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A lettings agency in the West Midlands is reported to have closed its two offices at short notice, leaving clients angry...

There’s been another major industry survey revealing that a high number of lettings agents and landlords may quit the private rental...

A PropTech platform launched three years ago acting as a search system for students wanting purpose-built accommodation is evolving into a...

Six months on from the introduction of stricter licencing for Homes in Multiple Occupation, awareness “remains limited” according to one of...

There’s been another call on the government to rethink its plans to change the Section 21 eviction process.  The founder of Landlord...

The Residential Landlords Association and Gas Safe Register have joined forces to promote gas safety awareness in the private rental sector. The...

A council claims that its decision to set up its own lettings agency has prevented homelessness for almost 50 families and...

ARLA Propertymark is urging agents across England and Wales to ensure they have every preparation in place for the arrival of...

Not-for-profit operator Tenancy Deposit Scheme says early intervention between landlords and tenants across the UK is resulting in many more deposit...

With the Tenant Fee Ban obliterating a key income stream, letting agents should be looking at ways they can increase the...

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

An analysis of the rental market in England has revealed a dramatic drop in the number of EU nationals taking up...

An MP says he will raise with local police chiefs a series of claims from landlords and tenants concerning a lettings...

Agents and landlords are being warned to prepare for a surge in tenants moving property once the fees ban kicks in...

An estate agency that describes itself as a ‘social enterprise’ says it will spend its profits on the homeless and related...

The impact of Britain’s decision to leave the European Union has not hit the central London lettings sector as much as...

A new PropTech tool already used by three leading agencies claims to identify and speed up contact between pre-qualified tenants and...

A rent guarantor provider claims that deposits which prospective tenants are required to pay are often reduced if such a service...

Housing minister Heather Wheeler has pledged that the government will make changes to the court repossession process alongside its plans to...

Letting agents are being urged to consider how they can reduce their administrative workload, following huge growth in the size of...

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

The operations director of letting agency haart has told landlords not to 'stress too much' over Brexit. Paul Sloan says it's easy...

The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) has urged the government to 'fix' the court system before it goes ahead with its plan...

A rogue landlady has been hit with a fine of £24,000 after conning her tenants and the local authorities with a...

The newly-formed Federation of Independent Agents (FIA), the network set up by former Property Franchise Group managing director Graham Lock, has...

Housing charity Shelter has announced the launch of a £600,000 fund it is hosting, with the aim of improving the private...

Revenue raised by landlord licensing schemes should be used to enforce rental sector regulation, according to PayProp. It says that the money...

National sales and lettings agency Martin & Co has launched what it calls a 'pioneering new service' in the North East. The...

Tenancy deposit alternative Reposit has announced a partnership with Pattinson, the largest independent agency network in the North East. The 26-branch network...

The Property Ombudsman (TPO) has released its annual report for 2018, showing that for the first time the value of awards...

A new solution to help letting agents deal with the introduction of the security deposit cap under the Tenant Fees Act...

New data from Proptech firm Goodlord suggests that the average void period for England and Wales is just 21 days. The longest...

Letting agents across England have been accused of potentially breaching consumer law by demanding deposits before tenants even see a contract. The...

Increased use of technology could boost gas-related health and safety in the private rental sector according to the people behind a...

Two rogue landlords have been convicted of failing to comply with a Prohibition Order on the rental property they owned. Sandeep Jarjapu...

A controversial review website which says it identifies “good (and bad) letting agents” has introduced tools aiming to reduce disputes at...

One of London’s best known lettings agents says unfurnished properties can take 30 per cent longer to let than a furnished...

A senior figure at a deposit replacement service says the current flurry of changes in the private rental sector are positive. Daniel...

A trade union says the government’s intention to scrap Section 21 eviction powers for landlords is “a huge victory” - but...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents says there is a record number of homes available to renters - but this does...

How is Inadash revolutionising the rental market? Searching for a new rental property can be a stressful, time-consuming and frustrating process, but...

Senior lettings agency figures are amongst those who will this morning give evidence to a committee of MPs investigating so-called ‘DSS...

A national newspaper story suggests that a couple seeking an apartment to rent in Brixton were signed up to the wrong...

