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The former president of ARLA Propertymark has made an outspoken attack on the government for failing to regulate the agency industry. Maxine...

A prominent lettings industry supplier says uncertainty over the details and timescales to implement rental reforms will dog the sector for...

Airbnb says that its so-called ‘party ban’ - introduced in 2020 at the height of the pandemic - is being made...

Another prominent industry voice is warning of the dangers of the Scottish Government’s new eviction policies. So far the National Residential Landlords...

Troubled online agency Purplebricks says it’s going to finally release its full year figures in the first week of August -...

Propertymark is questioning whether the Scottish Government is adequately funding the First-tier Tribunal to cope with any extra demand placed on...

Speculation in national newspapers suggests that the government is considering giving local mayors some powers over parts of the private rented...

The agents’ trade association Propertymark says the government’s high-profile rental sector reforms should address the continuing shortage of supply. Propertymark chief executive...

An interesting survey conducted by the Lincolnshire Live news website suggests a lack of support for some proposals in the government’s...

Comprehensive rental reform requires the buy in and understanding of letting agents and landlords from the outset - and not as...

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

Electric Vehicle charging points in rental properties are going to be expensive and should be planned and saved for now, according...

A tourism chief has likened new anti-holiday let regulations to those of a Stalinist dictatorship. Ashford Price, secretary of the Welsh Association...

The franchise owners of a Parkers branch have marked their third year under the brand by opening a second office. Brendan and...

The sweeping reforms for the private rental sector announced by the government at the end of last week do not go...

A property investment company says Build To Rent is key to helping Britain meet its current housing and climate change challenges...

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

Today’s proposed changes to the private rental sector are the most radical for a generation. The first industry debate on this hot...

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

A prominent lettings industry supplier has asked whether the earlier-than-expected arrival of the rental reform white paper was a distraction from...

What looks suspiciously like a government leak to the Daily Mail says the long-awaited Rental Reform White Paper will be unveiled...

The Association of Independent Inventory Clerks says it’s going to propose evolutionary changes at its upcoming annual general meeting. This will include...

A consultation over the summer looks set to be the first part of a radical change to the structure of communal...

More than one in eight private renters may miss out on support to cope with rising energy costs, Citizens Advice claims.  The...

A selection of property industry figures have spoken out against the government’s latest proposals to extend Right To Buy to housing...

Housing minister Eddie Hughes has categorically stated that the government is not considering rent controls in England. In a written reply to...

A Parliamentary group currently investigating the possible implementation of rent controls is to be joined by a senior figure from Propertymark. The...

A new survey is a warning the government that it must stop forcing landlords out of the private rental sector by...

Activists are calling on the government to impose swingeing taxes on some lettings properties “to bring them back into the residential...

Letting agents should consider how the properties they manage can become more energy efficient, says Propertymark. And they should tap into new...

Agents have reacted with amazement to the latest delay that the Labour-run Welsh Government has announced for its much-hyped rental reform. The...

Two of the most respected figures in the lettings sector are calling on agents, landlords and tenants to consider the future...

Labour’s Sadiq Khan wants an increase in Capital Gains Tax for some buy to let investors. The London Mayor made his response...

There’s just a week left - including the long Jubilee celebration period - for agents to respond to a major property tax...

Local and central government is losing out on millions of pounds of council tax income this year because of the business...

A claim by the activists running the Generation Rent group has been branded as “misleading” by Propertymark. Generation Rent claims its research...

Greater regulation of lettings agents, and all other property professionals, is required to ‘finish the job’ of reforming the industry which...

Propertymark says the new boiler upgrade scheme, which comes into effect this week, is an opportunity for letting agents to promote...

A collection of rental experts in a body called The Lettings Industry Council have set out what they want to see...

Propertymark says it welcomes measures in the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill that will mean swifter action to get the hundreds...

A new survey gives an indication of how quickly properties with poor Energy performance Certificates are falling out of favour in...

Campaigning charity Shelter wants the government to fast-track its pledge to scrap Section 21 eviction powers. The government pledged a White Paper...

A Conservative MP is suggesting that there could be a ’25 mile limit’ imposed around certain rental properties to ensure they...

