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A new guide from Propertymark explains the rights which private rental tenants have - and sets out how they can challenge...

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

A deposit alternative service claims the cost of rent has outpaced salary growth by 5.2% over the past 10 years, leaving...

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

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

Landlords’ champion Paul Shamplina says more landlords should use lettings agents, who he describes as their “allies” in the battle to...

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

Propertymark wants HM Land Registry to provide more accessible and affordable services to its members.  HMLR launched a consultation last month as...

There’s been at most a one per cent reduction in landlords in the buy to let sector, a think tank claims...

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

The UK’s largest multi-disciplinary property conference - Propertymark One in association with Rightmove - is in June and the organisers claim...

Lettings and property management agency Xenia Lettings has appointed a new director.  Daryl Tomlinson first entered the industry in 2007 as a...

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

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

Agents have expressed their anger at permanent rent controls proposed by the SNP and Green Party politicians running the Scottish Government. The...

Propertymark says its Lettings Helpline for agent members in England and Wales has become “an essential membership benefit for dealing with...

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

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has launched a new Residential Retrofit Standard in a bid to help the housing industry...

There’s been a large rise in complaints and a huge increase in compensation according to figures out today from the Property...

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

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

Today’s new market snapshot from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors shows tenant demand rising but at a rather more modest...

An umbrella group called London Councils has expressed “extreme concern” at the government’s decision to stop letting local authorities keep money...

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 –...

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

Companies House has new powers from this week to combat fraud. These are measures under the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act...

The latest Rental Index from PropTech supplier Goodlord has recorded a rent rise and a reduction in void lengths over the...

A high profile lettings agency has had to pay almost £22,000 in damages to an employee who raised concerns about safety...

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...

Propertymark has again urged the UK government to continue with its target of building 300,000 new homes in England a year...

Cotswolds and Midlands agency Sheldon Bosley Knight has snapped up a small independent lettings business. Stratford-based Charles Saville Limited adds more than...

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

The trade body representing short lets providers and support companies has reacted angrily to government proposals for a radical shake up. Housing...

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

While most agents remain relatively tight lipped about party politics, the chief executive of Purplebricks has said the Tories should take...

Propertymark wants the Bank of England to cut interest rates following data showing soaring mortgage arrears and repossessions. Lenders trade body UK...

Shelter is warning that the government’s failure to abolish Section 21 evictions will backfire and that “renters will remember who stood...

A wealthy landlord who set up a fake lettings agency in Hull has been jailed for 11 years for allowing ‘ghost tenants’ to...

Propertymark’s property auction division - NAVA - has given ringing endorsement to the Material Information changes demanded under new Trading Standards...

New data released by insurance firm HomeLet claims that average rents have fallen now for three months on the bounce. The past...

A buying agent claims that rents could finally be tailing off despite some indices showing rises still taking place. According to Rightmove,...

A trades union has slammed the Bank of England over its decision to keep base rate at 5.25 per cent, saying...

The Bank of England has kept its base rate at 5.25 per cent but markets forecast this will drop from the summer as...

A prominent lettings agency is advising landlords to fit out homes in prime locations to the same high specification as if...

The latest Build To Rent report prepared by lettings agency Savills claims 2023 saw a total of £4.5 billion of investment...

A law professor has dismissed a Labour call for agents to have qualifications as “eye poppingly silly” and “snobby.” Labour’s shadow housing...

There were 12,000 first time buyers over the age of 50 in the UK in 2022, the latest figures available. This means...

Controversy surrounds a government idea - floated over the weekend - to allow renters to secure mortgages with just one per...

Labour is using a Bill currently going through Parliament as a backdoor method to introduce the regulation of lettings, estate and...

TV host Jenni Falconer is to reprise her role as compere of Propertymark’s ‘One Conference’ when it’s repeated at London’s ExCel...

The long-running aspiration of many to allow rental payments to be counted towards credit ratings appears to have taken a step...

A survey by one of the industry’s deposit alternative services, flatfair, shows that - unsurprisingly - over 61 per cent rank...

New rent control proposals put forward by politicians are unnecessary and too costly according to a leading property expert.  David Alexander -...

Insurance giant Aviva is urging consumers to be on their guard after seeing a seven per cent increase in customer claims...

A mandatory short lets registration and licensing scheme is to be introduced in part of the UK, described as a system...

A severe shortage of properties to rent, fierce competition to secure the homes that are available, and rising rental prices led...

