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The Labour party has mocked the government’s £4m new funding for councils to combat rogue agents and landlords as “puny.” A statement...

The Times claims there have been well over 200 complaints lodged with redress schemes, alleging that lettings agents tried to charge...

A Southampton lettings agency owner has been jailed after defrauding landlords and tenants out of £230,000. Andrew Whitehead has been jailed for...

Three lettings agencies have been expelled from TPO - in each case the agency failed to honour a payment as instructed...

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

A trade body is warning of a crisis in the private rental market as new figures show a sharp drop in...

The Liberal Democrats is the first of the major parties to release its party manifesto for the December 12 manifesto, and...

Just over a fifth of lettings agents questioned in a major industry survey are concerned that may not be complying with...

New figures just released by the government emphasise the significance of creating a specialist housing court says one of the lettings...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents and the National Association of Estate Agents have issued their manifesto for next month’s General...

Rent controls similar to those demanded by Labour in London and other major cities in the UK do not work, and...

The Property Ombudsman has expelled three lettings agencies from its scheme because of unpaid awards to landlord clients. The first is Kingsman...

Another law firm has sharply criticised the government’s proposals to abolish Section 21 eviction powers for landlords. Devonshires says the government should...

Uncertainty around the UK's planned departure from the EU and the stability of the government is causing the super-rich to rent instead...

New research indicates that the majority of property investors in the UK have their plans on pause for the next six...

Two London agencies have been expelled from The Property Ombudsman scheme for failing to honour two compensation awards. The first is Chase...

One of the suppliers in the fiercely competitive world of deposit alternatives has introduced an ‘unlocking deposits’ option. From today, Zero Deposit...

With the recent introduction of the Tenant Fees Act – which bans upfront fees charged by letting agents and caps security...

The Property Ombudsman has announced a slew of expulsions after six agents failed to comply with redress rules. They failed to abide...

Zillios looking to become the leading portal for international property listings, appealing to property owners, estate agents, and property hunters alike....

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

The number of film-related enquiries for short lets received by Knight Frank in the year to May has shown a rise...

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

While we wouldn’t be so bold as to say the government gets its daily fix of property news from the Today...

The chairman of Hunters estate agency, who is also a Conservative MP, has hit out at the government over its handling...

Letting agencies can reduce the number of complaints about the industry and improve their own customer service and relationships by improving...

Seven agencies have been expelled from membership of The Property Ombudsman after failing to pay compensation awards made by TPO. All are...

A PropTech tool wants landlords to manage their own properties and is accusing agents of being likely to increase charges to...

The Property Redress Scheme, one of the two government-backed redress operators for the lettings and sales service, has outlined its work...

The Property Ombudsman has issued a reminder to all agents to ensure they have the correct redress membership to cover the...

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

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

The Property Ombudsman (TPO) has released its annual report for 2018, showing that for the first time the value of awards...

Online lettings agency RentMyHome is partnering with a trade group for home stagers in order to offer clients discounted services. MyHomeGroup owns...

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

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

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

Independent inventory reporting is the perfect complement to the government’s proposed housing reforms. That’s the view of the UK’s largest provider of...

Rental values in prime London show early signs of bottoming out, says Savills, with the annual rate of falls now at...

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...

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

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

The government’s new redress system, announced last week and to be implemented later this year, must be free for renters to...

The Property Ombudsman says agents can display weekly rents for homes they market - but they should be displayed alongside monthly...

A leading PropTech exponent is supporting the government’s Housing Court initiative, suggesting it could make redress for agents, landlords and tenants...

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

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

Continued political and economic uncertainty is likely to fuel increased tenant demand in the private rented sector, says Haart.  The company’s latest...

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

Two lettings agencies have been expelled from The Property Ombudsman scheme for failing to pay awards. One is OJ Residentials Limited trading...

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

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

The Guardian says the government is committed to making a datebase of rogue letting agents and landlords available to tenants. The newspaper quotes...

