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Latest government figures show that private rents paid by tenants in Great Britain rose by 0.9 per cent in the 12...

The number of available properties to rent is falling at an alarming rate, particularly in Greater London, according to property platform...

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

Two more lettings agencies have been expelled from The Property Ombudsman as a result of unpaid awards following disputes involving landlords...

An overcrowded property let by an unlicensed company with inadequate fire precautions and unheated rooms has led to a £46,620 fine...

Liquidators Grant Thornton says funds found in the accounts of a Guernsey lettings agent are likely to be sufficient to pay...

An agency has been expelled from The Property Ombudsman after receiving over 100 separate complaints, and failing to pay over £419,000...

20% more landlords* are struggling compared to last year. They’ve been caught in a perfect storm of higher interest rates, bigger...

The Home Office is to reconvene its private rental sector stakeholder panel on Right to Rent. This follows a controversial period for...

There have been “significant leaps forward” in the standards of the private rental sector in the past four years, but safety...

A lettings agent described as ‘rogue’ by a London council, along with two lettings companies, have been heavily fined for operating...

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...

A new study shows that 43 per cent of tenants want the system of private rental deposits to be dropped and...

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

There’s a growing call for more police action over tracing a lettings agent who is apparently missing - as is some...

HomeLet says the average rent in the UK is now £947, up 0.9 per cent on last year - or up...

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

Trading Standards departments in London are asking renters to name and shame letting agents who are not complying with the law...

The landlord of an HMO who subjected his tenants to insanitary and unsafe living conditions has been told he will no...

A landmark report on private renting provides the opportunity to stop blaming letting agents and landlords for the sector’s problems, a...

It’s been announced that the next stage of the Tenants’ Fees Bill through Parliament will be its Second Reading in the...

Shadow housing minister John Healey has given his backing to a Labour MP’s attempt to introduce a mandatory national register for...

The National Landlords Association is the latest trade body to back what is being described as a landmark review of the...

More independent lettings agencies - Anthony Pepe, Let Leeds and Alexander & Co (formerly kaleidoscope Group) - have signed up to...

A letting agent operating in Cambridgeshire has seemingly 'gone to ground', owing landlords and tenants thousands of pounds. Frank Smart, who has...

It is now just three weeks until licensing of Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMO) is extended. The new rules, which will require...

A landlord in Reading has been handed a huge fine for serious breaches of fire safety regulations.  Philip Brotherton's company Cresctcourt Properties...

MPs have proposed a series of amendments to the Tenant Fees Bill as part of its Report Stage and Third Reading...

Cleaning and property damage are the most common reasons landlords make deposit deductions, according to data released by The Deposit Protection...

Leading portals Zoopla and OnTheMarket have today announced that they will both be advertising agents' rental property listings on Facebook Marketplace. Marketplace...

A London council has fined a letting agency over £10,000 for failing to install smoke alarms in a rental property. Waltham Forest...

Rent recognition platform CreditLadder, which enables renters to add their payments to their credit history, has announced a partnership which aims...

Lettings sector energy firm Spark has announced that it is launching a business-to-business energy service which will initially target high street...

The police have launched a fraud probe against a Norfolk estate agency which closed in June.  The Eastern Daily Press (EDP) reports...

The House of Commons has published a briefing paper on tenancy deposit schemes ahead of the Report Stage of the Tenant...

The chief commercial officer of PropTech startup Canopy says that letting agents and Build to Rent landlords need to accommodate the...

A landlord has been hit with a total fine of almost £40,000 for breaching House in Multiple Occupation (HMO) management regulations. David...

High end agency Knight Frank is reorganising a regional lettings division in a bid to create a ‘hub’ system which should...

The New Forest district council in Hampshire is appealling to letting agents and private tenants to sign up to its Private...

Generation Rent, the controversial pressure group campaigning alongside Shelter and others for the scrapping of landlords’ rights to evict under Section...

In what seems to be increasingly rare good news for the private rental sector, ARLA says demand from new tenants has...

Last week Shelter and the National Housing Federation took a swipe at lettings agents, and now Citizens Advice has joined the...

Belvoir says more landlords are selling up and fewer newcomers are investing in the private rental sector because of increased legislation...

The ongoing debate over some letting agents and landlords allegedly refusing to accept tenants in receipt of housing benefit has now...

A London local authority is looking for the landlord of a bungalow which had two bedrooms but was home to 15...

Lettings agents for or against the government’s proposals for longer tenancies have only a very short time left to respond to...

The National Approved Lettings Scheme has issued a sharp rebuke to Shelter and the National Housing Federation following their controversial ‘End...

