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![Labour threat is sapping lettings confidence, claims Knight Frank](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews3-400x310.png)
Just as the prospect of tax rises in the Budget is causing uncertainty in the prime London sales market, so Labour’s...
13 August 2024
From: Breaking News
![Buy To Let property purchases plummet as tax threats mount](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/TaxCoins-400x310.png)
The number of buy to let property purchases in the UK fell 14% from 224,700 in 2022/23 to 193,700 in the...
08 August 2024
From: Breaking News
![RICS Forecast - Rent rises set to be slower and lower](/upload/images/shutterstock_2155248931(1).jpg)
The latest rental market survey by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors suggests there’s still a significant mismatch between supply and...
08 August 2024
From: Breaking News
![Fast-growing agency snaps up long-running property firm](/upload/images/shutterstock_2374617071(1).jpg)
One of Northern Ireland’s fastest growing agencies has acquired one of the longest running property firms in South Down and established...
06 August 2024
From: Breaking News
![RICS gives strong support to Rayner’s radical planning reforms](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews3-400x310.png)
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has given a warm welcome to Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner’s planning reforms. This week Rayner...
01 August 2024
From: Breaking News
![New agency charges ultra-low all-in lettings and management fee](/upload/images/shutterstock_286453484.jpg)
A new agency - which describes itself as a “disruptor company” - says it will charge an all-in lettings and management...
23 July 2024
From: Breaking News
![Agents tell Rayner: we want agency regulation, mandatory qualifications](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews-400x310.png)
ARLA Propertymark and a number of other property industry bodies wants Housing Secretary Angela Rayner to regulate letting and sales agents. An...
15 July 2024
From: Breaking News
![Agents fear for future of Private Rental Sector - RICS](/upload/images/shutterstock_714410761(2).jpg)
The latest lettings market snapshot by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors contains a raft of worried statements from agents. A large...
11 July 2024
From: Breaking News
![RICS urges Labour to do more on housing](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/AgentsWorking-400x310.png)
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors says it welcomes the new Labour government’s ambitious housing plans - but it also casts...
10 July 2024
From: Breaking News
![Independent Agencies Tumble - Lomond's second acquisition this week](/upload/images/shutterstock_1117572671.jpg)
The relentless acquisition programme of the private equity-funded Lomond Group continues apace with another acquisition announced today - the second this...
10 July 2024
From: Breaking News
![RICS urges Labour to move fast on housing pledges](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/NewBuild-3-400x310.png)
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has congratulated Labour on forming the next government but says it must move quickly to...
08 July 2024
From: Breaking News
![RICS rings alarm bells over state of lettings market](/upload/images/shutterstock_1313087447.jpg)
The latest residential market survey from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors is raising a red flag over what it calls...
13 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![RICS guide for investors, landlords and other users at auctions](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Property-court-400x310.png)
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has launched what it calls an “impartial”guide for landlords, investors and others buying or selling...
05 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![“Bold” new Labour reforms for private rental sector coming next month](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews-400x310.png)
An influential Labour website says a raft of proposed reforms for the private rental sector will be unveiled next month -...
08 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![Energy Efficiency - new RICS standard for agents to launch this year](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/EPCx400x310.png)
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has launched a new Residential Retrofit Standard in a bid to help the housing industry...
19 March 2024
From: Breaking News
![RICS Warning: rents still rising as landlords quit lettings sector](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/HousePrices_pound-400x310.png)
Today’s new market snapshot from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors shows tenant demand rising but at a rather more modest...
14 March 2024
From: Breaking News
![Labour Mayor’s ‘higher rental standards’ charter backed by agents](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/AgentsWorking-400x310.png)
Propertymark has pledged its support for the Good Landlord Charter initiated by Labour Mayor Andy Burnham but has urged for greater...
11 March 2024
From: Breaking News
![Regulation of lettings agents imminent, suggests Propertymark](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews1-400x310.png)
Propertymark says the regulation of agents has come a step closer. The trade body gave evidence at a House of Lords Industry...
07 March 2024
From: Breaking News
![Starmer insists Awaab’s Law will be extended to private rental sector](/upload/images/shutterstock_1929449678.jpg)
Labour leader Sir Kier Starmer has confirmed that Awaab’s Law - putting a strict timescale on urgent repairs being done -...
13 February 2024
From: Breaking News
![British Homes for British Workers - Experts, activists unite in opposition](/upload/images/shutterstock_1750387934.jpg)
Seventeen housing organisations have sent an open letter to the government rejecting its idea of prioritising British families when it comes...
