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The so-called King and Queen of Buy To Let, the controversial husband and wife team of Fergus and Judith Wilson, are...

A prominent figure in the lettings industry has warned that any extension to the current evictions ban would risk hurting the...

Accreditation service NAPIT has produced a publication for the rental sector ahead of new electrical safety checks coming into force for...

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has issued guidelines ahead of new electrical safety checks coming into force for...

The Chartered Institute of Housing has published proposals aimed at avoiding a spike in private rental sector evictions when the current...

A group of activists in London claim as many as 2,500 tenants are on a rent-strike during the Coronavirus crisis. The number is...

Residents at home during lockdown who may have seen families crammed into overcrowded HMOs are being asked to report the properties...

Research shows that half of those in the private rental sector are aged 16 to 34, making the lettings industry vulnerable...

A new survey of COVID-19 related rental arrears shows that fewer than five per cent of tenants are behind with their...

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

There’s been a surge in Google searches for issues concerning renters’ rights during the Coronavirus crisis. Research by heating company Boiler Plan...

A document outlining options for the future regulation of Airbnb and other short let platforms in the UK is to be...

A council wants buy to let landlords with one-bed flats or rooms in shared homes to help it find homes for...

A London council has sent an open letting to its buy to let landlords urging them to show understanding to tenants...

Citizens Advice claims that in the two months since the lockdown began it has helped over 10,000 people with issues related...

** This Bank Holiday Monday both Letting Agent Today and Estate Agent Today look at how agencies have modified offices and protocols...

** This Bank Holiday Monday both Letting Agent Today and Estate Agent Today look at how agencies have modified offices and protocols...

** This Bank Holiday Monday both Letting Agent Today and Estate Agent Today look at how agencies have modified offices and protocols...

Propertymark has created a 29-point checklist in line with the Government’s current property industry guidance, most recently updated on May 13.  Propertymark...

An online agency has denied a claim that it is allowing High Street agents to use its platform to avoid paying...

The possibility of an extended mortgage holiday being introduced, for landlords as well as home owners, has been sharply criticised by...

It’s a Bank Holiday weekend and if you’re taking time off we hope you and your families enjoy a well-earned break. We’ll...

An online lettings agency says landlords should take up mortgage holiday offers and be willing to accept reduced rent during the...

Chancellors, the independent agency chain with over 50 offices across southern England and mid Wales, is launching a deposit-free renting option. Working with...

A landlord website claims the current ban on evictions is not to be extended beyond its scheduled close of June 29...

Rental property website SearchSmartly is thought to be the first in the world to display air quality ratings on every listing. In...

The number of new rental listings reaching the market has soared as much as 44 per cent in some areas following...

One of the country’s largest lettings agencies is to lose 17 jobs out of 100 in what the company founder calls...

A consumer group wants buy to let properties to be re-let only if the tenants in them want to move. The call...

Repairs and maintenance management software provider Fixflo is hosting a webinar later this week to debate how letting agents can find...

The plethora of support companies around Airbnb and other short let platforms in the UK have told the government that it...

Rental app service Movebubble has launched its Home Walkthrough feature which it says it the first of its kind in the...

Campaigning charity Shelter, which has been outspoken in its criticism of many letting agents in recent years, has now produced a...

Tenants’ safety should be letting agents’ first priority in the new era of activity during the Coronavirus pandemic. In a new document...

Private rents are expected to fall across the UK in the coming three months, but stabilise over the course of the...

From midnight lettings agents in England have been able to resume work thanks to an amendment to Coronavirus legislation that was...

A digital property management platform has gone live with a network of local agents covering some of the UK’s key cities.  Apropos has recruited a network of what it calls...

The Generation Rent pressure group is wrong to claim that the majority of landlords are failing to support tenants needing help...

Labour’s proposal to extend the current ban on private rental sector evictions could end up with some landlords in financial ruin.  Landlord...

Some buy to let mortgages are now more expensive than before for borrowers, despite the recent fall in the Bank of...

A group of private rental activists says Labour proposals to give tenants two years to repay arrears accrued during the virus...

Deposit alternative service Flatfair has launched a tool for letting agents to help administer arrears run up by tenants during the...

