unaware of the new Minimum Energy Efficiency...

Over half of mortgage brokers say they have been approached by buy to let investors seeking to diversify their portfolios within...

Small-scale landlords and those with the very largest portfolios appear to be ‘resizing’ - selling off some units to cope with...

The Citizens Advice consumer charity claims that 28 per cent of private tenants who have experienced problems while renting have not...

Belvoir has published what it calls ‘a decade of data’ tracking the changes in the private rental sector since 2008, when...

MPs want a review of laws surrounding private rental standards, including councils having the right to confiscate buy to let properties...

Trade bodies have been responding to today’s report of the Housing, Communities and Local Government Select Committee deliberations on the private...

The chief of a PropTech firm says letting agents should consider participating in the growing Build to Rent sector.  Until now, many...

A TV show on Channel 5 this evening may well serve as a warning to letting agents about the dangers of...

Kay & Co, Carter Jonas and Druce have been appointed as joint sole letting agent for the entire Howard de Walden...

A new survey appears to buck the trend of recent rental market snapshots by showing that buy to let investors are...

One of the six PropTech start-ups shortlisted to develop a system allowing tenants’ rental histories to count towards their creditworthiness says...

An influential think tank is calling on government to radically reform the private rental sector because a generation of young people...

A leading lettings sector trade body has repeated its call on government to offer a range of incentives to landlords and...

Goodlord, the PropTech company which restructured earlier this year and laid off a reported 40 members of staff, is fighting back...

A new survey released this morning gives an insight into how tenants manage rental payments and their willingness - in some...

Airbnb has announced that it has teamed up with three hosting agencies in the UK in a bid to make the...

The average cost of a new let reached £951 per month in Great Britain in March - that’s up 1.7 per...

The number of landlords re-mortgaging to release money for home improvements has reached a record high according to Countrywide. In the last...

Rents have risen a negligible 0.9 per cent across the UK in the last 12 months according to HomeLet. The average monthly...

Rental compliance platform GetRentr has raised over £500,000 from investors including a private equity firm and private individuals. GetRentr uses artificial intelligence...

Council officers staged a dawn raid to uncover an unlicensed HMO in north London. The team discovered 10 men and women sleeping...

New figures show a 30 per cent rise in the past year in the number of Build To Rent units planned,...

Build To Rent operator and long-term volume landlord organisation Grainger says it is pioneering five-year leases “in a bid to overhaul...

Franchise agency Redstones, which has 13 offices across the Midlands, has acquired student letting company Housemates. Redstones, now one of the largest...

The new sole chair of the Association of Independent Inventory Clerks says he wants the service to be at the heart...

The price of some buy to let mortgages looks set to rise across the board following the decisions of two of...

Specialist funding platform Property Partner has conducted a survey which suggests that 54 per cent of landlords are selling all or some...

A property managing agent has been ordered to pay £40,000 following the death of a woman at a fire at a...

Franchises giant Belvoir says there are over 10,000 potential acquisition targets which could be wanting a way out of the lettings...

The Property Franchise Group has given an insight into the effect of the ban on lettings fees likely to be introduced...

The UK Association of Letting Agents has revealed where voids are at their worst in the rental sector - and where...

West Midlands Police and Birmingham council teamed up to investigate a property in the city which was riddled with health and...

Some 43 per cent of all stamp duty comes from buy to let investors and holiday home purchasers - and almost...

Belvoir has reported a year of strong growth in 2017, with group revenue up 14 per cent and pre-tax profit soaring...

A PropTech firm which uses so-called ‘sherpas’ to find lettings properties for would-be renters, is now seeking £250,000 through crowdfunding to...

It’s less than two weeks before The ESTAS 2018 held in London on Friday April 20. It’s the biggest and best bash...

The holiday lets market is just starting to pick up and new research shows that 80 per cent of those who...

A new analysis by campaigning housing organisation Shelter claims the changes within the private rental sector could indirectly lose the next...

The number of buy to let investors in the UK has hit a record high of 2.5m in the latest tax...

A statement from the government has repeated its determination to clean up the private rental sector through a series of measures,...

The government’s review into building and fire safety regulations is missing the opportunity to assess fire safety regulations on a wider...

