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![Row over government bid to turn renters into first time buyers](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/BuyRent-400x310.png)
Controversy surrounds a government idea - floated over the weekend - to allow renters to secure mortgages with just one per...
22 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![Airbnb supply 'slashed 80% by new controls' - report bombshell](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/shutterstock_2198282283.jpg)
A report being considered by a council says one of the UK’s biggest cities could see an 80 per cent collapse in...
24 August 2023
From: Breaking News
![Forget Elon Musk - Agents told to adopt AI or fall behind](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/shutterstock_638342005.jpg)
Twitter owner Elon Musk and 1,000 other technology leaders including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak have called for a pause on the...
11 April 2023
From: Breaking News
![What now for Housing Secretary who backs a non-starter?](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Forecast-400x310.png)
It’s been an embarrassing weekend for Housing Secretary Simon Clarke - backing a candidate for the Tory leadership who didn’t turn...
24 October 2022
From: Breaking News
![Activists delighted at abolition of Section 21](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews1-400x310.png)
Campaigners who turned on the Prime Minister on Tuesday were cock-a-hoop just 24 hours later when Liz Truss did another U-turn...
13 October 2022
From: Breaking News
![Agent justifies rent level after politician brands it “disgraceful”](/upload/images/PropTech%20%26%20Online/Internet-400x310.jpg)
A lettings agency in Kent has been drawn into a spat about rent levels following a councillor’s comment on Twitter. Liberal Democrat...
01 July 2022
From: Breaking News
![Labour rent freeze aims to “re-direct profit back to workers”](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/Labour-logo400x310.png)
A prominent Labour politician in Scotland has made an outspoken attack on the private landlord sector in her call for an...
30 June 2022
From: Breaking News
![Letting agents ignore social media at their peril - claim](/upload/images/Social%20Media/Twitter-400x310.jpg)
A PropTech supplier is warning lettings agents that they risk being outpaced by competitors if they neglect social media. Craig Vile, director...
27 June 2022
From: Breaking News
![Social media: five top tips for letting agents](/upload/images/library/Social-media-image400x310.png)
Nowadays, we rely on social media platforms to stay informed and updated about topics that are of interest to us. These platforms...
17 June 2022
From: Marketing & Social Media
![MP says Airbnb glut contributing to “devastation” of city](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/HouseSearch-400x310-min.jpg)
A Labour MP says a surge in the number of stag and hen parties in her constituency - undertaken by people...
16 May 2022
From: Breaking News
![Wishing all our readers a Happy New Year](/upload/images/Seasonal%20%26%20Holidays/2022Begins-400x310.png)
The team at Letting Agent Today and our publisher, Angels Media, wish all agents a very prosperous New Year. Thank you for your...
31 December 2021
From: Breaking News
![Merry Christmas to agents, and we’re back next week](/upload/images/Today%20Site%20Images/Xmas%2C%20Easter%2C%20Halloween/MerryChristmas400x310.jpg)
Letting Agent Today would like to wish all agents and their families, staff and colleagues a wonderful Christmas 2021. It’s been an...
24 December 2021
From: Breaking News
![Tax Take: Petition for Sunak to close holiday lets tax loophole](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/RishiSunak-400x310.jpg)
A tenant who says his former rental property has been turned into an Airbnb has set up a petition demanding Chancellor...
06 August 2021
From: Breaking News
![Labour’s new housing chief wants to work with Tories to scrap S21](/img/default/lat.png)
Labour’s Lucy Powell, the party’s new housing spokesperson, says she wants to work with the Conservatives to scrap Section 21 eviction...
02 June 2021
From: Breaking News
![Union protests outside agencies as Goodlord dispute escalates](/img/default/lat.png)
The industrial dispute involving Goodlord has escalated with protests outside agency offices using the lettings platform, and the creation of a...
18 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![Section 21 Abolition - Labour offers to work with Tories](/img/default/lat.png)
Labour housing spokesperson Thangam Debbonaire has released details of a letter seeking further clarity and commitments on the rental sector eviction...
06 January 2021
From: Breaking News
![Activists gather outside city agency after licensing protest](/img/default/lat.png)
Activists from the so-called renters’ union Acorn have held a protest outside the office of a lettings agency in Oxford. A photograph...
19 November 2020
From: Breaking News
![Airbnb’s social media bid to curb short lets anti-social behaviour](/img/default/lat.png)
Airbnb is undertaking a widespread social media campaign in the UK about its attempts to crack down on anti-social behaviour and...
