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

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

A second lettings sector body is demanding government action over the problem of client account closures. Accreditation service Safeagent says the government...

The Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, is being urged to act now to stop the problems banks are creating for letting agents. Following a...

Keller Williams UK - which has seen market centre closures in recent months - insists that its lettings business KW Move...

Keller Williams UK, which recently announced the closure of two of its franchise operations, has bounced back with what it calls...

It’s being reported that a prominent independent agency is to be snapped up by the fast-growing Leader Romans Group. Isle of Wight...

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

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I’m Heidi Shackell, CEO of The Lettings Hub. How has your...

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

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

Connells has made it clear that the innovation and technology it has put into lettings are key to identifying the approach it...

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

Rogue landlords have been accused of tax evasion which could cost the Treasury as much as £1.73 billion a year. The accusation...

Agents and landlords are urged to lobby MPs to highlight the threat of the current eviction ban and to urge no...

Part of the controversial Spicerhaart empire want the government to guarantee that some landlords receive 80 per cent of their usual...

Although the worst of the stock market bloodletting triggered by Coronavirus now appears to have gone, franchise agency group Belvoir has...

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

A new online lettings agency called Accommodation.co.uk is looking for franchisees to join ahead of its formal launch next month.  The company...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? That depends on which business card. One says ‘Properganda PR,...

There is a warning that the HMRC’s Let Property campaign, which received huge publicity and attention for some years, has so...

The chief executive of the UK's largest franchise agency, Belvoir, says the number of letting and estate agents will 'undoubtedly fall'...

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

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

Eviction specialists at Landlord Action say county courts are still overwhelmed by the number of possession claims being put forward, a...