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An apprentice working at Newcastle’s Walton Robinson agency has revealed why she believes it’s her dream job. The agency specialises in residential...
14 June 2022
From: Breaking News

The pandemic has fuelled an appetite for working from home amongst those seeking employment at lettings agencies and other parts of...
25 May 2022
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency is celebrating winning the obstruction to let and manage a 63 unit Build To Rent scheme for students...
23 May 2022
From: Breaking News

A Labour MP says a surge in the number of stag and hen parties in her constituency - undertaken by people...
16 May 2022
From: Breaking News

The chief executive of industry accreditation service Safeagent has made another plea for unity within the private rental sector. In a response...
12 May 2022
From: Breaking News

One of the leading names in property land and regeneration has announced what it calls Project Spur - a massive launch...
11 May 2022
From: Breaking News

The chief executive and founder of an award-winning sales and lettings brand is set to discuss the best practice approaches to...
20 April 2022
From: Breaking News

Remote work could enable over 13m Britons to ultimately live and work outside the major cities, according to research by a...
19 April 2022
From: Breaking News

The latest forecast for the UK lettings market this year is that there will be a four per cent rise in...
13 April 2022
From: Breaking News

Tax experts say that an attempt to levy higher purchase tax on holiday lets and second homes in one part of...
11 April 2022
From: Breaking News

A PropTech provider has launched a renter guarantor service after claiming there’s been a 10-fold rise in tenancy fraud in the...
06 April 2022
From: Breaking News

OnTheMarket’s deal with a PropTech firm to provide free tenant referencing has been extended indefinitely for agents who pay the portal...
04 March 2022
From: Breaking News

A commercial partnership between tenant referencing platform Canopy and property website OnTheMarket has involved an investment of some £350,000. The figure has...
01 March 2022
From: Breaking News
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The government’s new Levelling Up White Paper, revealed this morning, includes a radical reshaping of the private rental sector. Section 21 eviction...
02 February 2022
From: Breaking News

The long term undersupply of rental properties across the country is expected to support rental growth into 2022, says Zoopla. In addition,...
17 November 2021
From: Breaking News

It’s an exciting time when prospective tenants show an interest in your listed property. However, it's important not to let that...
15 September 2021
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Rents in some of the most popular locations of the country have risen 25 per cent in the past year according...
08 September 2021
From: Breaking News

Propertymark is alerting agents to ever-more sophisticated fraudulent documents being used in the private rental sector. The organisation recently requested agents to...
27 August 2021
From: Breaking News

Recovery in the UK is being channeled towards regional cities, says a leading investment expert. Martha Peyton, managing director and head of...
25 August 2021
From: Breaking News

A housing market analyst is warning of "one heck of a dark cloud on the horizon for the lettings market” as...
16 August 2021
From: Breaking News

PropTech firm Goodlord is to offer illness and injury insurance to tenants via a link with Legal & General. Goodlord already sells...
15 June 2021
From: Breaking News

A property investment platform has taken the unusual approach of accusing the government of driving up homelessness through its policy of...
15 June 2021
From: Breaking News

OnTheMarket has signed a 12 month exclusive commercial partnership with Canopy, the tenant referencing platform. The partnership will enable the portal to...
24 May 2021
From: Breaking News

The industrial dispute involving Goodlord has ended with nine of the affected staff leaving the company after a lengthy strike. The Unite...
20 May 2021
From: Breaking News

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

Flatshare website SpareRoom says over a fifth of 18 to 24 years olds have moved back in with their parents to...
20 April 2021
From: Breaking News

One of the lettings industry’s most prominent suppliers says it’s dispelled five myths surrounding the employment of apprentices. The Letting Partnership insists apprentices...
05 March 2021
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The Association of Residential Letting Agents says it’s disappointed the Budget failed to address the funding of the private rental sector. “Extending...
04 March 2021
From: Breaking News

One of the first franchisees for a new business model put forward by the Century 21 UK agency is a buy...
25 February 2021
From: Breaking News

The industrial dispute involving Goodlord has escalated with protests outside agency offices using the lettings platform, and the creation of a...
18 February 2021
From: Breaking News