A rogue letting agent has been ordered to pay £42,596 in fines and costs of £10,626 after pleading guilty to a...

With the tenants’ fees ban just five weeks away focus is shifting to how agents can make up for lost income...

A senior lettings agent has raised the spectre of rental properties in future being German-style ‘empty shells’ - without even white...

The Association of Residential Lettings Agents says it backs a new Trading Standards-led body which will enforce the Fees Ban starting  on...

Figures calculated by Rightmove suggest that even when the Fees Ban and Deposit Caps kick in on June 1, some deposits...

One of the most vocal critics of lettings agents in recent years appears to be moving away from the property industry. Campbell...

A formal consultation process has started to consider government plans to extend Anti-Money Laundering from property sales to lettings as well. Unveiled...

The scrapping of Section 21 eviction powers has been welcomed by the London Assembly - but apparently it doesn’t go far...

A Freedom of Information request by The Guardian newspaper has produced the startling admission from government that not even one landlord...

The scrapping of Section 21, as proposed by the government, shows that Whiteall has “a Dickensian view” of the buy to...

The head of a major property management firm says the controversial proposal to scrap Section 21 eviction powers for landlords is...

Rightmove has fallen in line with Zoopla and is banning the term ‘No DSS’ from its lettings agents’ listings from the...

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

The government consultation process which fuelled its decision to axe Section 21 eviction powers and move towards longer tenancies received only...

The government says it wants to ban outright Section 21 'no fault' eviction powers in England and Wales. Instead landlords seeking to evict...

The government’s plan to scrap Section 21 is personally backed by the Prime Minister and will begin formal consultations today. If the...

A leading legal firm is warning that Right To Rent could become even more complicated for letting agents and landlords after...

A buy to let investor has received a hefty fine “for endangering the lives of his tenants by failing to meet...

Average monthly UK rent is now at its lowest level for three years according to the Deposit Protection Service. Average rent fell...

Savills has launched a new residential lettings service in one of the country’s most successful buy to let and investment locations...

Buy to let investors are facing a double whammy as stagnating rents and reduced tax relief are hitting profitability. A study from...

Mother and daughter lettings agency fraudsters have been told to expect jail sentences after defrauding landlords and tenants of £266,000 over...

Connells Group has acquired the lettings business portfolio of an independent agency in a move it describes as “part of its...

The government has beefed up its support for councils identifying and prosecuting rogue landlords. Yesterday the Ministry of Housing Communities and Local...

It’s been revealed that the Welsh version of the Tenants Fees ban will come into effect on September 1. “Agents need to...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Taha Dar, founder and CEO of SearchSmartly. What is SearchSmartly and...

Agents and prospective buy to let investors keen to grab a slice of the capital’s growing lettings market now have a...

A lettings sector trade body says EU citizens may face problems getting private rented accommodation after Brexit. And the body - the...

Flatfair, which describes itself as the UK’s fastest-growing tenancy deposit alternative, has been shortlisted in the Best Newcomer category of the...

A trade body has welcomed calls by a parliamentary committee for tax incentives for the buy to let sector to improve...

One of the most pro-licensing local authorities in the country has extended its own scheme to include the entire centre of...

Prospective tenants are being warned about a fraud scam that cons people into paying an advance fee to rent a property. The...

London’s lettings sector is changing with tenants still wanting to buy but increasingly accepting they must rent for longer in the...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has launched a 10-element tool kit for agents ahead of the fees ban on June...

The government has issued new guidance notes on the Tenant Fees Act, aimed at agents, landlords and tenants. The publications come ahead...

Fergus Wilson, arguably Britain’s most controversial landlord and almost certainly the individual with the largest number of buy to lets in...

A buy to let investor has been hit with a £4,000 fine plus costs of over £5,000 after failing to license...

The mandatory Client Money Protection scheme membership that comes into effect today will protect landlords and tenants from letting agents that...

A new survey suggests that long-term renting could be substantially less expensive than a mortgage. The study, for Ocean Finance, has analysed...

There’s been a big boost to the movement towards deposit alternatives in the private rental sector following a survey released this...