Labour wants tenants running up arrears during the Coronavirus crisis to have two years to repay them, as part of a...

There’s been a substantial 20 per cent rise in formal complaints about agents taken up by The Property Ombudsman.  The figures refer...

Reapit is offering lettings and sales agents free training courses for its CRM software.  The offer will provide non-customers with complimentary access...

New research suggested that yields across the UK rental market are remaining broadly unchanged despite the Coronavirus crisis. The current average sits...

Strutt and Parker is an agency that’s got long-standing team spirit and that shows in how different areas have been working...

Lenwell is a busy lettings agency covering Luton, Dunstable, Bedford, Milton Keynes, Biggleswade, Hitchin and Northampton - and now, busy in...

There’s no escaping team activity at epropservices - and in a good way. The company, which is the parent firm of The...

An economist who previously suggested tenants should live rent-free for three months during the Coronavirus crisis has revised his thinking -...

Winkworth says its London offices are reporting significant numbers of landlords who used to advertise on Airbnb and similar short-let platforms...

ARLA Propertymark has made a series of demands on the government in the light of the Coronavirus crisis.  In a formal written...

A group of local landlords and others in the private rental sector are challenging a local authority’s licensing proposals with their...

A new automated lettings platform claims to automate key processes around compliance, marketing, leasing and management for letting agents. Ringley Group, a...

Tomorrow, Bank Holiday Friday, we’re revealing what agents have been doing to maintain morale in their teams during lockdown. You’ve been generous...

Agents and landlords who use unorthodox methods of securing obligations from tenants to pay their rent during the Coronavirus crisis may...

It’s only eight weeks to the start off the new Electrical Safety Standards in the Private Rented Sector which come into...

The Scottish government has announced a £5m fund that will offer interest-free loans to landlords whose tenants are having difficulty paying...

The latest market snapshot by PropTech firm Goodlord suggests that while new and completed tenancy volumes dropped rapidly in the first...

A commission investigating affordable homes in the UK has called for annual private sector rent increases to be limited to a...

Nearly half of households in the private rental sector have regrets about their home according to a survey by the HomeOwners...

A pressure group representing private tenants wants government to help housing associations purchase buy to let properties “at knockdown prices.” A blog...

A raft of measures from government and courts intended to help private tenants during the Coronavirus lockdown may be storing up a...

The Property Ombudsman has announced the expulsion of eight agencies, all for contravening TPO codes of practice. Most of the expulsions were...

A consumer charity has been blasted by a landlords' trade body for making “irresponsible” claims about tenants and the Coronavirus crisis. Research...

The typical rent for a London property makes it “the undefeated number one most expensive city in Europe” despite increases slowing...

London-focussed agency Chestertons has become the latest business to use the teclet platform to manage tenancy, renewal and management processes. Around 40...

Once the worst of the Coronavirus crisis passes there’s likely to be much more regulation of parts of the rental sector...

There was just a two per cent rise in late rental payments over the last month according to figures from an...

Several local authorities at different stages of implementing rental licensing schemes have put their proposals on ice until the Coronavirus crisis...

The new trade body for companies working in the beleaguered short lets sector has recruited 14 new member firms - although...

A leading PropTech expert has urged lettings agents to improve their administration and paperwork if they want to avoid what could...

One of the country’s largest Build To Rent players, Legal & General, says it’s to construct another 350 homes as part...

The number of mortgage lenders still offering products to landlords is 42 - only seven fewer than at the peak of...

Different guidelines have been issued for the rental sector in different parts of the British Isles as devolved administrations get to...

A former estate agent who has set up an online platform giving information on property values for London renters and buyers...

A new analysis reveals three key figures that suggest the rental market will bounce back from the lockdown and the Coronavirus...

A new automated lettings platform is launching next week and promising to ensure agents and buy to let investors stay compliant. PlanetRent...

London agency Chestertons reports that despite the lockdown it’s registered 2,369 new tenants needing to move, conducted 3,432 virtual viewings, received...

A pro-Build To Rent online platform is hosting a webinar to discuss whether the sector will emerge from the Coronavirus crisis...

PropTech firm Goodlord is hosting two webinars - the first of which is today - looking at issues surrounding rent defaulting...

