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NatWest Group has announced a new package of what it calls ”targeted lending and support” to help local councils provide more...

Propertymark is urging the government to tackle the problem of banks closing down undesignated or pooled client accounts of letting agents. HM...

A Parliamentary committee has heard that thousands of small and medium-sized letting agencies were debanked in 2023, with financial institutions forcibly...

Winkworth has appointed a new franchisee to take over its Worthing office on the South Coast. After 15 years working in estate...

A severe shortage of properties to rent, fierce competition to secure the homes that are available, and rising rental prices led...

Winkworth is expanding further in Dorset, with the acquisition of Christopher Batten in Wimborne – its seventh office in the county.  Christopher...

An industry supplier owned by the Leaders Romans Group says the government’s pledge to reform - not replace - leasehold should...

A client account is essential to your lettings business, but the rules and regulations you need to follow to keep this...

A government minister has pledged to act on the threat to lettings agents posed by banks acting against pooled client accounts. Many...

It looks as if the government is accepting that there is a problem with how banks treat Pooled Client Accounts -...

Propertymark has responded to an HM Treasury consultation on anti-money laundering processes - and in doing so it’s slammed “heavy handed...

The Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, is being urged to act now to stop the problems banks are creating for letting agents. Following a...

The Letting Partnership has been helping UK agents build successful lettings businesses since 2006. Despite the current challenging financial landscape, The Letting...

Propertymark says banks are still misinterpreting Anti-Money Laundering rules regarding pooled client accounts, making life difficult for letting agents.  The trade body...

UK banks are closing client accounts held by established letting agents and refusing to open accounts for new businesses. The Problem A growing...

According to the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, organisations worldwide lose $4.7 trillion to fraud each year, with real estate suffering...

An analysis of lettings data across England and Wales shows that  there have been 3,737 rental property repossession orders granted in...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Sarah Davies, Commercial Director at The Letting Partnership What is The...

The rental market shows no signs of slowing with ongoing high demand, fuelled in part by the pandemic, creating a buoyant...

Flatfair has named a series of agents now signed up to its deposit alternative products. These include Jones Robinson, Haslams, Andrew Craig,...

Data from Leaders Romans Group shows that lettings attracted 5,941 requests for viewings in June – an average of 42 per...

Two well known PropTech providers to the lettings sector have announced they have now fully integrated their technology, meaning users of...

Franchise giant Winkworth has opened a new office in the south west at Ferndown in Dorset. The office has been opened by...

Letting agents have only 10 days to open segregated client accounts or they could face being expelled by their client money...

Letting agencies should review banking and payment systems in the light of rule changes and the ongoing challenge of the pandemic. This advice...

ARLA Propertymark says there has been a breakthrough on the banking clampdown on pooled client accounts - a pain in the...

A westcountry landlord is only the second in England to have received a banning order preventing him from letting or managing...

ARLA Propertymark has set out its concerns over draft guidance on anti-money laundering produced by a body called the Joint Money...

Numerous regional independent agency chains have joined Zero Deposit, one of several rental deposit replacement schemes to have appeared in recent...

A free-to-use ‘Housing Early Prevention Service’ runs by a council on the south coast has been deemed such a success it...

Propio, another crowdfunding platform, has launched with the ambitious claim of expecting returns from residential investments of between six and 15...

Our thanks to the eagle-eyed Richard Cross of B H Realty for spotting one or two less-than-perfect things on a Rightmove...

Agency software company Eurolink says there are ’10 easy ways for letting agents to grow their businesses’ - with most of...

Would-be buy to let investors have been given a neat summary of the risks involved in entering the market via crowdfunding. Letting...