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The latest snapshot of the lettings market from PropTech firm Goodlord suggests that activity is much stronger now than a year...

A new league table has been produced listing locations where a mix of rental yield and capital growth have given buy...

Deposit alternative system and rental financial services platform Canopy has raised over £2m in a funding round that was oversubscribed within...

A complex ‘sentiment tracker’ suggests demand is still strong in the lettings market. PropTech supplier Yomdel publishes a weekly tracker index; it...

A new PropTech platform backed by Countrywide and Foxtons says it offers agents an opportunity to reduce admin, increase revenue and...

The arrival of mandatory enhanced electrical checks so soon after the chaos of the Coronavirus pandemic represents a perfect storm for...

A PropTech platform claims to allow agents to generate a fully-compliant tenancy agreement with a standardised pet-friendly clause which includes a...

A new online self-screening bot questionnaire has been launched to check agents and customers are symptom-free before a physical viewing takes...

The latest snapshot produced by PropTech firm Goodlord shows “huge gains for the lettings market” since transactions resumed a month ago. The...

Research from franchise giant Belvoir is the latest to show what may be rapidly changing aspirations from private tenants. “The results confirm...

Proptech platform Residently claims its technology is now “free to the property sector.” The platform currently offers a contactless rental process which...

PropTech lettings platform Herddle has announced two new senior hires. Hurdle describes itself as the tech-enabled lettings and property management agency that...

The Federation of Independent Agents has revealed four new PropTech and training strategic partnerships for member agencies. They are Inventory Base, Vaboo,...

A PropTech service says it wants to by-pass professional agents and cater just for self-managing landlords.  What’s more, it’s promoting the fact...

The current restriction on Airbnb-style short lets to 90 nights a year in London could spread to other cities - and...

The MRI Software company is hosting a free webinar with key figures from two companies it works with.  Viewber co-founder Ed Mead...

PropTech firm Goodlord says there’s been “a remarkable bounce back” in the lettings sector since the market resumed. It’s been three weeks...

A new app called Rentd by-passes lettings agents but charges landlords £799 for a full listing. Landlords pay the one-off £799 fixed...

The HMRC’s long-awaited online register for letting agents to register their anti-money laundering activities has opened - almost six months after...

Chancellors, the independent agency chain with over 50 offices across southern England and mid Wales, is launching a deposit-free renting option. Working with...

Rental property website SearchSmartly is thought to be the first in the world to display air quality ratings on every listing. In...

The number of new rental listings reaching the market has soared as much as 44 per cent in some areas following...

Inventory BaseAcademy has released new online training to address safeguarding issues that may face the lettings industry. Property professionals, especially managers and...

Rental app service Movebubble has launched its Home Walkthrough feature which it says it the first of its kind in the...

The Lettings Hub is to roll out its Property Passport free tenant referencing product for letting agents. A beta test exercise already...

The rental market effectively disintegrated in the early days of lockdown before showing signs of a rebound which are still active...

A digital property management platform has gone live with a network of local agents covering some of the UK’s key cities.  Apropos has recruited a network of what it calls...

PropTech company Teal Legal has designed a new tool which it says will help restore confidence in the property market once...

Reapit is offering lettings and sales agents free training courses for its CRM software.  The offer will provide non-customers with complimentary access...

A new automated lettings platform claims to automate key processes around compliance, marketing, leasing and management for letting agents. Ringley Group, a...

The latest market snapshot by PropTech firm Goodlord suggests that while new and completed tenancy volumes dropped rapidly in the first...

London-focussed agency Chestertons has become the latest business to use the teclet platform to manage tenancy, renewal and management processes. Around 40...

Once the worst of the Coronavirus crisis passes there’s likely to be much more regulation of parts of the rental sector...

There was just a two per cent rise in late rental payments over the last month according to figures from an...

A leading PropTech expert has urged lettings agents to improve their administration and paperwork if they want to avoid what could...

A former estate agent who has set up an online platform giving information on property values for London renters and buyers...

A new automated lettings platform is launching next week and promising to ensure agents and buy to let investors stay compliant. PlanetRent...

London agency Chestertons reports that despite the lockdown it’s registered 2,369 new tenants needing to move, conducted 3,432 virtual viewings, received...

