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Propertymark is telling member agents to be aware of potential risks and help educate tenants to lookout for common scams, especially...

The Housing Ombudsman - currently active in the social housing sector but tipped to take a wider role involving private renting...

David Wilson Homes has launched a scheme where prospective buyers who can muster a 2.5 per cent deposit can reserve a...

The Renters (Reform) Bill rewrites many of the rules that the private rented sector has played by for decades. This may...

Does the lettings industry cater properly for agents' needs? There’s only one way of knowing – asking you directly. To find out...

Two agencies have been expelled from The Property Ombudsman scheme for failing to pay compensation awards. Thamlet Estates, based in east London,...

The controversy over whether a new PropTech service can be used by agents to charge people to view a property to...

Guidance from Trading Standards suggests that it is possible, in some cases, to charge tenants to view a property to let...

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

The This Is Money website is carrying a story of a London rental property where the front door was left open...

Did you know your deposit protection obligations don't end with paying the deposit? You also need to serve the Prescribed Information within 30...

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

An online agency has denied a claim that it is allowing High Street agents to use its platform to avoid paying...

There is no doubt that the BBC News article in early February caused something of a stir within the Deposit Free...

Three more deposit alternative supplier have issued statements seeking to distance their product from criticisms raised in a BBC investigation. Yesterday we carried...

One of the growing number of deposit alternative services, flatfair, has announced a partnership with lettings platform Goodlord. Agents and landlords can...

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

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

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

An advertisement on a property management firm’s website suggesting that rental income would be guaranteed to landlords has been banned by...

It’s been a difficult summer for Airbnb and other short-let platforms operating in the UK. Recently the European Commission gave Airbnb until the...

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

Airbnb is facing more attempts to regulate its short lets, this time with the European Commission calling on the platform to...

The head of the parent firm of mydeposits is warning tenants and landlords tempted to enter into new ‘no-deposit’ schemes to...

What does it say on your business card? Just ‘Director’ – I’m involved in every area of the business at the moment. What...

The Property 118 website - which last week won a notable victory in the Court of Appeal against a building society...

The Guardian newspaper has taken a perhaps-predictable swipe at letting agents and property portals for the way in which they display...

A signed tenancy agreement is not worth the paper it is written as tenants are blatantly ignoring its terms and conditions...

A firm behind a new rental repair management claims landlords no longer have to pay ”expensive property management fees to lettings...

No one likes to be called and told, your boiler has broken down or a burst pipe has caused damage to...

Earlier this week we passed the official deadline for letting agents to fully publicise their fees as well as providing evidence of which...

Roy Fuller, owner at Everything Lettings’, says:  for just £25 per week you can have in place our emergency helpline 365...