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There's good news for the buy to let sector as mortgage product availability is showing signs of stability, according to the...

TV property guru and Move iQ founder Phil Spencer to be a keynote speakers at Propertymark One this year, the trade...

A major technology programme has secured what it calls “a landmark co-investment partnership” with Propertymark and the Tenancy Deposit Service group.  And...

The UK’s largest multi-disciplinary property conference - Propertymark One in association with Rightmove - is in June and the organisers claim...

A TV presenter with experience of property shows - Laura Hamilton - will be presenting the gongs at the Annual Guild...

New research shows that agency leads generated by Facebook ads are much more effective than previously thought - but most agents...

A pressure group unhappy about lack of progress on the Renters Reform Bill wants MPs to be bombarded with complaint emails.  Over...

Summer looks like it’s going to be a hectic period for lettings agents and the private rental sector according to TV...

TV host Jenni Falconer is to reprise her role as compere of Propertymark’s ‘One Conference’ when it’s repeated at London’s ExCel...

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

The next phase of Rightmove’s 'believe it’ marketing push begins on Boxing Day, to coincide with the post-Christmas and New Year...

The Information Commissioner’s Office has issued advice to agencies on how to comply with data protection law.  The UK data protection regulator...

Attention estate agents: if you're looking for a bumper Christmas bonus, then maintaining your marketing spend throughout December might just be...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Gary Wright - Chief Executive Officer. What is flatfair and what...

The ValPal Network - a lead generation product from Angels Media, publisher of Letting Agent Today and other Today titles -...

A limited number of tickets are still available for this year’s Propertymark Qualifications Awards.  Olympian Roger Black MBE will appear at the...

A Build To Rent scheme is now ready for move-in by tenants, following the completed conversion of an ambulance station into...

Rightmove is launching a new marketing campaign which it calculates will reach 51m people - the overwhelming majority of the UK...

London-born property magnate Paul Kemsley, nicknamed PK, is the agent at the centre of a new TV property show starting this...

TV property guru Phil Spencer is urging lettings agents to prepare for a surge in the number of older tenants and...

High profile regional lettings and sales agency Gascoigne Halman has unveiled a fresh new look at its Alderley Edge office. The agency...

A leading estate agent on one of the Channel Islands has slammed the way additional homes are now being taxed. Since last...

High end lettings agency Aston Chase has let a house modelled on Windsor Castle for the princely sum of £247,000 per...

Two lettings experts are set to discuss what the government’s Bill means for agents at a free webinar. Well known property lawyer...

A PropTech supplier to letting agents claims that tenants are more likely to have Netflix than contents insurance.  A survey of 1,013...

Consumer champion Martin Lewis - the man behind the Money Saving Expert website and TV shows - has backed the Renters...

Move iQ, the consumer-facing online service operated by TV property guru Phil Spencer, is linking with the Build To Rent trade...

Hortons lettings agency Hortons has released a new advertisement featuring daytime TV presenter Kerr Drummond - who also happens to be...

The Deposit Protection Service is hosting a webinar to help letting agents better navigate the dispute resolution process.   The service says...

A new PropTech tool says it will help agents maximise their chances of handling the sales of properties being disposed of...

Propertymark’s showcase event this year is to be addressed by a person who is a chartered psychologist, neuroscientist, science communicator, author...

One of the lettings industry’s best known faces - Paul Shamplina - is to end his TV series focussing on evictions. Suggesting...

Daytime TV presenter Jenni Falconer is to host the Propertymark One conference on June 27. Tag-lined ‘Raise Your Game’ the event will...

Long-standing lettings expert Kate Faulkner has been given an OBE in King Charles’ first New Year Honours list. Faulkner is well known...

One of Connells’ high end branch, Hamptons, is releasing a TV advertisement on Boxing Day.  The advert, in 30 and 60 second...

A new study from Rightmove reveals what aspiring first-time buyers are most likely to cut back on in a bid to...

Boomin, the online property portal founded by the former boss of Purplebricks, has called in liquidators according to a Sky News...

University students have queued on the street overnight to secure a home for next year in one of the UK’s most...

Lettings and sales agents, along with other members of the property industry, have been celebrating at the ESTAS Customer Service Awards...

What many believe to have been one of the nastiest TV adverts in recent years - Purplebricks’ attack on traditional agents’...

The shortlists for this year’s Propertymark Qualifications Awards have been announced, with four vying for Lettings Candidate of the Year.  The awarding...

The Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England has agreed to raise interest rates by 0.5 per cent to 2.25...

teclet, part of the OnTheMarket Group, has completed the integration of Muuvo into its lettings and management platform. The Muuvo platform uses...

Property prices in Birmingham are expected to rise more than any other city in the UK following the Commonwealth Games, it’s...

OnTheMarket claims it’s on track to achieve its strategic aim - to create “a tech-enabled property business across the broader property...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Sales & Marketing Director What is Glide and what does...

The Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities has been packed with MPs loyal to outgoing Prime Minister Boris Johnson, as...

TV property expert Phil Spencer says the slowing sales market should spur sales-only agencies into the lettings field. He suggests that ongoing...

The boss of a PropTech rental platform claims that tenants are particularly badly hit by the current cost of living crisis. Research...

