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Political parties should stop bickering and instead work together to improve the private rental sector. That’s the view of the Lettings industry...

Legal & General’s suburban Build To Rent business, called LGSBTR, has exchanged on 41 new BTR homes in St Neots, Cambridgeshire.   Consisting...

Propertymark is joining a growing chorus demanding an annual uprate of working age benefits and Local Housing Allowance. LHA rates have been...

Propertymark is urging the government to tackle the problem of banks closing down undesignated or pooled client accounts of letting agents. HM...

A Parliamentary committee has heard that thousands of small and medium-sized letting agencies were debanked in 2023, with financial institutions forcibly...

Propertymark is launching the latest phase of its research into diversity in the agency sector. Last year it worked with the University...

A building society has launched a pilot project banning mortgage lending on holiday lets in two tourist areas for 12 months. Leeds...

While most agents remain relatively tight lipped about party politics, the chief executive of Purplebricks has said the Tories should take...

A series of lenders have slashed their buy to let mortgage rates in a bid to win business. These include: - LendInvest Mortgages...

Lower mortgage rates - still falling in the days since the end of the festive break - may be persuading some...

A register launched to shed light on overseas property ownership in the UK now has over 30,000 registrations.  The Register of Overseas...

A property portal has announced the inaugural graduation of its first-ever qualification. Some 55 students were awarded the SPC Property Practice Certification,...

Measures contained in the Renters Reform Bill will fail without sufficient resources to ensure they can be enforced. The warning comes from...

The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents is issuing a stark warning to be aware of the dangers of carbon...

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says the Renters Reform Bill will be mentioned in today’s King’s Speech - and is part of...

There’s been widespread dismay in the industry as the outcome of a Judicial Review has backed the Scottish Government’s objective of...

Media reports in Brighton say that a lettings agency which serve tenants with illegal eviction notices and unjustified legal threats has...

Propertymark has cautiously welcomed the Nationwide’s house price index showing a 5.3 per cent fall in the year to September. It says...

An industry body - the Property Energy Professionals Association - has condemned the Prime Minister’s abandonment of Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards...

Young couples are delaying marriage and starting families until they get out of the rental sector, research by Yorkshire Building Society...

Propertymark is backing a call for financial help for landlords who improve the energy efficiency of their properties. The think tank E3G...

New analysis reveals that other family members beyond parents are increasingly lending their financial support to first-time buyers.   So far this year...

The new Housing Loss Prevention Advice Service - introduced this month - will make possession court case delays even worse. That’s the...

Housing legal aid is increasingly out of reach for tenants who need help, the Law Society of England and Wales claims.  Quarterly...

The Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, is being urged to act now to stop the problems banks are creating for letting agents. Following a...

The Law Society is raising concerns over the effectiveness of a new support service aimed at tenants at risk of losing...

The Cambridge Building Society has selected two tenants by ballot to receive up to 70 per cent of their rent back...

The Bank of England has announced its latest change in base rate, which is used by most lenders to determine interest...

The Nationwide Foundation - a charitable foundation founded by the Nationwide Building Society - says the Renters Reform Bill should be...

Moneyfacts, the respected independent mortgage market monitor, is warning that lenders have been withdrawing buy to let fixed deals. Within the buy...

The Nationwide Building Society is embarking on an experiment - at first for owner occupiers only - which may be extended...

The Cambridge Building Society has opened applications for its unique Rent to Home scheme. Last month it announced that it had invested...

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

The Bank of England has announced its latest decision on base rate. This has been increased by 0.25 per cent to 4.5...

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

The Cambridge Building Society has invested in two family-sized houses to expand its unique ‘Rent to Home’ rent-return housing scheme. The two...

A new tool is being marketed by industry supplier Landmark with the claim that it helps agents “assess climate change risk.” The...

The Tenancy Deposit Scheme has announced a link up with eco organisations in a tree-planting initiative. TDS says the campaign was driven...

A high profile mortgage lender operating in the buy to let sector has launched a series of products aimed at investors...

We’re only in February and it’s already clear that this year will set the future direction of the private rented sector...

Large areas of the country  will remain without vital legal advice to prevent evictions if the government fails to persuade law...

Property accreditation service safeagent has written to all of its agents in England urging them to check legal requirements when setting...

The average house price in Wales reached a new peak of £249,076 at the end of 2022 but cost of living...

A tax expert says the current economic climate has made it so hard to save for a deposit that many tenants...

The number of first-time buyers is estimated to have fallen by nine per cent in 2022, Yorkshire Building Society says. Analysis by...

Propertymark has become embroiled in a war of words with a Scottish politician who has made a series of anti-agent and...

A new survey from Aviva has revealed that over a million people may rule themselves out of the first-time buyer market,...

Agents and landlords are to face even longer waits for eviction court cases following the spending cuts announced in the Autumn...

OnTheMarket has signed a deal with a PropTech service to provide agents with 3D Showcase scans and 2D floorplans. NicheCom has been...

