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A statement from a city council claims that a property company failed to attend court in a case of deposit protection,...

A representative of the National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agents team has told agents to accept new rules about material...

Burns & Webber, a long-established name in the Surrey property market, is rebranding by adopting its parent company’s name, Curchods.  The four...

Managing agents in London have been instructed to pay a £15,000 fine for operating a House in Multiple Occupation without the...

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

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

Propertymark is urging the Sunak government to introduce specialist housing courts with expert Judges who can expedite cases and create a...

The controversial minister who steered rent controls through the Scottish Parliament has contacted Propertymark to reveal details of the next stage. Patrick...

A lettings agency has pleaded guilty to seven offences relating to an HMO. IHomes Letting Limited has been fined £16,970 for failing...

Parts B and C of the process to improve material information disclosure in property listings are published today within comprehensive new guidance...

More multi-millionaires and billionaires are choosing to rent super-prime homes in London, rather than purchase, reveals a new wealth report Beauchamp Estates’...

Propertymark has called on the government to retain the option of fixed-term tenancies in the private rental sector where it is...

A client account is essential to your lettings business, but the rules and regulations you need to follow to keep this...

Media reports in Brighton say that a lettings agency which serve tenants with illegal eviction notices and unjustified legal threats has...

Local media on the south coast are reporting that a lettings agent crashed his Bentley into two parked cars and then...

The Scottish Government is proposing to give local councils the discretion to charge Council Tax premiums of up to 100 per...

An agency has been fined by a London council for failing to licence a property it was managing. Gracechurch Property Services has...

New directives issued by the government put the emphasis firmly on private landlords and their letting agents to take responsibility for...

Propertymark chief executive Nathan Emerson says the lettings market is defined now by the “alarming disparity” between demand and supply. In the...

Agents representing landlords of HMOs In Portsmouth are being warned by the council that their need to be licensed or face...

The average Anti-Money Laundering fine issued to estate agents for non-compliance in 2022-23 is almost half as large again as in...

A landlord who is also the owner of a High Street lettings agency has been fined £17,293 for breaching housing licence...

A property firm which admitted misleading tenants on their rights and threatening them to leave has been ordered to pay £8,000. Four...

A property company director who admitted misleading tenants on their rights and threatening them to leave has been ordered to pay...

A new PropTech product is being launched today following a year of research involving the Leaders Romans Group. Inventory Hive’s new diary-management/maps...

Three property management companies and a landlord have been fined approaching £80,000 for health and safety failings. Mohammed Ali Abbas Rasool, Cadogan...

Six letting agencies across the London borough of Haringey have been fined a total of £12,000 after a council clampdown. Trading Standards...

A management company and a lettings agency involved in running a London HMO have been prosecuted for fire safety failures. Monsoon Properties...

The Competition and Markets Authority is beefing up its enforcement work against illegal cartels and offering a reward of up to...

Propertymark has given an insight into how letting agents are likely to be expected to use a new Landlords Database. The database...

A £5,000 fine has been upheld against a landlord who failed to declare himself as a property agent and did not join a mandatory...

Any lettings portfolio should receive ongoing care and maintenance. A disorganised portfolio, weighed down by junk data, loose ends or lax...

A think tank claims one in six young people live in poor quality housing, often in the private rental sector. The claim...

Annual staff turnover in the property industry is nearing 30 per cent according to a survey by online agency Nested.  The most...

A London lettings agency has been ordered to pay over £12,000 in a fine and costs for its part in running...

Lettings agencies which rely on manual means of verification are risking repetitional damage caused by anti-money laundering regulations, a digital compliance...

A seminar is to be held to look at the impact of rent controls on the burgeoning Build To Rent sector. Private...

A council is set to renew its war on To Let boards. In summer 2018, Leciester council brought into effect a new...

The head of a property management company has been fined £25,800 after serious safety issues were discovered at a shared house...

A council has prosecuted an agency and landlord for not producing the right paperwork. Luton local authority has prosecuted Poplar Homes Ltd...

There’s been a 165 per cent increase in the number of private rental homes with an Energy Performance Certificate rating of...

A PropTech expert is warning that letting agents can expect hefty fines if they fail to comply with complex Client Money...

The owner of a property in the Leicestershire village of Great Dalby has been fined after removing two trees within a...

A property firm has been fined £8,000 for operating an HMO on one of Britain’s most famous roads. Westminster council has won...

A lettings company called Trophy Homes Limited, based in Liverpool, has pleaded guilty to failing to apply for an HMO licence...

Fines issued to agents for anti-money laundering non-compliance are getting bigger, reversing a downward trend seen throughout the pandemic, according to...

A landlord has pleaded guilty to four offences which involved the creation of fake letting agencies in order to help him...

Knight Frank is partnering with licensing compliance firm Kamma. The growth of discretionary licensing schemes across the 408 local authorities in the...

A senior Savills figure, who chairs the trade body known as The Lettings Industry Council, has issued a warning to the...

Property professionals need to be more vigilant when it comes to their anti-money laundering processes. That’s the view of the manager of an...

