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An online lettings platform claims to have launched the first “end-to-end self-service lettings platform” which could save landlords around £3,800. Hello Neighbour...

VISTA, a tenant referencing service first announced back in November, launches today. Insurance and referencing service HomeLet says the product will “provide...

UK Association of Letting Agents has announced a link with PropTech supplier Canopy. UKALA member agents will receive a discount if they...

HomeLet claims its new VISTA service will revolutionise the lettings industry by eliminating fraud through the use of detection technology and...

Alto, Zoopla’s cloud-based software product, has announced a marketplace product allowing agents to self-serve and activate Proptech partner integrations within the...

Zoopla’s Alto cloud-based software has announced a new integration with lettings PropTech supplier Canopy. This will enable tenant referencing to be permitted...

PropTech rental platform  Goodlord has partnered with an open banking platform to enhance its tenant referencing service. Goodlord, which first integrated open...

Barbon Insurance Group, which describes itself as the UK's largest tenant referencing and specialist lettings insurance intermediary, has a new managing...

Rightmove says it’s helping to digitise the rental processes, making the process less fragmented and frustrating for agents.  In its trading statement...

Referencing service Homeppl is expanding into Right to Rent checks. A digital R2R check can be integrated into Homeppl tenant referencing checks...

Letting Agent Today has been approached by researchers at the University of York and University of Bristol doing a study on...

Lettings Hub says there were 91,593 cases of tenant application fraud in 2021 alone, with the most common form of fraud...

OnTheMarket is launching a management fee protection product, developed with tenant referencing platform Canopy and insurance broker the Alan Boswell Group....

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Bekki Leaves, Director What is FCC Paragon and what services...

The Lettings Hub has announced a two-year partnership with HooYu, a Know Your Customer specialist. As the deadline to end the temporary...

OnTheMarket says its innovations with partnerships in the lettings sector have played a part in its successful growth. In the 12 months...

A new national lettings-only portal is planning to launch this October with a pledge to revolutionise the rental sector. Its aim is...

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

PropTech supplier The Lettings Hub has launched a tenant referencing service that it claims allows letting agents to conduct their own...

A PropTech supplier to the lettings industry that has just signed a deal with OnTheMarket has come out in support of...

OnTheMarket’s deal with a PropTech firm to provide free tenant referencing has been extended indefinitely for agents who pay the portal...

A commercial partnership between tenant referencing platform Canopy and property website OnTheMarket has involved an investment of some £350,000. The figure has...

Rightmove says added functionality for its tenant referencing portal is now being tested and will be rolled out later this year. In...

A new fixed-rate platform has been launched that says it will save landlords thousands of pounds in management fees. Rentd claims to...

Tenants are complaining that lengthy application processes at lettings agencies contribute to their frustration at missing available properties.  The results of a...

PropTech companies Kamma and Veri-Check are consolidating an existing partnership. Kamma users can already access Veri-Check’s instant property licensing checks, but in...

A PropTech firm is pledging its new service allows agents to complete identity checks, upload the necessary documentation to let their...

During the last year, the industry has experienced a rollercoaster of highs and lows as agents experienced rental peaks, stock shortages,...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Alexander Siedes, CEO and Founder of Homeppl What is Homeppl and...

An international residential platform which manages 200,000 properties in 29 countries across Europe - including the UK - has signed an...

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

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I’m Heidi Shackell, CEO of The Lettings Hub. How has your...

A PropTech lettings platform boasting investment from the Foxtons agency has been snapped up by LegalforLandlords for an undisclosed figure. Propoly, launched...

Agents using Reapit now have access to tenant due diligence and guarantee firm Homeppl, which will assist in combating rental fraud. Homeppl...

A pet referencing service is being launched next month - but it expects agents and landlords to pay to see the...

A PropTech company says sloppy referencing by agents and landlords effectively means that around a third of prospective tenants are discriminated...

OnTheMarket has signed a 12 month exclusive commercial partnership with Canopy, the tenant referencing platform. The partnership will enable the portal to...

Last week’s bid by PropTech referencing firm Goodlord to draw a line under its long-running ‘fire and rehire’ industrial dispute has...

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

A PropTech supplier says rental market activity remains relatively robust through this third lockdown, with a 25 per cent drop in...

Rightmove has set out its innovation programme for the private rental sector. The portal has given over a substantial amount of its...

The industrial dispute involving Goodlord has escalated with protests outside agency offices using the lettings platform, and the creation of a...

The Guild of Property Professionals and The Lettings Hub is to continue its partnership. Iain McKenzie, The Guild’s chief executive, says: “Having...

A tenant referencing service and lettings insurance provider is linking with an anti-money laundering compliance consultancy. HomeLet and Let Alliance, part of...

A trades union claims that lettings software provider Goodlord is slashing some staff salaries by a quarter - that’s £6,000 per...

The lettings technology company Goodlord, which works with over 2,000 UK letting agents, has been named by Deloitte as one of...

PropTech platform MakeUrMove, which launched back in 2008 as the first online lettings agency, has secured a £1.3m funding package from...

The government is urging agents and landlords to be “considerate” when deciding whether to accept tenants on the basis of their...

