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Three lettings agencies have been expelled from TPO - in each case the agency failed to honour a payment as instructed...

Newton Fallowell, part of the Belvoir Group, has snapped up the Lovelle franchised agency group adding a further 19 offices to...

Unusual research undertaken by an alternative deposit scheme suggests that women pay a substantially higher proportion of their salary than men,...

A trade body is warning of a crisis in the private rental market as new figures show a sharp drop in...

Haart is trying to shift the mood music around the private rental sector from challenging to celebratory, saying there is plenty...

Luton council has opened Lets Squared, a High Street lettings and estate agency using public funds - even though the town...

A leading law firm has highlighted four key dates for letting agents and landlords to watch for in 2020. Paul Barnes, head...

Once again the monthly market snapshot from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors reports a decline in the stock of rental...

The sales market in London continues to wreak havoc with agencies, as yesterday’s Foxtons story revealed, but one lettings agency is...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents and the Tenancy Deposit Scheme have created a matrix for letting agents and landlords about...

Almost 40 per cent of battery-powered smoke alarms failed to activate in residential fires in England in the past year –...

One in seven British renters expect their landlords to resolve arguments over bill payments, a utilities provider claims. The study, by Glide,...

A prominent buy to let mortgage chief says lenders should be able to access the rogue landlord database launched last year. John...

A landlord has been ordered to pay almost £20,000 and has been told by a judge that he was meaner than...

Owners of buy to let properties across the UK could be entitled to compensation due to onerous ground rent charges according...

A compliance consultant has explained why a local council’s penalty on a rogue landlord - initially £31,499 - was slashed to...

A mortgage lender’s new Buy to Let City Tracker tool has calculated the best cities in the UK for buy to...

The average deposit paid by a new private tenant is now £1,299 according to a new player in the deposit alternative...

An industry supplier says letting agents should respond supportively to the growing eco-consciousness shown by younger people who are likely to...

Letting agents and landlords who prepare for a dispute at the outset of a tenancy increase their chances of avoiding one...

Longstanding Leeds based property company Adair Paxton has acquired boutique estate agency firm, Hudson Moody Wass. Founded in 2001, Hudson Moody Wass...

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The Advertising Standards Authority has ruled in favour of deposit alternative scheme flatfair in a dispute which began with a complaint...

New research from the National Landlords Association reveals that migrant workers, and not professional executives, provide the best rental yield. The NLA...

Belvoir has acquired another independent sales and lettings agency - this time it’s Onwards and Upwards, a firm in the Morley...

A trade body suggests that the votes of private landlords could decide the results in over 100 constituencies in next week’s...

Canopy, a firm that says it wants to eliminate rental deposits in the next five years, has won a £50,000 cash...

One of the north east of England’s higher profile estate agencies has restructured and merged with a rival ahead of what...

A rogue landlord has been fined more than £150,000 after failing to rectify safety hazards in a property he let. Latif Rehman...

The owner of two properties has been fined £35,000 for breaches of the selective licensiing regime in his local area.  At a...

The Black Brick agency, which operates with high net worth clients, is forecasting that 2020 will see the arrival of a...

Don’t even think how quickly Christmas has come around again: it’s already December so we imagine many offices will be getting...

One of the UK’s largest tenant referencing and let insurance providers has announced a new integration with a PropTech firm -...

The latest rental market snapshot from the Association of Residential Letting Agents suggests that 50 per cent of agents witnessed an...

A short lets firm that describes itself as an “Airbnb management service” is launching an advertising campaign to woo landlords away...

A dawn raid by enforcement officers from a London council has discovered 17 men sleeping on mattresses in a three bedroom...

More details have emerged of the long-term scheme to site Build To Rent homes at Transport for London tube stations and...

A roundtable discussion of rental industry leaders has produced a recommendation for the mandatory regulation of lettings agents. The objective, they say,...

A new product in the increasingly competitive field of deposit alternatives has been launched by lettings and landlord insurance industry giant,...

There’s been an upbeat assessment of how the private rental sector will fare in the next five years from a leading...

The London Airbnb property management company previously known as AirAgents, has rebranded as Nestor. Established in 2015, AirAgents went on to win...

