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Over the last 20 years, the growth of online property portals – including Zoopla, Rightmove and PrimeLocation – has transformed the...

The debate over rental properties listed on portals with ‘No DSS’ statements has reignited over the weekend. This follows a BBC investigation...

The UK Association of Lettings Agents is recommending transparency in relation to the disclosure of referral fees to landlord clients. Last month...

Rightmove is hosting a live webinar this morning to help agents protect and maintain mental health.  Agents will be able to watch live...

PropTech platform MakeUrMove, which launched back in 2008 as the first online lettings agency, has secured a £1.3m funding package from...

Rightmove is to host an anti-money laundering webinar next week, aimed at lettings and sales agents. The event, which is entitled Five...

Agents on Rightmove can now start using the portal’s new appointment booking tool, Viewings Manager, which has just completed its test...

Staying on top of the numbers and figures in a constantly changing industry can be stressful. Changing property prices can be...

In a dramatic return to the agency world, the former chief executive of the Association of Residential Letting Agents is joining...

A new PropTech tool called Covid Profile tells lettings agents if tenants are self-isolating or in quarantine because of Coronavirus.  The cloud-based...

A new free-to-list ‘lifestyle’ app that aims to be bigger than Rightmove says it will pay lettings agents when renters switch...

Asking rents outside London have hit a new high according to Rightmove’s latest market snapshot. The pressure comes from record demand from...

Prospective tenants are increasingly searching for properties outside of commuter hubs and urban areas, according to Rightmove. Its analysis of over 60 million...

Online lettings agency Upad is offering to refund users whose rental listings did not appear on Zoopla and PrimeLocation as they...

The average rental asking price outside of London has hit an all-time high says Rightmove - whereas inside the capital, the...

A lettings agency is launching a service that allows landlords to list their properties on Rightmove, Zoopla and OnTheMarket for just...

The next formal review of lockdown processes in Wales takes place today, with high expectation that the housing market is likely...

Registration is open for The Property Ombudsman’s annual conference, being held as a webinar later this month. The event can be watched...

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

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 Tenancy Deposit Scheme is inviting agents and landlords to a series of webinars to discuss the three stages of a...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Just over third of private landlords are planning to quit the sector or cut the number of homes they let in...

The relatively low profile 99home online agency says it is now the UK’s fifth largest operation in the online sector after...

A trade body says the private rental sector is facing a major crisis - more landlords are selling properties than buying...

New research from Rightmove shows almost a quarter of landlords are planning to sell at least one property from their current...

Another online lettings agency has come forward with a deal to help landlords and tenants stranded after the closure of Upad. Last...

Rightmove has at last completed on its acquisition of tenancy referencing firm Van Mildert, first announced two months ago. The deal, reported...

Property management platform Howsy has revealed new funding to the tune of £5m - and it now claims to be one...

In what some see as a sign of the growing importance of the lettings sector over sales, Rightmove has acquired tenant...

Data from Rightmove suggests that demand from tenants looking for a new home has soared seven per cent since the Tenants...

The government has published proposals for far-reaching changes to the way estate and letting agents are regulated, trained and licensed. The proposals...

Despite criticism from some within the industry about the effects of short lets, the high-end agency Knight Frank has spoken of...

The government says thousands of families could benefit from changes to mortgage rules announced by Metro Bank. Currently the bank prevents landlords...

An online lettings agency that has been operating for 12 years has now opened a High Street office. Nantwich-based LetLord, founded in...

The online property management platform Howsy, formerly known as NoAgent, has launched a new package for landlords. The platform says Howsy Protect...

Senior lettings agency figures are amongst those who will this morning give evidence to a committee of MPs investigating so-called ‘DSS...

Figures calculated by Rightmove suggest that even when the Fees Ban and Deposit Caps kick in on June 1, some deposits...

Startling figures released this morning by Rightmove suggest that rents have risen 8.2 per cent in London in the past year...

Rightmove has fallen in line with Zoopla and is banning the term ‘No DSS’ from its lettings agents’ listings from the...

Lettings agency Northwood has been told by the Advertising Standards Authority to ensure that photographs of a specific property are updated...

A PropTech firm says buy to let investors should not respond to the slowing market by selling up, but should instead...

The Tenants’ Fees Bill has now become law, receiving formal Royal Assent yesterday afternoon - and within minutes, the government issued...

Online agency Upad has made another change to its charging structure. It has recently introduced revised packages for landlords, payment via Direct...

