Property Redress Scheme (prs)

Property Redress Scheme (prs)

The Property Ombudsman received a record number of enquiries with 57,635 people seeking support with their property and housing related issues in 2023. ...
Rightmove has teamed up with the National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agency Team to create a new course on compliance with the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations, better known as CPRs. ...
A PR exercise has discovered that 89 per cent of UK MPs would not give priority to Build-to-Rent schemes in their constituencies. ...
New figures released this morning from The Property Ombudsman show that the overwhelming number of disputes in the past year involved letting agents. ...
A £5,000 fine has been upheld against a landlord who failed to declare himself as a property agent and did not join a mandatory redress scheme. ...
Several lettings agents have been expelled from The Property Ombudsman scheme; they are amongst eight named as having been kicked out in the first quarter of 2023. ...
There’s been a big rise in the number of complaints about agents lodged with the Property Redress Scheme, which says it’s now the largest of the two official redress services in the lettings space. ...
The Property Ombudsman has reported a big rise in enquiries over last year and a huge rise since the pre-Covid year, 2019. ...
Lettings agency Knight Frank has partnered with accessible housing consultancy AccessiblePRS to improve access and inclusion in the UK’s private rented sector. ...
Senior figures in the agency industry have backed new guidance from the National Trading Standards Estate and Lettings Agent Team regarding more up-front information for renters and buyers. ...
Two agencies have been expelled from The Property Ombudsman scheme for failing to pay compensation awards. ...
A report by the National Audit Office claims that the way private renting is regulated makes the sector unfair to renters. ...
‘Generation rent’ was a term first coined in 2011 by the Halifax in a survey on the future of homeownership. It has come to define a cohort of tenants – mostly millennials and Generation Z – who, through circumstance or ...
Six agencies have been expelled from The Property Ombudsman for failing to pay compensatory awards - five of them for offences involving lettings.  ...
An investment firm has flagged up the recently announced move by banking giant Lloyds to enter the private rented sector as ‘hedging against inflation and currency devaluation’. ...
Reeves to slash Right To Buy discount on Wednesday...
It’s been revealed by Propertymark that HM Revenue & Customs...
A regional agent says the fear of further taxes on...
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