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Rent to the value of £10,982.25 is to be returned to tenants by a landlord who was operating without a licence. Mrs...

More than a third of furloughed private renters are worried about being able to pay their rent when the coronavirus lockdown...

Demand in the prime London lettings market is catching up with supply, reducing short-term downwards pressure on rental values. That’s the view...

ARLA Propertymark has put out a call for agents to provide support to vulnerable tenants who may be self-isolating during the...

The so-called King and Queen of Buy To Let, the controversial husband and wife team of Fergus and Judith Wilson, are...

An analysis of buy to let returns from mortgage lender Mojo has produced a league table with no London locations in...

A prominent figure in the lettings industry has warned that any extension to the current evictions ban would risk hurting the...

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

Residents at home during lockdown who may have seen families crammed into overcrowded HMOs are being asked to report the properties...

Propertymark says it’s continuing to talk to government departments about making the furlough scheme flexible enough to meet agency industry needs.  A...

The buy-to-let market has grown significantly in recent years as long-term renting becomes more popular and investors continue to see the...

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

The market for successful lettings businesses is still strong according to one of the country’s leading business transfer agents. Adam J Walker...

Research by insurance firm Aviva suggests private tenants are now more pessimistic about being able to buy their own home. In December,...

A document outlining options for the future regulation of Airbnb and other short let platforms in the UK is to be...

A council wants buy to let landlords with one-bed flats or rooms in shared homes to help it find homes for...

Aldermore Bank is this week resuming physical mortgage valuations on properties for house purchase and remortgage in England, where strict social...

A leading trade body is backing calls by MPs for additional financial support to tenants during the Coronavirus crisis. The National Residential...

Marsh & Parsons, the LSL-owned London chain, has appointed a litigation firm for Covid-19 support to its Lettings team. A statement from...

A new survey of tenants’ sentiment suggests that 54 per cent of renters feel confident to view a property with appropriate...

Propertymark has created a 29-point checklist in line with the Government’s current property industry guidance, most recently updated on May 13.  Propertymark...

An online agency has denied a claim that it is allowing High Street agents to use its platform to avoid paying...

The return of the housing market has seen demand for rental property boom - and it’s a third higher now than...

The UK’s largest property franchise group says the current Coronavirus crisis shows precisely how robust its franchise business model is. In a...

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...

One of the country’s largest lettings agencies is to lose 17 jobs out of 100 in what the company founder calls...

Repairs and maintenance management software provider Fixflo is hosting a webinar later this week to debate how letting agents can find...

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...

Rents on renewed tenancies fell for the second month in a row according to data from Hamptons International.   In April the average...

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

Tenants’ safety should be letting agents’ first priority in the new era of activity during the Coronavirus pandemic. In a new document...

A specialist mortgage broker is suggesting that this is the right time for buy to let investors to bag bargain properties,...

From midnight lettings agents in England have been able to resume work thanks to an amendment to Coronavirus legislation that was...

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...

Some buy to let mortgages are now more expensive than before for borrowers, despite the recent fall in the Bank of...

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

There’s been a substantial 20 per cent rise in formal complaints about agents taken up by The Property Ombudsman.  The figures refer...

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

New research suggested that yields across the UK rental market are remaining broadly unchanged despite the Coronavirus crisis. The current average sits...

Lenwell is a busy lettings agency covering Luton, Dunstable, Bedford, Milton Keynes, Biggleswade, Hitchin and Northampton - and now, busy in...

There’s no escaping team activity at epropservices - and in a good way. The company, which is the parent firm of The...

An economist who previously suggested tenants should live rent-free for three months during the Coronavirus crisis has revised his thinking -...

ARLA Propertymark has made a series of demands on the government in the light of the Coronavirus crisis.  In a formal written...

A group of local landlords and others in the private rental sector are challenging a local authority’s licensing proposals with their...

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

Agents and landlords who use unorthodox methods of securing obligations from tenants to pay their rent during the Coronavirus crisis may...

The Scottish government has announced a £5m fund that will offer interest-free loans to landlords whose tenants are having difficulty paying...

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

A commission investigating affordable homes in the UK has called for annual private sector rent increases to be limited to a...

Nearly half of households in the private rental sector have regrets about their home according to a survey by the HomeOwners...

A raft of measures from government and courts intended to help private tenants during the Coronavirus lockdown may be storing up a...

