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A national newspaper says the Renters Reform Bill is “on the brink of collapse” as Tory MPs are divided on their...

A network uniting so-called ‘ethical agents’ launches today with a promise to be different from the rest of the industry. The Ethical...

Propertymark’s property auction division - NAVA - has given ringing endorsement to the Material Information changes demanded under new Trading Standards...

An organised crime group involved in producing and distributing an estimated £2.4m of cannabis has been found to have e used...

Controversial website content by the high profile website GetAgent must never appear again, according to the ad industry watchdog. The Advertising Standards...

Councils have become increasingly hostile towards agents in recent times, with increased regulation and licensing of the private rental sector in...

The Property Redress Service claims to be the largest lettings redress service now, with over 13,250 letting agency branches on board. In...

The Halifax has released a snapshot of the housing market as the year ends - with the cost of living crisis...

Trends in the lettings market “do not bode well for renters on low incomes” according to an analyst. Jack Godby of lettings...

The allAgents review website has removed a claim suggesting it had been ‘endorsed’ by The Times and the Sunday Times newspapers. The...

A lettings platform claims that as many as one in 20 rental properties may be let to criminals - that’s some...

An online rental platform warns the average rent bill could reach as much as £2,270/month if prices rise in line with...

The Advertising Standards Authority has banned advertorial material issued by the government department responsible for rental reform and housing. Two Labour MPs...

The Advertising Standards Authority has stepped in to investigate allegations about advertising for shared ownership homes.  In 2021 an advertisement appeared on...

A lettings platform has joined forces with - wait for it - an astrologer, to find ideal places for people with...

A specialist rental platform says its research shows a growing number of people intentionally renting long-term. Ocasa says the reason is the...

There’s been a big rise in the number of private rental properties on the past decade, despite sweeping tax and regulation...

A lettings agency is in hot water with advertising regulators for using the phrase “What the flock are you looking at?”...

Lettings technology platform Goodlord has acquired a new app called acasa.  acasa is a fintech platform which allows tenants to manage household...

Westcountry agency Stags has been the subject of a low level complaint to the Advertising Standards Authority. The complaint concerned fees not...

Real estate as an industry has remained unchallenged throughout all of these years. For the industry worth more than 217 trillion...

With the Government announcement this week of another national lockdown across England amid the surging coronavirus infections, it once again puts...

Recent debate about urgent need for reform and better collaboration within the property industry, has once again come under the spotlight...

Tenancy deposit disputes are messy and often frustrating for all involved. While the number of formal disputes remains low, the pandemic...

It’s been an unexpected year for the property market, shaped by the effects of the pandemic. We didn’t quite anticipate the...

The author of a book described as being about “insecure renters haemorrhaging cash” has used her newspaper column to make a...

Online lettings agency Upad is offering to refund users whose rental listings did not appear on Zoopla and PrimeLocation as they...

There’s a warning this morning that the consequences of the Coronavirus crisis mean that rents will fall at least five per...

A London company that has previously had an ad banned by the Advertising Standards Authority has announced a change of name. The...

A former director at LSL’s Build To Rent division has today been named as head of business development at a London...

A developer offering a rent guarantee on its homes has amended its advertisement wording after an intervention by the Advertising Standards...

The Advertising Standards Authority has ruled in favour of deposit alternative scheme flatfair in a dispute which began with a complaint...

A lettings agent says she has just spent three months trying to get evidence of her Client Money Protection policy -...

The comparison website MoneySuperMarket suggests that renters spend an average of £670 in additional costs when they move, on top of...

With less than four weeks to go to the start date of the Welsh Tenant Fees ban, the Association of Residential...

The Advertising Standards Authority has stepped in following a complaint about an advertisement which claimed a flat was just a one...

A rogue landlord in Chesterfield has received a hefty fine for a second time after the council took her to court...

The Advertising Standards Authority has stepped in following a complaint about the online lettings agency Upad. The agency had a reference ion...

Lettings agency Northwood has been told by the Advertising Standards Authority to ensure that photographs of a specific property are updated...

A lettings agency has withdrawn a leaflet which featured a woman’s cleavage; the leaflet had been the subject of a complaint...

Lancasters Estate Agents on the Isle of Wight has been the subject of a complaint to the Advertising Standards Authority over...

A lettings agency has agreed to amend its website after a complaint to the Advertising Standards Authority over its use of...

An advertisement on a property management firm’s website suggesting that rental income would be guaranteed to landlords has been banned by...

Rightmove’s chief executive officer, Peter Brooks-Johnson, is joining the board of an offshoot of a global classified listings operation. He is to...

