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![Get the Rent To Rent house in order, demands Propertymark](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews2-400x310.png)
Propertymark has come out in support of the National Trading Standards Estate and Lettings Agency Team’s probe into Rent-to-Rent. NTSELAT has...
17 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![Trading Standards tells agents - Material Information is key so get on with it!](/upload/images/shutterstock_1125678230.jpg)
A representative of the National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agents team has told agents to accept new rules about material...
11 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![Propertymark’s ringing endorsement for Material Information changes](/upload/images/shutterstock_1141644755(3).jpg)
Propertymark’s property auction division - NAVA - has given ringing endorsement to the Material Information changes demanded under new Trading Standards...
05 February 2024
From: Breaking News
![Trading Standards reveal details of new Material Information requirements](/upload/images/shutterstock_2280558533(1).jpg)
Parts B and C of the process to improve material information disclosure in property listings are published today within comprehensive new guidance...
30 November 2023
From: Breaking News
![Trading Standards links with Rightmove for CPR training for agents](/upload/images/shutterstock_2173235223.jpg)
Rightmove has teamed up with the National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agency Team to create a new course on compliance...
24 November 2023
From: Breaking News
![Letting agents back enhanced Material Information requirements](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews1-400x310.png)
An overwhelming number of letting and sales agents back the idea of more so-called Material Information on property details. That’s according to...
06 November 2023
From: Breaking News
![Agents welcome Trading Standards “clarity” on lettings terminology](/upload/images/shutterstock_266519690.jpg)
Propertymark has welcomed what it calls the “clarity” given to advertising terminology following the publication of new guidelines from the National...
17 August 2023
From: Breaking News
![Agent Alert - Trading Standards new guidance on To Let wording](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/ToLetBoard-400x310.png)
The National Trading Standards Estate and Lettings Agency Team has issued new guidance on terminology used in property advertising - particularly lettings. The...
16 August 2023
From: Breaking News
![String of dodgy letting agents expelled by Ombudsman](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Banned_400x310.png)
Several lettings agents have been expelled from The Property Ombudsman scheme; they are amongst eight named as having been kicked out...
06 April 2023
From: Breaking News
![Civil servants and Trading Standards to brief agents on law change](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Property-court-400x310.png)
Officials from the Welsh Government and the head of the National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agent team are to address...
21 October 2022
From: Breaking News
![Rental reform is the big debate at agents’ annual conference](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Misc/Conference-400x310.png)
The details of the Northern Ireland Private Tenancies Bill will be the main focus of the Propertymark annual conference in Belfast...
05 October 2022
From: Breaking News
![Consumers urged to report non-compliant agents to Citizens Advice](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/ComplianceStamp-400x310.jpg)
A county council is urging people to complain if they believe letting agents are failing to comply with consumer legislation. Staffordshire county...
11 August 2022
From: Breaking News
![Agents Alert - prepare additional info for property details now](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/BusinessPlans-400x310.jpg)
Propertymark is alerting agents to ensure they meet and if needs be exceed the requirements for ‘material information’ on up-front property...
14 July 2022
From: Breaking News
![Beefed Up Property Details - industry bosses back call for Material Information](/upload/images/PropTech%20%26%20Online/AgentsWindow-1-400x310.jpg)
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
![Trading Standards issue new guidelines for property details](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/PropertyInformationKeys-400x310.jpg)
The National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agency Team has published fresh guidance to help letting agents meet new requirements regarding...
12 July 2022
From: Breaking News
![Property Listing changes explained in agent webinar next week](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/MillennialAgents-2020-400x310.jpg)
The new material information requirements recently announced by the National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agency Team will be the topic...
06 May 2022
From: Breaking News
![‘Price on application’ in property listings deemed unlawful](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/HousingVision-400x310.jpg)
The small number of rental properties listed on websites and portals as Price on Application have now been deemed illegal by...
05 May 2022
From: Breaking News
![Using more data makes huge improvements to lettings process - claim](/upload/images/PropTech%20%26%20Online/OnlinePropSearch-400x310.jpg)
Huge improvements could be made to the lettings process if agents used the property data available to them, it’s been claimed. PropTech...
