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An advertisement on a property management firm’s website suggesting that rental income would be guaranteed to landlords has been banned by...

The industry’s first property management franchise scheme, SDL Property Partners, has been given a presentation on how members could be key...

A property management firm is launching with a claim that its charges are under a third of some rivals.  Online service ManageMyHome...

The area of staffing can be a very uncomfortable one, but as the future of the lettings industry crystalises, it’s clear...

A property management company which kept up to 23 adults in overcrowded conditions has been fined £7,500 by a council in...

A managing agent who used ‘ghost tenants’ as a front so that she could cram 16 people into one overcrowded house...

A property management firm chief who had to pay over £20,000 after being found guilty of nine offences relating to an...

A survey has revealed that 44% of landlords are looking to sell properties as a challenging market takes its toll. Octopus Choice,...

An Essex council claims it is one of the first to be granted a rent repayment order - part of legislation...

The New Forest district council in Hampshire is appealling to letting agents and private tenants to sign up to its Private...

An agency in the Experts In Property trade group has snapped up the lettings side of a rival independent company. Collyers Properties,...

Two independent agencies have joined forces in a bid to minimise damage caused by next year’s ban on fees levied on...

The council behind a controversial private rental sector licensing scheme is trying to justify its introduction on health and safety grounds. On...

The Leaders Romans Group has snapped up yet another small independent agency - GPS Property Management based at Ravenshead in Nottinghamshire. For...

One of the country’s largest independent property management firms says it’s seeing a clear shift within the rental sector from traditional...

You may have spotted a particularly entertaining ad yesterday for lettings property management firm ARPM - it’s the one that featured...

The three-branch London agency Kay & Co has been named the Smaller Managing Agent of the Year at the ARMA ACE...

The National Approved Letting Scheme has unveiled a new specialist training course for letting agents. The NALS Level 3 Award in Letting...

A trade body says it has evidence that families take up the least amount of property management time when compared to...

Investors in buy to let in the UK are losing thousands of pounds in income - and it’s their own fault...

Countrywide is introducing the ARLA Level 2 qualification throughout its branch network.  All customer-facing lettings staff who joined the business on or...

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

A major Scottish property management firm says agents and landlords south of the border should prepare now for the likely agency...

An online lettings service which says it’s aiming to triple its level of business in the next 12 months claims it’s...

Midlands-based SDL Group has announced the sale of a Birmingham residential lettings portfolio to Lomond Capital. SDL Property Management now focuses on...

A new property management franchise operation, established late last year, is beefing up its training to cover GDPR, sales and marketing. SDL...

A property management company which ignored a series of housing safety regulations and flouted laws designed to protect tenants’ rights has...

A property management company has been landed with a legal bill of almost £2,000 after admitting that it failed to keep...

Airsorted, which describes itself as “the world’s largest hosting management service” says it has secured £5m in funding to expand.  Airsorted provides...

A survey by consumer group Which?, working with landlords’ associations, reveals that 70 local authorities now have selective or additional licensing...

A lettings agency apparently trying to get around HMO regulations has been prosecuted for licensing and housing offences.  Easy Let Agency let...

Landlords in Wales who manage their own properties are being reminded that they must submit their licence application to Rent Smart...

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...

Student accommodation specialist Unite is launching a new service, called Conker, which aims to replace deposits with insurance schemes for students...

Two landlords and two tenants were fined a total of over £11,000 after losing their appeal against housing convictions concerning property...

Vesper Homes, a high-end London property management firm, has developed an Alexa Skill which will mean landlords and tenants can receive...

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

The Property Ombudsman scheme has today announced three expulsions of agencies as a result of non-payment of rent or awards. Firstly, a...

A local authority is setting up a not-for-profit ‘ethical’ lettings agency and is aiming to woo landlords with a promise of...

A landlord has been ordered to pay £20,000 after being found guilty of nine offences in relation to a house in...

