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

Sometimes, running a lettings agency can feel as if you’re losing control of client money. Recent cases of property management fraud such...

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

A rental platform says it welcomes government plans to overhaul redress for tenants and others in the housing system but it...

Outsourcing. Everyone has an opinion on it and there’s a stigma surrounding it in the lettings industry. But get this…letting agents ARE...

Specialist student utilities and service provider Glide has launched a product it claims removes the admin and hassle traditionally associated with...

A PropTech firm is offering landlords the opportunity to manage their portfolios from £35 a month, suggesting it could be a...

A software platform has been launched which allows Build To Rent units to be short-let on the likes of Airbnb during...

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

Lettings agency Haart says it will return up to £20m in deposits to existing tenants if they sign up to a...

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...

A PropTech platform claims landlords can cut administration costs so much that they could afford to offer their lettings units furnished...

With 2019 almost upon us, letting agents are finally unburying their heads from the ignorant bliss of the sand pit and...

Two PropTech suppliers are claiming their new products will help lettings agents in the future, especially in the light of the...

Five homeless people will have a roof over their heads this Christmas thanks to a kind-hearted PropTech chief. Mike Georgeson, founder of...

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

The death of the high street agency is a familiar headline, but PropTech can lower costs for bricks-and-mortar agencies and help...

A London-focussed ‘rental brand’ called Residently has just secured £2.5m in funding.  Residently manages houses and flats for landlords, letting them directly...

A new investment company says its latest tool, powered by Artificial Intelligence, helps buy to let investors search for the best...

Respected industry trainer and consultant Michael Day is joining the board of Glanty, the parent company of lettings PropTech firm teclet.  teclet...

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

A PropTech company has won approval from the Financial Conduct Authority to go ahead with a scheme which offers tenants a...

The JLL lettings agency has launched a ‘virtual property manager’ for a small number of Build To Rent tenants, claiming it...

An analysis of 30,000 tenancies by PropTech firm Goodlord suggests that the upcoming ban on tenants’ fees could impact most on...

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

Good tenant referencing should include awareness of would-be renters’ social media history according to RentalStep - but it says more thorough...

A PropTech provider of inventory services says its new tool will significantly cut pre-tenancy admin for letting agents and landlords. No Letting...

After reporting record summer figures from its lettings division, Chestertons says it’s on the acquisition trail and looking for agencies to...

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

PropTech repairs service Fixflo has published its latest annual report on the industry, based on information from over 400 lettings professionals...

A new PropTech tool tells users how much it would cost to rent a house in various areas for a ‘lifetime...

Rightmove’s chief executive officer, Peter Brooks-Johnson, is joining the board of an offshoot of a global classified listings operation. He is to...

Rental platform Goodlord - which in January made around 40 staff redundant in a restructuring move - has now announced that...

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

Two new PropTech services launched, targeting the lettings industry. Tenancy referencing firm FCC Paragon has launched MyMoveIn, an online platform that supports...

Rent-to-rent operator Residently says area with high volumes of tech company employees are leading the lettings market’s growth in London. The firm...

Rent recognition platform CreditLadder, which enables renters to add their payments to their credit history, has announced a partnership which aims...

The chief commercial officer of PropTech startup Canopy says that letting agents and Build to Rent landlords need to accommodate the...

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

The Rent Recognition Challenge, an initiative to use technology to help share renters' payment histories with lenders and credit reference agencies,...

The emerging Proptech platform BestAgent has announced its latest partnership - this one is with InventoryBase, a software supplier which has...

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

A new online rental platform claims that landlords could save enough to afford an additional holiday this year if they signed...

The concept of deposit alternatives is gathering pace and now one PropTech firm closely involved in it - Reposit - has...

Letting agents and landlords have been warned to expect a possible rise in arrears in the coming months if conditions in...

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

ARLA Propertymark has launched a new database to help its agent members keep abreast of compliance issues in the lettings sector.  The...

The next phase of the government’s Rent Recognition Challenge takes place this week, as six short-listed PropTech companies know which will...

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

A PropTech firm has analysed London’s rental market and its results again spell bad news for those in the sector in...

Outsourcing has long been an effective strategy in business. It enables you to provide a new, improved or more streamlined service...

A prominent PropTech startup is questioning whether long-term tenants need to go through the traditional referencing process when moving between rental...

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

Flatsharing website Ideal Flatmate has passed the seed funding milestone of £1 million. The website - which includes former Green & Co...

How can you use data to benefit and better your business? It’s something you’ll no doubt have asked yourself down the...

One of the PropTech companies at the centre of the Rent Recognition Challenge contest is calling on letting agents to use...

Letting Agent Today editor Graham Norwood speaks to Kristjan Byfield, founder of The Depositary and Base Property Specialists at FUTURE: PropTech 2018. ...

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...

Property crowdfunding projects are now the investments of choice for millennials according to a PropTech platform.  Shojin Property Partners claims to have...

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

One of the six PropTech start-ups shortlisted to develop a system allowing tenants’ rental histories to count towards their creditworthiness says...

Goodlord, the PropTech company which restructured earlier this year and laid off a reported 40 members of staff, is fighting back...

A new survey released this morning gives an insight into how tenants manage rental payments and their willingness - in some...

Rental compliance platform GetRentr has raised over £500,000 from investors including a private equity firm and private individuals. GetRentr uses artificial intelligence...

A PropTech firm which uses so-called ‘sherpas’ to find lettings properties for would-be renters, is now seeking £250,000 through crowdfunding to...

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

The government says that later this year it will allocate a further £1.4m to PropTech firms looking at how tenants’ rent...

Andy Burnham, the mayor of Greater Manchester, will is to reveal his vision for the private rental sector to a Residential...

