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An analysis from PropTech firm Goodlord claims that agents and landlords would have lost a combined £1m over the last year...

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

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,...

Many private renters are misguided on what actually contributes to their credit score and thus may not be taking the correct...

Shocking figures have emerged regarding the long-running problems caused by banks demanding that agencies have a designated client account for each...

A PropTech supplier says it’s created a solution to letting agents and landlords who must remain compliant and who want to...

LettsPay, an automated service aiming to simplify the reconciling of tenant rental payments, has won investment from the nurtur.group - the...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Sarah Davies, Commercial Director at The Letting Partnership What is The...

PropTech supplier Agent OS is running a survey of letting agents about the vexed subject of specialist client accounts. AgentOS says it’s...

PropTech company Homeppl has launched two products that it calls “revolutionary fraud detection tools” for letting agents. One of the two technologies...

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...

A PropTech firm says Open Banking could help to transform the lettings industry for the better if it is fully embraced.  And...

An investment firm has flagged up the recently announced move by banking giant Lloyds to enter the private rented sector as...

Supermarket chains like John Lewis and banks like Lloyds - both entering the private rental sector as large scale landlords -...

Letting agents have only 10 days to open segregated client accounts or they could face being expelled by their client money...

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

Research by Hamptons suggests that the increased house prices caused by the stamp duty holiday sales surge has indirectly obliged more...

A tenant referencing service and lettings insurance provider is linking with an anti-money laundering compliance consultancy. HomeLet and Let Alliance, part of...

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...

Government intervention, which in recent years has seen scores of legal and regulatory changes to the private rental sector, may be...

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

A foundation which receives substantial funding from trade unions and a charity linked to the Nationwide is calling for rents to...

One of London’s largest lettings agencies is warning its landlord clients to only use mortgage payment holidays offered by lenders as a...

When it comes to good works, one frequently-featured agency is Chestertons in London - and again it’s come up trumps during...

The parlous state of many tenants’ personal finances has been highlighted by website CompareTheMarket which claims that one in 10 rely...

When Wolverhampton estate agency Thomas Harvey opened its doors more than 50 years ago, mortgages weren’t really part of the equation...

Specialist buy to let mortgage lender Paragon has welcomed Labour's General Election pledge to force rental properties to undergo an annual...

Rental platform Canopy, which allows tenants to rent without a deposit, has announced a new partnership which will allow agents and...

An agency that specialises in letting and managing properties in one of the country’s investment hotspots is expanding into a new...

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

The Trussell Trust, which coordinates the vast majority of the food banks around the UK, is working with the National Landlords...

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

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

A trade association has called for a 'moratorium' on any further government intervention in the buy-to-let sector in order to stop...

A PropTech product is claiming a breakthrough for letting agents who can now access same-day referencing on prospective tenants. LetAlliance claims that...

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...

Agents and prospective buy to let investors keen to grab a slice of the capital’s growing lettings market now have a...

The High Court has ruled that the government’s Right to Rent scheme breaches human rights law. Under the Right to Rent landlords are...

A pressure group that in the past has protested outside letting agency branches has staged more direct action - this time against...

Rent recognition platform CreditLadder, which enables renters to add their payments to their credit history, has announced a partnership which aims...

Lettings agents’ representatives have hit back at an accusation of discrimination made against the industry. A report by Shelter and the National...

A regional newspaper claims that a lettings agency has collapsed, its boss has gone to ground, and thousands of pounds are...

Your buy-to-let investment is an extremely valuable asset and you need to know the income generated from it will be safely...

An agency operating in London and Essex has launched an online petition to oppose the ban on credit and debit card...

The consumer organisation Which? is warning that buy to let mortgages could become more expensive in the near future. This is despite...

A lettings insurance specialist company is warning that students moving into private rental accommodation may pose a greater-than-average risk of fire. Total...

The mortgage director of Romans, one of the country’s largest agency groups, says the new Bank of England rules being introduced...

Specialist mortgage lender Together is the latest company to back the idea of rent payment records being used to measure the...

A trade magazine and a national newspaper are reporting anger amongst landlords, tenants and housing groups following the discovery of a...

The Financial Times reports that the Bank of England is questioning buy to let mortgage lenders and banks as part of...

There has been another high-level prediction that mortgage lending for buy to let investors is likely to be restricted further in the...

Mortgage firms insisting on landlords proving their rental income could cover 145 per cent of their monthly payments could lead to...

Buy to let investors face a ‘ticking timebomb’ that may force many of them to quit the sector in the long-term,...

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

A business start-up service says the cost of joining a franchise lettings agency can range from £2,495 to a hefty £150,000...

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

Demand for buy to let mortgages in the coming months is expected to fall "significantly" according to a Bank of England...

A leading chartered surveying firm is stressing the differences that exist between new English and Scottish energy efficiency rules hitting the...

Banks approved 45,892 mortgages for house purchases last month - a 20 per cent rise on the February last year, with...

Falling demand from financial services sector employees has seen the annual rental value growth in prime central London ease back to...

The Basel Committee - an international forum which sets standards for bank regulations in individual countries - says financial institutions should place greater emphasis...

Mixed-use developer Muse says it will submit plans for a 100-unit Build To Let scheme at part of a retail, office...

In case we didn’t learn the lesson last time around, we appear to be on the brink of a refresher course...

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

Given that I wrote my last article on the day of the General Election but well before the result was known,...