The director of a property management firm has been found guilty of nine offences of breaching regulations relating to a house...

The Leaders Romans Group has announced its fifth acquisition in just six weeks after completing the purchase of South & Co...

A database of rogue letting agents and landlords and new banning orders, first promised in the Housing and Planning Act announced...

The Conveyancing Association has made a wide-ranging response to the government’s call for evidence on the regulation of letting and managing...

Rendall & Rittner, a major operator in the residential block management sector, has completed its purchase of Braemar Estates from the...

You have only until 11.45pm tonight to have your say on government proposals to clamp down on letting and managing agents...

Leaders has acquired its fourth agency in the same city, Norwich, in a sign of what it calls its commitment to...

One of the government’s three approved official redress providers says companies operating in the Rent-to-Rent sector should be obliged to join...

Barratt Homes’ London division is offering what it describes as ‘free property management’ on new-builds purchased at selected schemes and then...

Wales’ largest agency, Peter Alan, has acquired Roberts & Co Property Management Limited, a Newport company that manages 800 units.  The acquisition...

The National Landlords Association reports that Bournemouth council has taken the unusual step of rejecting a proposal to introduce a landlord licensing...

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

Letting agents and landlords are being urged by a trade body to sign a petition calling on the government to make...

The managing director of LSL’s Corporate Client Department has been appointed as National Lettings and Franchise Director for Your Move and...

The Leaders Romans Group is continuing on the acquisition trail with two more deals within 24 hours.   On Tuesday the company acquired...

A crowdfunding site describing itself as an ‘ethical investment platform’ is the first international crowdfunder to enable investment in debt-free buy...

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

Leasehold enfranchisement specialist operator Leasehold Solutions is the latest to welcome the government’s suggestion of a regulatory watchdog to oversee leasehold...

Industry figures have broadly welcomed the latest consultations and proposed additional regulation for the lettings sector, announced by the government yesterday.   The...

One of the industry’s largest brands, The SDL Group, is launching a new division offering franchise opportunities for property managers.   SDL Property...

Plans for new measures regarding leasehold tenancies to help create “a fairer property management system that works for everyone” have been...

A London letting agency with connections to Westminster council is now being investigated by the same council’s trading standards department. CityWest Homes...

Trading Standards says representatives from 15 departments will today visit lettings and property management firms across London in a bid to...

Hallmark, which has been working with agents and property management firms for over a decade, has formally launched its new name...

The Association of Independent Inventory Clerks says it is not surprised the majority of complaints made to The Property Redress Scheme...

The Property Ombudsman scheme (TPO) has extended its expulsion of a letting agency by an additional four years. Premier Property Management, based...

SDL Group - owner of the UK franchise for Century 21 lettings and estate agency branches - has been named as the...

The Property Redress Scheme, one of three approved redress operations, says it saw a 33 per cent increase in membership in...

More than 100 criminal prosecutions have been secured against landlords since the start of an enforcement crackdown by Brent council in...

A south London property firm has been prosecuted by a local authority over its HMO management and may now have to...

The UK-wide property management firm and private rental sector specialist has rebranded its lettings agency service as Touchstone Agent Solutions.   The firm...

A lettings firm and a property management company that converted a family home into micro flats have been found guilty of...

The head of a property management company is calling on the government to introduce a tenants' register which would help rogue...

Two landlords have been fined almost £14,000 for breaching a multitude of property management regulations. Abdul Qadir, 56, and Dr Mohammed Anwar,...

Large letting agents found to be flouting the incoming ban on letting agent fees should receive fines up to £30,000 to...

A residential asset management firm has acquired The Landlord and Letting Show, The Landlord and Letting Awards and The Landlord and...

A management firm and corporate landlord have been hit with a £250,000 fine after a “potentially lethal” flat blaze in London -...

Landlords are increasingly looking to reduce the fees they pay to letting agents due to industry tax changes and increasing management...

