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A deposit alternative company is calling on agents to help tenants save an average of £1,000 on up-front costs. Flatfair chief executive...

A lettings agency has been expelled from The Property Ombudsman scheme following itsfailure to pay £1,100 out of an adjudicated award...

Let's be honest – landlords are the lifeblood of any letting agency. Winning and keeping their business keeps the wheels turning...

Propertymark is hosting a client money security webinar tomorrow lunchtime between 12.30 and 13.30. The webinar will discuss the rise of Artificial...

The long-running aspiration of many to allow rental payments to be counted towards credit ratings appears to have taken a step...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Neil Cobbold, Managing Director What is PayProp and what does it...

An analysis of tenants renting between 2020 and 2023 shows a big rise in those on high salaries asked to provide...

A thieving lettings agent stole over £128,000 which should have gone to landlord clients - and with it she funded an...

In the face of stretched incomes, rising interest rates and escalating consumer prices, an increasing number of tenants are at risk...

The looming threat of the abolition of Section 21 is already impacting the rental market, a legal firm is warning.  Dutton Gregory’s...

A company that tries to encourage people to buy a home in ‘chunks’ says few first time buyers are interested in...

An estimated 700,000 households across the UK missed rent or mortgage payments in April, according to the consumer body Which? It has...

Renters are being offered a 100 per cent mortgage by the Skipton Building Society - the first time such a product...

The Guild of Property Professionals says PropTech may be the answer to the ongoing problem with client accounts. Since 2019 many banks...

New research from The Mortgage Lender reveals that 44 per cent of renters would like more cost-of-living support from the government. Specifically...

Several lettings agents have been expelled from The Property Ombudsman scheme; they are amongst eight named as having been kicked out...

A survey of 2,000 tenants in England and Wales shows that some 23 per cent claim to be struggling to pay...

It’s been revealed that agents have been kicked out of The Property Ombudsman in recent months for failing to pay compensatory...

A new survey by HomeLet and Dataloft shows that of 12,000 tenants questioned, over three quarters are worried about the cost...

The downbeat results of a survey by a finance company suggest that half of tenants are worried that they will be...

A new PropTech integration with the Tenancy Deposit Scheme’s API will help streamline deposit protection, it’s claimed. According to Debbie Davies of...

Average asking rents outside London have hit another new record of £1,126 per calendar month according to Rightmove. This figure, for the...

Since the Tenant Fees Act ban came into force, agents have been responsible for covering tenancy referencing costs, whether that’s by...

LettsPay, an automated service aiming to simplify the reconciling of tenant rental payments, has won investment from the nurtur.group - the...

London-based lettings payment platform Yorlet has launched a new PropTech partnership with Canopy, TDS and Alan Boswell. The platform offers automated workflows,...

A PropTech supplier to the lettings industry that has just signed a deal with OnTheMarket has come out in support of...

London-based lettings platform Yorlet has won £350,000 in seed funding to develop its payment Proptec solution. Yorlet was founded by friends Max...

PropTech supplier Goodlord, which says it’s working with 1,100 agency branches already, has introduced a new product. It says its Rent Collection...

The live launch of a roundtable event hosted by rental payments platform PayProp takes place tomorrow – and letting agents can...

Research carried out on behalf of Paragon Bank has highlighted each landlord has an average of 1.3 tenants with rent arrears...

With one of the world’s most successful vaccine rollout programmes under way in the UK, the chances of a complete lockdown...

As lockdown – Season 2, the sequel no one asked for – gets underway in England, landlords, tenants and agents will...

Letting agents and landlords have faced huge change and uncertainty this year, with Covid-19 the major driver. But even before the...

I was asked recently, how can an agent generate more landlord leads? Well that got me thinking, firstly, we have to...

A survey of 2,750 tenants by a prominent PropTech firm suggests a quarter are concerned about not being able to pay...

A deposit scheme has launched a new service designed to help tenants and landlords who have experienced issues with rent arrears as...

A vocal London lettings agent says it isn’t the responsibility of agents or their landlord clients to take the financial hit...

A leading PropTech entrepreneur is warning agents to prepare for increased rent arrears from as soon as next month. Neil Cobbold, chief...

London Mayor Sadiq Khan, has told the government of “illegal evictions by letting agents” - without specifying the incidents he refers...

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has given Letting Agent Today a statement trying to soothe critics of its...

