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![Short Lets - controversial council consults on Airbnb restrictions](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/shutterstock_2198282283.jpg)
A controversial council has launched a 12 week consultation on its policies restricting Airbnb-style short lets. Edinburgh council insists that new Airbnb...
24 July 2024
From: Breaking News
![Buy To Let investors plummet while the rest focus on high yield areas](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/HousePriceDrop-400x310.png)
New figures from lettings agency Hamptons suggest that investors purchasing buy to let properties are increasingly looking to the north of...
22 July 2024
From: Breaking News
![New senior lettings figures at high-end London business](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/BusinessChain-400x310.png)
London high end agency Eccord has bolstered its property management team with two experienced new hires. Steve Wilson joins as Senior Property...
19 July 2024
From: Breaking News
![Fears grow for rent controls as Labour reviews rental sector](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Property%20Budget.jpg)
A lettings agency chief says there’s growing discussion about rent controls in his area - and he fears this may be...
16 July 2024
From: Breaking News
![Agents tell Rayner: we want agency regulation, mandatory qualifications](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews-400x310.png)
ARLA Propertymark and a number of other property industry bodies wants Housing Secretary Angela Rayner to regulate letting and sales agents. An...
15 July 2024
From: Breaking News
![Rental Reform and Solar Panels to be key pledges in King’s Speech](/upload/images/shutterstock_514013710.jpg)
Leaks over the weekend from what would appear to be government sources suggest some 35 new Bills will be in the...
15 July 2024
From: Breaking News
![Call for Starmer to review Energy Performance Certificates](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/GreenHome-400x310.png)
There’s a call from a prominent international building science service for the new Labour government to review the Energy Performance Certificates. EPCs...
10 July 2024
From: Breaking News
![Labour’s Housing Policies - next five years start today](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/AgentHouseInHand_400x310.png)
The biggest rental sector headline from Labour’s manifesto may well be its pledge for the “immediate” abolition of Section 21 eviction...
05 July 2024
From: Breaking News
![Lettings agency regulation demanded by PropTech leader](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/AgentHouseInHand_400x310.png)
Regulation of lettings and estate agencies must be a priority for the government elected tomorrow, a PropTech entrepreneur demands. Sián Hemming-Metcalfe of...
04 July 2024
From: Breaking News
![High-value tenancies agreed in June were below asking rent - Knight Frank](/upload/images/shutterstock_2156575995(1).jpg)
Knight Frank says tenancies agreed in June for properties asking over £1,000 per week were at a level below the asking...
04 July 2024
From: Breaking News
![Labour will regulate lettings because it's a cheap option - claim](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/BuildToRent-400x310.png)
Labour is likely to make rental sector reform and regulation a priority - at least partly because it will be low-cost...
03 July 2024
From: Breaking News
![Airbnb regulation review of controversial Scots licensing scheme](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/_licensing1-400x310.png)
A review of Edinburgh’s controversial short term lets licensing will take place this summer. City councillors agreed to publicly consult on the...
01 July 2024
From: Breaking News
![Hands Off Short Lets - long term empty homes are bigger problem](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/2%20shutterstock_1251325300.jpg)
The embattled short let and holiday let industry has hit out at what it calls the “rampant hypocrisy” of councils when...
27 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Experts warn against corporates monopolising private rentals](/upload/images/shutterstock_467960120.jpg)
The decision of property developer Berkeley Group to enter the private rental sector is bad news for tenants, it’s claimed. Berkeley plans...
25 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Bidding Wars - letting agents mostly to blame, says campaigner](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/HouseForSale_400x310.png)
A ban on so-called bidding wars, which Labour now proposes, would have to include letting agents as well as landlords a...
24 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Soaring Council Tax Arrears prompts call for new bailiff rules](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Tax-Image-400x310.png)
Outstanding council tax arrears have soared according to new government figures. Data from he Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities shows...