New research suggests tenants could save an average of £147 per household on their electricity bills each year by switching off...

The chief executive of OnTheMarket says recent changes to his portal demonstrate that he has taken on board agents’ calls for...

A new PropTech platform allows letting agents free access to the information required to set up a tenancy and register renters...

OnTheMarket is today launched a lettings Automated Valuation Model tool that is claimed will provide landlords and investors with an instant...

Agents and landlords are being warned by a government minister not to charge all-inclusive HMO tenants more than necessary in a...

ITV’s Tonight current affairs programme will this evening look at evictions in the private rental sector.  The episode - Losing Your Home:...

A lettings firm specialising in holiday properties is reported to have disappeared with all items taken from its office and calls...

Presenter, broadcaster and former Sky Sports anchor Kirsty Gallacher has been confirmed as the presenter of The Guild of Property Professional’s...

Another prominent Labour politician has thrown his weight behind rent controls. And Mark Griffin - who is the party’s housing spokesman in...

Figures obtained by ITV News suggest that one of the country's most popular tourist locations has as many Airbnbs listed as...

There’s a 15 year record high in the number of buy to let mortgage products available for current or new landlords. The...

One of the UK’s first ever Build To Rent companies, Fizzy Living, has been sold to a global real estate company...

Bristol council has approved plans to introduce licensing in more parts of the city. Additional Licensing and Selective Licensing schemes will be...

The next episode of the Channel 5 show Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords this evening features an agent offering a supposed guaranteed...

Six agencies have been expelled from The Property Ombudsman for failing to pay compensatory awards - five of them for offences...

The flurry of increased interest in buy to let means the choice of mortgage products for investors is now greater than...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I’m Vince Demilio, Sales Director of The Lettings Hub What services...

An industry poll has revealed that tech is now so important in our lives that a fifth of UK tenants say...

As a letting agent in the UK, you might think what happens in China has no bearing on your work here....

A lettings agent has taken the unorthodox approach of advising tenants to take their landlords to court in a bid to...

A London lettings agency is exposed on TV this evening over what turns out to be a sham guaranteed rent scheme. Landlords...

There’s good news for the buy to let sector today as an independent mortgage market monitor reports a 15-month high in...

A politician is stepping up his bid to ban buy to let purchasers acquiring any units at a 150-home scheme. ITV News...

A local Trading Standards team is clamping down on rogue letting agents. Devon, Plymouth, Somerset and Torbay Trading Standards Service has launched...

As we all know, there is an increasing number of PropTech solutions aiming to service the property and lettings industry, with...

A letting agent in Cornwall has told local TV how she finds herself in ”heartbreaking” situations because of the lack of...

The Yorkshire town immortalised in the long-running BBC comedy Last of the Summer Wine - Holmfirth - is the location of the latest...

More students would like to see utility charges integrated into the overall costs of their accommodation, according to a specialist lettings...

The government has told estate agents to ensure at least one Union Jack is present in properties during both physical and...

Paul Shamplina, the man behind Landlord Action and a Channel 5 show on handling rental crises, is warning that county courts...

Rightmove has revealed its new TV advertisement, which it claims will reach 59 per cent of the UK during its campaign...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I’m David Hackett, Head of Business Development for The DPS    What...

Research from independent financial service market monitor Moneyfacts shows a small but encouraging increase in the number of buy to let mortgages...

With the Government announcement this week of another national lockdown across England amid the surging coronavirus infections, it once again puts...

What’s life-changing, involves months of anticipation, and ends with a big arrival? You might think we’re talking about pregnancy. But research...

Recent debate about urgent need for reform and better collaboration within the property industry, has once again come under the spotlight...

It’s been an unexpected year for the property market, shaped by the effects of the pandemic. We didn’t quite anticipate the...

A new PropTech tool for agents claims to help weed out time-wasters and reduce the viewing-to-offer ratio. Rental Passport, produced by LegalforLandlords,...

Two former Keller Williams agents have their own BBC Three TV show now available on the iPlayer. It’s called Rent Like a...

One of the highest profile figures in the rental sector says rogue letting agents should be named and shamed as a...

A new PropTech tool called Lettings Intelligence is being launched this week with the claim that it is “revolutionising the way that lettings...

An insurance firm claims many tenants “make the mistake of thinking the items in their home aren’t worth” and so do...

There’s been a significant increase in the mortgage choice available to landlords as the buy to let market gets closer to...

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

A new renovation start-up is working with letting agents and landlords to allow key workers to use empty rental properties for...

HSBC says its unable to accept any new buy to let mortgage applications during the Coronavirus crisis. The same applies to applications...

Data from independent mortgage monitor Moneyfacts shows that there’s been a big drop in the choice of mortgage for buy to...

Families living in private rented accommodation are more exposed to the economic shock of the Coronavirus than homeowners, which could mean...

There’s a claim this morning that the average rent in the UK has increased only five per cent since 2014. Research by...

Who are you? Jed Topping, Business Development Executive for Virgin Media How can sales and letting agents work with Virgin Media to earn extra revenue? By...

Mortgage costs in the buy to let market have continued to fall over the last three months - a trend seen across...