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26 April 2024
From: Breaking News
Propertymark says it will continue lobbying government for the implementation of the Regulation of Property Agents - even though the government...
24 April 2024
From: Breaking News
Recent substantial fines issued by HMRC are a harsh reminder to agents to ensure that their Anti-Money Laundering policies are up...
23 April 2024
From: Breaking News
A major agency has told the government to get on with ensuring the Renters Reform Bill is passed into law as...
22 April 2024
From: Breaking News
A government-supporting newspaper says the Renters Reform Bill will be back in the House of Commons next week. Observers have been expecting...
18 April 2024
From: Breaking News
The ESTAS awards event in October has a new principal partner. It’s Landmark Information Group, which includes Landmark Estate Agency Services, Searchflow,...
12 April 2024
From: Breaking News
The Guild of Property Professionals is launch a new Ezine system for members to market properties to let and for sale. According...
11 April 2024
From: Breaking News
Property logbook company Chimni is trialling a new form of Digital Property Logbook aimed at the Lettings markets. The new logbooks...
02 April 2024
From: Breaking News
Tenant groups and charities reacted angrily over the Easter weekend to the proposed changes to the Renters Reform Bill being advocated...
02 April 2024
From: Breaking News
The government has written to Conservative MPs promising changes to the Renters Reform Bill to ease concerns over its anti-landlord bias. Jacob...
28 March 2024
From: Breaking News
The Belvoir 2024 Annual Awards have crowded a father-and-son franchisee pairing as the big winners. Paul Wallace-Tarry and his son Richard Wallace-Tarry...
28 March 2024
From: Breaking News
A new borough-wide landlord licensing scheme is set to launch in the London borough of Brent on April 1, the council...
27 March 2024
From: Breaking News
There’s been a rise of over 400 per cent in the monetary total of fines issued for Right To Rent offences...
15 March 2024
From: Breaking News
Labour has waded into the increasingly-fractious debate over the Renters Reform Bill. Activists in groups such as the Renters Reform Coalition and...
29 February 2024
From: Breaking News
A new report suggests that past impressions of Build To Rent and other institution-funded rental units as expensive and concentrating on...
19 February 2024
From: Breaking News
A survey of local council private rental licensing schemes says 19 selective and additional licensing schemes and consultations will be taking...
09 February 2024
From: Breaking News
Expanding agency group My Property Box has completed its 10th acquisition in six years, buying Teesside lettings and property investment specialist...
08 February 2024
From: Breaking News
A series of lenders have slashed their buy to let mortgage rates in a bid to win business. These include: - LendInvest Mortgages...
08 January 2024
From: Breaking News
Housing Secretary Michael Gove has given what some commentators have interpreted as a sign that private rental sector licensing from councils...
27 December 2023
From: Breaking News
A new survey of 4,000 landlords has identified the three qualities they look for in a letting agent. Whereas trust and liveability...
20 December 2023
From: Breaking News
A total of 13 franchisees from brands within the Belvoir Group have graduated from what the firm calls “a unique new...
01 December 2023
From: Breaking News
PropTech specialist Vouch has launched a Rent Protection feature, designed to help landlords access cover to mitigate the risk of unpaid rent. The feature...
30 November 2023
From: Breaking News
The first meeting has been held of the Housing Coalition, a new group including Propertymark and some landlord bodies. A statement from...
24 November 2023
From: Breaking News
The Department for Work and Pensions will recommence the Private Rented Sector Universal Credit Engagement Group next month, following a concerted...
23 November 2023
From: Breaking News
The Federation of Independent Agents has selected an automated client account platform as a supplier. The FIA was established in by Graham...
17 November 2023
From: Breaking News
David Wilson Homes has launched a scheme where prospective buyers who can muster a 2.5 per cent deposit can reserve a...
02 November 2023
From: Breaking News
Propertymark has welcomed the pledge by Housing Secretary Michael Gove not to introduce rent controls in England. The trade body says such...
31 October 2023
From: Breaking News
Rent controls as currently in force in Scotland and under consideration in Wales will not be put into effect in England,...
25 October 2023
From: Breaking News
MPs have given the Renters Reform Bill its Second Reading - a procedure which means it now continues into the Committee...
24 October 2023
From: Breaking News
More details have emerged of what appears to be a sort of stay of execution for Section 21 eviction powers. The abolition...
23 October 2023
From: Breaking News
The government has pledged that section 21 repossessions will not be scrapped until improvements have been made to the way courts...
20 October 2023
From: Breaking News
A PR exercise has discovered that 89 per cent of UK MPs would not give priority to Build-to-Rent schemes in their...