Specialist buy to let mortgage lender Paragon has welcomed Labour's General Election pledge to force rental properties to undergo an annual...

You don’t need to go far for news about the UK lettings market. From the banning of tenant fees to proposed...

Labour’s policies for the private rental sector are “too extreme ... unrealistic and will be hugely damaging to housing supply in...

Controversial housing charity Shelter claims that private renters are collectively paying out £11 billion more a year – around £425 a...

A landlord has been hit with court fines for a fourth time for failing to properly manage his rental properties.  Landlord Jack...

A broad commitment to strengthen landlords’ rights has been made in the Conservative manifesto - and it’s been welcomed by a...

Agency Express, the board company that monitors the lettings market through demand for its To Let and Let By boards, warns...

A pressure group that has spoken out against letting agents and landlords is urging private tenants to take part in a...

Labour has given shocking new details of its proposals for the private rental sector including £100.000 fines if properties are deemed...

A leading provider of deposit alternatives has voiced concern at the Conservatives’ proposal to have a lifetime deposit scheme to make...

Two specific elements of Labour’s tax proposals, outlined in its manifesto, could “drive a nail into the coffin of buy to...

As the battle of political policies continues ahead of next month’s General Election, now Labour has unveiled a raft of initiatives...

The Conservatives’ new concept of a so-called Lifetime Deposit has been welcomed by the Residential Landlords Association.  Yesterday, Letting Agent Today revealed...

On the day that Labour launches its proposals to reform the private rental sector, the Tories have announced so-called Lifetime Rental...

The Liberal Democrats is the first of the major parties to release its party manifesto for the December 12 manifesto, and...

The Property Franchise Group has issued an upbeat trading statement indicating that it’s mitigated much of the financial impact of the...

Another survey of private landlords show a majority feeling less confident about the market than they were three months ago. Last week...

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

The pressure group Generation Rent, which in the past has been highly critical of letting agents and other aspects of the...

A rogue landlord and the property company he ran have been fined £22,000 for dishing out ‘sham licences’ to tenants in...

A former Labour councillor and solicitor Muhammad Harun has been jailed for 16 months after pleading guilty to two counts of...

Flat-sharing website Ideal Flatmate has raised £2m in a funding round in order to expand to seven new cities in the...

A controversial private rental licensing regime that has already made the headlines for the wrong reasons has now been branded a...

Some 45 per cent of those who don’t yet own a home think they never will, according to a new report.  While...

The Chartered Institute of Taxation is urging tenants not to ignore a letter if they receive one from HM Revenue &...

One might have thought that if private rental tenants were as badly treated as some people suggest, housing would be their...

An independent Yorkshire letting agency has broken new ground by extending into Humberside for the first time, after striking a major...

The latest lettings market snapshot by insurance firm HomeLet says the average rent across the UK is now £953, up 2.7...

Just over a fifth of lettings agents questioned in a major industry survey are concerned that may not be complying with...

New figures just released by the government emphasise the significance of creating a specialist housing court says one of the lettings...

The appeal by Labour’s Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, to be given powers to introduce rent controls have been dealt a...

The normally-sedate Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has issued an unusually stark warning to government, telling it to “stop meddling” in...

A PropTech firm says lettings and sales agents are less efficient because software providers and the wider industry have done too...

Another think tank has come up with proposals to scrap Section 21 eviction powers and cap rents - and it also...

ESTAS, the national customer service award scheme which recognises estate and letting agents,  conveyancers and mortgage advisors, has now fully launched...

The growing chorus of calls to professionalise the short lets sector has won influential backing from a senior PropTech entrepreneur. Neil Cobbold...

Almost two thirds of landlords say their next buy to let purchase will be through a limited company, not by themselves...

The Welsh Government says it’s going to issue clarifications to some issues before the end of this year; if agreed by...

The government and local authorities run by all political parties are keen to advocate measures to curb rogue letting agents and...

A north of England letting agent who conned home owners out of thousands of pounds has been ordered to pay it back...

The safeagent accreditation scheme says the next government should not scrap landlord licensing as some trade groups have requested, but should...

The average rent of a newly let property in Great Britain rose to £999 pcm in October according to data from...

