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A new guide from Propertymark explains the rights which private rental tenants have - and sets out how they can challenge...

Property management and facilities firm Pinnacle is to become the leading managing agent for Legal & General Affordable Homes. In recent weeks, the...

Propertymark is demanding equal treatment with the social housing sector. Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove intends to boost standards in social housing...

Propertymark is urging agents to get ahead of the curve and be ready for the next big initiative - Regulation.  Propertymark has...

Managing agents in London have been instructed to pay a £15,000 fine for operating a House in Multiple Occupation without the...

Propertymark has urged the Sunak government to press ahead with leasehold reform ahead of the Second Reading of the Leasehold and...

Propertymark says the regulation of agents has come a step closer.   The trade body gave evidence at a House of Lords Industry...

The Property Institute has welcomed a Labour Party move to introduce the regulation of property agents across much of the sector. Tabled...

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

ARLA Propertymark has responded to the Scottish Parliament’s examination of the Housing (Cladding Remediation) (Scotland) Bill, calling for clarity on contributions...

Agents’ trade body Propertymark says the current debate on the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill is another example of how agent...

Former housing minister Rachel Maclean - the victim of a shock sacking by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak last month - has...

Propertymark has set out its pro-agency position on a range of issues contained in the Renters Reform Bill, currently trundling through...

Portsmouth and Southsea lettings agency Chinneck Shaw has been appointed to manage the first purpose-built Build to Rent project from Ravelin...

Propertymark has written to Housing Secretary Michael Gove to remind him of the importance of regulating letting and estate agents. The trade...

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

A prominent figure in the London property world says landlords under increasing financial pressure are being more selective about the letting...

New figures released this morning from The Property Ombudsman show that the overwhelming number of disputes in the past year involved...

The Property Redress Scheme has released its latest list of expelled agents - mostly for rental misdemeanours and/or failure to pay...

Private landlords should hold fire on plans to quit the private rental sector and give the government a chance to incentivise...

Letting agents have a key role in ensuring updated fire safety regulations really do improve standards for tenants in taller buildings. That’s...

The Property Redress Scheme, one of two government-approved redress services, has produced a list of recently-expelled agencies. All agencies must be a...

Propertymark has hit out at a proposal from a group of MPs that there should be a single Ombudsman covering the...

Jeremy Hunt’s firm grasp of fiscal policy after the market turmoil of recent weeks won’t stop what one housing expert calls...

B-hive Block Management Partners has been chosen by a senior industry figure to launch her own block and estate management venture,...

Greater regulation of lettings agents, and all other property professionals, is required to ‘finish the job’ of reforming the industry which...

Letting agents in one part of the UK need to be ready for the most significant changes to the private rental...

Propertymark says one lasting legacy of the Grenfell Tower tragedy is that agents letting properties in high rise blocks must engage...

The Association of Residential Managing Agents and the Institute of Residential Property Management have been merged under the name The Property...

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

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

A major Select Committee of MPs has launched an enquiry into so-called exempt rental sector accommodation - a niche sector that...

A London property managing agent has been ordered to pay more than £80,000 for safety failings which “exposed a potentially large...

The owner of Martin & Co’s Blackpool branch has made it a year to remember after securing another independent acquisition.  Hamza Anwar...

A property consultancy says it’s identified the next ‘landmine’ in the building safety saga facing agents and landlords around the country. Mary-Anne...

New rules out for consultation concerning block management aim to improve professionalism across the sector, root out rogue agents, and increase...

A bizarre fine imposed on a managing agent by a local authority appears to have been reversed because the council flouted...

The Property Ombudsman and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors are seeking views of agents, landlords and tenants on a new...

The Association of Residential Managing Agents and The Institute of Residential Property Management have informed their respective memberships that they are pondering combining forces. The...

Ringley Group has secured the UK’s largest apartment complex to be managed by leaseholders as a franchisee client.  The Century Wharf Estate...

The local media in Manchester have published photographs of a property operated by a lettings agency was found to have multiple...

A Labour council in London is taking the unusual measure of threatening landlords with community protection notices - associated with anti-social...

Landlords and managing agents of HMOs could face unlimited fines following new measures being brought in to strengthen fire safety, the...

Activists from the so-called renters’ union Acorn have held a protest outside the office of a lettings agency in Oxford. A photograph...

A major north of England local authority wants to introduce landlord licensing for HMOs where three or four tenants live, following analysis...

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

An inventories supplier is advising that the growing number of sub-letting scams can be reduced by regular property visits by agents...

A long-term legal critic of selective licensing is warning that letting agents could be held jointly accountable with the landlords, -...

A tenant pretending to be landlord has been ordered to pay more than £21,000 after he carved up five family homes...

