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The Martyn Gerrard agency has acquired a London independent - Range Homes. Range Homes, based in the north London suburb of Palmers...

A London lettings agency has been expelled from The Property Ombudsman for not paying compensation to a landlord following a failure...

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

Elliot Leigh - an agency that is the largest guaranteed rent provider in London and Essex - has completed phase one...

It’s been revealed that agents have been kicked out of The Property Ombudsman in recent months for failing to pay compensatory...

A new scheme offering landlords the opportunity to lease property through a local authority has been launched.   Leasing Scheme Wales: Gwynedd gives...

One of the two official redress bodies, the Property Redress Scheme, has announced a beefed up advisory panel with a substantial...

Five agencies have been expelled from The Property Ombudsman scheme - all for compliance failures. The first is Home Trader Properties, in...

The next episode of the Channel 5 show Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords this evening features an agent offering a supposed guaranteed...

The Property Redress Scheme has expelled an agent operating a guaranteed rent scheme which failed to pay £150,000 to a former landlord client. The agent...

A London lettings agency is exposed on TV this evening over what turns out to be a sham guaranteed rent scheme. Landlords...

A survey by a comparison website suggests landlords are evenly split about how they find letting agents. Some 28 per cent favour physically searching...

The Tenant Fees Act 2019’s 12-month transition period came to an end on 31 May, prohibiting various payments and charges that...

An agency comparison website has released information on landlord preferences and activities which it says can help agents market more effectively.  Rentround...

A council says it’s let 21 properties thanks to a rent guarantee system launched to woo private landlords to supply homes...

PropTech platform MakeUrMove, which launched back in 2008 as the first online lettings agency, has secured a £1.3m funding package from...

One of the highest profile figures in the rental sector says rogue letting agents should be named and shamed as a...

Letting agencies and landlords are being invited by a local council to take part in what it describes as a “risk...

Stockport-based property development company Three Sixty has launched what it calls an online agency - Three Sixty Living - to handle...

A local authority has set up what it calls The Private Sector Landlord service to try to harness some private property...

Part of the controversial Spicerhaart empire want the government to guarantee that some landlords receive 80 per cent of their usual...

A developer offering a rent guarantee on its homes has amended its advertisement wording after an intervention by the Advertising Standards...

The Property Ombudsman has expelled three lettings agencies from its scheme because of unpaid awards to landlord clients. The first is Kingsman...

Private landlords are to be given a month’s rent upfront and 12 months’ membership of a trade body if they sign...

Property management platform Howsy has revealed new funding to the tune of £5m - and it now claims to be one...

A lettings agent and investment adviser says there is a positive interpretation of the fees ban introduced this month in England. Abi...

A council claims that its decision to set up its own lettings agency has prevented homelessness for almost 50 families and...

The online property management platform Howsy, formerly known as NoAgent, has launched a new package for landlords. The platform says Howsy Protect...

Northwood, which is part of the Belvoir group, is launching a new TV advertising campaign to highlight its Guaranteed Rent Scheme. “We...

Online letting agency MakeUrMove has launched a new subscription model which it claims will ”ready landlords for the incoming tenant fee...

An advertisement on a property management firm’s website suggesting that rental income would be guaranteed to landlords has been banned by...

An overcrowded property let by an unlicensed company with inadequate fire precautions and unheated rooms has led to a £46,620 fine...

A local authority has started a one-year trial of a ‘social lettings agency’ which aims to match those at risk of...

One of the government’s three approved official redress providers says companies operating in the Rent-to-Rent sector should be obliged to join...

A Welsh local authority is offering a cash payment of up to £1,200 to landlords who join a quasi-letting agency run...

Canterbury is the latest council to consider setting up its own letting agency. The authority hopes to tempt private landlords with promises...