A new renovation start-up is working with letting agents and landlords to allow key workers to use empty rental properties for...

Rental demand has dropped significantly across London and other major UK cities as a result of the pandemic. When comparing current levels...

There’s been a 12 per cent increase in the number of Built To Rent homes across the UK that have been...

One of London’s largest lettings agencies is warning its landlord clients to only use mortgage payment holidays offered by lenders as a...

The Court of Appeal has ruled in favour of the government’s controversial Right To Rent scheme, overturning a decision reached last...

A leading London lettings agency is reporting only a very low rent default rate so far, despite fears that the Coronavirus...

The lettings and management software platform teclet has announced its latest partner - LegalforLandlords. Agents using teclet - which is currently offering...

Demand for homes to rent has surged back by some 30 per cent in the two weeks to April 14 according...

A PropTech firm is making its Covid-19 functionality free to use for agents, landlords and tenants facing challenges in accessing properties.  Launched...

The Property Academy’s latest webinar, to be held this afternoon, is to be addressed by a behavioural economist and frequent contributor...

Research by the National Residential Landlords Association and the Which? consumer body has revealed that some 53 councils in England alone...

High-end lettings agency Knight Frank says the lettings market “could explode quite quickly” when the lockdown ends. The agency says that in...

Gas and electrical safety certificates should be extended for six months to cover for the impact of the Coronavirus.  The call comes...

Student bodies want letting agents to acknowledge that many students have lost their incomes and have been forced to return to...

Veteran Countrywide figure John Hards has joined the board of still-to-launch property portal OpenBrix. In 2018 Hards rejoined Countrywide as national lettings...

An agency and its landlord clients have come to the aid of nurses who are in the frontline of the fight...

The director of the website Home says that investment in buy to let will look like a highly attractive safe haven...

A short-lets rental platform says it has evidence to show that nights booked in April are down 90 per cent compared...

Hello, this is the final Conquering Corona for the week as we continue to help agents with advice and guidance through...

A London council has pressed ahead with the launch of a borough-wide additional licensing scheme despite the lockdown and uncertainty created...

Hello and welcome to Conquering Corona, our bid to help agents through the crisis. If you have appropriate advice to share with...

Lettings PropTech company teclet has announced that its partnership with the Mortgage Advice Bureau has been extended to offer mortgage and...

New and newly-refurbished properties are letting more readily as virtual viewings become more widespread during the lockdown. That’s the view of Knight...

The private equity firm that snapped up Zoopla Property Group two years ago has revealed that it’s one of two companies...

Data from independent mortgage monitor Moneyfacts shows that there’s been a big drop in the choice of mortgage for buy to...

Hello, and welcome to Wednesday’s guidance and advice for agents and suppliers trying to find a way through the current crisis. If...

A lettings sector website claims 40 per cent of tenants have seen their ability to pay full or in some cases...

The Generation Rent pressure group, fiercely critical of agents and landlords in recent months, wants the government to implement a 12 month...

Hello - we hope you had as good an Easter as possible in these unusual circumstances, and welcome back to work. Now...

Three more agencies have signed up to the ESTAS customer review platform. The arrival of Newton Fallowell, Lovelle and Goodchilds - all...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors warns that rents are likely to stagnate for the rest of the year - although...

A Northern Ireland lettings agent is providing rent-free housing for NHS staff who have moved out of their own homes to...

The lockdown is now a fact of life across almost all of the western world so the team at Chestertons, which...

Home offices aren’t all about laptops and wifi routers….they’re about gorgeous views too. So thanks to Marc Morrish, a director and auctioneer...

The proportion of homes bought last month by buy to let investors plummeted to a record low of just eight per...

Hello - we’re here to help on a daily basis, sharing information across the industry.  As ever, we’d love your input to...

Families living in private rented accommodation are more exposed to the economic shock of the Coronavirus than homeowners, which could mean...

For many this coming Easter weekend will be the strangest ever - for agents and industry suppliers it will not be...

A leading supplier says the current market standstill is an opportunity for the industry to rethink how short lets can be...

Hello and welcome to Wednesday’s update on what offers and advice are available to agents at this most difficult and challenging...

