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You don’t have to simply accept things as they are when it comes to managing your client accounts. If your bank...

Lloyds Banking Group, Nationwide, NatWest and Rightmove have announced a strategic investment in Coadjute, a prominent PropTech business.  This is the first...

Long-standing Hunters franchisee Adrian Lawrence has grown his lettings business by a massive 200% after acquiring the portfolio of nearby Hunters...

What appears to be another government housing policy U-turn - this time on ground rents - is being hailed as “a...

Birmingham property agency Davidson Estates has completed the first of what it pledges to be a number of acquisitions with the...

Propertymark is urging the government to tackle the problem of banks closing down undesignated or pooled client accounts of letting agents. HM...

A Parliamentary committee has heard that thousands of small and medium-sized letting agencies were debanked in 2023, with financial institutions forcibly...

Rental growth across prime London slowed again in January, with average rents falling on a monthly basis for the third time...

The excessive enforcement of council rules on private landlords while social housing is so poorly run will be ‘the next Post...

Expanding agency group My Property Box has completed its 10th acquisition in six years, buying Teesside lettings and property investment specialist...

A Knight Frank survey of 50 house builders shows a staggering 70 per cent support for Labour to win the next...

Thousands of lettings and estate agencies, and other property businesses, are in ‘critical’ or ‘significant’ financial distress, it’s been claimed. The latest...

Labour is using a Bill currently going through Parliament as a backdoor method to introduce the regulation of lettings, estate and...

ARLA Propertymark has urged letting agents to take breaches of the Information Commissioner’s Office’s  data protection principle regarding GDPR seriously.   The call comes...

The Information Commissioner’s Office has issued advice to agencies on how to comply with data protection law.  The UK data protection regulator...

Michael Gove’s Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill, currently going through Parliament, has won praise from the industry body The Property Institute. There...

Parts B and C of the process to improve material information disclosure in property listings are published today within comprehensive new guidance...

The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents is issuing a stark warning to be aware of the dangers of carbon...

Propertymark is urging the government to use next month’s Autumn Statement to support low-income households in the private rented sector in...

A government minister has pledged to act on the threat to lettings agents posed by banks acting against pooled client accounts. Many...

It looks as if the government is accepting that there is a problem with how banks treat Pooled Client Accounts -...

It’s vital for agents to have a process in place to check documentation received at their office, to avoid potential claims.  This...

The Competitioin and Markets Authority is to probe five activities involving letting agents and landlords and their responsibilities to private tenants. Sarah...

Average rents in Scotland for new tenancies in the private rented sector have risen by double digits for the third time...

An overseas agency trying to establish itself in the UK has taken a swipe at domestic agencies’ love of High Street...

West Wales Home Rentals - part of an agency group set up three decades ago - has snapped up the property...

The Property Redress Scheme has released its latest list of expelled agents - mostly for rental misdemeanours and/or failure to pay...

London-focussed lettings and sales agency Chestertons has announced its second acquisition in six weeks and third of the year, having snapped...

A prominent property law consultancy wants Help To Buy, or similar schemes, to be resurrected.  Dutton Gregory Solicitors says that with the...

Chestertons - London’s oldest estate agency which is itself up for sale - has snapped up a small independent. It has acquired...

A buyer has been announced for part of the lettings portfolio of Purplebricks, it has been announced today. The deal, finalised for...

Shelter is telling the government it “must deliver” on the revolution it pledges under the Renters Reform Bill. Chief executive Polly Neate...

New government figures show how overdue the government's reform of private renting is, claims campaigning charity Shelter. The charity says the figures...

The Guild of Property Professionals says PropTech may be the answer to the ongoing problem with client accounts. Since 2019 many banks...

Any lettings portfolio should receive ongoing care and maintenance. A disorganised portfolio, weighed down by junk data, loose ends or lax...

The letting agents’ trade body Propertymark has slammed the current lack of consistency of council tax on HMOs. It describes today’s system...

A Conservative MP in a tourist region has blamed the switch of rental accommodation to Airbnbs for a shortage of places...

Marketing firm Property Webmasters says AI is changing the game for agents promoting their services and clients. Chief executive Jamie Arthur states:...

Rental growth is showing no sign of slackening with average rents up 8.3 per cent on the same time last year...

PropTech firm Goodlord has acquired lettings platform Halo. It’s Goodlord’s third acquisition in as many years. Halo, launched in 2020, provides tenants with...

The head of a Martin & Co office in Wolverhampton has been jailed over fraudulent activity. A court heard that Bhavander Singh...

Propertymark says banks are still misinterpreting Anti-Money Laundering rules regarding pooled client accounts, making life difficult for letting agents.  The trade body...

Purplebricks has detailed the price it is paying for a lettings compliance blunder first spotted last year. It predicts that, at worst,...

Property consultancy Walker Singleton has snapped up the independent Daniel & Hirst agency in Yorkshire. The deal, which was for an undisclosed...

Small and medium sized lettings agencies which have had running disputes with banks are being offered a lifeline - but must...

The lettings agency operated by controversial agent Ajay Jagota has been sold for an undisclosed sum. Jagota set up KIS Lettings with...

A north west England lettings agency has expanded with a swoop on a Preston-based business. Keenans Group has acquired Letting Locations for...

