Over the last 20 years, the growth of online property portals – including Zoopla, Rightmove and PrimeLocation – has transformed the...
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11 January 2021
From: Proptech & Innovation

The debate over rental properties listed on portals with ‘No DSS’ statements has reignited over the weekend. This follows a BBC investigation...
21 December 2020
From: Breaking News

The UK Association of Lettings Agents is recommending transparency in relation to the disclosure of referral fees to landlord clients. Last month...
09 December 2020
From: Breaking News

Rightmove is hosting a live webinar this morning to help agents protect and maintain mental health. Agents will be able to watch live...
03 December 2020
From: Breaking News

PropTech platform MakeUrMove, which launched back in 2008 as the first online lettings agency, has secured a £1.3m funding package from...
17 November 2020
From: Breaking News

Rightmove is to host an anti-money laundering webinar next week, aimed at lettings and sales agents. The event, which is entitled Five...
13 November 2020
From: Breaking News

Agents on Rightmove can now start using the portal’s new appointment booking tool, Viewings Manager, which has just completed its test...
13 November 2020
From: Breaking News

Staying on top of the numbers and figures in a constantly changing industry can be stressful. Changing property prices can be...
28 October 2020
From: Proptech & Innovation

In a dramatic return to the agency world, the former chief executive of the Association of Residential Letting Agents is joining...
28 October 2020
From: Breaking News

A new PropTech tool called Covid Profile tells lettings agents if tenants are self-isolating or in quarantine because of Coronavirus. The cloud-based...
26 October 2020
From: Breaking News

A new free-to-list ‘lifestyle’ app that aims to be bigger than Rightmove says it will pay lettings agents when renters switch...
14 October 2020
From: Breaking News

Asking rents outside London have hit a new high according to Rightmove’s latest market snapshot. The pressure comes from record demand from...
14 October 2020
From: Breaking News

Prospective tenants are increasingly searching for properties outside of commuter hubs and urban areas, according to Rightmove. Its analysis of over 60 million...
15 September 2020
From: Breaking News

Online lettings agency Upad is offering to refund users whose rental listings did not appear on Zoopla and PrimeLocation as they...
05 August 2020
From: Breaking News

The average rental asking price outside of London has hit an all-time high says Rightmove - whereas inside the capital, the...
16 July 2020
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency is launching a service that allows landlords to list their properties on Rightmove, Zoopla and OnTheMarket for just...
24 June 2020
From: Breaking News

The next formal review of lockdown processes in Wales takes place today, with high expectation that the housing market is likely...
18 June 2020
From: Breaking News

Registration is open for The Property Ombudsman’s annual conference, being held as a webinar later this month. The event can be watched...
10 June 2020
From: Breaking News
The buy-to-let market has grown significantly in recent years as long-term renting becomes more popular and investors continue to see the...
28 May 2020
From: Sponsored Content

An online agency has denied a claim that it is allowing High Street agents to use its platform to avoid paying...
22 May 2020
From: Breaking News

The return of the housing market has seen demand for rental property boom - and it’s a third higher now than...
22 May 2020
From: Breaking News

The Tenancy Deposit Scheme is inviting agents and landlords to a series of webinars to discuss the three stages of a...
18 May 2020
From: Breaking News

A new automated lettings platform is launching next week and promising to ensure agents and buy to let investors stay compliant. PlanetRent...
27 April 2020
From: Breaking News

Hot weather combined with a lockdown can only mean one thing - a record number of searches for rental properties with...
24 April 2020
From: Breaking News

Hello - we hope you had as good an Easter as possible in these unusual circumstances, and welcome back to work. Now...
14 April 2020
From: Breaking News

An estate agency has enterprisingly labelled all of its property listings with the mantra we must all respect - Stay At...
01 April 2020
From: Breaking News

Hello and here’s the next batch of guidance and advice from different sectors of the industry, many from influential trade groups. It’s...
19 March 2020
From: Breaking News

Letting Agent Today is launching a daily service to help agents facing the Coronavirus threat. This is where you’ll find news, advice...
16 March 2020
From: Breaking News