The proportion of homes in Great Britain let by overseas based landlords is 11 per cent, up from seven per cent...

It looks likely that the Conservative party is set to formally oppose rent controls when it publishes its manifesto, probably in...

Countrywide has issued an unusual statement saying that the veteran lettings expert recruited to steer the organisation through the tenant fee...

The National Union of Students claims young people at college and university are being unfairly targeted by agents and landlords when...

Citizens Advice wants the next government to radically alter the private rental sector in favour of tenants.  The charity’s 2019 election manifesto,...

A leading London lettings agent wants increased regulation over Airbnb in a bid to deter criminal activity and anti-social behaviour. Martin Bikhit, managing...

The latest rental index from PropTech firm Goodlord shows some regions enjoying lower void periods with others slower to stabilise.  Specifically, the...

Knight Frank says the supply of new lettings properties in prime central London is likely to slow - and as a...

Three of the country’s most senior agents have told a PropTech supplier how they use technology to aid their compliance work...

Industry supplier Let Alliance has merged with the Barbon Insurance Group, which includes HomeLet and Rentshield     The announcement was made at...

Around 40 per cent of tenants currently in the private rental sector believe they will never be able to buy their...

A leading trade body says the government’s latest injection of funds to help local councils root out rogue operators in the...

A lettings guru who worked at Purplebricks for five years in a string of key roles has quit the company to...

The government has given an extra £3.8m to councils to come up with ways of catching rogue landlords - and in...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents and the National Association of Estate Agents have issued their manifesto for next month’s General...

Lettings agents who diversify to offer tenant liability insurance not only broaden their own business but also increase peace of mind...

One of the industry’s leading trade bodies has revealed that the number of laws creating an obligation on landlords in the...

Martin & Co says it has compensated clients fully after a rogue lettings agent in Cornwall added sums to invoices sent...

A collective of activist renter groups has set out a manifesto of what it wants from the winner of next month’s...

The Scottish Government says it’s looking at whether to regulate Airbnb and other short let activities after a consultation found widespread...

Lettings agents are being invited to tell a big city council how to improve its private rental sector strategy.  Manchester local authority...

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has launched his party’s General Election campaign with an attack on what he describes as “dodgy landlords.” He...

One of the industry’s leading trade groups has repeated a warning to the Conservatives that they cannot rely on the votes...

An insurance firm has broken down the causes of major problems for buy to let landlords and tenants - and, perhaps...

One of the leading providers of deposit alternatives in the UK wants the government to embrace the option - even to...

A new trade body is being set up in a bid to professionalise the short lets sector. The sector - which embraces...

A new report from Knight Frank shows how the country’s most expensive lettings market - prime central London - has boomed. The...

Zoopla is beefing up its customer relationship management programme with the appointment of RAPP UK to evolve the portal’s data infrastructure...

Many buy to let investors are still badly bruised by the government’s wave of fiscal and regulatory assaults on the private...

The growing deposit alternative sector continues to be ultra-competitive with 15-branch agency Kings Lettings signing up to Zero Deposit. Kings Lettings operates...

The owner of a house believed to be occupied by multiple tenants has been prosecuted by a Kent council for failing...

Rent controls similar to those demanded by Labour in London and other major cities in the UK do not work, and...

A landlord who made a perverted request to take photographs of a teenager in her underwear has had his request for...

Northwood franchisees have completed four acquisitions, taking the total this year to eight. As part of the Belvoir Group, Northwood and has...

A police force has issued a warning to agents and owners of short-let properties to look for signs of modern slavery...

A solicitor has urged the government not to reform or scrap Section 21 eviction powers simply on the basis of protests...

Labour-run Leeds city council is introducing a licensing scheme which requires landlords to pay up to £825 per property. The deadline for...

ARLA and NAEA Propertymark’s Qualifications division has held its annual awards ceremony in the House of Lords, recognising achievement and celebrating...

A landlord has been found guilty of failing to license an HMO - and has ended up with a bill of...

A leading agent has repeated his controversial belief that the proposed scrapping of Section 21 eviction powers should be seen as...

The government is being urged to speed up the release details of the future it sees for selective licensing following revelations...

A trade body says the private rental sector is facing a major crisis - more landlords are selling properties than buying...