Agents and landlords are being warned by a property management agency to prepare for the next round of energy-efficiency regulation changes...

A leading letting agent campaigning against rental sector deposits is warning that the industry might be hit with “astronominal” insurance premiums...

A new lettings and property management company firm has launched in Hertfordshire after a management buy out.    Insider Media reports that the...

MNY Property Management Ltd has been fined £3,390 for offences under the Housing Act - specifically, failing to buy a licence...

Smart repair reporting software Fixflo is teaming up with Qube Global Software to allow letting agents and property managers to handle...

The Chartered Institute of Housing wants the government to introduce a raft of new measures including significantly greater regulation of letting...

Conservative MP Oliver Colvile is calling for urgent action following a recent spate of fraud involving rogue letting agents.   When approached by...

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

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has repeated it call for the government to ban up-front letting agent fees at the...

A landlord and letting agency have been fined more than £26,000 after being found guilty of housing offences at two properties...

The property management company Rendall & Rittner is spearheading the first ever government apprenticeship pilot in Housing and Property Management.    Since the...

The government has launched an official consultation process on a package of measures to crack down on what it calls ‘rogue...

Almost one in four landlords say delays by tenants informing them about maintenance issues in their homes have resulted in more...

What appears at first sight to be a low-level dispute between a landlord and a council has raised what may be...

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

More than 92 per cent of landlords believe the government is anti-landlord and want the Chancellor to back them in this...

Another two independent letting agencies have been acquired by the Property Services Holding Group. comprising Leaders and Romans. Leaders has completed the...

We often report local authorities criticising the standards of letting agents and landlords - now here's a quite different story. Letting agents...

A British Build To Rent management company has merged with a long-standing US firm in the same field to create a...

The franchise giant Century 21 UK has opened its latest estate and letting agency office - and it's in Southampton.  The office,...

Only just over two weeks remain for letting agents and landlords operating in Wales to register with the Rent Smart Wales...

A property management service claims there has been an “explosion” in the number of short lets undertaken through Airbnb and similar...

Four separate estate and letting agencies have been expelled from membership of The Property Ombudsman and from registration for lettings redress...

A company called My Property Host is seeking to attract failed sellers to become ‘accidental landlords’ and let out their homes...

Franchise estate agency Winkworth has reported its figures for the first half of 2016, noting a particularly strong performance in its...

A high proportion of landlords play an active role in the management and maintenance of their rental property, a new study...

Property managers operating through a company have been ordered to pay more than £30,000 following a dawn raid that uncovered more...

Savills is the only organisation with an agency wing represented on the first board of the UK Apartment Association, a new...

A letting agency that claimed it had a 24-hour emergency phone line has changed its advertising - because the service did...

SDL Bigwood - owned by Century 21 UK franchise parent company Shepherd Direct Limited - has been selected as the lettings...

A lettings agency has been fined over £11,000 for alleged breaches of regulations in advertising an unlicenced HMO that was later...

A letting agency in Hampshire has doubled in size after acquiring one of its competitors. LetCo, a four branch agency working across...

National estate agency chain Leaders has announced the acquisition of two property businesses in the north of England. Yesterday it took over...

VanHan, the prime London agency run by Rory Penn and Thomas van Straubenzee, has set up a lettings and management division...

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

Let Belle Vue, a lettings and property management agency in Darlington, has been fined £3,000 for not being in an official...

Louise Griffiths, currently a board member on the Association of Residential Letting Agents, has joined Romans as director of the agency’s...

The Association of Residential Managing Agents, the umbrella body for professionals involved in private residential block management, has appointed Nigel Glen...

A letting agent who unlawfully evicted a tenant from a property has been ordered to pay a total of £4,315. Alan Croft...

Robert Watts Lettings has secured the latest Lettings Landlord award from the ESTAS.  Kate Watts, head of lettings of the agency based...