For a cool £1,153 a week you would expect a flat, even in pricey central London, to come with some perks. A...
24 February 2020
From: Breaking News

A five branch lettings and sales firm is the latest agency to sign up to love2move, a PropTech platform that allows...
17 February 2020
From: Breaking News

London’s asking rents hit a new record average of £2,119 per calendar month as the ongoing shortage of property for tenants...
31 January 2020
From: Breaking News

A new lettings platform claims it can help existing agents and staff working for companies quit and fulfil their dream of...
22 January 2020
From: Breaking News

Just over third of private landlords are planning to quit the sector or cut the number of homes they let in...
23 December 2019
From: Breaking News

The relatively low profile 99home online agency says it is now the UK’s fifth largest operation in the online sector after...
26 November 2019
From: Breaking News

A trade body says the private rental sector is facing a major crisis - more landlords are selling properties than buying...
25 October 2019
From: Breaking News

New research from Rightmove shows almost a quarter of landlords are planning to sell at least one property from their current...
17 October 2019
From: Breaking News

Another online lettings agency has come forward with a deal to help landlords and tenants stranded after the closure of Upad. Last...
16 October 2019
From: Breaking News

Rightmove has at last completed on its acquisition of tenancy referencing firm Van Mildert, first announced two months ago. The deal, reported...
01 October 2019
From: Breaking News

Property management platform Howsy has revealed new funding to the tune of £5m - and it now claims to be one...
04 September 2019
From: Breaking News

In what some see as a sign of the growing importance of the lettings sector over sales, Rightmove has acquired tenant...
29 July 2019
From: Breaking News

Data from Rightmove suggests that demand from tenants looking for a new home has soared seven per cent since the Tenants...
19 July 2019
From: Breaking News

The government has published proposals for far-reaching changes to the way estate and letting agents are regulated, trained and licensed. The proposals...
18 July 2019
From: Breaking News

Despite criticism from some within the industry about the effects of short lets, the high-end agency Knight Frank has spoken of...
20 June 2019
From: Breaking News

The government says thousands of families could benefit from changes to mortgage rules announced by Metro Bank. Currently the bank prevents landlords...
12 June 2019
From: Breaking News

An online lettings agency that has been operating for 12 years has now opened a High Street office. Nantwich-based LetLord, founded in...
29 May 2019
From: Breaking News

The online property management platform Howsy, formerly known as NoAgent, has launched a new package for landlords. The platform says Howsy Protect...
14 May 2019
From: Breaking News

Senior lettings agency figures are amongst those who will this morning give evidence to a committee of MPs investigating so-called ‘DSS...
24 April 2019
From: Breaking News

Figures calculated by Rightmove suggest that even when the Fees Ban and Deposit Caps kick in on June 1, some deposits...
18 April 2019
From: Breaking News

Startling figures released this morning by Rightmove suggest that rents have risen 8.2 per cent in London in the past year...
18 April 2019
From: Breaking News

Rightmove has fallen in line with Zoopla and is banning the term ‘No DSS’ from its lettings agents’ listings from the...
16 April 2019
From: Breaking News

Lettings agency Northwood has been told by the Advertising Standards Authority to ensure that photographs of a specific property are updated...
03 April 2019
From: Breaking News

A PropTech firm says buy to let investors should not respond to the slowing market by selling up, but should instead...
15 March 2019
From: Breaking News

The Tenants’ Fees Bill has now become law, receiving formal Royal Assent yesterday afternoon - and within minutes, the government issued...
13 February 2019
From: Breaking News

Online agency Upad has made another change to its charging structure. It has recently introduced revised packages for landlords, payment via Direct...
13 February 2019
From: Breaking News

Knight Frank has given an upbeat snapshot of the lettings market in Prime Central London, based mostly on higher rental growth...
31 January 2019
From: Breaking News

A PropTech firm is offering landlords the opportunity to manage their portfolios from £35 a month, suggesting it could be a...
25 January 2019
From: Breaking News