The number of tenants seeing their rents rise continues to go up according to the latest market snapshot produced by the...

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

JLL says its London offices saw increased demand in the third quarter of the year, underpinned by the student sector. Lonres data...

A newspaper claims landlords who ‘game’ the current tax regime for short term lets and lodging may be in the firing...

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

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 shock findings of a new survey suggest that 32 per cent of landlords would be less likely to buy new...

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

Here’s a date which the private rental sector may want to make a note of…even if it is with some nervousness. The...

The Haart agency is calling on the government to give the private rental sector a break in the autumn Budget, as...

Three London lettings sub-markets performed relatively weakly according to data just released by Knight Frank. Wimbledon’s rental values fell 1.5 per cent...

Two more lettings agencies have been expelled from The Property Ombudsman as a result of unpaid awards following disputes involving landlords...

An agency has been expelled from The Property Ombudsman after receiving over 100 separate complaints, and failing to pay over £419,000...

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

In our previous 2 blogs we have covered the definitions of the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations (CPRs) and what...

In our previous blog, we looked at the definitions outlined by the CPRs. In our next blog we’ll look at the...

Belvoir says more landlords are selling up and fewer newcomers are investing in the private rental sector because of increased legislation...

Propertymark has launched a new Client Money Protection system, Money Shield, with a support statement from much of the lettings sector...

The Rent Recognition Challenge, an initiative to use technology to help share renters' payment histories with lenders and credit reference agencies,...

The government should be more ambitious when it comes to ensuring the private rented sector becomes increasingly energy efficient. That’s the message...

Opposition is growing fast to the threat of another stamp duty attack on the buy to let sector, rumoured to be...

A newspaper in warning that the beleaguered buy to let sector may be under attack yet again with the government considering...

One of London’s leading letting agencies says in the current neutral rental market, buy to let owners must work hard to...

Some 18 per cent of properties let in the first half of 2018 were registered in the name of a company...

There has been strong support for an e-petition calling for the scrapping of the stamp duty surcharge on buy to let...

A local authority has started a one-year trial of a ‘social lettings agency’ which aims to match those at risk of...

The next phase of the government’s Rent Recognition Challenge takes place this week, as six short-listed PropTech companies know which will...

Two lettings agencies have been expelled from The Property Ombudsman scheme. The first is Bower & Bower (B&B), a sales and lettings...

It’s been revealed that a church is amongst those owed thousands of pounds by a letting agent who has gone to...

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

A leading PropTech entrepreneur has renewed his call for letting agents to use more technology to clean up their act when...

The government has announced that it is to formally consult on proposals for longer tenancies in the private rental sector. Although there...

The Property Ombudsman has issued its annual report for 2017 and it makes grim reading for the rental sector - there’s...

Time to put the gloom and doom about buy to let to one side - a new analysis shows that a...

The government has confirmed that all property agents in England will need to be part of an approved Client Money Protection...

The industry has reacted angrily to the announcement yesterday that the Tenants’ Fees Bill is now formally starting its progress through...

The scramble for members amongst rival redress systems continues apace. Earlier this week The Property Ombudsman announced it was to waive joining...

Labour insists that if it forms the next government it will introduce ‘living rents’ in a new range of affordable homes...

The Citizens Advice consumer charity claims that 28 per cent of private tenants who have experienced problems while renting have not...

Airbnb has announced that it has teamed up with three hosting agencies in the UK in a bid to make the...

The Property Ombudsman is the latest property industry player to throw its support behind the introduction of mandatory qualifications and a...

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

Proposals to cap security deposits for private rented housing to six weeks rent risk creating a charter for rent cheats warns...

The government says that later this year it will allocate a further £1.4m to PropTech firms looking at how tenants’ rent...

A trade body says new figures released by the independent Office for Budget Responsibility show that the government’s recent tax increases...

An analysis of data released by HM Revenue and Customs shows that 1.9 million people earned money from property in 2015-16...

The lettings sector is at the forefront of government proposals for a new redress system for customers of agents and others.  In...

