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The Citizens Advice consumer charity claims that 28 per cent of private tenants who have experienced problems while renting have not...

Belvoir has published what it calls ‘a decade of data’ tracking the changes in the private rental sector since 2008, when...

MPs want a review of laws surrounding private rental standards, including councils having the right to confiscate buy to let properties...

Trade bodies have been responding to today’s report of the Housing, Communities and Local Government Select Committee deliberations on the private...

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

A new survey appears to buck the trend of recent rental market snapshots by showing that buy to let investors are...

One of the six PropTech start-ups shortlisted to develop a system allowing tenants’ rental histories to count towards their creditworthiness says...

An influential think tank is calling on government to radically reform the private rental sector because a generation of young people...

A leading lettings sector trade body has repeated its call on government to offer a range of incentives to landlords and...

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

A new survey released this morning gives an insight into how tenants manage rental payments and their willingness - in some...

Council officers staged a dawn raid to uncover an unlicensed HMO in north London. The team discovered 10 men and women sleeping...

There are plenty of helpful and reliable professionals in the letting industry, however it’s no secret that there are a lot...

The new sole chair of the Association of Independent Inventory Clerks says he wants the service to be at the heart...

The UK Association of Letting Agents has revealed where voids are at their worst in the rental sector - and where...

A survey suggests that the advent of deposit-free renting in parts of the private rental sector may tempt tenants away from...

The average UK rent outside London is now £761, with London’s average being £1,879 - meaning tenants across the country now...

The rapid growth in alternative non-deposit schemes for letting agents, landlords and tenants has hit the market. This one, from Blinc UK, claims...

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

Foxtons is warning that the private rental sector - traditionally a strong earner for the company even in times of challenging...

A consumer group says that the Tenants Fees Bill - which will eventually ban letting agents’ fees levied on renters -...

The Property Ombudsman is the latest property industry player to throw its support behind the introduction of mandatory qualifications and a...

A property company that failed to repair a pigeon-infested loft has been fined a total of £31,026, including an order to...

Letting agents have responded with enthusiasm to the government’s announcement over the Easter weekend that the industry would in future have...

Academic research suggests tenants in England and Wales are missing out on £80m of interest to tenancy deposit schemes every single...

A property management company which ignored a series of housing safety regulations and flouted laws designed to protect tenants’ rights has...

The government has this morning - Easter Sunday - announced a crackdown on rogue letting agents in the shape of a...

A Select Committee of MPs investigating the proposed ban on agents’ fees levied on tenants says the measure could save renters...

The controversial Right To Rent policy has been attacked as having failed “to demonstrate its worth” in encouraging immigration compliance. Under Right...

A Brighton and Hove lettings agent has been fined more than £3,000 for allowing two properties that he owned himself to...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is warning that “thousands” of landlords simply are not ready for energy efficiency changes coming...

A 10 week consultation period begins today on selective licensing in the central area of Blackpool - with the council threatening...

Spicerhaart has signed up with a deposit-free renting platform to offer landlords and tenants the option of working with a no-deposit system...

Policy makers concerned with the private rental sector ignore the needs of older tenants who are regarded as “invisible”. That’s the claim...

The Property Ombudsman has released details of two letting agencies expelled over financial issues, and the extension of an expulsion period...

New research reveals that only 16 per cent of private tenants positively choose to rent. The study, commissioned by specialist insurance firm...

Proposals to cap security deposits for private rented housing to six weeks rent risk creating a charter for rent cheats warns...

The Observer newspaper has published a story alleging that a London lettings agency “pressured” prospective tenants into accepting accommodation without viewing...

The government says that later this year it will allocate a further £1.4m to PropTech firms looking at how tenants’ rent...

Two landlords have been hit with hefty court fines for failing to comply with a local licensing scheme. The pair are the...

The average rental household in London has 2.1 rent-paying tenants, each paying £775 per month, equating to an average property rent...

A warning has come from a campaigning letting agent that London’s landlords agents could be costing themselves tenants by requiring them...

A new Build To Rent scheme being launched shortly in Greenwich offers tenants an on-site concierge-style ‘host’, a lounger, co-working space...

