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The percentage of tenants borrowing money to fund their cash deposits on their next property has risen over the last 12...

A new guide from Propertymark explains the rights which private rental tenants have - and sets out how they can challenge...

You don’t have to simply accept things as they are when it comes to managing your client accounts. If your bank...

An agency has snapped up a substantial regional firm involving 60 staff, 1,100 properties under management, as well as commercial, new...

Developer Beech Holdings has secured planning permission for its luxury development of Build To Rent apartments in Sheffield. Sheffield Gardens will include...

The Belvoir 2024 Annual Awards have crowded a father-and-son franchisee pairing as the big winners. Paul Wallace-Tarry and his son Richard Wallace-Tarry...

A new borough-wide landlord licensing scheme is set to launch in the London borough of Brent on April 1, the council...

A lettings agency has been expelled from The Property Ombudsman scheme following itsfailure to pay £1,100 out of an adjudicated award...

A group founded eight years ago to represent the Build To Rent niche has now rebranded in a bid to win...

Propertymark is highlighting new advice for agents and landlords given by Lets With Pets, the website of The Dogs Trust charity. The...

The largest lettings agency in Scotland says purchases by landlords and other investor buyers in that country have risen sharply despite...

Propertymark has emphasised the importance of retaining fixed term tenancies under the Renters Reform Bill. Propertymark chief executive Nathan Emerson met Housing...

There’s been a rise of over 400 per cent in the monetary total of fines issued for Right To Rent offences...

Propertymark is urging the government to tackle the problem of banks closing down undesignated or pooled client accounts of letting agents. HM...

An umbrella group called London Councils has expressed “extreme concern” at the government’s decision to stop letting local authorities keep money...

A Parliamentary committee has heard that thousands of small and medium-sized letting agencies were debanked in 2023, with financial institutions forcibly...

A holiday lettings agency and an estate agent in a tourist hotspot have joined forces.  Suffolk Coastal will continue with its sales...

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...

The latest Rental Index from PropTech supplier Goodlord has recorded a rent rise and a reduction in void lengths over the...

A high profile lettings agency has had to pay almost £22,000 in damages to an employee who raised concerns about safety...

Email and instant messaging contact details must be kept up to date for HMRC to contact agents about Anti-Money Laundering supervision. Propertymark...

Shelter is calling for the construction of 90,000 rental properties each year for a decade - and it claims this would...

There’s growing anger over restrictions on private homeowners using their properties via Airbnb and other short let platforms. Earlier this week Housing...

The trade body representing short lets providers and support companies has reacted angrily to government proposals for a radical shake up. Housing...

Lettings, property management and sales agency Johns&Co - which celebrates its 10th year in business in 2024 - is opening a...

Major regional independent agency Dacre, Son & Hartley is expanding its offering by re-entering the residential lettings and property management market...

A prominent industry expert says lettings agents and other property sector insiders should be extra-vigilant over cybersecurity breaches. Neil Cobbold, managing director...

Legal & General senior executive David Reid has been named as the chair of an influential committee driving forward Build To...

Prominent MPs from the Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties have renewed their onslaught on Airbnb and other short let platforms.  Former Lib...

A five year old consumer reviews website has been acquired by Rightmove. Homeviews was set up in 2019 and at the time...

New analysis by insurance giant Aviva reveals that one in every 13 new homes built in England in the last decade...

The Building Research Establishment - which undertakes research, advice, training, testing, certification and standards-setting for the housing sector - is calling...

A return of pent-up demand and mortgage rates falling below five per cent have boosted the start of the year for...

The long-awaited Third Reading of the controversial Renters Reform Bill will not happen this week according to the Leader of the...

A former Economics Editor and Chief Political Correspondent of ITN will be a keynote speaker at the Propertymark One conference in...

Propertymark's latest research report suggests some letting agents want radical changes to the Renters Reform Bill now going through Parliament.  The aim...

Propertymark is hosting a webinar where Scott Bailey - policy manager at the Home Office - will answer questions on Right...

Two former housing ministers are at war with each other after an attack on Rishi Sunak’s premiership in today’s Daily Telegraph. Sir...

Figures released by HMRC show that the Treasury raked in £5.7 billion in inheritance tax receipts in the nine months from...

Thousands of lettings and estate agencies, and other property businesses, are in ‘critical’ or ‘significant’ financial distress, it’s been claimed. The latest...

Controversy surrounds a government idea - floated over the weekend - to allow renters to secure mortgages with just one per...

Fines for agents and landlords who breach Right To Rent rules increase today from £80 per lodger and £1,000 per occupier...

Let's be honest – landlords are the lifeblood of any letting agency. Winning and keeping their business keeps the wheels turning...

Average rents in Scotland for new tenancies in the private rented sector have risen by double digits for the fifth quarter...

Two agencies have today joined eXp UK, the platform which now wants existing branch-based firm to convert to its self employed...

Summer looks like it’s going to be a hectic period for lettings agents and the private rental sector according to TV...

TV host Jenni Falconer is to reprise her role as compere of Propertymark’s ‘One Conference’ when it’s repeated at London’s ExCel...

A leading lettings agency says 2023 was a record-breaking year for rental growth.   The average rent on a newly let property in...

The long-running aspiration of many to allow rental payments to be counted towards credit ratings appears to have taken a step...