The mystery surrounding a lettings and estate agency on the island of Guernsey offers an insight into a system where companies...

Lettings agents’ representatives have hit back at an accusation of discrimination made against the industry. A report by Shelter and the National...

The campaign group Generation Rent is back on the warpath in opposition of Section 21, which it describes as “the leading...

Two independent agencies have joined forces in a bid to minimise damage caused by next year’s ban on fees levied on...

The council behind a controversial private rental sector licensing scheme is trying to justify its introduction on health and safety grounds. On...

There’s more evidence today that the largest buy to let investment yields are coming from the north of England and the...

The Rent Recognition Challenge, an initiative to use technology to help share renters' payment histories with lenders and credit reference agencies,...

The Scottish Government’s private rental reforms are shaking up the sector according to new data, which reveals rental property sales have...

LetsBid, a digital online auction service for lettings and sales, has extended its pre-screening service for agents with a new agreement...

A Luton lettings agency and its director, plus a landlord, have all been found guilty of offences related to a breach...

The chief executive of mydeposits has hit back at a Which? report calling for reform - or possibly even replacement -...

Agents and others wishing to respond to the official consultation on government proposals for longer tenancies have only until late evening...

The government has outlined increases in powers it wants to give social housing tenants - but no details of increases in social housing building. The...

Just under a third of people moving from one privately rented property to another in the past two years had to...

Rent rises in the private rental sector have merely tracked inflation and the Retail Price Index over the past five years...

A leading trade body says EU citizens living in the UK run the risk of losing their rental homes without swift...

The government’s controversial Right To Rent policy is to be challenged in the High Court just before Christmas. It was announced in...

A local authority has taken the unusual step of naming seven buy to let landlords prosecuted in the past month in...

There are now only eight weeks left for agents to apply to join a new statutory register which comes into effect...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents says it’s asking its member to get behind Gas Safety Week which takes place from...

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...

Controversial landlord Fergus Wilson has increased rents on all new tenancies in his property portfolio by £50 a week because of...

A date has been set for the next stage of the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Bill, which is being promoted...

A leading PropTech entrepreneur says lettings agents should be more vocal in providing the government with feedback on council rental licensing...

CityLets, Scotland’s largest online lettings listings service, says it’s business as usual for the market north of the border despite a...

The government has produced new guidelines on setting up client money protection schemes for the private rented sector. They are evidently aimed...

It appears that take-up of an apparently compulsory licensing scheme in one city has been shockingly low - and the scheme...

Chestertons has announced record lettings results for the first half of 2018, claiming growth in market share and increased productivity. The agency...

The former office manager of an estate agency in Scunthorpe conned her employer out of over £34,000, a court has heard. Local...

The government has announced that the Report Stage for the Tenants’ Fees Bill will be held on September 5, the day...

The Association of Independent Inventory Clerks says it still believes there is an opportunity for the government to introduce mandatory inventory...

The number of tenants experiencing rent hikes rose to 35 per cent in June, up from 28 per cent in May...

The ZPG-backed Zero Deposit service is to be used by growing lettings operation Nick Dunning Associates as an alternative to the...

Connells Group says a growing number of small-scale landlords are likely to quit because of the tax and regulation red tape...

A lack of new rental properties coming to the market in London has helped push the annual rate of London asking...

An insurer is launching a new referral scheme for letting agents to market to landlords and tenants as a way of...

The concept of deposit alternatives is gathering pace and now one PropTech firm closely involved in it - Reposit - has...

Britain’s most controversial buy to let investor, Fergus Wilson, has hit back and given his side of events on a series...

One of London’s leading letting agencies says in the current neutral rental market, buy to let owners must work hard to...

An investor has been fined £2,525 after failing to licence her property and allegedly providing inadequate living conditions for her tenants. Adeola...

Which?, the consumer body that appears to be taking an increasingly-aggressive line against letting agents and landlords, has now issued a...

From August 1 Nottingham council is introducing a new selective licensing regime covering an estimated 32,000 privately rented homes. This is an...

A tenant who was ripping off other tenants in an overcrowded bungalow "death trap" has been fined tens of thousands of...

Campaigning group Generation Rent has secured over 20,000 signatures for a petition it says will “end unfair evictions”. The petition, on the...

Newspapers in Kent are reporting that controversial buy to let multi-millionaire Fergus Wilson has evicted four single mothers from his properties...

A letting agent responsible for a property in Huddersfield which caught fire and killed two young boys has been jailed for...

An online lettings agency is the latest to voice opposition to the government’s proposed three year standard tenancies for the private...

Which?, the consumer organisation which this week revealed details of an undercover investigation of 30 viewings of properties marketed by lettings...