Figures given through a Parliamentary answer have revealed just how bad councils in England are at policing and enforcement action against...

The number of London landlords exiting the market last month was a whopping 125 per cent higher than the national average. The...

A buy to let investor who hid families in windowless rooms after failing to get planning permission for a block of...

The number of agents seeing rent rises imposed on tenants hit 34 per cent in February, well up on the 26...

A lettings agent who stole over £350,000 is reported to have been told to pay back…£1. Local media in the south of...

The council for one of the wealthiest areas in the country says it will be “educating and advising letting agents” on...

New ‘best practice’ guidance to letting agents and landlords has been introduced ahead of the introduction of the tenants’ fees ban...

Utilities and comparative platform Tenant Shop has linked up with Reposit to offer a security deposit alternative product for agents. Tenant Shop’s...

The government is back to business attacking the lettings sector with an extraordinary claim by a minister that many students are...

Fergus Wilson - the controversial buy to let landlord who with his wife once owned 1,000 homes - has named his...

The PropTech firm CreditLadder is working with the Nationwide Building Society on a pioneering scheme to try to help tenants buy...

With the government already on the ropes over Brexit, there’s a call today for one of its flagship immigration policies to...

Leicester is the latest council to begin consultations on selective licensing in six parts of the city - with the threat...

Another think-tank has come up with reforms which it wants the government to make to the private rental sector - and...

The Nationwide is the latest lender to say it will not insist its buy to let borrowers enforce a No DSS...

Rent rises in the year to the end of February, as released by the government’s Office of National Statistics, show growth...

An online lettings service says it will pay existing tenants for finding replacements and handling viewings, in a bid to reduce...

Today the long-awaited Homes (Fitness For Human Habitation) Act comes into force, pioneered by Labour MP Karen Buck and giving people...

The JLL lettings agency is warning that the five week deposit cap enshrined in the Tenant Fees Act is likely to...

A crooked letting agent took £220,000 from tenants and landlords and has been exposed as buying a home in Florida, renting...

TrustMark, the government-backed quality kite mark scheme for tradespeople, is launching a pilot with Trading Standards to improve the quality and...

The Residential Landlords Association has given its backing to Zoopla’s ban on agents and landlords advertising properties to rent as ‘No...

There’s a claim today that around one million amateur and professional landlords in the new short lets sector are not adequately...

Zoopla says it’s introducing new measures to minimise the presence of what it calls “blanket restrictions” imposed on tenants who receive...

A PropTech firm says buy to let investors should not respond to the slowing market by selling up, but should instead...

The ban on tenants’ fees beginning on June 1 presents an opportunity to overhaul the private rental sector, says a property...

A Scottish mediation company and the SafeDeposits Scotland Trust are to create eight workshops aiming to improve relationships between agents, landlords,...

Labour’s proposal to introduce indefinite tenancies along the lines in a bid to emulate the German model reveals the party’s “fundamental...

A new study claims one in three Britons would be happy renting for the rest of their lives - but the...

One of Britain’s most experienced lettings experts has condemned the government for “almost singlehandedly destroying the traditional lettings market.” Lisa Simon -...

An 18 month probe by different authorities has led to a £4,000 fine for an HMO owner in the Highlands. The local...

Haringey council is the latest local authority in the capital to create a borough-wide additional licensing scheme for HMOs. It claims the...

Labour says it will introduce new ‘indefinite’ tenancies for private tenants, based on rules currently in place in Germany. It claims German...

Numerous regional independent agency chains have joined Zero Deposit, one of several rental deposit replacement schemes to have appeared in recent...

A landlord has been convicted of three offences relating to his failure to comply with fire safety requirements in a privately...

Independent inventory reporting is the perfect complement to the government’s proposed housing reforms. That’s the view of the UK’s largest provider of...

New research from Zoopla suggests that parking sits firmly at the top of requirements for renters - but with pet-friendly facilities...

A rogue lettings agent has been fined over £72,000 after being found guilty of 15 separate offences relating to three illegally established houses...

The Home Office says it will reassess the Right To Rent scheme following last week’s decision by the High Court that...

The government has issued guidelines for the implementation of the new Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act which comes into effect...