One of the client money protection schemes operating in the lettings sector says he believes agents and property managers could be...

The Association of Independent Inventory Clerks has renewed its call for letting agents and other property professionals to back an online...

The government has set out new measures to mitigate against overcrowded and dangerous living conditions of private tenants in shared homes. From...

A new survey suggests that only four per cent of tenants and landlords are aware of the new Minimum Energy Efficiency...

A quest has started to find the UK’s best landlord who goes the extra mile to ensure tenants receive the ultimate...

Local media in Bristol say politicians in the city are considering supporting a controversial website that allows tenants to rate and...

Online agency easyProperty has announced the launch of two new lettings options.  One, called easyLet, is broadly a listings service: for £99...

A survey by consumer group Which?, working with landlords’ associations, reveals that 70 local authorities now have selective or additional licensing...

Oxford’s Labour council has given its support to a lettings review website because it claims it will help drive up the...

With only three weeks to go to the introduction of the first phase of Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards, a specialist mortgage...

Three one-day courses are being held this year - the first next week - aimed at updating letting agents on changes...

Knight Frank says prime central London rents have fallen on a quarterly basis for the 28th consecutive month - a record. The...

A new online platform says it allows renters and landlords to review each other and give Trustpilot-style ratings - but it...

Your buy-to-let investment is an extremely valuable asset and you need to know the income generated from it will be safely...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is reminding its members - and all letting agents - of the need to be...

Average rental values in prime central London fell 2.1 per cent in the year to February according to Knight Frank -...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is reminding its members to tell landlord clients that they have only a month to...

The number of properties available to rent in London is now 46 per cent below the national average according to ARLA...

The Welsh Government’s housing minister has tweeted that the results of a formal consultation process on a ban on agents’ fees...

Well over twice as many Scottish tenants have seen their rents rise at the start of the year compared to those...

An ‘instant EPC ratings check’ has been created on the website of Mortgages for Business allowing agents to check the ratings...

Brighton’s largest lettings agency MTM Property has rebranded under the new name Coapt. The rebranding involved a year of workshops, client and...

Letting agents who act on landlords’ instructions to refuse tenants claiming benefits may be breaking the law. A legal case recently found...

Grainger plc, the UK’s largest listed residential landlord, has launched a scheme of 29 two, three and four bedroom houses aimed...

A new website specifically dedicated to marketing rented property with tenants in place has raised over £2m investment in the past...

Three head tenants who sub-let a three bedroom house to 35 men have been hit with over £23,000 in fines. Gheorghe-Valentin Lingurar...

A specialist insurance firm claims that only 17 per cent of tenants receive the latest version of the mandatory How To...

A head of a major agency says it is misleading to suggest that tenants are evicted ‘for no reason’. Mark Pilling, the...

The latest figures from LSL Property Services suggest that rents have increased across the UK by an average 2.5 per cent in the...

ARLA Propertymark has issued a downbeat report on the lettings sector’s start to 2018.  Its report on the market's performance in January says...

The head of a major PropTech company serving the lettings sector says he want to see the introduction of a database...

Senior Labour MPs have spoken out about what they believe are the anti-social and detrimental effects of short lets on surrounding...

Trade bodies have started to react to last evening’s Panorama programme claiming alleged abuse of the Section 21 eviction system in...

Tonight's edition of BBC Panorama will investigate the Section 21 evictions process, also known as 'no-fault evictions'. The show - 'Evicted for...

An ambitious PropTech startup has raised £2.8 million to fund its bid to 'reinvent the London renting experience'. Homie, a search platform...

A housing charity has called for the government to build more affordable social homes for rent to help families 'trapped' in...

The lettings sector is at the forefront of government proposals for a new redress system for customers of agents and others.  In...

The sittings of the select committee looking into government proposals to ban letting agents’ fees levied on tenants resume this week...

A rogue landlord has been fined twice in the space of two months for failing to provide a suitable standard of...

The director of a lettings agency who who stole hundreds of thousands of pounds to spend on holidays and other luxuries...

Crooked landlords and letting agents were convicted of stealing £1,162,037 of tenant’s cash in 2017 – a rise of 14 per...