11 October 2023
From: Breaking News
Propertymark has fired a broadside at Labour saying it must provide agents with a proper court system to handle evictions. Labour deputy leader...
10 October 2023
From: Breaking News
A high profile lettings agent has written to his local council seeking information about an Additional Licensing scheme which has expired...
04 October 2023
From: Breaking News
An agency has been fined by a London council for failing to licence a property it was managing. Gracechurch Property Services has...
21 September 2023
From: Breaking News
The Select Committee that shadows the work of Michael Gove’s Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities is complaining that its...
20 September 2023
From: Breaking News
A lettings trade body is urging the government to make clear how it will help courts tackle a growing backlog of...
19 September 2023
From: Breaking News
Two massive new rental licensing schemes are set to be approved in Brighton - and part of the reason is “uninterested...
14 September 2023
From: Breaking News
There’s to be a consultation this autumn about a proposed selective licensing regime in Scarborough. The proposal covers parts of the Castle,...
12 September 2023
From: Breaking News
Knight Frank, in conjunction with Build To Rent operator Moda Living, has published a highly supportive report about BTR. Creating what it’s...
31 August 2023
From: Breaking News
The Green Party - which ran the Brighton and Hove council until being swept from office in May’s local elections -...
25 August 2023
From: Breaking News
Zoopla’s research team says the rise in mortgage interest rates means it’s now cheaper to rent than to buy for the...
22 August 2023
From: Breaking News
A prominent figure in the London property world says landlords under increasing financial pressure are being more selective about the letting...
21 August 2023
From: Breaking News
Rightmove is to provide agents with local market data and easier access to training at a series of Propertymark regional events. Rightmove...
07 August 2023
From: Breaking News
Landlords of more than 5,000 homes must register for a license and ensure their tenants have good quality housing or face...
25 July 2023
From: Breaking News
Latest data from London-focussed lettings agency Chestertons confirms that the traditionally busy ‘summer season’ has kicked off. In June some 19 per...
17 July 2023
From: Breaking News
It appears almost certain that the Second Reading of the Renters Reform Bill - expected some weeks ago - will not...
14 July 2023
From: Breaking News
It appears that a “wider range of behaviours” are likely to be taken into account in future when tenants are considered...
14 July 2023
From: Breaking News
The Renters Reform Bill is being discussed by MPs this afternoon - although not as part of its long-running passage through...
10 July 2023
From: Breaking News
A new action plan to tackle issues around HMOs is being drawn up by a Midlands council next week. West Northamptonshire council’s...
06 July 2023
From: Breaking News
London letting agents and landlords have so far been hit with more than £900,000 in fines in the first half of...
05 July 2023
From: Breaking News
Details have emerged of a flagship agent training event to be held later this year. Agent Rainmaker Live is to be a...
30 June 2023
From: Breaking News
PayProp is known for its award-winning rental payment platform, which combines bank-integrated client accounting with automation to save letting agencies time...
29 June 2023
From: Sponsored Content
The Cambridge Building Society has selected two tenants by ballot to receive up to 70 per cent of their rent back...
23 June 2023
From: Breaking News
A council has told letting agents to ‘get a move on’ as it admits there’s been a slow start to its...
20 June 2023
From: Breaking News
The fast growing agency Lomond - which has snapped up a string of independents in the past two years - is...
16 June 2023
From: Breaking News
A new survey reveals that the safety of client funds is one of the key reasons why letting agents look to...
08 June 2023
From: Breaking News
Moneyfacts, the respected independent mortgage market monitor, is warning that lenders have been withdrawing buy to let fixed deals. Within the buy...
31 May 2023
From: Breaking News
A left-leaning think tank which says it champions ‘left-behind Londoners’ is demanding a turbo-charged version of selective licensing to be run...
26 May 2023
From: Breaking News
Foxtons is to give its agents access to a compliance management and checking service. Fran Giltinan, Managing Director - Property Management &...
19 May 2023
From: Breaking News
A prominent group of economists has predicted the measures in the Renters Reform Bill will backfire on the government. Matthew Lesh, Director...
17 May 2023
From: Breaking News
The Cambridge Building Society has opened applications for its unique Rent to Home scheme. Last month it announced that it had invested...
16 May 2023
From: Breaking News
As an estate or letting agent, you may already know that having a strong online presence is crucial for success in...
12 May 2023
From: Marketing & Social Media
Labour is considering raising the buy to let and holiday home stamp duty surcharge above the current three per cent if...
12 May 2023
From: Breaking News
Housing Secretary Michael Gove says the long-awaited Renters Reform Bill, first promised in 2019, will finally be introduced into Parliament this...
09 May 2023
From: Breaking News
The letting agents’ trade body Propertymark has slammed the current lack of consistency of council tax on HMOs. It describes today’s system...
