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A huge trading standards operation clamping down on lettings agents who fail to abide by Client Money Protection rules has been...

A clampdown on letting agents who fail to safeguard landlords’ and tenants’ money is now underway.  A statement from the National Trading Standards...

The National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agents Team is appealing to the industry to be eagle-eyed for scams. This follows the...

Letting agents should stand proud of their record helping both landlords and tenants, especially in these more difficult times. That’s the view...

One of the government’s approved client money protection schemes claims over 10 lettings agencies a week are closing. Client Money Protect makes the...

Letting agencies should review banking and payment systems in the light of rule changes and the ongoing challenge of the pandemic. This advice...

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

ARLA Propertymark has set out its concerns over draft guidance on anti-money laundering produced by a body called the Joint Money...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is advising member companies to file their accounts on time in order to remain transparent...

A former letting agent has been censured over the handling of tenancy deposits following an investigation by a local council. Andrew Rhys...

Martin & Co says it has compensated clients fully after a rogue lettings agent in Cornwall added sums to invoices sent...

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

A call has been made for the best letting agencies and other rental sector professionals to show how they comply with...

A crackdown on letting agency websites by a Trading Standards team has found the significant majority of them to be breaking...

An estimated 20 per cent of letting agents have still not signed up for a Client Money Protection scheme, six months...

A lettings agent says she has just spent three months trying to get evidence of her Client Money Protection policy -...

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

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

Two landlords will this evening be seen securing the £16,000 they are owed by a rogue lettings agent - and TV...

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

The National Approved Letting Scheme has rebranded as safeagent.  NALS has helped coordinate the safeagent campaign since 2011, focussing during that time...

A housing minister has pledged that more key reforms for the private rental sector will be revealed soon, despite Brexit political...

The mandatory Client Money Protection scheme membership that comes into effect today will protect landlords and tenants from letting agents that...

The government says it is still considering applications to operate Client Money Protection schemes from April, despite approving five schemes so...

Propertymark’s Money Shield service and the National Approved Letting Scheme have each received government approval to operate Client Money Protection schemes. From...

Another client money protection scheme has been given approval to launch itself before regulations go live on April 1.  From that date...

Client Money Protect has gained formal government approval to operate a client money protection scheme when the regulations go live on...

A letting agent in east London has been fined £4,000 after apparently publishing the incorrect fees that it levies on tenants...

New rules to protect rent paid by tenants to letting agents will fail to provide adequate protection for landlords, a trade...

The Association of Residential Managing Agents has launched a first-of-its-kind Client Money Protection to members.  Although CMP schemes are to be mandatory...

Trading Standards departments in London are asking renters to name and shame letting agents who are not complying with the law...

The parent company of The Property Redress Scheme (PRS) says its group companies will be taking a more 'joined up' approach...

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

The government has produced new guidelines on setting up client money protection schemes for the private rented sector. They are evidently aimed...

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

Today Trading Standards teams across the country will highlight the work they do to protect landlords and tenants from rogue letting...

Consumers' money remains at risk until April 1 2019 is the key message of this year’s SAFEagent Awareness Week. Over the next...

A leading PropTech entrepreneur says he welcomes reforms currently moving through Parliament to professionalise the lettings sector - but he wants...

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

Ian Wilson, chief executive of The Property Franchise Group, says new rules for regulating the lettings sector will probably be clumsily...

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

The government has this morning - Easter Sunday - announced a crackdown on rogue letting agents in the shape of a...

One of the client money protection schemes operating in the lettings sector says he believes agents and property managers could be...

Three one-day courses are being held this year - the first next week - aimed at updating letting agents on changes...

The man behind a leading lettings industry PropTech company says the new Code of Conduct to clean up the rental sector...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has described the introduction of a code of conduct and official register for letting agents...

The code sets out the standards to be met by anyone engaged in lettings including specific requirements around how clients’ money...

The UK Association of Letting Agents has launched a deal with insurance firm Let Alliance to allow total loss client money...

ARLA and NAEA Propertymark have introduced a raft of deals in a bid to save agents money.  Membership subscription fees will remain...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has come out against a single government-administered system for Client Money Protection in the private...