Benham & Reeves Residential Lettings, London’s largest independent letting agency, has opened its 14th office. It's in Surrey Quays and is the agency’s...

Who are you? I’m the Head of Redress at the Property Redress Scheme. I previously worked for Legal & General PLC dealing...

One of Scotland’s largest independent letting agencies has entered into two deals adding over 600 properties to its inventory. The Edinburgh-based DJ...

The Orchard & Shipman Group is launching what it calls a ‘hybrid’ lettings service which - in its words - “brings...

Leaders has acquired another lettings independent, Faulkner Property Management. Faulkner has two branches in Milton Keynes and Buckingham - new areas for...

Landlords should make sure they are regularly checking their property to ensure tenants are not subletting without permission. Staying on top of...

Rent Smart Wales, the new registration and licensing system in Wales, launches on Monday - and it represents a major change...

Rendall & Rittner, which currently manages 40,000 residential properties for institutions and developers, is opening a new office as part of...

The sales market in Prime Central London may be in the doldrums but the lettings sector is on the rise with...

A survey of one Home Counties area shows that out of about 40 letting agents some 24 appear not to be...

The Chartered Institute of House is setting up a new online qualification for anyone wishing to understand tenancies, property and tenancy...

The new registration and licensing requirements under Part 1 of the Housing (Wales) Act 2014 will be launched on November 23,...

A property management firm is warning letting agents and landlords to fulfil their responsibilities to protect tenants from Legionnaires’ disease. Despite laws...

Connells Residential is launching its first ever event for property investors - Invest Fest, in Birmingham next week.   The agency chain has...

A firm behind a new rental repair management claims landlords no longer have to pay ”expensive property management fees to lettings...

A survey of 500 landlords suggest the vast majority want to avoid contact with tenants and instead want letting agents to handle property...

Atlas Residential - a US Build To Rent company which operates 18,000 rental units across 13 states valued at a total...

Connells Group has announced the acquisition of another lettings business – Kingsford Letting in Leamington Spa.  Kingsford Letting was a local, independently...

Police say a man has been arrested on suspicion of fraud following the closure of east of England letting agency Kirby...

The National Approved Letting Scheme has acted about the mystery surrounding the future of east of England letting agency Kirby Property...

Mystery surrounds the fate of Kirby Property Management, a letting agency with offices at Cambourne, Cambridge and St Neots in the...

A landlord has been ordered to pay a fine and costs of £2,925 for unlawfully evicting a tenant from a house...

Connells Group has acquired another lettings independent - Selective Lets in Dunstable - following a series of recent purchases and takeovers.  Selective...

Leading UK property agency enhances auditing and reporting while providing a better client experience. Company’s Top Objectives Romans is a 19-branch network of...

Peter Savage is to become the new president of the Association of Residential Lettings Agents, with an emphasis on trying to...

I don't think there is one person in lettings and property management who isn't alarmed at the scenes just over the...

Connells Group has acquired another independent lettings business - Cartwrights in Stafford.   The group says the purchase is in line with its...

Prominent landlord Liz Hodgkinson has hit out at the allegedly-high fees of letting agents who offer full management services, claiming their...

A portal is launching this week that claims to be the UK’s first helping landlords and letting agents reach students looking...

A London estate agency has launched a management service for owners of vacant homes in the capital.  MyLondonHome, founded in 2002, says...

Foxtons could be facing a hefty legal bill after charging a landlord over £600 to change a light fitting. In 2013 London...

"Stop right there. Hands above your head. Don't move. Mavis, dial 999." Mr D Smith (MARLA, NFoPP) removes his Glock 19...

It is now a statutory duty for letting agents to fully publicise the fees they charge to landlords and tenants.  Under the...

A set of ‘fees templates’ have been created for letting agents to download ahead of the legal requirement to display details...

Countrywide Residential Lettings has announced another expansion with the purchase of PIP Lettings in the East Midlands. Countrywide says this another step...