17 April 2023
From: Breaking News
Retirement housing specialist Pegasus wants to become a big player in Build To Rent and has employed the Savills agency to...
17 April 2023
From: Breaking News
Landlords and agents acting on their behalf are to be given more powers to evict unruly tenants who ruin neighbours’ lives...
27 March 2023
From: Breaking News
A senior figure in the financial services sector says only Build To Rent can solve the stock shortage in the lettings...
22 March 2023
From: Breaking News
An estate agency has been prosecuted and ordered to pay £35,000 for falling foul of property licensing rules. Green House Estate Agents...
17 February 2023
From: Breaking News
We’re only in February and it’s already clear that this year will set the future direction of the private rented sector...
15 February 2023
From: Features
Propertymark has hit out at a proposal from a group of MPs that there should be a single Ombudsman covering the...
13 February 2023
From: Breaking News
The activist group Generation Rent is backing a call by MPs for the government to tighten up proposals to scrap Section...
10 February 2023
From: Breaking News
The online agency Yopa is linking with an existing PropTech platform to offer a lettings option to landlord customers. The link is...
02 February 2023
From: Breaking News
Letting agents and landlords are invited to join a virtual forum for a further update on new licensing requirements and to...
25 January 2023
From: Breaking News
Automated client account platform Lettspay is to become a supplier to the Federation of Independent Agents. Lettspay, which is registered with the...
12 January 2023
From: Breaking News
Propertymark has written to Housing Secretary Michael Gove outlining its concerns about the latest licensing scheme proposal from a local council. The...
04 January 2023
From: Breaking News
One of the leading deposit alternative services has called for a code of conduct to step, amongst other things, alleged pressure...
07 December 2022
From: Breaking News
A London borough is tomorrow holding an online training session for agents and landlords on how to submit a licence application...
06 December 2022
From: Breaking News
London property data business LonRes has launched an app. By downloading the app users can search for properties – for sale or...
25 November 2022
From: Breaking News
Over the next three months Redbridge council in London is consulting on proposals to renew selective licensing in the borough. It says...
14 November 2022
From: Breaking News
A bizarre lettings start-up has launched - and isn’t taking rent in return for property. KindRoom instead offers itself as a platform...
08 November 2022
From: Breaking News
Mortgage experts appearing before a committee of MPs have given an especially gloomy forecast for the buy to let sector in...
07 November 2022
From: Breaking News
A new director of lettings has been announced for an independent residential consultancy that helps high net worth individuals buy, sell...
26 October 2022
From: Breaking News
A scheme which some regard as the most controversial landlord licensing regime in the country is coming under scrutiny. Labour councillors on...
18 October 2022
From: Breaking News
OnTheMarket claims it’s scoring a first amongst property portals in the creation of an ‘Accessible features’ search filter for users to...
10 October 2022
From: Breaking News
Zero Deposit is piloting a new product that provides six weeks’ cover on every tenancy, even when the renter selects a...
27 September 2022
From: Breaking News
A consultation period has started on another council’s set of proposals to clampdown on HMOs. Blackburn with Darwen council wants to impose...
08 September 2022
From: Breaking News
The residential arm of global property consultancy Knight Frank - one of the highest profile lettings services in the UK -...
30 August 2022
From: Breaking News
An extension to a private rental property licensing scheme in London has been given the green light by the government. Haringey council’s...
26 August 2022
From: Breaking News
Agents have only until Friday to respond to the committee of MPs currently calling for evidence concerning the reform of the...
17 August 2022
From: Breaking News
High profile lettings industry figures Paul Shamplina and Sally Lawson are amongst the keynote speakers at a new event for agents...
15 August 2022
From: Breaking News
A lettings agency says the cost of living crisis calls into question the viability of a selective licensing scheme in its...
05 August 2022
From: Breaking News
MPs on a key Select Committee have been criticised by the letting agents’ trade body for failing to probe how Local...
28 July 2022
From: Breaking News
Agents have only four weeks to respond to a committee of MPs’ ‘call for evidence’ ahead of an investigation into the...
25 July 2022
From: Breaking News
Foxtons is to advertise all of its lettings properties on OnTheMarket with immediate effect. The agency say it already “facilitates” 10 per...
19 July 2022
From: Breaking News
Knight Frank is offering its 2,200 UK staff a company-branded debit card which allows them to buy cheap foreign currency. Currensea’s card,...
06 July 2022
From: Breaking News
A council claims that a pilot licensing scheme has discovered a very high proportion of rental homes requiring improvement. Plans to extend...
01 July 2022
From: Breaking News
Part of the Connells empire, John D Wood & Co., is moving to a larger office in a lettings hotspot in...