An agent operating an HMO on Deeside without a licence and breaking other housing laws has been fined £28,000. Flintshire council carried...

According to the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, organisations worldwide lose $4.7 trillion to fraud each year, with real estate suffering...

There’s good news and bad news for letting agents on the anti-money laundering front. The good news is that the overall number...

A property management company with a portfolio of over 130 properties in the Telford area has been fined £5,100 for failing...

PropTech firm Kamma says total fines for agents and landlords have now topped £8m in London alone with a £238,000 increase...

Another analysis of the lettings market by PropTech firm Goodlord has shown that the intense heat is not confined to the...

Tenants’ bills are expected to hit a record £63 billion this year - and much of it is down to the...

There’s concern in the student lettings sector about the impact of the government’s Fairer Private Rental Sector White Paper. For this specialist...

Zoopla - which in recent years has gone out of its way to win agent support - has come out strongly...

The government has released the full details of what it calls the Fairer Private Rented Sector White Paper. This is to form...

A landlord has been fined a four figure sum for failing to produce documentation for a council. Fathima Syeda Kauser of Luton pleaded...

The sole director of a lettings agency, who was recently made the subject of an anti-social behaviour injunction and banning order,...

The Times has named a member of the City of London’s governing council as a key figure behind rogue letting agencies. Luis...

An Airbnb host who let three properties in a city has been fined for using domestic recycling facilities and failing to...

A property ownership and management company has been fined £20,000 for failing to carry out safety and fire safety improvement works...

Agents are being urged to prepare for  changes to the Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarm Regulations which may come in this...

A property management company has been fined for failing to repair an open sewer in the garden of a rental property. SRA...

A business news website is reporting that an agency has been ordered to pay £1,550 for displaying a board illegally. Charles Lear...

A lettings company has been caught up in a case where rental accommodation has been described as “atrocious” and a landlord...

An independent agency in the Midlands has set up a club attracting investors from as far as Hong Kong, Dubai and...

The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan wants is introducing a new qualification and training for borough council housing enforcement officers to...

Self-managing landlords who think they don’t have the same compliance obligations as agents could face serious repercussions, Trading Standards chiefs have...

The Daily Telegraph is reporting that Purplebricks could face a bill of as much as £30m “after it put thousands of landlords...

A report by the National Audit Office claims that the way private renting is regulated makes the sector unfair to renters. It...

Over £80,000 pounds of fines have been imposed on a letting agency and its director. Zenith Accommodation Ltd’s boss, Mohammad Mallick of...

A lettings agency has been prosecuted by Birmingham council for unlawfully evicting a tenant. Principal Homes is based at Great Barr and was...

One of the local authorities with the tightest clampdowns on letting agents has issued a statement celebrating its successes. Tower Hamlets council in...

Campaigners against letting agents and landlords appear to suggest that the issue of rising rents is uniquely confined to the UK...

A London lettings agency - that has now entered bankruptcy - has been cleared of any involvement in a rental scandal...

When it comes to gathering evidence for deposit disputes, the need for thoroughness is understandable. However, on occasion some landlords take...

Let Tech Solutions, a PropTech firm which now works with more than half of all property managers in Scotland, is expanding...

As the summer begins to draw to a close and the letting market regains its stride, attention is turning to the...

A part of the country which has seen a severe long term rental stock shortage as a result of switches from...

A bizarre fine imposed on a managing agent by a local authority appears to have been reversed because the council flouted...

Two lettings agencies are amongst three property agents which have been fined by HM Revenue & Customs for breaching anti-money laundering...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? That's very retro - I have not had one of...

A London council has secured banning orders against rogue property agents who were previously fined over £70,000 for letting an unlicensed...

A compliance specialist is reminding the industry that the deadline by which letting agents must register with HMRC if they are...

A London council has taken a landlord company to court after complaints of poor housing conditions in five of its rented...

A letting agent has been fined £11,500 for breaking HMO houses and fire safety rules at a property he manages. Agent Benjamin...

A lettings agency director has been issued with a Criminal Behaviour Order for unlawfully evicting a tenant back in 2019. CFDP Ltd, trading as...

Letting agents have only 10 days to open segregated client accounts or they could face being expelled by their client money...

A charity wants yet another extension to the current ban on bailiff-enforced evictions. Step Change says new research it has conducted shows...

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...

Restaurant staff were kept in “dangerous and overcrowded” conditions by a property company and its landlord-director, a court has heard. The company...

Two landlords in the same town - one the director of a lettings firm - have been prosecuted as their properties...

One person had to be rescued from a fire after their landlord failed to ensure they had a working fire alarm...

A lettings firm has been ordered to pay over £18,000 after failing to provide adequate living conditions for his tenants. Chelmsford magistrates...

Putting fingers to keyboard to create blogs and articles isn’t always the easiest job for agents, particularly when meetings, viewings and...

A landlord taken to court by a council has ended up with a bill in excess of £20,000.  Dennis Goodwin of Highbury...