30 March 2022
From: Breaking News
![Agents should get fewer time-wasters if property details improve](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/landlord-licencing400x310.png)
The UK Association of Letting Agents says new requirements for additional upfront property information should end up actually saving agents time. By...
22 March 2022
From: Breaking News
![More industry regulation needed - but not if it alienates agents](/upload/images/PropTech%20%26%20Online/OnlineProperty-400x310.png)
A leading figure in the PropTech sector says more regulation could make the rental sector fairer, more transparent and ultimately more...
25 February 2022
From: Breaking News
![New Listings Requirements - lettings supremo welcomes compulsory changes](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/BTL-CardboardHouses-400x310.jpg)
Theresa Wallace, the chair of The Lettings Industry Council, has given her backing to compulsory changes to rental property listings introduced...
22 February 2022
From: Breaking News
![Agents Beware - compulsory new info on lettings listings coming soon](/upload/images/library/GovernmentImage-400x310.jpg)
Trading Standards and the government have jointly announced compulsory new data which must appear on property listings. A property's council tax band or...
21 February 2022
From: Breaking News
![Agent Alert - fake firm posing as legitimate lettings agency](/upload/images/Miscellaneous/scam%20alert.png)
A fake lettings operation has been uncovered by a leading legitimate agency - and now the National Trading Standards Estate and...
06 December 2021
From: Breaking News
![Last chance to register – webinar on transparency in lettings tomorrow](/upload/images/PropTech%20%26%20Online/Webinar-400x310.png)
The live launch of a roundtable event hosted by rental payments platform PayProp takes place tomorrow – and letting agents can...
08 November 2021
From: Breaking News
![Letting agents back idea of renters getting more upfront info](/img/default/lat.png)
The two letting agents’ trade groups have backed a call for more upfront information to be given to prospective renters. The National...
21 April 2021
From: Breaking News
![Huge crackdown on letting agents failing to honour CMP laws](/img/default/lat.png)
A clampdown on letting agents who fail to safeguard landlords’ and tenants’ money is now underway. A statement from the National Trading Standards...
24 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![Trading Standards urges agents to watch out for scams](/img/default/lat.png)
The National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agents Team is appealing to the industry to be eagle-eyed for scams. This follows the...
22 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![Agents’ group recommends referral fee policy of transparency](/img/default/lat.png)
The UK Association of Lettings Agents is recommending transparency in relation to the disclosure of referral fees to landlord clients. Last month...
09 December 2020
From: Breaking News
![Over 10 agencies a week closing down, claims protection scheme](/img/default/lat.png)
One of the government’s approved client money protection schemes claims over 10 lettings agencies a week are closing. Client Money Protect makes the...
03 December 2020
From: Breaking News
![Another 12 months to make referral fees more transparent](/img/default/lat.png)
Agents have another 12 months to make referral fees more transparent according to an update from the National Trading Standards Estate and Letting...
19 November 2020
From: Breaking News
![Referral fees webinar coming up with Trading Standards supremo](/img/default/lat.png)
Propertymark is staging a webinar later this month on the topical subject of referral fees. Last month the National Trading Standards for...
06 November 2020
From: Breaking News
![Stand by for referral fee restrictions, letting agents warned](/img/default/lat.png)
Agents are being warned to prepare now for likely controls on referral fees, following recommendations made to the government by the...
27 October 2020
From: Breaking News
![Letting agents escape referral fees clampdown - at least for now](/img/default/lat.png)
It appears lettings agents may have escaped the recommended demands for referral fees to be made more transparent to customers. A statement...
02 October 2020
From: Breaking News
![Under Investigation! Agents probed for alleged Fees Ban breaches](/img/default/lat.png)
A newspaper claims multiple councils are opening investigations into agents allegedly defying the tenant fees ban - and at least one...
03 March 2020
From: Breaking News
![Referral Fee clampdown confirmed for lettings agents too](/img/default/lat.png)
The clampdown on referral fees, until now concentrated on the sales sector, will extend to letting agents too. James Munro, head of...
28 February 2020
From: Breaking News
![Shock claim that one-in-five agents still have no Client Money Protection](/img/default/lat.png)
An estimated 20 per cent of letting agents have still not signed up for a Client Money Protection scheme, six months...