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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...

A holiday lettings agency and an estate agent in a tourist hotspot have joined forces.  Suffolk Coastal will continue with its sales...

The excessive enforcement of council rules on private landlords while social housing is so poorly run will be ‘the next Post...

The government has done a U-turn on its original policy to relax HMO regulations on private rental properties used by asylum...

Labour is using a Bill currently going through Parliament as a backdoor method to introduce the regulation of lettings, estate and...

Agents, landlords and others’ views are being sought in a consultation on proposals to introduce a borough-wide additional licensing scheme for...

The Jackson-Stops agency is warning that the Renters Reform Bill is driving investors away - and making the market worse, not...

A lettings agency has initiated new systems to ensure there is no repeat of a mistake that left some client properties...

Franchise giant Belvoir is the latest agency group to sign a deal with geospatial technology firm Kamma. The partnership will offer all...

PropTech firm Kamma - which specialises in information about landlord licensing - has inked another partnership. This latest link is with Goodlord.  Kamma’s...

Propertymark has urged Labour to licence letting agents under its plans to ‘fundamentally reform the private rented sector’. The trade body also...

Local media in one of Britain’s busiest cities for rentals says tenants have been left in tears as a result of...

An agency has been fined by a London council for failing to licence a property it was managing. Gracechurch Property Services has...

Law firm Brevis Law is shedding light on the difficulties agents and landlords have in meeting Right To Rent requirements in...

The Competitioin and Markets Authority is to probe five activities involving letting agents and landlords and their responsibilities to private tenants. Sarah...

The Green Party - which ran the Brighton and Hove council until being swept from office in May’s local elections -...

Fine & Country has announced what it calls “a ground-breaking partnership” between licencees Jonathan Handford and Sean Newman and Jack Rees...

A hate campaign against AirBnb appears to have been launched in a Welsh village. Newspaper reports say a sticker reading 'Death to...

Agents representing landlords of HMOs In Portsmouth are being warned by the council that their need to be licensed or face...

Propertymark has issued another plea to the government to be fair to the private rental sector - this time regarding a...

The new Housing Loss Prevention Advice Service kicks in today - it offers early legal advice, free of charge, to anyone...

PropTech Kamma has entered into a partnership with agency and consultancy JLL. This means JLL’s UK residential agents will have access to...

The Scottish Government does not intend to abandon its licensing scheme for Airbnbs and other short term lets, nor to delay...

A landlord who is also the owner of a High Street lettings agency has been fined £17,293 for breaching housing licence...

A property firm which admitted misleading tenants on their rights and threatening them to leave has been ordered to pay £8,000. Four...

An attempt to introducing statutory licensing for Airbnbs and some other tourist accommodation has got a frosty reception. The Welsh Government -...

A property company director who admitted misleading tenants on their rights and threatening them to leave has been ordered to pay...

The Labour-run London Assembly says it is concerned about government plans to allow landlords to house asylum seekers for two years without...

  A council has told letting agents to ‘get a move on’ as it admits there’s been a slow start to its...

Ukrainians in the UK will be helped into private rental homes as part of a £150m government injection.  The funding will be...

The leader of the council that was rebuffed by a court when it tried to control the spread of Airbnb-style short...

A trade body has criticised the various UK governments for “rushing blindly” into poorly-constructed regulation of short lets. The angry words from...

A management company and a lettings agency involved in running a London HMO have been prosecuted for fire safety failures. Monsoon Properties...

A council is pleading with the government to think again about proposals to suspend the need for an HMO licence for...

Letting agents have a final chance today to have their say on a consultation into a newly proposed licensing scheme for...

A trade body says inventories are set to play an increasingly important role in the private rental sector as fire regulations...

Licensing for Airbnbs and similar short lets should be targeted in priority areas only and not the subject of blanket rules. That’s...

An estate agency has been prosecuted and ordered to pay £35,000 for falling foul of property licensing rules. Green House Estate Agents...

A property firm has been fined £8,000 for operating an HMO on one of Britain’s most famous roads. Westminster council has won...

A lettings company called Trophy Homes Limited, based in Liverpool, has pleaded guilty to failing to apply for an HMO licence...

A London borough is tomorrow holding an online training session for agents and landlords on how to submit a licence application...

A new licensing scheme for HMOs, agreed by leaders of Portsmouth council, will be implemented from September 1 2023. Licensing of HMOs...

Airbnb-style short-lets in another part of Scotland are to be subject to new licensing rules. The scheme, introduced by the Scottish Government,...

The Lomond Group has strengthened its position in Scotland by acquiring two more independent agencies and adding some 600 properties to...

An agent operating an HMO on Deeside without a licence and breaking other housing laws has been fined £28,000. Flintshire council carried...

A scheme which some regard as the most controversial landlord licensing regime in the country is coming under scrutiny. Labour councillors on...

A holiday letting agency has criticised the introduction of licensing for short term rentals in Scotland as “poorly thought-through and ill-timed”.  Iain...

The first step within the UK to officially monitor Airbnb-style short lets comes into effect on Saturday, which is October 1. Scotland’s...

An extension to a private rental property licensing scheme in London has been given the green light by the government. Haringey council’s...

A lettings agency says the cost of living crisis calls into question the viability of a selective licensing scheme in its...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Sales & Marketing Director What is Glide and what does...