Chris Wood, the Cornish agent who was recently the centre of a dispute with the Advertising Standards Authority, has announced that...

In our previous 2 blogs we have covered the definitions of the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations (CPRs) and what...

In our previous blog, we looked at the definitions outlined by the CPRs. In our next blog we’ll look at the...

The Advertising Standards Authority has banned an advertisement for a company that helps Airbnb hosts prepare and manage their properties for...

The Advertising Standards Authority has banned an advertisement by the short let management service Airsorted because the firm was unable to...

Central London agency Portico has removed a property listing from Rightmove after intervention by the Advertising Standards Authority. The ASA received a...

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

Two complaints linked to agency activity have been dealt with through the Advertising Standards Authority informal resolution process. In the first a...

An eviction company called Remove A Tenant has been the subject of a complaint after a Facebook post which implied tenants...

A complaint to the Advertising Standards Authority says a flyer from an estate agency suggesting that a property was to let...

An estate agency in Bournemouth has amended an advertisement after a complaint to a watchdog about the absence of any reference...

Bob Parry Lettings, a north Wales agency, has removed a claim from its website concerning a plot of land, following a...

A rent guarantor operator has changed the wording of a description of its services on its own website following the intervention...

Government watchdog the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has upheld four complaints made against a Liverpool letting agency. The complaints were made against...

Airbnb has changed details on its website following a complaint to the Advertising Standards Authority.   The short-let platform’s website, seen on December...

It seems prop-tech is exploding at a scary rate, and the latest brands are all trying to grab our attention by...

Bristol lettings agency Livnlet has told the Advertising Standards Authority it is removing four testimonials from its website after a complaint...

Northwood GB has withdrawn a circular following a complaint regarding a reference to Rightmove visits.   A circular for Northwood GB stated: “Did...

Annoying isn’t it. You take on a stunning property, agree a compelling asking price and your Vendor is desperate to get the...

Property sharing platform Ace Relocations has changed the wording of a listing on its website after a complaint was lodged with...

The Advertising Standards Authority has received a complaint about a claim which was on an online letting agency’s website suggesting it...

Two complaints about an advertisement for a property have been upheld by a watchdog - which has now banned a letting...

The Associaton of Independent Inventory Clerks is warning agents and others in the lettings sector to be careful when preparing advertising...

The Advertising Standards Authority has stepped in to ensure that a letting agency displays the correct logo for the redress organisation...

The key lies in improving your customer experience through technology For Agents, the tremendous growth in online estate agents highlights a strong...

A lettings sector supply company has had to amend an advertisment after a complaint about its “misleading” statement over smoke and...

The Advertising Standards Authority has stepped in after receiving a complaint about the display of fees on a letting agency’s website.    The...

Our latest infographic shows figures of how the majority of deposits are repaid at the end of tenancy and goes into...

A letting agency that claimed it had a 24-hour emergency phone line has changed its advertising - because the service did...

Magistrates have fined the leaseholders and landlords of a 10-flat property in north London £120,000 after finding they had put the...

A letting agency has pledged to make its fees information clearer on its Rightmove listings. The Advertising Standards Authority had received a...

The Advertising Standards Authority has banned an ad from high-end letting agency Hamptons International because of an apparent lack of clarity...

A tenant has been found guilty of an assault of a letting agency staff member and has been ordered to do...

Three lettings groups have modified their advertisements after complaints were received by the Advertising Standards Authority. The UK Association of Letting Agents...

New figures from the British Property Federation show that there are now over 30,000 Build To Rent units with planning permission...

A letting agency that has been the subject of a BBC investigation and has gone into liquidation in controversial circumstances has...

Former Conservative housing minister Mark Prisk says the recent clampdowns on the traditional buy to let sector may end up helping...

A compliance expert has taken the Advertising Standards Authority to task over its guidance to letting agents on the advertising of...

An Oxford landlord has been convicted of unlawfully evicting a tenant after “a campaign of sustained harassment”. Riasat Ali was ordered to...

The Advertising Standards Authority has praised a letting agency after it agreed to amend an advertisement following a complaint - meaning...

The Advertising Standards Authority has banned a radio advertisement for Direct Line Landlord Insurance because it has been judged to be...

A Build To Let scheme led by developer Dandara and property investment operator LaSalle is to be the first of its...

The internet and rapidly evolving digital landscape has revolutionised the way people buy and sell properties. With some reports suggesting 95 per...

Watch the latest weekly video roundup of news from Estate Agent Today and Letting Agent Today, featuring stories on the housing...

OK, you’ve had your fun. Now let’s leave the regulators regulate and work for the public. If you don’t know what...