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

A new analysis reveals that it takes an average of 118 days for court-appointed bailiffs to remove tenants from private homes...

The pressure group Generation Rent has joined forces with other critics of the private rental sector to demand an end to...

A third of tenants are happy to rent long-term and have no plans to purchase a property in the future, new...

A large majority of private sector tenants, 84 per cent, are satisfied with their housing according to the English Housing Survey...

A gas safety engineer has pleaded guilty with a landlord of falsifying gas safety certificates for a string of private rental...

A specialist buy to let mortgage lender says buy to let investors should act now - even if it means borrowing...

The government has issued a new How To Rent guide - a key document which agents or landlords managing their properties...

The major legislative changes introduced in Scotland’s letting sector are a major turning point but should not be feared, says one...

Yet another leading lettings agent has hit out at the government over its proposals for three year tenancies being the norm...

The British Property Federation says there are now 124,037 Build To Rent homes complete, under construction and in planning across the...

A Tory activist has made an outspoken attack on the government’s policies towards the private rental sector on the pages of...

Two senior London politicians are backing a campaign to scrap the powers of agents and landlords to evict tenants under Section...

Well-respected London lettings agent and former ARLA president Lucy Morton is the latest key figure to pour cold water on government...

Close examination of the consultation document on possible three year tenancies issued by the government suggest that it may want rent...

Three agencies have been heavily fined after a property in London was being used for multiple occupation with 11 people living...

Rural landlords say the government’s idea of making three year tenancies the norm across the private rental sector would damage the...

A local authority has started a one-year trial of a ‘social lettings agency’ which aims to match those at risk of...

A consumer group which conducted 30 undercover viewings in five different UK cities claims letting agents are showing potential tenants around...

Buy to let landlords are welcoming proposals being considered by the government to provide financial incentives for those offering longer tenancies. In...

The latest monthly report from the Association of Residential Letting Agents puts the  number of rental properties managed by agents at...

Leaks from government sources to at least two mainstream news outlets today suggest that radical proposals on longer tenancies and possible...

A students’ union is the latest body to partner a review platform allowing renters to give their verdict on dealing with...

Tenants, landlords and buy to let investors are the targets for new online rental guides introduced by the Ministry of Housing,...

Property expert Kate Faulkner says the massive surge in new regulations, legislation and fiscal measures aimed at the private rental sector...

The chief executive of franchise giant Belvoir says government interference in the lettings sector will be to blame for higher rent...

A head tenant who changed the locks on a property that was illegally sublet to no fewer than 35 men has...

Letting agents and others in the private rental sector have responded to the latest government intervention - a review into how...

It’s been revealed that a church is amongst those owed thousands of pounds by a letting agent who has gone to...

The government has announced a review to assess how selective licensing is used and find out how well it is working...

A trade body says it has evidence that families take up the least amount of property management time when compared to...

The Independent online newspaper says Conservative MP Gary Streeter will tomorrow meet with Prime Minister Theresa May and urge her to...

The government has written to two senior MPs in a bid to clarify two detailed provisions in the Tenants Fees Bill,...

A regional newspaper claims that a lettings agency has collapsed, its boss has gone to ground, and thousands of pounds are...

A collection of rental sector protest organisations is getting together to campaign against S21 powers under which landlords or agents on...

Norfolk-based estate agency Sowerbys is the latest to announce that it is offering its landlords the opportunity to use a deposit-free...

Outsourcing has long been an effective strategy in business. It enables you to provide a new, improved or more streamlined service...

The lettings industry has hit out at the Welsh Government’s proposals to ban agents’ fees levied on tenants. A Bill was put...

An online property platform that last year said tenants prefer to deal directly with landlords has returned to the theme with...

A Bill which is likely to end up banning letting agents’ fees levied on tenants in Wales has been introduced into...

A survey suggests that 40 per cent of tenants have ‘issues’ with their agents or landlords and when they check out...

Multi-brand agency company Acorn Group says it has rolled out a no-deposit scheme to all 31 of its offices “with a...

A Build To Rent business says investors in the private rental sector should be more flexible in their approach to private...

A Member of Parliament who says “the majority of agents” engage in “dirty tactics” when it comes to fees imposed on...

A trade body is advising landlords and agents acting on their behalf to take precautions to protect their investments if they...

A council leader in London, so outraged after a bust of a rogue lettings property, has asked: “What kind of monster...

The chief of what is described as Britain’s largest lettings agency has told an influential group of MPs that the proposed...

A prominent PropTech startup is questioning whether long-term tenants need to go through the traditional referencing process when moving between rental...