The veteran estate agent Michael Stoop has become a non-executive director of Sorbet, a PropTech company which has created a software...

An accountancy trade body, the Association of Accounting Technicians, is advising the government to investigate what it calls “the questionable tax...

The Property Ombudsman scheme has today announced three expulsions of agencies as a result of non-payment of rent or awards. Firstly, a...

One of the lettings sector’s biggest lenders, Santander, is allowing its buy to let landlord borrowers to offer assured shorthold tenancies...

Government proposals to ban letting agent fees levied on tenants next year are unlikely to make renting cheaper as new research...

Prime minister Theresa May has repeated that the current government will not introduce rent controls in the private sector. The issue of...

The government is offering £2m to budding PropTech and financial technology entrepreneurs who can develop an application that will enable Britain’s 11...

Changes to Universal Credit have made it easier for claimants to rent homes but the government needs to do more to...

The House of Lords has given the Creditworthiness Assessment Bill its second reading and a step forward to ensuring that tenants’...

A change to the operation of Universal Credit has been welcomed by a trade body which has described it as good...

It’s been discovered that a Capital Gains Tax measure buried in the small print of the Budget is likely to hit...

The industry is awaiting details of the latest government consultation concerning the private rental sector which will consider longer tenancies. The consultation...

Stamp duty reform for first time buyers has taken pride of place in the Budget speech of Chancellor Phillip Hammond.   From today,...

Over two thirds of landlords are reluctant to invest in new properties as a result of the stamp duty surcharge on...

One of the senior figures in the UK’s burgeoning Build To Rent sector has called on the Chancellor to help this...

After the series of anti-buy to let measures contained in recent Budgets, it is perhaps unsurprising that a survey of landlords...

Mandatory Client Money Protection for lettings agents - currently the subject of a formal government consultation - will contribute towards making...

A trade body says there are 15 formal government consultations going on within the private rental sector - and now it’s...

The Property Ombudsman scheme has launched the third and latest phase of its national campaign with the Chartered Trading Standards Institute...

The will exists in the private rental sector to provide the longer term tenancies advocated by the government, says a trade...

Letting agents and landlords are being urged by a trade body to sign a petition calling on the government to make...

A leading accountancy and business advice consultancy says residential landlords who want to downsize their portfolios because of recent tax changes...

A London letting agency with connections to Westminster council is now being investigated by the same council’s trading standards department. CityWest Homes...

Agents have until November 24 - two days after the next Budget - to submit evidence to the latest probe into...

The rental market in parts of prime central London is becoming increasingly dominated by well-funded overseas students, according to a leading...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has issued a 10 point guide for tenants - with the emphasis very much on...

There’s been another large increase in the number of buy to let mortgages sought by limited companies - they accounted for...

A leading buy to let expert is calling on agents to work more closely with landlords and tenants to improve communications...

The Conservatives have used their annual conference in Manchester to unveil a raft of new controls and regulations applying to the...

A trade body says the expanding Build To Rent sector will never be large enough to meet tenant demand and as...

The National Landlords’ Association appears to be first off the starting blocks with its submission to government ahead of the next...

The Property Ombudsman scheme (TPO) has extended its expulsion of a letting agency by an additional four years. Premier Property Management, based...

Giving clients reliable advice when they are buying, selling or letting a home lies at the core of every successful estate...

The Property Ombudsman has expelled a London lettings and estate agency after it failed to honour a compensation payment to a...

Now you have a rare opportunity to tell Phillip Hammond and Treasury civil servants exactly where they are going wrong with...

A council claims that up to 13,000 private landlords are “of interest” to HM Revenue and Customs, where there are alleged...

A lettings agency that already operates an Airbnb management service has now launched an additional ‘interior styling service’ for landlords who...

A PropTech firm claims more effective use of technology and automation by letting agents could reduce the number of complaints made...

Prime central London is seeing the rise of the micro-apartment, according to new research, as squeezed accommodation budgets have seen singles...