The Property Ombudsman has announced the expulsion of eight agencies, all for contravening TPO codes of practice. Most of the expulsions were...

A council is being asked to prioritise consent to use a property as an HMO during the pandemic, with its four...

Buy to let investors should be exempted from the three per cent stamp duty surcharge even if purchasers of holiday homes still...

The typical rent for a London property makes it “the undefeated number one most expensive city in Europe” despite increases slowing...

Zoopla is promoting 12 lesson plans for agents and other property professionals who are teaching their children at home during the...

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

The new trade body for companies working in the beleaguered short lets sector has recruited 14 new member firms - although...

One of the country’s largest Build To Rent players, Legal & General, says it’s to construct another 350 homes as part...

One of the official redress operators - Property Redress Scheme - has launched a tenancy mediation service for agents, landlords and...

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

A new analysis reveals three key figures that suggest the rental market will bounce back from the lockdown and the Coronavirus...

Private landlords want the government to stop local authorities charging council tax on rented homes left empty because of the Coronavirus.  The National...

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

A real estate litigation partner at a leading law firm is warning that the Coronavirus crisis could lead to an 18...

Agents and other property professionals have a week to submit their views to an enquiry into the impact of Coronavirus on...

Hot weather combined with a lockdown can only mean one thing - a record number of searches for rental properties with...

A pro-Build To Rent online platform is hosting a webinar to discuss whether the sector will emerge from the Coronavirus crisis...

Rental demand has dropped significantly across London and other major UK cities as a result of the pandemic. When comparing current levels...

There’s been a 12 per cent increase in the number of Built To Rent homes across the UK that have been...

A leading London lettings agency is reporting only a very low rent default rate so far, despite fears that the Coronavirus...

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

HSBC says its unable to accept any new buy to let mortgage applications during the Coronavirus crisis. The same applies to applications...

Demand for homes to rent has surged back by some 30 per cent in the two weeks to April 14 according...

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

The Property Academy’s latest webinar, to be held this afternoon, is to be addressed by a behavioural economist and frequent contributor...

Gas and electrical safety certificates should be extended for six months to cover for the impact of the Coronavirus.  The call comes...

Veteran Countrywide figure John Hards has joined the board of still-to-launch property portal OpenBrix. In 2018 Hards rejoined Countrywide as national lettings...

An agency and its landlord clients have come to the aid of nurses who are in the frontline of the fight...

The director of the website Home says that investment in buy to let will look like a highly attractive safe haven...

Hello, this is the final Conquering Corona for the week as we continue to help agents with advice and guidance through...

Landlords have been sharply criticised by a broker for allegedly trying to cash in on the Coronavirus crisis by demanding mortgage...

A London council has pressed ahead with the launch of a borough-wide additional licensing scheme despite the lockdown and uncertainty created...

Hello and welcome to Conquering Corona, our bid to help agents through the crisis. If you have appropriate advice to share with...

The private equity firm that snapped up Zoopla Property Group two years ago has revealed that it’s one of two companies...

Data from independent mortgage monitor Moneyfacts shows that there’s been a big drop in the choice of mortgage for buy to...

Hello, and welcome to Wednesday’s guidance and advice for agents and suppliers trying to find a way through the current crisis. If...

A lettings agency is asking tenants who cannot afford to pay rent during the Coronavirus crisis to sign a ‘moral contract’ that...

Hello - we hope you had as good an Easter as possible in these unusual circumstances, and welcome back to work. Now...

Three more agencies have signed up to the ESTAS customer review platform. The arrival of Newton Fallowell, Lovelle and Goodchilds - all...

A Northern Ireland lettings agent is providing rent-free housing for NHS staff who have moved out of their own homes to...

Birmingham agent Bobby Singh, who runs the Love Your Postcode agency, epitomises the heart of the industry right now.  He has created...

Working from home is all about juggling domestic life with professional activities, and here’s a terrific video to show what it’s...

Here are two sets of advice from the good folk at Aston Mead Land & Planning - some more appropriate than...

The lockdown is now a fact of life across almost all of the western world so the team at Chestertons, which...

Home offices aren’t all about laptops and wifi routers….they’re about gorgeous views too. So thanks to Marc Morrish, a director and auctioneer...

Hello - we’re here to help on a daily basis, sharing information across the industry.  As ever, we’d love your input to...

A leading supplier says the current market standstill is an opportunity for the industry to rethink how short lets can be...