David Cox, the chief executive of ARLA Propertymark, has joined the board of the Tenancy Deposit Scheme as a non-executive director. Cox,...

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

Agency groups have spoken in favour of the government’s call for letting agents to be trained as a mandatory part of...

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

Trade organisatons have reacted predictably to the government’s latest announcements and publications concerning the private rental sector. Yesterday the Department of Communities...

The government has announced that all letting agents will be required to “satisfy minimum training requirements” in order to trade. The provision...

Kitemark-style scheme SAFEagent is calling on the government to ensure plans to make Client Money Protection schemes mandatory are not ignored...

Industry figures have broadly welcomed the latest consultations and proposed additional regulation for the lettings sector, announced by the government yesterday.   The...

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

A head of a company providing hi-tech products to letting agents says technology is the answer to current rental industry challenges,...

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

This week, thousands of letting agents will be taking part in SAFEagent Awareness Week 2017. Agents taking part in the event –...

A trade body has suggested that the General Election on June 8 may lead to a government with new priorities, meaning...

A leading letting agent campaigning against rental sector deposits is warning that the industry might be hit with “astronominal” insurance premiums...

There has been widespread pleasure from throughout the industry at the government’s decision to accept the recommendation of a working group...

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

The working group set up by the Department of Communities and Local Government to consider Client Money Protection says the scheme...

The government has announced in its Housing White Paper that it is still “working with industry experts” to consider whether Client...

Letting agents have just a week left to add their voice to the debate on whether mandatory Client Money Protection (CMP)...

SAFEagent, the kitemark scheme for agents offering Client Money Protection, has backed the National Approved Lettings Scheme's (NALS) call for a...

A letting agent who stole more than £400,000 from clients has had her sentence appeal dismissed by judges. Amy Williams, who part-owned Williams...

The Association of Independent Inventory Clerks (AIIC) is the latest industry body to back the Government's review of mandatory Client Money...

New data from the Tenancy Deposit Scheme shows that at the end of March 2016 there were a total of 3.426m...

A raft of regulatory and legal changes for letting agents in Scotland in 2018 is being flagged up by the Association...

The typical deposit paid when a tenant moves to a new property in England and Wales is set to break the...

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

Another major organisation within the private rental sector has thrown its weight behind mandatory Client Money Protection for letting agents in the...

Several influential industry bodies have thrown their weight behind a review into whether Client Money Protection should be mandatory for letting...

Letting agents and others in the industry have until October 3 to respond to a new review in to Client Money...

Another survey, this time from an online letting agency, reveals that as many as 70 per cent of tenants are concerned...

Franchise agency Hunters is urging other letting agencies to become a SAFEagent to offer more secure services to landlords and tenants. “We’re...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents and the National Association of Estate Agents have asked new housing minister Gavin Barwell to...

The National Approved Letting Scheme has created a toolkit which it says will help local authorities tackle rogue letting agents who...

Next week letting agents across the country will be taking part in the fifth annual SAFEagent Awareness Week. The event aims to...

Campaign group Generation Rent is running a research project into letting agent fees via a comparison website named Letting Fees UK. The...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has given its support for what appears to be a government U-turn on Client Money...

Compulsory client money protection kitemark organisation SAFEagent says the lettings industry should be making public just how much is paid out...

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

SAFEagent is calling on the government to use the passage of the Housing Bill through Parliament to make a Client Money...

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

After the passing of the Deregulation Act deposits deadline this week, Richard Price, Executive Director of UKALA, is in a contemplative...

As this year’s SAFEagent Awareness Week draws to a close today and thousands of agents have been raising the profile of...

This week over 3,000 letting agents from across the UK will be taking part in the fourth annual SAFEagent Awareness Week...

Earlier this week we passed the official deadline for letting agents to fully publicise their fees as well as providing evidence of which...

After celebrating its year anniversary this week, Boris Johnson’s London Rental Standard has been criticised for signing up only 12% of...

The chief executive of Leaders letting and estate agency is demanding that the new Conservative government brings in the formal regulation...

It’s now just one month until all letting agents have to do what most have done for some time - publicise...