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Energy efficiency is the hot topic in the lettings sector right now with new minimum EPC levels expected to be introduced...
28 March 2022
From: Breaking News

Online agency Hortons is the latest agency to off-set its environmental impact. Hortons operates from a non-branch office in central Leicester with...
04 March 2022
From: Breaking News

The Lettings Industry Council - which arguably has a low profile with agents - has become an industry partner of another...
21 February 2022
From: Breaking News

The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan wants is introducing a new qualification and training for borough council housing enforcement officers to...
17 February 2022
From: Breaking News

Bookings for staycations continue to surpass pre-pandemic levels, according to holiday home rental agency Sykes Holiday Cottages. The company has revealed that...
14 February 2022
From: Breaking News

Self-managing landlords who think they don’t have the same compliance obligations as agents could face serious repercussions, Trading Standards chiefs have...
31 December 2021
From: Breaking News

After becoming the first large agency to move to electric BMW i3s in 2019, Chestertons is urging others in the industry to follow...
16 November 2021
From: Breaking News

Tell us about your role. I am the Customer Service Technology Group Manager at BSH (group brands include Bosch, NEFF and Siemens)...
02 November 2021
From: 60 Second Interview

PropTech investment platform Houzen has raised concerns over the government’s Heat and Buildings Strategy. This is the satrategy that offers rental sector...
01 November 2021
From: Breaking News

Senior managers in the lettings and sales side of independent chain Spicerhaart are reducing their carbon footprint by taking up the...
20 August 2021
From: Breaking News

Guidance from Trading Standards suggests that it is possible, in some cases, to charge tenants to view a property to let...
10 August 2021
From: Breaking News

One of the UK’s largest agency groups has launched a partnership with an environmental organisation to plant one tree for every...
28 July 2021
From: Breaking News

Yet another buy to let lender has released new products aiming to push the sector into more environmentally-friendly properties. The Foundation Home...
07 July 2021
From: Breaking News

An influential group of MPs has called for the replacement of “outdated” Energy Performance Certificates with new ‘Building Renovation Passports’. Currently EPCs...
23 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

Chestertons in London says it wants to become the country’s greenest estate agency and has taken a first step by being...
12 February 2021
From: Breaking News

What’s life-changing, involves months of anticipation, and ends with a big arrival? You might think we’re talking about pregnancy. But research...
07 January 2021
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Restaurant staff were kept in “dangerous and overcrowded” conditions by a property company and its landlord-director, a court has heard. The company...
18 December 2020
From: Breaking News

You don’t need to be Greta Thunberg to know that climate change is a big issue that’s impacting our day-to-day lives....
09 December 2020
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A new report from the Nationwide and campaigning charity Shelter puts letting agents in the dock over the standards in the...
06 November 2020
From: Breaking News

Propertymark, which will from later this year combine both the National Association of Estate Agents and the Association of Residential Letting...
24 September 2020
From: Breaking News

Stockport-based property development company Three Sixty has launched what it calls an online agency - Three Sixty Living - to handle...
24 September 2020
From: Breaking News

A London council is telling its private rental sector residents to use a new tool to check whether they may be...
27 August 2020
From: Breaking News

One of the biggest names in the Build To Rent sector, Legal & General, says all of its new housing stock...
01 July 2020
From: Breaking News

The next formal review of lockdown processes in Wales takes place today, with high expectation that the housing market is likely...
18 June 2020
From: Breaking News

It’s easy to forget in the Coronavirus frenzy but from tomorrow, Friday March 20, all tenancies are to become subject to...
19 March 2020
From: Breaking News
12 March 2020
From: Breaking News

A buy to let investor has been found guilty of letting out poor quality living accommodation that was said to pose...
10 March 2020
From: Breaking News

The government has announced an additional £4m in funding for local councils to combat rogue agents and landlords - but it’s...
03 January 2020
From: Breaking News