Sean Hooker, head of redress at the Property Redress Scheme, will discuss the latest rental reform proposals and answer letting agents'...

ARLA Propertymark is warning the government that it should not delay further on its long-awaited Renters Reform Bill, because of the...

The government has released more details of the powers being given to local authorities to levy additional taxes on second homes.  The...

The number of HMOs in England has fallen as a result of government intervention in the market. In 2018 new regulations were...

The government is admitting that its rental reform agenda is aimed primarily at the north of England - which just happens...

The chief executive of industry accreditation service Safeagent has made another plea for unity within the private rental sector. In a response...

Propertymark has made an uncharacteristically strong attack on the campaigning charity Shelter for its portrayal of letting agents. Ahead of yesterday’s Queen’s...

Agents have voiced their reservations over aspects of the widespread rental sector reform announced by the government in the Queen’s Speech. Yesterday...

The Queen’s Speech has confirmed that a radical re-shaping of the rental sector in England is being pushed ahead by the...

Leaks from government ahead of this morning’s Queen’s Speech suggest that second homes which are not let out are likely to...

The government is widely expected to announce that Section 21 eviction powers will be scrapped in new legislation coming to Parliament...

Just over 7,000 households in London have been threatened with homelessness in the past three years alone after being issued with...

A survey conducted by financial institutions has found the first suggestion that rental properties are slowly becoming more energy efficient. A study...

Campaigning charity Shelter is accusing some letting agents of “cutting corners” and has produced a provocative and satirical video showing a...

Three organisations have written a joint open letter to the Scottish Government warning that the supply of homes for rent –...

Propertymark says one lasting legacy of the Grenfell Tower tragedy is that agents letting properties in high rise blocks must engage...

Deposit alternative service Zero Deposit is launching a new option which it says gives tenants more flexibility to split the guarantee...

A leading lettings sector commentator believes today’s local elections may not directly change the private rental sector but could have a...

The chief executive of Propertymark says a warning from agents about rents rising and stock diminishing as a result of a...

The head of a prominent brand in a fast-expanding lettings and sales agency group has given a cautious welcome to government...

Propertymark is the latest part of the lettings sector to fight back against criticism and claims of extreme evictions made by...

Shelter has made an outspoken attack on a government proposal to extend Right To Buy to housing association tenants. The idea -...

All private rented homes in Oxford will need a licence from this September, following a green light from the government. Some 49.3...

ARLA Propertymark is the latest rental industry organisation to hit out at what it calls the “tenant-centred approach” being taken to...

A new and huge private rental licensing scheme has launched in County Durham. A total of at least 29,000 properties, or 42...

Propertymark has said that the government’s ban on ground rent on new leasehold properties should go further. The government revealed over the...

Airbnb, so often criticised for operating in the largely-unregulated short lets market, has called on the UK government to scrap Section...

The industry’s main trade body for lettings agents is telling its members to let the BBC know if they believe the...

The chief executive of ARLA Propertymark has made an outspoken attack on the UK government, accusing it of a “blatant disregard...

PropTech company Canopy is partnering with deposit funding firm Fronted to launch the concept of a lifetime deposit, which can be...

Lettings accreditation and training service Safeagent is calling on the government to make more public cash available for councils to exercise...

Remote work could enable over 13m Britons to ultimately live and work outside the major cities, according to research by a...

ARLA Propertymark has hit back in this week’s debate on the quality of private rental property, following sharp criticism in a...

Private rental property conditions and the enforcement of regulations by councils and government have all been in the firing line from...

Unsurprisingly, perhaps, buy to let investors are becoming increasingly keen on upgrading homes to make them more energy efficient according to...

Industry trade body Propertymark says no Right To Rent checks will be required to be conducted by letting agents on Ukranian...

Tax experts say that an attempt to levy higher purchase tax on holiday lets and second homes in one part of...

The average HMO is worth a third more than a comparably sized house according to new research. The typical HMO now costs...

Propertymark has stepped up its call for a dedicated Housing Tribunal to improve mediation and enhanced dispute resolution. The trade body also...

A new Home Office code of practice comes into force today making changes to what letting agents in England need to...