The UK Apartment Association - a Build To Rent trade body - has given details of an expo it’s hosting in...

Letting agents’ body Propertymark is throwing its weight behind a mandatory licensing and registration scheme for short let landlords. Anyone who lets...

The Property Franchise Group, the UK's largest property franchise brand, wants to merge with long-time rival Belvoir. Both are listed on the...

The latest rental index from Goodlord shows average rents in England rose nearly nine per cent higher across 2023. In 2022, rents...

Online rental platform Lettingaproperty is telling landlords to take a strategic approach to property management in 2024, to help navigate legislative...

Knight Frank has taken the unusual step of warning that Tory splits over Rwanda and immigration could force an early election...

The UK Apartment Association - effectively a trade body for the Build To Rent sector - is beefing up its top...

ARLA Propertymark has urged letting agents to take breaches of the Information Commissioner’s Office’s  data protection principle regarding GDPR seriously.   The call comes...

Lower mortgage rates - still falling in the days since the end of the festive break - may be persuading some...

Airbnb and other short let platforms are from this week required to send data on their clients’ earnings to HMRC. And a...

Agents’ group Propertymark is discounting early-bird tickets for its flagship Propertymark One event. The day, run in partnership with Rightmove, is billed...

The Jackson-Stops agency is warning that the Renters Reform Bill is driving investors away - and making the market worse, not...

A prominent housing market commentator says Labour would introduce a tougher version of the Renters Reform Bill if it forms the...

Two property company bosses have been sentenced following an Insolvency Service investigation which found they had abused a £30,000 Bounce Back...

Repairs and maintenance supplier Fixflo is warning agents of a surge in demand for Electrical Installation Condition Reports in the short...

The government has launched a public consultation on a radical new UK home energy rating system to replace the long-standing Standard...

Propertymark has laid out its proposals to the Scottish Government ahead of its 2024-25 Budget next week. The letting agents’ trade body...

Britain is in the grip of a new mould crisis, a leading property association has warned.  The National Association of Property Buyers...

There were 3.7 new prospective tenants for every rental property listed in prime London postcodes last month says Knight Frank. The figure,...

A prominent London buying agent and property consultant says the slowly improving supply of rental property means more tenants are now...

A lettings agency has pleaded guilty to seven offences relating to an HMO. IHomes Letting Limited has been fined £16,970 for failing...

A thieving lettings agent stole over £128,000 which should have gone to landlord clients - and with it she funded an...

Propertymark has set out its pro-agency position on a range of issues contained in the Renters Reform Bill, currently trundling through...

I think we can all agree that the National Trading Standards Material Information reforms are a good thing for the property...

The partners of high end agency and property consultancy Cluttons have announced the completion of a management buyout.  James Gray continues as...

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

Long-standing activist investor Brett Stone has made a last-ditch bid to scupper a proposed takeover of OnTheMarket by US firm CoStar. CoStar...

Portsmouth and Southsea lettings agency Chinneck Shaw has been appointed to manage the first purpose-built Build to Rent project from Ravelin...

The prominent independent advisor ISS - Institutional Shareholder Services - has publicly backed the OnTheMarket board and is recommending shareholders vote ‘for’...

Rightmove has teamed up with the National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agency Team to create a new course on compliance...

Propertymark has issued a strongly-worded statement aimed at politicians demanding rent controls. Labour Members of the Scottish Parliament have urged the declaration...

New research has identified locations with the largest volume of available rental stock, based on those units at or below the...

The prospect of a long-term eviction ban appears to have been lifted in one part of the UK. The Welsh Government is...

Glasgow’s lettings market is the strongest it’s been in up to 10 years, with a shortage of rental flats driving demand...

A revised code of practice for Right To Rent has been issued to agents and landlords. This sixth revision supersedes the previous...

A new report suggests London’s Build To Rent sector is being held back by a “stark inconsistency” from local councils in...

Annual rental growth across prime London slowed slightly to 8.1 per cent in October according to property data firm LonRes.  However, rents...

The Scottish Greens - who are in effect the architects of rent controls north of the border - have welcomed a...

There’s been widespread dismay in the industry as the outcome of a Judicial Review has backed the Scottish Government’s objective of...

Rents saw an autumn dip in October, following three months of rapidly escalating prices across England.  According to PropTech firm Goodlord the...

Propertymark has welcomed the government’s commitment to end the practice of council tax of banding single rooms in HMOs, potentially saving...

The lettings agency Winkworth has taken the unusual step of criticising policies of a series of councils. The councils are all Labour...

A client account is essential to your lettings business, but the rules and regulations you need to follow to keep this...

A lettings and property management platform has broken ranks with much of the industry over the Renters Reform Bill.  While most agents...

Rent controls as currently in force in Scotland and under consideration in Wales will not be put into effect in England,...

Harlow council says it wants to take a harder line against agents and landlords who knowingly let unsafe and substandard properties...

A prominent lettings agent has called for a wider reform of eviction rules. This follows a demand by a group of...

In September last year, flatfair, a deposit alternative provider, released their latest rental solution called flatfair Deposits, to the lettings market....

Five councils are delivering what they call “a ground-breaking project” aimed at improving the experience and environment for landlords and tenants...

Husband-and-wife team John and Shirley Ounsworth have completed on the acquisition of Osprey Lettings. The couple - who run a Northwood franchise...