A new survey claims that 42 per cent of private sector tenants are unhappy with paying letting agents’ fees, despite the...

We’re grateful to The Property Group, an agency in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, for alerting us to an incident involving its Mayfair Town...

The Residential Landlords Association says Labour’s proposals to link rent increases to inflation would leave tenants worse off according to official...

The government has given the go ahead to what will be one of the UK’s largest selective licensing scheme outside of...

A trade body says it wants more clarity from the Labour Party on its proposals to allow private sector tenants to...

A Birmingham-based student lettings agency says it has seen improved response rates from student tenants and viewers thanks to the use...

A London council is marking 125 successful prosecutions against agents, landlords and sub-letting tenants since 2016. The authority, Brent, says the convictions...

A crooked lettings agent has been ordered to repay thousands of pounds from his pension. As previously reported on Letting Agent Today...

Trade bodies including ARLA, RICS, NALS and landlord organisations have met with the government to send a clear message - think...

High end agency Strutt & Parker is warning that older properties in prime central London are getting harder to let, with...

An online petition urging MPs to make it compulsory for privately let properties to be subject to independent inventory reporting is...

A range of factors - including fierce competition under the supplied housing market, rising property prices and political uncertainty – have...

A new website called Vesta has launched aiming to sell investment properties with tenants in place.  The team behind the site describe...

Tenant demand edged up in the three months to January, according to RICS, but landlord instructions have fallen back - suggesting...

A council says it hopes a massive set of fines and costs imposed on one buy to let investor and his...

The man behind a leading lettings industry PropTech company says the new Code of Conduct to clean up the rental sector...

High London rents - with the average now running at £1,280 - are driving tenants into sharing according to an online...

A London council has been the first in the country to use the Proceeds of Crime Act for a breach in...

The Residential Landlords Association has reiterated its opposition to Right To Rent, and is backing two legal challenges to the measure. Letting...

It’s been revealed this morning that there are two legal challenges being mounted against the Right To Rent policy, which obliges...

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

The Residential Landlords’ Association has released details of the evidence it put to the Communities and Local Government Select Committee which...

The former director of a lettings agency in Plymouth is to appear in court in March facing charges of fraud, false...

The code sets out the standards to be met by anyone engaged in lettings including specific requirements around how clients’ money...

Countrywide’s Hamptons International is to work with a PropTech firm to try out a no-deposit lettings scheme in four of its offices. Hamptons’...

Two landlords and two tenants were fined a total of over £11,000 after losing their appeal against housing convictions concerning property...

A new branch of the Move Revolution agency has opened in Weston-super-Mare, heavily promoting the concept of no-deposit renting.  The branch is...

A letting agent has been spared jail despite stealing over £7,600 from tenants to subsidise his failing business.  Simon Cawley, from Kingsbridge...

The select committee monitoring the Department of Housing, Communities and Local Government will continue its deliberations today on the government’s ban...

The average number of properties managed by letting agents rose from 192 in November to 200 in December – the highest...

Romans has thrown its weight behind the banning orders being introduced in April which could see rogue letting agents and landlords...

Vesper Homes, a high-end London property management firm, has developed an Alexa Skill which will mean landlords and tenants can receive...

The chief operating officer of a leading PropTech company says government proposals to increase mandatory licensing of Houses in Multiple Occupation...

The head of franchise giant Belvoir says government interference in the rental sector is likely to result in a rise in...

A representative of the Landlords’ Union has posted an apology on the Property118 website for accidentally using a photograph of the...

The chairman of the Residential Landlords Association has written in the Labour-supporting New Statesman magazine about the need for the lettings...

The How To Rent guide - the document which has to be given to new tenants by letting agents or landlords...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is the latest industry body to throw its weight behind the Private Members’ Bill that...

The agency Leaders has been marking the 10th anniversary of the death of its founder Neville Lee, who was a key...

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

Lettings agency Haart says the government should go much further than the legislation it is supporting giving tenants the right to...

A fine of over £29,000 has been imposed on an absentee landlord whose property was said to have put tenants’ lives...