Ian Wilson, chief executive of The Property Franchise Group, says new rules for regulating the lettings sector will probably be clumsily...

A survey suggests that the advent of deposit-free renting in parts of the private rental sector may tempt tenants away from...

The average UK rent outside London is now £761, with London’s average being £1,879 - meaning tenants across the country now...

The rapid growth in alternative non-deposit schemes for letting agents, landlords and tenants has hit the market. This one, from Blinc UK, claims...

A rogue lettings agency which is no longer trading is to be featured in a TV documentary this evening on Channel...

ARLA has branded the government’s long-awaited database of rogue landlords as “pointless” because it will not be made public. The Ministry of...

Foxtons is warning that the private rental sector - traditionally a strong earner for the company even in times of challenging...

A leading Conservative peer says the government should cut taxes for buy to let investors and regard them as part of...

A consumer group says that the Tenants Fees Bill - which will eventually ban letting agents’ fees levied on renters -...

The Property Ombudsman is the latest property industry player to throw its support behind the introduction of mandatory qualifications and a...

A council says it is adopting a new approach to proactively tackling poor housing conditions in privately rented homes in one...

A Derby-based agency says it’s on the acquisition trail and seeking lettings operations to take over. Birchover Sales and Lettings - led...

A property company that failed to repair a pigeon-infested loft has been fined a total of £31,026, including an order to...

Letting agents have responded with enthusiasm to the government’s announcement over the Easter weekend that the industry would in future have...

Specialist buy to let lender LendInvest has looked at 105 postcodes across England and Wales to find the best (and worst)...

Academic research suggests tenants in England and Wales are missing out on £80m of interest to tenancy deposit schemes every single...

The buy to let sector still requires £400m spending on improving the energy efficiency of its stock in order to conform...

A property management company which ignored a series of housing safety regulations and flouted laws designed to protect tenants’ rights has...

The government has this morning - Easter Sunday - announced a crackdown on rogue letting agents in the shape of a...

A Select Committee of MPs investigating the proposed ban on agents’ fees levied on tenants says the measure could save renters...

The controversial Right To Rent policy has been attacked as having failed “to demonstrate its worth” in encouraging immigration compliance. Under Right...

A Brighton and Hove lettings agent has been fined more than £3,000 for allowing two properties that he owned himself to...

Build To Rent provider Get Living has revealed plans to invest up to £180m in 756 units in Leeds. Acquired by Get...

Rents in Scotland continue to grow but the rate is slowing according to the latest data from Your Move. The average rental...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is warning that “thousands” of landlords simply are not ready for energy efficiency changes coming...

Rightmove has revealed that the 10 year average growth in asking rents across London has been 25 per cent, and over...

A 10 week consultation period begins today on selective licensing in the central area of Blackpool - with the council threatening...

A short lets management firm claims Londoners who let their homes over the upcoming Easter weekend could bag themselves a small...

Lavanda, a platform for short-lets backed by Purplebricks’ co-founder Kenny Bruce, says it is to roll-out across the UK from later...

Spicerhaart has signed up with a deposit-free renting platform to offer landlords and tenants the option of working with a no-deposit system...

Stirling Ackroyd, the six-branch estate and letting agency bought last summer by Nick Dunning Associates, has acquired the lettings book of...

Belvoir Lettings has announced that industry veteran Michael Stoop has joined the board as a non-executive director, with Nicholas Leeming stepping...

Policy makers concerned with the private rental sector ignore the needs of older tenants who are regarded as “invisible”. That’s the claim...

The Property Ombudsman has released details of two letting agencies expelled over financial issues, and the extension of an expulsion period...

Well known lettings industry figure John Hards is re-joining Countrywide as National Lettings Director with immediate effect. He first joined Countrywide in...

The consumer group Which? says the new Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards starting next weekend could affect 300,000 buy to let properties.  From...

The ESTAS has announced its final and, to many, its most prestigious shortlist for this year’s awards - a special category...

New research reveals that only 16 per cent of private tenants positively choose to rent. The study, commissioned by specialist insurance firm...

A growing number of over 60s in the UK are renting, according to new research from the Centre for Ageing Better. It...

A specialist buy to let lender is making changes to its lending conditions to ensure its residential and commercial borrowers conform...