PropTech firm Goodlord is hosting two webinars - the first of which is today - looking at issues surrounding rent defaulting...

The lettings and management software platform teclet has announced its latest partner - LegalforLandlords. Agents using teclet - which is currently offering...

The government’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme will be essential to keeping payments flowing through the rental sector, according to a leading...

A PropTech firm is making its Covid-19 functionality free to use for agents, landlords and tenants facing challenges in accessing properties.  Launched...

A short-lets rental platform says it has evidence to show that nights booked in April are down 90 per cent compared...

Lettings PropTech company teclet has announced that its partnership with the Mortgage Advice Bureau has been extended to offer mortgage and...

A PropTech firm has issued a dramatic offer to letting agents to pay the company only when they themselves get paid...

Good morning and welcome to today’s edition, helping agents find a way through the Coronavirus crisis by sharing information with the...

Week three of the lockdown begins - we hope you’re faring well with these temporary restrictions. We’re here to help where...

Lettings management platform Howsy claims it has seen an increase in business since the lockdown 10 days ago.  It says it’s enjoyed...

Hello and here’s the latest daily update to help the industry through these unprecedented times.  If you have any appropriate advice you...

Demand for rental properties has predictably plummeted thanks to the lockdown. Data from PropTech company Goodlord shows that while a surge for...

The ESTAS has launched a new tool which it says will help agents get in pole position for when the market...

A leading Proptech expert says agents must have robust payment systems to cope with the unusual pressure of tracking mortgage and...

Hello and welcome to today’s Conquering Corona, our guide to the latest information to help agents and the rest of the...

Hello: so much has happened since the last Conquering Corona column on Friday. Before we get on with it, a reminder...

Hello - here we are with Friday’s help and advice.  A reminder, if you need it, that we want to share your...

Good morning and welcome to the industry’s daily update on how we cope with the challenge of social distancing and self-isolation...

A leading PropTech expert says there’s still more that can be done by the rental sector to drive up the quality...

Letting Agent Today is launching a daily service to help agents facing the Coronavirus threat.  This is where you’ll find news, advice...

PropTech platform teclet is offering letting agents that list with OnTheMarket a three month trial offer of a digital inventory service. One...

A PropTech platform claims that an area where the average rent is 50 per cent of less of an average salary...

Letting agents will for the first time be able to use Open Banking to process payments more efficiently, following a decision...

PropTech company Goodlord, already used by hundreds of agencies across the UK, has revealed a £10m investment windfall after its latest...

Over 100,000 current or aspiring tenants have signed up to an education programme explaining how the rental sector works, run by...

The controversial Liverpool council licensing scheme is to be policed through the use of what the authority calls “cutting-edge big data...

It’s steady-as-she-goes in the rental market according to the latest market snapshot produced by PropTech firm Goodlord.  Void periods dropped slightly in...

A new free-to-download app called My Rent Rewards claims to allow tenants to save towards their rent when they shop. The app,...

A five branch lettings and sales firm is the latest agency to sign up to love2move, a PropTech platform that allows...

The PropTech platform Movebubble has upgraded its features to increase rivalry between lettings agents and thus enhance the renting experience for...

Confusion among renters over the complex Tenant Fees Act could trigger a surge in complaints about agents to redress schemes -...

A survey by PropTech firm Goodlord suggests a growing number of agents want to sell up. Goodlord surveyed 200 agencies for its...

The government says it’s working on an online digital Right To Rent status checking service for agents and landlords to use,...

The latest market snapshot produced by PropTech firm Goodlord suggests that even in the south west of England - where renters...

The majority of letting agents have lost up to 20 per cent of their revenue because of the fees ban -...

Lettings payment automation provider PayProp has won a Gold Trusted Service Award from online reviews platform Feefo. The PropTech firm was deemed...

Haart has announced a strategic partnership with software platform teclet which will now be adopted in all lettings offices in the...

Lettings PropTech platform teclet says its product is key for agents seeking to comply with new electrical safety regulations in a...

A new lettings platform claims it can help existing agents and staff working for companies quit and fulfil their dream of...

Councils that have been awarded additional cash injections by government could use their windfalls to enhance their enforcement of the private...

Technology has completely transformed the lettings landscape over the past decade, but perhaps not in the way many expected it would. Letting...

