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Many agencies have long-standing and unresolved banking complaints, for example regarding client accounts: now it’s been declared they have only six...
12 August 2022
From: Breaking News

Knight Frank is offering its 2,200 UK staff a company-branded debit card which allows them to buy cheap foreign currency. Currensea’s card,...
06 July 2022
From: Breaking News

Many private renters are misguided on what actually contributes to their credit score and thus may not be taking the correct...
24 May 2022
From: Breaking News

Shocking figures have emerged regarding the long-running problems caused by banks demanding that agencies have a designated client account for each...
06 May 2022
From: Breaking News

A PropTech supplier says it’s created a solution to letting agents and landlords who must remain compliant and who want to...
28 April 2022
From: Breaking News

LettsPay, an automated service aiming to simplify the reconciling of tenant rental payments, has won investment from the nurtur.group - the...
21 April 2022
From: Breaking News

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Sarah Davies, Commercial Director at The Letting Partnership What is The...
21 March 2022
From: 60 Second Interview

PropTech supplier Agent OS is running a survey of letting agents about the vexed subject of specialist client accounts. AgentOS says it’s...
07 March 2022
From: Breaking News

PropTech company Homeppl has launched two products that it calls “revolutionary fraud detection tools” for letting agents. One of the two technologies...
10 February 2022
From: Breaking News

One of Britain’s largest property companies may be sold in one of Britain’s biggest private equity deals. Sky News reports that Terra Firma...
04 January 2022
From: Breaking News

A PropTech firm says Open Banking could help to transform the lettings industry for the better if it is fully embraced. And...
17 November 2021
From: Breaking News

An investment firm has flagged up the recently announced move by banking giant Lloyds to enter the private rented sector as...
23 September 2021
From: Breaking News

Supermarket chains like John Lewis and banks like Lloyds - both entering the private rental sector as large scale landlords -...
14 July 2021
From: Breaking News

Letting agents have only 10 days to open segregated client accounts or they could face being expelled by their client money...
22 March 2021
From: Breaking News

Real estate as an industry has remained unchallenged throughout all of these years. For the industry worth more than 217 trillion...
19 March 2021
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Research by Hamptons suggests that the increased house prices caused by the stamp duty holiday sales surge has indirectly obliged more...
15 March 2021
From: Breaking News

A tenant referencing service and lettings insurance provider is linking with an anti-money laundering compliance consultancy. HomeLet and Let Alliance, part of...
15 February 2021
From: Breaking News

Letting agencies should review banking and payment systems in the light of rule changes and the ongoing challenge of the pandemic. This advice...
20 November 2020
From: Breaking News

Letting agents and landlords have faced huge change and uncertainty this year, with Covid-19 the major driver. But even before the...
05 November 2020
From: Proptech & Innovation

Government intervention, which in recent years has seen scores of legal and regulatory changes to the private rental sector, may be...
05 October 2020
From: Breaking News

ARLA Propertymark says there has been a breakthrough on the banking clampdown on pooled client accounts - a pain in the...
10 September 2020
From: Breaking News

A foundation which receives substantial funding from trade unions and a charity linked to the Nationwide is calling for rents to...
15 May 2020
From: Breaking News

One of London’s largest lettings agencies is warning its landlord clients to only use mortgage payment holidays offered by lenders as a...
22 April 2020
From: Breaking News

When it comes to good works, one frequently-featured agency is Chestertons in London - and again it’s come up trumps during...
01 April 2020
From: Breaking News

The parlous state of many tenants’ personal finances has been highlighted by website CompareTheMarket which claims that one in 10 rely...
09 March 2020
From: Breaking News

When Wolverhampton estate agency Thomas Harvey opened its doors more than 50 years ago, mortgages weren’t really part of the equation...
28 February 2020
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Specialist buy to let mortgage lender Paragon has welcomed Labour's General Election pledge to force rental properties to undergo an annual...
28 November 2019
From: Breaking News

Rental platform Canopy, which allows tenants to rent without a deposit, has announced a new partnership which will allow agents and...
08 October 2019
From: Breaking News

An agency that specialises in letting and managing properties in one of the country’s investment hotspots is expanding into a new...
27 September 2019
From: Breaking News

Professional client account solutions for modern letting agents Letting agents will need to come up with new ways to manage client money...
05 September 2019
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The Trussell Trust, which coordinates the vast majority of the food banks around the UK, is working with the National Landlords...
29 August 2019
From: Breaking News

