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The latest market report from Propertymark’s lettings agents suggests the demand is slowing. The latest data - for March - shows that...
03 May 2024
From: Breaking News
A politician is claiming that second home council tax premiums, where owners pay up to double the normal rate, is resulting...
01 May 2024
From: Breaking News
Campaigning charity Shelter is demanding an overhaul of the Renters Reform Bill, which will shortly begin its passage through the House...
01 May 2024
From: Breaking News
Average rent arrears claims climbed to £1,816 in the first quarter of this year. That’s a rise of 27% from £1,435 in...
17 April 2024
From: Breaking News
Lettings giant Foxtons has hired merger and acquisition bankers from Rothschild following pressure from shareholders to sell itself for £160m, the...
15 April 2024
From: Breaking News
What appears to be another government housing policy U-turn - this time on ground rents - is being hailed as “a...
26 March 2024
From: Breaking News
A national newspaper says the Renters Reform Bill is “on the brink of collapse” as Tory MPs are divided on their...
08 March 2024
From: Breaking News
A high profile lettings agency has had to pay almost £22,000 in damages to an employee who raised concerns about safety...
01 March 2024
From: Breaking News
Shelter is calling for the construction of 90,000 rental properties each year for a decade - and it claims this would...
27 February 2024
From: Breaking News
Birmingham’s Labour council is considering closing its social housing waiting list to new applicants - and this is likely to trigger...
12 February 2024
From: Breaking News
Seventeen housing organisations have sent an open letter to the government rejecting its idea of prioritising British families when it comes...
30 January 2024
From: Breaking News
The letting agents’ trade body Propertymark says one of the UK governments should go further in ensuring the safety of tenants...
17 January 2024
From: Breaking News
Fast-growing Lomond has snapped up another regional agency - this time one in the Midlands. Centrick - which had a High Street...
12 January 2024
From: Breaking News
Repairs and maintenance supplier Fixflo is warning agents of a surge in demand for Electrical Installation Condition Reports in the short...
19 December 2023
From: Breaking News
The Northwood franchise, which has more than 90 offices nationwide, has unveiled a new look for its lettings and estate agency...
15 December 2023
From: Breaking News
Attention estate agents: if you're looking for a bumper Christmas bonus, then maintaining your marketing spend throughout December might just be...
24 November 2023
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There’s growing optimism that tomorrow’s Bank of England monetary policy committee meeting will see base rate held for another month -...
01 November 2023
From: Breaking News
At a time when the agency industry is being wooed by new self employed business models, a new survey suggests most...
04 October 2023
From: Breaking News
The Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities says a new How To Rent guide will be issued today, October 2. Letting...
02 October 2023
From: Breaking News
Rental sector organisations have been given an indication by the Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities that a new How...
15 September 2023
From: Breaking News
The classified ad website Gumtree is issuing an alert about what it claims is the growing threat of rental fraud. It says...
05 September 2023
From: Breaking News
The new Housing Loss Prevention Advice Service - introduced this month - will make possession court case delays even worse. That’s the...
25 August 2023
From: Breaking News
New figures suggest soaring numbers of tenants are at risk from criminals taking advantage of the tough rental market. Scammers place fake...
22 August 2023
From: Breaking News
Housing legal aid is increasingly out of reach for tenants who need help, the Law Society of England and Wales claims. Quarterly...
14 August 2023
From: Breaking News
The Bank of England’s monetary policy committee has announced its decision on base rate. It will rise by 0.25 per cent to...
03 August 2023
From: Breaking News
Propertymark has issued another plea to the government to be fair to the private rental sector - this time regarding a...
03 August 2023
From: Breaking News
The Law Society is raising concerns over the effectiveness of a new support service aimed at tenants at risk of losing...
03 August 2023
From: Breaking News
The new Housing Loss Prevention Advice Service kicks in today - it offers early legal advice, free of charge, to anyone...
01 August 2023
From: Breaking News
A property industry commentator wants buy to let mortgage rules to be relaxed so that frustrated sellers can let out their...
12 July 2023
From: Breaking News
A long-standing and respected property firm has slammed the government for presiding over the “mess” of taxes applied to holiday lets...
05 July 2023
From: Breaking News
Canary Wharf was once seen as the future of London - now it’s the location that’s seen the greatest loss in...
04 July 2023
From: Breaking News
A fraudster lettings agent must repay £122,922.68 to her old firm within three months - or face yet more time in...
26 June 2023
From: Breaking News
Trading Standards has stopped a lettings agency owner from being a company director after he defrauded customers by over £80,000. Francis Smart,...
