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A prominent PropTech entrepreneur is urging agents and other in the property industry to engage with those wishing to introduce regulation...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has launched a new Residential Retrofit Standard in a bid to help the housing industry...

Controversial website content by the high profile website GetAgent must never appear again, according to the ad industry watchdog. The Advertising Standards...

The Competitioin and Markets Authority is to probe five activities involving letting agents and landlords and their responsibilities to private tenants. Sarah...

Not for profit accreditation service safeagent has seen two of its lettings qualifications officially recognised by exam watchdog Ofqual.  Safeagent as an...

The Competition and Markets Authority is launching a three month probe into how letting agents operate within the private rental sector. It says...

Housing Secretary Michael Gove has sent a letter to the Competitions and Markets Authority saying the watchdog is independent - but...

The Advertising Standards Authority has banned advertorial material issued by the government department responsible for rental reform and housing. Two Labour MPs...

The Advertising Standards Authority has stepped in to investigate allegations about advertising for shared ownership homes.  In 2021 an advertisement appeared on...

The National Audit Office has made scathing criticisms of government efforts to build more affordable housing. The public spending watchdog says the...

A report by the National Audit Office claims that the way private renting is regulated makes the sector unfair to renters. It...

The farcical implementation of the government’s Green Homes Grant scheme has been sharply criticised by Propertymark. Timothy Douglas, the organisation’s policy and...

Westcountry agency Stags has been the subject of a low level complaint to the Advertising Standards Authority. The complaint concerned fees not...

A lettings agent who wants tenants to take out policies to fund complaints against agencies and landlords has branded the social...

A developer offering a rent guarantee on its homes has amended its advertisement wording after an intervention by the Advertising Standards...

The Advertising Standards Authority has stepped in following a complaint about the online lettings agency Upad. The agency had a reference ion...

Lettings agency Northwood has been told by the Advertising Standards Authority to ensure that photographs of a specific property are updated...

A lettings agency has withdrawn a leaflet which featured a woman’s cleavage; the leaflet had been the subject of a complaint...

Lancasters Estate Agents on the Isle of Wight has been the subject of a complaint to the Advertising Standards Authority over...

Two letting agencies have removed advertisements after complaints were filed to the Advertising Standards Authority. The first case involved LSL Property Services...

An eviction company called Remove A Tenant has been the subject of a complaint after a Facebook post which implied tenants...

Leasehold enfranchisement specialist operator Leasehold Solutions is the latest to welcome the government’s suggestion of a regulatory watchdog to oversee leasehold...

An estate agency in Bournemouth has amended an advertisement after a complaint to a watchdog about the absence of any reference...

Bob Parry Lettings, a north Wales agency, has removed a claim from its website concerning a plot of land, following a...

A rent guarantor operator has changed the wording of a description of its services on its own website following the intervention...

Government watchdog the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has upheld four complaints made against a Liverpool letting agency. The complaints were made against...

Property sharing platform Ace Relocations has changed the wording of a listing on its website after a complaint was lodged with...

The Advertising Standards Authority has received a complaint about a claim which was on an online letting agency’s website suggesting it...

Two complaints about an advertisement for a property have been upheld by a watchdog - which has now banned a letting...

The Advertising Standards Authority has stepped in to ensure that a letting agency displays the correct logo for the redress organisation...

  A letter from the Financial Conduct Authority, leaked to Sky News, suggests that the body is drawing up plans to tighten...

The Advertising Standards Authority has stepped in after receiving a complaint about the display of fees on a letting agency’s website.    The...

A letting agency that claimed it had a 24-hour emergency phone line has changed its advertising - because the service did...

A letting agency has pledged to make its fees information clearer on its Rightmove listings. The Advertising Standards Authority had received a...

Three lettings groups have modified their advertisements after complaints were received by the Advertising Standards Authority. The UK Association of Letting Agents...

Letting agents have been ticked off by an official watchdog for the way many of them handle clients' personal data. The Information Commissioner’s Office...

A letting agency that has been the subject of a BBC investigation and has gone into liquidation in controversial circumstances has...

A letting agent featured on a BBC Watchdog ‘Rogue Traders’ show has told a local newspaper that he is pursuing legal...

A fascinating insight into claims being made against Foxtons by a legal firm acting on behalf of landlords has been posted online. In...

Letting Agent Today last week reported on Lancaster Property Network Management when it went into voluntary liquidation - now the agency...

Government proposals forcing agents and landlords to check the immigration status of tenants risk a serious breach of human rights according...

The Advertising Standards Authority has praised a letting agency after it agreed to amend an advertisement following a complaint - meaning...

The Advertising Standards Authority has banned a radio advertisement for Direct Line Landlord Insurance because it has been judged to be...

This month has marked a real change in the way the private lettings sector is perceived - and it’s a perception...

It appears that the former presenters of BBC consumer programme Watchdog are amongst those participating in a class action against Foxtons...