30 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![Lettings agency snapped up by Chestertons parent company](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/BusinessTeam-400x310.png)
The company which acquired London-focussed agency Chestertons in October has now snapped up another lettings and sales operation. This latest purchase is...
29 December 2023
From: Breaking News
![Portal announces agent qualification before possible mandatory regulation](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/AgentsWorking-400x310.png)
A property portal has announced the inaugural graduation of its first-ever qualification. Some 55 students were awarded the SPC Property Practice Certification,...
18 December 2023
From: Breaking News
![Surveyors warn: Landlords can’t keep their heads above water](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews2-400x310.png)
Private landlords are abandoning their property portfolios in unprecedented numbers, a group of surveyors claims. The Manchester-based chartered surveyors and auctioneers -...
14 December 2023
From: Breaking News
![Renters Reform Bill at risk if councils aren’t given more cash - MPs](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/HousePrices_balancing-400x310.png)
Measures contained in the Renters Reform Bill will fail without sufficient resources to ensure they can be enforced. The warning comes from...
13 December 2023
From: Breaking News
![RICS warns that rents are to go still higher as demand soars](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Property-Value_400x310.png)
The latest lettings market survey by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors shows rental demand continuing to rise. A net balance of...
12 October 2023
From: Breaking News
![Rayner slams Tory rental “failures” but light on Labour policy details](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews-400x310.png)
Labour deputy leader and shadow housing secretary Angela Rayner has given her party’s conference an outline of future policy plans. She says:...
09 October 2023
From: Breaking News
![RICS tells Tories - do more to improve supply of rental properties](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews2-400x310.png)
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors is launching its manifesto at this week’s Tory party conference - and improving the supply...
02 October 2023
From: Breaking News
![RICS survey predicts yet more rent rises](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/New%20Rental%20Index-400x310.png)
The latest lettings market snapshot from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors shows that a significant majority of members expect yet...
14 September 2023
From: Breaking News
![Scams expert joins board of The Property Ombudsman](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews3-400x310.png)
The Head of the National Trading Standards Scams Team is one of two new non-executive directors at The Property Ombudsman. Louise Baxter...
12 September 2023
From: Breaking News
![Rural property firm name disappears into parent company brand](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/PropTech/PropertyFind-400x310.png)
Scottish agency and chartered surveyor firm DM Hall is to incorporate the identity of its rural property specialist arm, Baird Lumsden,...
07 September 2023
From: Breaking News
![RICS warns tenants - rents will rise further despite cost of living crisis](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Property-Value_400x310.png)
There’s a blunt warning to renters this morning from the man behind the monthly lettings market snapshot from the Royal Institution...
10 August 2023
From: Breaking News
![Renters Reform Bill - would a General Election make it or break it?](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews3-400x310.png)
The head of a consultancy that handles lettings agency acquisition has given her views on what a General Election might mean...
07 July 2023
From: Breaking News
![Avoid the stress of an annual accountants’ report ... by not doing one!](/upload/images/adv-2021/sponsored-content/The-Lettings-partnership/Sponsored%20Content%20lead%20image_time%20for%20a%20change.jpg)
We compare traditional methods of client money account inspections by an accountant to the alternative Client Money HealthCheck. But first, let’s clarify...
04 July 2023
From: Sponsored Content
![Labour turning its back on rent controls once and for all](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews-400x310.png)
It looks as if the Labour Party is turning its back on rent controls on England and Wales. In the past year...
29 June 2023
From: Breaking News
![Mortgage Mayhem: will six months breathing space stop housing crash?](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Sharp%20rise%20in%20property%20transaction%20fall-throught%20cost%20MortgageApplyNow_400x310.png)
Concern remains that the mayhem surrounding the mortgage market may yet trigger a housing market crash. At the start of the weekend...
26 June 2023
From: Breaking News
![Lettings chief insists Renters Reform Bill is not anti-landlord](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/ToLetBoard-400x310.png)
The controversial Renters Reform Bill is not the anti-landlord charter that some in the h system claim it to be. That’s the...
18 May 2023
From: Breaking News
![RICS slams government over energy strategy “lacking ambition”](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/GreenHome-400x310.png)
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has accused the government of lacking ambition in its new energy strategy. The government's revised strategy,...
13 April 2023
From: Breaking News
![RICS slams government over energy strategy “lacking ambition”](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/_EPC5-400x310.png)
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has accused the government of lacking ambition in its new energy strategy. The government's revised strategy,...