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

PropTech firm Goodlord is for the first time offering ‘bank-grade’ facial recognition to letting agents. As part of an update to its...

Making sure the check-in process for tenants is carried out in a smooth manner is more important than ever, in light...

Lettings supplier Blinc UK has acquired a 50% stake in Pink Chilli, a new pre-tenancy software platform for letting agents. Pink Chilli...

A new product aims to improve tenant referencing by shifting the emphasis to the renters themselves. LegalforLandlords has just launched its new...

The Lettings Hub is to roll out its Property Passport free tenant referencing product for letting agents. A beta test exercise already...

Labour’s latest suggestion for the private rental sector - a rent holiday for tenants during the Coronavirus crisis - has been...

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

One of the UK’s largest tenant referencing and let insurance providers has announced a new integration with a PropTech firm -...

The relatively low profile 99home online agency says it is now the UK’s fifth largest operation in the online sector after...

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

Another online lettings agency has come forward with a deal to help landlords and tenants stranded after the closure of Upad. Last...

Rightmove has at last completed on its acquisition of tenancy referencing firm Van Mildert, first announced two months ago. The deal, reported...

Landlords in a part of Teesside are to be allowed to operate a “collaborative” licensing scheme after a council backed down...

Anyone underestimating the size of the UK’s growing private rental sector ought to think again - new research shows its value...

With the recent introduction of the Tenant Fees Act – which bans upfront fees charged by letting agents and caps security...

One of the key players in the ultra-competitive deposit alternative sector has announced a massive and new $11m investment. Flatfair says that...

In what some see as a sign of the growing importance of the lettings sector over sales, Rightmove has acquired tenant...

Deposit alternative service flatfair has partnered with Barbon Insurance Group to co-market the two organisations’ products. “We’re thrilled to partner with the...

The Guild of Property Professionals has announced a link with insurance product and moving services operation The Lettings Hub. Lettings Hub offers...

High profile agency Haart has issued a warning to landlords on what it sees as the three key risks to successful letting...

A PropTech product is claiming a breakthrough for letting agents who can now access same-day referencing on prospective tenants. LetAlliance claims that...

The best lettings agents will survive and shine through the ban of fees levied on tenants, which comes into effect this weekend. The...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Simon Paul Skinner, Operations manager at LetHQ. My business card...

HomeLet, the tenant referencing and specialist letting insurance company, has been announced as an ESTAS partner for the Estate & Letting...

Tenant referencing, rent protection and insurance provider Rent4sure is to join other leading suppliers as an ESTAS partner for the 16th...

The average rent in the UK is now £940 per month, up 3.8 per cent on this time last year. When London’s...

The news this week that even individual private landlords must join a redress scheme is just the latest in an onslaught...

A PropTech firm is offering landlords the opportunity to manage their portfolios from £35 a month, suggesting it could be a...

Online letting agency MakeUrMove has launched a new subscription model which it claims will ”ready landlords for the incoming tenant fee...

The party conferences of the two main political parties threw up some interesting developments with regards to housing and the rental...

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

One in nine landlords now check prospective tenants’ social media accounts to try to assess how they may behave as renters,...

Barbon Insurance Group, which trades as HomeLet and Rentshield Direct, has now snapped up Movem. Movem uses personal online banking transaction data...

Letting agents and landlords have been warned to expect a possible rise in arrears in the coming months if conditions in...

LonRes, the data and agent network business specialising in central London, is entering into a strategic partnership with rental services provider...

One of the PropTech companies at the centre of the Rent Recognition Challenge contest is calling on letting agents to use...

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

Increased volatility in the private rental sector and rising costs for landlords and investors have combined to lead to an increased...

The trend towards reducing or eliminating deposits at the same time as edging towards a ban on letting agents’ fees on...

A new online service backed by newspaper publisher Trinity Mirror says it wants to enable tenants to bypass lettings agents. HomeRenter offers what...

Letting agents have been accused of failing to carry out sufficient financial checks on prospective tenants.    Tenant referencing and insurance operator Landlord...

Hallmark, which has been working with agents and property management firms for over a decade, has formally launched its new name...

A company claims to have a package of services which would help letting agents overcome the widely-anticipated ban on fees being...

After criticism of many younger voters allegedly failing to turn out during the June 2016 EU Referendum, new analysis of voter...

The software company behind a new product claim it helps agents comply with The Property Ombudsman’s code of practice on referencing...

A Build To Rent operator with properties in London and Glasgow is scrapping tenants’ deposits from the middle of next month,...

Tenant referencing company Rent4sure has set up a new team to support agents in the light of the expected ban on...

Agents are being warned to ensure they serve eviction notices correctly as the ‘peak eviction’ summer period arrives.  Specialist tenant referencing service...

Two lettings agencies have been expelled from The Property Ombudsman redress scheme.   As we reported when the story broke yesterday afternoon, one...

Two lettings agencies have this afternoon been expelled from The Property Ombudsman redress scheme. In one case, TPO expelled Lettings Solutions Ltd...

Agencies are responding to the latest criticism of their fees on tenants, levied by the pressure group Generation Rent.    The group -...