A software platform has been launched which allows Build To Rent units to be short-let on the likes of Airbnb during...
23 January 2019
From: Breaking News

A mortgage firm claims the lettings industry is ripping off students by overcharging them. Mojo Mortgages says it has compared the rent...
21 January 2019
From: Breaking News

An online agency specialising in the sale of investment properties with tenants in situ claims the average time for a tenanted...
18 January 2019
From: Breaking News

A lettings market snapshot from Rightmove suggests asking rents in London are now increasing at an annual rate not seen for...
17 January 2019
From: Breaking News

Online letting agency MakeUrMove has launched a new subscription model which it claims will ”ready landlords for the incoming tenant fee...
11 January 2019
From: Breaking News

Another online lettings agency launches in March with a claim that it “will streamline and automate the majority of admin tasks...
04 January 2019
From: Breaking News

Online lettings platform HomeRenter says its property listings are now more detailed and more compelling thanks to a new ‘property creation flow’...
20 December 2018
From: Breaking News

With 2019 almost upon us, letting agents are finally unburying their heads from the ignorant bliss of the sand pit and...
14 December 2018
From: Sponsored Content

The number of lettings listings in prime central London fell 18 per cent in the year to September, says Knight Frank. The...
13 November 2018
From: Breaking News

Rightmove is reporting that average asking rents outside London have topped £800 per month for the first time, fuelled by a...
29 October 2018
From: Breaking News

Rightmove’s chief executive officer, Peter Brooks-Johnson, is joining the board of an offshoot of a global classified listings operation. He is to...
09 October 2018
From: Breaking News

Online lettings agency Upad has drastically overhauled its product range, introducing a ‘pick and mix’ option allowing landlords to choose services...
26 September 2018
From: Breaking News

An agency in the Experts In Property trade group has snapped up the lettings side of a rival independent company. Collyers Properties,...
29 August 2018
From: Breaking News

A new online rental platform claims that landlords could save enough to afford an additional holiday this year if they signed...
02 August 2018
From: Breaking News

A lack of new rental properties coming to the market in London has helped push the annual rate of London asking...
26 July 2018
From: Breaking News
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Yet another leading lettings agent has hit out at the government over its proposals for three year tenancies being the norm...
10 July 2018
From: Breaking News

A London council has launched its own online letting agency with the aim of creating a buzz in the 'London property...
23 May 2018
From: Breaking News

Central London agency Portico has removed a property listing from Rightmove after intervention by the Advertising Standards Authority. The ASA received a...
25 April 2018
From: Breaking News

Rightmove has revealed that the 10 year average growth in asking rents across London has been 25 per cent, and over...
28 March 2018
From: Breaking News

Lavanda, a platform for short-lets backed by Purplebricks’ co-founder Kenny Bruce, says it is to roll-out across the UK from later...
27 March 2018
From: Breaking News

Our thanks to the eagle-eyed Richard Cross of B H Realty for spotting one or two less-than-perfect things on a Rightmove...
14 March 2018
From: Breaking News

Two agencies in Cheshire have merged, allowing a lettings business to now offer sales, mortgages and other home mover packages to...
13 March 2018
From: Breaking News

Online agency easyProperty has announced the launch of two new lettings options. One, called easyLet, is broadly a listings service: for £99...
09 March 2018
From: Breaking News

Knight Frank says prime central London rents have fallen on a quarterly basis for the 28th consecutive month - a record. The...
07 March 2018
From: Breaking News

The online lettings agency Upad has launched what it describes as a “pay on success” option for landlord clients. The company says...
23 February 2018
From: Breaking News

Two letting agencies have removed advertisements after complaints were filed to the Advertising Standards Authority. The first case involved LSL Property Services...
17 January 2018
From: Breaking News

The average asking rent across the UK - excluding London - rose by just 0.7 per cent in 2017 according to...
11 January 2018
From: Breaking News

Rightmove has revealed the locations where prospective tenants have searched for properties on its portal in 2017 - and the winning...
21 December 2017
From: Breaking News