09 November 2020
From: Breaking News
![Lockdown Lowdown - Emergency webinar for agents tomorrow](/img/default/lat.png)
A lockdown emergency webinar is to be held tomorrow to help letting agents get the regulatory and restriction lowdown on how...
04 November 2020
From: Breaking News
![Revealed - why some landlords do not use letting agents](/img/default/lat.png)
Light has been shed at last on the long-running uncertainty about why some landlords choose to use lettings agents and some...
12 October 2020
From: Breaking News
![Trading Standards blitzing students with lettings fee info](/img/default/lat.png)
Trading Standards in one region of the UK is staging Twitter quizzes aimed at students, and asking about agents’ fees surrounding...
09 October 2020
From: Breaking News
![Government demolishes “misleading” Generation Rent eviction claim](/img/default/lat.png)
The government has accused campaign group Generation Rent of peddling “unreliable and misleading” figures about potential evictions in the private rental...
23 September 2020
From: Breaking News
![Eviction ban set to be extended in Scotland - will rest of UK follow?](/img/default/lat.png)
The ban on evictions in the private rented sector looks almost certain to be extended until March next year in Scotland...
14 August 2020
From: Breaking News
![“This stinks” - renters’ leader verdict on Jenrick planning scandal](/img/default/lat.png)
The director of renters’ campaign group Generation Rent says the long-running scandal of a planning decision made by the Housing Secretary...
22 June 2020
From: Breaking News
![Labour silent on whether pre-Covid evictions should go ahead](/img/default/lat.png)
Labour has thrown its weight behind campaigning pressure groups in a general call to avoid what the party’s housing spokeswoman calls...
17 June 2020
From: Breaking News
![Eviction ban puts domestic abuse victims at greater risk - claim](/img/default/lat.png)
The extension to the evictions ban will compound the suffering of victims of domestic violence and anti-social behaviour. That’s the view of...
16 June 2020
From: Breaking News
![Conquering Corona: new info, guidance, links for agents facing the virus](/img/default/lat.png)
Hello: so much has happened since the last Conquering Corona column on Friday. Before we get on with it, a reminder...
23 March 2020
From: Breaking News
![Scrap S21 to provide long term homes, Generation Rent tells landlords](/img/default/lat.png)
A rental activist who runs the Generation Rent pressure group has told landlords that if they are “serious” about providing long-term...
03 March 2020
From: Breaking News
![Shelter boss and lettings agency critic honoured in New Year’s list](/img/default/lat.png)
The chief executive of Shelter - the campaigning charity which has been sharply critical of letting agents in the past -...
30 December 2019
From: Breaking News
![Merry Christmas from Letting Agent Today - enjoy the festivities!](/img/default/lat.png)
This is our last edition of Letting Agent Today until Friday December 27 and everyone at Angels Media, LAT and the...
24 December 2019
From: Breaking News
![Lord Alan Sugar’s ‘home’ used in Airbnb short let scam](/img/default/lat.png)
Apprentice star Lord Alan Sugar has warned about the dangers of short let scams after an American family was apparently conned out...
22 October 2019
From: Breaking News
![Upad closure: rival agencies offer help to stranded customers](/img/default/lat.png)
Several lettings agencies have stepped up to offer help to stranded customers of the collapsed online service Upad. A notice on Upad’s...
14 October 2019
From: Breaking News
![Shelter complains to Boris Johnson about a lettings agency](/img/default/lat.png)
Campaigning charity Shelter has made a remarkable attack on a lettings agency, accusing it of “an abuse of power” over its...
05 August 2019
From: Breaking News
![Agents’ outrage over government handling of Fees Ban documents](/img/default/lat.png)
Agents have reacted angrily to the way in which the government released a new set of rental documents updated to include...
03 June 2019
From: Breaking News
![Union wants its members to ensure Section 21 is actually scrapped](/img/default/lat.png)
A trade union says the government’s intention to scrap Section 21 eviction powers for landlords is “a huge victory” - but...
29 April 2019
From: Breaking News
![Portal boss talks up huge opportunity for agents to hike landlord fees](/img/default/lat.png)
The chief executive of a still-to-be-launched property portal says Christmas may have come early for letting agents because of the “huge...
04 February 2019
From: Breaking News
![Merry Christmas from everyone at Letting Agent Today...](/img/default/lat.png)
Everyone at Letting Agent Today wishes all our readers, agents and suppliers to the industry, a peaceful and loving Christmas. If at any...
24 December 2018
From: Breaking News
![Agency in ‘viewing charges’ controversy has had protests in the past](/img/default/lat.png)
Letting Agent Today can reveal that the agency at the centre of the scandal over alleged charges for viewings has been...
