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A new report from the government says it’s too early to tell whether lettings agencies are abiding by new anti-money laundering...

Industry supplier The Letting Partnership is calling for businesses to take on more apprentices and support young people in a challenging...

A new assessment of legislation and council rules surrounding the private rental sector suggests a severe crackdown may be coming in...

A newspaper claims a lettings agency is battling allegations of overcharging customers and using fake companies to carry out maintenance work. The Daily Record...

Letting agencies should review banking and payment systems in the light of rule changes and the ongoing challenge of the pandemic. This advice...

Letting agents and landlords have faced huge change and uncertainty this year, with Covid-19 the major driver. But even before the...

The announcement of the Renters’ Reform Bill in the Queen’s speech last December caused a collective groan across the country from...

The property market, and therefore, estate agents have been accused of being the 'weak link' in the UK’s money laundering defences. This...

It’s a given these days that your business needs to be on social media. Consumers spend a large portion of their...

Many have speculated, though much of it is anecdotal – how is the UK rental market coping with the fallout from...

An agent has been banned from being a company director after tax offences involving hundreds of thousands of pounds, or possibly...

ARLA Propertymark says there has been a breakthrough on the banking clampdown on pooled client accounts - a pain in the...

A new report demands that online rental platforms and portals allowing direct advertising by clients do more to deter fake landlords...

A series of fake scams allegedly advertising apartments to rent have appeared on Zoopla and other property websites. The Edinburgh Live news...

Which? is warning prospective renters to beware scam lettings agencies and scam landlords following a case where £5,600 was conned out...

Teclet has announced another strategic partnership with LettsPay, a client accounting platform - the latest in a lengthy series of API...

A new web platform is launching encouraging reviews of landlords - but it claims not to be another opportunity for tenants...

The number of rental deposit disputes lodged with one of the government-authorised deposit schemes has fallen 15 per cent across England...

ARLA Propertymark has set out its concerns over draft guidance on anti-money laundering produced by a body called the Joint Money...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is advising member companies to file their accounts on time in order to remain transparent...

The former operations director at Purplebricks says he is waiving fees for letting agents who want to join his new online...

Hostmaker, a property management firm working with properties listed on Airbnb and other short-let platforms, has ceased trading with its parent...

A jailed letting agent in a long-running legal saga has now been told she must repay her victims some £43,000 -...

A lettings agent who stole over £23,000 from tenants to pay for his gambling habit and pay off debt has escaped...

Who are you? Jed Topping, Business Development Executive for Virgin Media How can sales and letting agents work with Virgin Media to earn extra revenue? By...

Who are you and what is your role within the company? Steve Rad, Managing Director What is ‘company name’ and what does it...

A third of all landlords live in Greater London and the South East according to data collated by a property management...

A lettings agency admits that the proportion of net income required to cover rent has hit 75 per cent in some...

Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick has rejected a bid by Labour-controlled Liverpool council to extend its licensing scheme for five years. Government approval...

There’s still life in the buy to let market despite the regulatory and financial changes in recent years according to a...

Unusual research undertaken by an alternative deposit scheme suggests that women pay a substantially higher proportion of their salary than men,...

Some 45 per cent of those who don’t yet own a home think they never will, according to a new report.  While...

The BBC is reporting that the short lets giant Airbnb has been contacted by HM Revenue & Customs about its tax...

Three criminals have been sentenced after pleading guilty to money laundering involving an online lettings agency. The sentences follow an investigation spearheaded...

Young adults aged 20 to 29 spend up to a third of their pre-tax income on rent for a room according...

Professional client account solutions for modern letting agents Letting agents will need to come up with new ways to manage client money...

A leading industry figure is calling on agents to have a Plan B ready if their bank closes undesignated client accounts.  This...

One of the key players in the ultra-competitive deposit alternative sector has announced a massive and new $11m investment. Flatfair says that...

Lettings professionals should do more to raise awareness of the need to reduce moving stress for tenants and landlords. Industry supplier Tenant...

Lloyds Bank appears to have contacted at least some of its letting agent clients to say that it is closing all...

A London lettings agency is launching a service to enable landlords to invest in mainstream buy to let or Airbnb-style short...

The government has published proposals for far-reaching changes to the way estate and letting agents are regulated, trained and licensed. The proposals...

A new white-labelled outsourced lettings management service is launching today, claiming to undercut all rivals. F%ur - a brand from 4percentproperty -...

The future of the lettings industry will be tech-driven says one of the industry’s leading consultants, who is now also director...

A council claims that its decision to set up its own lettings agency has prevented homelessness for almost 50 families and...

An online platform claims it has found a new and easy way for investors to become landlords, describing itself as ‘PayPal...

A lettings agent who stole over £350,000 is reported to have been told to pay back…£1. Local media in the south of...

A crooked letting agent took £220,000 from tenants and landlords and has been exposed as buying a home in Florida, renting...

The government says it wants “an immediate change” in the policy of some letting agents and landlords who advertise ‘No DSS’...

Sub-standard homes remain a key weakness in the private rental sector, which needs to get its house in order in the...

A flat-share website claims typical rents in some 38 per cent of London are now so high they render the areas...

Sometimes, running a lettings agency can feel as if you’re losing control of client money. Recent cases of property management fraud such...

A new study suggests that rental properties now account for 40 per cent of the available housing stock.  Looking at the final...

A new property management portal is being launched with the familiar aim of revolutionising the lettings industry - and it will...