21 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Labour to ban bidding wars and high upfront rental payments](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews3-400x310.png)
Labour has stepped up its programme clamping down on what it calls “unscrupulous landlords strangling growth.” Specifically this means ending bidding wars,...
20 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Eco-Improvements demanded by most tenants - new bank survey](/upload/images/shutterstock_2208680371.jpg)
A small survey by a bank suggests that almost 100% of buy to let investors surveyed have received requests from tenants...
14 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Material Information - PropTech tool launched to help agents](/upload/images/shutterstock_2280558533(3).jpg)
Reapit has launched a new feature to help agents comply with material information guidelines from the National Trading Standards Estate and...
14 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Shelter backs Labour eviction and housing policies](/upload/images/shutterstock_1690158259.jpg)
Shelter has spoken out in favour of what it calls “bold” commitments by Labour on the private rental sector and house...
14 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Section 21 to be scrapped by Labour immediately](/upload/images/shutterstock_2189665543.jpg)
Labour’s manifesto, just released, makes a pledge to enact the “immediate” abolition of Section 21 eviction powers, along with other private...
13 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Guidance for Agents on smoke, heat and carbon monoxide alarms](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Propcert%20March%20blog%202%20-%20Why%20carbon%20monoxide%20alarms%20are%20important%20.jpg)
Mandatory smoke, heat and carbon monoxide alarms will be introduced to private rented sector properties in Northern Ireland. Under the Smoke, Heat...
11 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![HMO award winners revealed - are you amongst them?](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/shutterstock_1697309575.jpg)
Software company COHO has presented wards to agencies, suppliers and individuals involved in the HMO business. The firm says the awards honour...
07 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Pro-regulation Labour veteran takes over industry body leadership](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/BusinessChain-400x310.png)
The Property Institute - a body for the residential property management sector - has announced the appointment of a Labour baroness...
04 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![PropTech link with landlord-owned lettings compliance service](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/PropTech/PropertyFind-400x310.png)
PropTech platform Goodlord has partnered with safety certificate provider Safe2 to offer compliance work for the lettings sector. Safe2 - recently acquired...
04 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Many agents relieved Renters Reform Bill dropped - Propertymark](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/BTR%20and%20affordable%20housing%20-%20By%20Andy%20Jones%20Property%20Investor%20Today%20BuildToRent-400x310.png)
The agents’ trade body says many in the industry will be pleased that the Renters Reform Bill has bitten the dust...
28 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![Airbnb Restrictions - Gove slammed by Labour-dominated council body](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/shutterstock_2198282283.jpg)
London councils have slammed government plans for regulating the short-term and holiday lets sector. In a letter to Housing Secretary Michael Gove,...
21 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![Yes to Regulation and No to Rent Controls - Propertymark](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Property%20Budget.jpg)
Propertymark wants Northern Ireland’s Department for Communities to regulate property agents via professional bodies such as itself. The Department for Communities is...
20 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![Propertymark tells politicians - add agent regulation to Renters Reform Bill](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/AgentsWorking-400x310.png)
As the Renters Reform Bill makes its way through the House of Lords, Propertymark has advised peers not to miss this...
17 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![Get the Rent To Rent house in order, demands Propertymark](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews2-400x310.png)
Propertymark has come out in support of the National Trading Standards Estate and Lettings Agency Team’s probe into Rent-to-Rent. NTSELAT has...
17 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![Tenant Turnover - landlord sales and not evictions are chief cause](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/HouseForSale_400x310.png)
Some 50% of tenants who moved last year did so because their landlords decided to sell the property. By contrast, eviction was...
16 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![Tax - that’s why rents are rising so much](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/TaxCoins-400x310.png)
Propertymark has given its view on why private rents have risen so much - 6.1% in England, 7.0% in Wales and...
15 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![Politicians should realise how rent controls force landlords out - call](/upload/images/shutterstock_2144683563.jpg)
The pressure on rents for new tenancies in Scotland’s private rented sector have started to ease with all major cities now...