Hello and welcome to Wednesday’s update on what offers and advice are available to agents at this most difficult and challenging...

New tenant data has revealed that the average age of renters living in shared properties in London has risen five years...

Demand for rental properties with gardens or other outdoor space has soared in terms of portal listings - perhaps no surprise...

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

A BBC News investigation has exposed some Airbnb and other short let platform users as flouting lockdown regulations. The probe has found...

It’s not just navigating a path through the Coronavirus crisis that is proving the value of letting agents - it’s their...

Liverpool’s Labour council, which was prevented by the government from extending its city-wide licensing scheme for another five years, is seeking...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is advising member companies to file their accounts on time in order to remain transparent...

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...

Labour’s latest suggestion for the private rental sector - a rent holiday for tenants during the Coronavirus crisis - has been...

Hello and welcome to our latest update… we’re probably not yet getting used to these unusual times but we hope this...

Like many agencies, the Milton Keynes company Cauldwell Property Services has most of its staff working from home and handling sellers’...

Welcome to the latest edition of our daily service dedicated to advice and guidance on how agents can best cope with the...

An estate agency has enterprisingly labelled all of its property listings with the mantra we must all respect - Stay At...

The government has relaxed some provisions of the controversial Right To Rent regulations for the duration of the Coronavirus outbreak. The temporary...

Knight Frank is reporting that tenants in high-value London markets are agreeing deals that allow them to delay the start of...

Hello and welcome to the latest edition of Conquering Corona, our daily update helping the industry cope with the current crisis. If...

Franchise giant Belvoir says it’s helping its franchisees “reshaping their businesses” to cope with the Coronavirus crisis. In a trading statement showing...

The former operations director at Purplebricks says he is waiving fees for letting agents who want to join his new online...

Hello, and we trust you had as good a weekend as possible in these difficult circumstances.  As we start a new week...

Paul Shamplina, the founder of Landlord Action and star of a Channel 5 programme on evictions, says he fully backs the...

There’s growing concern across the lettings sector about the buy to let mortgage market seeing lenders pull product ranges, tighten lending...

Despite the challenges being thrown up to the lettings sector by Coronavirus, this is a reminder that new MEES regulations on...

Two lettings agencies have been vandalised by activists who defied the Coronavirus lockdown to damage property. Local media reports in Cheltenham say...

We'd hoped it was good news but in fact it's just good-news-yet-to-come. The Savills office in Wuhan, the epicentre of the Coronavirus crisis in...

The Association of Independent Inventory Clerks says it has contacted the government to see whether its members are deemed ‘essential’ and...

The landlords’ newly-merged trade body has renewed its call for the government to do more to help the private rental sector...

The government has yet to give explicit guidance relating to private rental maintenance, but new advice this morning appears to shed...

Almost two thirds of rental tenants cannot afford a deposit to allow them to purchase their own home according to a...

Propertymark has been told the agents should shut their offices immediately - they are not “essential businesses” under the new Coronavirus...

The departure of almost all students from UK universities and colleges back to their parental homes for possibly several months has...

A lender is now offering what it calls ‘instant decisions-in-principle’ for buy to let purchasers still buying property at the moment. Landbay...

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

The average rent for a newly let property rose 3.3 per cent in the year to the end of February -...

Not-for-profit accreditation service safeagent says the government should ensure councils delay the introduction of all new private rental sector licensing schemes...

Hello and here’s the next batch of guidance and advice from different sectors of the industry, many from influential trade groups. It’s...

It’s easy to forget in the Coronavirus frenzy but from tomorrow, Friday March 20, all tenancies are to become subject to...

Labour says the government should ban evictions for people who fall behind on their rent due to Coronavirus. John Healey, the shadow...

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...

A landlord from Plymouth has been sentenced after failing to maintain gas appliances and failing to have landlord’s gas safety checks...

Hello and welcome to today’s Conquering Corona, a service we’re running to share official guidance and agents’ advice in a bid...

A lettings agency and its director have pleaded guilty to renting out an overcrowded house in the first case brought to...

A massive £250m has been raised from a Swedish pension fund towards UK Build To Rent projects. Property development firm Oxford Properties...

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

HM Revenue & Customs has issued a new warning to buy to let and Holliday home owners about a major change...

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

The Guild of Letting and Management has thrown helpful light on the responsibilities and recommended approach of letting agents faced with...