Knight Frank has given an upbeat snapshot of the lettings market in Prime Central London, based mostly on higher rental growth...

A PropTech firm is offering landlords the opportunity to manage their portfolios from £35 a month, suggesting it could be a...

A software platform has been launched which allows Build To Rent units to be short-let on the likes of Airbnb during...

A mortgage firm claims the lettings industry is ripping off students by overcharging them. Mojo Mortgages says it has compared the rent...

An online agency specialising in the sale of investment properties with tenants in situ claims the average time for a tenanted...

A lettings market snapshot from Rightmove suggests asking rents in London are now increasing at an annual rate not seen for...

Online letting agency MakeUrMove has launched a new subscription model which it claims will ”ready landlords for the incoming tenant fee...

Another online lettings agency launches in March with a claim that it “will streamline and automate the majority of admin tasks...

Online lettings platform HomeRenter says its property listings are now more detailed and more compelling thanks to a new ‘property creation flow’...

With 2019 almost upon us, letting agents are finally unburying their heads from the ignorant bliss of the sand pit and...

The number of lettings listings in prime central London fell 18 per cent in the year to September, says Knight Frank. The...

Rightmove is reporting that average asking rents outside London have topped £800 per month for the first time, fuelled by a...

Rightmove’s chief executive officer, Peter Brooks-Johnson, is joining the board of an offshoot of a global classified listings operation. He is to...

Online lettings agency Upad has drastically overhauled its product range, introducing a ‘pick and mix’ option allowing landlords to choose services...

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

A new online rental platform claims that landlords could save enough to afford an additional holiday this year if they signed...

A lack of new rental properties coming to the market in London has helped push the annual rate of London asking...

Yet another leading lettings agent has hit out at the government over its proposals for three year tenancies being the norm...

A London council has launched its own online letting agency with the aim of creating a buzz in the 'London property...

Central London agency Portico has removed a property listing from Rightmove after intervention by the Advertising Standards Authority. The ASA received a...

Rightmove has revealed that the 10 year average growth in asking rents across London has been 25 per cent, and over...

Lavanda, a platform for short-lets backed by Purplebricks’ co-founder Kenny Bruce, says it is to roll-out across the UK from later...

Our thanks to the eagle-eyed Richard Cross of B H Realty for spotting one or two less-than-perfect things on a Rightmove...

Two agencies in Cheshire have merged, allowing a lettings business to now offer sales, mortgages and other home mover packages to...

Online agency easyProperty has announced the launch of two new lettings options.  One, called easyLet, is broadly a listings service: for £99...

Knight Frank says prime central London rents have fallen on a quarterly basis for the 28th consecutive month - a record. The...

The online lettings agency Upad has launched what it describes as a “pay on success” option for landlord clients.  The company says...

Two letting agencies have removed advertisements after complaints were filed to the Advertising Standards Authority. The first case involved LSL Property Services...

The average asking rent across the UK - excluding London - rose by just 0.7 per cent in 2017 according to...

Rightmove has revealed the locations where prospective tenants have searched for properties on its portal in 2017 - and the winning...

Average rents in prime central London fell 2.4 per cent year-on-year in November, which was the most modest decline recorded in...

Rents in the UK rose by an average of 2.1 per cent during September according to HomeLet.   HomeLet says last month’s rise continues...

Rents outside of London have dropped by 0.2 per cent in the third quarter of this year according to new data...

Over the past few months, hundreds of agents across the UK have been improving their photography skills by taking part in...

Humberts has launched an online-only lettings option for landlords with a PropTech firm which has previously operated a service described as...

Let’s start with a quick fire quiz. How many more leads do you think you’d get with photos that have been...

Q: What does it say on your business card? Tim Wright, Product Director, KeyAGENT Q: What does KeyAGENT do? We’re a team of multi-award...

Rightmove is testing an experimental Facebook Messenger bot in the London lettings market.    For the unitiated a bot is software that can...

Draker, which describes itself as the largest lettings-only agency in Kensington and Chelsea, has now expanded by opening a new office...

Asking rents outside London continue to hold up despite the market having more available properties, according to Rightmove.   Prices rose 2.8 per...

**The free photography course for estate agents (part one) offer has now expired. It is still available in special circumstances so...

Government watchdog the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has upheld four complaints made against a Liverpool letting agency. The complaints were made against...