Proposals to cap security deposits for private rented housing to six weeks rent risk creating a charter for rent cheats warns...

The Tenancy Deposit Scheme is sending its congratulations to the writers of an EastEnders storyline tackling problems in the private rented sector. A recent...

A property management company has been landed with a legal bill of almost £2,000 after admitting that it failed to keep...

Countrywide has announced that Dan Channer - a well-known figure in the lettings industry generally, and managing director of Oxford-based Finders...

Board company Agency Express says the buoyant start to the year’s lettings market has given way to a slowdown. In its February...

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has selected a software supplier to handle some of the exceptions to the...

Another property crowdfunding investment product has been launched, aiming to offer investors an alternative to the increasingly regulated and taxed buy...

The Observer newspaper has published a story alleging that a London lettings agency “pressured” prospective tenants into accepting accommodation without viewing...

A new survey by a leading lettings trade body suggests that the Bank of England’s attempts to make buy to let...

The government says that later this year it will allocate a further £1.4m to PropTech firms looking at how tenants’ rent...

Two landlords have been hit with hefty court fines for failing to comply with a local licensing scheme. The pair are the...

The average rental household in London has 2.1 rent-paying tenants, each paying £775 per month, equating to an average property rent...

Increased volatility in the private rental sector and rising costs for landlords and investors have combined to lead to an increased...

A warning has come from a campaigning letting agent that London’s landlords agents could be costing themselves tenants by requiring them...

As students begin their search for housing for the next academic year, a university has relaunched a dedicated lettings agency service The...

A new Build To Rent scheme being launched shortly in Greenwich offers tenants an on-site concierge-style ‘host’, a lounger, co-working space...

One of the client money protection schemes operating in the lettings sector says he believes agents and property managers could be...

A Kent county councillor says letting agents “would have to be pretty dumb” to allow a situation arise whereby they would...

The Association of Independent Inventory Clerks has renewed its call for letting agents and other property professionals to back an online...

Leaders has completed its 10th acquisition in the last nine months. It has snapped up Temples agency which gives it new branches...

A lettings trade body says a major house builder has blamed, in part, recent tax increases on private landlords as a...

The government has set out new measures to mitigate against overcrowded and dangerous living conditions of private tenants in shared homes. From...

There has been a drop in the proportion of people becoming buy to let landlords in order to boost their retirement...

Yorkshire estate agency Linley & Simpson has completed a hat-trick of acquisitions taking its letting portfolio past the milestone of 5,500...

The National Landlords Association has revealed a seven-point plan which would allow the Welsh Government greater powers over the private rental...

Andy Burnham, the mayor of Greater Manchester, will is to reveal his vision for the private rental sector to a Residential...

Hybrid brand EweMove says its purchase of a traditional lettings agency with 350 properties on its book constitutes its biggest biggest...

A couple who illegally converted an office block into 14 flats have been found guilty for disregarding planning laws - and...

A trade body says new figures released by the independent Office for Budget Responsibility show that the government’s recent tax increases...

A new survey suggests that only four per cent of tenants and landlords are aware of the new Minimum Energy Efficiency...

The Bank of England has issued gloomy figures on buy to let lending, suggesting the clampdown on mortgage interest tax relief...

Airsorted, which describes itself as “the world’s largest hosting management service” says it has secured £5m in funding to expand.  Airsorted provides...

Our thanks to the eagle-eyed Richard Cross of B H Realty for spotting one or two less-than-perfect things on a Rightmove...

The National Landlords Association is seeking property professionals to be its local representatives across the country. The association says these representatives “are...

The new leader of the Labour party in Scotland says his party will introduce “stringent” rent controls if it gains power...

Spotahome, a London-based student lettings platform, has acquired another platform aimed at students, Erasmusu, in a bid to expand its international...

Two agencies in Cheshire have merged, allowing a lettings business to now offer sales, mortgages and other home mover packages to...

A quest has started to find the UK’s best landlord who goes the extra mile to ensure tenants receive the ultimate...

The former owner and director of a Plymouth lettings agency are to stand trial on charges of fraud, false accounting and...

A trade body is calling on the government to repeal the fee that councils can now charge when an Article 4...

Local media in Bristol say politicians in the city are considering supporting a controversial website that allows tenants to rate and...