Rightmove’s April webinars for agents continue today with Daryl Mcintosh, Policy Manager at Propertymark, giving a legal and compliance update for...

Agents and landlords are being warned by a government minister not to charge all-inclusive HMO tenants more than necessary in a...

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

Owners of some rental properties, and agents acting on their behalf, can now apply for grants to contribute towards the cost...

One of the country’s most outspoken advocates of rent controls has been told why agents and landlords oppose them. Propertymark has hosted...

The Association of Residential Managing Agents and the Institute of Residential Property Management have been merged under the name The Property...

A property finance company says increased taxes and regulations for the private rental sector mean that energy efficiency improvements to raise...

Housing is back on the political agenda with a bang. The government’s new Levelling Up White Paper sets out sweeping reforms...

A prominent industry supplier has hit out at what he calls “the merry go round of housing ministers” following yet another...

A trade body says letting agents are receiving growing numbers of contracts from tenants wanting to take part in the Homes...

A warning has gone out to politicians from lettings agency trade body ARLA Propertymark - don’t try to fix a system...

One of the country’s most respected property lawyers is to discuss changes to rental processes live at a webinar aimed at...

The government has issued revised guidelines for the possession process in the private and social rented sectors in the light of...

A PropTech supplier to the lettings industry that has just signed a deal with OnTheMarket has come out in support of...

An anti-money laundering service has linked with a lettings software specialist. The alliance between FCS Compliance and  Rent4sure will provide Rent4sure clients...

One of the country’s major regional newspapers has launched a campaign for the urgent introduction of rent controls. The Bristol Evening Post,...

ARLA Propertymark has slammed politicians who appear to have ignored a public consultation and gone ahead with draconian changes affecting second...

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is likely to add to fuel price pressures with a typical household annual bill now predicted to...

A lettings agent says his client landlords are already turning their back on short let platforms including Airbnb ahead of likely...

The increasingly shrill anti-landlord rhetoric from some politicians is making it harder for tenants, claims a leading industry spokesman. John Blackwood, chief...

New financial incentives are needed to bring thousands of empty homes back into use and give a much-needed boost to the...

A 68-page academic report urges governments not to adopt hard controls that simply freeze rents - even though it acknowledges that...

Propertymark, the letting agents’ trade body, has accused governments across the UK of using Covid 19 rule changes to slip in...

Propertymark has waded into the controversy surrounding regulations removing extended notice periods in Scotland. The notice periods for residential tenancies - extended...

A leading figure in the PropTech sector says more regulation could make the rental sector fairer, more transparent and ultimately more...

The criticism by landlords aimed at Housing Secretary Michael Gove for some of his comments regarding the cladding issue, has now...

A PropTech supplier claims that increased automation can help letting agents meet the demands of the government’s Levelling Up agenda. Openview –...

Another prominent Labour politician has thrown his weight behind rent controls. And Mark Griffin - who is the party’s housing spokesman in...

Theresa Wallace, the chair of The Lettings Industry Council, has given her backing to compulsory changes to rental property listings introduced...

Trading Standards and the government have jointly announced compulsory new data which must appear on property listings. A property's council tax band or...

A radical overhaul of the private rental sector is underway in Scotland and agents’ body Propertymark says it wants all sides...

The UK Apartment Association - set up six years ago as a form of trade body for Build To Rent operators...

The Lettings Industry Council - which arguably has a low profile with agents - has become an industry partner of another...

A prominent lettings agency chief says a consultation looking at changes to private renting proposed by the Scottish Government is merely...

New research commissioned by the landlords’ trade body shows that the UK needs almost 230,000 new private rented homes a year...

Politicians across the UK appear to be growing more vocal in their support for rent controls. The Welsh nationalist party Plaid Cymru...

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

A senior figure in an industry trade body says lettings agents are going to have their hands full dealing with legislative...

Figures obtained by ITV News suggest that one of the country's most popular tourist locations has as many Airbnbs listed as...

Campaigning charity Shelter says new government figures reveal an increasing number of renters are facing eviction.  And it warns that more renters are...

The leader of one of Britain’s highest profile lettings agency operations has let rip at the government for what he calls...

