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Email and instant messaging contact details must be kept up to date for HMRC to contact agents about Anti-Money Laundering supervision. Propertymark...
28 February 2024
From: Breaking News
Inspirational broadcaster and author Katie Piper is set to take to the stage at the Propertymark One Conference at the ExCel...
15 February 2024
From: Breaking News
A pressure group unhappy about lack of progress on the Renters Reform Bill wants MPs to be bombarded with complaint emails. Over...
12 February 2024
From: Breaking News
The benefits for letting agents to outsource their client accounting is well documented, however with an increasing number of options available,...
31 January 2024
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A managing partner at a letting agency has given an insight into the unique forces which he says is “strangling” the...
30 January 2024
From: Breaking News
The Housing Ombudsman - currently active in the social housing sector but tipped to take a wider role involving private renting...
29 December 2023
From: Breaking News
Rightmove has released its annual league table of busiest rental locations. Wrexham is this year’s busiest, with each home available to rent...
19 December 2023
From: Breaking News
Campaigning charity Shelter claims there’s a conspiracy amongst MPs, landlords and others in the private rental sector to water down the...
08 December 2023
From: Breaking News
A tenant is reported to have sued a lettings agency after its alleged failure to return his £375 deposit. The Get Surrey...
30 October 2023
From: Breaking News
A client account is essential to your lettings business, but the rules and regulations you need to follow to keep this...
26 October 2023
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Letting agents are currently managing 25 email and phone enquiries on average for every property they have to let across Britain,...
05 October 2023
From: Breaking News
It’s vital for agents to have a process in place to check documentation received at their office, to avoid potential claims. This...
06 September 2023
From: Breaking News
The company which owned and was responsible for a five-storey block of rented flats in Bridlington has been ordered to pay...
23 August 2023
From: Breaking News
Interim inspections are a necessity if you want to avoid property issues and tenant relationship breakdowns. They’re a no brainer –...
04 July 2023
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We compare traditional methods of client money account inspections by an accountant to the alternative Client Money HealthCheck. But first, let’s clarify...
04 July 2023
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A new PropTech product is being launched today following a year of research involving the Leaders Romans Group. Inventory Hive’s new diary-management/maps...
26 June 2023
From: Breaking News
What objections are you hearing when you try and convert let-only landlords to fully-managed? Because the latest figures show just 18 per...
21 June 2023
From: Breaking News
There’s another free webinar for agents to learn about the Renters Reform Bill next week. This one is organised by lettings-focussed PropTech...
19 June 2023
From: Breaking News
OnTheMarket says it’s the first major UK portal to offer a dedicated contact form for Scottish Home Reports. When a property is...
07 June 2023
From: Breaking News
OnTheMarket has completed a new integration with Canopy which it claims will provide valuable pre-qualified leads to letting agents. The latest integration...
16 May 2023
From: Breaking News
Labour says it will enact a law banning company bosses from contacting staff outside working hours. The Financial Times reported over the weekend that party...
15 May 2023
From: Breaking News
As an estate or letting agent, you may already know that having a strong online presence is crucial for success in...
12 May 2023
From: Marketing & Social Media
An online newspaper has named the lettings agency at the heart of a high profile dispute with tenants over mould. The i...
28 April 2023
From: Breaking News
The government has indicated that the delayed publication of the latest How To Rent document is to be Friday March 24. The...
20 March 2023
From: Breaking News
The Letting Partnership has been helping UK agents build successful lettings businesses since 2006. Despite the current challenging financial landscape, The Letting...
10 February 2023
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Marketing platform BriefYourMarket has announced a PropTech integration with SME Professional, a provider of management software aimed at letting agents. Started in...
07 February 2023
From: Breaking News
Short lets platform Airbnb - increasingly used by landlords acting as hosts - has issued a warning to consumer users about...
30 January 2023
From: Breaking News
It’s been revealed that agents have been kicked out of The Property Ombudsman in recent months for failing to pay compensatory...
27 January 2023
From: Breaking News
Letting agents and landlords are invited to join a virtual forum for a further update on new licensing requirements and to...
25 January 2023
From: Breaking News
Knight Frank is partnering with licensing compliance firm Kamma. The growth of discretionary licensing schemes across the 408 local authorities in the...
10 January 2023
From: Breaking News
The Observer newspaper has investigated the way letting agents apply so-called zero deposit schemes - and claims that in some cases...
05 December 2022
From: Breaking News
Agents have only until the end of tomorrow, December 2, to feed into Propertymark’s response to a new consultation on the...
01 December 2022
From: Breaking News
A PropTech chief technical officer says the more technology is used by agents, the more they will win leads. Damon Bullimore of...
