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A PropTech supplier this week hosts a free webinar for agents to shed light on the rise of attempted tenancy fraud...

The classified ad website Gumtree is issuing an alert about what it claims is the growing threat of rental fraud. It says...

Airbnb claims there has been a 75 per cent drop in party reports made to Airbnb in the UK since its...

PropTech supplier Goodlord has announced a partnership with an identity verification technology service which would allow agents to conduct digital Right...

PropTech company Homeppl has launched two products that it calls “revolutionary fraud detection tools” for letting agents. One of the two technologies...

An hour-long webinar this week aims to inform agents how to deter property fraud by greater emphasis on compliance, due diligence...

Lettings platform Findingaplace, a matching service between tenants and agents launched last year, is seeking to raise £250,000 - and possibly...

Tenant referencing. It’s a necessary evil.  Although most tenants are responsible and pay their rent on time, broke swindlers with dubious...

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

The property market, and therefore, estate agents have been accused of being the 'weak link' in the UK’s money laundering defences. This...

A new online self-screening bot helps agents and landlords manage viewers’ safety more easily, before any face-to-face meetings take place. That’s the...

PropTech companies teclet and Canopy are forming a partnership to allow their services to be bought by agents on the one...

A new online self-screening bot questionnaire has been launched to check agents and customers are symptom-free before a physical viewing takes...

Hello and welcome to today’s Conquering Corona, our guide to the latest information to help agents and the rest of the...

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

London’s lettings sector is changing with tenants still wanting to buy but increasingly accepting they must rent for longer in the...

Good tenant referencing should include awareness of would-be renters’ social media history according to RentalStep - but it says more thorough...

LetsBid, a digital online auction service for lettings and sales, has extended its pre-screening service for agents with a new agreement...

Countrywide’s Hamptons International is to work with a PropTech firm to try out a no-deposit lettings scheme in four of its offices. Hamptons’...