A trade magazine is reporting that online lettings agency Upad has been bought out by a PropTech platform. The Negotiator says Howsy...

Leaders Romans Group has selected a new PropTech platform after a competitive tendering process. The winning company was PropCo, which already services...

A former director at LSL’s Build To Rent division has today been named as head of business development at a London...

The rental market is stable as it enters 2020 according to the latest index from PropTech company Goodlord.  Five out of the...

Letting agents can beat the upcoming ban on Section 21 by updating key documentation and automating arrears management to reduce the...

The fast-growing Federation of Independent Agents has this morning revealed that it’s linking with Training For Professionals, the largest provider of...

The giant Hunters franchise chain, which has over 200 offices across the UK, Is boosting its technology through a strategic partnership...

If letting agents want more satisfied clients and fewer disputes they should provide better information to tenants. That’s the view of PropTech...

[Letting Agent Today was ‘off air’ for some of Wednesday and most of Thursday thanks to technical problems - we apologise to...

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

A new PropTech app-based service claiming to reduce paperwork in property management is rolling out in London and the south east. Herddle...

The relatively low profile 99home online agency says it is now the UK’s fifth largest operation in the online sector after...

Lettings platform teclet has announced another API partner - the latest of many in recent months.  It’s the Product Care Repair or...

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

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

The property management platform Apropos, scheduled to launch early next year, says it’s signed up 25 business partners ahead of schedule. The...

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

A Labour council is leading a trial by local authorities of a new digital platform that checks whether agents, landlords and...

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

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

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

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

The Deposit Protection Service has teamed up with Comparethemarket in a bid to offer utility deals to tenants.  Renters who have their...

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

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

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

A PropTech firm says it is going to eliminate tenant screening costs by 2021 for lettings agents and landlords who use...

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

A co-founder of a room rental PropTech service says there’s no clear evidence yet that the fees ban introduced in April...

A PropTech platform that earlier this year was reported to be valued at £2.8m is making an unusual offer to letting...

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

Agent and co-founder of new end of tenancy PropTech solution The Depositary, Kristjan Byfield, has spoken to Letting Agent Today about...

Rental platform Canopy, which allows tenants to rent without a deposit, has announced a new partnership which will allow agents and...

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

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

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

Lettings platform teclet has announced its latest API partner - and says more will be revealed in the coming months. The partner...

A leading PropTech chief says there is nothing inherently wrong with private tenants being given the right to buy their property,...

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

The Nationwide is investing in a digital lettings service called Bunk - it’s headed by a 24 year old who has...

A PropTech firm says it has calculated the true cost of being a buy to let investor.  Howsy says the average landlord...

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

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

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

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...

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

A London-focused PropTech startup has just won another £7m in funding. Residently manages houses and flats for landlords, letting them directly to...

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

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

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

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

The first ‘state of the industry’ report on the lettings agency sector since the introduction of the fees ban suggests individual...

PropTech supplier Movebubble claims that over 450,000 tenants use its app. Users can schedule viewings, share feedback with agents or landlords or...

A short lets management firm which was earlier this year at the centre of an advertisement controversy is now partnering with...

PropTech, and specifically Artificial Intelligence, could help letting agents better cope with new demands created by further industry regulation. That’s the view...

Lettings software platform teclet has announced a strategic partnership with the Mortgage Advice Bureau. It means MAB’s intermediary products and services will...

If the government follows through with its plan to scrap Section 21 there could be more work for agents as a...

An ‘open banking’ PropTech platform has partnered with two rental organisations which will offer agents, landlords and tenants direct payments and...

Goodlord has expanded its offering to enable corporate lets to be processed through its platform.  The move means agents who process both...

A PropTech supplier specialising in rent passports and tenancy deposit replacement has launched an advanced version of its primary product, on...

A new white-labelled outsourced lettings management service is launching today, claiming to undercut all rivals. F%ur - a brand from 4percentproperty -...

The future of the lettings industry will be tech-driven says one of the industry’s leading consultants, who is now also director...

An online room-letting platform claims rents have risen up to eight per cent in wake of the Tenant Fee Act. ideal flatmate...

In the last ten years Google's revenue, largely from pay per click ads (Adwords), has grown by 527% (Source: Statista). In...

