The government has announced yet another ban on bailiff-enforced evictions in the private rental sector. The existing ban was due to expire...
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Government data suggests that scare stories talking of a glut of evictions if the current ban is lifted are simply unfounded. Data...
12 February 2021
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A leading trade body has told Prime Minister Boris Johnson that some landlords face receiving no rent for two years. In a...
28 August 2020
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Veteran Countrywide figure John Hards has joined the board of still-to-launch property portal OpenBrix. In 2018 Hards rejoined Countrywide as national lettings...
20 April 2020
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A new rental deposit alternative scheme claims that some renters have to resort to high-interest payday lenders in order to afford...
03 January 2020
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A PropTech company has won approval from the Financial Conduct Authority to go ahead with a scheme which offers tenants a...
23 November 2018
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More progress is expected today in the passage of a Bill which will allow good tenants’ rent records to count towards...
26 October 2018
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Rent recognition platform CreditLadder, which enables renters to add their payments to their credit history, has announced a partnership which aims...
05 September 2018
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John Lewis has announced details of a partnership with rental app Canopy to provide employees with the opportunity to have their rent payments...
24 May 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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The chief operating officer of a leading PropTech company says government proposals to increase mandatory licensing of Houses in Multiple Occupation...
25 January 2018
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NoAgent, an online service charging landlords a fee to manage their properties, is the latest to offer a link between tenants’...
18 January 2018
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A new PropTech platform has launched today linking tenants’ rental payments with their Experian credit histories, as well as providing reports...
17 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 government is offering £2m to budding PropTech and financial technology entrepreneurs who can develop an application that will enable Britain’s 11...
07 December 2017
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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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Even those earning average salaries risk being priced out of the lettings market by high rents according to an insurance agency. Research...
29 September 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 National Approved Letting Scheme is the latest organisation to back a system allowing tenants to strengthen their credit history, simply...
31 January 2017
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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...