The Property Ombudsman has expelled three lettings agencies from its scheme because of unpaid awards to landlord clients. The first is Kingsman...

Research by the British Property Federation shows that there are now 148,046 build-to-rent homes complete, under construction or in planning across...

The controversial tenants union Acorn has set up a web page where disgruntled renters can lodge complaints about letting agents. In the...

Most landlords are wary of the potential damage, smells and noise complaints that can come with accommodating a tenant with pets....

Contrary to the impressions given in some quarters, no fewer than 75 per cent of tenants are happy to rent, and...

The BBC is reporting that the short lets giant Airbnb has been contacted by HM Revenue & Customs about its tax...

Belvoir has confirmed that its Brighton franchisees have acquired the independent Homelets agency in the town - for a cool £1m. Existing...

Government data suggests that almost 54 per cent of the UK’s remaining smokers are tenants - and against that backdrop, an...

A seaside council has issued over £15,000 in fines to owners of unlicensed HMOs.  Torbay council in south Devon adds that “a...

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

Life insurance sold to tenants could provide a valuable additional income stream for agents whose revenue has been hit by the...

Countrywide’s high-end Hamptons International brand says it’s growing its lettings business “ethically and sustainably, regardless of market conditions.” It has ended the...

A statement from Hackney council in north east London says those who break its licensing provisions for the private rental sector...

Former QPR and Nottingham Forest striker Dexter Blackstock has been fined over £25,000 and branded a rogue landlord after admitting 12 licencing offences. He...

There are just a few days remaining for entrants to the UK PropTech Awards - the submission deadline is Wednesday October 23. The...

Property development and investment firm SevenCapital has released a top 10 league table of UK cities which it claims will perform...

The Leaders Romans Group has acquired yet another independent agency - this time it is Essex and Suffolk Lettings. Based in Colchester,...

One of the country’s leading lettings experts has outlined why the government is wrong to suggest that Section 8 powers could...

New research from Rightmove shows almost a quarter of landlords are planning to sell at least one property from their current...

If you want to know why inventories are vital for agents and landlords, look no further than the high-profile dispute over...

New analysis by Direct Line for Business reveals a surge in the number of police investigations into the theft of electricity,...

Another online lettings agency has come forward with a deal to help landlords and tenants stranded after the closure of Upad. Last...

UK-wide rental prices are up 2.0 per cent annually to £876 – a three-year high – according to a new quarterly...

Another law firm has sharply criticised the government’s proposals to abolish Section 21 eviction powers for landlords. Devonshires says the government should...

One of West Sussex’s largest agencies, Michael Jones & Company, has acquired an independent rival as part of a move to...

Giant glow-in-the-dark swear words, a sex toy and a pet python are among some of the items that students left in...

Government plans to end so-called ‘no fault’ evictions may backfire and not improve tenants’ security at all. That’s the warning from Osbornes...

Countrywide’s monthly rental index - based on achieved rather than advertised rents on newly let properties - says the average rent...

The race for dominance in the deposit alternative field continues apace. Now franchise giant Hunters has teamed up with flatfair to bring...

Consumer charity Citizens’ Advice says government proposals to reform or possibly scrap S21 eviction rights do not go far enough.  The group...

Research by safeagent - the new name for the National Approved Letting Scheme - has found over 130,000 unlicensed properties in...

In addition to the apparent collapse of Upad at the weekend, there has been unconfirmed speculation about redundancies at a second...

A lettings agent jailed in March for taking £220,000 from tenants and landlords is now in trouble over her legal representation. Heather...

A senior Labour housing spokesman is urging the government to press on with plans to outlaw the use of Section 21...

As winter is coming, it’s time to think about how to protect your property from damp and mould. This silent assassin...

The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) has submitted its response to the government's consultation on scrapping Section 21 evictions, which closes tomorrow...

The Leaders Romans Group has announced an acquisition to mark further expansion into the corporate lettings and block management market. The agency...

Property investors are concerned that Brexit could deter international buyers from purchasing property in the UK, which could in turn weaken...

October 31, known as All Hallows' Eve, is now less than three weeks away. While the government continues with its botched Brexit...

1. Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Terry Fisher, Marketing Director at Movebubble 2. What is Movebubble...