A finance chief is warning that the threat of possible rises in Capital Gains Tax should be dismissed by the government to...

Housing ministers come and go with brutal frequency in UK governments of all colours, so yesterday’s departure of Chris Pincher -...

A major holiday let company in one of the country’s prime tourist destinations says more affordable homes should be built to...

A suite of new ‘pet-let’ products is to be offered by The Lettings Hub, which already has some 1,000-plus agents on...

Westminster council wants central London to have the same powers as Paris and Amsterdam to stop anti-social behaviour caused by Airbnb...

Lettings software provider Acquaint CRM has integrated its technology with the new API solution created by government-backed Tenancy Deposit Scheme.  The TDS...

It’s now been made clear that there will be a detailed White Paper in the spring explaining radical changes to the...

Many people - including agents, landlords and tenants - are unprepared for the domestic heating revolution on its way to Britain. That’s...

ARLA Propertymark has identified a key weakness in the government’s ambitious plans to reform the private rental sector as part of...

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

The Chartered Institute of Housing in Scotland wants to investigate the existing qualification and training requirements for letting agencies in that...

A radical shake up of the private rental sector is expected to be announced tomorrow by Housing Secretary Michael Gove. The main...

Propertymark has entered the debate about whether buy to let landlords should be amongst those receiving help from the government in...

Purplebricks has revealed that it will cost some £3.6m to correct compliance issues in its lettings division. The agency continues to stay...

Trade body UKALA has cautioned letting agents to act now following the government announcement that it intends to extend the need...

One of the leading lettings agencies in Liverpool has issued a warning about the city’s controversial new licensing scheme. The Labour council...

New measures to reduce the impact of Airbnb and other short lets in Scotland are “hugely disproportionate” a property group claims. The Scottish...

The trade body which serves as a cheer leader for Build To Rent says the niche sector is part of the...

The Home Office has confirmed that letting agents, landlords and employers will be able to use certified new technology to digitally...

Wales and Scotland are ahead of the game when it comes to limiting the impact of short term lets on the...

Politicians who express concern over the number of holiday lets and Airbnbs in tourist areas miss one major point - if...

EU citizens with settled status in the UK, but who have stayed in their native countries during the pandemic, are likely...

Owners of second homes who abuse a tax loophole by claiming their often-empty properties are holiday lets will be forced to...

A senior Welsh politicians has urged anyone who has fallen behind in paying rent because of the pandemic to contact their...

A Trading Standards team is to carry out what it calls “unannounced inspections” of lettings agencies in one part of London...

The London rental market stock surplus spurred by pandemic uncertainty has started to subside, with prime boroughs seeing some of the...

The largest provider of purpose built student accommodation in the UK, Unite, has issued a trading statement giving the latest state...

Propertymark, the main industry trade body, has this evening updated its guidance on Covid safety for letting and estate agents in England.  - Isolation...

A report from the House of Lords has condemned the private rental sector as being ”increasingly unaffordable” as well as being...

The government is clamping down - at least a little - on unvaccinated tenants in some specific circumstances.  New guidelines issued by...

MPs and the wider public have been presented with a lengthy report on the growth of Airbnb and similar platforms across...

Opposition appears to be growing to the first major bid in the UK to regulate the spread of Airbnbs and properties...

The coming year should be about promoting harmony in the lettings market says the head of an agency that’s now part of a...

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

A former Conservative councillor has used a leading party website to call on the government to restrict the purchase of buy...

A leading expert on the private rental sector predicts it will take three years for the government to scrap Section 21 evictions...

An agency has issued a statement strongly rejecting the negative mood music surrounding the private rental sector. Chris Wood and Ross McDonald...

A leading market forecaster has described the level of rent rises in one part of the country as “going ballistic”. “The London...

The Home Office has issued yet another iteration of its guidance for agents on how to conduct Right To Rent checks. The...

A London-focussed lettings agency group has paid £2,000 as a result of breaching the Tenant Fees Act. The issue relates to the...

Propertymark has strongly opposed a proposal by the Scottish Government to radically reform the private rental sector. The proposals put out for...

The lettings agency boss at the centre of a major industry takeover has fired a warning shot about rent controls and...

