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The head of an automated payment system for the rental sector says lettings agents can help offset losses caused by the...

Lettings agents are being urged to educate themselves as much as possible about rival deposit alternative schemes which are becoming increasingly...

Revenue raised by landlord licensing schemes should be used to enforce rental sector regulation, according to PayProp. It says that the money...

Increased use of PropTech by lettings agencies should allow staff to be freed up to engage in all-important face-to-face contact with...

The final - and some say most prestigious - shortlist for this year’s ESTAS awards has been revealed. The People Awards, sponsored...

The mandatory Client Money Protection scheme membership that comes into effect today will protect landlords and tenants from letting agents that...

It’s a vital time for letting agents to hammer home the benefits of buy to let and the dangers to landlords...

Sub-standard homes remain a key weakness in the private rental sector, which needs to get its house in order in the...

The tenants’ fees ban coming into effect from June 1 could help traditional lettings agents keep their place on High Streets,...

The news this week that even individual private landlords must join a redress scheme is just the latest in an onslaught...

A leading PropTech exponent is supporting the government’s Housing Court initiative, suggesting it could make redress for agents, landlords and tenants...

A leading PropTech entrepreneur says letting agents must provide value for their landlord clients through technology, transparency and service if they...

The automated lettings payment platform PayProp has revealed that it comes from charitable roots. PayProp is part of Humanstate, a private technology...

Increased use of PropTech by letting agents can cut rent arrears, minimise voids and reduce the financial and legal fall out...

A leading PropTech entrepreneur says agents who accept that the lettings fee ban is coming and who plan positively for its...

The agency industry has reacted in a broadly downbeat way at the relatively few housing-related proposals that were announced in yesterday’s...

PropTech company PayProp has been announced as the sponsor of the ESTAS People Awards category for 2019. The ESTAS is a customer...

A PropTech entrepreneur says all agents would benefit from the introduction of more automation, but that those with student tenants may...

Lettings agents for or against the government’s proposals for longer tenancies have only a very short time left to respond to...

A leading PropTech entrepreneur says lettings agents should be more vocal in providing the government with feedback on council rental licensing...

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

A PropTech company chief is backing the controversial idea of spot checks on private rental sector properties in a bid to...

A leading PropTech entrepreneur has renewed his call for letting agents to use more technology to clean up their act when...

Letting Agent Today editor Graham Norwood speaks to Neil Cobbold, chief operating officer of PayProp in the UK at FUTURE: PropTech...

A leading PropTech entrepreneur says he welcomes reforms currently moving through Parliament to professionalise the lettings sector - but he wants...

The chief of a PropTech firm says letting agents should consider participating in the growing Build to Rent sector.  Until now, many...

Neil Cobbold, COO of PayProp, advises letting agents to act now to beat the upcoming letting agent fee ban and discusses...

A leading figure in the PropTech sector is urging letting agents to use the 2019 lettings fee ban as an opportunity...

The head of a major PropTech company serving the lettings sector says he want to see the introduction of a database...

The man behind a leading lettings industry PropTech company says the new Code of Conduct to clean up the rental sector...

The chief operating officer of a leading PropTech company says government proposals to increase mandatory licensing of Houses in Multiple Occupation...

Automated rental payment provider PayProp has joined the call for private rent payments to be counted towards tenants’ credit scores in...

Mandatory Client Money Protection for lettings agents - currently the subject of a formal government consultation - will contribute towards making...

A prominent PropTech company chief has repeated his claim that old-fashioned methods of business administration could be prohibiting letting agents from...

PropTech company PayProp says the government’s outline proposal for greater regulation of the private rental sector should be treated as good...

PropTech firm PayProp has welcomed the latest measures to clamp down on rogue elements within the lettings industry - but warns...

Letting agents across the UK must prepare now for a ban on fees charged to tenants says a PropTech company -...

Agents who review and modernise their rent collection procedures could claim back thousands of pounds in rent, an automated payments platform...

Letting agents need to modernise and digitise to prepare for a surge in the size of the private rental sector according...

A head of a company providing hi-tech products to letting agents says technology is the answer to current rental industry challenges,...

Property repair reporting platform Fixflo is partnering with PayProp, an online payments system, to improve the offer to agents.    The link means...