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

As we slowly ease out of lockdown and back to something closer to normality, some legacies of the pandemic will be...

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

It always pays to rely on the services of a reputable referencing company. The lure of free credit checks or basic referencing...

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...

Preventative measures are everything where referencing is concerned. But with so many solutions out there, promising so much, it can be difficult...

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 property market has performed strongly in recent months  as the impact of the pandemic has encouraged more people to move...

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

Targeting the specialist student rental market can be rewarding for letting agents and landlords if they take the right approach. The current...

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? Hi, I’m Kersteen McConnell and I am a Business Development...

Uncertain market means additional revenue streams are more important than ever The last year has been an uncertain period for many business...

Over the last year, the majority of the UK workforce will have spent some time working from home as a result...

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

A huge number of additional transactions completing in the next few weeks due to the stamp duty holiday provides estate agents...

The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and shifting tenant requirements are reinforcing the need for good broadband in the rental market...

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...

A lettings agency has marked six months in business by embarking on a £100,000 project to create what it calls its...

Buy-to-let (BTL) mortgage rates continue to drop but at a slower rate than in previous months, according to the latest Property...

A rental market slump in September has led to a rise in average void periods across many parts of England and...

An agency in the north of England is continuing its strategy of acquisitions in a bid to offset the effects of...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents and the National Landlords Association have spoken out about the complexity of the fees ban...

Lettings professionals should do more to raise awareness of the need to reduce moving stress for tenants and landlords. Industry supplier Tenant...

The number of film-related enquiries for short lets received by Knight Frank in the year to May has shown a rise...

Landlords can make savings by switching their buy-to-let (BTL) mortgages as average costs have started to fall.  The latest analysis from Mortgage...

Despite criticism from some within the industry about the effects of short lets, the high-end agency Knight Frank has spoken of...

More nightmare tenants have been the subject of investigation in a Channel 5 TV programme to be shown this evening. In the...

Two landlords will this evening be seen securing the £16,000 they are owed by a rogue lettings agent - and TV...

Controversial London lettings agency Flintons has again been named by a BBC TV programme for allegedly unreasonable behaviour in relation to...

The scores have been counted and the results are in for the 2019 ESTAS Awards, sponsored by Zoopla. On Friday May 10,...

A new utilities management platform for tenants says it will generate additional revenue streams for letting agents. Love Resident gives tenants online...

Buy to let mortgage costs remain stable with little movement recorded over the past three months according to a market snapshot...

The best suppliers to the estate and letting agent sector for customer service have been announced by the ESTAS in the...

PropTech company teclet has announced it will this year once again be a main category partner at The ESTAS estate and...

Northwood, which is part of the Belvoir group, is launching a new TV advertising campaign to highlight its Guaranteed Rent Scheme. “We...

Who are you? I’m the Director of Sales for both the well-known industry leading Today publications and The ValPal Network. Leading publications: Estate...

Belvoir is launching a new TV advertising campaign on the ITV Hub, which is the ITV on-demand service.  The ad, which features...

TV property pundit Phil Spencer, who now runs property advice site MoveIQ, says letting agents may introduce new administration fees on...

A council accused of paying over £500,000 to a landlord it had already ruled as unfit to rent out property is...

The Daily Mail has reported on a massive buy to let fiddle which involved a £10.8m property empire, rents totalling £500,000...

Two PropTech suppliers are claiming their new products will help lettings agents in the future, especially in the light of the...

The Labour MP who chairs the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee in the House of Commons is pressing the government...

A two bedroom furnished flat can cost up to 21 per cent more to rent than a comparable property that’s unfurnished. Research...

Rent-to-rent operator Residently says area with high volumes of tech company employees are leading the lettings market’s growth in London. The firm...

Negative media portrayals of the buy to let sector could help to tip Britain into a housing crisis, claims an online...

A London council has agreed to a TV crew taking part in a raid on an overcrowded and unlicensed HMO. The surprise...

The cost of buy to let mortgages remain at record lows and - with little movement in costs and rates over...

A TV station has gone public on revealing what it calls “the world’s worst lettings agency” - but it may not...

A Birmingham letting agent has a new way of resolving arrears run up by some of his tenants - he goes...

A TV show on Channel 5 this evening may well serve as a warning to letting agents about the dangers of...

Goodlord, the PropTech company which restructured earlier this year and laid off a reported 40 members of staff, is fighting back...

A rogue lettings agency which is no longer trading is to be featured in a TV documentary this evening on Channel...

The cost of most mainstream buy to let mortgages is increasing according to online operator Mortgage Brain. The cost of a two...

A PropTech firm that simplifies utility billing, with the aim of reducing property management effort by letting agents, has received £650,000...

A TV news programme has exposed how a sleazy male landlord - who presumably did not instruct a letting agent -...

The former executive director of LSL Property Services, David Newnes, is one of the key backers of a new property management...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents and its sister organisation the National Association of Estate Agents has launched the second phase of...

The autumn's Prudential Regulation Authority changes, coupled with months of rate rise predictions, seem to have had little effect on the cost of...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has issued a 10 point guide for tenants - with the emphasis very much on...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has started work on a TV advertisement to highlight the importance of landlords instructing agents. The...

