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The two main reasons that an agency decides to outsource are: 1.) To reduce costs 2.) To have the ability to focus on...

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

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

Proceedings against a bankrupt letting agent have been delayed 10 weeks to allow mental health reports to be prepared.  Madelaina Eftekhari is...

Letting agents are being urged to respond to a consultation opening today from rhe independent Office for Tax Simplification.  The OTS has published an...

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

An hour-long webinar this week aims to inform agents how to deter property fraud by greater emphasis on compliance, due diligence...

HM Revenue & Customs officers are paying short-notice visits on letting and estate agents to check on their anti-money laundering compliance,...

A little-known law may require tenants to pay stamp duty on the rental properties they do not actually own. London lettings agency...

FCS Compliance has announced its latest anti-money laundering webinar tailored exclusively for Rightmove members.   Are you ready for an HMRC inspection is...

Baroness Alicia Kennedy, director of the Generation Rent campaign, says rents in Wales, Scotland and South West England have soared thanks...

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

ARLA Propertymark has thrown its weight behind a call for HMRC to extend the time limit for the payment of Capital...

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

An anti-money laundering PropTech consultancy claims agents are in serious danger of non-compliance with new regulations, unless they ditch paper documents and...

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

The government’s much-vaunted ‘tax day’ produced few challenges to the status quo - but holiday lets are under scrutiny. Currently the holiday let...

An agency is warning that possible Capital Gains Tax changes are now a cause of major worry to their landlord customers.  Barrows and...

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

A new report from the government says it’s too early to tell whether lettings agencies are abiding by new anti-money laundering...

A new assessment of legislation and council rules surrounding the private rental sector suggests a severe crackdown may be coming in...

Letting agencies should review banking and payment systems in the light of rule changes and the ongoing challenge of the pandemic. This advice...

Rightmove is to host an anti-money laundering webinar next week, aimed at lettings and sales agents. The event, which is entitled Five...

The property market, and therefore, estate agents have been accused of being the 'weak link' in the UK’s money laundering defences. This...

ARLA Propertymark says there has been a breakthrough on the banking clampdown on pooled client accounts - a pain in the...

Rogue landlords have been accused of tax evasion which could cost the Treasury as much as £1.73 billion a year. The accusation...

ARLA Propertymark has set out its concerns over draft guidance on anti-money laundering produced by a body called the Joint Money...

The HMRC’s long-awaited online register for letting agents to register their anti-money laundering activities has opened - almost six months after...

HM Revenue & Customs has issued a new warning to buy to let and Holliday home owners about a major change...

There’s a new warning today for buy to let investors who will be hit by tax changes coming into effect on...

It’s been revealed that a clampdown on the buy to let sector by HM Revenue and Customs has produced millions of...

An analysis of HMRC data reveals that the number of small buy-to-let landlords has dropped for the first time in five...

It’s here - the Fifth EU Money Laundering Directive comes into force today with significant challenges and implications for letting agents. The...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents says it will be issuing resources to support for lettings agents in the coming days...

A landlord has been ordered to pay almost £20,000 and has been told by a judge that he was meaner than...

[Letting Agent Today was ‘off air’ for some of Wednesday and most of Thursday thanks to technical problems - we apologise to...

The Chartered Institute of Taxation is urging tenants not to ignore a letter if they receive one from HM Revenue &...

The BBC is reporting that the short lets giant Airbnb has been contacted by HM Revenue & Customs about its tax...

HM Revenue & Customs has launched what appears to be a fishing expedition to find out information about investor landlords who...

A campaign by HM Revenue & Customs to encourage buy to let investors to ‘fess up’ to their unpaid tax has...

The number of landlords admitting to not paying tax has soared in the past year, according to new data. During 2018/2019, 16,110...

A holiday lets and short-term lettings market boom can be put down to a combination of four reasons, according to specialist...

Landlords have been urged to seek advice about potential stamp duty rebates on ‘uninhabitable’ second properties after a landmark tribunal case. A...

The chief executive of a specialist buy to let lender says increasing the rent to combat additional costs put on landlords...

There is a warning that the HMRC’s Let Property campaign, which received huge publicity and attention for some years, has so...

Income tax paid by buy to let landlords now exceeds £3.8 billion annually – that’s more than double Tesco’s entire annual...

A lettings agency that has analysed HMRC data says rental income for buy to let landlords has leaped 15 per cent...

The Money Laundering Regulations require estate agents to risk assess their business relationships and apply an appropriate level of investigation to...

Agents who want to go the extra mile for their landlord clients may want to point them to assistance for the...

Two new PropTech services launched, targeting the lettings industry. Tenancy referencing firm FCC Paragon has launched MyMoveIn, an online platform that supports...

The Money Laundering Regulations 2017 require estate agents to risk assess their business relationships and apply an appropriate level of investigation...

Government plans aimed at stopping the abuse of the current Rent A Room tax perk may overcomplicate the system and deter...

The Money Laundering Regulations 2017 require estate agents to risk assess their business relationships and apply an appropriate level of investigation...

The Money Laundering Regulations 2017 require estate agents to risk assess their business relationships and apply an appropriate level of investigation...

