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Recent substantial fines issued by HMRC are a harsh reminder to agents to ensure that their Anti-Money Laundering policies are up...

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

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...

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

Propertymark is hosting a webinar where Scott Bailey - policy manager at the Home Office - will answer questions on Right...

Fines for agents and landlords who breach Right To Rent rules increase today from £80 per lodger and £1,000 per occupier...

ARLA Propertymark has urged letting agents to take breaches of the Information Commissioner’s Office’s  data protection principle regarding GDPR seriously.   The call comes...

Housing Secretary Michael Gove has given what some commentators have interpreted as a sign that private rental sector licensing from councils...

Repairs and maintenance supplier Fixflo is warning agents of a surge in demand for Electrical Installation Condition Reports in the short...

Franchise giant Belvoir is the latest agency group to sign a deal with geospatial technology firm Kamma. The partnership will offer all...

Changes put forward to the Renters Reform Bill to crack down on rogue landlords, protect vulnerable residents and improve the safety of...

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

PropTech firm Kamma - which specialises in information about landlord licensing - has inked another partnership. This latest link is with Goodlord.  Kamma’s...

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

Harlow council says it wants to take a harder line against agents and landlords who knowingly let unsafe and substandard properties...

Law firm Brevis Law is shedding light on the difficulties agents and landlords have in meeting Right To Rent requirements in...

A new northern version of a popular property awards ceremony makes its debut this autumn. The North West PROPS, a northern-focused version...

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

Agents who allow rental properties to be let to migrants who do not have the right to be in the UK...

PropTech Kamma has entered into a partnership with agency and consultancy JLL. This means JLL’s UK residential agents will have access to...

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

London letting agents and landlords have so far been hit with more than £900,000 in fines in the first half of...

We compare traditional methods of client money account inspections by an accountant to the alternative Client Money HealthCheck. But first, let’s clarify...

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

What objections are you hearing when you try and convert let-only landlords to fully-managed? Because the latest figures show just 18 per...

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

I was surprised the other day to read statistics from the English Housing Survey about how many landlords use letting agents. In...

A holiday lettings agency has come out fighting on behalf of its clients. Following calls by local leaders in Cornwall and Devon...

Landlords are urged to be cautious and do extensive research before signing up to a letting agent in the face of...

Letting agents have a key role in ensuring updated fire safety regulations really do improve standards for tenants in taller buildings. That’s...

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

Foxtons is to give its agents access to a compliance management and checking service. Fran Giltinan, Managing Director - Property Management &...

An activist group claims that 54 per cent of students are currently living with damp and mould. The group - Students Organising...

Platforms like Facebook are infiltrated by fake review factories, despite the imminent publication of a new Bill which will look to make...

A compliance expert is criticising unnamed agencies for risking fines “and wasting time and money” by relying on inadequate compliance reporting...

As a dedicated letting agent, or estate agent with a lettings portfolio, you already have a lot on your plate. Managing...

A lettings agency chief says tighter EPC targets will be “devastating” for the private rental sector. Ben Quaintrell - managing director of...

It already looks like 2023 is on track to see licensing fines for agents and landlords reaching nearly double the 2022...

The latest restrictions imposed on holiday lets by a UK government are hurting local economies. The Welsh Government has confirmed there will...

The law is clear – agencies in England, Scotland and Wales need a valid client money protection (CMP) policy to protect...

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

We’re only in February and it’s already clear that this year will set the future direction of the private rented sector...

The Valuation Office Agency has issued a reminder that changes to eligibility rules for self-catering properties will come into effect from...

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

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

Propertymark auditors are offering in-person visits to branches to improve their compliance.  The trade body says this is in response to demand from...

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

Propertymark has given its backing to a clampdown by Housing Secretary Michael Gove on private landlords - although landlords themselves appear...

A holiday lettings agency has taken the unusual step of speaking out in favour of higher council tax for second home...

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...

A holiday lettings agency has criticised the proposed rise in capital gains tax which may be introduced this week in the...

A council’s Trading Standards team is warning letting agents of a new clampdown on compliance failures. Stoke-on-Trent Trading Standards says it’s received...

The average Anti-Money Laundering fine handed to agents has soared by two thirds. An analysis of five industries - Accountancy, Estate/Lettings Agency,...