10 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![Stop Killing Market with Rent Controls, agents tell minister](/upload/images/shutterstock_2083876012.jpg)
Propertymark has urged Scotland’s new First Minister to end the country’s housing emergency. John Swinney is now First Minister and says he...
08 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![Property management firm hit with £500,000 health and safety fine](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/Fined400x310.jpg)
A housing company has been fined £528,000 after an employee repairing a fence post inadvertently struck an underground cable, suffering burns...
03 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![Demand slows as agents warn about unsustainable rent rises](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/2_MortgageCalculated.png)
The latest market report from Propertymark’s lettings agents suggests the demand is slowing. The latest data - for March - shows that...
03 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![Agency urges second home owners to be Airbnb hosts for tax reasons](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/shutterstock_2198282283.jpg)
The head of a lettings agency in Kent says it would be a “practical solution” for second home owners to become...
02 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![Housing Minister to address agents ahead of General Election](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews3-400x310.png)
Housing minister Lee Rowley will be taking centre stage at the largest property agency conference in the UK this summer, Propertymark...
30 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![Extraordinary 200 amendments to Renters Reform Bill in Commons today](/upload/images/shutterstock_1059911315.jpg)
There’s a huge number of amendments to the Renters Reform Bill, which has its Third Reading in the House of Commons...
24 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![Propertymark not giving up on the Regulation of Property Agents](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/AgentsWorking-400x310.png)
Propertymark says it will continue lobbying government for the implementation of the Regulation of Property Agents - even though the government...
24 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![Big HMRC fines for agents prompt Anti-Money Laundering guidance](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/_AML%20_400x310.png)
Recent substantial fines issued by HMRC are a harsh reminder to agents to ensure that their Anti-Money Laundering policies are up...
23 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![Regulation of Property Agents - government slammed by Lords](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/LearningAgents-400x310.png)
The government’s failure to act on the Regulation of Property Agents (RoPA) working party - chaired by Lord Richard Best and...
22 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![Looking for a client account? Five steps to better lettings banking](/upload/images/adv-2021/sponsored-content/PayProp/Letting%20agent%20today_640x460px.jpg)
You don’t have to simply accept things as they are when it comes to managing your client accounts. If your bank...
19 April 2024
From: Sponsored Content
![Rent Ceilings Have Been Reached - agency's stark warning](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews3-400x310.png)
The chief executive of one of Britain’s largest franchise agency chains is warning that rents may no longer be able to...
18 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![Deposit Alternative service plays up ‘unaffordable’ rents](/upload/images/shutterstock_2205886299.jpg)
A deposit alternative service claims the cost of rent has outpaced salary growth by 5.2% over the past 10 years, leaving...
18 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![Agents Tell Politicians - Stop Arguing and Repair Private Renting](/upload/images/shutterstock_2307084393.jpg)
Political parties should stop bickering and instead work together to improve the private rental sector. That’s the view of the Lettings industry...
17 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![Warning: rental reform could mean rewriting tenancy agreements](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Buy-to-let-400x310.png)
A lawyer says radical rental reforms proposed for Scotland - which could be a model for change in England and Wales...
16 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![Reform Bill isn’t stopping buy to let investment claims agency boss](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Buy-to-let-2-400x310.png)
A prominent lettings agency claims the Renters Reform Bill is not proving a deterrent to buy to let investors. The Leaders Romans...
15 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![Agents must work with (not against) those wanting regulation - call](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/LearningAgents-400x310.png)
A prominent PropTech entrepreneur is urging agents and other in the property industry to engage with those wishing to introduce regulation...
12 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![Trading Standards tells agents - Material Information is key so get on with it!](/upload/images/shutterstock_1125678230.jpg)
A representative of the National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agents team has told agents to accept new rules about material...