07 November 2022
From: Breaking News
TecLet, the software platform business now rebranding as part of OnTheMarket Software, has been updated to accommodate radical changes to the...
27 October 2022
From: Breaking News
Five agencies have been expelled from The Property Ombudsman scheme - all for compliance failures. The first is Home Trader Properties, in...
04 October 2022
From: Breaking News
A high profile lettings expert says agents should use marketing databases in order to grow business. Agent Rainmaker’s Sally Lawson says that...
16 September 2022
From: Breaking News
The government is relying on the private rented sector to bolster its high-profile Homes for Ukraine programme - despite a series...
10 August 2022
From: Breaking News
The two main reasons that an agency decides to outsource are to reduce costs and to have the ability to focus...
01 August 2022
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An Austrian-based property management PropTech service, which already has links to Knight Frank, is now launching in the UK. iDWELL, which describes...
20 July 2022
From: Breaking News
A cloud-based software firm that’s been snapped up by a major PropTech company is urging agents to embrace the cloud. Openview -...
06 July 2022
From: Breaking News
Since the Tenant Fees Act ban came into force, agents have been responsible for covering tenancy referencing costs, whether that’s by...
22 June 2022
From: Sponsored Content
Agents are being invited to take part in a pilot project which claims it will cut down on ‘back office’ chores...
07 June 2022
From: Breaking News
The two main reasons that an agency decides to outsource are: 1.) To reduce costs 2.) To have the ability to focus on...
27 April 2022
From: Sponsored Content
A PropTech supplier which helps agents and landlords identify private rental sector licensing issues has announced a new partnership. Geospatial technology firm...
12 April 2022
From: Breaking News
Sally Lawson - letting agent and ARLA President, business owner and franchiser - runs Agent Rainmaker, which aims to optimise agents’...
06 April 2022
From: Breaking News
An activist group in London has launched a scathing attack on councils which it claims have been ineffective in regulating rogue...
04 April 2022
From: Breaking News
A fast-expanding PropTech business has opened a new office in London to serve a growing client base in the capital and...
01 April 2022
From: Breaking News
A London council is urging letting agents and landlords to sign a pledge to encourage tenants to use the local recycling...
17 March 2022
From: Breaking News
A lettings firm specialising in holiday properties is reported to have disappeared with all items taken from its office and calls...
11 March 2022
From: Breaking News
A two-branch lettings agency in Hertfordshire has ceased trading and says it will soon be placed into creditors’ voluntary liquidation. A statement...
01 March 2022
From: Breaking News
An independent agency in the Midlands has set up a club attracting investors from as far as Hong Kong, Dubai and...
22 February 2022
From: Breaking News
Propertymark is advising agents to prepare for substantial changes to the Right To Rent process arriving in just two months time. As...
03 February 2022
From: Breaking News
A lettings agency has gone on the offensive and is publishing landlords who switch from rivals because of allegedly poor service. And...
28 January 2022
From: Breaking News
Zoopla has unveiled a new tenant document-sharing feature on its Alto service, which it says will help letting agents fulfil compliance...
26 January 2022
From: Breaking News
A member of staff at a Connells-owned branch has been quoted as saying the agency had “no lawful basis” for passing...
14 January 2022
From: Breaking News
A London-focussed lettings agency group has paid £2,000 as a result of breaching the Tenant Fees Act. The issue relates to the...
23 December 2021
From: Breaking News
Alto, the Zoopla-owned cloud-based software for agents, has unveiled what it calls “its next generation of functionality.” New features include an enhanced...
24 November 2021
From: Breaking News
Jersey is calling for views on whether the island’s estate agents should be subject to greater regulation. The island’s Economic and International...
15 November 2021
From: Breaking News
The next episode of the Channel 5 show Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords this evening features an agent offering a supposed guaranteed...
03 November 2021
From: Breaking News
Why CRMs should not be relied upon for contract creation and management. Customer relationship management platforms (CRMs) are useful tools that...
02 November 2021
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A lettings agency has been prosecuted by Birmingham council for unlawfully evicting a tenant. Principal Homes is based at Great Barr and was...
29 October 2021
From: Breaking News
The telecoms solutions company behind "Phone-in-a-Phone" (PiP) now brings property professionals the UK's first mobile-only business phone system in an app...
07 October 2021
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Lettings platform Goodlord has opened its doors north of the border. Agents based in Scotland can now sign up to Goodlord, which...
24 September 2021
From: Breaking News
Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I’m Vince Demilio, Sales Director of The Lettings Hub What services...
23 September 2021
From: 60 Second Interview
When it comes to gathering evidence for deposit disputes, the need for thoroughness is understandable. However, on occasion some landlords take...