04 April 2023
From: Breaking News
![Agents’ chance to think faster, sharper and better](/upload/images/shutterstock_192595709.jpg)
Propertymark’s showcase event this year is to be addressed by a person who is a chartered psychologist, neuroscientist, science communicator, author...
15 March 2023
From: Breaking News
![Tenant demand still on the rise as RICS calls for Budget help](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/HappyLandlord-400x310.png)
The latest market snapshot from the Royal Institution for Chartered Surveyors - out today - shows tenant demand continuing to increase...
09 March 2023
From: Breaking News
![Historic agency merges with chartered surveying firm](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/ShakingHands-400x310.png)
The Herbert R Thomas agency, known as HRT, is merging with Rawlins & Madley. The two South Wales firms announced the merger on...
06 February 2023
From: Breaking News
![Labour launches major review of private rental sector](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Viewing-Tenants-400x310.png)
The Labour Party is to launch a major review of the private rental sector, led by the head of a London...
30 January 2023
From: Breaking News
![Demand falling at last as rental market stabilises - new RICS data](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Buy-to-let-3-400x310.png)
Tenant demand in the past month has been the lowest since February 2021 and suggests that the pace of demand growth...
19 January 2023
From: Breaking News
![Rent Freeze - Political dogma or Genuinely needed?](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Rent_Freeze1-400x310.png)
An influential housing body has criticised the Green and SNP politicians behind the Scottish Government’s rent cap, which has been renewed...
19 January 2023
From: Breaking News
![On It Goes - RICS says rental market shows no sign of slowing](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Property-Value_400x310.png)
The latest market snapshot from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors shows another robust performance for lettings. RICS says tenant demand continues...
10 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![Labour pledge to go further than government on rental reform](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/LegalAdvice-400x310.png)
Labour’s new housing spokesperson, Matthew Pennycook, says his party would go further than the government on the subject of private rental...
07 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![Activists delighted at abolition of Section 21](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews1-400x310.png)
Campaigners who turned on the Prime Minister on Tuesday were cock-a-hoop just 24 hours later when Liz Truss did another U-turn...
13 October 2022
From: Breaking News
![Labour's plans for private renting - if it wins the next election](/img/default/lat.png)
Shadow housing minister Lisa Nandy has unveiled a Charter for Renters which she says will be implemented within 100 days of...
27 September 2022
From: Breaking News
![Agents pay tribute to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/QueenMainImage400x310.png)
* Angels Media and Letting Agent Today are deeply saddened by the passing of HM Queen Elizabeth II * - A statement from...
09 September 2022
From: Breaking News
![RICS issues forecast for rent rise in 2023](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/RisingRents-400x310.jpg)
The latest lettings market snapshot from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors suggests tenant demand is rising further with a net...
08 September 2022
From: Breaking News
![Market strong but losing a little momentum, says RICS](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/AdobeStock_345890261.jpeg)
The latest sentiment survey from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors suggests that the market is strong - but off its...
17 August 2022
From: Breaking News
![Top industry figures to address new agency event this autumn](/upload/images/Miscellaneous/Conference1400x310.jpg)
High profile lettings industry figures Paul Shamplina and Sally Lawson are amongst the keynote speakers at a new event for agents...
15 August 2022
From: Breaking News
![Sold! Lettings book acquired as 40-year-old agency shuts its branches](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/AdobeStock_282055836.jpeg)
It’s been reported that the lettings book owned by a long-standing agency has been sold to a rival firm. A message on...
12 August 2022
From: Breaking News
![Chief executive pledges to protect agent’s interests in new role](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/Angels%20Sales%20%26%20Lettings%20-%20Client%20Money%20Protection%20-%20what%20do%20landlords%20need%20to%20know.png)
Propertymark chief executive Nathan Emerson says he will use his role on the board of The Deposit Service to fight for...
27 May 2022
From: Breaking News
![Up! Up! Up! - Rental market strong and getting stronger, says RICS](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/house-prices-rise400x310.png)
The latest sentiment survey amongst members of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors suggests that the rental market is strong -...
13 May 2022
From: Breaking News
![Rent to rise this year and the long term - latest market info](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/RisingRents-400x310.jpg)
The latest market sentiment survey of the lettings market from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors suggests that rent rises will...
19 April 2022
From: Breaking News
![Tax on homes to let is ‘hard to implement, not cost effective’](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/House-Tax-400x310.jpg)
Tax experts say that an attempt to levy higher purchase tax on holiday lets and second homes in one part of...
11 April 2022
From: Breaking News
![Fast-growing agency swipes at ‘under-delivering’ rival firms](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/HousingMarket-400x310.png)
Expanding North East agency Hive Estates has acquired a Newcastle lettings business as part of its plans for growth - and...