A crooked lettings agent who illegally pocketed tenants’ deposits to pay for his gambling addiction and lavish lifestyle has been convicted...

One of Britain's highest profile landlords is to be sentenced on December 11 - and she must show the court details of...

Good tenant referencing should include awareness of would-be renters’ social media history according to RentalStep - but it says more thorough...

The area of staffing can be a very uncomfortable one, but as the future of the lettings industry crystalises, it’s clear...

The Association of Residential Managing Agents has launched a first-of-its-kind Client Money Protection to members.  Although CMP schemes are to be mandatory...

Liquidators Grant Thornton says funds found in the accounts of a Guernsey lettings agent are likely to be sufficient to pay...

One in nine landlords now check prospective tenants’ social media accounts to try to assess how they may behave as renters,...

From August 1 Nottingham council is introducing a new selective licensing regime covering an estimated 32,000 privately rented homes. This is an...

Outsourcing has long been an effective strategy in business. It enables you to provide a new, improved or more streamlined service...

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

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

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

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’...

Harrison Murray, the lettings division of the Nottingham Building Society, has launched a portal for landlords and tenants. The agency says it...

Crooked letting agents and landlords have raided close to £1m from tenancy deposit accounts in 2017, new figures show. Campaigning agent Ajay Jagota,...

A senior housing official at Bristol city council says the increasing popularity of Airbnb has had the effect of taking “hundreds”...

The increasing number of renters and low interest rates for existing home owners mean that the total rent bill is now...

Letting agents have been accused of failing to carry out sufficient financial checks on prospective tenants.    Tenant referencing and insurance operator Landlord...

The head of an estate and lettings agency has been expelled from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors after admitting taking...

Prime Central London’s lettings market has improved gradually during the first two quarters of the year according to JLL.   It says transaction...

A new charter has been launched to promote the rights of tenants in a London borough where, for the first time...

A growing sales and lettings agency in Leeds has announced the recruitment of nine new members of staff. Morgans, which describes itself...

Airbnb, until now regarded as a platform used mainly by holidaymakers, is now preparing a tool that will identify apartments and...

An agency staff member has received a suspended prison sentence after stealing £11,500 in unclaimed deposits from a branch of Connells.   Amy...

A leading letting agent campaigning against rental sector deposits is warning that the industry might be hit with “astronominal” insurance premiums...

  Renters are spending half their wages keeping a roof over their head, are twice as likely as homeowners to have no...

The director of a letting agency in Devon has been released on bail until June 2.   In November and December, Letting Agent...

Four in 10 people who rent a home expect still to be renting a property for up to a decade, according...

  The average rent paid for a home in the UK outside London hit £750 in December, rising by 2.04 per cent...

A local newspaper says a Plymouth lettings agent has been arrested by police on suspicion of theft, fraud and money laundering.    Last...

A Labour MP has told the House of Commons that she is in favour of a tax regime that would reward...

A letting agent whose office closure prompted a police investigation has issued a statement saying she has had a stroke.   The agency, Drake...

The controversial Welsh private lettings sector scheme called Rent Smart Wales had around 65 per cent of agents and landlords register...

Who are you? Peter Grant, currently serving year 27 of my sentence in the property industry and still loving every moment of working...

Sister agencies Leaders and Romans have undertaken research to show that property has been the most lucrative investment in the UK...

Franchise estate agency Winkworth has reported its figures for the first half of 2016, noting a particularly strong performance in its...

There are now 60,139 Build To Rent units constructed or in the pipeline across the UK according to the British Property...

  A letting agent who scammed dozens of tenants and landlords out of more than £220,000 of rents and deposits has been...

An industry group says the family has overtaken the single person - living alone or sharing -  as the most common...

The Property 118 website - which last week won a notable victory in the Court of Appeal against a building society...

The average cost of renting a one-bedroom home in Britain has risen to £746 per month - this is the equivalent...

New technology could help letting agents and landlords select tenants and check up on them during tenancies. Tenant Assured uses automated social...

The government is being urged to delay the introduction of new energy efficiency targets in the private rental sector, with a...

The approaching of the April 1 stamp duty surcharge deadline led to a severe drop-off in buy to let purchasers seeking...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has given its support for what appears to be a government U-turn on Client Money...

One of Scotland’s largest independent letting agencies has entered into two deals adding over 600 properties to its inventory. The Edinburgh-based DJ...

The Charity Commission is to probe the links between a letting agency that has allegedly been paid more than £5.5m in...

The private rental sector accounts for 22 per cent of all households in the UK according to a think tank.  In an...

Approaching 50 per cent of private tenants have experienced property maintenance issues with their agents or landlords. The figure comes through research...

Who are you? I’m the managing director of Fixflo and before starting Fixflo I worked as a property lawyer in London and...

London Mayor and Tory leadership wannabee Boris Johnson wants rogue operators in the private rental sectors to be banned with repeat...

Letting agents and other industry professionals are being consulted ver changes to the sector’s regulation - including possible blacklisting of rogue...

The Bank of England says excessive lending to fund buy to let purchases could pose a risk to the financial well-being...

A letting agency accounts clerk recruited to replace an employee dismissed because of theft has now herself been found guilty of...

Manchester based Ascend Properties says it has smashed its 1,000-unit target within just one year of trading - and is now expanding across...

The chief executive of Braemore, one of the highest profile letting agencies in Scotland, says he wants greater regulation for the...