One of London's largest agencies, Chestertons, has reported a record month for revenues in September as well as its best ever...

The letting and estate agencies which have provided the most consistent levels of high customer service are to be recognised with...

Uncertainty around the UK's planned departure from the EU and the stability of the government is causing the super-rich to rent instead...

A landlord has been fined almost £2,500 for breaching an improvement notice issued by Cambridge City Council. Noelle Salameh was fined after...

A letting agency has denied that 'highly toxic' gas is leaking into one of its tenant's homes in Worcester. Leaders has said...

The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) has accused courts across the country of failing to follow their own rules when it comes...

Landlords have urged the authorities not to introduce rent controls in Manchester as they would 'choke off' supply of housing in...

Landlords must look at their finances as a range of tax changes continue to 'hit home', according to Apropos. The property management...

Well-known letting agent Kristjan Byfield has announced the details of his new product which aims to reduce the workload of the...

An online letting agency which launched last month has announced the recruitment of two former Purplebricks staff. Michael Booth, the hybrid agency's...

A group of landlords in the North East are the latest to criticise Labour's plans to introduce a Right to Buy...

A rental market slump in September has led to a rise in average void periods across many parts of England and...

The government has this week published a learning toolkit for local authorities to help them with enforcement against rogue landlords and...

There has been a significant spike in activity in the East Hampshire lettings market, according to analysis from Zoopla. Over the last...

An independent letting agency has reported its success in helping two large Build to Rent (BTR) developments to successfully let properties...

The number of tenants experiencing rent rises following the introduction of the Tenant Fees Act continued its upward curve in August. The...

North east agency My Property Box has announced it has merged with Sandersons Lettings, the firm which gave its founder his...

A branch of a regional agency has expanded its managed portfolio following its third acquisition in 18 months. CJ Hole Cheltenham has...

A call has been made for the best letting agencies and other rental sector professionals to show how they comply with...

Rightmove has at last completed on its acquisition of tenancy referencing firm Van Mildert, first announced two months ago. The deal, reported...

A PropTech platform devised by Build To Let specialist Grainger is to be used in a bid to differentiate the company from...

An umbrella organisation representing councils is calling for greater freedom to introduce more and larger rental sector licensing schemes, without the...

A crackdown on letting agency websites by a Trading Standards team has found the significant majority of them to be breaking...

A leading lettings and sales agency in West Sussex is launching a hub-style structure centralising branch activities in a town centre. Michael...

The private rented sector would shrink by 20 per cent if Section 21 ‘no-fault’ evictions are abolished, according to an economic...

There’s a warning from a leading agent that the unregulated proliferation of Airbnb-style short lets will lead to mainstream rent rises...

Letting agents are to be offered free training in managing tenancy deposits and disputes if they operate in Edinburgh. In the last...

Did you know that preparing for a deposit dispute starts at the beginning of a tenancy? When tenants and landlords disagree about...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has accused Labour of being thin on detail when it comes to the housing policies...

The lettings agency owners behind the Advanced Rent Option, which provides landlords with up to 12 months’ rent in advance, says...

Franchise giant Hunters is continuing its expansion with the acquisition of Forte Lettings & Property Management, an independent in Exeter. The Devon...

High end London estate agency Chestertons has signed up with Zero Deposits, one of the deposit replacement services expanding across the...

High end agency JLL says it’s seen a consistent rise in London owners becoming landlords, with a 15.3 per cent increase...

A senior Labour politician in Sheffield and the campaign group Acorn have both expressed support for a selective licensing scheme to...

The quality of accommodation in the private rental sector has drastically improved in the past decade according to a survey by...

Legal & General is introducing a Rental Protection Plan for tenants, thought to be one of the first examples of this...

The majority of the UK’s private renters don’t want to purchase a home according to new research, coming just as the...

Ben Beadle is to be the chief executive of the new National Residential Landlords Association, launching in January. The new body comes...

Private landlords are to be given a month’s rent upfront and 12 months’ membership of a trade body if they sign...

The weekly economic and financial research magazine The Economist has made a scathing attack on rent controls. The publication says rent controls...

High profile eviction company Landlord Action says as many as 50 per cent of Section 21 cases it handles involve tenants...

