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A lettings agency in the West Midlands is reported to have closed its two offices at short notice, leaving clients angry...

There’s been another major industry survey revealing that a high number of lettings agents and landlords may quit the private rental...

Six months on from the introduction of stricter licencing for Homes in Multiple Occupation, awareness “remains limited” according to one of...

There’s been another call on the government to rethink its plans to change the Section 21 eviction process.  The founder of Landlord...

The Residential Landlords Association and Gas Safe Register have joined forces to promote gas safety awareness in the private rental sector. The...

The National Approved Letting Scheme has rebranded as safeagent.  NALS has helped coordinate the safeagent campaign since 2011, focussing during that time...

The agency handling the largest volume of student accommodation in Lincoln is celebrating its fourth birthday by opening a second office...

With the Tenant Fee Ban obliterating a key income stream, letting agents should be looking at ways they can increase the...

An MP says he will raise with local police chiefs a series of claims from landlords and tenants concerning a lettings...

Agents and landlords are being warned to prepare for a surge in tenants moving property once the fees ban kicks in...

A study claims as many as a fifth of private renters in the UK have developed an illness due to issues...

An estate agency that describes itself as a ‘social enterprise’ says it will spend its profits on the homeless and related...

London agency Stirling Ackroyd - owned by Nick Dunning Associates, led by senior ex-Countrywide staff - has snapped up another independent...

A new PropTech tool already used by three leading agencies claims to identify and speed up contact between pre-qualified tenants and...

Foxtons has been named as one of almost 100 firms which will be highlighted for failing to boost the number of...

The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) has urged the government to 'fix' the court system before it goes ahead with its plan...

A damning report on taxation in the private rental sector (PRS) has accused the treasury of appearing not to understand 'the...

There was a notable increase in the number of older buy-to-let investors in 2018, according to Commercial Trust Limited. The specialist buy-to-let...

Revenue raised by landlord licensing schemes should be used to enforce rental sector regulation, according to PayProp. It says that the money...

Tenancy deposit alternative Reposit has announced a partnership with Pattinson, the largest independent agency network in the North East. The 26-branch network...

A rental market expert is urging landlords to be cautious when considering to use short-term lets websites such as Airbnb to...

The Scottish Government is investigating 114 businesses suspected of carrying out letting agency work without registration and has issued 86 compliance...

A new solution to help letting agents deal with the introduction of the security deposit cap under the Tenant Fees Act...

It’s now under four weeks to the introducing of the Tenant Fees Ban across England and the Association of Residential Letting...

Letting agents across England have been accused of potentially breaching consumer law by demanding deposits before tenants even see a contract. The...

Increased use of technology could boost gas-related health and safety in the private rental sector according to the people behind a...

A buy to let investor has been left with a £2,000 bill and a criminal conviction after letting out his property...

A new PropTech start-up that claims to make student house-hunting easier is offering free listings to lettings agents with London properties. Polygon...

New data from specialist mortgage firm Commercial Trust suggests that London’s buy to let sector turned a corner in the first...

Northwood has snapped up two independent agencies - Northwood Warminster have successfully completed on the acquisition of Wilsons of Westbury while...

A local authority has written to purchasers of former council houses and apartments warning them against illegally letting them out -...

One of London’s best known lettings agents says unfurnished properties can take 30 per cent longer to let than a furnished...

An agency in the north east of England is moving its HQ off the High Street and into an office block...

The chief executive of a specialist buy to let lender says increasing the rent to combat additional costs put on landlords...

A trade union says the government’s intention to scrap Section 21 eviction powers for landlords is “a huge victory” - but...

A 23 year old lettings agent has tragically died from a bacterial form of meningitis, a serious infection of the thin...

Student demand for places across the UK - and therefore for accommodation - is holding up well despite Brexit uncertainty, according...

How is Inadash revolutionising the rental market? Searching for a new rental property can be a stressful, time-consuming and frustrating process, but...

The Mayor of London is calling on government to introduce a new registration system for anyone wishing to rent out a...

Senior lettings agency figures are amongst those who will this morning give evidence to a committee of MPs investigating so-called ‘DSS...

A national newspaper story suggests that a couple seeking an apartment to rent in Brixton were signed up to the wrong...

