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A representative of the National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agents team has told agents to accept new rules about material...

Leaders Romans Group claims to have achieved carbon neutrality for a second consecutive year.  A statement claims LRG has undertaken “several notable...

Propertymark’s property auction division - NAVA - has given ringing endorsement to the Material Information changes demanded under new Trading Standards...

Rents across the UK continue to retreat from their 2023 highs, falling by 2.9 per cent over the last three months,...

Propertymark has laid out its proposals to the Scottish Government ahead of its 2024-25 Budget next week. The letting agents’ trade body...

An online lettings platform is attacking agents for their fees, which it describes as a “waste” of landlord funds. Hello Neighbour, a...

A landlord who is also the owner of a High Street lettings agency has been fined £17,293 for breaching housing licence...

Lettings agency Hamptons is backing Earth Day tomorrow in partnership with removals firm Doree Bonner International and the charity Mind. As part...

A webinar tomorrow plans to show agents how planned preventative maintenance delivers “staggering growth.” Fixflo is hosting the event which will feature...

A council says it’s using planning powers to try to control the proliferation of Airbnbs, but suggests the real answer may...

Labour’s Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, held a summit yesterday about the capital’s private rental sector - but he did not...

Homes in the rental sector are more likely to have old and inefficient appliances for tenants to use in order to...

Birmingham’s Labour-controlled council is launching a consultation on a vast expansion to its existing HMO Additional Licensing scheme. The proposal is for...

Airbnb says that its so-called ‘party ban’ - introduced in 2020 at the height of the pandemic - is being made...

One of Britain’s largest cities wants to regulate Airbnb and other short let platforms. The proposed scheme in Glasgow follows legal changes...

A property management company has been punished with a hefty fine for failing to both clear up and also keep free...

An Airbnb host who let three properties in a city has been fined for using domestic recycling facilities and failing to...

New research suggests tenants could save an average of £147 per household on their electricity bills each year by switching off...

All private rented homes in Oxford will need a licence from this September, following a green light from the government. Some 49.3...

A council is launching a form on online letting agency which wants to push agents and landlords into agreeing two year...

The UK Association of Letting Agents says new requirements for additional upfront property information should end up actually saving agents time. By...

A London council is urging letting agents and landlords to sign a pledge to encourage tenants to use the local recycling...

A lettings company has been caught up in a case where rental accommodation has been described as “atrocious” and a landlord...

A lettings platform set up by a 24 year old is today announcing an expansion from its Bristol start up to...

Tell us about your role. I am the Customer Service Technology Group Manager at BSH (group brands include Bosch, NEFF and Siemens)...

A lack of longer term rental accommodation thanks to the growth of Airbnb and other short lets has led to a...

Over a quarter of lettings and estate agents say sustainability is just a box-ticking exercise and only one in nine have...

Online lettings agency Accommodation has pledged to plant a new tree for every property let - it has already planting 1,190...

A politician is stepping up his bid to ban buy to let purchasers acquiring any units at a 150-home scheme. ITV News...

A branch of The Property Franchise Group’s Martin & Co brand is stopping potential tenants from booking a physical tour of...

Now is the ideal time for agents to consider their PropTech needs, as lockdown restrictions ease significantly and firms draw up...

Rightmove has set out its innovation programme for the private rental sector. The portal has given over a substantial amount of its...

Over the last 20 years, the growth of online property portals – including Zoopla, Rightmove and PrimeLocation – has transformed the...

With the Government announcement this week of another national lockdown across England amid the surging coronavirus infections, it once again puts...

You don’t need to be Greta Thunberg to know that climate change is a big issue that’s impacting our day-to-day lives....

Recent debate about urgent need for reform and better collaboration within the property industry, has once again come under the spotlight...

There’s no denying it, job hunting can be hard work – even more so at the moment, with all that’s going...

Agents spend their whole careers telling vendors and landlords why they will be able to achieve a better sale price or...

Generating leads is a crucial and age-old part of estate agency. Before the internet, lead generation was just as important to...

A new PropTech tool for agents claims to help weed out time-wasters and reduce the viewing-to-offer ratio. Rental Passport, produced by LegalforLandlords,...

A major north of England local authority wants to introduce landlord licensing for HMOs where three or four tenants live, following analysis...

Landlords or their agents wanting to obtain possession of their property should act sooner rather than later despite the current ban. That’s...

A group of activists in London claim as many as 2,500 tenants are on a rent-strike during the Coronavirus crisis. The number is...

An online student publication is urging readers who are tenants to “go lawsuit crazy” when the full provisions of the Homes...

A leading trade body is voicing concern over yet another council private rental sector licensing scheme - with particular worry over...

A PropTech firm says lettings and sales agents are less efficient because software providers and the wider industry have done too...

The government and local authorities run by all political parties are keen to advocate measures to curb rogue letting agents and...

An east London lettings agency must pay more than £2,500 after a six-foot-high pile of waste was found fly-tipped on land...

Telephone answering service Moneypenny says agents’ missed calls typically double during the summer months while staff are on leave - meaning...

A buy to let investor has been fined £4,800 and ordered to pay £2,200 in costs for failing to keep his...

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

It’s now under four weeks to the introducing of the Tenant Fees Ban across England and the Association of Residential Letting...

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

Two new PropTech services launched, targeting the lettings industry. Tenancy referencing firm FCC Paragon has launched MyMoveIn, an online platform that supports...

What are the magic ingredients for building a strong brand, attracting new customers and building trust with your target market? Gareth Helm,...

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

West Midlands Police and Birmingham council teamed up to investigate a property in the city which was riddled with health and...

The government has set out new measures to mitigate against overcrowded and dangerous living conditions of private tenants in shared homes. From...

A council says it hopes a massive set of fines and costs imposed on one buy to let investor and his...

A lettings agent has been charged £1,000 after telling a new tenant to dump waste left by a previous occupier into...

A former councillor says letting agents should be responsible for ensuring student tenants know how to organise their bins in a...

Agents who review and modernise their rent collection procedures could claim back thousands of pounds in rent, an automated payments platform...

Agents and landlords are unwittingly issuing incorrect Section 21 notices, resulting in thousands of pounds being wasted on aborted possession claims...

Controversial Labour MP Stella Creasy has presented her annual awards to estate and letting agents in her London constituency of Walthamstow...

Bristol council has given consent to a 255 unit city centre Build to Rent scheme to be constructed and managed by...

What appears at first sight to be a low-level dispute between a landlord and a council has raised what may be...

A landlord has received a £5,620 court bill after he pleaded guilty to three fly tipping offences. John Hills - who ironically...

Yet another council private rental sector licensing scheme is being drawn up with the claim that it will improve standards of...

A landlord has been fined almost £25,000 for a series of failings relating to a House in Multiple Occupation (HMO). Birmingham-based Salih...

A proposal to make it easier for some local councils to introduce licensing schemes governing the private rental sector will do...

So you’ve decided to advertise on Rightmove, Zoopla or another online property listing agent. You’ve agreed the budget, made the bold...

The online petition against the government's proposed tax changes for buy to let investors is "a waste of time" according to...

A lettings organisation claims that a council licensing scheme in London will mean compulsory monthly visits to properties being let out. Harrow...

This publication recently reported on Russell Quirk's latest attempt to upset the establishment, this time by attacking the hallowed ground of...