19 June 2023
From: Breaking News
Prime London’s housing market lacks its usual seasonal spring bounce with prices flat and transactions down, admits property data consultancy LonRes. And...
19 May 2023
From: Breaking News
Jo Eccles, director of London-focussed buying agency and property consultancy Eccord, says she is witnessing some landlords willing to quit the...
03 April 2023
From: Breaking News
A clampdown on HMOs is to begin this week - and the council behind it is describing it as ‘preserving the...
21 March 2023
From: Breaking News
Energy Performance Certificates must change to properly support reaching net zero, tackling fuel poverty and improving buildings, according to an energy...
02 March 2023
From: Breaking News
Large areas of the country will remain without vital legal advice to prevent evictions if the government fails to persuade law...
14 February 2023
From: Breaking News
A new dedicated Build To Rent company, Adler Estates, has launched in the westcountry. It’s part of the Eagle One group of private property companies...
31 January 2023
From: Breaking News
It’s been revealed that agents have been kicked out of The Property Ombudsman in recent months for failing to pay compensatory...
27 January 2023
From: Breaking News
Two big-hitter agencies are slugging it out for lettings dominance in London, with both making announcements in a bid to cement...
27 January 2023
From: Breaking News
UK banks are closing client accounts held by established letting agents and refusing to open accounts for new businesses. The Problem A growing...
19 December 2022
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The chief executive of Propertymark says latest data from letting agents suggests rent rises may have peaked - but that could...
19 December 2022
From: Breaking News
Propertymark pledges that an event being held next summer will be “colossal” - and will haver the likes of lettings agents...
16 December 2022
From: Breaking News
No fewer than 85 per cent of letting agents say that landlord clients have expressed a wish to sell up in...
14 December 2022
From: Breaking News
A financial expert says the latest house price index, showing the biggest monthly fall for over two years, is the “first...
02 December 2022
From: Breaking News
Shelter claims government figures show 5,940 households were “threatened with homelessness” in England as a result of Section 21 evictions between April...
29 November 2022
From: Breaking News
Data from different firms suggest there’s been an upsurge in the purchase of rent protection insurance by agents. Firstly Goodlord and Vouch...
24 November 2022
From: Breaking News
With EPC ratings now a prominent part of letting a property, with stricter government regulations likely, new research suggests substantial numbers...
16 November 2022
From: Breaking News
Rebel shareholders at Purplebricks want the current chairman to be replaced by industry veteran Harry Hill. Lecram Holdings Limited - which has...
10 November 2022
From: Breaking News
There’s been a big rise in the number of companies set up to hold buy to let, according to a survey...
24 October 2022
From: Breaking News
Propertymark’s latest rental market snapshot shows that since February, the number of new tenants wanting to register on agents’ books has increased...
20 October 2022
From: Breaking News
According to the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, organisations worldwide lose $4.7 trillion to fraud each year, with real estate suffering...
30 September 2022
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A team of experts has released a report that responds to government reform plans - and it insists that if Section...
27 September 2022
From: Breaking News
The Belvoir Group is warning that the housing crisis within the Scottish private rental sector is rapidly worsening, thanks to the...
22 September 2022
From: Breaking News
Propertymark, the letting agents’ trade body, has issued this guidance for agents to pass to landlords. It coincides with Gas Safety Week,...
13 September 2022
From: Breaking News
* Angels Media and Letting Agent Today are deeply saddened by the passing of HM Queen Elizabeth II * - A statement from...
09 September 2022
From: Breaking News
Trading Standards is calling for more due diligence checks to be made following the jailing of a rogue letting agent for...
31 August 2022
From: Breaking News
A former lettings agent has been jailed for almost three years after admitting conning landlords out of over £80,000. The sentence for...
30 August 2022
From: Breaking News
Rents have seen the highest jump since records began in 2016, according to the Office for National Statistics. It says UK-wide rents...
22 August 2022
From: Breaking News
A letting agent who stole over £80,000 from landlords is awaiting sentence. Frank Smart - owner of Smart Residential Letting Agents in...
15 August 2022
From: Breaking News
Connells makes no reference about its lettings division in a terse statement about its business performance in the first half of...
08 August 2022
From: Breaking News
Purplebricks has given its interpretation of how much its lettings sector compliance crisis has cost the company. Back in December the Daily...
02 August 2022
From: Breaking News
OnTheMarket is launching a management fee protection product, developed with tenant referencing platform Canopy and insurance broker the Alan Boswell Group....
29 July 2022
From: Breaking News
The financial fall out from Purplebricks’ disastrous lettings compliance crisis is likely to be revealed next week. The troubled agency says it...
