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Data from in-the-news agency Foxtons reveals rental applicant demand has increased 9% from February, yet is now still 14% lower year...

Foxtons claims it’s reached new heights under its latest management team. The agency has been described as the is fastest growing UK...

The date has been set for the Spring Budget - the last before the General Election.  It’s to be on Wednesday March...

A consultation to introduce boilers into homes and the private rented sector needs ‘more carrot than stick’ according to a prominent...

The Times is reporting that a delay to the controversial ban on gas boilers is being considered by the government as...

A leading property agency is demanding more certainty over new Energy Performance Certificate regulations.  Fisher German says the government should act now...

OnTheMarket has been named amongst the UK’s best employers in The Times Best Places to Work 2023 initiative. The nationwide workplace survey...

At PayProp, customer service is a top priority. Our UK-based platform experts are always ready to go the extra mile to...

We’re only in February and it’s already clear that this year will set the future direction of the private rented sector...

Purplebricks is set to cut 10 per cent of its staff within hours according to The Times. The company is reportedly laying...

The allAgents review website has removed a claim suggesting it had been ‘endorsed’ by The Times and the Sunday Times newspapers. The...

Campaigners who turned on the Prime Minister on Tuesday were cock-a-hoop just 24 hours later when Liz Truss did another U-turn...

Prime Minister Liz Truss says Section 21 eviction powers WILL be scrapped after all. She made the explicit commitment at Prime Minister’s...

The government may be changing its mind on scrapping Section 21 eviction powers according to a bombshell story in The Times. Outlining what...

The Times says some Build to Rent investment has been paused as a result of the rent freeze imposed by the...

The former head of operations at online agency Yopa has been named as East London area lettings director for haart. Andrie Neophytou...

Speculation in national newspapers suggests that the government is considering giving local mayors some powers over parts of the private rented...

The Times has named a member of the City of London’s governing council as a key figure behind rogue letting agencies. Luis...

A radical shake up of the private rental sector is expected to be announced tomorrow by Housing Secretary Michael Gove. The main...

A leading lettings agent has warned tenants against using social media to find rental properties.  David Alexander - head of DJ Alexander,...

There are fewer than 70 tickets left for December 7's rescheduled 25th ARLA Propertymark Conference and Exhibition. Originally due to take place in...

Property is fast becoming a preferred investing option for advocates of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, an investment company claims.  Sequire Property Investment...

The once-popular idea of parents buying a property for their offspring to use while at university, and then letting it to other...

A Conservative MP says he is to declare a “state of housing emergency” in his constituency because of the loss of...

A letter from a tenant’s union is demanding that a Labour councillor “publicly explain” his actions as an accountant advising investors...

The John Lewis Partnership has released more details of an ambitious plan to build and furnish private rental properties. In a bid...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card?  Bal Arora – Managing Director In your experience, what is the...

A PropTech firm says agencies adopting livestream viewing could win more instructions and save thousands of pounds, all the while abiding...

ARLA Propertymark is one of seven trade and charity groups calling on the government to help bail out private renters with...

The recent survey in Letting Agent Today on why many landlords didn’t use agents was interesting and informative. That only 42.5%...

The role of lettings agents has never been more crucial to landlords and tenants than it is now and will be...

The Welsh Government says new regulations are to be introduced to combat carbon monoxide poisoning. The regulations will require landlords and their...

The Times claims there have been well over 200 complaints lodged with redress schemes, alleging that lettings agents tried to charge...

A trade body suggests that the votes of private landlords could decide the results in over 100 constituencies in next week’s...

Labour has dropped its controversial policy under which private tenants would have been able to buy their homes at a discount. Press...

Labour’s controversial proposal to oblige landlords to sell their buy to let properties to tenants who wished to purchase them, unveiled...

A group of landlords in the North East are the latest to criticise Labour's plans to introduce a Right to Buy...

A leading lettings and sales agency in West Sussex is launching a hub-style structure centralising branch activities in a town centre. Michael...

A council tenant has been fined £100,000 and evicted because he let out his flat via Airbnb.  The Times reports that Toby...

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

An analysis of over 580,000 properties has produced a league table of Britain’s best and worst buy to let postcodes in...

Lenwell Property Services, a five-office lettings agency in the Home Counties, is spreading its wings into Hertfordshire with the acquisition of...

Local authorities appear to be at the forefront of identifying abuses of the Airbnb short-let platform and have called executives from...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has signed up its first institutional member from the Build To Rent sector. Get Living London...

An outspoken attack on Chancellor George Osborne’s fiscal measures against the private rental sector have questioned whether he is really a...

A senior Conservative MP is urging the government to give councils the power to issue rogue landlords with on-the-spot fines. Oliver Colville,...

It’s been a bad weekend for the image of the private rental sector with a series of reports and press stories...

Leading letting agency improves efficiency and customer satisfaction with DocuSign. Company’s Top Objectives LSL Property Services is a leading provider of residential property...