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VISTA, a tenant referencing service first announced back in November, launches today. Insurance and referencing service HomeLet says the product will “provide...

HomeLet claims its new VISTA service will revolutionise the lettings industry by eliminating fraud through the use of detection technology and...

OnTheMarket’s deal with a PropTech firm to provide free tenant referencing has been extended indefinitely for agents who pay the portal...

A commercial partnership between tenant referencing platform Canopy and property website OnTheMarket has involved an investment of some £350,000. The figure has...

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

OnTheMarket has signed a 12 month exclusive commercial partnership with Canopy, the tenant referencing platform. The partnership will enable the portal to...

PropTech provider Canopy is linking with a legal protection service which it says could enhance agents’ offer to landlords. If the tenant does...

Letting agents and landlords have faced huge change and uncertainty this year, with Covid-19 the major driver. But even before the...

PropTech companies teclet and Canopy are forming a partnership to allow their services to be bought by agents on the one...

Chancellors, the independent agency chain with over 50 offices across southern England and mid Wales, is launching a deposit-free renting option. Working with...

One of London’s largest lettings agencies is warning its landlord clients to only use mortgage payment holidays offered by lenders as 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...

Hello and welcome to today’s Conquering Corona, our guide to the latest information to help agents and the rest of the...

The Nationwide is investing in a digital lettings service called Bunk - it’s headed by a 24 year old who has...

A PropTech tool wants landlords to manage their own properties and is accusing agents of being likely to increase charges to...

The PropTech firm CreditLadder is working with the Nationwide Building Society on a pioneering scheme to try to help tenants buy...

A PropTech platform claims landlords can cut administration costs so much that they could afford to offer their lettings units furnished...

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

Rettie & Co is the first agency north of the border to offer a no-deposit scheme to tenants - although it’s...

The chief commercial officer of PropTech startup Canopy says that letting agents and Build to Rent landlords need to accommodate the...

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

One of the six PropTech start-ups shortlisted to develop a system allowing tenants’ rental histories to count towards their creditworthiness says...

Countrywide’s Hamptons International is to work with a PropTech firm to try out a no-deposit lettings scheme in four of its offices. Hamptons’...

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...

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...

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

Specialist mortgage lender Together is the latest company to back the idea of rent payment records being used to measure the...

A 27 year old father of two has secured over 140,000 signatures for an online petition demanding that rent payments be...

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

Credit rating consultancy Experian says it is cheaper to rent than buy in 84 per cent of areas, while it's cheaper...

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...

A third of private tenants have put their plans to buy on hold and have stayed in rented accommodation longer than...