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Five Labour MPs have put forward an Early Day Motion in the House of Commons calling for rent controls - even...

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

The UK Apartment Association - effectively a trade body for the Build To Rent sector - is beefing up its top...

The Federation of Independent Agents has selected an automated client account platform as a supplier.  The FIA was established in by Graham...

A move to stop HMOs being used as Airbnb or other short lets has been put forward in the westcountry -...

Trading Standards has stopped a lettings agency owner from being a company director after he defrauded customers by over £80,000. Francis Smart,...

Lettings agents within The Guild of Property Professionals think that the Renters Reform Bill could cause many landlords to quit.  Graham Wood,...

A new assessment of the private rental sector by guarantor service Housing Hand suggests that tenants paying rent upfront have a...

An agency tomorrow opens a new lettings and sales office in a location about to hear whether it’s won city status...

The team at Letting Agent Today and our publisher, Angels Media, wish all agents a very prosperous New Year.  Thank you for your...

Letting Agent Today would like to wish all agents and their families, staff and colleagues a wonderful Christmas 2021. It’s been an...

How can agents improve their position in society? A report has been published following a roundtable discussion between prominent agency figures...

The live launch of a roundtable event hosted by rental payments platform PayProp takes place tomorrow – and letting agents can...

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...

North of England agency Robert Watts is expanding into Halifax after completing the acquisition of independent firm Bennett Kaye for an...

A chartered surveying company has acquired a long established lettings agency in the same town in Greater Manchester. Altrincham based firm Oakwood...

There’s to be a new editor for Landlord Today from tomorrow, Thursday October 1. It’s to be Graham Norwood, currently editor of...

The Federation of Independent Agents has revealed four new PropTech and training strategic partnerships for member agencies. They are Inventory Base, Vaboo,...

It’s now been revealed that 112 redundancies have followed the collapse of controversial short lets support firm Hostmaker. The overseas operation of...

This is our last edition of Letting Agent Today until Friday December 27 and everyone at Angels Media, LAT and the...

The fast-growing Federation of Independent Agents has this morning revealed that it’s linking with Training For Professionals, the largest provider of...

First, he was trying his hand in lettings, then he devised a 2.5% commission to take on Purplebricks. Now, after nine months...

Flatfair, one of the leading deposit alternative providers fighting it out for dominance in the burgeoning sector, has scored a coup...

The newly-formed Federation of Independent Agents (FIA), the network set up by former Property Franchise Group managing director Graham Lock, has...

Everyone at Letting Agent Today wishes all our readers, agents and suppliers to the industry, a peaceful and loving Christmas. If at any...

New research appears to suggest that some tenants would be willing to pay substantially higher rent if they were allowed to...

A council leader in London, so outraged after a bust of a rogue lettings property, has asked: “What kind of monster...

An electrical testing equipment firm and an MP are setting up a national campaign to demand new laws on appliance testing...

Letting Agent Today editor Graham Norwood speaks to Kristjan Byfield, founder of The Depositary and Base Property Specialists at FUTURE: PropTech 2018. ...

Letting Agent Today editor Graham Norwood speaks to Neil Cobbold, chief operating officer of PayProp in the UK at FUTURE: PropTech...

Letting Agent Today has been named as one of five titles on the shortlist for Property Trade Magazine of the Year...

All good wishes for a happy and successful Easter for everyone in the industry from Letting Agent Today, and from our publisher...

The Northern Powerhouse agenda, increased infrastructure investment announced in the Autumn Statement and low entry prices make the north of England...

Buy to let landlords may be forced to raise rents or even sell their properties because of the government’s new tax...

The SDL Group says it is on course to become the UK's largest provider of Build to Rent services.  The firm, which...

Sequre Property Investment says it has seen a five per cent increase in enquiries and a 12.4 per cent increase in...

On the day of the campaign rally to galvanise support for a bid to win a judicial review of George Osborne’s...

An industry body has asked classified listings online service Gumtree to issue its users clear warnings about possible scams involving fake...

A leading tax expert says there are likely to be unintended consequences of what he calls “half-cocked legislation” bringing in additional...

LAT returns on Monday January 4 when we - and the rest of our industry - are back to work for...

Two interesting developments in the past week have shown how established parts of the agency industry - on either side of...

Barbon Insurance Group Ltd - the firm behind HomeLet, Letsure and Rentshield, has appointed a new non-executive chairman as a global...

This month has marked a real change in the way the private lettings sector is perceived - and it’s a perception...

OK, you’ve had your fun. Now let’s leave the regulators regulate and work for the public. If you don’t know what...

So, a sigh of relief.  Most agents will be pleased with the election result - even if they are not Tory supporters...