The typical UK private rental deposit, often considered high in this country, is thought to be relatively low by international standards...

Leaders Romans Group has made another acquisition of a multi-office independent agency. It’s snapped up six-branch Outlook Property, which has offices across...

There is no doubt that the BBC News article in early February caused something of a stir within the Deposit Free...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? My name is Jon Notley and I am the co-founder...

The government has been called upon to issue specific Coronavirus guidance for the rental sector. The chief executive of the Association of...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has postponed its conference until September. In a statement to registered attendees last evening ARLA says: “After...

The Budget has failed tenants by doing nothing to increase the supply of private rental property according to two lettings sector...

A shocking case of a buy to let HMO that did not even have a working smoke detector has led to...

With confirmation that Section 21 will be scrapped, how can agents get ready for life after no-fault evictions? The short answer is...

The Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act came into force across the country on the 20th March 2019. The act is designed...

A lettings agent has completed a £2.6million property acquisition plan in one city on behalf of investors, and will go on...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Nick Lyons CEO What is No Letting Go and what does...

A Liberal Democrat MP is seeking to amend the Renters’ Reform Bill to make it illegal for tenants to be offered...

A buy to let investor has been found guilty of letting out poor quality living accommodation that was said to pose...

The chief executive of a new lettings sector trade body is to address his first conference next month, giving an indication...

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

An online student publication is urging readers who are tenants to “go lawsuit crazy” when the full provisions of the Homes...

An ambitious Kent agency and management company has secured a £3.8m loan to underwrite a management buyout and an acquisition programme. Miles...

Pressure group Generation Rent claims half of London’s councils did not fine any landlords for letting out unsafe homes in the...

It’s now been revealed that 112 redundancies have followed the collapse of controversial short lets support firm Hostmaker. The overseas operation of...

The Property Ombudsman is warning agents not to discriminate against tenants through a No DSS or any similar policy. Following the legal...

The controversial Acorn group of anti-letting agent activists has been accused of intimidation of female staff during a protest outside and...

Hostmaker, a property management firm working with properties listed on Airbnb and other short-let platforms, has ceased trading with its parent...

The Guild of Property Professionals is reminding the rental sector that owners of properties to let have only until April 1...

A pet care company claims that millions of private renters are being denied the benefits of pet ownership because of landlords...

A newspaper claims multiple councils are opening investigations into agents allegedly defying the tenant fees ban - and at least one...

Foxtons has snapped up a lettings agency in suburban London. It’s bought London Stone Properties Limited and its subsidiary company London Stone...

The West Midlands Police force says it’s secured what it calls a “landmark court order” against a rogue landlord who turned...

A rental activist who runs the Generation Rent pressure group has told landlords that if they are “serious” about providing long-term...

The leaseholder of a council property in central London has been found guilty of advertising it on Airbnb and the Booking.com...

When Wolverhampton estate agency Thomas Harvey opened its doors more than 50 years ago, mortgages weren’t really part of the equation...

The clampdown on referral fees, until now concentrated on the sales sector, will extend to letting agents too. James Munro, head of...

Another council is consulting on introducing a selective licensing scheme - and again it claims it will “create better housing for...

A typical buy to let property pays over £600 in fees a year according to a new study released today. Insurance company...

A landlord has been ordered to pay back no less than £190,000 - equivalent to nine years’ rent - after he...

Optimism amongst investors in the private rental sector is on the rise, despite the various tax and regulation obstacles facing the...

A buy to let investor has been hit with a bill of almost £9,500 after being accused of allowing a tenant...

Arun - which has the brands of Douglas Allen in East London and Essex, Ward & Partners in Kent, Cubitt &...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has been informed that the controversial Right To Rent checks forced on to agents and...

A property management firm says the private rental sector is effectively disadvantaged in the fight against climate change because it does...

A newspaper claims that a short lets management firm that handles properties let on Airbnb and similar platforms is scrambling for...

For a cool £1,153 a week you would expect a flat, even in pricey central London, to come with some perks. A...

A London council says nearly half of the Airbnb-style short let properties available in its patch last year exceeded their legal...

The Property Ombudsman has expelled five agencies, mostly for failures to honour awards: four of them are lettings operations and one...

Two bedroom properties produce the best yields for buy to let investors according to the latest research. Lettings management platform Howsy has...

There’s a new warning today for buy to let investors who will be hit by tax changes coming into effect on...