The details of the Northern Ireland Private Tenancies Bill will be the main focus of the Propertymark annual conference in Belfast...

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

Midlands-based land and property agency Sheldon Bosley Knight has snapped up two more businesses. The acquisition of Wigwam Estate and Lettings Agents...

Dexters, the London-focussed agency, has snapped up a four-branch chain operating in the capital. Dexters already has 30,000 landlords on its books...

Six agencies have been excluded from The Property Ombudsman for failing to pay compensation to wronged complainants. One was the Belvoir...

Senior figures in the agency industry have backed new guidance from the National Trading Standards Estate and Lettings Agent Team regarding...

The fast-growing Lomond Group has consolidated its market dominance in Scotland by snapping up another independent. Lomond’s Stonehouse brand, which operates throughout Aberdeenshire,...

Historic agency Chestertons has appointed its long-serving lettings chief Richard Davies as its new chief executive. This follows the departure of high...

A Labour MP says a surge in the number of stag and hen parties in her constituency - undertaken by people...

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...

Expanding North East agency Hive Estates has acquired a Newcastle lettings business as part of its plans for growth - and...

Am umbrella platform supporting Build To Rent developers says a survey suggests BTR tenants regard the sector as offering good value...

A lettings firm specialising in holiday properties is reported to have disappeared with all items taken from its office and calls...

New financial incentives are needed to bring thousands of empty homes back into use and give a much-needed boost to the...

Hamilton Fraser, well known as a provider of insurance products and services to letting agents and landlords, has been acquired by...

While the number of companies set up by individual landlords to hold buy to lets reached a record high last year,...

Housing minister Chris Pincher has written an open letter to all landlords and agents in England, telling them how to enact the...

ARLA Propertymark has listed tell tale signs which letting agents should look for to spot incidents of modern day slavery. It says...

Research from lettings management software provider teclet shows how important 24/7 transactions are in the industry today. Results show that 33 per...

North of England agency Robert Watts is expanding into Halifax after completing the acquisition of independent firm Bennett Kaye for an...

Six agencies have been expelled from The Property Ombudsman for failing to pay compensatory awards - five of them for offences...

Lettings technology platform Goodlord has acquired a new app called acasa.  acasa is a fintech platform which allows tenants to manage household...

There has still been no formal response to a government consultation on the database of rogue agents and landlords, 25 months...

Propertymark has given its support to a free and independent dispute resolution service, the Business Banking Resolution Service, which is being offered to...

Fixflo has announced a new integration partnership with resident engagement and building management software provider Spike Global. Fixflo manages about 1.2m units...

A PropTech lettings platform boasting investment from the Foxtons agency has been snapped up by LegalforLandlords for an undisclosed figure. Propoly, launched...

There may be bad news for agencies with reliance on office workers who rent - a new survey suggests 10 per...

Propertymark says new figures detailing the costs of energy efficiency improvements in the private rental sector show the need for a...

One of the insurers at the centre of the Business Interruption controversy is believed to have reached a settlement with some...

Rental growth accelerated in May to reach a new record high according to Connells-owned lettings agency Hamptons.   Last month the average cost...

Fixflo has pledged that it’s business as usual for its lettings agency clients, after news broke that it was to be...

Fixflo, the well known provider of property repairs and maintenance software across the lettings sector, has been acquired by a European...

The city centre rental market, considered to be one of the industry’s losers during the worst of the pandemic, is beginning...

A lettings company has paid an undisclosed sum - described only as “a six figure deal” - to acquire a large...

Prominent industry software supplier Reapit and specialist repairs and maintenance service Fixflo have announced a new integration.  This allows Fixflo’s software and...

The government has at last released details of its mediation scheme - this was hinted at when Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick...

Agents must be ready for an influx of new business according to outsourced telephone and live chat service Moneypenny. Its latest figures...

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

With one of the world’s most successful vaccine rollout programmes under way in the UK, the chances of a complete lockdown...

Manchester-based Ascend Properties has acquired independent firm NW Estates in Warrington, for an undisclosed sum. Ascend says the acquisition - which includes the...

A trades union claims that lettings software provider Goodlord is slashing some staff salaries by a quarter - that’s £6,000 per...

Letting agents should help landlords through a blizzard of red tape and regulation cause by local licensing schemes, a PropTech entrepreneur...

A prominent agent says a huge over-supply of available rental property is now flooding the central London market, just as demand...

The head of industry recruitment consultancy Property Personnel is calling on agencies to be more tolerant of the struggles working parents...

Over the last 20 years, the growth of online property portals – including Zoopla, Rightmove and PrimeLocation – has transformed the...

Many agents will be closed on New Year’s Day - the last Bank Holiday for some months and at the start...

Fast-growing letting specialists Linley & Simpson has added over 600 homes to its portfolio after another major acquisition. It’s acquired the lettings and management division...

ARLA Propertymark wants the government to make the current business rates exemption for High Street branches permanent. The exemption, introduced in the spring...

Tell us about Airthings, why it was established, the products and what problem they were coming to solve? Airthings was established in...

The new trade group representing short lets operators is asking the government to make sure the short lets sector is specifically...

Agents are being warned to prepare now for likely controls on referral fees, following recommendations made to the government by the...

Countrywide’s latest trading statement covering the first half of 2020 shows it was hit more than most corporates by the market...