The average landlord who sold their rental property in 2017 did so for £86,651 more than they paid for it, having...

A leading figure in the PropTech sector is urging letting agents to use the 2019 lettings fee ban as an opportunity...

Online agency easyProperty has announced the launch of two new lettings options.  One, called easyLet, is broadly a listings service: for £99...

A survey by consumer group Which?, working with landlords’ associations, reveals that 70 local authorities now have selective or additional licensing...

Rents in the UK grew by an average, and tiny, 0.69 per cent in the year to the end of February,...

The Tenancy Deposit Scheme has announced new dates for its academy courses, delivering training on tenancy deposit disputes and adjudication to...

Oxford’s Labour council has given its support to a lettings review website because it claims it will help drive up the...

The British Property Federation is calling upon more councils to support Build To Rent following the government’s recognition of the sector in...

With only three weeks to go to the introduction of the first phase of Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards, a specialist mortgage...

An analysis of data released by HM Revenue and Customs shows that 1.9 million people earned money from property in 2015-16...

Belvoir says there is no evidence of a large-scale sell-off of buy to let properties by beleaguered landlords, but 85 per...

Reaction to the government’s call for developers and planning authorities to be more flexible in their approach to increasing the housing...

Three one-day courses are being held this year - the first next week - aimed at updating letting agents on changes...

Knight Frank says prime central London rents have fallen on a quarterly basis for the 28th consecutive month - a record. The...

Tax increases on the rental sector are leaving young people unable to access the homes they need, an industry body claims. The...

A new online platform says it allows renters and landlords to review each other and give Trustpilot-style ratings - but it...

The independent mortgage market monitor Moneyfacts says some buy to let mortgage rates have gone back to record lows. The monitor says...

A lettings trade body has announced a rebrand - the second organisation in the sector to do so in a matter...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is reminding its members - and all letting agents - of the need to be...

Experts suggest that Build To Rent is likely to be heavily promoted when the government announces its latest revamp to the...

The government has pledged to begin a review of the selective licensing across the private rental sector once MPs return from...

Average rental values in prime central London fell 2.1 per cent in the year to February according to Knight Frank -...

Belvoir has announced what it calls “a significant acquisition” by one of its franchisees, which is set to add almost £1m...

The Residential Landlords’ Association is upset at the government’s confirmation that the extension of mandatory HMO licensing will come into force...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is reminding its members to tell landlord clients that they have only a month to...

The number of properties available to rent in London is now 46 per cent below the national average according to ARLA...

The Welsh Government’s housing minister has tweeted that the results of a formal consultation process on a ban on agents’ fees...

The ZPG-backed Zero Deposit scheme, one of a number now existing putting forward an alternative to traditional deposits, has announced four...

Well over twice as many Scottish tenants have seen their rents rise at the start of the year compared to those...

Some letting agencies and selected landlords are being asked to take part in a new survey investigating views and experiences in...

An ‘instant EPC ratings check’ has been created on the website of Mortgages for Business allowing agents to check the ratings...

Brighton’s largest lettings agency MTM Property has rebranded under the new name Coapt. The rebranding involved a year of workshops, client and...

The cost of most mainstream buy to let mortgages is increasing according to online operator Mortgage Brain. The cost of a two...

Letting agents who act on landlords’ instructions to refuse tenants claiming benefits may be breaking the law. A legal case recently found...

The cash value of tenancy deposits crooked landlords and letting agents have been convicted of pocketing in 2018 has already passed...

The local media in Bristol are reporting that landlords in the city are complaining that they face backruptcy if a hugely...

Grainger plc, the UK’s largest listed residential landlord, has launched a scheme of 29 two, three and four bedroom houses aimed...

A new website specifically dedicated to marketing rented property with tenants in place has raised over £2m investment in the past...

Three head tenants who sub-let a three bedroom house to 35 men have been hit with over £23,000 in fines. Gheorghe-Valentin Lingurar...

A specialist insurance firm claims that only 17 per cent of tenants receive the latest version of the mandatory How To...

One of the industry’s highest profile trade bodies has rebranded with a new logo and heavily revised website.  The National Landlords Association...

A head of a major agency says it is misleading to suggest that tenants are evicted ‘for no reason’. Mark Pilling, the...

