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Since the Tenant Fees Act ban came into force, agents have been responsible for covering tenancy referencing costs, whether that’s by...

Letting agents have been told they must have the right technology to reduce the risk of fraud. Olly Thornton-Berry, co-founder of risk...

A collection of rental experts in a body called The Lettings Industry Council have set out what they want to see...

ARLA Propertymark is warning the government that it should not delay further on its long-awaited Renters Reform Bill, because of the...

A new PropTech platform allows letting agents free access to the information required to set up a tenancy and register renters...

The Tenancy Deposit Scheme says teclet, a wholly owned subsidiary of OnTheMarket plc, has integrated with the TDS API - aimed...

Prospecting tool Spectre has announced an integration with AgencyCloud from Reapit to personalise direct mail letters. Instead of beginning prospecting letters with...

An hour-long webinar this week aims to inform agents how to deter property fraud by greater emphasis on compliance, due diligence...

A report prepared by housing experts in Manchester shows a massive surge in the number of Airbnbs in the city -...

ARLA Propertymark has launched a radical programme of reform for the private rental sector - getting in before the government’s own...

Two recent calls for the introduction of a national mandatory landlord register in England have been rebuffed by agents’ trade body...

Travel Chapter, which owns the high profile Holidaylettings brand, is to float on the London Stock Exchange's junior AIM market. Devon-based Travel...

Independent Liverpool-based agency LPS Real Estate has acquired another indie - Maison Lettings. As part of the acquisition, LPS will take over...

Portfolio landlords can be the key to running a successful lettings agency. That is the latest claim from lead generation software provider...

There has still been no formal response to a government consultation on the database of rogue agents and landlords, 25 months...

A new web-based listing management platform for small estate agencies is being launched in the UK, claiming to allow modest firms...

Average rents in London declined during the second quarter of 2021, according to the latest market snapshot from the  Deposit Protection...

Some 39 agents and landlords have had banning orders over the past three years according to a report in The Guardian. Under the...

A landlord who persistently broke residential lettings rules has been banned from operating in a landmark legal ruling. Julie Stoddern, of Camborne,...

Propertymark has responded to the official consultation on the government proposals called Energy Performance of Privately Rented Homes in England and...

A newspaper claims a lettings agency is battling allegations of overcharging customers and using fake companies to carry out maintenance work. The Daily Record...

Viewber has linked with the PropTech property management service PlanetRent. Viewber offers agents access to an online database of vetted viewing assistants,...

A new report from the Nationwide and campaigning charity Shelter puts letting agents in the dock over the standards in the...

Agents spend their whole careers telling vendors and landlords why they will be able to achieve a better sale price or...

Independent agent uses innovative ‘feet up’ campaign to win business. An independent letting agency has invited landlords to put their ‘feet up’...

Generating leads is a crucial and age-old part of estate agency. Before the internet, lead generation was just as important to...

A London council has launched a strategy it claims will protect private tenants and ensure they live in good quality and...

A Liberal Democrat Baroness says she is to make a last-ditch bid in the House of Lords tomorrow to stop evictions...

Be proactive, have a plan, and keep prospecting.  After the easing of lockdown measures, it’s safe to say the property market picked...

Rogue landlords have been accused of tax evasion which could cost the Treasury as much as £1.73 billion a year. The accusation...

Which? is warning prospective renters to beware scam lettings agencies and scam landlords following a case where £5,600 was conned out...

A Liberal Democrat bid is underway to accelerate the government timetable to scrap Section 21. The Renters’ Rights Bill put forward by government...

An agency and its landlord clients have come to the aid of nurses who are in the frontline of the fight...

Lettings PropTech company teclet has announced that its partnership with the Mortgage Advice Bureau has been extended to offer mortgage and...

Hello and welcome to Wednesday’s update on what offers and advice are available to agents at this most difficult and challenging...

Pressure group Generation Rent claims half of London’s councils did not fine any landlords for letting out unsafe homes in the...

The government has failed the private rental sector says the Residential Landlords Association. In a statement released even before the resignation of...

The government’s hugely-publicised database for rogue letting agents and landlords has been running for almost two years and has…wait for it…just...

A judge has ordered two landlords to pay a total of £14,858 for illegally renting out an unlicensed house without working...

No date has been set by government for the second reading of the Renters' Reform Bill 2019-20. The Bill was announced in...

A prominent buy to let mortgage chief says lenders should be able to access the rogue landlord database launched last year. John...

Another think tank has come up with proposals to scrap Section 21 eviction powers and cap rents - and it also...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents and the National Association of Estate Agents have issued their manifesto for next month’s General...

A collective of activist renter groups has set out a manifesto of what it wants from the winner of next month’s...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents wants agents and tenants to have access to the government’s high profile but so far...

One in six landlords is seeking to reduce the size of their portfolio in the next 12 months and around half...

The most reliable indicator of rental trends in the UK As the largest provider of deposit protection in the UK, our database...

An analysis of rental properties in Scotland to discover the most numerous overseas landlords has discovered, perhaps surprisingly, that they come...

A property education business says it’s targeting a major expansion with the launch of online additions to its nationwide courses in...

The Association of Residential Lettings Agents says it fears the government needs to do more to prevent the possibility of banned...