Spotahome, a London-based student lettings platform, has acquired another platform aimed at students, Erasmusu, in a bid to expand its international...

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

A new website specifically dedicated to marketing rented property with tenants in place has raised over £2m investment in the past...

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

An ambitious PropTech startup has raised £2.8 million to fund its bid to 'reinvent the London renting experience'. Homie, a search platform...

PropTech repairs company Fixflo has appointed digital guru Michael Murphy as non-executive chairman. Murphy has previously worked in high-growth and digital subscription...

The veteran estate agent Michael Stoop has become a non-executive director of Sorbet, a PropTech company which has created a software...

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

A PropTech firm that simplifies utility billing, with the aim of reducing property management effort by letting agents, has received £650,000...

Countrywide’s Hamptons International is to work with a PropTech firm to try out a no-deposit lettings scheme in four of its offices. Hamptons’...

Two of the leaders of PropTech company Goodlord have revealed some of the issues that this month drove the company to...

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

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

NoAgent, an online service charging landlords a fee to manage their properties, is the latest to offer a link between tenants’...

A new PropTech platform has launched today linking tenants’ rental payments with their Experian credit histories, as well as providing reports...

A digital start-up that uses algorithms to match the requirements of landlords against the entire buy to let mortgage market of...

The troubled PropTech firm Goodlord - which creates software to allow tenancies to be handled on a single system - has...

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

Harrison Murray, the lettings division of the Nottingham Building Society, has launched a portal for landlords and tenants. The agency says it...

The government is offering £2m to budding PropTech and financial technology entrepreneurs who can develop an application that will enable Britain’s 11...

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

A new app has been launched with the aim of offering extra security to lettings and estate agents and other sole...

No Agent, a platform for landlords which says circumnavigates the need for letting agents, has announced $1.1m in investment - around...

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

A family-run lettings agency says its viability is seriously threatened by the likely fees ban to be introduced in 2018 -...

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

This is a final call for estate and letting agents to have a say on what may be one of the...

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

PropTech firm teclet has been announced as a main category partner for the 15th annual ESTAS Estate and Letting Agent Awards...

Angels Media and a property technology consultancy are joining forces to conduct the first-ever survey into how agents and other property...

Fixflo has teamed up with ARLA Propertymarket to launch a new Tenancy Builder tool to enable agents to easily build tenancy...

The insurance group Direct Line says it is taking a 15 per cent equity stake in Canopy, an ‘alternative deposit’ company.    Canopy...

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...

A lettings management agency in Cardiff says it has boosted business by a quarter in the past year, mostly thanks to...

Humberts has launched an online-only lettings option for landlords with a PropTech firm which has previously operated a service described as...

Lettings transaction platform Goodlord is branching into rent protection with a product that can be integrated into the company’s app.   “Agents can...

A PropTech firm claims more effective use of technology and automation by letting agents could reduce the number of complaints made...

Q: What does it say on your business card? Tim Wright, Product Director, KeyAGENT Q: What does KeyAGENT do? We’re a team of multi-award...

Another new cloud software platform - HeyLandlord - has been launched to make it easier for agents and landlords to communicate...

One of Countrywide’s high-end brands, Hamptons International, is launching its first app to give landlords and tenants “a single integrated point...

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

A new app called UrbanCo is launched today in London as part of a buying agent-style service aimed at busy would-be renters.    A...

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

A new PropTech device aimed at UK owners of foreign holiday homes allows them to control who enters their overseas property...

A PropTech company claims its new software platform will make it easier for letting agents and property managers to co-ordinate maintenance...

The preview event for the launch of a new rental auction site is receiving strong interest from letting agents. LetsBid4Lets says that...

A new rental auction website is inviting letting agents to preview its launch at an event later this month. LetsBid4Lets.com, which claims...

Letting agents and property managers will soon have a new way to coordinate maintenance reports and inspections, thanks to a refreshing...

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

Investors in buy to let are the marketing target for a service which describes itself as the UK’s first digital mortgage...

Uber and a Build To Rent developer have announced a PropTech deal which will see the transport company getting involved in...

The founder of a PropTech start up called No Agent says despite his firm’s name he does not want to see...

Tenant referencing and insurance provider Van Mildert has secured private equity funding from a private family office and the principals of...

An event that has been billed as Europe’s most senior networking event for real estate innovators takes place in London on...

A prominent campaigner over the misappropriation of rental deposits has welcomed the news that government proposals to ban letting agent fees...

Organisers of the Future:PropTech2017 conference on May 4 have revealed new sponsors involved with the event - including Angels Media, publisher...

Poor communication, not being treated as a customer, and the time it takes to get property issues resolved have topped the...

Rightmove and Zoopla have entered into partnerships with a property management app - Rentr - which is aimed at lettings sector...

Online letting agency Upad has appointed the chairman of the new UK PropTech Association to its advisory board.   Eddie Holmes, who announced...

Qube Global Software and PropTech start-up Engage have combined forces to deliver self-service portals to residents within the growing Build to...

The ESTAS awards have a new main category sponsor - PropTech company OneDome.   The OneDome service, launched last month, provides free-to-use information...

A digital property management platform that automates the rental process including marketing, bookings, reference checks, maintenance and compliance, claims it is now...

Who are you? Peter Grant, currently serving year 27 of my sentence in the property industry and still loving every moment of working...

Fixflo has stolen a march over other PropTech companies by being the sole representative from the sector to be invited to...

An enterprising letting agency in the east Midlands is to stage a series of events under the title The Future of...

A new property tech startup is launching this month with the promise that it will “completely transform the way university students...

A part of the Property Software Group - recently snapped up by Zoopla - is launching a tool that it claims...

Countrywide is to lead a group including Connells and Zoopla in a partnership with the proptech company Fixflo, currently best known...