A trades union claims that lettings software provider Goodlord is slashing some staff salaries by a quarter - that’s £6,000 per...
12 February 2021
From: Breaking News

Two Labour MPs have made extensive claims about the number of evictions from the private rental sector likely to happen if...
15 January 2021
From: Breaking News

ARLA Propertymark is advising agents to get up to speed on new rules - and possible higher costs - when changes...
14 January 2021
From: Breaking News

One of the country’s largest Build To Rent players, Legal & General, says it’s started work on 6,000 residential units in...
08 January 2021
From: Breaking News

The Resolution Foundation has added its voice to that of many charities and other think tanks demanding more government support for...
17 November 2020
From: Breaking News

There’s no denying it, job hunting can be hard work – even more so at the moment, with all that’s going...
29 October 2020
From: Recruitment & Business Matters

A new PropTech tool for agents claims to help weed out time-wasters and reduce the viewing-to-offer ratio. Rental Passport, produced by LegalforLandlords,...
27 October 2020
From: Breaking News

The Chartered Institute of Housing claims there may be a “massive increase” in evictions in the near future. In a briefing paper the...
07 October 2020
From: Breaking News

A new product aims to improve tenant referencing by shifting the emphasis to the renters themselves. LegalforLandlords has just launched its new...
03 September 2020
From: Breaking News

One of the leading figures in the lettings industry has described the government’s eviction ban U-turn as “devastating.” Paul Shamplina, founder of...
24 August 2020
From: Breaking News

New research pours cold water on claims by anti-agency campaigners that there will be a glut of evictions when the ban ends...
10 August 2020
From: Breaking News

New data from Zoopla shows that a two-speed rental market is operating across the UK, with London in particular hitting major...
05 August 2020
From: Breaking News

A senior lettings expert with almost four decades experience says evictions should not be considered during the virus crisis, irrespective of the...
04 August 2020
From: Breaking News

A buy to let investor has been sentenced to two years in prison after claiming income support despite being a professional portfolio...
03 August 2020
From: Breaking News

New figures on pay and perks in the industry show that letting agents are better rewarded than their sales counterparts. A survey...
17 July 2020
From: Breaking News

Chancellor Rishi Sunak has requested a review of Capital Gains Tax rules from the Office for Tax Simplification - leading to...
15 July 2020
From: Breaking News

Two thirds of letting agents will still have staff on furlough next month according to a survey of 231 agencies -...
26 June 2020
From: Breaking News

Research shows that half of those in the private rental sector are aged 16 to 34, making the lettings industry vulnerable...
29 May 2020
From: Breaking News

A group of private rental activists says Labour proposals to give tenants two years to repay arrears accrued during the virus...
12 May 2020
From: Breaking News

Good morning and welcome to today’s edition, helping agents find a way through the Coronavirus crisis by sharing information with the...
07 April 2020
From: Breaking News

Lettings management platform Howsy claims it has seen an increase in business since the lockdown 10 days ago. It says it’s enjoyed...
03 April 2020
From: Breaking News

Hello and here’s the next batch of guidance and advice from different sectors of the industry, many from influential trade groups. It’s...
19 March 2020
From: Breaking News

There’s been an upbeat prediction on the lettings market given by leading market commentator Lucian Cook, head of residential research at...
02 January 2020
From: Breaking News

A PropTech firm says it is going to eliminate tenant screening costs by 2021 for lettings agents and landlords who use...
22 October 2019
From: Breaking News

UK-wide rental prices are up 2.0 per cent annually to £876 – a three-year high – according to a new quarterly...
16 October 2019
From: Breaking News

A new ethical letting agency has launched in partnership with a housing association and is promoting its low fee structure. Home Makers,...
08 October 2019
From: Breaking News

The majority of the UK’s private renters don’t want to purchase a home according to new research, coming just as the...
24 September 2019
From: Breaking News

An influential think tank says Capital Gains Tax on buy to let properties and second homes should be levied at the...
11 September 2019
From: Breaking News

The tenant fee ban in England has led to a surge in demand from tenants for properties according to Belvoir. The franchise...
30 August 2019
From: Breaking News