The official government consultation period on the scrapping of Section 21 eviction begins shortly, but now a leading lettings sector trade...

A husband and wife must pay joint fines, penalties and costs totalling over £8,000 after complaints about a bungalow they owned...

A senior lettings agent has raised the spectre of rental properties in future being German-style ‘empty shells’ - without even white...

The Association of Residential Lettings Agents says it backs a new Trading Standards-led body which will enforce the Fees Ban starting  on...

One of the most vocal critics of lettings agents in recent years appears to be moving away from the property industry. Campbell...

A formal consultation process has started to consider government plans to extend Anti-Money Laundering from property sales to lettings as well. Unveiled...

The scrapping of Section 21 eviction powers has been welcomed by the London Assembly - but apparently it doesn’t go far...

A Freedom of Information request by The Guardian newspaper has produced the startling admission from government that not even one landlord...

Belvoir has snapped up another independent lettings agency in the south east.  Grey & Co, located at Wembley Park in north London,...

The scrapping of Section 21, as proposed by the government, shows that Whiteall has “a Dickensian view” of the buy to...

The head of a major property management firm says the controversial proposal to scrap Section 21 eviction powers for landlords is...

The government’s wish to use a modified Section 8 as an alternative to Section 21 for landlords seeking possession of their...

The government says it wants to ban outright Section 21 'no fault' eviction powers in England and Wales. Instead landlords seeking to evict...

The government’s plan to scrap Section 21 is personally backed by the Prime Minister and will begin formal consultations today. If the...

A building expert is warning buy to let investors that they won’t enjoy unfettered rights to extend their properties upwards when...

A leading legal firm is warning that Right To Rent could become even more complicated for letting agents and landlords after...

Savills has launched a new residential lettings service in one of the country’s most successful buy to let and investment locations...

Buy to let investors are facing a double whammy as stagnating rents and reduced tax relief are hitting profitability. A study from...

Mother and daughter lettings agency fraudsters have been told to expect jail sentences after defrauding landlords and tenants of £266,000 over...

Connells Group has acquired the lettings business portfolio of an independent agency in a move it describes as “part of its...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Taha Dar, founder and CEO of SearchSmartly. What is SearchSmartly and...

A PropTech firm says buy to let investors could earn in excess of double the eight per cent yield most aim...

Staff are usually a business’s biggest fixed cost, but did you know that the true cost of an employee is almost...

One of the most pro-licensing local authorities in the country has extended its own scheme to include the entire centre of...

Two buy to let investors have been fined thousands of pounds after failing to carry out improvements to unfit rental properties. Adur...

Prospective tenants are being warned about a fraud scam that cons people into paying an advance fee to rent a property. The...

A PropTech lead generation app that dubs itself the ‘Uber for Lettings Agents’ has launched in Manchester. The app, from Movebubble, already...

A controversial new survey claims to have identified the best cities for millennials to live in based on factors such as...

The government has issued new guidance notes on the Tenant Fees Act, aimed at agents, landlords and tenants. The publications come ahead...

PropTech company Goodlord is the latest entrant in the deposit alternative field. Under Goodlord Deposit Replacement Insurance agents can provide landlords with...

Fergus Wilson, arguably Britain’s most controversial landlord and almost certainly the individual with the largest number of buy to lets in...

The mandatory Client Money Protection scheme membership that comes into effect today will protect landlords and tenants from letting agents that...

There’s been a big boost to the movement towards deposit alternatives in the private rental sector following a survey released this...

Figures given through a Parliamentary answer have revealed just how bad councils in England are at policing and enforcement action against...

It’s a vital time for letting agents to hammer home the benefits of buy to let and the dangers to landlords...

Changes to Capital Gains Tax which reach their full impact in the next 12 months could fuel property changing hands between...

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

New ‘best practice’ guidance to letting agents and landlords has been introduced ahead of the introduction of the tenants’ fees ban...

The government is back to business attacking the lettings sector with an extraordinary claim by a minister that many students are...

Fergus Wilson - the controversial buy to let landlord who with his wife once owned 1,000 homes - has named his...

A property management company is taking the unusual approach of suggesting to buy to let investors that they purchase properties with...

Large-scale buy to let investors are continuing to move to limited company status in a bid to limit their exposure to...