Propertymark says arrears in the private rental sector are rising once again as the Omicron variant continues to push across the...

Scotland’s controversial Green Party housing chief - who is part of a governing arrangement with Nicola Sturgeon’s Scottish National Party -...

Housing minister Chris Pincher has written an open letter to all landlords and agents in England, telling them how to enact the...

Propertymark is telling its letting agent members that they have a role in helping solve the Afghan refugee crisis. It says some...

ARLA Propertymark has launched a radical programme of reform for the private rental sector - getting in before the government’s own...

Only 15 per cent of adults are confident the housing crisis will be resolved in their lifetime. New research among 2,000 individuals...

Landlords selling up or converting to short lets have led to a growing housing crisis, according to a trade body of...

Propertymark chief executive Nathan Emerson has given his prediction as to what the big issues will be in the 2022 lettings...

ARLA Propertymark is backing a call for the government to set a clear vision for how it sees the private rental...

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

The National Residential Landlords Association says average rent debt owed by tenants as a direct result of the pandemic is still...

A senior Labour politician in the capital claims that there’s been “a stark rise” in people losing their homes since the...

A letting agency has been issued with penalty notices worth £3,000 for operating illegally. Back in 2014 it became a legal requirement...

ARLA Propertymark has fired a shot across the bows of the government as it aims to improve energy efficiency in the...

A think tank says it would take a major policy change to fulfil Boris Johnson’s goal to turn generation rent into...

Spicerhaart says some 600 hopefuls turned up for a series of recruitment days in three parts of the country. Around a third...

Purplebricks says its head of lettings has left after just eight months - and just days after a crisis involving tenant deposits. A Purplebricks...

‘Generation rent’ was a term first coined in 2011 by the Halifax in a survey on the future of homeownership. It...

Property is fast becoming a preferred investing option for advocates of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, an investment company claims.  Sequire Property Investment...

Purplebricks is refusing to say how many tenants and landlords were affected by its failure to comply with the law requiring deposits...

Agents have raised a specific concern about one aspect of a law change regarding carbon monoxide alarms.  Earlier this week the government...

The government has announced that carbon monoxide alarms must be fitted in all private rental properties with fixed appliances such as...

There’s been an increase in demand for rental properties with electric charging points for cars, according to ARLA Propertymark. The news has...

The House of Lords will today discuss the apparently-growing Sex for Rent scandal. Campaigners say a search on websites such as Craigslist...

New figures show how effective the stamp duty holiday was in stimulating buy to let - and how similar measures could...

Results have been released of an analysis of over 20,000 Build To Rent tenants in over 15,000 homes across the UK...

Shelter - so often critical of the private rental sector - has instead turned its fire on the government over what...

Home, the property website that publishes an authoritative market snapshot for lettings and sales each month, says the long-standing supply drought...

After becoming the first large agency to move to electric BMW i3s in 2019, Chestertons is urging others in the industry to follow...

Just as COP26 is drawing to a close, so one of the lettings industry’s leading legal voices is warning that the...

A new government survey of private renters is checking whether they received the correct documentation from their agent when they begin...

The government says it’s finalising plans for a new tax regime to apply to additional homes, and in particular those used...

Media reports in Stoke on Trent say a man was arrested after a police raid on the Homes2Let lettings agency in...

A recent industry roundtable event hosted by PayProp, which brought together some of the lettings industry’s biggest hitters, will be live streamed next week...

ARLA Propertymark has thrown its weight behind a new dispute resolution service as a quicker and less expensive alternative to court...

Labour has joined with campaign groups Generation Rent and Shelter in calling for the speediest possible ending of Section 21 eviction...

There may be a breakthrough in clearing the huge backlog of possession cases as the government is allocating an extra £324m...

Proposals to regulate Airbnbs and other short lets in one part of the UK should be modified, a trade body says. Currently,...

PropTech investment platform Houzen has raised concerns over the government’s Heat and Buildings Strategy. This is the satrategy that offers rental sector...

The Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities says the long-awaited Rental Reform White Paper will now not be published until...

All sides of the industry have expressed anger and frustration that yesterday’s Budget effectively ignored the private rental sector. ARLA Propertymark’s policy...