The government has published proposals for far-reaching changes to the way estate and letting agents are regulated, trained and licensed. The proposals...

Deposit alternative provider flatfair has teamed up with mydeposits - and claims to now be the first provider to bring tenancy...

A managing agent has been convicted by a local council for failing to properly license his property. Leon Hill, of Leighton Buzzard,...

A managing agent and several landlords have been fined almost £5,000 after forcing tenants to live in unacceptable conditions in a...

Deposit alternative service flatfair has partnered with Barbon Insurance Group to co-market the two organisations’ products. “We’re thrilled to partner with the...

Short lets on Airbnb and similar platforms are causing increasing irritation for owners in residential blocks, according to a property management...

We are used to stories of councils condemning letting agents and landlords - but now a London council is praising the...

The Association of Residential Managing Agents has launched a first-of-its-kind Client Money Protection to members.  Although CMP schemes are to be mandatory...

A property management company which kept up to 23 adults in overcrowded conditions has been fined £7,500 by a council in...

A managing agent who used ‘ghost tenants’ as a front so that she could cram 16 people into one overcrowded house...

The National Approved Lettings Scheme has issued a sharp rebuke to Shelter and the National Housing Federation following their controversial ‘End...

The government has produced new guidelines on setting up client money protection schemes for the private rented sector. They are evidently aimed...

The three-branch London agency Kay & Co has been named the Smaller Managing Agent of the Year at the ARMA ACE...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has heaped praise on a local authority which has fined 27 lettings and managing agents...

Three agencies have been heavily fined after a property in London was being used for multiple occupation with 11 people living...

The National Approved Letting Scheme has unveiled a new specialist training course for letting agents. The NALS Level 3 Award in Letting...

A property managing agent has been ordered to pay £40,000 following the death of a woman at a fire at a...

Letting agents have responded with enthusiasm to the government’s announcement over the Easter weekend that the industry would in future have...

The government has this morning - Easter Sunday - announced a crackdown on rogue letting agents in the shape of a...

Your buy-to-let investment is an extremely valuable asset and you need to know the income generated from it will be safely...

The former executive director of LSL Property Services, David Newnes, is one of the key backers of a new property management...

The Property Ombudsman scheme has today announced three expulsions of agencies as a result of non-payment of rent or awards. Firstly, a...

The Conveyancing Association has made a wide-ranging response to the government’s call for evidence on the regulation of letting and managing...

You have only until 11.45pm tonight to have your say on government proposals to clamp down on letting and managing agents...

Letting agents and landlords are being urged by a trade body to sign a petition calling on the government to make...

Industry figures have broadly welcomed the latest consultations and proposed additional regulation for the lettings sector, announced by the government yesterday.   The...

Plans for new measures regarding leasehold tenancies to help create “a fairer property management system that works for everyone” have been...

ARLA Propertymark says letting and managing agents should be aware that they can raise ‘safeguarding alerts’ if they are concerned about...

Wembley Park in north London is to host Britain’s largest Build To Rent scheme yet after Quintain revealed a programme for...

Manchester council - which previously described selective licensing schemes in the private rental sector as ineffective - has done a U-turn...

  Over a third of landlords have never used a letting agent and manage all their properties themselves.    That is the finding of...

An online student lettings agency claims there will be a growing number of students using the holiday season to boost their...

New parts of the Immigration Act 2016 come into effect today, consolidating the Right To Rent regulations that came into effect...

Tenants are becoming increasingly eco-conscious according to a new survey.   Some 80 per cent of those questioned agree that landlords or their...

A London council will introduce two new licensing schemes in the New Year. These make it a legal requirement for landlords to obtain...

A managing agent who tried to force out his tenants by filling the stopcock chamber with cement so that they would...

A landmark court case heard in the Midlands is believed to be the first to issue a Criminal Behaviour Order on...

One of the country’s top lettings experts says last year’s law changes concerning the increased transparency of agents’ fees have “missed...

New licence fees for letting and managing agents have been announced by Rent Smart Wales, the Welsh Government’s registration and licensing scheme which...

The Association of Residential Managing Agents, the umbrella body for professionals involved in private residential block management, has appointed Nigel Glen...

An energy supply company that specialises in the lettings market has announced deals with three major businesses that allows it to...

A landlord and his letting agent who failed to declare they were operating a series of bedsits at an address in...

The Chartered Institute of House is setting up a new online qualification for anyone wishing to understand tenancies, property and tenancy...

A letting agency has been ordered to pay more than £12,000 in fines and court costs after being convicted of seven...

The Advertising Standards Authority has banned a radio advertisement for Direct Line Landlord Insurance because it has been judged to be...