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One of London’s largest lettings agencies is warning its landlord clients to only use mortgage payment holidays offered by lenders as a...

High profile eviction company Landlord Action says as many as 50 per cent of Section 21 cases it handles involve tenants...

A new rental option for landlords could see them receiving an upfront annual lump sum of over £10,000. The Advanced Rent Option...

A lettings agency is believed to be the first to offer landlords a year's rent in advance in one lump sum...

The PropTech firm CreditLadder is working with the Nationwide Building Society on a pioneering scheme to try to help tenants buy...

It’s 2019, and we may all be wishing each other a Happy New Year, but for UK landlords, the outlook might...

Five homeless people will have a roof over their heads this Christmas thanks to a kind-hearted PropTech chief. Mike Georgeson, founder of...

The private rental sector is not fit for purpose when it comes to housing vulnerable tenants, claims debt charity StepChange which...

The Rent Recognition Challenge, an initiative to use technology to help share renters' payment histories with lenders and credit reference agencies,...

The government says that later this year it will allocate a further £1.4m to PropTech firms looking at how tenants’ rent...

Well over half of those investors who recently secured buy to let mortgages risk facing losses when mortgage interest tax changes...

Automated rental payment provider PayProp has joined the call for private rent payments to be counted towards tenants’ credit scores in...

The House of Lords has given the Creditworthiness Assessment Bill its second reading and a step forward to ensuring that tenants’...

Lord John Bird, the founder of Big Issue, is tomorrow launching his own Bill in the House of Lords in a...

MPs are today going to debate whether rent payments should be included when calculating credit scores to support tenants wanting to...

Rent payments should be included when calculating credit scores to support tenants wanting to buy a home of their own, says...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents says the costs of tenant referencing must be exempt from the government’s proposed ban on...

Credit rating consultancy Experian says it is cheaper to rent than buy in 84 per cent of areas, while it's cheaper...

A lettings agency on Merseyside is one of the first in the UK to take part of an experiment which could...

Respected credit ratings agency Fitch says buy to let will thrive for the next 12 to 24 months but the effects...

Credit scoring company Experian is launching a scheme that allows private sector tenants the opportunity to use their rent-paying records to...