The rental sector needs to prepare for the demographic challenge of an increasingly older population, says the head of a high...

A typical lettings agent could save some two and a half hours’ time each working day if they adopted more Artificial...

A Shropshire man has become the first in England to be banned from being a landlord.  In a case brought by Telford...

Two London agencies have been expelled from The Property Ombudsman scheme for failing to honour two compensation awards. The first is Chase...

Labour is backing new guidelines which ban adverts which can be interpreted as encouraging landlords and home owners to flout restrictions...

A leading lettings sector trade body says evidence shows the direct payment of benefit to landlords is the biggest possible contribution...

A rogue landlord who divided his three-bedroom home in central London into eight flats has ended up with a bill of...

As expected, the Liberal Democrats’ conference in Bournemouth has backed a motion calling for the scrapping of Section 21 - effectively...

Members of the industry’s two major landlord bodies have backed a merger which will now take place on January 1. Members of...

A home being pet-friendly is the most desirable attribute in a rental property, according to research by a specialist mortgage lender.  The...

A Labour think tank considered on the right wing of the party says it wants rent controls that make a difference...

Last week’s revelation that approaching 50 per cent of letting agents surveyed in London were in breach of the law is...

A Labour councillor on Islington council - which is controlled by the party and has Jeremy Corbyn as a local member...

Landlords in a part of Teesside are to be allowed to operate a “collaborative” licensing scheme after a council backed down...

Data from Countrywide estate agents analysed by Hamptons International reveals that the average rent of a newly-let property in the UK...

The most controversial local council rental licensing scheme in the country has been deemed a success - at least by the...

Young adults aged 20 to 29 spend up to a third of their pre-tax income on rent for a room according...

It’s that time of year again when pencil cases are fully stocked and the smell of dusty books opening fills the...

London Trading Standards has made the startling claim that 46 per cent of almost 2,000 agents it has surveyed are falling...

Rents have reached an all time high across the UK according to HomeLet. Its latest index says the average rent in the...

An agency in the north of England is continuing its strategy of acquisitions in a bid to offset the effects of...

The Association of Residential Lettings Agents is urging member agents and the industry to ensure it is up to date with...

The Liberal Democrat conference, which begins on Saturday, is to debate a resolution calling for the scrapping of Section 21 -...

Franchise agency group Winkworth claims the lettings fee ban impact has been less severe on its agents than on other companies,...

Utilities management service Tenant Shop says demographic changes leading to more families and older individuals renting privately represent an opportunity for...

The government has been criticised yet again for what is described as its “incoherent” approach to the private rental sector. David Miles,...

The Association of Residential Lettings Agents has taken legal advice on what can be charged to tenants for so-called ‘contractual damages’. ARLA...

New research from an international law firm shows that the rental sector in major cities is now changing its demographic make-up...

PropTech firm Goodlord is hosting a webinar this week when the chief executive of the Association of Residential Letting Agents, David...

It can be done - a council has U-turned on plans for a licensing scheme for landlords. The move by Hounslow council...

Housing minister Esther McVey has hinted that the government may finally decide as soon as next month on whether to introduce...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents wants agents and tenants to have access to the government’s high profile but so far...

There is increasing evidence of the so-called unintended consequences of the tenant fee ban according to a major regional lettings agency. Linley &...

A respected transfer agent who has been selling lettings businesses for 25 years has issued a warning that tenant-find let-only portfolios...

A national awareness campaign is required to help landlords get to grip with new Energy Performance Certificate legislation. That’s the view of...

Professional client account solutions for modern letting agents Letting agents will need to come up with new ways to manage client money...

As the row over Labour’s proposal rumbles on the think tank Centre for Policy Studies - which has previously argued that...

Enfield wants to be the latest London council to introduce large-scale additional and selective licensing schemes which would affect most private rented...

There’s more evidence today that pet-friendly properties are becoming increasingly popular with tenants.  A study by specialist lender Landbay quizzed 2,000 tenants...

Belvoir says consolidation between lettings and sales agencies across the industry is likely to increase as a result of greater regulation...

Void periods have fallen to record lows across the UK in August, with average voids standing at just 11 days.  The data,...

