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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

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
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High profile eviction company Landlord Action says as many as 50 per cent of Section 21 cases it handles involve tenants...
23 September 2019
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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
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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
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The PropTech firm CreditLadder is working with the Nationwide Building Society on a pioneering scheme to try to help tenants buy...
25 March 2019
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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
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The private rental sector is not fit for purpose when it comes to housing vulnerable tenants, claims debt charity StepChange which...
14 November 2018
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The Rent Recognition Challenge, an initiative to use technology to help share renters' payment histories with lenders and credit reference agencies,...
16 August 2018
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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
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Well over half of those investors who recently secured buy to let mortgages risk facing losses when mortgage interest tax changes...
26 January 2018
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Automated rental payment provider PayProp has joined the call for private rent payments to be counted towards tenants’ credit scores in...
04 January 2018
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The House of Lords has given the Creditworthiness Assessment Bill its second reading and a step forward to ensuring that tenants’...
27 November 2017
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Lord John Bird, the founder of Big Issue, is tomorrow launching his own Bill in the House of Lords in a...
23 November 2017
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MPs are today going to debate whether rent payments should be included when calculating credit scores to support tenants wanting to...
23 October 2017
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Rent payments should be included when calculating credit scores to support tenants wanting to buy a home of their own, says...
17 August 2017
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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
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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
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A lettings agency on Merseyside is one of the first in the UK to take part of an experiment which could...
01 September 2016
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Respected credit ratings agency Fitch says buy to let will thrive for the next 12 to 24 months but the effects...