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The Open Property Data Association has released a new version of its property data standards framework to help letting agents comply...

Over half of the agency branches sold to franchisees by LSL Property Services have signed up to a large PropTech deal. As...

An industry trade group claims inventories conducted by lettings agents may be seen as biased towards landlords rather than truly independent. Daniel...

Purplebricks has detailed the price it is paying for a lettings compliance blunder first spotted last year. It predicts that, at worst,...

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

One of the best-known names in lettings in London and the south east has renewed its partnership with PropTech supplier Goodlordfor a...

Huge improvements could be made to the lettings process if agents used the property data available to them, it’s been claimed. PropTech...

One of the country's leading agency groups has signed a multi-year deal with PropTech firm Goodlord.  Andrews Property Group, which has 49...

In this tips piece, Blake Richmond, managing director of referencing at Goodlord, sets out how agents can combat fraud in the lettings process.  Over...

A lettings agency’s new website claims to offer increased support to landlords, tenants, and investors, “while cutting through the noise of...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I’m Nathan Abbott, Head of Change Management at The Lettings...

Industry supplier The Lettings Hub has launched what it calls a free to use pre-tenancy management platform for agents. Called BOX it...

Viewber has linked with the PropTech property management service PlanetRent. Viewber offers agents access to an online database of vetted viewing assistants,...

Government intervention, which in recent years has seen scores of legal and regulatory changes to the private rental sector, may be...

A new proposal from the government says agents and portals will be banned from advertising rental properties with non-compliant Energy Performance...

A new whitepaper argues that landlords and tenants aren't getting what they want from the rental market. It says landlords need...

Hunters has revealed that it’s used the lockdown period to train staff with a range of e-learning modules as well as...

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

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

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

The giant Hunters franchise chain, which has over 200 offices across the UK, Is boosting its technology through a strategic partnership...

The race for dominance in the deposit alternative field continues apace. Now franchise giant Hunters has teamed up with flatfair to bring...

North east agency My Property Box has announced it has merged with Sandersons Lettings, the firm which gave its founder his...

PropTech, and specifically Artificial Intelligence, could help letting agents better cope with new demands created by further industry regulation. That’s the view...

A new white-labelled outsourced lettings management service is launching today, claiming to undercut all rivals. F%ur - a brand from 4percentproperty -...

Letting agencies can reduce the number of complaints about the industry and improve their own customer service and relationships by improving...

The Residential Landlords Association has entered into a partnership with deposit alternative service Zero Deposit. The RLA says the service will be...

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

Channel 4’s hit comedy Stath Lets Flats shows the funny side of running a lettings agency but one of the country’s...

An online lettings service which says it’s aiming to triple its level of business in the next 12 months claims it’s...

A range of factors - including fierce competition under the supplied housing market, rising property prices and political uncertainty – have...

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

The BBC’s reality programme The Week The Landlords Moved In should act as an eye-opener for the lettings industry when it...

With a host of changing regulations hitting the private rental sector, some landlords may be put off using letting agents, but...

A survey of letting and estate agencies suggest around half broadly back the changes to the private rental sector outlined in...

Bidding software that provides a new revenue stream for letting agents has been unveiled by a start up called Letsbid4lets.    The bidding...

2017 is set to be a big year for Goodlord, which means more savings for UK agencies. As your trusted lettings transaction platform,...

There has been widespread pleasure from throughout the industry at the government’s decision to accept the recommendation of a working group...

Industry trade body the Association of Independent Inventory Clerks (AIIC) has announced the first batch of dates for its 2017 training...