There have been more expressions of support from industry bodies for the Private Members’ Bill from Labour’s Karen Buck MP which...

NoAgent, an online service charging landlords a fee to manage their properties, is the latest to offer a link between tenants’...

An agency operating in London and Essex has launched an online petition to oppose the ban on credit and debit card...

A new PropTech platform has launched today linking tenants’ rental payments with their Experian credit histories, as well as providing reports...

Two letting agencies have removed advertisements after complaints were filed to the Advertising Standards Authority. The first case involved LSL Property Services...

Private rental prices paid by tenants in Great Britain rose by 1.2 per cent in the 12 months to December according...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has thrown its weight behind a Private Members Bill which wants tenants to have the...

The Treasury has confirmed to Letting Agent Today that the ban on credit card surcharges which came into effect in recent...

The Private Members’ Bill that has won government backing - and which would give tenants the right to sue landlords over...

Letting Agent Today understands that Foxtons has been asked to appear at a hearing staged by a London council to prove...

The government has taken the unusual step of working with a Labour MP to ensure her Private Members Bill can become...

In an unusual move the government has today, Sunday, announced that it wants tenants to have the right to take legal...

An Essex lettings agent has explained why he has set up an online petition calling for a reversal of the government’s...

The National Landlords Association says 20 per cent of its members plan to reduce the size of their portfolios in the...

This week’s news that the government will not be implementing the ban on letting agents’ fees on tenants in England until...

The government has explained why the ban on letting agents’ fees on tenants will not be implemented until spring 2019 -...

The average asking rent across the UK - excluding London - rose by just 0.7 per cent in 2017 according to...

Romans’ lettings managing director Michael Cook has given details of his agency’s approach to identifying and responding to sub-letting. Cook says: “We...

New research claims that as many as 78 per cent of young adults aged 18 to 30 fear they will never...

The government has told NALS that implementation of the ban on letting agents’ fees levied on tenants will not take place...

The Property Ombudsman scheme has today announced three expulsions of agencies as a result of non-payment of rent or awards. Firstly, a...

A lettings agency has written to MPs setting out an eloquent case for a cap on agents’ fees levied on tenants...

Buy to let expert Kate Faulkner says tenants should undertake more research on agents, landlords and properties before choosing a place...

One of the lettings sector’s biggest lenders, Santander, is allowing its buy to let landlord borrowers to offer assured shorthold tenancies...

ARLA and NAEA Propertymark have introduced a raft of deals in a bid to save agents money.  Membership subscription fees will remain...

MPs today discuss the impact of Universal Credit on the private rented sector, in a debate prompted by the Liberal Democrat’s...

Today sees the return of MPs to Parliament following the Christmas break, and one early task is to hear oral evidence...

There has been a warm welcome for government changes to Universal Credit by the Residential Landlords Association.  The Department for Work and...

Online letting agency Upad is linking with high profile independent finance service John Charcol in a bid to make it easier...

UK rents grew by a tiny 0.56 per cent in 2017 according to specialist lender Landbay. However, in a special exercise, the...

The Communities and Local Government committee of MPs will on Monday hear their first oral evidence of the year for the...

A local authority is setting up a not-for-profit ‘ethical’ lettings agency and is aiming to woo landlords with a promise of...

A former councillor says letting agents should be responsible for ensuring student tenants know how to organise their bins in a...

Automated rental payment provider PayProp has joined the call for private rent payments to be counted towards tenants’ credit scores in...

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

Harrison Murray, the lettings division of the Nottingham Building Society, has launched a portal for landlords and tenants. The agency says it...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents and other trade bodies have not yet responded to the government’s announcement over the holiday...

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has used a holiday season interview to repeat his pledge to swing powers back towards private tenants...

A survey from a specialist rental insurance firm suggests that contrary to popular belief, landlords care more than a little about...

Crooked letting agents and landlords have raided close to £1m from tenancy deposit accounts in 2017, new figures show. Campaigning agent Ajay Jagota,...

Government proposals to ban letting agent fees levied on tenants next year are unlikely to make renting cheaper as new research...