A PropTech firm has issued a dramatic offer to letting agents to pay the company only when they themselves get paid...

One of the lettings sector’s biggest trade bodies is calling on government to make a clear statement to help landlords who...

Good morning and welcome to today’s edition, helping agents find a way through the Coronavirus crisis by sharing information with the...

A BBC News investigation has exposed some Airbnb and other short let platform users as flouting lockdown regulations. The probe has found...

The commercial arm of Countrywide is urging landlords currently facing huge void periods because students have been ordered home, to reconfigure...

A campaign group is urging its members to write to landlords asking them to “suspend” rent demands until the Coronavirus crisis...

Week three of the lockdown begins - we hope you’re faring well with these temporary restrictions. We’re here to help where...

Knight Frank is predicting that the number of tenancies agreed in the prime markets across London and the Home Counties in...

Lettings management platform Howsy claims it has seen an increase in business since the lockdown 10 days ago.  It says it’s enjoyed...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is advising member companies to file their accounts on time in order to remain transparent...

Hello and here’s the latest daily update to help the industry through these unprecedented times.  If you have any appropriate advice you...

Demand for rental properties has predictably plummeted thanks to the lockdown. Data from PropTech company Goodlord shows that while a surge for...

Labour’s latest suggestion for the private rental sector - a rent holiday for tenants during the Coronavirus crisis - has been...

Hello and welcome to our latest update… we’re probably not yet getting used to these unusual times but we hope this...

Airbnb and similar platforms have seen a collapse of business since the start of the Coronavirus crisis with some 70 per...

Welcome to the latest edition of our daily service dedicated to advice and guidance on how agents can best cope with the...

When it comes to good works, one frequently-featured agency is Chestertons in London - and again it’s come up trumps during...

A Blackpool lettings agent has come to the rescue of two NHS nurses whose car had broken down - and now...

An estate agency has enterprisingly labelled all of its property listings with the mantra we must all respect - Stay At...

The government has relaxed some provisions of the controversial Right To Rent regulations for the duration of the Coronavirus outbreak. The temporary...

Knight Frank is reporting that tenants in high-value London markets are agreeing deals that allow them to delay the start of...

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

Hello and welcome to the latest edition of Conquering Corona, our daily update helping the industry cope with the current crisis. If...

The government issued further guidance on the private rental sector over the weekend. The new 21 page document - a link to...

A lettings agency has given a full apology after a letter - not approved by the company - was sent out...

The former operations director at Purplebricks says he is waiving fees for letting agents who want to join his new online...

Hello, and we trust you had as good a weekend as possible in these difficult circumstances.  As we start a new week...

Paul Shamplina, the founder of Landlord Action and star of a Channel 5 programme on evictions, says he fully backs the...

All court possession orders are being suspended from today as part of the changes to the private rental sector to cope...

Hello and welcome to the latest Conquering Corona - our guide for agents to get through these challenging times. Please let us...

Despite the challenges being thrown up to the lettings sector by Coronavirus, this is a reminder that new MEES regulations on...

We'd hoped it was good news but in fact it's just good-news-yet-to-come. The Savills office in Wuhan, the epicentre of the Coronavirus crisis in...

The Association of Independent Inventory Clerks says it has contacted the government to see whether its members are deemed ‘essential’ and...

The landlords’ newly-merged trade body has renewed its call for the government to do more to help the private rental sector...

The Citizens Advice charity is the latest organisation to call for more help for private tenants following what appears to be...

The government has yet to give explicit guidance relating to private rental maintenance, but new advice this morning appears to shed...

Hello and welcome to today’s Conquering Corona, our guide to the latest information to help agents and the rest of the...

Labour is on the warpath against the government following the surprise contents of the Coronavirus Emergency Bill, apparently watering down the...

Propertymark has been told the agents should shut their offices immediately - they are not “essential businesses” under the new Coronavirus...

The three month outright eviction ban pledged to renters last week appears to have been watered down in the Coronavirus Emergency...

What appears to be the first court adjournment of an eviction case caused by the Coronavirus outbreak has happened - raising...

Hello: so much has happened since the last Conquering Corona column on Friday. Before we get on with it, a reminder...