The latest figures from LSL Property Services suggest that rents have increased across the UK by an average 2.5 per cent in the...

The online lettings agency Upad has launched what it describes as a “pay on success” option for landlord clients.  The company says...

ARLA Propertymark has issued a downbeat report on the lettings sector’s start to 2018.  Its report on the market's performance in January says...

The head of a major PropTech company serving the lettings sector says he want to see the introduction of a database...

Senior Labour MPs have spoken out about what they believe are the anti-social and detrimental effects of short lets on surrounding...

Bristol council is consulting on a licensing scheme which could see buy to let investors paying £1,660 for a five year...

The Court of Appeal has ruled that councils cannot use selective licensing conditions to impose new standards on private rented homes. In...

Trade bodies have started to react to last evening’s Panorama programme claiming alleged abuse of the Section 21 eviction system in...

Tonight's edition of BBC Panorama will investigate the Section 21 evictions process, also known as 'no-fault evictions'. The show - 'Evicted for...

An ambitious PropTech startup has raised £2.8 million to fund its bid to 'reinvent the London renting experience'. Homie, a search platform...

A group of criminals threw a large concrete block through a window to gain access to an estate and letting agency. The...

A local authority has fined four landlords who failed to licence a total of seven properties under its selective licensing scheme. Hastings...

A housing charity has called for the government to build more affordable social homes for rent to help families 'trapped' in...

The UK lettings market has enjoyed a 'robust' start to 2018, according to the latest Agency Express Property Activity Index. The number...

Brent Council has confirmed that the government has approved its request to extend the local selective licensing scheme. The local authority, which...

The successful transfer of £12 billion worth of buy-to-let mortgages has been completed.  Last year, Blackstone and Prudential purchased the book of...

The lettings sector is at the forefront of government proposals for a new redress system for customers of agents and others.  In...

The sittings of the select committee looking into government proposals to ban letting agents’ fees levied on tenants resume this week...

PropTech repairs company Fixflo has appointed digital guru Michael Murphy as non-executive chairman. Murphy has previously worked in high-growth and digital subscription...

A rogue landlord has been fined twice in the space of two months for failing to provide a suitable standard of...

A trade group says diminishing rates of home ownership amongst younger people shows the need to have a thriving private rental...

The director of a lettings agency who who stole hundreds of thousands of pounds to spend on holidays and other luxuries...

Crooked landlords and letting agents were convicted of stealing £1,162,037 of tenant’s cash in 2017 – a rise of 14 per...

A new survey claims that 42 per cent of private sector tenants are unhappy with paying letting agents’ fees, despite the...

A third of UK property professionals are set to expand their portfolios in 2018 despite a backdrop of increased challenges in...

Two buy to let investors have been fined a total of more than £27,000 under enforcement powers introduced in Burnley to...

We’re grateful to The Property Group, an agency in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, for alerting us to an incident involving its Mayfair Town...

The Residential Landlords Association says Labour’s proposals to link rent increases to inflation would leave tenants worse off according to official...

The government has given the go ahead to what will be one of the UK’s largest selective licensing scheme outside of...

Lettings agency IPS Estates is partnering with Midlands auction specialist SDL Auctions to sell tenanted properties online. IPS Estates, based in Derbyshire, will...

It is being reported that the Labour mayor of Newham council - that’s the authority which has introduced stricter controls on...

Letting agents were amongst those duped by a Merseyside builder who rented 33 homes and then sub-let them to allow the...

The city council in Nottingham claims it has taken action against no fewer than 561 unauthorised To Let boards under powers...

A trade body says it wants more clarity from the Labour Party on its proposals to allow private sector tenants to...

The Bulman agency in Whitehaven is to be rebranded as Belvoir, the company’s first in Carlisle. On top of that the amalgamation of...

This is a rare story: a council has dropped a plan for a lettings licensing scheme as a result of 900...

A Birmingham-based student lettings agency says it has seen improved response rates from student tenants and viewers thanks to the use...

Rents in the UK rose by an average of 2.4 per cent in the year to the end of January according...

A London council is marking 125 successful prosecutions against agents, landlords and sub-letting tenants since 2016. The authority, Brent, says the convictions...