11 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![Propertymark back on warpath demanding qualifications for agency staff](/upload/images/shutterstock_112412021.jpg)
Propertymark is demanding equal treatment with the social housing sector. Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove intends to boost standards in social housing...
11 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![Agents tell Land Registry to be more accessible (and cheaper)](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Compliance-1-400x310.png)
Propertymark wants HM Land Registry to provide more accessible and affordable services to its members. HMLR launched a consultation last month as...
10 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![Almost No Reduction in Buy To Let Supply, insists think tank](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Buy-to-let-2-400x310.png)
There’s been at most a one per cent reduction in landlords in the buy to let sector, a think tank claims...
08 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![Agents warned: Don’t be Left Behind when Regulation Comes In](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/LearningAgents-400x310.png)
Propertymark is urging agents to get ahead of the curve and be ready for the next big initiative - Regulation. Propertymark has...
02 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![Agents Furious at Permanent Rent Controls proposed by politicians](/upload/images/shutterstock_2239146247.jpg)
Agents have expressed their anger at permanent rent controls proposed by the SNP and Green Party politicians running the Scottish Government. The...
28 March 2024
From: Breaking News
![New London rental licensing regime launches next week](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/_licensing-400x310.png)
A new borough-wide landlord licensing scheme is set to launch in the London borough of Brent on April 1, the council...
27 March 2024
From: Breaking News
![Gove accused of dragging his feet over agent regulation](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Estate_Agents-400x310.png)
The all-party House of Lords Industry and Regulators Committee has urged the government to get on with establishing a regulator of...
22 March 2024
From: Breaking News
![Phil Spencer asks: Should Agents Manage Short Let Properties?](/upload/images/Phil%20Spencer%20NEW%20image(2).png)
It’s not easy for anyone - even professionals like lettings and estate agents - to keep up with the blizzard of...
19 March 2024
From: Breaking News
![No scrapping fixed term tenancies - new appeal over Renters Reform Bill](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews1-400x310.png)
Propertymark has emphasised the importance of retaining fixed term tenancies under the Renters Reform Bill. Propertymark chief executive Nathan Emerson met Housing...
18 March 2024
From: Breaking News
![Banks Closing Pooled Client Accounts - agents urge government action](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews-400x310.png)
Propertymark is urging the government to tackle the problem of banks closing down undesignated or pooled client accounts of letting agents. HM...
13 March 2024
From: Breaking News
![Regulation of lettings agents imminent, suggests Propertymark](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews1-400x310.png)
Propertymark says the regulation of agents has come a step closer. The trade body gave evidence at a House of Lords Industry...
07 March 2024
From: Breaking News
![Rental Sector Tax Grab - leading agency boss speaks out](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/TaxCoins-400x310.png)
A figure in one of the country’s highest profile lettings companies has hit out at a government proposal to penalise the...
05 March 2024
From: Breaking News
![Renters Reform Bill should include regulating letting agents, says Propertymark](/upload/images/shutterstock_714410761(1).jpg)
Propertymark will appear in front of the House of Lords’ Industry and Regulators Committee tomorrow morning, urging the regulation of lettings...
05 March 2024
From: Breaking News
![Nationwide demands four tax changes to help the private rental sector](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Top%20tips%20property%20investment%20rent-calculation-1-400x310.png)
Nationwide has taken the unusual step of using its buy to let lending arm - The Mortgage Works - to make...
05 March 2024
From: Breaking News
![Rental activist to tell lawmakers about regulating letting agents](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/3%20CoupleMakingOffer-400x310.png)
A prominent rental activist is tomorrow going to tell a House of Lords committee about the need to regulate letting agents. Conor...
26 February 2024
From: Breaking News
![Short Lets Clampdown - More campaigners back Gove](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews2-400x310.png)
Countryside campaigning charity CPRE has given a warm welcome to Michael Gove’s clampdown on short lets. Earlier this week Housing Secretary Michael...
