- Written by: Graham Norwood
The Property Ombudsman received a record number of enquiries with 57,635 people seeking support with their property and housing related issues in 2023. ...
- Written by: Graham Norwood
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. ...
- Written by: Graham Norwood
A PR exercise has discovered that 89 per cent of UK MPs would not give priority to Build-to-Rent schemes in their constituencies. ...
- Written by: Graham Norwood
New figures released this morning from The Property Ombudsman show that the overwhelming number of disputes in the past year involved letting agents. ...
- Written by: Graham Norwood
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. ...
- Written by: Graham Norwood
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. ...
- Written by: Graham Norwood
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. ...
- Written by: Graham Norwood
The Property Ombudsman has reported a big rise in enquiries over last year and a huge rise since the pre-Covid year, 2019. ...
- Written by: Graham Norwood
Lettings agency Knight Frank has partnered with accessible housing consultancy AccessiblePRS to improve access and inclusion in the UK’s private rented sector. ...
- Written by: Graham Norwood
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. ...
- Written by: Graham Norwood
Two agencies have been expelled from The Property Ombudsman scheme for failing to pay compensation awards. ...
- Written by: Graham Norwood
A report by the National Audit Office claims that the way private renting is regulated makes the sector unfair to renters. ...
- Written by: Neil Cobbold
‘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 ...
- Written by: Graham Norwood
Six agencies have been expelled from The Property Ombudsman for failing to pay compensatory awards - five of them for offences involving lettings. ...
- Written by: Matthew Lane
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’. ...
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