An organised crime group involved in producing and distributing an estimated £2.4m of cannabis has been found to have e used...

David Cox, the former ARLA chief executive, says the earliest that the Renters Reform Bill could come into effect is late...

Self employed agency brand Harding Green, which majors on London and prime country markets, says it’s grown significantly in the lettings...

A series of lenders have slashed their buy to let mortgage rates in a bid to win business. These include: - LendInvest Mortgages...

Residential buy to let in the North West of England, London industrial property and retail warehouses are set to be the...

Airbnb and other short let platforms are from this week required to send data on their clients’ earnings to HMRC. And a...

The chief executive of Propertymark says seasonal trends are returning to the housing market after several ‘unusual’ years. Nathan Emerson says: “In...

ARLA Propertymark has responded to the Scottish Parliament’s examination of the Housing (Cladding Remediation) (Scotland) Bill, calling for clarity on contributions...

UK Finance has published its housing and mortgage market forecasts for 2024 and 2025 together with projections for 2023 full year numbers. Key figures for 2023 In...

The Jackson-Stops agency is warning that the Renters Reform Bill is driving investors away - and making the market worse, not...

The boss of a prominent UK lettings and property management agency says new regulations planned for the industry are to be...

One of Britain’s leading agents - former RICS residential chairman Jeremy Leaf - says he is seeing a change of mood...

A major property industry supplier claims that the housing sector could meet government targets to improve the Energy Performance Certificate ratings for homes.  Landmark...

All eyes are on HM Treasury this week ahead of the next inflation figures, to be released on Wednesday morning. Analysts suggest...

Britain is in the grip of a new mould crisis, a leading property association has warned.  The National Association of Property Buyers...

A prominent London buying agent and property consultant says the slowly improving supply of rental property means more tenants are now...

Almost two in five UK owners - landlords and homeowners - now consider improving the energy efficiency of their property an...

A consultation to introduce boilers into homes and the private rented sector needs ‘more carrot than stick’ according to a prominent...

The Information Commissioner’s Office has issued advice to agencies on how to comply with data protection law.  The UK data protection regulator...

Attention estate agents: if you're looking for a bumper Christmas bonus, then maintaining your marketing spend throughout December might just be...

Affordability limits have been reached in several regions of the UK, the Home property website suggests. While some regions are still recording...

The autumn roadshow being hosted by Fine & Country resumes next week with the first of six dates throughout the rest...

The ValPal Network - a lead generation product from Angels Media, publisher of Letting Agent Today and other Today titles -...

There’s been widespread dismay in the industry as the outcome of a Judicial Review has backed the Scottish Government’s objective of...

Average rents in Scotland for new tenancies in the private sector have risen by double digits for the fourth quarter in a...

Leaders Romans Group claims the pessimistic mood which many say surrounds the private rental sector is exaggerated. It has surveyed its landlord...

A council has launched its own social lettings agency to work with private sector landlords in tackling the record numbers living...

Rent controls as currently in force in Scotland and under consideration in Wales will not be put into effect in England,...

There’s been a significant increase in the buy to let mortgage product range according to analysis by independent service Moneyfacts.  A year...

A lettings agency - Leaders Romans Group - claims that landlords are not quitting the private rental sector in droves after...

Propertymark has urged the government to tackle rising landlord costs immediately.The warning comes as new research suggests that landlords are spending...

London-focused agency Chestertons says it’s enjoyed a record month for lettings. This was driven by increasing demand for short-term rentals from business...

UK consumers feel worse off than a year ago, but remain relatively optimistic about the property . That’s the conclusion of a...

It looks as if the government is accepting that there is a problem with how banks treat Pooled Client Accounts -...

A new manifesto calling for rent controls and a raft of other measures is accusing the current rent rises of being...

A high profile lettings agent has written to his local council seeking information about an Additional Licensing scheme which has expired...

A leading lettings agency and property consultancy has revealed that it anticipate stronger-than-expected rental growth this year and next in prime...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors is launching its manifesto at this week’s Tory party conference - and improving the supply...

Young couples are delaying marriage and starting families until they get out of the rental sector, research by Yorkshire Building Society...

Some prospective buy to let landlords may be about to use their equity to snap up investment properties at discounted rates,...

Police are urging letting agents and landlords to act swiftly if they think one of their properties is being used as...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Emma Parsons, Head of Partnership Development What is flatfair and what...