A Sheffield agency has suffered two break-ins over just four days, with computers stolen and offices damaged. MorfittSmith’s sales office was the...

The typical landlord’s income from property has plummeted by a fifth in under a decade according to the National Landlords’ Association. Its...

A survey by lettings agency Carter Jonas has revealed what the firm calls the top priorities for tenants as the 2020s...

Nearly four out of 10 landlords believe that tenant demand will rise this year, according to a study by high-profile buy...

London agency Keatons has acquired a nearby independent rival, JD Property. JD Property’s staff have already been relocated into Keatons existing office in Deptford.  This is Keatons' third acquisition in three years and now...

A trade group’s submission to the Treasury ahead of next month’s Budget includes a call for the new Chancellor to slash...

A resident who was unable to access an emergency escape route during a fire was found standing on a windowsill hanging...

A council in a leafy area of south east England has issued an emergency prohibition order to a buy to let...

The manager of an agency in West Lothian has bought the franchise for the office she’s run for the past six...

It’s been revealed that a clampdown on the buy to let sector by HM Revenue and Customs has produced millions of...

Cynics who rejected claims that landlords would quit the buy to let sector because of increasing bureaucracy and higher taxes may...

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

Another housing market snapshot suggests demand and confidence are improving as a result of the new political and economic landscape following...

One of the country’s leading buying agencies says buy to let is changing in prime central London, as corporate structures replace...

The government has failed the private rental sector says the Residential Landlords Association. In a statement released even before the resignation of...

A seminar roadshow has been announced for letting agents considering quitting the sector.  LegalforLandlords says it’s organised the six events after discovering...

The Yorkshire agency Linley & Simpson has revealed more acquisitions of independent agencies as it tightens its grip on the regional...

Agents have come out fighting against a proposal being considered in one part of the UK to triple the time to...

Yorkshire-based property management firm Barnsdales has acquired a Nottingham independent for an undisclosed sum. Marriotts Commercial, an arm of Marriotts estate agency,...

A room-finding portal, along with the owners of a London lettings agency and management firm, must pay over £100,000 for letting...

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

One of Ed Sheeran’s first massive hits was Lego House. And now, not many years later, it’s been revealed that he’s...

A new concept of co-living is being offered on a rental basis at a new purpose-built development in west London. The firm...

A new service called Cornwall Housing Private Lets has been set up in the west country to try to lure private...

A BBC investigation suggests some agents may be mis-selling deposit alternative schemes. Tenants are then hit by what the probe says are...

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

A former letting agent has been censured over the handling of tenancy deposits following an investigation by a local council. Andrew Rhys...

An analysis of HMRC data reveals that the number of small buy-to-let landlords has dropped for the first time in five...

Pet-friendly tenancies of the kind envisaged by the government could oblige some private landlords to quit the sector, it’s claimed. Over the...

The government’s hugely-publicised database for rogue letting agents and landlords has been running for almost two years and has…wait for it…just...

Airbnb is reported to have banned under-25s in Canada from booking whole properties in their local areas to prevent potentially-violent house...

Property auctions – online or otherwise – can be hugely helpful to sellers, buyers and estate agents. Online auctions, in particular, are...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Catherine Shinerock - ARO Account Manager What is your ‘company name’...

Agents and landlords are advised to think carefully before allowing tenants to keep pets, despite a government push to relax restrictions. The...

An increasing number of over-60s are now turning to the private rental sector - but, like other demographic sectors, they face...

The Renters’ Reform Bill worries many in the private rental sector but the government says there is still no date for...

Home ownership is increasingly out of reach for British consumers, who say the market has become expensive and inaccessible and that...

A mortgage company has attempted to quantify how much private landlords inject into local economies. Aldermore’s research, surveying 1,000 UK-based landlords, discovered...

Leaders Romans Group has snapped up another independent - this time the three office Welsh agency Moginie James. Moginie James - owned by...

Nearly half a million properties could be removed from the long-term lettings market as disenchanted landlords move to short-lets. A survey by...

London’s asking rents hit a new record average of £2,119 per calendar month as the ongoing shortage of property for tenants...

Belvoir, which describes itself as the UK’s largest property franchise, has just released figures showing its 23rd successive year of uninterrupted...

It’s back - the five-a-side football tournament which made its successful debut last year with teams from the agency and property...

Who are you and what is your role within the company? Steve Rad, Managing Director What is ‘company name’ and what does it...