Lettings automation service teclet has revealed that the Tenant Shop is the latest partner integrated into its platform. Tenant Shop provides energy,...

A new index for the lettings sector in England and Wales by PropTech company Goodlord gives a clean bill of health...

Data from Knight Frank shows that annual rental values actually grew in parts of prime outer London last month for the...

A programme of nine new educational workshops takes place next month, some of which target new agents with little or no experience of deposits...

Momentum is building in the campaign to end ‘No DSS’ discrimination against private rental sector tenants in receipt of housing benefit. Late...

The government says it wants “an immediate change” in the policy of some letting agents and landlords who advertise ‘No DSS’...

There’s been general support for last week’s judgment by the High Court that the government’s Right To Rent policy breaches human...

The High Court has ruled that the government’s Right to Rent scheme breaches human rights law. Under the Right to Rent landlords are...

Rents over three prime London areas rose by 1.9 per cent in the final quarter of 2018 according to property data...

A council in the west country has launched a grading system for property agents which it says is designed to be...

New figures from a leading trade body suggest that councils across England have cut by a quarter the amount they are...

More tenants are seeing rent increases, according to the latest market snapshot delivered by the Association of Residential Letting Agents. It says...

Just when you thought there could not be any more rival licensing or accreditation systems in the private rental sector, a...

Short lets on Airbnb and similar platforms are causing increasing irritation for owners in residential blocks, according to a property management...

Another client money protection scheme has been given approval to launch itself before regulations go live on April 1.  From that date...

New research on private renting and mental health in Wales has concluded that more support is required.  The research was undertaken for...

Foxtons has given a relatively upbeat assessment of the capital’s rental market in its survey of the sector in 2018. It says...

More local authorities have announced that they want to increase the size of the areas covered by their existing selective licensing...

A buy to let investor who converted three family homes to HMOs without securing planning permission has been jailed for falsifying...

Rental values in prime London show early signs of bottoming out, says Savills, with the annual rate of falls now at...

March 19 has been set as the next date for the Welsh equivalent of the Tenant Fees Ban Bill to be...

Latest official figures show that private rental prices paid by tenants in the UK rose by 1.0 per cent in the...

A senior Labour politician claims that “unscrupulous” letting agents are hammering tenants with higher-than-usual charges between now and June 1 when...

You may be forgiven for thinking that rent takes up an ever-greater proportion of tenants’ income - but new figures out...

The Tenants’ Fees Bill has now become law, receiving formal Royal Assent yesterday afternoon - and within minutes, the government issued...

ARLA Propertymark is warning members to be diligent in how they promote the letting agents’ code of practice.  ARLA has issued a statement...

A lettings agency and its director have been fined a total of £30,000 for failing to licence HMOs and giving sham...

Throughout 2018 the number of homes available to rent in prime areas of London dropped 13 per cent. In particular, 80 per...

Private tenants in Britain in 2018 paid £59.1 billion on rent - that’s £1.9 billion less than in 2017 and the...

A flat-share website claims typical rents in some 38 per cent of London are now so high they render the areas...

A letting agent in east London has been fined £4,000 after apparently publishing the incorrect fees that it levies on tenants...

Council enforcement officers have raided a house in Wembley, north London, and found 19 tenants paying a landlord £1,000 a week. Brent council’s...

The Residential Landlords Association says the government’s changes to Universal Credit don’t go far enough to prevent rent arrears. The RLA says...

The Let Leeds agency has completed on the acquisition of another firm in the city, Milnes Walker - and the purchase...

A student accommodation search engine is introducing an automated feeds service for letting agents and landlords with large property portfolios. The service,...

Another major franchise agency says its preparation work ahead of the June 1 tenants fees ban mean the impact of the...

The BBC’s Reality Check service, respected for giving a more realistic assessment of many politicians’ promises, has looked at London mayor...

The tenants’ fees ban coming into effect from June 1 could help traditional lettings agents keep their place on High Streets,...

A rental platform says it welcomes government plans to overhaul redress for tenants and others in the housing system but it...

The government has published an independent assessment of its Tenants Fees Bill proposal - the ban on fees levied by letting...