The PropTech firm CreditLadder is working with the Nationwide Building Society on a pioneering scheme to try to help tenants buy...

With the government already on the ropes over Brexit, there’s a call today for one of its flagship immigration policies to...

Leicester is the latest council to begin consultations on selective licensing in six parts of the city - with the threat...

A buy to let investment service says its podcasts are now downloaded over 200,000 times a month and it has an...

The implementation and costs of landlord licensing schemes in Britain are a lottery. That’s the conclusion of a new analysis of licensing...

An online lettings service says it will pay existing tenants for finding replacements and handling viewings, in a bid to reduce...

A trade body says a recent court case threatens the right of buy to let landlords to repossess their properties. The Residential...

Today the long-awaited Homes (Fitness For Human Habitation) Act comes into force, pioneered by Labour MP Karen Buck and giving people...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has asked the government for urgent clarification on how Right To Rent will work post-Brexit...

Property Franchise Group brand Martin & Co has snapped up West Yorkshire independent agent Red Box Residential. Martin & Co’s Saltaire branch, operated...

TrustMark, the government-backed quality kite mark scheme for tradespeople, is launching a pilot with Trading Standards to improve the quality and...

The proportion of landlords purchasing buy to let homes in London with cash rose from 33 per cent in 2017 to...

There’s a claim today that around one million amateur and professional landlords in the new short lets sector are not adequately...

A PropTech firm says buy to let investors should not respond to the slowing market by selling up, but should instead...

Labour’s proposal to introduce indefinite tenancies along the lines in a bid to emulate the German model reveals the party’s “fundamental...

A new study claims one in three Britons would be happy renting for the rest of their lives - but the...

One of Britain’s most experienced lettings experts has condemned the government for “almost singlehandedly destroying the traditional lettings market.” Lisa Simon -...

The government says it is still considering applications to operate Client Money Protection schemes from April, despite approving five schemes so...

Hull council has won a legal case in the High Court against a local trade body, the Humber Landlords Association. The claim...

An accreditation scheme has been launched for the fast-growing sector of short lets and home sharing.  The UK Short Term Accommodation Association,...

Haringey council is the latest local authority in the capital to create a borough-wide additional licensing scheme for HMOs. It claims the...

The London-focussed rental app Movebubble has revealed major new investment from Build To Rent developer Quintain, which is taking a 10...

Numerous regional independent agency chains have joined Zero Deposit, one of several rental deposit replacement schemes to have appeared in recent...

A landlord has been convicted of three offences relating to his failure to comply with fire safety requirements in a privately...

New research from Zoopla suggests that parking sits firmly at the top of requirements for renters - but with pet-friendly facilities...

The Home Office says it will reassess the Right To Rent scheme following last week’s decision by the High Court that...

The government has issued guidelines for the implementation of the new Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act which comes into effect...

A buy to let investor has been landed with a fine and costs of over £20,000 because he failed to apply...

Momentum is building in the campaign to end ‘No DSS’ discrimination against private rental sector tenants in receipt of housing benefit. Late...

Connells Group is backing this week’s National Apprenticeship Week and has launched a new head office programme giving around 100 existing...

A regional fire service says a tragic anniversary is a good opportunity for agents and landlords to remember their legal obligations...

North Wales agency Dafydd Hardy has snapped up small independent Smith & Wypler as part of a new growth strategy.  Smith &...

Doncaster council has paid £100,000 to a private landlord who threatened to take it to court over alleged slander.  Local media outlets say...

Propertymark’s Money Shield service and the National Approved Letting Scheme have each received government approval to operate Client Money Protection schemes. From...

A new free online training course which guides letting agents through the key principles of disputes has been released by The...

Buy to let may have been in the doldrums in recent years thanks to new taxes and stricter regulations but there’s...

Just when you thought there could not be any more rival licensing or accreditation systems in the private rental sector, a...

Another controversial scheme licensing landlords who let their homes out may face legal challenge. Middlesbrough council’s formal consultation on the introduction of...

Some 24 per cent of landlords have considered letting out their properties on a short let Airbnb-style basis - but only...

Short lets on Airbnb and similar platforms are causing increasing irritation for owners in residential blocks, according to a property management...