Birmingham’s Labour-controlled council is launching a consultation on a vast expansion to its existing HMO Additional Licensing scheme. The proposal is for...

One of Britain’s largest cities wants to regulate Airbnb and other short let platforms. The proposed scheme in Glasgow follows legal changes...

Agents with landlord clients who let properties in Central West Bromwich are being reminded to check if they should apply for...

The number of HMOs in England has fallen as a result of government intervention in the market. In 2018 new regulations were...

All private rented homes in Oxford will need a licence from this September, following a green light from the government. Some 49.3...

A new and huge private rental licensing scheme has launched in County Durham. A total of at least 29,000 properties, or 42...

A company which operated an unlicensed HMO and its then-director have lost their appeal against the imposition of financial penalties.  Gatwick and...

The average HMO is worth a third more than a comparably sized house according to new research. The typical HMO now costs...

Agents and landlords are being warned by a government minister not to charge all-inclusive HMO tenants more than necessary in a...

Activists in the Acorn campaign group are lobbying a council in a bid to - in its words - “ban slum...

Another council is to conduct a consultation process to expand selective and additional licensing schemes for the next five years. Under existing...

A council says it’s considering introducing criminal record checks on individuals who apply to run HMOs as part of a wide-ranging...

An agent’s plea to councillors to renew the HMO license for a landlord client fell on deaf ears in a controversial...

Walsall council is proposing additional licensing to improve conditions and management of HMOs in five wards where there are high numbers...

A lettings company has been caught up in a case where rental accommodation has been described as “atrocious” and a landlord...

New measures to reduce the impact of Airbnb and other short lets in Scotland are “hugely disproportionate” a property group claims. The Scottish...

PropTech companies Kamma and Veri-Check are consolidating an existing partnership. Kamma users can already access Veri-Check’s instant property licensing checks, but in...

Opposition appears to be growing to the first major bid in the UK to regulate the spread of Airbnbs and properties...

ARLA Propertymark has launched a radical programme of reform for the private rental sector - getting in before the government’s own...

Bristol-based lettings management company Iletpro Ltd has been ordered to pay a total of £2,700.06 in fines and costs for failing...

Over £80,000 pounds of fines have been imposed on a letting agency and its director. Zenith Accommodation Ltd’s boss, Mohammad Mallick of...

Proposals to regulate Airbnbs and other short lets in one part of the UK should be modified, a trade body says. Currently,...

Consultation begins today on a selective licensing scheme for privately rented housing in 25 wards of Birmingham. Under the suggested scheme, all...

The Scottish Government - which earlier this year suggested it would be clamping down heavily on Airbnbs, especially in Edinburgh -...

The UK’s largest ever additional licensing scheme for HMOs has come into effect over the long weekend.  Westminster council’s scheme will focus...

How up to date is your knowledge on notice periods, pets in rentals, electrical safety inspections and lodgers? This year we’ve...

One of the largest new additional licensing schemes for HMOs anywhere in the country is set to come into force in...

A ruling of the First Tier Property Tribunal has put a London property management firm in the clear following a dispute...

The Labour-run Haringey council in London says some housing conditions in the private rental sector lead to anti-social behaviour. Letting Agent Today...

A local Trading Standards team is clamping down on rogue letting agents. Devon, Plymouth, Somerset and Torbay Trading Standards Service has launched...

A proposal for one of the country’s largest ever private rental sector licensing schemes has gone out to consultation. Manchester’s Labour council...

There’s been a huge 263 per cent increase in the value of fraudulent tenant applications in just three months, it’s been...

A letting agent has been fined £11,500 for breaking HMO houses and fire safety rules at a property he manages. Agent Benjamin...

A property company and its director will have to shell out £10,000 after a blaze left six tenants homeless in the...

More students would like to see utility charges integrated into the overall costs of their accommodation, according to a specialist lettings...

One of the London boroughs synonymous with wealth has revealed that 44 per cent of its housing stock is now actually...

A head tenant who posed as a landlord has been taken to court by a London council. Sonia Nascimento rented a converted...

A landlord who persistently broke residential lettings rules has been banned from operating in a landmark legal ruling. Julie Stoddern, of Camborne,...

A first attempt to regulate Airbnb-style short lets through licensing has been withdrawn. The SNP-led Scottish Government had drawn up a licensing...

Two landlords - one of them an agent - have been given fines totalling £135,000 and must pay costs for failing to...

A new property identification system which has won the backing of ARLA Propertymark and substantial parts of the industry has said...

What’s life-changing, involves months of anticipation, and ends with a big arrival? You might think we’re talking about pregnancy. But research...

There are growing calls for so-called ‘exempt accommodation’ to face the same controls that are exerted over the rest of the...

Restaurant staff were kept in “dangerous and overcrowded” conditions by a property company and its landlord-director, a court has heard. The company...

A new rental system allowing licensed lettings agents to offer landlords a year’s rent up-front has had hundreds of responses in...

Walsall council in the Midlands is considering an Additional Licensing scheme for HMOs.  As is often the case with such schemes, the...

Two landlords in the same town - one the director of a lettings firm - have been prosecuted as their properties...

A lettings agency is in the news because it has asked a student to stop using a specific room in a...

Liverpool's mayor Joe Anderson has been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit bribery and witness intimidation. Anderson has been an outspoken...