23 February 2024
From: Breaking News
![Gove’s Airbnb Crackdown - Criticism building](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/shutterstock_2198282283.jpg)
There’s growing anger over restrictions on private homeowners using their properties via Airbnb and other short let platforms. Earlier this week Housing...
21 February 2024
From: Breaking News
![Radical changes to short let laws proposed by Michael Gove](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/A%20surveyor's%20guide%20to%20finding%20a%20profitable%20HMO.jpg)
Housing Secretary Michael Gove has this morning announced wholesale changes to planning and regulations surrounding short lets. His proposals include: - planning permission...
19 February 2024
From: Breaking News
![Regulating agents will make property ownership more transparent - claim](/upload/images/shutterstock_173521997.jpg)
Propertymark says the regulation of property agents and the creation of a statutory Code of Practice can improve the transparency of...
14 February 2024
From: Breaking News
![High profile lettings agency chain sets minimum qualification goal](/upload/images/shutterstock_695871199.jpg)
Belvoir Group has linked up with Propertymark in a deal which they say will “help further improve standards and enhance financial...
14 February 2024
From: Breaking News
![Last-minute government U-turn on HMO regulation changes](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews3-400x310.png)
The government has done a U-turn on its original policy to relax HMO regulations on private rental properties used by asylum...
08 February 2024
From: Breaking News
![Heating Private Rental Properties - council claims EPC success](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/EPC-3-400x310.png)
The number of private tenants in properties that are hard to heat has fallen, a council claims. As agents will know private...
06 February 2024
From: Breaking News
![Propertymark’s ringing endorsement for Material Information changes](/upload/images/shutterstock_1141644755(3).jpg)
Propertymark’s property auction division - NAVA - has given ringing endorsement to the Material Information changes demanded under new Trading Standards...
05 February 2024
From: Breaking News
![Agent says rents set to fall as economy returns to near-normal](/upload/images/shutterstock_431846332(4).jpg)
A buying agent claims that rents could finally be tailing off despite some indices showing rises still taking place. According to Rightmove,...
05 February 2024
From: Breaking News
![Experts want major reforms of EPCs and better trained assessors](/upload/images/Smart_EPC-400x310.png)
The Building Research Establishment - which undertakes research, advice, training, testing, certification and standards-setting for the housing sector - is calling...
01 February 2024
From: Breaking News
![Labour call for agents’ qualifications is “laughable and silly”](/upload/images/shutterstock_2032893779(1).jpg)
A law professor has dismissed a Labour call for agents to have qualifications as “eye poppingly silly” and “snobby.” Labour’s shadow housing...
30 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![Is the government deliberately delaying the Renters Reform Bill?](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews3-400x310.png)
The long-awaited Third Reading of the controversial Renters Reform Bill will not happen this week according to the Leader of the...
29 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![New buy to let city hotspot identified by insurance analysis](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Buy-to-let-2-400x310.png)
Glasgow has been revealed as the UK city with the biggest rise in the number of buy to let properties in...
26 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![Agents List Radical Changes needed to Renters Reform Bill](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Compliance-1-400x310.png)
Propertymark's latest research report suggests some letting agents want radical changes to the Renters Reform Bill now going through Parliament. The aim...
25 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![Labour bid to regulate agents welcomed by major industry body](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/AgentsWorking-400x310.png)
The Property Institute has welcomed a Labour Party move to introduce the regulation of property agents across much of the sector. Tabled...
25 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![Propertymark backs extending agency regulation and decent homes standard](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/AgentHouseInHand_400x310.png)
Qualifications for property managers in the social housing sector should be extended to the private rental sector too. That’s the view of...
22 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![Labour’s backdoor bid to regulate lettings and estate agents at last](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/AgentsWorking-400x310.png)
Labour is using a Bill currently going through Parliament as a backdoor method to introduce the regulation of lettings, estate and...