30 November 2018
From: Breaking News
![PropTech service complements checks on tenants' social media posts](/img/default/lat.png)
Good tenant referencing should include awareness of would-be renters’ social media history according to RentalStep - but it says more thorough...
30 October 2018
From: Breaking News
![Agent at centre of Purplebricks row sells lettings side of his business](/img/default/lat.png)
Chris Wood, the Cornish agent who was recently the centre of a dispute with the Advertising Standards Authority, has announced that...
02 October 2018
From: Breaking News
![October 29 - a nervous date for agents' diaries](/img/default/lat.png)
Here’s a date which the private rental sector may want to make a note of…even if it is with some nervousness. The...
28 September 2018
From: Breaking News
![More tenants' social media accounts being checked, claims lender](/img/default/lat.png)
One in nine landlords now check prospective tenants’ social media accounts to try to assess how they may behave as renters,...
18 September 2018
From: Breaking News
![Let Our Tech Do the Heavy Lifting](/img/default/lat.png)
PayProp clients power through their monthly invoicing, collections, settlements and payouts in just a few clicks – whether they're managing 1...
02 July 2018
From: Sponsored Content
![Agents challenge Labour MP: why not show us your evidence?](/img/default/lat.png)
A Member of Parliament who says “the majority of agents” engage in “dirty tactics” when it comes to fees imposed on...
11 June 2018
From: Breaking News
![Just Landlords’ Landlord Hero Competition – Ask Your Tenants to Nominate You!](/img/default/lat.png)
There are plenty of helpful and reliable professionals in the letting industry, however it’s no secret that there are a lot...
13 April 2018
From: Sponsored Content
![Agents welcome mandatory qualification, new regulator and code of practice](/img/default/lat.png)
Letting agents have responded with enthusiasm to the government’s announcement over the Easter weekend that the industry would in future have...
03 April 2018
From: Breaking News
![Donation made to Auschwitz Memorial after accidental use of image](/img/default/lat.png)
A representative of the Landlords’ Union has posted an apology on the Property118 website for accidentally using a photograph of the...
23 January 2018
From: Breaking News
![Letting agency told to 'educate student tenants to keep bins tidy'](/img/default/lat.png)
A former councillor says letting agents should be responsible for ensuring student tenants know how to organise their bins in a...
04 January 2018
From: Breaking News
![Government begins tweeting that it's banning letting agents' fees](/img/default/lat.png)
The government has started tweeting that it is to ban letting agents’ fees in England - but still isn’t revealing when...
04 January 2018
From: Breaking News
![Show Off your Staged Properties for the Chance to Win](/img/default/lat.png)
The lettings market typically heats up in autumn, with landlords and tenants back off their holidays and ready to start the...
23 October 2017
From: Sponsored Content
![Surprise as Shelter queries whether rent controls would really work](/img/default/lat.png)
The housing charity Shelter - which in recent years has been aggressively critical of letting agencies and landlords in the private...
29 September 2017
From: Breaking News
![Purplebricks sticks the knife in after Winkworth fee controversy](/img/default/lat.png)
Hybrid agency Purplebricks has entered the debate over the £835.38p reportedly charged by a branch of Winkworth when it changed the...
20 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![Happy Easter from everyone at Letting Agent Today](/img/default/lat.png)
All good wishes for a happy and successful Easter for everyone in the industry from Letting Agent Today, and from our publisher...
13 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![Henry Pryor in dramatic Twitter bust-up over 'Tenant Tax'](/img/default/lat.png)
Prominent market commentator and buying agent Henry Pryor has been involved in a Twitter spat over whether the changes to mortgage...
05 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![Airbnb offers free accommodation to those hit by Trump ban](/img/default/lat.png)
Airbnb’s co-founder says his short-lets platform will provide free housing “to refugees and anyone not allowed in the US.” The offer, made...
30 January 2017
From: Breaking News
![Agents - do you use social media to help vet your tenants?](/img/default/lat.png)
An interesting article in London’s Evening Standard free-newspaper reveals that an increasing number of letting agents appear to be using social...
27 January 2017
From: Breaking News
![Industry group disowns 'death' comments after Private Eye story](/img/default/lat.png)
At the end of an already-challenging week for the industry, a landlord group has distanced itself from comments made in its...
25 November 2016
From: Breaking News
![Twitter debate tomorrow to inform agents on S21 regulations](/img/default/lat.png)
Repair reporting specialist Fixflo and software provider VTUK are teaming up to provide what is believed to be the first Twitter debate...