23 March 2022
From: Breaking News
![Soaring fuel bills will hurt renters and lettings sector - warning](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/Calculator-PoundCoins-2019-400x310.jpg)
Lower income households, often found in the private rental sector, are set to bear the brunt of the rising inflation and...
14 March 2022
From: Breaking News
![Clampdown on agents by council officers with qualifications](/upload/images/Locations/GreaterLondon-400x310.jpg)
The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan wants is introducing a new qualification and training for borough council housing enforcement officers to...
17 February 2022
From: Breaking News
![Review underway into agents’ CPD training and qualifications](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/MillennialAgents-2020-400x310.jpg)
The Chartered Institute of Housing in Scotland wants to investigate the existing qualification and training requirements for letting agencies in that...
02 February 2022
From: Breaking News
![Embrace training and qualifications, letting agents urged](/upload/images/Back-link-images/boy%20in%20suit.jpg)
Letting agents who embrace training and qualifications - beyond those which are mandatory - will help create trust and transparency. That’s the...
19 January 2022
From: Breaking News
![Rents to increase “firmly” over the next 12 months says RICS](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/RisingRents-400x310.jpg)
The latest market snapshot from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors suggests that rents are to increase “firmly” in the near...
09 December 2021
From: Breaking News
![Rival lettings agencies merge, with pledge of future acquisitions](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/PropertyChain-1-400x310.jpg)
Charters Group, the south of England agency, has announced a further acquisition that will grow its residential lettings operations. Charters Estate Agents will combine...
10 November 2021
From: Breaking News
![New RICS forecast of rising tenant demand and higher rent](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/RentalMarket400x310.jpg)
Tenant demand continues to rise and is now way beyond the long term average according to the latest market snapshot by...
15 October 2021
From: Breaking News
![New consultation aims to “root out rogue agents” says RICS](/img/default/lat.png)
New rules out for consultation concerning block management aim to improve professionalism across the sector, root out rogue agents, and increase...
23 August 2021
From: Breaking News
![Charging for Viewings is “terrible idea” says leading agent](/img/default/lat.png)
A prominent lettings agency owner has given his verdict on the concept of charging renters to view a property - “it...
20 August 2021
From: Breaking News
![Charging for Viewings? Trading Standards revises advice](/img/default/lat.png)
The controversy over whether a new PropTech service can be used by agents to charge people to view a property to...
19 August 2021
From: Breaking News
![Have Your Say: Ombudsman wants agents’ views on block management](/img/default/lat.png)
The Property Ombudsman and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors are seeking views of agents, landlords and tenants on a new...
13 August 2021
From: Breaking News
![Tenant demand up for the fifth consecutive quarter, according to RICS](/img/default/lat.png)
Tenant demand for private rental property has risen for the fifth consecutive quarter according to the latest market snapshot from the...
12 August 2021
From: Breaking News
![Tenant Fees Act “does not ban charging for some viewings”](/img/default/lat.png)
Guidance from Trading Standards suggests that it is possible, in some cases, to charge tenants to view a property to let...
10 August 2021
From: Breaking News
![Safety warning over quality of office-to-resi conversions](/img/default/lat.png)
There’s a warning today that office-to-resi conversions - popular with landlords in recent years - are at an increased risk of...
02 August 2021
From: Breaking News
![Dramatic reform likely for rental sector in Scotland - warning](/img/default/lat.png)
There was much publicity this week for the efforts of the Welsh Government to deter the letting of second homes. Now it...
09 July 2021
From: Breaking News
![Rents set to rise three per cent in next 12 months, say surveyors](/img/default/lat.png)
The latest lettings market snapshot by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors suggests little easing of the strong tenant demand and...
11 June 2021
From: Breaking News
![New agency franchise owner is chartered accountant](/img/default/lat.png)
The Canterbury branch of national sales and lettings agency Martin & Co has a new owner. Angie Collins has taken on the...
23 April 2021
From: Breaking News
![Top Labour figure plans expanded ‘ethical lettings agency’ concept](/img/default/lat.png)
Greater Manchester’s Labour Mayor, Andy Burnham, says he wants to clamp down on the private rental sector. In his manifesto for next month’s...
19 April 2021
From: Breaking News
![Rental demand moderating just as landlord instructions fall](/img/default/lat.png)
The latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors study suggests tenant demand has increased over the past quarter but at a slowing...
12 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![New property ID system aims to identify rogue buy to lets](/img/default/lat.png)
A new property identification system which has won the backing of ARLA Propertymark and substantial parts of the industry has said...