 – use technology to build a trusted brand as a people-focused custodian of client money Non-stop regulatory changes in the industry are...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? That depends on which business card. One says ‘Properganda PR,...

Letting agencies can reduce the number of complaints about the industry and improve their own customer service and relationships by improving...

A short lets management firm has acquired a PropTech platform and claims it will help owners “see their true profit potentials”...

Agents need to be pro-actively using PropTech and improving their work methods to reduce voids for their landlord clients. That’s the view...

The online platform teclet, which enables agents to automate the lettings and management process, has announced that Movinghub has become an...

A PropTech product is claiming a breakthrough for letting agents who can now access same-day referencing on prospective tenants. LetAlliance claims that...

One of the growing number of deposit alternative services, flatfair, has announced a partnership with lettings platform Goodlord. Agents and landlords can...

The latest rental market snapshot from PropTech firm Goodlord shows that average rent increased in four of the eight regions of...

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

The management company of a private New York City rental apartment complex is to install a facial recognition system which must...

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

PropTech supplier Goodlord says it’s updated its core product to ensure compliance with new regulations - and it says it’s offering...

A PropTech tool wants landlords to manage their own properties and is accusing agents of being likely to increase charges to...

A PropTech platform launched three years ago acting as a search system for students wanting purpose-built accommodation is evolving into a...

An analysis of the rental market in England has revealed a dramatic drop in the number of EU nationals taking up...

A new PropTech tool already used by three leading agencies claims to identify and speed up contact between pre-qualified tenants and...

Letting agents are being urged to consider how they can reduce their administrative workload, following huge growth in the size of...

The newly-formed Federation of Independent Agents (FIA), the network set up by former Property Franchise Group managing director Graham Lock, has...

Tenancy deposit alternative Reposit has announced a partnership with Pattinson, the largest independent agency network in the North East. The 26-branch network...

New data from Proptech firm Goodlord suggests that the average void period for England and Wales is just 21 days. The longest...

Increased use of technology could boost gas-related health and safety in the private rental sector according to the people behind a...

A new PropTech start-up that claims to make student house-hunting easier is offering free listings to lettings agents with London properties. Polygon...

A controversial review website which says it identifies “good (and bad) letting agents” has introduced tools aiming to reduce disputes at...

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 senior executive who has bought out the lettings side of a Glasgow agency business says increased use of PropTech is...

With the tenants’ fees ban just five weeks away focus is shifting to how agents can make up for lost income...

A new utilities management platform for tenants says it will generate additional revenue streams for letting agents. Love Resident gives tenants online...

A PropTech firm says buy to let investors could earn in excess of double the eight per cent yield most aim...

The latest lettings sector index suggests that monthly rents increased from February to March in six of the eight regions of...

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

At PayProp we recognise that it’s the hard-working agents and other staff that make the industry a success, so training should...

A PropTech lead generation app that dubs itself the ‘Uber for Lettings Agents’ has launched in Manchester. The app, from Movebubble, already...

Tenancy Deposit Scheme is the latest player in the private rental sector to launch online tools to help letting agents cope...

PropTech company Goodlord is the latest entrant in the deposit alternative field. Under Goodlord Deposit Replacement Insurance agents can provide landlords with...

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...

Utilities and comparative platform Tenant Shop has linked up with Reposit to offer a security deposit alternative product for agents. Tenant Shop’s...

Lettings software provider teclet is launching its platform across the network of franchise agency Hunters. teclet has been working with Hunters on...

The PropTech firm CreditLadder is working with the Nationwide Building Society on a pioneering scheme to try to help tenants buy...

Rent rises in the year to the end of February, as released by the government’s Office of National Statistics, show growth...

A PropTech firm says buy to let investors should not respond to the slowing market by selling up, but should instead...

The London-focussed rental app Movebubble has revealed major new investment from Build To Rent developer Quintain, which is taking a 10...

Lettings automation service teclet has revealed that the Tenant Shop is the latest partner integrated into its platform. Tenant Shop provides energy,...

A new index for the lettings sector in England and Wales by PropTech company Goodlord gives a clean bill of health...

PropTech company teclet has announced it will this year once again be a main category partner at The ESTAS estate and...

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...