A campaign opposing the government’s recent tax changes which have penalised buy to let investors has taken a leaf out of...

The High Court has this afternoon agreed to allow a judicial review of the government’s Right to Rent policy. Right to Rent...

The Residential Landlords Association has reiterated its support for a legal challenge to Right To Rent which is to be made...

Renee Wells, on behalf of Just Landlords, has compiled a list of what letting agents can do to ensure that tenants...

A leading PropTech entrepreneur has renewed his call for letting agents to use more technology to clean up their act when...

The controversial Right To Rent regime whereby agents and landlords are expected to check the immigration status of would-be tenants is...

An adjudicator with the Tenancy Deposit Scheme has given advice on how to avoid disputes over gardening this summer. Writing on the...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents says it is seeing the highest number of landlords selling their buy to let properties...

Two million tenants will this year be hit with rent rises totalling a combined £46m a month according to an online...

A Build To Rent company that scrapped deposits for tenants a year ago says it has saved renters almost £3m in...

A major Scottish property management firm says agents and landlords south of the border should prepare now for the likely agency...

A high-profile landlord says the upcoming ban on letting agent fees 'can't come soon enough'. Writing a column in the Evening Standard's...

Figures from the Home Office show that as of the end of March, a total of 405 fines for non-compliance with...

The government has responded to a petition calling for it to abolish the 3% stamp duty surcharge and reintroduce full buy-to-let...

A new study has revealed that the key reason tenants move between rental properties is to experience a different area. This is...

Data from Your Move's England and Wales Rental Tracker shows that the number of tenants in arrears increased for the fourth...

A national charity is calling on the government to tighten the 'default fees' clause which is part of the Tenant Fees...

Foxtons has lost an appeal against the £35,000 fine it was hit with at the end of last year.  The agency was...

Today Trading Standards teams across the country will highlight the work they do to protect landlords and tenants from rogue letting...

Flatsharing website Ideal Flatmate has passed the seed funding milestone of £1 million. The website - which includes former Green & Co...

A lettings agency that started life as an idea between two friends 15 years ago is now celebrating managing over £100m...

A rental sector supplier claims huge numbers of tenants are extremely ignorant of the health and safety issues surrounding their rental...

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

Spicerhaart says that with the lettings agency industry under attack there is a danger of some within the sector focussing too...

A prominent campaigner for alternatives to traditional rental sector deposits is welcoming the government’s commitment to consider the issue in the...

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

A bid to allow good tenants’ rent records count towards their creditworthiness has taken a step forward thanks to Big Issue...

A trade body has stepped up its calls on government to help the lettings industry do more for older renters. Responding to...

Older people aged 40 and above are now almost twice as likely to be renting their home from a private landlord...

A local authority has described a lettings property as “a real House of Horrors that put the health and safety of...

Countrywide - which is making the lettings sector a key part of its ‘back to basics’ programme - is proposing to...

We’re delighted to announce that Elaine Kellington from Kelso in the Scottish Borders is winner of the Landlord Of The Year...

The government has confirmed that all property agents in England will need to be part of an approved Client Money Protection...

How much more of it would you have if you could do all your month-end payments and reconciliations in a couple...

The industry has reacted angrily to the announcement yesterday that the Tenants’ Fees Bill is now formally starting its progress through...

The new Home Secretary Sajid Javid is being urged to look again at the Right To Rent policy and produce “a...

The government has announced that it’s launching a review into the requirement for carbon monoxide alarms in homes across England. The review...

Private rental sector tenants have spent the year so far working only to pay for their accommodation, the BBC claims.  The broadcaster...

A new survey of tenants suggests many know little about essential maintainance of their property, and often fail to check the...

New guidance over Right To Rent, issued by the government in what appears to be a panic response to the Windrush...

One of Britain’s best known lettings agents has hit back at a journalist’s claims that the industry is in danger of...

Research by a prominent letting agency suggests that the majority of renters in his city would be happy to sign tenancy...

The lettings market remains steady with demand roughly unchanged in March compared to the previous month according to the latest figures...

Some 42 per cent of tenants regard the eco-friendliness of a property as key when choosing whether or not to rent...

Central London agency Portico has removed a property listing from Rightmove after intervention by the Advertising Standards Authority. The ASA received a...

A survey suggests that the ability to have a pet in a rental property is more important than ease of parking...

Labour insists that if it forms the next government it will introduce ‘living rents’ in a new range of affordable homes...

A buy to let investor has been found guilty of 35 HMO-related offences - and has to pay a total fine...

A leading property law specialist has warned that many buy to let investors remain unaware of the new Minimum Energy Efficiency...

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...