15 January 2021
From: Breaking News
![Rental growth ‘slightly positive’ for 2021 say surveyors](/img/default/lat.png)
Rental growth expectations remain “slightly positive” across most of the UK according to the latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors market...
22 December 2020
From: Breaking News
![Independent agency snapped up by chartered surveying business](/img/default/lat.png)
A chartered surveying company has acquired a long established lettings agency in the same town in Greater Manchester. Altrincham based firm Oakwood...
27 November 2020
From: Breaking News
![Risk of massive rise in evictions warns housing body](/img/default/lat.png)
The Chartered Institute of Housing claims there may be a “massive increase” in evictions in the near future. In a briefing paper the...
07 October 2020
From: Breaking News
![Industry-first as PropTech platform signs race equality statement](/img/default/lat.png)
In what is claimed to be an industry first, PropTech platform Goodlord has signed the Race Fairness Commitment. This commits Goodlord to...
08 July 2020
From: Breaking News
![Agents offer arrears help to tenants hit by Corona cash crisis](/img/default/lat.png)
ARLA Propertymark and other organisations from across the housing sector have joined forces to support tenants and landlords facing rent arrears...
03 July 2020
From: Breaking News
![Economist calls for immediate 20% rent reduction for tenants](/img/default/lat.png)
A prominent economist who has called for a raft of measures to protect tenants during the Coronavirus crisis is now calling...
29 June 2020
From: Breaking News
![Baroness wants “renters’ charter” to be agreed by councils](/img/default/lat.png)
The militantly pro-tenant Generation Rent group says it’s working with local councils to have a new “tenants’ charter” introduced. The new director...
29 June 2020
From: Breaking News
![Call for loans-for-landlords as part of anti-eviction plan](/img/default/lat.png)
The Chartered Institute of Housing has published proposals aimed at avoiding a spike in private rental sector evictions when the current...
02 June 2020
From: Breaking News
![Rents set to fall across the UK for next three months, say surveyors](/img/default/lat.png)
Private rents are expected to fall across the UK in the coming three months, but stabilise over the course of the...
14 May 2020
From: Breaking News
![Tenants should live rent-free until 2021 says prominent economist](/img/default/lat.png)
An economist who previously suggested tenants should live rent-free for three months during the Coronavirus crisis has revised his thinking -...
07 May 2020
From: Breaking News
![Teaching your kids at home? Zoopla comes to the rescue...](/img/default/lat.png)
Zoopla is promoting 12 lesson plans for agents and other property professionals who are teaching their children at home during the...
01 May 2020
From: Breaking News
![Agency asks tenants to sign ‘moral contract’ to repay arrears](/img/default/lat.png)
A lettings agency is asking tenants who cannot afford to pay rent during the Coronavirus crisis to sign a ‘moral contract’ that...
14 April 2020
From: Breaking News
![Rents set to stagnate over next 12 months, warns RICS](/img/default/lat.png)
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors warns that rents are likely to stagnate for the rest of the year - although...
14 April 2020
From: Breaking News
![Conquering Corona: Daily tips and news for agents to beat the virus](/img/default/lat.png)
Letting Agent Today is launching a daily service to help agents facing the Coronavirus threat. This is where you’ll find news, advice...
16 March 2020
From: Breaking News
![Tenants with Coronavirus should get three months free rent - call](/img/default/lat.png)
An anti-poverty campaigner and tax expert says any private rented sector tenant with Coronavirus should be able to live rent-free for...
05 March 2020
From: Breaking News
![Referral Fee clampdown confirmed for lettings agents too](/img/default/lat.png)
The clampdown on referral fees, until now concentrated on the sales sector, will extend to letting agents too. James Munro, head of...
28 February 2020
From: Breaking News
![Government policy on rental sector is a failure says trade body](/img/default/lat.png)
The government has failed the private rental sector says the Residential Landlords Association. In a statement released even before the resignation of...
14 February 2020
From: Breaking News
![Agent defends HMO scheme after “greedy” accusation](/img/default/lat.png)
An agent acting on behalf of a landlord has defended a bid for retrospective planning permission, but a Labour councillor has...
23 January 2020
From: Breaking News
![Labour mocks government’s new funding to combat rogue agents](/img/default/lat.png)
The Labour party has mocked the government’s £4m new funding for councils to combat rogue agents and landlords as “puny.” A statement...
06 January 2020
From: Breaking News
![Rents to accelerate in 2020 according to surveyors](/img/default/lat.png)
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has given a brief but optimistic assessment of the private rental market for next year. “As...