Property management platform Howsy has revealed new funding to the tune of £5m - and it now claims to be one...

Not-for-profit accreditation scheme safeagent has partnered with Landlord Accreditation Scotland to provide specialist training for agents north of the border.  LAS is...

There’s been a fierce outcry from Conservative MPs and the lettings industry in response to Labour’s threat to give private rental...

Belvoir Group has this morning announced its interim results for the first six months of this year - and they show...

Cobbletons - a portal dedicated to advertising only prime off-market properties - has teamed up with the lettings division of high...

A council has used a drone with a thermal imaging camera to identify illegal ‘sheds’ where tenants are being rented beds...

Some of the private rental sector’s most experienced and respected experts believe it’s almost inevitable that a housing market crash is...

A joint operation between Avon and Somerset Police and North Somerset council has uncovered a string of issues connected with rental...

Fixflo is launching its sixth annual Lettings Report for lettings professionals  The survey gauges the opinions of lettings professionals around the UK...

The tenant fee ban in England has led to a surge in demand from tenants for properties according to Belvoir.  The franchise...

Police in South Shields have called for the sharing of information about tenants in HMOs - and a council is considering...

The Trussell Trust, which coordinates the vast majority of the food banks around the UK, is working with the National Landlords...

A husband and wife pair of buy to let investors have been prosecuted after letting out a property that contained serious...

A PropTech lettings platform is claiming to be valued at over £2.8m. Inadash describes itself as an “on-demand marketplace” which via an...

More efforts are being made to urge London homeowners to consider short-term lets which in some cases can routinely earn an...

One of the country’s leading property management experts says buy to let is here to stay - but only if individual...

Landlords’ confidence in the success of their own businesses has plunged in recent months.  Only 29 per cent of landlords have positive expectations...

London-focussed lettings agency Portico, which has expanded into the north of England, has identified part of Liverpool as the area where...

Universal Credit is causing tenants to fall behind with their rent according to lettings sector trade body the Residential Landlords Association. It...

A new online lettings agency called Accommodation.co.uk is looking for franchisees to join ahead of its formal launch next month.  The company...

Activity in the lettings market has picked up over the summer after a surprising lull in the spring, according to the...

Energy market regulator Ofgen is considering an amnesty for tenants and landlords, amongst others, to own up to ‘stealing’ energy through...

A lettings agent says she has just spent three months trying to get evidence of her Client Money Protection policy -...

Agents and landlords are being urged to back a legal case to protect their rights to repossess properties. This follows a recent...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors wants the government to implement recent recommendations to regulate the agency industry, starting with the...

A leading industry figure is calling on agents to have a Plan B ready if their bank closes undesignated client accounts.  This...

There should be open-ended tenancies with reduced rent for long-term contracts and any rent increase tied only to inflation. This dramatic reform...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has released a five point plan on how the public can choose a letting agent. 1....

An agency which says it aims to be “the UK’s premier residential lettings company” says it’s offering itself free to landlords...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents made a short sharp attack on the government last night, over freedom of movement and...

A new rental option for landlords could see them receiving an upfront annual lump sum of over £10,000. The Advanced Rent Option...

Anyone underestimating the size of the UK’s growing private rental sector ought to think again - new research shows its value...

With the recent introduction of the Tenant Fees Act – which bans upfront fees charged by letting agents and caps security...

The Labour Party appears to be entering the arena of organising private rental sector tenants who have grievances. Party leader Jeremy Corbyn...

The Guild of Property Professionals has received confirmation that the government’s proposed changes to Section 21 will not be retrospective. “What this...

Telephone answering service Moneypenny says agents’ missed calls typically double during the summer months while staff are on leave - meaning...

One of the key players in the ultra-competitive deposit alternative sector has announced a massive and new $11m investment. Flatfair says that...

Data published by the Office for National Statistics shows private rental prices paid by tenants in the UK rising by 1.3...

Claims that the use of Section 21 ‘no fault’ eviction notices is the leading cause of homelessness in the UK are...

A new property court similar to the Scottish system should be established in England and Wales to deal with the proposed...

What is your business?    Bonds Estate Agents, the modern hybrid agent bridging the gap between the traditional high street agent and online...