Two recent calls for the introduction of a national mandatory landlord register in England have been rebuffed by agents’ trade body...

Propertymark has taken the unusual step of thanking the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and the Communities for the...

Letting agents in England with tenants in rent arrears because of Covid are to be helped via a council-run £65m rent fund. Although...

Propertymark has told the government that imposing the same solution to the Net Zero challenge on all of the private rental...

A leading lettings agency wants next week’s Budget to unveil incentives to bolster supply in the long term rental sector. Richard Davies,...

A London lettings agent says it welcomes increasing moves towards allowing pets in rental properties - with some conditions.  Bective’s head of...

ARLA Propertymark has blasted the government over its net zero policy of banning new boilers from 2035 and giving landlords £5,000...

Savills says an increase in the number of new builds bought for buy to let and other property investment will help...

The head of a lettings agency has drawn up a wish list for Chancellor Rishi Sunak to address in his Budget...

One of the industry’s leading suppliers says the controversy over pets in private rental properties could be defused relatively easily. Inventory management firm...

Airbnb has backed the Scottish Government's backtrack on pledges to exercise more centralised regulation over short let properties. The country’s ruling SNP-Green coalition...

A leading agent and member of the Propertymark board says London’s letting agencies and private rental sector need government help -...

The Scottish Government - which earlier this year suggested it would be clamping down heavily on Airbnbs, especially in Edinburgh -...

ARLA Propertymark is calling on the government to properly fund local authorities so they can combat rogue operators in the private...

A senior Conservative in Wales wants the Welsh Government to consider creating a housing tribunal in the light of rising tenant arrears. Janet Finch-Saunders,...

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

The lettings agents’ group Propertymark has told Chancellor Rishi Sunak that unless the private rented sector is overhauled many landlords will...

The long-awaited White Paper on rental reform is some time away, with a minister at the centre of its preparation saying he and...

A new call has come for government action to stop the hemorrhage of properties shifting from long term rental to Airbnb...

A lack of longer term rental accommodation thanks to the growth of Airbnb and other short lets has led to a...

A prominent industry supplier is warning the government not to damage the private rental sector in its push to promote ever-more...

With house prices at an all-time high, showing no signs of waning, the age of first-time buyers is on the rise...

The chief executive of Shelter says the experience of Scotland shows that the scrapping of S21 eviction powers produces benefits that...

After 10 days of reports of soaring energy costs, PropTech supplier Goodlord has produced a series of tips for letting agents...

The end of the stamp duty holiday today has triggered a reduction in the number of buy to let investors saying...

Not-for-profit accreditation scheme safeagent wants the government to help tenants clear Covid-related arrears through an overhaul of Discretionary Housing Payments. Enhancing these...

Rik Smith, Head of Tenant Services at Goodlord, outlines in this tips piece how agents can support tenants with rising energy...

Councils across Scotland have been given £10m to provide grants to tenants who have Covid-related arrears and risk eviction. The grants will...

Propertymark is telling politicians to stop demonising letting agents and landlords. The unusualy bluntl message has come in response to the latest...

Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves has told the Labour Party conference that if her party wins the next General Election she will...

The House of Commons Library, an independent body not controlled by government, has published a detailed history of the many measures...

Campaign group Generation Rent, led by former Labour Baroness Alicia Kennedy, has renewed its call for the scrapping of Section 21...

A statement from ARLA Propertymark has hinted that it believes politicians may be out of touch with the reality of how...

Landlords in Wales have been told that rules giving tenants six months’ notice to vacate a property will remain in place...

An investment firm has flagged up the recently announced move by banking giant Lloyds to enter the private rented sector as...

A new survey has revealed that just 11% of people think Michael Gove, who was announced as the new Housing Secretary...

Private tenants and landlords across the country face a cliff edge as the end of furlough coincides with cuts to benefit...

An estate and lettings agent has analysed how the level of rental arrears has grown between each wave of the pandemic. The...

The Welsh Government has revealed that it hasn’t had time to evaluate its tenant fee ban due to the pandemic. Tenant fees...

A £360 million wall of rental debt built up during the pandemic, combined with cuts to Universal Credit, threatens to leave...