There’s been a sharp drop in rental churn since the Coronavirus outbreak worsened according to a flat-sharing website. SpareRoom says that across...

Not-for-profit accreditation service safeagent says the government should ensure councils delay the introduction of all new private rental sector licensing schemes...

The growing number of companies offering support services to hosts and agencies that operate short lets on Airbnb and similar platforms...

Hello - here we are with Friday’s help and advice.  A reminder, if you need it, that we want to share your...

The government has announced a complete ban on evictions in the private and social sectors for any tenant affected by the...

Hello and here’s the next batch of guidance and advice from different sectors of the industry, many from influential trade groups. It’s...

It’s easy to forget in the Coronavirus frenzy but from tomorrow, Friday March 20, all tenancies are to become subject to...

Franchise giant Winkworth has expanded its presence in Reading with the acquisition of a local independent lettings agency. It’s snapped up AMPM,...

A survey of the buy to let market conducted by a bank before the latest acceleration in the Coronavirus outbreak suggests...

Labour says the government should ban evictions for people who fall behind on their rent due to Coronavirus. John Healey, the shadow...

Good morning and welcome to the industry’s daily update on how we cope with the challenge of social distancing and self-isolation...

A leading PropTech expert says there’s still more that can be done by the rental sector to drive up the quality...

Tomorrow’s National Landlord Investment show, scheduled for London’s Olympia, has been postponed because of the Coronavirus crisis. The organisers say they reached...

A landlord from Plymouth has been sentenced after failing to maintain gas appliances and failing to have landlord’s gas safety checks...

One of the lettings sector’s leading trade bodies has called on the government and lenders to agree a package of measures...

Hello and welcome to today’s Conquering Corona, a service we’re running to share official guidance and agents’ advice in a bid...

A lettings agency and its director have pleaded guilty to renting out an overcrowded house in the first case brought to...

A lettings market snapshot conducted before the worst effects of the Coronavirus were known suggests the rental market is relatively strong...

A massive £250m has been raised from a Swedish pension fund towards UK Build To Rent projects. Property development firm Oxford Properties...

Activists with a record of opposing agents and landlords want a blanket ban on rent rises and evictions in the current virus...

Letting Agent Today is launching a daily service to help agents facing the Coronavirus threat.  This is where you’ll find news, advice...

PropTech platform teclet is offering letting agents that list with OnTheMarket a three month trial offer of a digital inventory service. One...

A PropTech platform claims that an area where the average rent is 50 per cent of less of an average salary...

The Guild of Letting and Management has thrown helpful light on the responsibilities and recommended approach of letting agents faced with...

The typical UK private rental deposit, often considered high in this country, is thought to be relatively low by international standards...

There is no doubt that the BBC News article in early February caused something of a stir within the Deposit Free...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? My name is Jon Notley and I am the co-founder...

The government has been called upon to issue specific Coronavirus guidance for the rental sector. The chief executive of the Association of...

The Budget has failed tenants by doing nothing to increase the supply of private rental property according to two lettings sector...

A shocking case of a buy to let HMO that did not even have a working smoke detector has led to...

With confirmation that Section 21 will be scrapped, how can agents get ready for life after no-fault evictions? The short answer is...

The Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act came into force across the country on the 20th March 2019. The act is designed...

A lettings agent has completed a £2.6million property acquisition plan in one city on behalf of investors, and will go on...

The latest lettings market snapshot by HomeLet shows that average rents across the UK are still not breaking through the £1,000...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Nick Lyons CEO What is No Letting Go and what does...

PropTech company Goodlord, already used by hundreds of agencies across the UK, has revealed a £10m investment windfall after its latest...

A local authority has taken the unusual step of saying that a £600 surcharge will be added to the licensing costs...

A buy to let investor has been found guilty of letting out poor quality living accommodation that was said to pose...

Over 100,000 current or aspiring tenants have signed up to an education programme explaining how the rental sector works, run by...

An online student publication is urging readers who are tenants to “go lawsuit crazy” when the full provisions of the Homes...

It’s steady-as-she-goes in the rental market according to the latest market snapshot produced by PropTech firm Goodlord.  Void periods dropped slightly in...