Another client money protection scheme has been given approval to launch itself before regulations go live on April 1.  From that date...

The Money Laundering Regulations require estate agents to risk assess their business relationships and apply an appropriate level of investigation to...

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

Client Money Protect has gained formal government approval to operate a client money protection scheme when the regulations go live on...

Over half of the Millennials consulted in a survey say they want to get away from renting so badly they would...

A buy to let investor who converted three family homes to HMOs without securing planning permission has been jailed for falsifying...

March 19 has been set as the next date for the Welsh equivalent of the Tenant Fees Ban Bill to be...

A legal firm has renewed its criticism of local authority licensing schemes, accusing them of “persecuting” landlords. David Kirwan, managing partner at...

Ambitious regional chain Linley & Simpson has opened a new branch in the Yorkshire market town of Pudsey after snapping up...

The Tenants’ Fees Bill has now become law, receiving formal Royal Assent yesterday afternoon - and within minutes, the government issued...

Online agency Upad has made another change to its charging structure. It has recently introduced revised packages for landlords, payment via Direct...

Who are you? I’m the Director of Sales for both the well-known industry leading Today publications and The ValPal Network. Leading publications: Estate...

Hounslow council wants its additional licensing scheme for HMOs - due to expire in May 2019 - to be extended for...

A lettings sector trade body has put the blame firmly on government for the scale of poverty amongst those who privately...

A letting agent in east London has been fined £4,000 after apparently publishing the incorrect fees that it levies on tenants...

Council enforcement officers have raided a house in Wembley, north London, and found 19 tenants paying a landlord £1,000 a week. Brent council’s...

Knight Frank’s student accommodation partner has given the thumbs up to new figures suggesting a surge in overseas and domestic students...

High-end lettings agency Strutt & Parker says the take-up of new rental tenancies decreased by 5.4 per cent over 2018 as...

One of the existing two government-authorised redress schemes governing estate and letting agents has called on landlords to voluntarily join, ahead...

The London-focussed lettings agency Portico is expanding its short-lets service Portico Host into Manchester and Liverpool - but it isn’t spending...

A landlord who failed to comply with orders to improve the standard of a property has had to pay over £7,500...

Rent controls of the kind which London mayor Sadiq Khan wishes to introduce will worsen what is already a huge exodus...

The Nottinghamshire branch of Martin & Co has snapped up the local independent agency SOLOS Residential. The family-run Martin & Co branches...

Outsourcing. Everyone has an opinion on it and there’s a stigma surrounding it in the lettings industry. But get this…letting agents ARE...

The National Approved Lettings Scheme has taken the unusual step of commenting on, and welcoming, the outcome of a court case...

Almost the entire lettings industry has viewed the upcoming ban on tenants fees levied by agents in England and Wales as...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents says it backs the stricter rules on mandatory electricity checks in rental properties announced by...

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

Andrews lettings agency in Oxford has emerged as the hero in an episode which saw a family evicted from their home...

TV property pundit Phil Spencer, who now runs property advice site MoveIQ, says letting agents may introduce new administration fees on...

There’s been a big rise in the volume of purpose-built student accommodation in the UK, suggesting that the market may be...

Collyers, an Experts in Property estate and lettings agency with two branches in North Devon, has hoovered up a lettings firm...

The news this week that even individual private landlords must join a redress scheme is just the latest in an onslaught...

There’s been broad support from the lettings sector for the wide-ranging reform of the redress system announced yesterday by housing secretary...

There’s been an angry reaction to the suggestion that London’s Labour mayor, Sadiq Khan, is seeking to introduce rent controls in...

The Yeovil branch of hybrid agency EweMove now has over 200 managed properties following the acquisition of the lettings book of...

Another council has been given the go ahead to ban To Let boards in part of a city - with government...

A warning has been issued to lettings agents to review tenancy agreements to see if they are fit for purpose when...

A buy to let investor has lost possession of his flat after converting it into an Illegal House in Multiple Occupation...

One of the largest players in the Build To Rent sector has snapped up a site in a major city centre...

A mortgage firm claims the lettings industry is ripping off students by overcharging them. Mojo Mortgages says it has compared the rent...

The Labour party has expressed outrage at the news that London councils are spending over £22m each year renting back homes...