A dramatic day, which saw a Cabinet reshuffle seemingly come out of the blue, ended with Michael Gove as the new...

It’s an exciting time when prospective tenants show an interest in your listed property. However, it's important not to let that...

Propertymark has called for a return of mortgage interest relief and a review of landlord taxes to boost the rental sector. The...

The government has set in motion a Parliamentary procedure meaning the notice periods for evictions in England return to normal from...

There’s been a call for government to do more to support letting agents as an autumn of rental reform begins. Mark Hayward,...

The farcical implementation of the government’s Green Homes Grant scheme has been sharply criticised by Propertymark. Timothy Douglas, the organisation’s policy and...

Rents in some of the most popular locations of the country have risen 25 per cent in the past year according...

Agents should go further in allowing tenants to have digital access to key documents such as contracts and fees information. That’s one...

ARLA Propertymark has voiced its concern over rent controls to a politicians who is leading the charge to introduce them to...

Reluctance to move during the pandemic is thought to be a key reason for a sharp drop in tenancy disputes between...

Pressure is growing to amend the 2019 Tenant Fees Act to allow charging additional deposits and insurance to cover pets in private rental...

A property consultancy says it’s identified the next ‘landmine’ in the building safety saga facing agents and landlords around the country. Mary-Anne...

The government has updated its formal guidance to letting agents and landlords on Right To Rent. This sets out the continuation of online...

A senior lettings agent and property management company owner has set out how rent controls could work in very specific circumstances...

Virtual Right To Rent checks by agents, which were to have been illegal from just next week, are now permissible until...

The deal to introduce rent controls in Scotland - the result of a deal between two parties in the Scottish Parliament...

New data from Rightmove shows that demand for pet friendly rental properties has increased by 120 per cent compared to last...

There’s been a 21 per cent rise in demand for properties from buy to let investors according to a new analysis...

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

Rent controls are to be introduced into part of the UK as a result of a deal between two political parties. The...

The controversy over whether a new PropTech service can be used by agents to charge people to view a property to...

Earlier this week Propertymark revealed it had co-signed an open letter criticising proposed government cuts to benefits.  That open letter was co-signed...

How up to date is your knowledge on notice periods, pets in rentals, electrical safety inspections and lodgers? This year we’ve...

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

An analysis of new government legislation on energy efficiency suggests it may lead to chaos in the private rental sector. Geospatial technology...

Propertymark has joined a series of charities and a landlord body to warn about the poverty risk of expected changes to...

A housing market analyst is warning of "one heck of a dark cloud on the horizon for the lettings market” as...

Labour shadow housing secretary Lucy Powell has resuscitated the eviction ban, this time for furloughed workers whose government support ends in...

A consultation is to begin next month regarding the designation of an entire city as a Short Term Let Control Area. If...

There has still been no formal response to a government consultation on the database of rogue agents and landlords, 25 months...

A lettings agent who has made a series of outbursts against landlords and councils, has now turned his anger on proposed...

Airbnb has issued a lengthy statement in response to a recent raft of criticisms about the effects of soaring numbers of...

A letting agency has appeared on a ‘name and shame’ list of companies which failed to pay staff the minimum wage. Tetsuo...

The Association of Residential Managing Agents and The Institute of Residential Property Management have informed their respective memberships that they are pondering combining forces. The...

Upcoming changes to Right To Rent procedures make the case for increased automation of the process to save agents from additional...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? My name is Maxine Fothergill and for the past ‘almost’...

Propertymark wants agents to come forward with examples of fraudulent tenancy applications - a growing problem in the rental sector. A statement...

A leading private rental trade body says only bespoke financial help can ensure the private rental sector meets government energy efficiency...

The latest version of the government’s guidance to agents over how to operate during the continuing pandemic suggests that virtual viewings...

The government has updated its guidance for agents, landlords and tenants to explain the possession action process in the county courts...

A new £10m scheme to help renters with Covid-related arrears has been launched in Wales.  Called the Tenancy Hardship Grant, and introduced...

There may be bad news for agencies with reliance on office workers who rent - a new survey suggests 10 per...

A Bill is being introduced into both Houses of Parliament this week which will ramp up the pressure on the private...