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

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

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

The new National Residential Landlords Association has backed calls from the Labour Mayor of London to ensure the benefits system covers...

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

A lettings sector website claims 40 per cent of tenants have seen their ability to pay full or in some cases...

Labour is on the warpath against the government following the surprise contents of the Coronavirus Emergency Bill, apparently watering down the...

A rogue landlord and the property company he ran have been fined £22,000 for dishing out ‘sham licences’ to tenants in...

The Chartered Institute of Taxation is urging tenants not to ignore a letter if they receive one from HM Revenue &...

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

Three criminals have been sentenced after pleading guilty to money laundering involving an online lettings agency. The sentences follow an investigation spearheaded...

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

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

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

A rental market expert is urging landlords to be cautious when considering to use short-term lets websites such as Airbnb to...

Cornwall council has confirmed that it’s to use the Proceeds of Crime Act to try to win compensation for victims of...

A Trading Standards team has prosecuted a landlord who allegedly 'knew' criminal activity was taking place in his buy to let...

Increased use of PropTech by letting agents can cut rent arrears, minimise voids and reduce the financial and legal fall out...

Online lettings agency Upad says it’s to offer landlords a proprietary system to collect rental payments via Direct Debit. Its system, called...

A PropTech company has won approval from the Financial Conduct Authority to go ahead with a scheme which offers tenants a...

The second reading of the Creditworthiness Assessment Bill is to take place in the House of Commons on November 23 -...

More progress is expected today in the passage of a Bill which will allow good tenants’ rent records to count towards...

Rent recognition platform CreditLadder, which enables renters to add their payments to their credit history, has announced a partnership which aims...

The Rent Recognition Challenge, an initiative to use technology to help share renters' payment histories with lenders and credit reference agencies,...

Two lettings agencies have been expelled from The Property Ombudsman scheme. The first is Bower & Bower (B&B), a sales and lettings...

A bid to allow good tenants’ rent records count towards their creditworthiness has taken a step forward thanks to Big Issue...

One of the six PropTech start-ups shortlisted to develop a system allowing tenants’ rental histories to count towards their creditworthiness says...

A new survey released this morning gives an insight into how tenants manage rental payments and their willingness - in some...

A mortgage lender has created a special buy to let product aimed at landlords who let a property to a close...

NoAgent, an online service charging landlords a fee to manage their properties, is the latest to offer a link between tenants’...

A new PropTech platform has launched today linking tenants’ rental payments with their Experian credit histories, as well as providing reports...

Millennials renting an average-sized property outside of London, who begin their tenancy at age 21, will spend an average of £110,830...

The House of Lords has given the Creditworthiness Assessment Bill its second reading and a step forward to ensuring that tenants’...

Lord John Bird, the founder of Big Issue, is tomorrow launching his own Bill in the House of Lords in a...

Only two out of every 10 private rental sector landlords say they are willing to let to tenants in receipt of...

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

The Bank of Mum and Dad isn’t just a phenomenon in the sales market - new research shows it’s a growing...

A head of a company providing hi-tech products to letting agents says technology is the answer to current rental industry challenges,...

Barbon Insurance Group, owner of HomeLet, today formally launches what it calls a "revolutionary" rent payment system aimed at locking tenants into...

Letting agents and landlords are being encouraged to promote and increase Direct Debit sign-ups for rental payments. Bacs Payment Schemes Limited (Bacs)...

A Build To Rent operator with properties in London and Glasgow is scrapping tenants’ deposits from the middle of next month,...

Credit rating consultancy Experian says it is cheaper to rent than buy in 84 per cent of areas, while it's cheaper...

A lettings agency on Merseyside is one of the first in the UK to take part of an experiment which could...

Landlords are looking to house tenants less likely to miss rental payments in order to minimise the impact of a number...

A global rental transaction processing firm has reported rapid growth since launching in the UK.  PayProp says it has appointed several new...

Q: What does it say on your business card? Director of Business Development Q: Who are PayProp? PayProp is an automated payment and reconciliation...

A community group that has in the past staged protests at letting agents’ offices in Bristol has now organised a petition...

The average tenant spends a total of £577.64 on letting agent fees, according to new research. The research, carried out by an...

The ongoing court case involving a former letting agent has now heard that the nine cases of fraud being considered allegedly...

A landlord who failed to properly manage a home he rented out has become the first landlord prosecuted under a council’s...