A lettings agency boss who says she is actually in favour of the agents’ fees ban nonetheless admits there will be...

There has been a massive surge in the volume of lettings properties under construction for the burgeoning Built To Rent sector. Data...

A controversial Labour-controlled local authority which already has 91 per cent of its private rental properties inside licensing schemes is now...

East Midlands estate and lettings agency John German has revealed that it’s snapped up an independent based in Derby - Sowter...

Early bird tickets for this year’s ARLA Propertymark Conference, happening just days before the likely introduction of the ban on tenant...

More than 50 councils across the country will share nearly £2.4m of extra government funding to crack down on rogue landlords. Among...

Councils have been accused of routinely pursuing the most serious enforcement option open to them if they find a local licensing...

Mystery surrounds the whereabouts of a letting agent who appears not to be in any redress scheme, is being investigated by...

The lettings industry has welcomed news that reforms to Universal Credit will include a new online system for private landlords to...

The UK’s largest property franchise business, Belvoir Lettings, says it beat its own ambitious target for its franchisees’ Assisted Acquisitions programme...

London lettings agency Sterling De Vere must pay a £167,000 fine and compensation of £740 to a renter for a misleading...

The Tenancy Deposit Scheme - which was hit by a serious fire at its Hemel Hempstead headquarters last evening - has appointed...

The government has been accused of not helping thousands of landlords who may have inadvertently granted assured tenancies instead of the...

One of the buy to let sector’s main mortgage lenders, Paragon, has refreshed its range of mortgages with new products which...

It’s 2019, and we may all be wishing each other a Happy New Year, but for UK landlords, the outlook might...

The Daily Mail has reported on a massive buy to let fiddle which involved a £10.8m property empire, rents totalling £500,000...

The stamp duty surcharge - which across the rest of Britain is currently three per cent on additional homes such as...

Zero Deposit, the firm set up by former Zoopla commercial director Jon Notley, says it now has around 850 offices using...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is reminding members of tax changes ahead - a timely intervention with the deadline for...

Oxfordshire sales and lettings agency Parkers - one of the brands of The Property Franchise Group - has snapped up the...

There’s been a strong start to the year for Build To Rent with news that a real estate investment trust dedicated...

The Daily Mail has unveiled an extensive network of homes advertised on Airbnb but actually being sub-let by tenants who are...

A leading PropTech entrepreneur says letting agents must provide value for their landlord clients through technology, transparency and service if they...

A local authority has taken the unusual step of issuing a celebratory press release stating that it issued penalty notices adding...

As 2018 ticks away and 2019 beckons, it’s time for everyone at Letting Agent Today to wish you, your family and...

A lettings agency has been banned from running an Airbnb let in a residential block. It relates to a block in Glasgow...

A trade body has spoken out about the lack of detail in government plans for Right To Rent, as contained in...

The Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Bill has achieved Royal Assent, meaning that it will soon become an act of Parliament. Put...

Online lettings platform HomeRenter says its property listings are now more detailed and more compelling thanks to a new ‘property creation flow’...

JLL has been appointed by Aberdeen Standard Investments to manage Aireside, a Build To Rent scheme of 107 apartments in Leeds. The...

The High Court today begins a Judicial Review of the government’s controversial Right to Rent scheme. The scheme began operating nationwide in...

A court has ordered a husband and wife pair of buy to let investors to pay back £322,282 in illegal income. A...

The owner of a buy to let property already shut by police has been fined by a court in Devon.  In June...

The UK’s student accommodation sector is still booming according to Knight Frank, despite Brexit creating uncertainty over the future of foreign...

Zoopla is withdrawing its lettings listings from Facebook Marketplace, only three months after putting them on. Officially the withdrawal takes place this...

A lettings company’s management director has been disqualified for failing to protect thousands of pounds of tenants’ deposits. Kari Jade Ridout from...

Former owner occupiers who want to be ‘chain-free’ if they buy again are pouring into the private rental sector according to...

Three letting agents who failed to return tenants’ deposits or pass on rent payments to landlords have been convicted of fraud...

Embattled London Labour mayor Sadiq Khan says he wants rent controls to be introduced in the capital’s private rental sector, but...

Five homeless people will have a roof over their heads this Christmas thanks to a kind-hearted PropTech chief. Mike Georgeson, founder of...