An anti-poverty campaigner and tax expert says any private rented sector tenant with Coronavirus should be able to live rent-free for...

The Property Ombudsman is warning agents not to discriminate against tenants through a No DSS or any similar policy. Following the legal...

The safeagent accreditation business says it has helped secure the conviction of a rogue lettings agent who falsely claimed membership of...

Hostmaker, a property management firm working with properties listed on Airbnb and other short-let platforms, has ceased trading with its parent...

The Guild of Property Professionals is reminding the rental sector that owners of properties to let have only until April 1...

A newspaper claims multiple councils are opening investigations into agents allegedly defying the tenant fees ban - and at least one...

The leaseholder of a council property in central London has been found guilty of advertising it on Airbnb and the Booking.com...

When Wolverhampton estate agency Thomas Harvey opened its doors more than 50 years ago, mortgages weren’t really part of the equation...

The clampdown on referral fees, until now concentrated on the sales sector, will extend to letting agents too. James Munro, head of...

A landlord has been ordered to pay back no less than £190,000 - equivalent to nine years’ rent - after he...

A landlord has been ordered to pay nearly £6,000 in fines and costs after pleading guilty to harassing and financially exploiting...

Optimism amongst investors in the private rental sector is on the rise, despite the various tax and regulation obstacles facing the...

A council’s intervention has stopped a landlord forcing his private tenants to use an external staircase to enter their home -...

New regulations mean highest risk rental properties may not have legally binding electrical safety cover for a prolonged period of time. That’s...

A buy to let investor has been hit with a bill of almost £9,500 after being accused of allowing a tenant...

Arun - which has the brands of Douglas Allen in East London and Essex, Ward & Partners in Kent, Cubitt &...

A jailed letting agent in a long-running legal saga has now been told she must repay her victims some £43,000 -...

A property management firm says the private rental sector is effectively disadvantaged in the fight against climate change because it does...

A newspaper claims that a short lets management firm that handles properties let on Airbnb and similar platforms is scrambling for...

For a cool £1,153 a week you would expect a flat, even in pricey central London, to come with some perks. A...

A London council says nearly half of the Airbnb-style short let properties available in its patch last year exceeded their legal...

The Property Ombudsman has expelled five agencies, mostly for failures to honour awards: four of them are lettings operations and one...

Two bedroom properties produce the best yields for buy to let investors according to the latest research. Lettings management platform Howsy has...

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

The typical landlord’s income from property has plummeted by a fifth in under a decade according to the National Landlords’ Association. Its...

A survey by lettings agency Carter Jonas has revealed what the firm calls the top priorities for tenants as the 2020s...

Nearly four out of 10 landlords believe that tenant demand will rise this year, according to a study by high-profile buy...

One of the country’s largest Build To Rent developers says it is specifically targeting certain tenant types for one of its...

A resident who was unable to access an emergency escape route during a fire was found standing on a windowsill hanging...

Almost three quarters of Belvoir’s lettings franchisees anticipate rent increases this year.  In a survey of the franchise firm’s offices across the...

A council in a leafy area of south east England has issued an emergency prohibition order to a buy to let...

The manager of an agency in West Lothian has bought the franchise for the office she’s run for the past six...

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

Cynics who rejected claims that landlords would quit the buy to let sector because of increasing bureaucracy and higher taxes may...

A five branch lettings and sales firm is the latest agency to sign up to love2move, a PropTech platform that allows...

Another housing market snapshot suggests demand and confidence are improving as a result of the new political and economic landscape following...

A seminar roadshow has been announced for letting agents considering quitting the sector.  LegalforLandlords says it’s organised the six events after discovering...

The Yorkshire agency Linley & Simpson has revealed more acquisitions of independent agencies as it tightens its grip on the regional...

The PropTech platform Movebubble has upgraded its features to increase rivalry between lettings agents and thus enhance the renting experience for...

Agents have come out fighting against a proposal being considered in one part of the UK to triple the time to...

The National Landlords Association has issued advice for the lettings sector on the coronavirus infection. Although much of the advice is a...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has made an uncompromising set of demands on the government, asking it to implement a...

A room-finding portal, along with the owners of a London lettings agency and management firm, must pay over £100,000 for letting...