A new snapshot of the buy to let mortgage market suggests costs have dropped further over the past three months as...

The international backlash against Airbnb and similar short-let online platforms continues.    Earlier this week a video being shown on cable TV in the...

The independent production company making the life-swap series The Week The Landlord Moved In series, now showing on BBC1, is having...

Government watchdog the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has upheld four complaints made against a Liverpool letting agency. The complaints were made against...

The production company behind Grand Designs and Escape to the Country is looking for landlords to feature in a new BBC...

Over 1,000 guests celebrated the success of the industry at the 14th annual ESTAS awards on Friday. The event, which is sponsored...

What does it say on your business card? Peter Mansfield, Group Chairman, The World Property Network, www.twpn.com  and TheWorldPropertyNetwork.com                             What is The World Property Network...

Who are you? Richard Price What does it say on your business card? We don't have our roles on our business cards. I...

It seems prop-tech is exploding at a scary rate, and the latest brands are all trying to grab our attention by...

The founder of eviction specialist Landlord Action is advising landlords to use accredited letting agents and not try to take the...

A second firm is suggesting that the cost of Buy To Let mortgages has fallen to a record low - but...

The government has stepped in to clear up misunderstandings emerging from the Housing White Paper following its high profile call for...

Annoying isn’t it. You take on a stunning property, agree a compelling asking price and your Vendor is desperate to get the...

Why not drive one of the most powerful, beautiful, and sensational supercars available on the planet today, and at a price...

The buy to let mortgage market has suffered something of a battering in recent months but now Post Office Money is...

Agents, tenants and landlords on Jersey in the Channel Islands are to receive updated advice on the returning of deposits.   ITV News...

The ESTAS awards have a new main category sponsor - PropTech company OneDome.   The OneDome service, launched last month, provides free-to-use information...

The UK is only the 15th best place in Europe to enjoy high returns from buy to let according to currency...

The ESTAS, the unique customer feedback and awards scheme for estate and letting agents and other sectors of the property industry,...

Unlikely as it seems one of Channel 4's digital networks, E4, has commissioned a comedy series based in ... a lettings...

Channel 5 has commissioned a third series of Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords with eviction specialist Landlord Action at the heart of...

The key lies in improving your customer experience through technology For Agents, the tremendous growth in online estate agents highlights a strong...

The costs of buy To let mortgages have fallen by as much as eight per cent over the past six months.   Software...

Our latest infographic shows figures of how the majority of deposits are repaid at the end of tenancy and goes into...

The TSB is the latest buy to let lender to increase its interest coverage ratio for buy to let mortgages from...

The complete list of this year’s ESTAS award winners has now been released after a hugely successful ceremony in London hosted...

One of Britain’s best known and well respected experts on buy to let and the private rental sector, Kate Faulkner, has...

Security experts interviewed by ITV London have given the green light to the Rightmove site after it was apparently being used...

Sales and letting agents who enter a new awards event will be given the chance to promote their property business on...

This evening at 9pm sees the start of a second season of Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords on Channel 5.  The 10-part series...

If interest rates rise by 2.5 per cent over the next four years, traditional buy to let could become unprofitable in...

A campaign group which last year held protests outside letting agents’ offices in Bristol is claiming victory in persuading the city’s...

A risk expert at a leading buy to let mortgage company says the industry should actually embrace the restrictions on lending...

Agents and landlords are being warned that students expect increasingly high standards of accommodation including space, decor and fixtures and fittings. The...

Q: What does it say on your business card?   Head of Indirect Sales & Partnership Products Q: What does your role involve? I head up...

The property crowdfunding platform The House Crowd - which was the subject of derision by the entrepreneurs on TV’s Dragon’s Den...

The costs of lender arrangement fees, valuation fees and legal costs attached to new buy to let mortgages are falling as...

Tenant Shop, which currently assists around 1,000 letting agents manage utilities and media for their properties, has relocated and aims to...

A residential property investment firm is using a speed-dating theme as the basis of a new TV advertising campaign to attract...

The Channel Five series Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords - which ends its first series this evening at 9pm - has been...

Competition is hot among home buyers in my part of southern England to take ownership of properties that come onto the...

Channel 5’s Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords programme, now in its fourth week, this evening looks at a serial bad tenant and...

The latest episode of Channel 5’s Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords programme will tonight show how a rogue letting agent in a...

The Bank of England says excessive lending to fund buy to let purchases could pose a risk to the financial well-being...

The second episode of Channel 5’s Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords, due to air tomorrow evening at 9pm, will feature three separate...

Channel 5 tomorrow airs the first episode of Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords, a six-part series which starts with the story of...

Given that I wrote my last article on the day of the General Election but well before the result was known,...

Channel 5 has announced a new television series which will focus on the UK’s Private Rented Sector. Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords promises...

So, a sigh of relief.  Most agents will be pleased with the election result - even if they are not Tory supporters...

About ten years ago, I was working as the branch manager of an estate agency based in an affluent part of...

Q: What does it say on your business card? I like the flexibility of roles so I do not have a title...