Increased use of PropTech by letting agents can cut rent arrears, minimise voids and reduce the financial and legal fall out...

One of London’s most respected independent lettings agencies has given a hugely upbeat report on the capital’s lettings market performance throughout...

A couple from east London who illegally converted a town centre office block into 14 flats have been ordered to pay...

New rules to protect rent paid by tenants to letting agents will fail to provide adequate protection for landlords, a trade...

Shock figures released by an insurance company suggest that councils are woefully unable to police new regulations regarding mandatory HMO licensing. Figures...

Agents and landlords have united against what is being seen as the latest attack on the private rental sector by the...

The National Approved Letting Scheme has published the latest version of its Effective Enforcement Toolkit - aimed at helping councils clamp...

A lettings agency says proposals for landlords to pay more council tax on homes they leave empty could indirectly help the...

A London-focussed ‘rental brand’ called Residently has just secured £2.5m in funding.  Residently manages houses and flats for landlords, letting them directly...

The government has this afternoon confirmed that the amount tenants have to pay up front to secure a home will be...

One of London’s most enthusiastic councils for additional and selective licensing has pushed back the date for enforcement action against landlords...

Research released this morning reveals that university cities offer some of the highest buy to let yields in the country. The Free...

Letting Agent Today can reveal that the agency at the centre of the scandal over alleged charges for viewings has been...

The website TheHouseShop says it aims to recruit some 30 per cent of the country’s letting agents by the end of...

The first-ever pet think tank has launched to address what is claimed to be a lack of pet-friendly rental accommodation in...

The acquisition of popular rental sector utility provider Spark Energy will “significantly benefit the rental sector” according to the troubled company’s...

A new investment company says its latest tool, powered by Artificial Intelligence, helps buy to let investors search for the best...

Rents are rising very gently across almost all of England and Wales with only London and East Anglia showing falls in...

A leading PropTech entrepreneur says agents who accept that the lettings fee ban is coming and who plan positively for its...

The head of a lettings agency has launched a petition in opposition to a bid by a local council to extend...

A government minister says the phrase ”rogue landlord” is too “cuddly” and he wants buy to let investors who broke the...

We regularly carry stories about fines for landlords and letting agents who have apparently broken council or national laws - but...

Private landlords have to wait an average of over five months to regain possession of a property when applying to the...

Today sees the Second Reading in the House of the Lords for the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Bill, promoted by...

Nottingham council - which recently introduced one of the largest and most controversial selective licensing schemes in the country - now...

A PropTech company has won approval from the Financial Conduct Authority to go ahead with a scheme which offers tenants a...

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

A London property firm must repay no less than £60,000 in rent after a council obtained a Rent Repayment Order against...

Local press reports say that one of the country’s most controversial buy to let licensing schemes has seen thousands of applications...

The JLL lettings agency has launched a ‘virtual property manager’ for a small number of Build To Rent tenants, claiming it...

The government has unveiled the spectre of a ‘global immigration system’ to be introduced from the end of 2020 - but...

Local authorities across the UK are to get another £2m to crack down on rogue operators in the buy to let...

Figures drawn up for the London region of the GMB union claim that across the capital’s 33 boroughs private rents have...

The Scottish private lettings sector is on the march again with the latest index suggesting a 2.2 per cent annual rise,...

The party conferences of the two main political parties threw up some interesting developments with regards to housing and the rental...

A former City marketing executive is suing a lettings agency for £1.4m in a row over alleged harassment in 2010. Agent Caroline...

An analysis of 30,000 tenancies by PropTech firm Goodlord suggests that the upcoming ban on tenants’ fees could impact most on...

A property investment company operating a Ponzi scheme based on claims of capital appreciation and rental income has been shut down...

A warning has gone out to the lettings sector to check that rental properties are ‘Gas Safe’ as the colder weather...

A council says it has been preparing prosecution and penalty notices “for hundreds of private landlords that have failed to apply...

The Republic of Ireland has adopted new policies requiring owners in 'high housing demand areas' to secure planning consent if they...

Rental sector experts are expressing growing fears that the relatively low-key Budget announcements made on Monday could herald something more dramatic...

The second reading of the Creditworthiness Assessment Bill is to take place in the House of Commons on November 23 -...