Rightmove is testing an experimental Facebook Messenger bot in the London lettings market.    For the unitiated a bot is software that can...

The BBC’s reality programme The Week The Landlords Moved In should act as an eye-opener for the lettings industry when it...

The government has revealed that it has received over 4,700 responses to its official consultation over the proposed ban on letting...

Paragon Mortgages says its most recent survey of buy to let investors makes it clear that the vast majority want the...

**The free photography course for estate agents (part one) offer has now expired. It is still available in special circumstances so...

The software company behind a new product claim it helps agents comply with The Property Ombudsman’s code of practice on referencing...

The annual report of The Property Ombudsman, released today, reveals that the largest compensation award of the year has been made...

The boss of 300 branch agency Belvoir has called on the government to appoint a cross-party housing tsar to work with...

An analysis by investment specialists London Central Portfolio reveals that in areas of central London swamped with new builds coming to...

Two lettings agencies have been expelled from The Property Ombudsman redress scheme.   As we reported when the story broke yesterday afternoon, one...

Two lettings agencies have this afternoon been expelled from The Property Ombudsman redress scheme. In one case, TPO expelled Lettings Solutions Ltd...

The fall in rents across prime central London’s lettings market are slowing according to Knight Frank. It claims rents have dropped 4.9...

The Property Ombudsman and the Chartered Trading Standards Institute have announced a second phase of their campaign to tackle letting agents...

The Property Ombudsman scheme is backing a national campaign to help more consumers find reputable and trusted businesses and services.    Consumers are...

It seems prop-tech is exploding at a scary rate, and the latest brands are all trying to grab our attention by...

The Residential Landlords Association has spotted small print from the Budget that may suggest the government is about to review Rent...

The number of new landlords instructing agents is at its lowest for two years - and with worse to come thanks...

A trade body claims that vulnerable tenants are finding it harder to access rented housing because of tax changes being introduced...

There was a sigh of relief amongst the lettings industry that yesterday's Budget introduced no new property taxes - but concern...

The campaign against the phased reduction in landlords' mortgage interest tax relief is continuing with the opening of a new website,...

Chancellor Phillip Hammond has introduced no new property taxes in his Spring Budget - but a clampdown on those setting up...

As the industry awaits the delivery of today's Spring Budget, the National Approved Letting Scheme (NALS) has called on the government...

The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) is writing to the Office for Budget Responsibility asking it to provide clarification on controversial tax...

A Conservative MP has launched a scathing attack on some landlords in his own constituency following a local council initiative to...

The Residential Landlords Association has listed key MPs in marginal constituencies who should be lobbied ahead of the March 8 Budget...

The operator of a troubled letting agency in Huddersfield has had until this week to pay a £5,000 fixed penalty notice...

The Chartered Institute of Housing wants the government to introduce a raft of new measures including significantly greater regulation of letting...

A letting agency at the centre of a controversy following a ruling by The Property Ombudsman has shut its office and...

A trade group has commissioned a firm of economists to look at how the government’s mortgage interest tax relief change -...

Letting agents and landlords are urged to step up their awareness of rip-off maintenance contractors.   The Association of Independent Inventory Clerks is warning...

Annoying isn’t it. You take on a stunning property, agree a compelling asking price and your Vendor is desperate to get the...

The government should think again about punitive tax changes to the private rented sector after receiving greater-than-expected revenue from the three...

The Residential Landlords Association has been quick off the mark to issue what it calls a seven point wish list to...

The National Landlords Association is making only three demands on the government for its next Budget, because it recognises further reforms...

Figures from investment company London Central Portfolio suggest that re-lets of older properties to new tenants showed a fall in rents...

The government has published a new set of guidelines for organisations, companies and individuals to lobby the Treasury ahead of the...

The campaigners against planned changes to mortgage interest tax relief - set to come into effect from April, phased over four...

The NALS ‘Fair Fees Forum’ - set up before last week’s announcement on the banning of letting agency fees levied on tenants...