15 November 2016
From: Breaking News
!['Rightmove Addict' Twitter star joins fast-growing industry training team](/img/default/lat.png)
Andrea Morgan - known to many property Twitter users as @RightmoveAddict - is joining the Agency Mentors estate agency training and...
19 July 2016
From: Breaking News
![New Chancellor has been buy to let investor - so will policies change?](/img/default/lat.png)
The new Chancellor appointed by Prime Minister Theresa May has been ‘outed’ as a former buy to let landlord - raising...
18 July 2016
From: Breaking News
![New research gives detailed profile of 'typical' buy to let investor](/img/default/lat.png)
Research undertaken by one of Britain’s leading rental sector experts and the Tenancy Deposit Scheme Charitable Foundation gives perhaps the most...
06 July 2016
From: Breaking News
![Landlords need to prepare for post Brexit changes in the immigration laws](/img/default/lat.png)
So, Britain voted out of the European Union. What are the implications for UK landlords, from the immigration laws point of...
27 June 2016
From: Sponsored Content
![Twitter debate on rental sector licensing to be staged this lunchtime](/img/default/lat.png)
Letting agents are being invited to join landlords and local authority rental housing experts in a Twitter debate on private rental...
12 May 2016
From: Breaking News
![Twitter hashtag campaign attacks letting agents and landlords](/img/default/lat.png)
A Twitter campaign has been launched under the hashtag ventyourrent to expose what its users claim are the “rip off” rent...
28 April 2016
From: Breaking News
![Letting agency uses Twitter to disown comments by branch manager](/img/default/lat.png)
A London lettings has tweeted that it does not share the view of one of its own branch managers who said...
07 March 2016
From: Breaking News
18 December 2015
From: Sponsored Content
![Competition aims to celebrate agents' everyday excellence to clients](/img/default/lat.png)
The man behind a new competition for agents says he has taken the initiative to try to redress the negative press...
03 November 2015
From: Breaking News
![PRS redress chief backs 'Fair Lettings' campaign on Twitter today](/img/default/lat.png)
The PRS, one of three authorised redress schemes, is backing a ‘Fair Lettings’ campaign being introduced by Camden council in London. It...
19 October 2015
From: Breaking News
![HMRC campaign gets £50m extra tax from private rental sector](/img/default/lat.png)
A campaign targeting residential landlords has given HM Revenue and Customs an additional tax take of over £50m. The Let Property Campaign,...
15 October 2015
From: Breaking News
![Boris backs lettings reform and banning rogue agents](/img/default/lat.png)
London Mayor and Tory leadership wannabee Boris Johnson wants rogue operators in the private rental sectors to be banned with repeat...
08 September 2015
From: Breaking News
!['Landlord Tax Levy Campaign Group' launches](/img/default/lat.png)
A campaign group protesting against the government’s Budget proposal to limit the tax breaks for buy to let investors has been...
11 August 2015
From: Breaking News
![Letting agents could be blacklisted under new regulations](/img/default/lat.png)
Letting agents and other industry professionals are being consulted ver changes to the sector’s regulation - including possible blacklisting of rogue...
05 August 2015
From: Breaking News
![A breath of fresh Airbnb](/img/default/lat.png)
Two interesting developments in the past week have shown how established parts of the agency industry - on either side of...
03 July 2015
From: Features
![Let’s get our act together](/img/default/lat.png)
This month has marked a real change in the way the private lettings sector is perceived - and it’s a perception...
19 June 2015
From: Features
![Society’s Golden Ratio](/img/default/lat.png)
As estate agents, business people and just plain people for that matter, we can't help looking at the way our society...
19 June 2015
From: Features
![Anti-letting agent MP today bids for Labour deputy post](/img/default/lat.png)
Nominations for Labour’s deputy leadership race close at midday today with Stella Creasy, an MP who has campaigned fiecely against letting...
17 June 2015
From: Breaking News
![Property Natter: Networking, teamwork and a fake England captain](/img/default/lat.png)
Hello and welcome to my brand new blog! Every month I’ll be giving you an insight into the varied, exciting and...
05 June 2015
From: Features
![Oh no, not another complaint...](/img/default/lat.png)
OK, you’ve had your fun. Now let’s leave the regulators regulate and work for the public. If you don’t know what...
22 May 2015
From: Features
![Government decides to keep Lewis as housing minister](/img/default/lat.png)
The quick-off-the-mark Residential Landlords Association appeared to earn brownie points for the entire private rental sector by sending a congratulatory message...