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Private tenants and landlords across the country face a cliff edge as the end of furlough coincides with cuts to benefit...

An estimated 840,000 private tenants have arrears over the past year since the first eviction ban was announced, according to a...

The government has announced a further extension to the current ban on bailiff-enforced evictions in England until May 31. At that point...

The government has announced yet another ban on bailiff-enforced evictions in the private rental sector. The existing ban was due to expire...

Government data suggests that scare stories talking of a glut of evictions if the current ban is lifted are simply unfounded. Data...

A leading trade body has told Prime Minister Boris Johnson that some landlords face receiving no rent for two years.  In a...

Veteran Countrywide figure John Hards has joined the board of still-to-launch property portal OpenBrix. In 2018 Hards rejoined Countrywide as national lettings...

A new rental deposit alternative scheme claims that some renters have to resort to high-interest payday lenders in order to afford...

A PropTech company has won approval from the Financial Conduct Authority to go ahead with a scheme which offers tenants a...

More progress is expected today in the passage of a Bill which will allow good tenants’ rent records to count towards...

Rent recognition platform CreditLadder, which enables renters to add their payments to their credit history, has announced a partnership which aims...

John Lewis has announced details of a partnership with rental app Canopy to provide employees with the opportunity to have their rent payments...

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

The chief operating officer of a leading PropTech company says government proposals to increase mandatory licensing of Houses in Multiple Occupation...

NoAgent, an online service charging landlords a fee to manage their properties, is the latest to offer a link between tenants’...

A new PropTech platform has launched today linking tenants’ rental payments with their Experian credit histories, as well as providing reports...

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

The government is offering £2m to budding PropTech and financial technology entrepreneurs who can develop an application that will enable Britain’s 11...

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...

Even those earning average salaries risk being priced out of the lettings market by high rents according to an insurance agency.    Research...

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

The National Approved Letting Scheme is the latest organisation to back a system allowing tenants to strengthen their credit history, simply...

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

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