Average rents in prime central London fell 2.4 per cent year-on-year in November, which was the most modest decline recorded in...
07 December 2017
From: Breaking News

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...
10 October 2017
From: Breaking News

Rents outside of London have dropped by 0.2 per cent in the third quarter of this year according to new data...
09 October 2017
From: Breaking News

Over the past few months, hundreds of agents across the UK have been improving their photography skills by taking part in...
01 September 2017
From: Sponsored Content

Humberts has launched an online-only lettings option for landlords with a PropTech firm which has previously operated a service described as...
14 August 2017
From: Breaking News

Let’s start with a quick fire quiz. How many more leads do you think you’d get with photos that have been...
01 August 2017
From: Sponsored Content

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...
28 July 2017
From: 60 Second Interview

Rightmove is testing an experimental Facebook Messenger bot in the London lettings market. For the unitiated a bot is software that can...
28 July 2017
From: Breaking News

Draker, which describes itself as the largest lettings-only agency in Kensington and Chelsea, has now expanded by opening a new office...
14 July 2017
From: Breaking News

Asking rents outside London continue to hold up despite the market having more available properties, according to Rightmove. Prices rose 2.8 per...
07 July 2017
From: Breaking News

**The free photography course for estate agents (part one) offer has now expired. It is still available in special circumstances so...
03 July 2017
From: Sponsored Content

Government watchdog the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has upheld four complaints made against a Liverpool letting agency. The complaints were made against...
14 June 2017
From: Breaking News

The remaining overhand of last year’s buy to let buying surge by landlords means the annual rate of rent rises has...
07 April 2017
From: Breaking News

The founder of Rightmove and former chief executive of Countrywide, Harry Hill, has joined a lettings start-up company called Lavanda which...
04 April 2017
From: Breaking News

Organisers of the Future:PropTech2017 conference on May 4 have revealed new sponsors involved with the event - including Angels Media, publisher...
24 February 2017
From: Breaking News

A letting agency at the centre of a controversy following a ruling by The Property Ombudsman has shut its office and...
15 February 2017
From: Breaking News

Northwood GB has withdrawn a circular following a complaint regarding a reference to Rightmove visits. A circular for Northwood GB stated: “Did...
15 February 2017
From: Breaking News

Rightmove and Zoopla have entered into partnerships with a property management app - Rentr - which is aimed at lettings sector...
09 February 2017
From: Breaking News

Online letting agency Upad has appointed the chairman of the new UK PropTech Association to its advisory board. Eddie Holmes, who announced...
06 February 2017
From: Breaking News

Asking rents rose 3.0 per cent outside of London in 2016 - but will rise 4.0 per cent in 2017. That’s the...
12 January 2017
From: Breaking News

A digital property management platform that automates the rental process including marketing, bookings, reference checks, maintenance and compliance, claims it is now...
05 December 2016
From: Breaking News

Lettings guru David Lawrenson has given an unusual perspective on the government’s commitment to ban letting agents’ fees on tenants in...
24 November 2016
From: Breaking News

Buy to let lending is well down according to data from the Council of Mortgage Lenders. Apparently contrary to an optimistic report...
13 October 2016
From: Breaking News

Buyer enquiries from potential landlords and investors are now up 30 per cent since May according to Rightmove, suggesting that the...
12 October 2016
From: Breaking News

Four separate estate and letting agencies have been expelled from membership of The Property Ombudsman and from registration for lettings redress...
30 September 2016
From: Breaking News

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...
15 September 2016
From: Breaking News

Gillian Kent - once employed by News International to run a portal to rival Rightmove - has now been appointed chairman...
02 September 2016
From: Breaking News

An online agency says it has attracted ”many hundreds” of landlords by giving 12 months’ rent up-front. LetMe also offers a guarantee...
04 August 2016
From: Breaking News

An experiment by an online agency and an interiors firm suggests professionally shot pictures of a furnished flat will generate six...
04 August 2016
From: Breaking News