The Property Ombudsman has issued new guidance concerning obtaining express consent from a tenant before accessing a property. The change comes as a...

Some of the property professionals behind the campaign against the changes to buy to let landlords’ taxation have compiled a comprehensive...

The Property Ombudsman scheme and the Chartered Trading Standards Institute have joined forces to tackle lettings agents that are breaking the...

The Welsh Government - which now has additional fiscal powers allowing it to be more independent from Westminster - has chosen...

The UK Association of Letting Agents will not be using Ombudsman Service: Property to provide its dispute resolution service from the...

Michael Robson is to step down from Andrews Property Group after 35 years at the helm. He will stay with the company...

Agents and landlords in one of the country’s most politically-volatile cities are preparing to meet the local council to protest at...

The attempt to seek a Judicial Review of legislation reducing the mortgage interest tax relief for landlords has failed. The case was...

The Property Ombudsman scheme’s annual report, just released, reveals that there has been a dramatic 32 per cent surge in the...

On Friday afternoon Letting Agent Today broke the news of four letting agencies being expelled by The Property Ombudsman - and...

Four separate estate and letting agencies have been expelled from membership of The Property Ombudsman and from registration for lettings redress...

The Advertising Standards Authority has stepped in to ensure that a letting agency displays the correct logo for the redress organisation...

An action group campaigning on behalf of landlords has confirmed that it is ready to begin legal action against the Bank...

The key lies in improving your customer experience through technology For Agents, the tremendous growth in online estate agents highlights a strong...

The UK's largest franchise agency has expanded into the Orkney Islands.  Belvoir's Amjed Rasul, owner of its Inverness franchise, has acquired Orkney...

Kevin Hollinrake - the founder of franchise agency Hunters and now a Conservative MP - is calling for a cut in...

Lettings agents are being invited to take part in a national online survey launching today and seeking to get an industry-wide...

Belvoir is calling on the government to reverse its punitive tax policies against buy to let and introduce incentives to make...

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

Our latest infographic shows figures of how the majority of deposits are repaid at the end of tenancy and goes into...

The Residential Landlords Association says the build up to the new government‘s Autumn Statement - effectively its first budget - is...

The team leader of the National Trading Standards Estate Agency Team is amongst a bevy of experts on a panel at...

A Labour MP has told the House of Commons that letting agents are “completely unregulated” and that tenants are being “held...

The Property Ombudsman scheme has reported a 14 per cent increase in lettings membership since the government made it a legal...

Before new London mayor Sadiq Khan has had his first working day in office, his proposals for a private rental sector...

As we reported yesterday, The Property Ombudsman has expelled two letting agencies and is warning consumers about the firms, which are...

Consumers are being warned by The Property Ombudsman redress scheme about the actions of two lettings agents based in Southampton.  Both agencies,...

Private landlords’ confidence is at the lowest level since late 2006 according to market research company BDRC Continental, thanks to anti-buy...

The British Property Federation says George Osborne’s stamp duty surcharge will threaten the success of the Build To Rent sector, which...

The Bank of England has released new buy to let mortgage underwriting standards which are expected to set out stricter borrowing...

The new stamp duty surcharge on buy to let properties coming into effect next Friday will increase rent costs for tenants...

A Conservative peer has criticised the government's ongoing attacks on the private lettings industry saying that the Cameron administration should be...

Yesterday George Osborne delivered his eighth budget as chancellor, announcing an extra £3.5 billion in spending cuts by 2019-20. The Office for...

Later today chancellor George Osborne will make his latest budget speech. It has been speculated that the announcement could include new measures...

Almost a third of landlords surveyed by property crowdfunding platform Property Partner have little or no awareness of the raft of...

Some 66% of landlords predict more rental sector turbulence in this week's Budget, according to research by property crowdfunding platform The...

The proportion of landlords in central London who intend to sell property has quadrupled since last year’s Budget, according to the...

So you’ve decided to advertise on Rightmove, Zoopla or another online property listing agent. You’ve agreed the budget, made the bold...