A crooked lettings agent has been ordered to repay thousands of pounds from his pension. As previously reported on Letting Agent Today...

Countrywide’s latest analysis of the lettings market says millennials are slowly but surely becoming homeowners, giving ground in the rentals sector...

Trade bodies including ARLA, RICS, NALS and landlord organisations have met with the government to send a clear message - think...

For the second month running, rental growth in London has outstripped the rest of the country according to data released today...

High end agency Strutt & Parker is warning that older properties in prime central London are getting harder to let, with...

The number of buy to let properties in arrears has risen again according to figures released by UK Finance, formerly the...

No fewer than 44 per cent of landlords plan to expand their portfolios before July 2018 despite tax obstacles, according to...

An online petition urging MPs to make it compulsory for privately let properties to be subject to independent inventory reporting is...

Build To Rent developer and operator PLATFORM_ has announced its first scheme in Scotland and an expansion of an existing development...

A new website called Vesta has launched aiming to sell investment properties with tenants in place.  The team behind the site describe...

Belvoir has told its shareholders that it aims to acquire agencies that exit the lettings sector when the ban on fees...

Franchise holders of EweMove in the westcountry have acquired over 100 managed units from an independent agency. Anita Light and Paul Gammage,...

The average cost of renting a home is now rising across every UK region for the first time in almost two...

Tenant demand edged up in the three months to January, according to RICS, but landlord instructions have fallen back - suggesting...

Net buy to let investment has fallen 80 per cent in the past two years, a mortgage lenders’ group claims.  The Intermediary...

The National Landlords’ Association is reporting that around 16 per cent of its members in outer London have reduced rents over...

Specialist buy to let lender Commercial Trust claims at least two other regions of the UK are now vying with London...

A council says it hopes a massive set of fines and costs imposed on one buy to let investor and his...

A lettings agency apparently trying to get around HMO regulations has been prosecuted for licensing and housing offences.  Easy Let Agency let...

One of the many firms that has sprung up to manage Airbnb-style short let accommodation says it backs the Labour Party’s...

A mortgage lender has created a special buy to let product aimed at landlords who let a property to a close...

The veteran estate agent Michael Stoop has become a non-executive director of Sorbet, a PropTech company which has created a software...

Landlords in Wales who manage their own properties are being reminded that they must submit their licence application to Rent Smart...

The man behind a leading lettings industry PropTech company says the new Code of Conduct to clean up the rental sector...

Analysis of government figures by the Nationwide suggest that the buy to let sector is still growing despite tax changes and...

An online agency claims that serious portfolio landlords are staying faithful to buy to let despite recent tax and regulation changes...

High London rents - with the average now running at £1,280 - are driving tenants into sharing according to an online...

A London council has been the first in the country to use the Proceeds of Crime Act for a breach in...

The Residential Landlords Association has reiterated its opposition to Right To Rent, and is backing two legal challenges to the measure. Letting...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has described the introduction of a code of conduct and official register for letting agents...

A lettings agency operating in Cardiff has expanded its business and now donates 15 per cent of profits to a local...

A PropTech firm that simplifies utility billing, with the aim of reducing property management effort by letting agents, has received £650,000...

It’s been revealed this morning that there are two legal challenges being mounted against the Right To Rent policy, which obliges...

A TV news programme has exposed how a sleazy male landlord - who presumably did not instruct a letting agent -...

A fake agent who made thousands from letting out rooms that didn’t exist has been arrested - a month after being...

The trend towards reducing or eliminating deposits at the same time as edging towards a ban on letting agents’ fees on...

The Residential Landlords’ Association has released details of the evidence it put to the Communities and Local Government Select Committee which...

Legal & General has exchanged contracts to acquire land in the centre of Brighton in order to deliver the city’s first...

The former director of a lettings agency in Plymouth is to appear in court in March facing charges of fraud, false...

Savills is urging its landlord clients to be more flexible in order to meet the new expectations of younger renters in...

Politicians in London and Scotland are looking at new controls which could be imposed on home owners letting out their properties...

Student accommodation specialist Unite is launching a new service, called Conker, which aims to replace deposits with insurance schemes for students...

The code sets out the standards to be met by anyone engaged in lettings including specific requirements around how clients’ money...