A leading industry figure is calling on agents to have a Plan B ready if their bank closes undesignated client accounts. This...
21 August 2019
From: Breaking News

Lloyds Bank appears to have contacted at least some of its letting agent clients to say that it is closing all...
08 August 2019
From: Breaking News

A trade association has called for a 'moratorium' on any further government intervention in the buy-to-let sector in order to stop...
09 July 2019
From: Breaking News

A PropTech product is claiming a breakthrough for letting agents who can now access same-day referencing on prospective tenants. LetAlliance claims that...
11 June 2019
From: Breaking News

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...
10 May 2019
From: Breaking News

Agents and prospective buy to let investors keen to grab a slice of the capital’s growing lettings market now have a...
09 April 2019
From: Breaking News

The High Court has ruled that the government’s Right to Rent scheme breaches human rights law. Under the Right to Rent landlords are...
01 March 2019
From: Breaking News

A pressure group that in the past has protested outside letting agency branches has staged more direct action - this time against...
26 November 2018
From: Breaking News

Rent recognition platform CreditLadder, which enables renters to add their payments to their credit history, has announced a partnership which aims...
05 September 2018
From: Breaking News

Lettings agents’ representatives have hit back at an accusation of discrimination made against the industry. A report by Shelter and the National...
22 August 2018
From: Breaking News

A regional newspaper claims that a lettings agency has collapsed, its boss has gone to ground, and thousands of pounds are...
18 June 2018
From: Breaking News

Your buy-to-let investment is an extremely valuable asset and you need to know the income generated from it will be safely...
05 March 2018
From: Sponsored Content

An agency operating in London and Essex has launched an online petition to oppose the ban on credit and debit card...
17 January 2018
From: Breaking News

The consumer organisation Which? is warning that buy to let mortgages could become more expensive in the near future. This is despite...
03 January 2018
From: Breaking News

A lettings insurance specialist company is warning that students moving into private rental accommodation may pose a greater-than-average risk of fire. Total...
09 October 2017
From: Breaking News

The mortgage director of Romans, one of the country’s largest agency groups, says the new Bank of England rules being introduced...
29 September 2017
From: Breaking News

Specialist mortgage lender Together is the latest company to back the idea of rent payment records being used to measure the...
15 March 2017
From: Breaking News

A trade magazine and a national newspaper are reporting anger amongst landlords, tenants and housing groups following the discovery of a...
02 February 2017
From: Breaking News

The Financial Times reports that the Bank of England is questioning buy to let mortgage lenders and banks as part of...
29 November 2016
From: Breaking News

There has been another high-level prediction that mortgage lending for buy to let investors is likely to be restricted further in the...
18 July 2016
From: Breaking News

Mortgage firms insisting on landlords proving their rental income could cover 145 per cent of their monthly payments could lead to...
05 July 2016
From: Breaking News

Buy to let investors face a ‘ticking timebomb’ that may force many of them to quit the sector in the long-term,...
16 June 2016
From: Breaking News

One of Belvoir's newest and youngest franchise owners has completed on a substantial acquisition to kick-start his new business. Luke Marchbanks, 25,...
08 June 2016
From: Breaking News

A business start-up service says the cost of joining a franchise lettings agency can range from £2,495 to a hefty £150,000...
04 May 2016
From: Breaking News

The approaching of the April 1 stamp duty surcharge deadline led to a severe drop-off in buy to let purchasers seeking...
27 April 2016
From: Breaking News

Demand for buy to let mortgages in the coming months is expected to fall "significantly" according to a Bank of England...
14 April 2016
From: Breaking News

A leading chartered surveying firm is stressing the differences that exist between new English and Scottish energy efficiency rules hitting the...
12 April 2016
From: Breaking News

Banks approved 45,892 mortgages for house purchases last month - a 20 per cent rise on the February last year, with...
25 March 2016
From: Breaking News

Falling demand from financial services sector employees has seen the annual rental value growth in prime central London ease back to...
04 January 2016
From: Breaking News

The Basel Committee - an international forum which sets standards for bank regulations in individual countries - says financial institutions should place greater emphasis...
11 December 2015
From: Breaking News

Mixed-use developer Muse says it will submit plans for a 100-unit Build To Let scheme at part of a retail, office...
23 September 2015
From: Breaking News

In case we didn’t learn the lesson last time around, we appear to be on the brink of a refresher course...
10 July 2015
From: Features

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