Three lettings groups have modified their advertisements after complaints were received by the Advertising Standards Authority. The UK Association of Letting Agents...

The Residential Landlords Association is warning private investors not to be lured by firms offering schemes which allegedly promise to help...

Landlords’ confidence in the buy to let sector has collapsed to an all-time low and is now “worse than levels witnessed...

The legal challenge to Chancellor George Osborne’s controversial buy to let tax change is underway with a letter sent to HMRC...

Who are you? I’m the Head of Redress at the Property Redress Scheme. I previously worked for Legal & General PLC dealing...

The former Property Ombudsman, Christopher Hamer, is to be a special advisor to the National Association of Estate Agents and the...

There’s been an angry reaction from letting agents and landlords to the shock news that an additional three per cent stamp...

Repairs software provider Fixflo - which last week entered into a partnership with The Property Ombudsman scheme and The Deposit Protection...

The head of a landlords’ association has warned the Conservative government not to demonise buy to let investors who typically have...

Franchise letting agency giant Winkworth is warning that London’s tenants face higher rents as some landlords sell investment properties in the...

One of Britain’s largest local authorities has beefed up its powers so it can issue fines of up to £5,000 on...

The Property Ombudsman scheme and The Deposit Protection Service are entering into a partnership with software specialist Fixflo to create a...

The outgoing chief of Whitbread PLC has made a scathing attack on Airbnb and the government for its approach to what...

A prominent buying agent active in prime central London says the capital’s high end buy to let market will become less...

The Property Ombudsman has warned letting agents not to forget their responsibilities under the Right To Rent immigration checks that become...

The online petition opposing the proposed tax changes for buy to let landlords has now reached 35,000 signatures - but is...

Watch the latest weekly video round-up of news from Estate Agent Today and Letting Agent Today, featuring stories on Countrywide's on-going...

The number of enquiries concerning lettings issues received by The Property Ombudsman in the past year was almost double the number of...

The online petition against the government's proposed tax changes for buy to let investors is "a waste of time" according to...

A columnist on FT Adviser - an online service for financial advisers and clients - says buy to let investors have...

The government is ruling out any re-think on its proposals to reduce buy to let tax breaks from next year. The Financial...

A web portal which radically changes the way investors search for their next investment property has signed up 5,000 agents, less...

As the Conservative Party conference continues, a leading Tory has warned that "there is much further to go" on removing buy...

There has been a sharp and rapid rebuttal of comments made by new shadow chancellor John McDonnell suggesting that private sector...

Over 60 per cent of private sector landlords face being pushed from the basic to higher rates of income tax as...

The Daily Telegraph has undertaken an interesting exercise which effectively challenges Chancellor George Osborne’s assertion that buy to let tax changes...

The chief executive of Zoopla has thrown his weight behind opposition to the government’s proposed restrictions on buy to let tax...

Over half the private rental sector tenants on housing benefit have experienced delays over its payment from their local council. Research by...

The country’s biggest buy to let landlord is to raise rents by up to 33 per cent, and puts the blame...

Opponents of the government’s attempt to end tax breaks for the buy to let sector now have a new opportunity to...

If supporters of Chancellor George Osborne’s Budget restrictions on tax breaks for buy to let landlords thought opposition would die off...

Bruten & Co Limited, a sales and lettings agent based in Notting Hill Gate, London, has been expelled from membership of...

A firm of specialist solicitors claims that one in five landlords say they will be “out of business due to government...

The rise and rise of Airbnb - the global online short-lets system that could be used by landlords to short-circuit letting...

The petition against the proposed tax changes outlined by Chancellor George Osborne in last month’s Budget has now achieved 20,000 signatures. This...

Franchise agency Belvoir is urging landlords to budget and plan for mandatory changes to the energy efficiency of rental properties, coming...

The Property Ombudsman, Christopher Hamer, has announced his support for an accredited landlord's scheme in Sunderland.  Sunderland City Council's Accredited Landlord’s Scheme...