An industry supplier says letting agents should respond supportively to the growing eco-consciousness shown by younger people who are likely to...
09 December 2019
From: Breaking News

A letting agency has denied that 'highly toxic' gas is leaking into one of its tenant's homes in Worcester. Leaders has said...
08 October 2019
From: Breaking News

The government has this week published a learning toolkit for local authorities to help them with enforcement against rogue landlords and...
03 October 2019
From: Breaking News

One of the UK’s highest profile lettings agencies - Countrywide band Beresford Adams - has been fined £22,500 for health and...
23 September 2019
From: Breaking News

A husband and wife pair of buy to let investors have been prosecuted after letting out a property that contained serious...
29 August 2019
From: Breaking News

A London council has successfully prosecuted a so-called “dodgy operator” landlord for failing to comply with fire safety regulations and carry...
12 June 2019
From: Breaking News

A buy to let investor has received a hefty fine “for endangering the lives of his tenants by failing to meet...
12 April 2019
From: Breaking News

An 18 month probe by different authorities has led to a £4,000 fine for an HMO owner in the Highlands. The local...
13 March 2019
From: Breaking News

Haringey council is the latest local authority in the capital to create a borough-wide additional licensing scheme for HMOs. It claims the...
12 March 2019
From: Breaking News

A rogue lettings agent has been fined over £72,000 after being found guilty of 15 separate offences relating to three illegally established houses...
07 March 2019
From: Breaking News

Over half of the Millennials consulted in a survey say they want to get away from renting so badly they would...
19 February 2019
From: Breaking News

A buy to let investor who let out a converted attic room despite it being the subject of a council prohibition...
23 January 2019
From: Breaking News

A buy to let investor has been fined more than £5,000 and ordered to pay a further £4,000 after HMO offences. John...
21 December 2018
From: Breaking News

A buy to let investor that let at least eight people from six different families rent space in his three-storey property...
03 October 2018
From: Breaking News

Two private landlords have been found guilty of managing Houses in Multiple Occupation with dangerous and sub-standard conditions, following a successful...
26 September 2018
From: Breaking News

An overcrowded property let by an unlicensed company with inadequate fire precautions and unheated rooms has led to a £46,620 fine...
21 September 2018
From: Breaking News

Last week Shelter and the National Housing Federation took a swipe at lettings agents, and now Citizens Advice has joined the...
28 August 2018
From: Breaking News

The council behind a controversial private rental sector licensing scheme is trying to justify its introduction on health and safety grounds. On...
17 August 2018
From: Breaking News

Some 42 per cent of tenants regard the eco-friendliness of a property as key when choosing whether or not to rent...
26 April 2018
From: Breaking News

The sittings of the select committee looking into government proposals to ban letting agents’ fees levied on tenants resume this week...
19 February 2018
From: Breaking News

This is a rare story: a council has dropped a plan for a lettings licensing scheme as a result of 900...
13 February 2018
From: Breaking News

A lettings agent has been charged £1,000 after telling a new tenant to dump waste left by a previous occupier into...
15 January 2018
From: Breaking News

A landlord has been fined a total of £7,298 for operating an unlicensed house in multiple occupation in Oxford that was...
28 September 2017
From: Breaking News

ARLA Propertymark says letting and managing agents should be aware that they can raise ‘safeguarding alerts’ if they are concerned about...
22 August 2017
From: Breaking News

Large letting agents found to be flouting the incoming ban on letting agent fees should receive fines up to £30,000 to...
07 June 2017
From: Breaking News

A Newport landlord has been fined £4,400 for operating a dangerous, unlicensed house in multiple occupation and failing to comply with...
01 June 2017
From: Breaking News

The landlord of a west London property, described by a judge as a "deathtrap" and an "accident waiting to happen", has...
03 May 2017
From: Breaking News

Labour says there would be a ‘consumer rights revolution’ for the private rental sector if the party won the June 8...
02 May 2017
From: Breaking News

A body representing 370 councils in England and Wales wants the government to close a legal loophole which allows the conversion...
12 April 2017
From: Breaking News