19 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![Phil Spencer warns that Summer will be hectic for lettings sector](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Special%20Logo's/Phil%20Spencer.png)
Summer looks like it’s going to be a hectic period for lettings agents and the private rental sector according to TV...
17 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![Propertymark wants additional health and safety cladding measures](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Developments/Builders-400x310.png)
The letting agents’ trade body Propertymark says one of the UK governments should go further in ensuring the safety of tenants...
17 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![Propertymark backs controversial Airbnb registration scheme](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/shutterstock_2198282283.jpg)
Letting agents’ body Propertymark is throwing its weight behind a mandatory licensing and registration scheme for short let landlords. Anyone who lets...
12 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![No Rent Controls! Agents pledge to continue campaign](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/NB%20-%20M%26P%20March%20blog%201%20-%20No%20budget%20boost%20from%20the%20Chancellor%20but%20it's%20not%20all%20doom%20and%20gloom.jpg)
Propertymark has urged its members who feel frustrated by the changes to the Scottish Government’s so-called Cost of Living regulations ending...
11 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![Demand easing as rental market edges back to normality](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/House_pound-400x310.png)
The UK rental market is experiencing a gradual easing in demand, marking a shift from the peak levels witnessed in recent...
10 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![Seven Tips this lettings agency is giving its landlord clients](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/LearningAgents2-400x310.png)
Online rental platform Lettingaproperty is telling landlords to take a strategic approach to property management in 2024, to help navigate legislative...
08 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![Over 700 CPO homes let by government along doomed HS2 rail line](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews3-400x310.png)
Newspaper report claims some 710 properties have been put into the private rental market by the government - and they are...
03 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![Top agent backs industry regulation in 2024 - the more the better](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/AgentsWorking-400x310.png)
The boss of a prominent UK lettings and property management agency says new regulations planned for the industry are to be...
27 December 2023
From: Breaking News
![Labour to ban bidding wars and offer new anti-social behaviour rules](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews-400x310.png)
A prominent housing market commentator says Labour would introduce a tougher version of the Renters Reform Bill if it forms the...
27 December 2023
From: Breaking News
![Regulate Agents in 2024 - Propertymark explains why it’s needed](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/AgentsWorking-400x310.png)
Agents’ trade body Propertymark says the current debate on the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill is another example of how agent...
22 December 2023
From: Breaking News
![Timetables demanded for smoke alarm and electrical safety changes](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Propcert%20March%20blog%202%20-%20Why%20carbon%20monoxide%20alarms%20are%20important%20.jpg)
Propertymark has responded to two consultations on the proposals to introduce electrical safety standards and smoke and carbon monoxide alarms in...
22 December 2023
From: Breaking News
![Last Ditch Bid to save unpopular freeholds from Gove’s law change](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews1-400x310.png)
Plans for leasehold reform face a major early stumbling block as analysis shows plans to retrospectively introduce a cap on ground...
20 December 2023
From: Breaking News
![Agents warned over Electrical Installation Condition Reports crisis](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/LearningAgents-400x310.png)
Repairs and maintenance supplier Fixflo is warning agents of a surge in demand for Electrical Installation Condition Reports in the short...
19 December 2023
From: Breaking News
![EPC Change On The Way? New energy ratings planned by government](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/EPC-2-400x310.png)
The government has launched a public consultation on a radical new UK home energy rating system to replace the long-standing Standard...
18 December 2023
From: Breaking News
![Portal announces agent qualification before possible mandatory regulation](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/AgentsWorking-400x310.png)
A property portal has announced the inaugural graduation of its first-ever qualification. Some 55 students were awarded the SPC Property Practice Certification,...
18 December 2023
From: Breaking News
![Surveyors warn: Landlords can’t keep their heads above water](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews2-400x310.png)
Private landlords are abandoning their property portfolios in unprecedented numbers, a group of surveyors claims. The Manchester-based chartered surveyors and auctioneers -...