Propertymark has warned Labour’s Deputy Prime Minister against scrapping Section 21 eviction powers without an adequate replacement. If Angela Rayner does fulfil...
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11 July 2024
From: Breaking News
A charity claims that new official figures on rent rises will “create more worry among private renters.” StepChange charity is referring to...
23 May 2024
From: Breaking News
A third of homes currently for sale can be bought with a mortgage and monthly repayments that cost less than the...
20 May 2024
From: Breaking News
What appears to be another government housing policy U-turn - this time on ground rents - is being hailed as “a...
26 March 2024
From: Breaking News
The removal of Section 21 notices and the end of fixed-term tenancies are the two issues that concern landlords the most,...
21 March 2024
From: Breaking News
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
The long-running aspiration of many to allow rental payments to be counted towards credit ratings appears to have taken a step...
15 January 2024
From: Breaking News
A thieving lettings agent stole over £128,000 which should have gone to landlord clients - and with it she funded an...
07 December 2023
From: Breaking News
Propertymark has set out its pro-agency position on a range of issues contained in the Renters Reform Bill, currently trundling through...
07 December 2023
From: Breaking News
Introduction The lettings market is no stranger to the complexities and challenges that come with finding the right tenants for the right...
31 October 2023
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Some prospective buy to let landlords may be about to use their equity to snap up investment properties at discounted rates,...
27 September 2023
From: Breaking News
A lettings industry trade body has written to the government urging fundamental reform of the court system to prevent it grinding...
17 August 2023
From: Breaking News
Zoopla’s Alto cloud-based software has announced a new integration with lettings PropTech supplier Canopy. This will enable tenant referencing to be permitted...
11 July 2023
From: Breaking News
It’s no secret – 2023 is a difficult year for the property industry. While rising rents should lead to increased income...
07 June 2023
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The controversial Renters Reform Bill is not the anti-landlord charter that some in the h system claim it to be. That’s the...
18 May 2023
From: Breaking News
OnTheMarket has completed a new integration with Canopy which it claims will provide valuable pre-qualified leads to letting agents. The latest integration...
16 May 2023
From: Breaking News
A survey of 2,000 tenants in England and Wales shows that some 23 per cent claim to be struggling to pay...
30 March 2023
From: Breaking News
It’s been revealed that agents have been kicked out of The Property Ombudsman in recent months for failing to pay compensatory...
27 January 2023
From: Breaking News
A new scheme offering landlords the opportunity to lease property through a local authority has been launched. Leasing Scheme Wales: Gwynedd gives...
16 November 2022
From: Breaking News
A lettings agency in Scotland has played down the impact of the emergency rent freeze and eviction ban which have been...
20 October 2022
From: Breaking News
Propertymark has spoken out against a possible loophole that might allow tenant arrears to go unpaid in certain circumstances. The trade body...
19 August 2022
From: Breaking News
Proceedings against a bankrupt letting agent have been delayed 10 weeks to allow mental health reports to be prepared. Madelaina Eftekhari is...
04 April 2022
From: Breaking News
A two-branch lettings agency in Hertfordshire has ceased trading and says it will soon be placed into creditors’ voluntary liquidation. A statement...
01 March 2022
From: Breaking News
A little-known law may require tenants to pay stamp duty on the rental properties they do not actually own. London lettings agency...
12 January 2022
From: Breaking News
PropTech supplier Goodlord, which says it’s working with 1,100 agency branches already, has introduced a new product. It says its Rent Collection...
16 November 2021
From: Breaking News
Letting agents using rent protection and legal expenses insurance via Goodlord will have their rent protected until vacant possession, with no cap...
13 October 2021
From: Breaking News
The Property Redress Scheme has expelled an agent operating a guaranteed rent scheme which failed to pay £150,000 to a former landlord client. The agent...
12 October 2021
From: Breaking News
Six agencies have been expelled from The Property Ombudsman for failing to pay compensatory awards - five of them for offences...
11 October 2021
From: Breaking News
An estate and lettings agent has analysed how the level of rental arrears has grown between each wave of the pandemic. The...
21 September 2021
From: Breaking News
An automated payments service has teamed up with a student accommodation provider to devise an eCommerce system allowing simpler rent payments. Vyne uses...
28 April 2021
From: Breaking News
Housing charity Crisis says government statistics show almost one in five private renters in England in arrears or likely to fall...