A landlady has been fined £15,000 for failing to license and manage a house in multiple occupation. Sharon Jacobs was also ordered...
13 March 2017
From: Breaking News

It hasn’t been a happy Christmas for one London landlord, who has been told to repay £40,000 in rent received in...
29 December 2016
From: Breaking News

Letting Agent Today has been contacted by the Council of Gas Detection and Environmental Monitoring - the trade association for gas...
19 December 2016
From: Breaking News

A council believes that a landlord was “putting tenants’ lives in danger” because he did not have local authority licenses for...
08 December 2016
From: Breaking News

Tenants are becoming increasingly eco-conscious according to a new survey. Some 80 per cent of those questioned agree that landlords or their...
30 November 2016
From: Breaking News

The landlord of an overcrowded flat which lacked proper fire precautions and had a dangerous boiler has been fined £162,000. Abbas Rasul...
17 October 2016
From: Breaking News

A landlord has been fined £7,000 for letting two properties which were unfit for habitation. Shahzad Mehmood was prosecuted at Swindon Magistrates'...
26 September 2016
From: Breaking News

A House in Multiple Occupation located on the third floor of a property with a restaurant at ground level was one...
02 August 2016
From: Breaking News

A letting agent and his landlord client have been fined thousands of pounds for a number of offences relating to what...
23 June 2016
From: Breaking News

Two landlords have been fined after being found guilty of fire safety failings in their rental properties. Both prosecutions were brought by...
25 May 2016
From: Breaking News

It’s not been a happy Christmas for a Leicestershire landlord who has been banned from renting out a converted garage after...
30 December 2015
From: Breaking News

The specialist eviction company Landlord Action says it is in full support of the government’s latest proposal to crack down on...
11 November 2015
From: Breaking News

A series of raids on privately let properties in the westcountry appear to have taken place as a way of holding...
09 November 2015
From: Breaking News

A landlord has been handed fines totalling £3,250 and costs of £1,426 for running an unlicensed and unsafe House in Multiple...
07 October 2015
From: Breaking News

It's in the bag for Karl Tatler, who runs his lettings and sales business on the Wirral. He has enterprisingly marked this...
07 October 2015
From: Breaking News

A landlord whose Home in Multiple Occupation was closed down by the local council has been left with a court bill...
07 September 2015
From: Breaking News

Students in rented housing are being let down by a small number of bad landlords and a failure by local authorities...
05 August 2015
From: Breaking News

Unitary local authorities where trading standards and environmental health teams work to the same objectives are more successful at clamping down...
30 July 2015
From: Breaking News

The publication Environmental Health News has secured the release of files showing the details of hundreds of convicted private landlords in...
24 July 2015
From: Breaking News

A landlord who did not have the required licence for the number of tenants living in his property, and who also...
20 July 2015
From: Breaking News

Harrow council is consulting agents, landlords and residents on a proposal to renew its licensing regime applying to selected Houses in...
17 July 2015
From: Breaking News

One of five people vying for selection as Labour’s candidate in the 2016 London Mayoral election says private sector rents can...
06 July 2015
From: Breaking News

A letting agency has been handed fines totalling £7,000 and costs of £1,140 after a council took it to court over...
30 June 2015
From: Breaking News

A landlord has been fined £1,000 after leaving his tenant without any hot water. Reading council received a report of a fault...
22 June 2015
From: Breaking News

The Residential Landlords Association is calling for better enforcement of existing laws and regulations to protect tenants in private rented housing. In...
22 May 2015
From: Breaking News

There has been much debate in recent years about Britain’s desperate need for more housing stock. Demand has been outstripping supply...
15 May 2015
From: Features

A landlord has been left with a £1,600 bill for failing to comply with an improvement notice over a four year...
06 May 2015
From: Breaking News

The Residential Landlords Association says it has “deep concerns” over the Panorama programme broadcast early this week claiming that landlords were...