So here it is … a very Merry Christmas from Letting Agent Today and Angels Media, with our very best wishes...

The new online database identifying rogue letting agents and landlords will save lives according to the London Fire Brigade. We wrote about...

Rightmove has revealed the locations where prospective tenants have searched for properties on its portal in 2017 - and the winning...

The local authority at Brent in north London has secured what it calls “an important court victory” after “appalling conditions” were...

Independent agents’ group CIELA is to launch after all, but now says it won’t be campaigning against the imminent ban on...

The first London boroughs are now rolling out the Greater London Authority’s ‘Rogue Landlord and Agent Checker’ - allowing tenants to...

Foxtons insists the London rental market may now be in recovery mode with 9.2 prospective tenants per property registered in the third...

One of the industry’s leading trade bodies wants the government to halt the Right To Rent programme after evidence shows some...

Research by a student lettings software company suggests that 70 per cent of landlords say they would prefer not to let...

Prime minister Theresa May has repeated that the current government will not introduce rent controls in the private sector. The issue of...

Rents across the UK began to shrink for the first time in over half a decade toward the end of 2017,...

The director of a property management firm has been found guilty of nine offences of breaching regulations relating to a house...

The landlord of an HMO has been fined £3,300 for failures to meet his obligations, particularly regarding fire safety. At Northampton magistrates...

Some 70 per cent of letting agents expect taxes on the rental sector to rise further next year according to research...

The rental market in Prime Central London has shown signs of recovery at the end of 2017, according to a new...

A buy to let investor who a judge said “cut corners” and exposed his tenants to “significant risk” has been ordered...

The government is offering £2m to budding PropTech and financial technology entrepreneurs who can develop an application that will enable Britain’s 11...

An eviction company called Remove A Tenant has been the subject of a complaint after a Facebook post which implied tenants...

The Welsh Government has confirmed that the country will ban letting agents’ fees levied on tenants - the same ban still...

Changes to Universal Credit have made it easier for claimants to rent homes but the government needs to do more to...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents says it is seeing a consolidation of agencies ahead of the ban on agents’ fees...

Foxtons has been fined £35,000 for failing to prove to a local council that a house it was letting was safe...

The Conveyancing Association has made a wide-ranging response to the government’s call for evidence on the regulation of letting and managing...

One of Scotland’s leading lettings and estate agencies, Galbraith, has given the thumbs up to a new tenancy process introduced north...

A claim has been made that as many as 80 per cent of prospective tenants have been put off renting a...

A senior housing official at Bristol city council says the increasing popularity of Airbnb has had the effect of taking “hundreds”...

A large shake up of the private rental sector begins in Scotland tomorrow with the introduction of Private Residential Tenancies replacing...

You have only until 11.45pm tonight to have your say on government proposals to clamp down on letting and managing agents...

The owner of a property firm who reportedly misled tenants and let an illegally converted property has been jailed for 155...

Research by independent fact-checking organisation Full Fact has revealed that there are 12 local authority areas in the UK where a...

In a time of unprecedented change for the lettings sector, you need a supplier who will safeguard your business and give...

A council is seeking to prevent letting agents and landlords from letting homes to students in an area of a city...

The number of properties that agents managed per branch fell to a 12-month low in October according to new figures released...

A buy to let investor who failed to purchase a £542 licence for his HMO has been ordered to pay almost...

The House of Lords has given the Creditworthiness Assessment Bill its second reading and a step forward to ensuring that tenants’...

Tenants are expecting to find and move in to new rental accommodation in ever-shorter periods of time.  Data from property website TheHouseShop.com...

A change to the operation of Universal Credit has been welcomed by a trade body which has described it as good...

The industry is awaiting details of the latest government consultation concerning the private rental sector which will consider longer tenancies. The consultation...

Lord John Bird, the founder of Big Issue, is tomorrow launching his own Bill in the House of Lords in a...

The Leaders Romans Group has acquired an independent lettings agency in Bath, taking it into the south western region for the...

Research by The Guardian newspaper reveals that massive numbers of local authority councillors are also buy to let investors - and...

A complaint to the Advertising Standards Authority says a flyer from an estate agency suggesting that a property was to let...