A prominent member of the House of Lords has given a surprising insight into how the fiscal and regulatory clampdown on...

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

A judge has ordered two landlords to pay a total of £14,858 for illegally renting out an unlicensed house without working...

A lettings agency is calling on local councils to tackle the growing problem of long-term empty homes. My Property Box says that...

The Property Franchise Group, which has a string of major agency brands, has reported a strong performance in 2019 despite the...

Another branch of The Property Franchise Groups’s brand Martin & Co has snapped up an independent rival - and it’s the...

A London council tenant who for a period of seven years failed to disclose that he owned three houses, has been...

There was a surge in the number of fake lettings inventories submitted last year, allowing tenants to be conned out of...

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has backed a five year extension for a massive London council landlord licensing...

A London council has caught out a rogue lettings agency for illegally operating two properties, with issues ranging from gas safety...

  Zoopla says its new digital ‘guide’ programme has been a tremendous success and is evidence that the portal’s investment in new...

A lettings sector trade group says lavish additional services are being offered by landlords who are nervous that Brexit will lead...

A third of all landlords live in Greater London and the South East according to data collated by a property management...

New research claims that one in every 50 homes in the capital is let on a short-term platform like Airbnb or...

The latest lettings market snapshot by mortgage lender Paragon has found that of the landlords planning to purchase property in the...

A mortgage firm claims some 22 per cent of existing lettings sector investors plan to buy at least another one lettings...

A landlord in one of the most scenic parts of Devon had been served with a £18,000 civil penalty because he...

A London company that has previously had an ad banned by the Advertising Standards Authority has announced a change of name. The...

An accountancy trade body is warning of another possible tax hike to hit the lettings industry. The Association of Accounting Technicians is...

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

ARLA Propertymark has named Angela Davey as president elect, following Richard Selwyn stepping down last year due to personal circumstances. Davey has...

A trade body has come out against a council’s HMO licensing scheme, claiming that its consultation period was too short -...

Accreditation body safeagent has announced a new designation for lettings and management agents who successfully pass its NCFE accredited courses. The designation...

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

A tenant is thought to be the first ever to have been awarded damages under new Scottish lettings legislation. Dambaru Baral was...

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

A new survey suggests there may be an exodus of investors out of buy to let - some 27 per cent...

A leading agency in a part of the UK where local government wants to clamp down on the spread of Airbnb...

A campaign group that has held protests outside letting agents’ branches and has been fiercely critical of fees, says it’s seen a...

London courts are failing to cope with the volume of landlord repossession cases according to a trade body. New figures show the...

Specialist letting agency and property management company Student Housing has had its busiest quarter, it says. The Lincoln-based agency added 30 new...

A lettings management boss has been disqualified for six years after failing to safeguard over £68,000 worth of tenants’ deposits. Kelly Louise Forrester...

Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick has rejected a bid by Labour-controlled Liverpool council to extend its licensing scheme for five years. Government approval...

A council getting government cash for rental enforcement is using it to introduce a review service allowing tenants to comment on...

A leading property industry figure says Airbnb is attempting to persuade traditional buy to let landlords into going down the short-let...

A company that slots temporary tenants into properties that it manages has been found guilty of 15 charges connected with Homes...

Poor communication remains the chief reason for disputes between agents, landlords and tenants at check-out time according to the latest research. A...

A protest has been held outside a lettings agency in Manchester by tenants demanding that the firm ‘sacks’ one of its...

A ginger group that supports the Labour party says the government’s bid to stop pet bans is meaningless and does not...

Some 26 per cent of buy to let investors plan to sell one or more of their properties in 2020 according...

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

McCarthy & Stone, long associated with retirement properties only available to buy, has introduced a renting option at a number of...

Darlington-based My Property Box has welcomed five new members of staff to its team who between them have amassed more than...

Birmingham’s Labour-led council is to introduce a city-wide Article 4 Direction from June, which means a planning application must be submitted for...

Two long-established lettings and sales agencies on the south coast have merged in a bid to “enhance customer experience.” Smart Property and...

A legal firm is warning agents and landlords that they have less than three months to prepare for the latest MEES...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents and The Guild of Property Professionals have both given their backing to the government’s latest...

Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick is to overhaul the model tenancy contract to make it easier for tenants to have pets. A surprise statement from the...

Oldham council is the latest to seek an extension of a selective licensing scheme beyond its mandatory five year term -...