The long-running aspiration of many to allow rental payments to be counted towards credit ratings appears to have taken a step...
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15 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![Credit Rating - Tenants have little understanding of how it works](/upload/images/PropTech%20%26%20Online/Internet-400x310.jpg)
Many private renters are misguided on what actually contributes to their credit score and thus may not be taking the correct...
24 May 2022
From: Breaking News
![Agents link with rental activists to demand help to clear Covid arrears](/img/default/lat.png)
Propertymark has joined forces with the likes of Generation Rent and Shelter to step up the campaign for the provision of...
16 June 2021
From: Breaking News
![Agency warns landlord clients over virus mortgage holidays](/img/default/lat.png)
One of London’s largest lettings agencies is warning its landlord clients to only use mortgage payment holidays offered by lenders as a...
22 April 2020
From: Breaking News
![Half of S21 cases want rehousing by council, claims eviction specialist](/img/default/lat.png)
High profile eviction company Landlord Action says as many as 50 per cent of Section 21 cases it handles involve tenants...
23 September 2019
From: Breaking News
![Rental option gives landlords average £10k-plus lump sum](/img/default/lat.png)
A new rental option for landlords could see them receiving an upfront annual lump sum of over £10,000. The Advanced Rent Option...
20 August 2019
From: Breaking News
![Industry first as landlords offered a year’s rent in an up-front lump sum](/img/default/lat.png)
A lettings agency is believed to be the first to offer landlords a year's rent in advance in one lump sum...
16 July 2019
From: Breaking News
![Prop tech firm and Nationwide pioneer 'rent-mortgage' link for tenants](/img/default/lat.png)
The PropTech firm CreditLadder is working with the Nationwide Building Society on a pioneering scheme to try to help tenants buy...
25 March 2019
From: Breaking News
![True spirit of Christmas as PropTech chief gives shelter to homeless](/img/default/lat.png)
Five homeless people will have a roof over their heads this Christmas thanks to a kind-hearted PropTech chief. Mike Georgeson, founder of...
12 December 2018
From: Breaking News
![Evictions of vulnerable tenants should be made tougher, insists group](/img/default/lat.png)
The private rental sector is not fit for purpose when it comes to housing vulnerable tenants, claims debt charity StepChange which...
14 November 2018
From: Breaking News
![Rent payments adding to creditworthiness: more progress announced](/img/default/lat.png)
The Rent Recognition Challenge, an initiative to use technology to help share renters' payment histories with lenders and credit reference agencies,...
16 August 2018
From: Breaking News
![Another £1.4m of public funding for PropTech 'help tenants buy' projects](/img/default/lat.png)
The government says that later this year it will allocate a further £1.4m to PropTech firms looking at how tenants’ rent...
21 March 2018
From: Breaking News
![Stark warning that recent buy to let investors will face losses by 2021](/img/default/lat.png)
Well over half of those investors who recently secured buy to let mortgages risk facing losses when mortgage interest tax changes...
26 January 2018
From: Breaking News
![PropTech firm joins call for rent payments to count in credit scores](/img/default/lat.png)
Automated rental payment provider PayProp has joined the call for private rent payments to be counted towards tenants’ credit scores in...
04 January 2018
From: Breaking News
![Mandatory adding of rent payments to credit scores is now a step closer](/img/default/lat.png)
The House of Lords has given the Creditworthiness Assessment Bill its second reading and a step forward to ensuring that tenants’...
27 November 2017
From: Breaking News
![New parliamentary bid to have rent records added to credit ratings](/img/default/lat.png)
Lord John Bird, the founder of Big Issue, is tomorrow launching his own Bill in the House of Lords in a...
23 November 2017
From: Breaking News
![MPs today debate whether rent should contribute to credit scores](/img/default/lat.png)
MPs are today going to debate whether rent payments should be included when calculating credit scores to support tenants wanting to...
23 October 2017
From: Breaking News
![Trade body wants rent records info added to tenants' credit scores](/img/default/lat.png)
Rent payments should be included when calculating credit scores to support tenants wanting to buy a home of their own, says...
17 August 2017
From: Breaking News
![Tenant referencing must be exempt from agents' fees ban, insists ARLA](/img/default/lat.png)
The Association of Residential Letting Agents says the costs of tenant referencing must be exempt from the government’s proposed ban on...
03 May 2017
From: Breaking News
![Cheaper to rent than buy in 84% of the UK](/img/default/lat.png)
Credit rating consultancy Experian says it is cheaper to rent than buy in 84 per cent of areas, while it's cheaper...
08 November 2016
From: Breaking News
![Agency experiments with adding tenant rent payments to credit scores](/img/default/lat.png)
A lettings agency on Merseyside is one of the first in the UK to take part of an experiment which could...
01 September 2016
From: Breaking News
![Warning that buy to let tax changes will damage sector in two years time](/img/default/lat.png)
Respected credit ratings agency Fitch says buy to let will thrive for the next 12 to 24 months but the effects...