The Communities and Local Government Select Committee says it is to begin “pre-legislative scrutiny” of proposals to ban tenant fees imposed...

A Birmingham agent has branded the government’s draft Tenant Fees Bill - which proposes a ban on letting agents’ fees on tenants...

The buy to let sector should prepare itself for issues which may arise if the government goes ahead with its intention...

Barratt Homes’ London division is offering what it describes as ‘free property management’ on new-builds purchased at selected schemes and then...

A portal which allows renters to review their lettings experiences and which encourages agents to buy and download tenants' references has...

A Welsh local authority is offering a cash payment of up to £1,200 to landlords who join a quasi-letting agency run...

The pressure group Generation Rent - often identified with highlighting issues concerning young tenants - is now warning of a massive...

The average UK rent increased just £11.55 or 1.51 per cent over the last year according to The Deposit Protection Service. The new DPS...

The story of falling sale prices in prime central London has become familiar in the past year; now Knight Frank reports...

Yet another formal government consultation is under way, this time into smoke and carbon monoxide alarms in the private rental sector...

No Agent, a platform for landlords which says circumnavigates the need for letting agents, has announced $1.1m in investment - around...

ARLA has set out the main reasons why tenants don't get their deposits back in every case.   A survey of its members...

A prominent PropTech company chief has repeated his claim that old-fashioned methods of business administration could be prohibiting letting agents from...

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

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has taken the unusual step of making a fact sheet available to all agents, not...

London’s Labour Mayor, Sadiq Khan, has repeated his criticism of the government’s decision to cap security deposits at the level of...

Campaigning lettings agency chief Ajay Jagota says he is unconvinced by government plans to make it a criminal offence for letting...

London Bishops have written to housing minister Alok Sharma calling on him to do more to protect vulnerable private tenants. The Bishops...

The controversial consultation period undertaken by the government in support of its proposed ban on letting agents’ fees levied on tenants...

Letting agents and landlords are being urged by a trade body to sign a petition calling on the government to make...

Trade organisatons have reacted predictably to the government’s latest announcements and publications concerning the private rental sector. Yesterday the Department of Communities...

The draft Bill to ban letting agents’ fees levied on tenants has been published - it’s to be called the Tenants’...

A leading legal expert specialising in the private rental market says the sector should set up basic procedures to protect against...

A family-run lettings agency says its viability is seriously threatened by the likely fees ban to be introduced in 2018 -...

A study by the Romans lettings agency group has highlighted common issues cited by agents and landlords deducting funds from a...

The Law Society Gazette has given more details of a Parliamentary Bill in preparation to give more powers to tenants to...

A controversial review website which says it can be used to identify “good (and bad) letting agents” claims that its aim...

A campaigning letting agent says that at the start of this financial year the total cash value of deposits held in...

Online lettings agency Upad says landlords are concerned that insurance-based alternatives to traditional deposit schemes may not cover them for repairs...

After several months of rising rent costs, the number of letting agents who saw landlords increasing prices for tenants fell substantially...

It is 50 years since the Leasehold Reform Act 1967 became law and now a firm speciaising in enfranchisement extension wants the government...

MPs from the cross-party Parliamentary Group for Ending Homelessness have spoken out on the need to help homeless people into the...

The Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration has started what is described as an official inspection of Right To Rent. Legislation...

Build To Rent developer Be says it is moving to a no-fees model for its development at Hayes in west London....

An online agency is urging landlords to try to avoid unnecessary voids or tenant gripes by preparing their investment properties for...

A crowdfunding site describing itself as an ‘ethical investment platform’ is the first international crowdfunder to enable investment in debt-free buy...

The lettings market typically heats up in autumn, with landlords and tenants back off their holidays and ready to start the...

MPs are today going to debate whether rent payments should be included when calculating credit scores to support tenants wanting to...

PropTech company PayProp says the government’s outline proposal for greater regulation of the private rental sector should be treated as good...

Only two out of every 10 private rental sector landlords say they are willing to let to tenants in receipt of...