A BBC investigation of 52 lettings agents has found that two thirds were levying charges on tenants, but it is uncertain...
01 July 2019
From: Breaking News

Rent rises in the year to the end of February, as released by the government’s Office of National Statistics, show growth...
21 March 2019
From: Breaking News

Another online lettings agency launches in March with a claim that it “will streamline and automate the majority of admin tasks...
04 January 2019
From: Breaking News

MPs will today undertake the second reading of the Tenant Fees Bill which proposes to ban upfront tenant fees and introduce...
21 May 2018
From: Breaking News

A prominent campaigner for alternatives to traditional rental sector deposits is welcoming the government’s commitment to consider the issue in the...
15 May 2018
From: Breaking News

Build To Rent developer and operator PLATFORM_ has announced its first scheme in Scotland and an expansion of an existing development...
09 February 2018
From: Breaking News

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...
14 November 2017
From: Breaking News

Letting agents have been accused of failing to carry out sufficient financial checks on prospective tenants. Tenant referencing and insurance operator Landlord...
14 September 2017
From: Breaking News

Prime central London is seeing the rise of the micro-apartment, according to new research, as squeezed accommodation budgets have seen singles...
01 August 2017
From: Breaking News

Rented housing in London is at its least affordable levels for 10 years after typical rent rises of 47 per cent...
05 July 2017
From: Breaking News

A growing sales and lettings agency in Leeds has announced the recruitment of nine new members of staff. Morgans, which describes itself...
13 June 2017
From: Breaking News

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is keeping up its campaign against a ban on agents’ fees in England by showing...
29 March 2017
From: Breaking News

Half of England’s local authorities claim it is ‘very difficult’ to assist homeless applicants into privately rented accommodation, according to a...
22 March 2017
From: Breaking News

A new report suggests that institutional investment in the burgeoning Build To Rent sector could see the creation of 240,000 new...
27 February 2017
From: Breaking News

The couple believed to be the owners of Britain’s largest buy to let portfolio have defended sending letting agents an 11-point...
09 January 2017
From: Breaking News

Following a period of substantial growth, Property Service Holdings (PSH) - which operates Leaders and Romans - has a huge variety of...
24 November 2016
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A consumer group dedicated to reducing tax says recent fiscal changes introduced by the government will end up hurting private rental...
25 July 2016
From: Breaking News

A London buying agent is forecasting that the Brexit vote will mean there will be “more and more would-be-buyers opting to rent”...
29 June 2016
From: Breaking News

Cambridge-based agency Bidwells is expanding its lettings division. The lettings team has grown from eight to 10 professionals thanks to the recent...
24 June 2016
From: Breaking News

There were 3,100 fewer private rental households in serious rent arrears in the first quarter of this year compared to the...
15 June 2016
From: Breaking News

Buy to let returns have exceeded those from the FTSE-100 with average gains of 9.6 per cent across England and Wales...
12 May 2016
From: Breaking News

The influencial cross-party Commons Treasury Committee says the whole economy could suffer is George Osborne’s fiscal measures against the private rental...
15 February 2016
From: Breaking News

Rents climbed 0.7 per cent in October to a UK average of £1,294. There were increases in every region with the...
17 November 2015
From: Breaking News

Stephen Moss, CEO of based Pring.co.uk the UK’s leading property investment search engine, takes a look at the impact of ‘Corbynmania’...
28 October 2015
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Countrywide has announced plans to recruit over 200 apprentices in the next year, working on a training programme drawn up with...
08 October 2015
From: Breaking News

When Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, recently announced that interest rates would have to start to rise sooner...
24 July 2015
From: Features

A Build To Let scheme led by developer Dandara and property investment operator LaSalle is to be the first of its...
14 July 2015
From: Breaking News

This publication recently reported on Russell Quirk's latest attempt to upset the establishment, this time by attacking the hallowed ground of...
29 May 2015
From: Features

Private sector rents in England and Wales have grown 4.6 per cent year-on-year – the fastest rate of increase since November...
22 May 2015
From: Breaking News

Gentrification is a divisive, provocative issue, but why are estate agents (especially Foxtons) appearing to bear the brunt of the public’s...