Outsourcing. Everyone has an opinion on it and there’s a stigma surrounding it in the lettings industry. But get this…letting agents ARE...

ARPM  Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Simon Duce, Managing Director. What is ARPM and what does it...

Private rental sector tenants in England stay an average of 4.1 years in their property - casting doubt over the justification...

Specialist student utilities and service provider Glide has launched a product it claims removes the admin and hassle traditionally associated with...

Almost the entire lettings industry has viewed the upcoming ban on tenants fees levied by agents in England and Wales as...

Tenants are in for a rocky ride this year - and it’s chiefly the fault of government, says the chief executive...

Knight Frank has given an upbeat snapshot of the lettings market in Prime Central London, based mostly on higher rental growth...

New rules are to be introduced to ensure mandatory electrical inspections on private rental properties are carried out by competent and...

The government’s new redress system, announced last week and to be implemented later this year, must be free for renters to...

The latest report for the rental sector by the TDS Charitable Foundation calls for greater cooperation between property professionals and tenants...

The Property Ombudsman says agents can display weekly rents for homes they market - but they should be displayed alongside monthly...

Andrews lettings agency in Oxford has emerged as the hero in an episode which saw a family evicted from their home...

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

There’s been a big rise in the volume of purpose-built student accommodation in the UK, suggesting that the market may be...

The chief executive of the Citizens Advice consumer charity says she wants government “to do even more to strengthen the hand...

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...

Renting became more affordable in 2018 thanks to a combination of a once-in-a-decade fall in annual rents and wage inflation, according...

The council at Brighton & Hove has won an extra £34,820 in public money from the government to help it build...

A software platform has been launched which allows Build To Rent units to be short-let on the likes of Airbnb during...

A leading PropTech exponent is supporting the government’s Housing Court initiative, suggesting it could make redress for agents, landlords and tenants...

A buy to let investor has lost possession of his flat after converting it into an Illegal House in Multiple Occupation...

A mortgage firm claims the lettings industry is ripping off students by overcharging them. Mojo Mortgages says it has compared the rent...

A new league table of worries for landlords shows exactly why letting agents are needed - and a lot of the...

Rents have risen over the past year but at a very low level according to new property consultancy Apropos.  Across Britain as...

A lettings agency boss who says she is actually in favour of the agents’ fees ban nonetheless admits there will be...

An online agency specialising in the sale of investment properties with tenants in situ claims the average time for a tenanted...

A regional lettings agency claims it’s seen a 26 per cent surge in tenant and prospect views on properties listed as...

English letting agencies could lose over £60,000 each in the next two years alone as a result of the Tenant Fees...

A lettings market snapshot from Rightmove suggests asking rents in London are now increasing at an annual rate not seen for...

ARLA says it can help agents understand the intricacies of the Tenants Fees Ban, which completed its third reading in the...

Lettings agency Haart says it will return up to £20m in deposits to existing tenants if they sign up to a...

Today’s vote in the House of Commons on Theresa May’s Brexit withdrawal deal may be dominating the headlines but it’s the...

The lettings industry has welcomed news that reforms to Universal Credit will include a new online system for private landlords to...

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

The average UK rental values continued to grow towards the end of last year according to data with the average rent now...

The Tenancy Deposit Scheme - which was hit by a serious fire at its Hemel Hempstead headquarters last evening - has appointed...

It’s 2019, and we may all be wishing each other a Happy New Year, but for UK landlords, the outlook might...

The UK’s largest provider of inventory services says the creation of an MOT certificate system for properties in the rental sector...

A holiday lettings company and a longer term private rental listings services have come together to try to optimise income for...

The number of people renting a home aged between 35 and 54 has risen by 15 per cent in the last...

A new property management portal is being launched with the familiar aim of revolutionising the lettings industry - and it will...

Zero Deposit, the firm set up by former Zoopla commercial director Jon Notley, says it now has around 850 offices using...

Another online lettings agency launches in March with a claim that it “will streamline and automate the majority of admin tasks...

LSL Property Services has acquired LetCo Homes, a lettings and property management specialist based at Whiteley in Hampshire.  LetCo, which operated chiefly...

Three brothers and a property management company have received fines and a confiscation order, and must pay costs, following what a...