26 July 2022
From: Breaking News
A high profile London lettings agency says some owners of properties in prime areas of the capital have seen capital appreciation...
21 July 2022
From: Breaking News
A jury has ruled that a lettings agency has been guilty of illegally evicting tenants in Margate - with locks changed,...
20 July 2022
From: Breaking News
The sales director of a property investment firm says high house prices, rising interest rates and the broader cost of living...
15 July 2022
From: Breaking News
The small UK Association of Letting Agents trade body says that the government’s proposal to scrap Section 21 is grabbing headlines...
14 July 2022
From: Breaking News
Six agencies have been excluded from The Property Ombudsman for failing to pay compensation to wronged complainants. One was the Belvoir...
13 July 2022
From: Breaking News
Senior figures in the agency industry have backed new guidance from the National Trading Standards Estate and Lettings Agent Team regarding...
13 July 2022
From: Breaking News
A rogue tenant occupying a property for up to nine months and refusing to pay rent could cost a combined £10,000...
11 July 2022
From: Breaking News
Rental growth continues to roar ahead across prime areas of London, according to Savills. Prime London rental values increased a further 3.3...
07 July 2022
From: Breaking News
Since the Tenant Fees Act ban came into force, agents have been responsible for covering tenancy referencing costs, whether that’s by...
22 June 2022
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Local and central government is losing out on millions of pounds of council tax income this year because of the business...
30 May 2022
From: Breaking News
A Labour MP says a surge in the number of stag and hen parties in her constituency - undertaken by people...
16 May 2022
From: Breaking News
Rental portal Rentd says the pandemic-long decline in the London rental market is now “reversing at speed”. Rental values are climbing annually...
18 March 2022
From: Breaking News
Agents tasked with persuading possible investors as to the benefit of buy to let have new ammunition, in the shape of...
03 March 2022
From: Breaking News
New research shows that despite tax and regulatory changes restricting buy to let returns, this remains a far healthier investment than...
23 February 2022
From: Breaking News
New research from insurance provider Paymentshield has found that over one in five UK tenants have experienced a negative property event...
17 February 2022
From: Breaking News
Campaigning charity Shelter says new government figures reveal an increasing number of renters are facing eviction. And it warns that more renters are...
11 February 2022
From: Breaking News
A senior Welsh politicians has urged anyone who has fallen behind in paying rent because of the pandemic to contact their...
14 January 2022
From: Breaking News
A report prepared by housing experts in Manchester shows a massive surge in the number of Airbnbs in the city -...
23 December 2021
From: Breaking News
ARLA Propertymark has launched a radical programme of reform for the private rental sector - getting in before the government’s own...
15 December 2021
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The Guild of Property Professionals has entered into a partnership with one of the many deposit replacement services now available. It’s teamed...
15 December 2021
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Propertymark chief executive Nathan Emerson has given his prediction as to what the big issues will be in the 2022 lettings...
14 December 2021
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Airbnb is now introducing pet insurance cover for its hosts as it continues attempts to win long-term renters away from the...
16 November 2021
From: Breaking News
The Build to Rent sector is being targeted by criminals with a 364 per cent rise in fraudulent tenant applications in...
26 October 2021
From: Breaking News
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...
12 October 2021
From: Breaking News
More and more people are committing tenancy fraud and it’s having a massive impact on the industryAs a lettings agency, you...
07 October 2021
From: Proptech & Innovation
Propertymark is telling politicians to stop demonising letting agents and landlords. The unusualy bluntl message has come in response to the latest...
29 September 2021
From: Breaking News
A statement from ARLA Propertymark has hinted that it believes politicians may be out of touch with the reality of how...
27 September 2021
From: Breaking News
It’s been announced that UK Sotheby’s International Realty has secured tenants for 20 apartments in record time at Embassy Gardens, a...
22 September 2021
From: Breaking News
A £360 million wall of rental debt built up during the pandemic, combined with cuts to Universal Credit, threatens to leave...
17 September 2021
From: Breaking News
The latest research by lettings agency Benham and Reeves has analysed how the pandemic has affected the UK rental market when...
17 September 2021
From: Breaking News
How up to date is your knowledge on notice periods, pets in rentals, electrical safety inspections and lodgers? This year we’ve...
18 August 2021
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Agents’ body Propertymark says it wants a dedicated housing court because it’s lost faith in the mainstream court system to handle...
17 August 2021
From: Breaking News
A Conservative MP says he is to declare a “state of housing emergency” in his constituency because of the loss of...