The heavy-handed administration of selective licensing schemes is driving out buy to let investors. That’s the claim from David Kirwan of Kirwans...

The agency industry has reacted in a broadly downbeat way at the relatively few housing-related proposals that were announced in yesterday’s...

Two property companies which failed to follow a local council’s lettings sector licensing scheme have been fined a combined £32,000. Owners of...

A branch of The Property Franchise Group’s CJ Hole brand in Bristol has snapped up an independent lettings agency elsewhere in...

The former owner of a lettings agency has admitted charges of fraud, false accounting and theft involving some hundreds of thousands...

Tenants are now a step closer to being able to sue landlords if they do not properly maintain their properties. The Commons...

Rightmove is reporting that average asking rents outside London have topped £800 per month for the first time, fuelled by a...

A landlord had been ordered to give back almost £4,000 that was paid to him while operating without a licence. The case...

MPs in the House of Commons will today debate the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Bill, promoted by a Labour backbencher...

Havering council in London has issued £261,750 in penalty notices to what it calls ‘criminals’ operating in the private rental sector.  Between...

A PropTech provider of inventory services says its new tool will significantly cut pre-tenancy admin for letting agents and landlords. No Letting...

The independent lettings agency Chilli Residential has been snapped up by a local branch of franchise giant Martin & Co. The Aldershot...

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

The proportion of buy to let investors looking to remortgage is now at an all-time high according to respected specialist mortgage...

An insurance firm has conducted research showing that not all landlords are heartless - in fact, quite the reverse.  The study by...

A council-run lettings agency looks likely to be scrapped after it apparently lost some £53,000 - even though it manages only...

One of London’s most respected lettings agencies says it’s recorded its best-ever quarter for business - defying claims from some that...

The Nationwide has called for greater consistency in the treatment and return of security deposits so that tenants leaving properties in...

A landlord has been ordered to pay £452 after he breached the terms of his licence in an area of County...

A city council has introduced highly specific guidelines as to the number, size and positioning of To Let boards following apparent...

Urgent action is needed to tackle discrimination against benefit claimants by buy to let mortgage providers according to a leading trade...

PropTech company PayProp has been announced as the sponsor of the ESTAS People Awards category for 2019. The ESTAS is a customer...

A poll of 1,250 landlords suggests that far from being concerned about the profitability of buy to let, almost 80 per...

A property management company which kept up to 23 adults in overcrowded conditions has been fined £7,500 by a council in...

A managing agent who used ‘ghost tenants’ as a front so that she could cram 16 people into one overcrowded house...

The growth in tenancies agreed in London’s super-prime sector has slowed sharply from 20 per cent earlier this year to just...

Around two thirds of private landlords with tenants receiving Universal Credit have experienced rent arrears according to new research. Based on responses...

The head of the online lettings agency recently scooped up by Emoov says traditional lettings agents have made a rod for...

A call has been made for the Tenants’ Fees Bill to be made even stricter following a claim that over a...

Savills has announced two acquisitions in the north west, one of an agency and one of an individual branch.  The agency being...

New research may explain why the government and Labour appear to be competing with each other to attack landlords and letting...

Croydon council is reported to have become the first local authority to back the scrapping of Section 21 of the 1988...

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

Rental platform Goodlord - which in January made around 40 staff redundant in a restructuring move - has now announced that...

There has been limited support given from some parts of the lettings industry to a proposal offering Capital Gains Tax relief...

Media speculation over the weekend has suggested that the government may be about to give tax breaks to landlords agreeing to...

The Tenant Fees Bill is back in Parliament this week when it goes for its Second Reading in the House of...

A new branch of franchise agency Century 21 has opened in Chelmsford with two unusual pitches - its own ‘ban’ on...

A PropTech entrepreneur says all agents would benefit from the introduction of more automation, but that those with student tenants may...

A major property platform says London’s rental and sales market may well be on the road to recovery - but that...

The head of a lettings agency has refused to sign a pledge document put to him by a protest group - and...

The first of the industry trade bodies to issue a series of demands for this month’s Budget is the National Landlords Association...

Yorkshire estate agency Linley & Simpson has acquired another independent firm, Angus Roberts. The deal will see Linley & Simpson, which operates...