An increasing number of landlord clients are taking out rent insurance according to an online lettings platform. In the first quarter of...

A building society which has taken the unprecedented step of stopping lending on second homes has been sharply criticised by a...

A quarter of homebuyers are putting off their purchase due to cost of living fears - and when it comes to...

Scotland’s new Coronavirus (Recovery and Reform) (Scotland) Bill - passed this week by politicians at Holyrood - represents a dark day...

A lettings and sales agency is offering eagle eyed residents the chance to win a £2,000 holiday if they spot one...

Lettings franchisees under the Belvoir banner delivered the group an additional 10 per cent management service fees last year according to...

Leaders Romans Group has launched a partnership with GreenTheUk to plant one tree for every house sold or let through the...

How can agents improve their position in society? A report has been published following a roundtable discussion between prominent agency figures...

Belvoir Group has given yet another upbeat trading report to shareholders. It says in the 10 months to the end of October...

A PropTech firm says Open Banking could help to transform the lettings industry for the better if it is fully embraced.  And...

PropTech platform Lavanda says urban property is changing thanks to the pandemic, and it tells agents, landlords and other providers to...

A part of the country which has seen a severe long term rental stock shortage as a result of switches from...

Agents’ body Propertymark says it wants a dedicated housing court because it’s lost faith in the mainstream court system to handle...

Lettings agencies should continue to use IT solutions like livestream viewings even as the pandemic eases, according to one of the...

Propertymark has joined four so-called ‘action groups’ advocating housing policy changes including the setting up of a national landlord register and...

One of the UK’s largest agency groups has launched a partnership with an environmental organisation to plant one tree for every...

A new report calls for large scale reform of the private rental sector, including a national landlord register and changes to...

Airbnb has launched a scheme it calls the UK Trust and Safety Alliance to offer hosts information on health, safety and...

A prominent member of the House of Lords and a rental activist are calling for an immediate suspension of all Section...

The Generation Rent campaign group and Labour are again uniting to argue in favour of rent controls in London. Just last week...

The president of the Law Society of England and Wales says tenants facing eviction as a result of the ban being...

A leading figure in the lettings sector says the government’s new Housing Possession Mediation Scheme can help agencies and landlords recover...

Franchise giants Belvoir has revealed strong figures in a trading statement to shareholders - but it’s warning that 2021 remains shrouded...

The government has at last released details of its mediation scheme - this was hinted at when Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick...

An influential group of MPs wants an end to repeated last minute extensions to the ban on evictions and instead wants financial support...

The Law Society says it’s concerned about how the government will taper the end of the eviction ban, now extended until...

An assessment by Savills suggests capital values - including those for properties in the lettings sector - are likely to soar...

The Law Society of England and Wales has come out in favour of the latest ban on bailiff-enforced evictions.  The extension to...

The Law Society is raising concerns about the government’s mediation scheme announced at the time of the last eviction ban decision. The...

A charity claims that young people under 25 in full-time work across England are unable to afford privately rented accommodation anywhere in the...

Letting agents have joined forces with other players in the rental industry to demand the government finally get a grip on...

A family-run lettings and sales agency has launched an employee of the year award in memory of a late colleague.   The...

Connells has made it clear that the innovation and technology it has put into lettings are key to identifying the approach it...

You don’t need to be Greta Thunberg to know that climate change is a big issue that’s impacting our day-to-day lives....

Government intervention, which in recent years has seen scores of legal and regulatory changes to the private rental sector, may be...

The legal industry says the end of the eviction ban must be the moment to ensure the widest number of tenants...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is urging its members to write to their MPs over the provision of cash help...

The Law Society has set out exactly what the extension of the eviction ban, announced on Friday, means to agents, landlords...

A new mortgage product aimed at buy to let investors wanting to enjoy a slice of the holiday home staycation market...

A property built without planning consent and then illegally let to a family has been knocked down by Ealing council in...

A new Labour group - Labour Tenants United - has issued a four-prong attack on the current private rental sector including...

Airbnb has been ordered to pay some 52,000 euros in compensation to the owner of an apartment in Paris after a...

The Law Society for England and Wales says legal aid should be made available for tenants who face eviction once the...

ARLA Propertymark has put out a call for agents to provide support to vulnerable tenants who may be self-isolating during the...

Activists in a body called the London Renters Union has returned to the theme of calling for tenants to not pay...

Inventory BaseAcademy has released new online training to address safeguarding issues that may face the lettings industry. Property professionals, especially managers and...

Three groups of rental activists have demanded the government scrap all rent payments immediately and cancel all arrears - but mystery...

The number of mortgage lenders still offering products to landlords is 42 - only seven fewer than at the peak of...

A pro-Build To Rent online platform is hosting a webinar to discuss whether the sector will emerge from the Coronavirus crisis...

A lettings agency is asking tenants who cannot afford to pay rent during the Coronavirus crisis to sign a ‘moral contract’ that...

There’s growing concern across the lettings sector about the buy to let mortgage market seeing lenders pull product ranges, tighten lending...