Andrea Morgan - known to many property Twitter users as @RightmoveAddict - is joining the Agency Mentors estate agency training and...
19 July 2016
From: Breaking News

There was an eight per cent surge in the number of homes available to rent in the second quarter of the...
14 July 2016
From: Breaking News

Some 18 per cent of lettings properties are advertised with floorplans according to an analysis of Rightmove listings by a floorplan...
13 June 2016
From: Breaking News

The frenzy of investor purchasing of buy to let units ahead of the stamp duty surcharge deadline has led to an...
16 May 2016
From: Breaking News

A letting agency has pledged to make its fees information clearer on its Rightmove listings. The Advertising Standards Authority had received a...
11 May 2016
From: Breaking News

Who are you? Luke Mason, from IntelliLet. I help letting agents with every aspect of their business, but particular focus is on...
27 April 2016
From: 60 Second Interview

Demand for buy to let mortgages in the coming months is expected to fall "significantly" according to a Bank of England...
14 April 2016
From: Breaking News

One of the country’s top lettings experts says last year’s law changes concerning the increased transparency of agents’ fees have “missed...
31 March 2016
From: Breaking News

Security experts interviewed by ITV London have given the green light to the Rightmove site after it was apparently being used...
18 March 2016
From: Breaking News

So you’ve decided to advertise on Rightmove, Zoopla or another online property listing agent. You’ve agreed the budget, made the bold...
07 March 2016
From: Sponsored Content

Rightmove says tenants serious about wanting to buy could do themselves a favour by flatsharing - and save themselves £210 a...
08 January 2016
From: Breaking News

Financially-stretched landlords may want to think seriously about selling their investment properties - and quickly, advises Rightmove. In its latest monthly report...
15 December 2015
From: Breaking News

The body which issues codes of advertising has issued new guidance for letting agents on how to publicise rental fees in...
13 November 2015
From: Breaking News

The man behind a new competition for agents says he has taken the initiative to try to redress the negative press...
03 November 2015
From: Breaking News

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...
26 October 2015
From: 60 Second Interview

Rightmove says letting agents are reporting “extraordinary demand” in many parts of the country, with an increasing number of tenants positively...
19 October 2015
From: Breaking News

Rightmove says rents across England and Wales, outside London, are up 1.3 per cent in the past three months according to...
09 October 2015
From: Breaking News

Watch the latest weekly video round-up of news from Estate Agent Today and Letting Agent Today, featuring stories on NTSEAT's new...
04 September 2015
From: Video Articles

Watch the latest weekly video roundup of news from Estate Agent Today and Letting Agent Today, featuring stories on Zoopla’s fightback...
14 August 2015
From: Video Articles

Watch the latest weekly video roundup of news from Estate Agent Today and Letting Agent Today, featuring stories on what Right...
07 August 2015
From: Video Articles

Watch the latest weekly video round-up of news from Estate Agent Today and Letting Agent Today, featuring stories on Rightmove's half...
31 July 2015
From: Video Articles

There has been a three-fold increase in the number of lettings units coming to the market with floorplans included in their...
29 July 2015
From: Breaking News

An interesting point of view from a young sales negotiator working for Spicerhaart, whose chief executive Paul Smith recently wrote an...
24 July 2015
From: Features

Tenants trying to find cheaper and better value letting properties than those available in London are moving outside the capital -...
15 July 2015
From: Breaking News

Two interesting developments in the past week have shown how established parts of the agency industry - on either side of...
03 July 2015
From: Features

OK, you’re being spoilt. This column is now going to be on a bi-weekly rather than monthly basis. You lucky people,...
19 June 2015
From: Features

Hello and welcome to my brand new blog! Every month I’ll be giving you an insight into the varied, exciting and...
05 June 2015
From: Features

Yesterday we heard about the letter from the CMA warning agents about anti-competitive behaviour. Today, in a scoop for Estate Agent...
04 June 2015
From: Features

It seems like every day there’s a new article about On The Market. Usually it consists something Zoopla have said, followed...
02 June 2015
From: Sponsored Content

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