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Propertymark says the controversial Renters Reform Bill still misses the mark, despite a string of amendments made to it as it...

HMRC has launched a pilot for the proposed Making Tax Digital service for quarterly reporting - and agents can sign up...

A prominent lettings agency operator says he hopes the “toxic” attitude to the private rental sector by the Scottish Government may...

A coalition of higher education and student housing organisations have called on the government to make further changes to the Renters...

A trade body representing Build To Rent operators claims that the sector “already accommodates the Bill’s proposals” in terms of tenants’...

Michael Gove’s Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities hit back overnight at critics of the government’s Renters Reform Bill. The Bill...

The percentage of tenants borrowing money to fund their cash deposits on their next property has risen over the last 12...

Some 83% of estate agents are proud of their profession, says a new survey. The poll of 1,728 estate agents, commissioned by...

There's good news for the buy to let sector as mortgage product availability is showing signs of stability, according to the...

A major agency has told the government to get on with ensuring the Renters Reform Bill is passed into law as...

An online lettings platform claims to have launched the first “end-to-end self-service lettings platform” which could save landlords around £3,800. Hello Neighbour...

A prominent supplier of deposit alternatives to lettings agents has come out and said that “renting negatively impacts quality of life,...

A seasoned lettings expert has been taken on to boost the success of an agency branch in Surrey. James Clarke, with 25...

TV property guru and Move iQ founder Phil Spencer to be a keynote speakers at Propertymark One this year, the trade...

A lawyer says radical rental reforms proposed for Scotland - which could be a model for change in England and Wales...

Property management and facilities firm Pinnacle is to become the leading managing agent for Legal & General Affordable Homes. In recent weeks, the...

The UK's rental market is experiencing a slowdown says a lettings chief. Nicky Stevenson, Managing Director of Fine & Country notes that...

Interest rates are expected to stay high despite good inflation news likely to be announced this week. The Office for Budget Responsibility...

A prominent lettings agency claims the Renters Reform Bill is not proving a deterrent to buy to let investors. The Leaders Romans...

It feels as though the UK housing market is waiting for something to happen. The prevailing mood is one of anticipation with...

The ESTAS awards event in October has a new principal partner. It’s Landmark Information Group, which includes Landmark Estate Agency Services, Searchflow,...

The Guild of Property Professionals is launch a new Ezine system for members to market properties to let and for sale. According...

The Tenancy Deposit Service, the provider of tenancy deposit protection and dispute resolution services, has appointed Fay Selvan as its new...

Paragon Bank’s analysis of its lending data has revealed the top 10 locations for investment by portfolio buy-to-let landlords, those with...

Supply has continued to build while demand remained steady, which increased downwards pressure on rents in the first quarter of 2024...

An influential Labour website says a raft of proposed reforms for the private rental sector will be unveiled next month -...

The latest rental data from PropTech supplier Goodlord has shown that March rents are now up by over 6% year-on-year.  And looking...

The number of new prospective tenants registered per Propertymark member branch decreased from 97 in January to 89 in February -...

Promising figures from the latest house price index doesn’t mean underlying problems in the market have been solved, warns Propertymark. UK house...

Prime London rental values ticked up 0.3% over the first three months of 2024, according to Savills, as the market continues...

Parkers franchisee Craig Pearson claims to have added a “substantial” number of properties to his Reading branch portfolio after buying an...

Propertymark is urging agents to get ahead of the curve and be ready for the next big initiative - Regulation.  Propertymark has...

Property logbook company Chimni is trialling a new form of Digital Property Logbook aimed at the Lettings markets.   The new logbooks...

Tenant groups and charities reacted angrily over the Easter weekend to the proposed changes to the Renters Reform Bill being advocated...

The government has written to Conservative MPs promising changes to the Renters Reform Bill to ease concerns over its anti-landlord bias. Jacob...

For first time buyers, renting is cheaper than buying in most of the UK according to new data from the Halifax.  London, the...

A lettings agency has been expelled from The Property Ombudsman scheme following itsfailure to pay £1,100 out of an adjudicated award...

Long-standing Hunters franchisee Adrian Lawrence has grown his lettings business by a massive 200% after acquiring the portfolio of nearby Hunters...

There appears to be more evidence that these are good times for auctions. Network Auctions says it’s witnessed a sales surge, with...

What appears to be another government housing policy U-turn - this time on ground rents - is being hailed as “a...

The Open Property Data Association has released a new version of its property data standards framework to help letting agents comply...

OnTheMarket continues on its path to try to become the number one property portal, with a boast that it has a...

Propertymark is joining a growing chorus demanding an annual uprate of working age benefits and Local Housing Allowance. LHA rates have been...

A prominent lettings agent is calling for an end to what he calls the “archaic” system under which some tenants end...

The all-party House of Lords Industry and Regulators Committee has urged the government to get on with establishing a regulator of...

Co-living specialist Built Asset Management has snapped up a fourth rival operator in three years.  ProCo-Living joins the BAM business portfolio with...

Propertymark is telling the Bank of England that now is the perfect time to cut base rate and trigger wider interest...

February saw significant improvements in activity across the prime London lettings market, and annual rental growth also increased slightly after four...

A think tank is urging the UK government to consider tax perks for private renters to help them save faster for...

The largest lettings agency in Scotland says purchases by landlords and other investor buyers in that country have risen sharply despite...