The remaining overhand of last year’s buy to let buying surge by landlords means the annual rate of rent rises has...

The founder of Rightmove and former chief executive of Countrywide, Harry Hill, has joined a lettings start-up company called Lavanda which...

Organisers of the Future:PropTech2017 conference on May 4 have revealed new sponsors involved with the event - including Angels Media, publisher...

A letting agency at the centre of a controversy following a ruling by The Property Ombudsman has shut its office and...

Northwood GB has withdrawn a circular following a complaint regarding a reference to Rightmove visits.   A circular for Northwood GB stated: “Did...

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

Online letting agency Upad has appointed the chairman of the new UK PropTech Association to its advisory board.   Eddie Holmes, who announced...

Asking rents rose 3.0 per cent outside of London in 2016 - but will rise 4.0 per cent in 2017. That’s the...

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

Lettings guru David Lawrenson has given an unusual perspective on the government’s commitment to ban letting agents’ fees on tenants in...

Buy to let lending is well down according to data from the Council of Mortgage Lenders.    Apparently contrary to an optimistic report...

Buyer enquiries from potential landlords and investors are now up 30 per cent since May according to Rightmove, suggesting that the...

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

Almost all of the UK's major towns and cities saw fewer available buy-to-let properties listed during August when compared with July. Property...

Gillian Kent - once employed by News International to run a portal to rival Rightmove - has now been appointed chairman...

An online agency says it has attracted ”many hundreds” of landlords by giving 12 months’ rent up-front. LetMe also offers a guarantee...

An experiment by an online agency and an interiors firm suggests professionally shot pictures of a furnished flat will generate six...

Andrea Morgan - known to many property Twitter users as @RightmoveAddict - is joining the Agency Mentors estate agency training and...

There was an eight per cent surge in the number of homes available to rent in the second quarter of the...

Some 18 per cent of lettings properties are advertised with floorplans according to an analysis of Rightmove listings by a floorplan...

The frenzy of investor purchasing of buy to let units ahead of the stamp duty surcharge deadline has led to an...

A letting agency has pledged to make its fees information clearer on its Rightmove listings. The Advertising Standards Authority had received a...

Who are you? Luke Mason, from IntelliLet. I help letting agents with every aspect of their business, but particular focus is on...

Demand for buy to let mortgages in the coming months is expected to fall "significantly" according to a Bank of England...

One of the country’s top lettings experts says last year’s law changes concerning the increased transparency of agents’ fees have “missed...

Security experts interviewed by ITV London have given the green light to the Rightmove site after it was apparently being used...

So you’ve decided to advertise on Rightmove, Zoopla or another online property listing agent. You’ve agreed the budget, made the bold...

Rightmove says tenants serious about wanting to buy could do themselves a favour by flatsharing - and save themselves £210 a...

Financially-stretched landlords may want to think seriously about selling their investment properties - and quickly, advises Rightmove. In its latest monthly report...

The body which issues codes of advertising has issued new guidance for letting agents on how to publicise rental fees in...

The man behind a new competition for agents says he has taken the initiative to try to redress the negative press...

  Who are you? Ellie Hall. What does it say on your business card? Head of Acquisitions. You're on the hunt for acquisitions, what makes a...

Rightmove says letting agents are reporting “extraordinary demand” in many parts of the country, with an increasing number of tenants positively...

Rightmove says rents across England and Wales, outside London, are up 1.3 per cent in the past three months according to...

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There has been a three-fold increase in the number of lettings units coming to the market with floorplans included in their...

An interesting point of view from a young sales negotiator working for Spicerhaart, whose chief executive Paul Smith recently wrote an...

Tenants trying to find cheaper and better value letting properties than those available in London are moving outside the capital -...

Two interesting developments in the past week have shown how established parts of the agency industry - on either side of...

OK, you’re being spoilt. This column is now going to be on a bi-weekly rather than monthly basis. You lucky people,...

Hello and welcome to my brand new blog! Every month I’ll be giving you an insight into the varied, exciting and...

Yesterday we heard about the letter from the CMA warning agents about anti-competitive behaviour. Today, in a scoop for Estate Agent...

It seems like every day there’s a new article about On The Market. Usually it consists something Zoopla have said, followed...

Rightmove says it has identified the 20 most expensive rental locations in the UK outside of London - and surprise, surprise,...

No agent reading this will be under any illusions that the agency market is a particularly competitive sector to operate in.  I...