Countrywide’s Hamptons International is to work with a PropTech firm to try out a no-deposit lettings scheme in four of its offices. Hamptons’...

Two of the leaders of PropTech company Goodlord have revealed some of the issues that this month drove the company to...

Two landlords and two tenants were fined a total of over £11,000 after losing their appeal against housing convictions concerning property...

Research by NALS has revealed extensive increases in the cost of licensing of lettings properties and landlords by local authorities in...

A new branch of the Move Revolution agency has opened in Weston-super-Mare, heavily promoting the concept of no-deposit renting.  The branch is...

A letting agent has been spared jail despite stealing over £7,600 from tenants to subsidise his failing business.  Simon Cawley, from Kingsbridge...

The select committee monitoring the Department of Housing, Communities and Local Government will continue its deliberations today on the government’s ban...

Analysis of the latest English Housing Survey data reveals that the private rental sector provides homes to a fifth of the population,...

Liverpool and Nottingham are the UK’s best performing property investment locations, according to mortgage broker Private Finance.  Both cities enjoy average rental...

Well over half of those investors who recently secured buy to let mortgages risk facing losses when mortgage interest tax changes...

The average number of properties managed by letting agents rose from 192 in November to 200 in December – the highest...

New figures appear to show that younger people may prefer investing in property over pensions - giving new hope to the...

Romans has thrown its weight behind the banning orders being introduced in April which could see rogue letting agents and landlords...

Vesper Homes, a high-end London property management firm, has developed an Alexa Skill which will mean landlords and tenants can receive...

Agents and landlords with responsibilities to ensure gas checks are carried out in private rental properties may have more flexibility over...

The chief operating officer of a leading PropTech company says government proposals to increase mandatory licensing of Houses in Multiple Occupation...

Rent Smart Wales says it is “heartening” that there has been a substantial recent rise in the number of agents, properties...

The government has been accused by a lettings sector trade body of skewing the market to encourage more short-lets.  The claim comes...

Homes in Multiple Occupation produced average yields of 8.9 per cent in 2017, the highest of all buy to let property...

The ESTAS Group has just announced record entries for its 2018 letting and estate agents awards.  The national award scheme - which...

Nearly three quarters of portfolio landlords have found it more difficult to secure a mortgage since the Prudential Regulation Authority’s changes...

The average rent in England and Wales was £850 in December 2017, an increase of 2.3 per cent in the last...

The head of franchise giant Belvoir says government interference in the rental sector is likely to result in a rise in...

The average rent agreed on a new tenancy signed in December was £907 according to the insurance firm HomeLet, compared to...

A representative of the Landlords’ Union has posted an apology on the Property118 website for accidentally using a photograph of the...

The chairman of the Residential Landlords Association has written in the Labour-supporting New Statesman magazine about the need for the lettings...

The How To Rent guide - the document which has to be given to new tenants by letting agents or landlords...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is the latest industry body to throw its weight behind the Private Members’ Bill that...

The agency Leaders has been marking the 10th anniversary of the death of its founder Neville Lee, who was a key...

We’re delighted to announce that later this month there will be a regular feature each week called Property Jobs Today.  It will...

The former executive director of LSL Property Services, David Newnes, is one of the key backers of a new property management...

Lettings agency Haart says the government should go much further than the legislation it is supporting giving tenants the right to...

A fine of over £29,000 has been imposed on an absentee landlord whose property was said to have put tenants’ lives...

Almost three-quarters of buy to let mortgage transactions made by landlords operating via limited companies in the final quarter of last...

An accountancy trade body, the Association of Accounting Technicians, is advising the government to investigate what it calls “the questionable tax...

There have been more expressions of support from industry bodies for the Private Members’ Bill from Labour’s Karen Buck MP which...

NoAgent, an online service charging landlords a fee to manage their properties, is the latest to offer a link between tenants’...

We’re delighted to announce that later this month there will be a regular feature each week called Property Jobs Today.  It will...

An agency operating in London and Essex has launched an online petition to oppose the ban on credit and debit card...

A new PropTech platform has launched today linking tenants’ rental payments with their Experian credit histories, as well as providing reports...

Two letting agencies have removed advertisements after complaints were filed to the Advertising Standards Authority. The first case involved LSL Property Services...