There’s been a sceptical response to news leaked from government over the weekend suggesting that a database of rogue landlords would...

The Mayor of London is calling on government to introduce a new registration system for anyone wishing to rent out a...

A Freedom of Information request by The Guardian newspaper has produced the startling admission from government that not even one landlord...

An independent letting agency in the north of England is offering landlords two free cinema tickets when they book a valuation...

The news this week that even individual private landlords must join a redress scheme is just the latest in an onslaught...

The council at Brighton & Hove has won an extra £34,820 in public money from the government to help it build...

The Guardian says the government is committed to making a datebase of rogue letting agents and landlords available to tenants. The newspaper quotes...

The Labour-led local authority in Hackney has issued a statement pledging fines or even bans if landlords fail to get appropriate...

LetsBid, a digital online auction service for lettings and sales, has extended its pre-screening service for agents with a new agreement...

Which?, the consumer body that appears to be taking an increasingly-aggressive line against letting agents and landlords, has now issued a...

ARLA Propertymark has launched a new database to help its agent members keep abreast of compliance issues in the lettings sector.  The...

This week marks a major milestone in Mayor of London Sadiq Khan's efforts to crack down on the capital's rogue letting...

Spicerhaart says that with the lettings agency industry under attack there is a danger of some within the sector focussing too...

A statement from the government has repeated its determination to clean up the private rental sector through a series of measures,...

ARLA has branded the government’s long-awaited database of rogue landlords as “pointless” because it will not be made public. The Ministry of...

A short lets management firm claims Londoners who let their homes over the upcoming Easter weekend could bag themselves a small...

The head of a major PropTech company serving the lettings sector says he want to see the introduction of a database...

The Residential Landlords Association has reiterated its opposition to Right To Rent, and is backing two legal challenges to the measure. Letting...

Romans has thrown its weight behind the banning orders being introduced in April which could see rogue letting agents and landlords...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents and other trade bodies have not yet responded to the government’s announcement over the holiday...

Figures released by the government show huge support for the extension of the offences under which agents and landlords may in...

The government has released more details on long-discussed proposals to tighten up licensing in the private rental sector. It wants landlords in...

The new online database identifying rogue letting agents and landlords will save lives according to the London Fire Brigade. We wrote about...

The first London boroughs are now rolling out the Greater London Authority’s ‘Rogue Landlord and Agent Checker’ - allowing tenants to...

A database of rogue letting agents and landlords and new banning orders, first promised in the Housing and Planning Act announced...

The average UK rent increased just £11.55 or 1.51 per cent over the last year according to The Deposit Protection Service. The new DPS...

PropTech firm PayProp has welcomed the latest measures to clamp down on rogue elements within the lettings industry - but warns...

A company which already runs a student accommodation lettings service online is to expand and open a general online lettings agency...

Investors in buy to let are the marketing target for a service which describes itself as the UK’s first digital mortgage...

The Liberal Democrats want a raft of additional controls on the private rented sector aimed at addressing what it describes as...

The National Approved Lettings Scheme has called for the London Mayor’s new rogue agents’ database to be extended to include those...

Letting agents who have broken the law are set to be ‘named and shamed’ by the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan,...

The Residential Landlords Association has broken ranks with the Association of Residential Letting Agents by opposing an ARLA-backed public database of...

A trade body has backed government plans to introduce so-called ‘banning orders’ for rogue letting agents and landlords, but it says...

The government has announced in its Housing White Paper that it is still “working with industry experts” to consider whether Client...

One of London’s leading politicians has created guidelines to help individuals ‘secret shop’ in a bid to expose what she claims...

The government has launched an official consultation process on a package of measures to crack down on what it calls ‘rogue...

No decision yet appears to have been taken on the fate of the Renters’ Rights Bill - which had as a...

Fees charged by letting agents will be discussed in the House of Lords tomorrow as the Renters’ Rights Bill reaches its...

The Renters’ Rights Bill - which includes provisions scrapping agents’ fees for tenants, mandatory registration of landlords and limiting the size of...

Citizens Advice claims that 2,087 people asked it for help after being threatened with what it describes as ‘illegal eviction’ in...

MPs have given their backing to a government proposal to ban rogue letting agents and landlords who repeatedly break private rental...

It may be almost Christmas but the government is this week unveiling new laws to combat what it sees as the...

An organisation representing councils wants a government database covering all housing-related convictions to deter rogue landlords switching from one area to...

Generation Rent, the lobby group which recently narrowly escaped folding because of a lack of financial support, wants the public to...

The Department of Communities and Local Government has published a summary of the 600 responses it has received to its recent...

A council has set up an anti-fraud tool to prevent social housing being illegally sub-let under the pretence of being private...

The Associational of Residential Letting Agents has spoken up in favour of most of the provisions in the new Housing and...

A prime central London letting agency says there has been a rise in the number of subletting scams in that part...

London Mayor and Tory leadership wannabee Boris Johnson wants rogue operators in the private rental sectors to be banned with repeat...

A survey of 750 letting agency branches and 70,000 tenant requests suggests agents are improving their management of repairs. The survey -...

The publication Environmental Health News has secured the release of files showing the details of hundreds of convicted private landlords in...