The Bank of England is warning that many households will struggle to meet their rent or mortgage commitments if interest rates...

A holiday letting agency has criticised the introduction of licensing for short term rentals in Scotland as “poorly thought-through and ill-timed”.  Iain...

Prime London rental growth reached 14.0 per cent in the year to the end of September according to Savills, but the...

A developer building flats and houses in Cornwall has set up a lettings operation promising a fixed 10 per cent gross...

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

The law around the requirement for smoke and carbon monoxide alarms in rental properties will change in England on October 1. Propertymark...

A county council is urging people to complain if they believe letting agents are failing to comply with consumer legislation. Staffordshire county...

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

The government has issued detailed guidance ahead of a change in the law around smoke and carbon monoxide alarms coming into...

Fourteen Trading Standards authorities across a swathe of England are embarking on an enforcement project to check lettings agency compliance.  The Central England...

PropTech firm Kamma, which monitors the growing number of local council licensing regimes, has teamed up with an insurance broker. The link...

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

The massive Belvoir franchise network has signed up 360 of its franchisees to the PropTech service Kamma.  The franchisees include those under...

The UK lettings and estate agency is being targeted by crime syndicates in order to launder dirty money. That’s the claim of...

An activist at the centre of a controversy involving a London letting agent has used a left-wing website to explain how...

A technology platform claims that as many as a third of lettings agencies that should be compliant with anti-money laundering regulations...

A PropTech supplier which helps agents and landlords identify private rental sector licensing issues has announced a new partnership. Geospatial technology firm...

An activist group in London has launched a scathing attack on councils which it claims have been ineffective in regulating rogue...

Inventories are a key tool to ensuring they, and the properties they let, comply with the law. That’s the claim from industry...

The owner of a Belvoir lettings franchise has fulfilled a lockdown ambition to write and publish her book ‘Landlords, what’s holding...

The government’s new Levelling Up White Paper, revealed this morning, includes a radical reshaping of the private rental sector. Section 21 eviction...

PropTech companies Kamma and Veri-Check are consolidating an existing partnership. Kamma users can already access Veri-Check’s instant property licensing checks, but in...

Bristol-based lettings management company Iletpro Ltd has been ordered to pay a total of £2,700.06 in fines and costs for failing...

A London property managing agent has been ordered to pay more than £80,000 for safety failings which “exposed a potentially large...

PropTech suppliers Kamma and CoreLogic UK have teamed up to help improve the process of buy to let lending and compliance. Kamma...

Council-imposed fines on letting agents and landlords that fall foul of licensing regulations have risen dramatically in the past month alone. Research...

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 checklist for agents to help ensure they steer clear of unwanted fines or claims has been provided by the Guild...

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

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...

A landlord and the property company of which he is director have been convicted and ordered to pay more than £17,000...

An analysis of the Mayor of London’s Rogue Landlord and Letting Agent Checker shows that since it was introduced in 2018...

There’s a new warning the rental fraud could be on the rise. Due diligence firm Homeppl says the combination of possible job...

There’s a warning from an industry trade body that some agents may have failed to take compliance obligations seriously enough.  Paul Offley,...

A proposal for one of the country’s largest ever private rental sector licensing schemes has gone out to consultation. Manchester’s Labour council...

There are just two weeks left for letting agents to register with HM Revenue & Customs if they want to be...

A Labour council in London is taking the unusual measure of threatening landlords with community protection notices - associated with anti-social...

Agents are being warned about a crackdown on compliance issues surrounding rental property management. No Letting Go, the country’s largest provider of...

Lettings franchise giant Hunters has struck a commercial deal with a geospatial technology firm. The partnership offers immediate access to Kamma’s full...

Changes to electrical safety standards rules applying to existing tenancies came into force at the start of the Easter break and...

The private rental sector has new electricity regulations taking effect next week, putting the emphasis on agents and landlords. The Electrical Safety...

Landlords and managing agents of HMOs could face unlimited fines following new measures being brought in to strengthen fire safety, the...

A landlord who persistently broke residential lettings rules has been banned from operating in a landmark legal ruling. Julie Stoddern, of Camborne,...

Two landlords - one of them an agent - have been given fines totalling £135,000 and must pay costs for failing to...

Letting agents should help landlords through a blizzard of red tape and regulation cause by local licensing schemes, a PropTech entrepreneur...