The Daily Mail has unveiled an extensive network of homes advertised on Airbnb but actually being sub-let by tenants who are...

Agents have under three weeks left to respond to the government’s proposals to introduce a Housing Court to settle disputes in...

The government says it will shortly respond to over 8,700 responses it received about its suggestions for longer standard tenancies in...

The government says it will not reveal an implementation date for the banning on agents’ fees on tenants in England until...

The government has made the controversial claim that the ban on the levying of fees on tenants will not produce “significant...

Knight Frank has issued a relatively upbeat assessment of the prime London lettings market as the year draws to a close.  Firstly...

A property website says tenants and prospective renters in London are set to have ‘a torrid 2019’ because of a shortage of...

The number of landlords exiting the market in the East of England is 100 per cent higher than the national average...

In an announcement made just hours before much of the industry started its Christmas break, the government has clarified its guidance...

A crooked lettings agent who illegally pocketed tenants’ deposits to pay for his gambling addiction and lavish lifestyle has been convicted...

The Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Bill has achieved Royal Assent, meaning that it will soon become an act of Parliament. Put...

A rental campaigner claims the amount of money stolen this year by crooked lettings agents and landlords has topped the £1.3m...

Online lettings platform HomeRenter says its property listings are now more detailed and more compelling thanks to a new ‘property creation flow’...

It’s the lull before the storm for private tenants according to the Association of Residential Lettings Agents. In its market snapshot looking...

JLL has been appointed by Aberdeen Standard Investments to manage Aireside, a Build To Rent scheme of 107 apartments in Leeds. The...

A PropTech platform claims landlords can cut administration costs so much that they could afford to offer their lettings units furnished...

A Private Members’ Bill which will allow private rental sector tenants to sue over the conditions of their properties will today...

The High Court today begins a Judicial Review of the government’s controversial Right to Rent scheme. The scheme began operating nationwide in...

Buy to let investor Changhaiz Ishaq has been ordered to pay a £8,510 fine for defying a prohibition order on his...

A local authority claims that a court decision may set a legal precedent for other councils across the UK using the...

New data from online buy to let agency Yieldit claims to give an insight into which property types produce the best...

With 2019 almost upon us, letting agents are finally unburying their heads from the ignorant bliss of the sand pit and...

A Private Members’ Bill which will allow private rental sector tenants to sue over the conditions of their properties is just...

Most tenants believe they will never be able to own a home because of the burden of saving for a deposit...

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

A lettings company’s management director has been disqualified for failing to protect thousands of pounds of tenants’ deposits. Kari Jade Ridout from...

Famous buy to let landlord Judith Wilson has been fined £10,000 and ordered to pay almost £15,000 costs for failing to...

Former owner occupiers who want to be ‘chain-free’ if they buy again are pouring into the private rental sector according to...

Newton Property, a lettings management company in Scotland, is spending £100,000 on installing electric car charging points in properties it manages.  It...

Three letting agents who failed to return tenants’ deposits or pass on rent payments to landlords have been convicted of fraud...

Five homeless people will have a roof over their heads this Christmas thanks to a kind-hearted PropTech chief. Mike Georgeson, founder of...

High end lettings agency Knight Frank says the proportion of properties listed for rent in prime London residential markets in October...

Labour claims it was the driving force behind the government’s decision to cap tenants’ security deposits from six weeks to five...

Increased use of PropTech by letting agents can cut rent arrears, minimise voids and reduce the financial and legal fall out...

The number of tenants saying they are using letting agents to find a place to live has increased 12 per cent...

Some 79 per cent of landlords are only servicing the interest on their mortgages, not paying down their loans, according to...

The death of the high street agency is a familiar headline, but PropTech can lower costs for bricks-and-mortar agencies and help...

New rules to protect rent paid by tenants to letting agents will fail to provide adequate protection for landlords, a trade...

Tenants know very little about their rights and responsibilities as renters according to a new survey produced by TotallyMoney. Some 97 per...

An angry lettings agent has emailed Cabinet minister James Brokenshire to show his disgust at the government’s U-turn over deposit caps. In...