23 April 2021
From: Breaking News
With one of the world’s most successful vaccine rollout programmes under way in the UK, the chances of a complete lockdown...
01 March 2021
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The Daily Mail says it has informed Trading Standards of a lettings agent which is claims is “illegally working” despite not...
17 February 2021
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A new report from the government says it’s too early to tell whether lettings agencies are abiding by new anti-money laundering...
18 December 2020
From: Breaking News
A council says it’s let 21 properties thanks to a rent guarantee system launched to woo private landlords to supply homes...
26 November 2020
From: Breaking News
Letting agencies and landlords are being invited by a local council to take part in what it describes as a “risk...
30 September 2020
From: Breaking News
A rent guarantor service says the rental sector has investors and landlords who are happy for tenants to defer rent payments...
29 September 2020
From: Breaking News
The Association of Residential Letting Agents is urging its members to write to their MPs over the provision of cash help...
07 September 2020
From: Breaking News
The largest survey yet conducted about rent payments during the pandemic shows the claims of pressure groups about widespread evictions are unfounded. Over...
12 August 2020
From: Breaking News
A pro-tenant campaign group has this morning kicked off its campaign to have the eviction ban - already extended until late...
01 July 2020
From: Breaking News
The industry’s major landlord trade body is urging its members to write to MPs to explains what it calls “the devastating...
15 June 2020
From: Breaking News
A lettings sector group says there was never any eviction crisis looming for private tenants, contrary to a slew of recent claims. New independent...
08 June 2020
From: Breaking News
A mailing list operated by the left wing activists’ group Momentum has been used to win support for a rent strike...
18 May 2020
From: Breaking News
Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick says the government is “thinking carefully” about what more it can do for private tenants, especially after...
14 May 2020
From: Breaking News
Three groups of rental activists have demanded the government scrap all rent payments immediately and cancel all arrears - but mystery...
13 May 2020
From: Breaking News
Shelter has delivered a 14,000-signature petition claiming that thousands of private renters who have lost their jobs could be facing eviction...
11 May 2020
From: Breaking News
ARLA Propertymark has made a series of demands on the government in the light of the Coronavirus crisis. In a formal written...
07 May 2020
From: Breaking News
There was just a two per cent rise in late rental payments over the last month according to figures from an...
30 April 2020
From: Breaking News
A leading PropTech expert has urged lettings agents to improve their administration and paperwork if they want to avoid what could...
29 April 2020
From: Breaking News
The government’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme will be essential to keeping payments flowing through the rental sector, according to a leading...
21 April 2020
From: Breaking News
The Association of Residential Letting Agents says the key for getting through the virus crisis is good communications, both with clients...
17 April 2020
From: Breaking News
The Generation Rent pressure group, fiercely critical of agents and landlords in recent months, wants the government to implement a 12 month...
14 April 2020
From: Breaking News
A campaign group is urging its members to write to landlords asking them to “suspend” rent demands until the Coronavirus crisis...
06 April 2020
From: Breaking News
A leading Proptech expert says agents must have robust payment systems to cope with the unusual pressure of tracking mortgage and...
27 March 2020
From: Breaking News
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has confirmed that the government is bringing forward measures to “protect” private tenants against eviction during the...
18 March 2020
From: Breaking News
Letting agents will for the first time be able to use Open Banking to process payments more efficiently, following a decision...
11 March 2020
From: Breaking News
A lettings agent who stole over £23,000 from tenants to pay for his gambling habit and pay off debt has escaped...
24 February 2020
From: Breaking News
The Property Ombudsman has expelled five agencies, mostly for failures to honour awards: four of them are lettings operations and one...
21 February 2020
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The Liberal Democrats is the first of the major parties to release its party manifesto for the December 12 manifesto, and...
21 November 2019
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The Nationwide is investing in a digital lettings service called Bunk - it’s headed by a 24 year old who has...
19 September 2019
From: Breaking News
Eviction expert Paul Shamplina has urged letting agents and referencing companies to invest in technology to improve fraud detection. The call comes...
08 July 2019
From: Breaking News
Local authority officers have found three tenants living inside a shed in the garden of a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Brent,...
20 June 2019
From: Breaking News
A PropTech tool wants landlords to manage their own properties and is accusing agents of being likely to increase charges to...
24 May 2019
From: Breaking News
The PropTech firm CreditLadder is working with the Nationwide Building Society on a pioneering scheme to try to help tenants buy...