Confusion among renters over the complex Tenant Fees Act could trigger a surge in complaints about agents to redress schemes -...

The latest lettings market snapshot provided by HomeLet shows that the average rent across the UK as a whole is now...

One of Ed Sheeran’s first massive hits was Lego House. And now, not many years later, it’s been revealed that he’s...

Three more deposit alternative supplier have issued statements seeking to distance their product from criticisms raised in a BBC investigation. Yesterday we carried...

The government says it’s working on an online digital Right To Rent status checking service for agents and landlords to use,...

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

Pet-friendly tenancies of the kind envisaged by the government could oblige some private landlords to quit the sector, it’s claimed. Over the...

The latest market snapshot produced by PropTech firm Goodlord suggests that even in the south west of England - where renters...

Airbnb is reported to have banned under-25s in Canada from booking whole properties in their local areas to prevent potentially-violent house...

Property auctions – online or otherwise – can be hugely helpful to sellers, buyers and estate agents. Online auctions, in particular, are...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Catherine Shinerock - ARO Account Manager What is your ‘company name’...

Generation Rent - an outspoken organisation sharply critical of lettings agents and many aspects of the private rental sector - is...

Agents and landlords are advised to think carefully before allowing tenants to keep pets, despite a government push to relax restrictions. The...

An increasing number of over-60s are now turning to the private rental sector - but, like other demographic sectors, they face...

The Renters’ Reform Bill worries many in the private rental sector but the government says there is still no date for...

A lettings agency in one of the most competitive markets in Britain says it’s enjoyed a record year winning landlords from...

Home ownership is increasingly out of reach for British consumers, who say the market has become expensive and inaccessible and that...

Knight Frank has released its latest rental market summary for London, and it paints a mixed picture. Firstly the number of properties...

New regulations governing HMOs are coming into effect in a north of England council. Landlords and developers will now need planning permission...

One of the growing number of deposit replacement providers claims that there could be £1.2 billion in deposit monies that are...

Lettings payment automation provider PayProp has won a Gold Trusted Service Award from online reviews platform Feefo. The PropTech firm was deemed...

Nearly half a million properties could be removed from the long-term lettings market as disenchanted landlords move to short-lets. A survey by...

London’s asking rents hit a new record average of £2,119 per calendar month as the ongoing shortage of property for tenants...

Belvoir, which describes itself as the UK’s largest property franchise, has just released figures showing its 23rd successive year of uninterrupted...

Who are you and what is your role within the company? Steve Rad, Managing Director What is ‘company name’ and what does it...

A prominent member of the House of Lords has given a surprising insight into how the fiscal and regulatory clampdown on...

Haart has announced a strategic partnership with software platform teclet which will now be adopted in all lettings offices in the...

A judge has ordered two landlords to pay a total of £14,858 for illegally renting out an unlicensed house without working...

A lettings agency is calling on local councils to tackle the growing problem of long-term empty homes. My Property Box says that...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents says the number of tenants successfully negotiating rent reductions has hit an all time low...

A leading trade body is voicing concern over yet another council private rental sector licensing scheme - with particular worry over...

The Property Franchise Group, which has a string of major agency brands, has reported a strong performance in 2019 despite the...

Another branch of The Property Franchise Groups’s brand Martin & Co has snapped up an independent rival - and it’s the...

A London council tenant who for a period of seven years failed to disclose that he owned three houses, has been...

There was a surge in the number of fake lettings inventories submitted last year, allowing tenants to be conned out of...

One of the country’s top law groups has backed government moves to scrap Section 21.  The call comes from the Law Society for...

  Zoopla says its new digital ‘guide’ programme has been a tremendous success and is evidence that the portal’s investment in new...

Lettings PropTech platform teclet says its product is key for agents seeking to comply with new electrical safety regulations in a...

A third of all landlords live in Greater London and the South East according to data collated by a property management...

New research claims that one in every 50 homes in the capital is let on a short-term platform like Airbnb or...

Another Labour council wants to introduce a city-wide landlord licensing scheme - a proposal that would require government approval to implement. Last...

The latest lettings market snapshot by mortgage lender Paragon has found that of the landlords planning to purchase property in the...