A notorious rogue landlord must pay £1.5m or risk spending up to nine years in prison after what is thought to...

Continued political and economic uncertainty is likely to fuel increased tenant demand in the private rented sector, says Haart.  The company’s latest...

Agents and landlords have united against what is being seen as the latest attack on the private rental sector by the...

The National Approved Letting Scheme has published the latest version of its Effective Enforcement Toolkit - aimed at helping councils clamp...

A London-focussed ‘rental brand’ called Residently has just secured £2.5m in funding.  Residently manages houses and flats for landlords, letting them directly...

The government has this afternoon confirmed that the amount tenants have to pay up front to secure a home will be...

There has been widespread Industry anger at news of a possible U-turn by the government over the proposed cap on security...

A lettings agency owner in Norfolk has been arrested on suspicion of fraud and theft following a newspaper probe. Earlier this year...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has put together a brief summary of the 2018 rental market. In figures, the supply of...

One of London’s most enthusiastic councils for additional and selective licensing has pushed back the date for enforcement action against landlords...

The private rental sector in Wales could be offered incentives and other support to house those most in need, the Welsh...

Letting Agent Today can reveal that the agency at the centre of the scandal over alleged charges for viewings has been...

There’s been a large jump in the number of tenants successfully negotiating rent reductions according to the Association of Residential Letting...

London agency giant Kinleigh Folkard and Hayward is the latest to offer its tenant clients a no-deposit service.  It's going to use...

The BBC claims that a lettings agency has been demanding hundreds of pounds in payment before prospective tenants are allowed to...

The website TheHouseShop says it aims to recruit some 30 per cent of the country’s letting agents by the end of...

Two thirds of local authorities in England and Wales brought no prosecutions against private landlords in 2017/18 according to research by the...

The acquisition of popular rental sector utility provider Spark Energy will “significantly benefit the rental sector” according to the troubled company’s...

OnTheMarket, which is beginning to undertake occasional property research, has released data identifying what proportion of tenants’ salaries are spent on...

The controversial landlord Fergus Wilson says he has purchased a Body Worn Camera for £75 in a bid to avoid at...

The head of a lettings agency has launched a petition in opposition to a bid by a local council to extend...

The private rental sector can help reduce smoking according to a report from Action on Smoking and Health, a pressure group. The...

A pressure group that in the past has protested outside letting agency branches has staged more direct action - this time against...

A government minister says the phrase ”rogue landlord” is too “cuddly” and he wants buy to let investors who broke the...

We regularly carry stories about fines for landlords and letting agents who have apparently broken council or national laws - but...

Private landlords have to wait an average of over five months to regain possession of a property when applying to the...

Today sees the Second Reading in the House of the Lords for the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Bill, promoted by...

Nottingham council - which recently introduced one of the largest and most controversial selective licensing schemes in the country - now...

A PropTech company has won approval from the Financial Conduct Authority to go ahead with a scheme which offers tenants a...

A buy to let investor has been forced to close down two rat infested homes he owns in Rotherham after they...

A substantial study by university academics suggests that changes to the benefit system lie behind the long-term rise in homelessness from...

One of Britain's highest profile landlords is to be sentenced on December 11 - and she must show the court details of...

A growing number of tenants say they want to stay put in their rented home even if the landlord sells up. A...

Shelter is campaigning for the outlawing if default fees levied on tenants by agents in Wales. While the campaigning group welcomes the Renting...

A former lettings agent in Plymouth has finally admitted taking hundreds of thousands of pounds from tenants and landlords - the...

A rental management firm has launched a new home-sharing platform which it says is aimed at everyone wanting a place to...

A controversial review website which says it can be used to identify “good (and bad) letting agents” has won the backing...

Darlington lettings agency My Property Box has signed a new deal to let properties in the area on behalf of developer...

A call has been made for the government to review the section 8 possession process as part of its call for...

The JLL lettings agency has launched a ‘virtual property manager’ for a small number of Build To Rent tenants, claiming it...

The private rental sector is not fit for purpose when it comes to housing vulnerable tenants, claims debt charity StepChange which...

The government is consulting on the proposal for a specialist Housing Court which, if it goes ahead, would be a “single...