Industry figures have broadly welcomed the latest consultations and proposed additional regulation for the lettings sector, announced by the government yesterday.   The...

The Secretary of State for Wales has called on the Welsh Government to take measures against what he calls “unjust fees...

The government has published long-awaited guidelines for the implementation of Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards in the private rental sector.   The hefty 95-page...

Newham council in London has published the UK’s first ever ratings scheme for letting agents, in which firms receive anything from...

A survey suggests no fewer than 88 per cent of tenants regard cost as the most important deciding factor when choosing...

Humberts, the country agency which raised eyebrows earlier this year by announcing it was to open an office in prime central...

A campaigning lettings agent says proposals to allow renters to transfer tenancy deposits between properties are to be welcomed – but...

A lettings agent who stole thousands of pounds collected from tenants has been jailed for 20 months. Kent Online reports that gambling...

A London letting agency with connections to Westminster council is now being investigated by the same council’s trading standards department. CityWest Homes...

Countrywide says a record 64,672 tenants left London over the last 12 months with an unusually-high proportion going on to rent elsewhere. Some...

The powerful and all-party Communities & Local Government Select Committee of MPs has launched a new enquiry into improving the quality...

Almost a third of renters in the UK do not have a life-saving carbon monoxide alarm in their property, with four...

The private rental sector in Wales is at risk of contracting next year, warns the Residential Landlords’ Association.   RLA Wales policy officer...

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

Wear and tear can be a highly contentious issue for many tenants and landlords; many arguments have arisen because of unclear definitions...

Interest from prospective tenants edged up during September according to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.    Of agent members who responded to...

PropTech firm PayProp has welcomed the latest measures to clamp down on rogue elements within the lettings industry - but warns...

PropTech firm teclet has been announced as a main category partner for the 15th annual ESTAS Estate and Letting Agent Awards...

Average rental values fell three per cent in the year to September 2017 according to Knight Frank.   This decline is the smallest...

Rents outside of London have dropped by 0.2 per cent in the third quarter of this year according to new data...

A strong majority of tenants admit that they have broken tenancy rules in at least one significant way. A study for interiors...

A tenant survey conducted by an online letting agent suggests that almost nine out of 10 tenants are not currently looking...

A leading buy to let expert is calling on agents to work more closely with landlords and tenants to improve communications...

Greenwich is the latest council to make it compulsory for planning consent to be given before converting homes into Houses in...

The increasing number of renters and low interest rates for existing home owners mean that the total rent bill is now...

One in 20 lettings properties breach minimum standards set to come into force next April, according to a survey for an insurance...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has welcomed the government commitment to introduce regulation for agencies - but it is warning...

A property company and a landlord have been fined over £200,000 after being accused of putting tenants’ lives in danger by...

The Conservatives have used their annual conference in Manchester to unveil a raft of new controls and regulations applying to the...

A new survey by a property insurance firm suggests more than half of private rental sector tenants have remained in the same...

A buy to let investor reported to be receiving rental income of £150,000 a year must pay over £340,000 after illegally...

The housing charity Shelter - which in recent years has been aggressively critical of letting agencies and landlords in the private...

Pressure from the consumer lobby is building for the introduction of a ban on letting agents’ fees levied on tenants -...

Even those earning average salaries risk being priced out of the lettings market by high rents according to an insurance agency.    Research...

Trade groups have reacted angrily to Labour’s proposal to introduce rent controls if the party enters government.   The announcement, made by Labour...

A trade body says the expanding Build To Rent sector will never be large enough to meet tenant demand and as...

A landlord has been fined a total of £7,298 for operating an unlicensed house in multiple occupation in Oxford that was...

Jeremy Corbyn has used his leader’s speech at the end of this week’s Labour conference in Brighton to commit the party...

Letting Agent Today understands that senior industry figures are working on the framework of a new attempt at regulation, including measures...

The number of letting agents who saw landlords increasing rent costs for tenants rose to 35 per cent in August according...

Letting agents are being warned that they can minimise the impact of the fees ban levied on tenants by being proactive...

A survey of 1,000 tenants in blocks of flats conducted on behalf of London Fire Brigade reveals that almost 40 per...