25 March 2019
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The lettings industry has welcomed news that reforms to Universal Credit will include a new online system for private landlords to...
14 January 2019
From: Breaking News
Three letting agents who failed to return tenants’ deposits or pass on rent payments to landlords have been convicted of fraud...
12 December 2018
From: Breaking News
The private rental sector in Wales could be offered incentives and other support to house those most in need, the Welsh...
03 December 2018
From: Breaking News
A managing agent who used ‘ghost tenants’ as a front so that she could cram 16 people into one overcrowded house...
16 October 2018
From: Breaking News
An agency has been expelled from The Property Ombudsman after receiving over 100 separate complaints, and failing to pay over £419,000...
20 September 2018
From: Breaking News
Rent recognition platform CreditLadder, which enables renters to add their payments to their credit history, has announced a partnership which aims...
05 September 2018
From: Breaking News
The chief commercial officer of PropTech startup Canopy says that letting agents and Build to Rent landlords need to accommodate the...
04 September 2018
From: Breaking News
The Rent Recognition Challenge, an initiative to use technology to help share renters' payment histories with lenders and credit reference agencies,...
16 August 2018
From: Breaking News
A local authority has started a one-year trial of a ‘social lettings agency’ which aims to match those at risk of...
04 July 2018
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Renee Wells, on behalf of Just Landlords, has compiled a list of what letting agents can do to ensure that tenants...
05 June 2018
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John Lewis has announced details of a partnership with rental app Canopy to provide employees with the opportunity to have their rent payments...
24 May 2018
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The government says that later this year it will allocate a further £1.4m to PropTech firms looking at how tenants’ rent...
21 March 2018
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The chief operating officer of a leading PropTech company says government proposals to increase mandatory licensing of Houses in Multiple Occupation...
25 January 2018
From: Breaking News
NoAgent, an online service charging landlords a fee to manage their properties, is the latest to offer a link between tenants’...
18 January 2018
From: Breaking News
The Treasury has confirmed to Letting Agent Today that the ban on credit card surcharges which came into effect in recent...
16 January 2018
From: Breaking News
The Property Ombudsman scheme has today announced three expulsions of agencies as a result of non-payment of rent or awards. Firstly, a...
10 January 2018
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Automated rental payment provider PayProp has joined the call for private rent payments to be counted towards tenants’ credit scores in...
04 January 2018
From: Breaking News
The government is offering £2m to budding PropTech and financial technology entrepreneurs who can develop an application that will enable Britain’s 11...
07 December 2017
From: Breaking News
The House of Lords has given the Creditworthiness Assessment Bill its second reading and a step forward to ensuring that tenants’...
27 November 2017
From: Breaking News
A Welsh local authority is offering a cash payment of up to £1,200 to landlords who join a quasi-letting agency run...
14 November 2017
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MPs are today going to debate whether rent payments should be included when calculating credit scores to support tenants wanting to...
23 October 2017
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Rent payments should be included when calculating credit scores to support tenants wanting to buy a home of their own, says...
17 August 2017
From: Breaking News
Agents are being warned to ensure they serve eviction notices correctly as the ‘peak eviction’ summer period arrives. Specialist tenant referencing service...
19 May 2017
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The Liberal Democrats want a raft of additional controls on the private rented sector aimed at addressing what it describes as...
18 May 2017
From: Breaking News
Specialist mortgage lender Together is the latest company to back the idea of rent payment records being used to measure the...
15 March 2017
From: Breaking News
A 27 year old father of two has secured over 140,000 signatures for an online petition demanding that rent payments be...
09 March 2017
From: Breaking News
A lettings agency on Merseyside is one of the first in the UK to take part of an experiment which could...
01 September 2016
From: Breaking News
Credit scoring company Experian is launching a scheme that allows private sector tenants the opportunity to use their rent-paying records to...
24 March 2016
From: Breaking News
Scottish tenants are paying off late rent amid improving household finances, according to Your Move. As of January the proportion of late...
24 February 2016
From: Breaking News
A firm has launched a new service for landlords and agents which is designed to speed up and increase the recovery...
29 October 2015
From: Breaking News
A London letting agency is playing down the impact of Chancellor George Osborne’s proposed changes to buy to let tax breaks,...
18 August 2015
From: Breaking News
An agency has been expelled from The Property Ombudsman scheme for a minimum of two years after failing to comply with...