20 September 2021
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Agents who are members of The Guild of Property Professionals and who have been hit by the uncertainties surrounding outsourced property...
07 September 2021
From: Breaking News
How up to date is your knowledge on notice periods, pets in rentals, electrical safety inspections and lodgers? This year we’ve...
18 August 2021
From: Sponsored Content
Through our FREE online deposit dispute webinars, we’ve trained thousands of landlords and letting agents about how the dispute resolution process...
02 August 2021
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Who are you and what does it say on your business card? My name is Maxine Fothergill and for the past ‘almost’...
28 July 2021
From: 60 Second Interview
The government has updated its guidance for agents, landlords and tenants to explain the possession action process in the county courts...
22 July 2021
From: Breaking News
A new maintenance management app connecting agents and their tenants allows the tracking of repairs. Refectio compiles tenants’ faults onto a dashboard,...
01 July 2021
From: Breaking News
The Citizens Advice consumer charity is warning that fake investment scams are amongst the fraudulent activity that’s on the rise across...
23 June 2021
From: Breaking News
The government has extended the ‘special arrangements’ for Right To Rent checks - these will now be in force until September...
21 June 2021
From: Breaking News
As we all know, there is an increasing number of PropTech solutions aiming to service the property and lettings industry, with...
07 June 2021
From: Sponsored Content
We’re only a little over a week away from the Euros, happening at last a year later than scheduled because of...
03 June 2021
From: Breaking News
A new CRM which calls itself as “a transformative new technology” says its latest app aids safety for agents. The latest version of the...
21 May 2021
From: Breaking News
With winter gone and spring now in full bloom, there’s no better time to inspect your property to check for damage...
19 May 2021
From: Sponsored Content
There’s been a huge 263 per cent increase in the value of fraudulent tenant applications in just three months, it’s been...
19 May 2021
From: Breaking News
PropTech start up Halo claims that what it calls a new “tenant engagement platform” will streamlines the rental onboarding process. The firm...
19 May 2021
From: Breaking News
Halo.rent, a proptech startup from the UK, announces the launch of its tenant engagement platform that streamlines the entire rental onboarding...
13 May 2021
From: Sponsored Content
An automated payments service has teamed up with a student accommodation provider to devise an eCommerce system allowing simpler rent payments. Vyne uses...
28 April 2021
From: Breaking News
The head of a lettings agency says there are up to 60 enquiries for every rental property he lists - and those...
12 March 2021
From: Breaking News
A council says it’s looking for lettings agencies that worked with a rogue landlord who's been issued with a four year banning order. Bristol...
03 March 2021
From: Breaking News
Rightmove is reporting a big rise in the proportion of properties listed with video content. It says rental listings with either a...
25 February 2021
From: Breaking News
An online petition which appears to inaccurately say private tenants can still be evicted “for no reason” has won 30,000 signatures...
23 February 2021
From: Breaking News
Some of the most prominent names in the rental sector are taking part in a debate on threats and challenges for...
09 February 2021
From: Breaking News
How did you get into property? My grandparents did some small property developments when I was growing up which always interested me,...
20 January 2021
From: 60 Second Interview
The head of industry recruitment consultancy Property Personnel is calling on agencies to be more tolerant of the struggles working parents...
13 January 2021
From: Breaking News
Over the last 20 years, the growth of online property portals – including Zoopla, Rightmove and PrimeLocation – has transformed the...
11 January 2021
From: Proptech & Innovation
Congratulations from all of us at Letting Agent Today - and probably most of the rest of the industry - to Martin...
11 January 2021
From: Breaking News
A lettings agency is in the news because it has asked a student to stop using a specific room in a...
08 December 2020
From: Breaking News
Industry supplier The Letting Partnership is calling for businesses to take on more apprentices and support young people in a challenging...
04 December 2020
From: Breaking News
Agents on Rightmove can now start using the portal’s new appointment booking tool, Viewings Manager, which has just completed its test...
13 November 2020
From: Breaking News
There’s been a flurry of new PropTech products launched, mostly focussed on lettings agencies. Australian-based supplier Movinghub, which works the UK market...
05 November 2020
From: Breaking News
Here is a quick read focusing on 5 things you can check your business is doing while on your tea break....
28 October 2020
From: Marketing & Social Media
Independent agent uses innovative ‘feet up’ campaign to win business. An independent letting agency has invited landlords to put their ‘feet up’...
28 October 2020
From: Marketing & Social Media
It’s a given these days that your business needs to be on social media. Consumers spend a large portion of their...
28 October 2020
From: Marketing & Social Media
Here at The ValPal Network, we know that there are other options available when considering to use a valuation tool, so...