Propertymark has urged the Sunak government to press ahead with leasehold reform ahead of the Second Reading of the Leasehold and...

Knight Frank’s residential operation has won the ‘Best Customer Satisfaction Strategy Award’ at the UK Customer Satisfaction Awards 2024. The agency says its...

A former housing minister responsible for the sell off of huge numbers of social homes has told the Prime Minister he...

Latest inflation figures are announced on Wednesday and the Bank of England makes its next base rate decision on Thursday. The Office...

There’s been a rise of over 400 per cent in the monetary total of fines issued for Right To Rent offences...

Propertymark is urging the government to tackle the problem of banks closing down undesignated or pooled client accounts of letting agents. HM...

The chief executive of industry not-for-profit accreditation service Safeagent, says agents do not require degrees to enter the sector or excel...

Latest data from agency Chestertons reveals a 125 per cent increase in the number of landlords choosing to reduce asking rents...

Sharpened rules to double council tax on long term empty properties will come into force from April 1, says the government.  A...

A Hunters franchisee has made his first acquisition - after 14 years. Lester Hurst, who has owned the Otley and Ilkley branches...

The number of new rental instructions in February was 20 per cent higher year-on-year, says London-focused agency Foxtons. Average rent achieved rose...

Propertymark has welcomed proposed reforms to evict tenants who show persistent anti-social behaviour.   In 2018, a Northern Ireland Department of Justice consultation...

Propertymark’s training arm, Propertymark Qualifications, says there’s been a strong uptake across the board with the first of its candidates passing...

A holiday lettings agency and an estate agent in a tourist hotspot have joined forces.  Suffolk Coastal will continue with its sales...

Agency software suppliers Inventory Base and Street.co.uk has struck an integration partnership that pledges to “drive operational change for property professionals...

Tenant reference and tech supplier The Lettings Hub claims 25 per cent of fraudulent documents submitted by would-be tenants were identified...

The Chancellor has one last chance to come good on the election promise of lowering the burden of business rates –...

Towns within commuting distance of big cities have seen some of the UK’s largest rent rises in recent years, says Zoopla. The...

New research suggests that a majority of the British public believe the government should be doing more to support students find...

A figure in one of the country’s highest profile lettings companies has hit out at a government proposal to penalise the...

Nationwide has taken the unusual step of using its buy to let lending arm - The Mortgage Works - to make...

The chief executive of Propertymark has made an outspoken attack on the government in response to its latest attempt to extract...

Just weeks after announcing that it was launching a new residential lettings and property management division, regional agency Dacre, Son &...

Winkworth has appointed a new franchisee to take over its Worthing office on the South Coast. After 15 years working in estate...

Labour has waded into the increasingly-fractious debate over the Renters Reform Bill. Activists in groups such as the Renters Reform Coalition and...

One of the first Building To Rent schemes in Wales - a 22 storey tower - has seen its first residents...

Email and instant messaging contact details must be kept up to date for HMRC to contact agents about Anti-Money Laundering supervision. Propertymark...

Glasgow agency Rosevale Letting has significantly increased its portfolio of managed properties after acquiring letting properties from a competitor, Ross Sales...

Property professionals have less than 48 hours to submit entries for the Midlands PROPs Awards.  The search for the very best of...

Alto says it’s introducing new Lettings Progression functionality which will roll out in the first half of this year - so...

Shelter is calling for the construction of 90,000 rental properties each year for a decade - and it claims this would...

A building society has launched a pilot project banning mortgage lending on holiday lets in two tourist areas for 12 months. Leeds...

Shelter is asking for public support for radical changes to the Renters Reform Bill, now going through Parliament. The campaigning charity is...

Knight Frank has taken the unusual step of suggesting a government proposal for the housing market is high-risk and could even...

HM Treasury raked in £6.3 billion in inheritance tax receipts in the 10 months from April 2023 to January 2024 according...

A letting agent who stole over £40,000 from her employer was caught when a bank queried the use of a company...

Specialist property management firm Xenia Estates has announced a shake up ahead of entry into the residential lettings sector. Xenia currently looks...

New research shows that agency leads generated by Facebook ads are much more effective than previously thought - but most agents...

A lettings industry supplier claims one in nine renters use foodbanks. A survey of tenants, commissioned by Zero Deposit, found that just...

Pattinson Estate Agency has taken over a local firm on Teesside. The agency taken over is Browns Estate Agents in Stockton and...

PropTech player Technology Blueprint Ltd has completed the integration of compliance software firm, CheckDocs.  The move is the first in a series...

Renters are less financially resilient than recent remortgagers according to an analysis by business consultants Hargreaves Lansdown. It says over two thirds...

New figures from lenders trade body UK Finance show a massive fall in buy to let loans for those aged 55...

Data released today from Foxtons has found that the number of new instructions in January 2024 was 25 per cent higher...

A new report suggests that past impressions of Build To Rent and other institution-funded rental units as expensive and concentrating on...

A free webinar next week will explore how agents can use technology solutions to attract and win new landlords for their...

Rental growth across prime London slowed again in January, with average rents falling on a monthly basis for the third time...

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

Agency software service Alto has announced a new integration with Zero Deposit.  Research by Zero Deposit shows that 65 per cent of...

Inspirational broadcaster and author Katie Piper is set to take to the stage at the Propertymark One Conference at the ExCel...