A petition to oppose the proposed change in buy to let landlords’ tax breaks is nearing the 14,000-signature mark - but...

A London letting agency is playing down the impact of Chancellor George Osborne’s proposed changes to buy to let tax breaks,...

The founders of the website saynotogeorge.co.uk have stepped forward to explain why they have founded the campaign.  Two Peterborough-based property developers are...

No one likes to be called and told, your boiler has broken down or a burst pipe has caused damage to...

Around 47 per cent of landlords will be affected by changes to the annual wear and tear allowance. That’s the result of...

A new website - www.saynotogeorge.co.uk - has been set up as a nucleus for opposition to Chancellor George Osborne’s proposals to...

New figures from a landlords’ organisation show that mortgage repayments are easily the biggest outgoing for a large proportion of landlords.  The...

A campaign group protesting against the government’s Budget proposal to limit the tax breaks for buy to let investors has been...

The Residential Landlords Association has launched a new campaign ‘toolkit’ to enable opponents of the proposed buy to let tax changes...

An online petition demanding the reinstatement of buy to let landlords' tax breaks has broken the 10,000 signatures mark which means...

An online petition demanding the reversal of the revisions to buy to let landlords' tax breaks announced in the Budget last...

A survey suggests that renters are worried that landlords who have to pay more tax as a result of changes in...

An online petition demanding the reinstatement of buy to let landlords' tax breaks has so far attracted 6,300-plus signatures. The petition, which...

A critic of the suggestion that buy to let landlords could set up companies to ‘beat’ the ending of tax breaks...

Unitary local authorities where trading standards and environmental health teams work to the same objectives are more successful at clamping down...

A letting agent is urging landlords to try to circumnavigate tax changes aimed at the buy to let sector by incorporating...

A letting agent is angry that there has not been a single prosecution in his region as a result of agencies...

A survey for a lettings organisation has confirmed the belief that the government’s removal of tax breaks on landlords will almost...

HMRC has revealed the scope of its proposed changes to the wear and tear allowance, as announced in George Osborne’s Budget...

Allen & Crane Estates, a sales and lettings agent based in Burnham near Slough, has been expelled from membership of The...

Eleven letting agencies in just one city have been fined a total of £37,000 for not being members of any of...

An accountancy firm is warning that there are pitfalls in trying to avoid the higher taxation which will result from the...

The specialist buy to let mortgage sector is set to be an unexpected victim of the buy to let tax changes...

The independent Institute for Fiscal Studies has described the justification given by Chancellor George Osborne for curbing tax breaks for buy to...

Changes announced to the amount of money ordinary home owners can secure, tax-free, from letting out rooms in their homes have...

One of Britain’s senior letting agents says the people likely to be hit hardest by changes of the buy to let...

An agency has been expelled from The Property Ombudsman scheme for a minimum of two years after failing to comply with...

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

Wednesday’s budget proved a grim viewing for those who have worked in the rental sector for some time and watched the...

This week the Chancellor, George Osborne, delivered the first Conservative Budget for almost 20 years. While Mr Osborne claimed that it marked...

Watch the latest weekly video round-up of news from Estate Agent Today and Letting Agent Today, featuring stories on George Osborne's...

There has been no let-up in the anger expressed by sections of the buy to let sector after Chancellor George Osborne...

The changes to tax relief for landlords comes on top of a blizzard of new health and safety requirements, regulations and...

Agents have expressed their disappointment at the decision by the government to restrict mortgage interest relief for Buy To let investors...

Chancellor George Osborne has announced that mortgage interest tax relief for buy-to-let homebuyers are to be restricted to basic rate of...

Chancellor George Osborne has been warned that rents in the private rented sector could rise if he scraps the tax-deductible status...

The internet and rapidly evolving digital landscape has revolutionised the way people buy and sell properties. With some reports suggesting 95 per...

Scotland is to be officially represented within the Association of Residential Lettings Agents with the appointment of a Your Move area...