A regional newspaper claims that a lettings agency has collapsed, its boss has gone to ground, and thousands of pounds are...

An analysis of data released by HM Revenue and Customs shows that 1.9 million people earned money from property in 2015-16...

HM Revenue & Customs has launched a consultation on adding tax checks to private rental sector licensing schemes - in other...

Labour's housing spokesman has called on the government to give councils greater powers over the regulation of the private rental sector.   In...

Romans says one in four of its registered buyers in the first half of this year has been an investor, suggesting...

A new report identifies in detail over 145 laws and regulations governing the private rental sector, varying across the four countries...

A council claims that up to 13,000 private landlords are “of interest” to HM Revenue and Customs, where there are alleged...

An economics academic says the country’s taxpayers should be “very angry” with the government for failing to collect taxes to which...

Campaigning charity Shelter claims around one in 10 landlords quit the lettings sector each year.   Using new research by YouGov it says...

It seems prop-tech is exploding at a scary rate, and the latest brands are all trying to grab our attention by...

A landlord who ran multiple property companies but failed to declare his income or that he was a company director to...

There was a sigh of relief amongst the lettings industry that yesterday's Budget introduced no new property taxes - but concern...

Annoying isn’t it. You take on a stunning property, agree a compelling asking price and your Vendor is desperate to get the...

The government should think again about punitive tax changes to the private rented sector after receiving greater-than-expected revenue from the three...

Housing minister Gavin Barwell says recent changes to buy to let mortgage interest relief and stamp duty will only affect a...

Anyone who thought the buy to let sector’s recent anger at higher government taxes may have been misplaced may wish to...

Legal represenatives for two landlords will today make the case for a judicial review of Section 24 of the Finance (No.2)...

The key lies in improving your customer experience through technology For Agents, the tremendous growth in online estate agents highlights a strong...

Speculation that the government was attempting to ‘slip in’ yet more changes to the way landlords are being taxed have been...

A self-employed property investor and caterer who stole over £70,000 in a tax credit fraud, has been jailed.   Khalid Farid, 59, from...

The date for the court hearing to decide whether there should be a judicial review of the buy to let tax...

HM Revenue & Customs has launched a 12-week consultation on a proposal which it claims simplifies the tax demands levied on...

A new £40m Build To Rent scheme has been given the go-ahead for Manchester city centre.   Moorfield, a UK real estate private...

Any lingering hope that the buy to let sector might have of a rethink by the new Chancellor over restructuring mortgage...

The Residential Landlords Association is asking the Welsh Assembly to scrap the three per cent stamp duty surcharge imposed on buy...

New Chancellor Phillip Hammond has been urged by an industry trade group to reset the government’s approach to taxing the buy...

The number of landlords in the UK increased by 7% to reach 1.75 million in 2013-2014. Analysis of Her Majesty's Revenue and...

Data released by Agency Express shows a massive spike in activity for the lettings market.  April’s national figures for new listings ‘To...

Average price for a property paid by investors in April fell by 8.3 per cent from £194,000 a month earlier to...

The frenzy of investor purchasing of buy to let units ahead of the stamp duty surcharge deadline has led to an...

HMRC figures show that over 230,000 people have used the new pension freedoms introduced a year ago - a smaller number...

The approaching of the April 1 stamp duty surcharge deadline led to a severe drop-off in buy to let purchasers seeking...

Ian Wilson, chief executive officer of Martin & Co, has given David Cameron’s government a “two out of 10” score for...

The people behind the campaign to seek a judicial review of the buy to let tax changes proposed by Chancellor George...

HM Revenue & Customs and the Treasury have at last responded to the legal team representing two landlords challenging beleaguered Chancellor...

The Council of Mortgage Lenders has ticked off the government for not updating its Private Landlords’ Survey for some six years...

The attempt to see judicial review of George Osborne’s buy to let tax change continues apace, with the government now having...

Agents acting for landlords replacing furniture and other domestic items in homes to let should be given detailed guidance from the...

A report by the British Hospitality Association appears to reveal the latest estimates of the impact of people who use Airbnb...

The latest step in the legal challenge to Chancellor George Osborne’s proposal to limit landlords’ mortgage interest tax relief comes in...

The legal challenge to Chancellor George Osborne’s controversial buy to let tax change is underway with a letter sent to HMRC...

HM Revenue and Customs has published the responses it has received to its 12 week consultation on changing the Wear and...

A businessman has been jailed for two years for failing to declare and pay tax on income he received from his...

While almost every lettings organisation has been up in arms at the raft of tax changes for landlords suggested by Chancellor...

A campaign targeting residential landlords has given HM Revenue and Customs an additional tax take of over £50m.  The Let Property Campaign,...

It’s been revealed that Airbnb - the online informal lettings service which can be used to by-pass letting agents - passes details...

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HMRC has revealed the scope of its proposed changes to the wear and tear allowance, as announced in George Osborne’s Budget...

The changes to tax relief for landlords comes on top of a blizzard of new health and safety requirements, regulations and...

"Stop right there. Hands above your head. Don't move. Mavis, dial 999." Mr D Smith (MARLA, NFoPP) removes his Glock 19...