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Leicester based student accommodation provider, Sulets - formally Student Union Lettings Ltd - has won a Platinum award from Investors in People.  Only...

The government’s renewed pledge to end Section 21 eviction powers for agents and landlords is fine, a leading industry figure has...

An executive with four decades of experience in the insurance sector has joined the board of accreditation service safeagent as a...

The Property Energy Professionals Association - a trade group representing accreditation schemes for energy assessors - is complaining that it’s not...

Energy Performance Certificates can be riddled with inaccuracies and give unhelpful advice to property owners. That’s the view of consumer service Which? Which?...

safeagent, the UK’s largest not-for-profit accreditation scheme for lettings and management agents, has appointed John Midgley as chair of its board...

The chief executive of industry not-for-profit accreditation service Safeagent, says agents do not require degrees to enter the sector or excel...

Fast-growing Lomond has snapped up another regional agency - this time one in the Midlands. Centrick - which had a High Street...

London lettings and sales agency Dexters is the first in the UK to gain OFSTED accreditation for its training. Its academy offers...

There is under a fortnight remaining for agents to nominate for Propertymark Qualifications annual awards, to be held at the London...

A second lettings sector body is demanding government action over the problem of client account closures. Accreditation service Safeagent says the government...

Small but fast-growing agency Propertynest has been confirmed as a British Franchise Association member. BFA members commit to running an ethical standards-based...

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

Energy Performance Certificates must change to properly support reaching net zero, tackling fuel poverty and improving buildings, according to an energy...

Property accreditation service safeagent has written to all of its agents in England urging them to check legal requirements when setting...

A Labour MP has written to letting agents in her constituency demanding they explain high rents and their student allocation policies. Mary...

An accreditation scheme says the government database of rogue letting agents should be expanded.  The government is committed to creating a new Property...

Two senior agents are joining the Propertymark Qualifications board to bring a combined 64 years of experience. Jan Hytch - residential and...

The chief executive of industry accreditation service Safeagent has made another plea for unity within the private rental sector. In a response...

A new and huge private rental licensing scheme has launched in County Durham. A total of at least 29,000 properties, or 42...

The chief executive and founder of an award-winning sales and lettings brand is set to discuss the best practice approaches to...

Lettings accreditation and training service Safeagent is calling on the government to make more public cash available for councils to exercise...

The UK Apartment Association - set up six years ago as a form of trade body for Build To Rent operators...

The number of agents seeking formal qualifications has risen significantly over the past year according to Propertymark.  The trade body says this...

The Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities says the long-awaited Rental Reform White Paper will now not be published until...

Not-for-profit accreditation scheme safeagent wants the government to help tenants clear Covid-related arrears through an overhaul of Discretionary Housing Payments. Enhancing these...

Sulets - a not-for-profit, charitable trust providing accommodation for students - has struck gold. It’s won a Gold award from Investors in...

The Tenancy Deposit Scheme and industry supplier Inventory Hive are working together to provide two new training courses.  Led by Michael Hill...

Lettings agency Carter Jonas predicts the housing market - for both owner-occupiers and landlords - will become increasingly eco-focussed in 2021. It says...

A collective of government appointed accreditation schemes has called on the government to do more to improve energy efficiency in the...

A student accommodation search portal has speculated on how the sector could change in the long term as Coronavirus hits education. “Whilst...

A London council has launched a strategy it claims will protect private tenants and ensure they live in good quality and...

New research pours cold water on claims by anti-agency campaigners that there will be a glut of evictions when the ban ends...

The National Residential Landlords Association is giving the thumbs up to the government’s Green Homes Grant, which it claims has taken...

Accreditation service NAPIT has produced a publication for the rental sector ahead of new electrical safety checks coming into force for...

Reapit is offering lettings and sales agents free training courses for its CRM software.  The offer will provide non-customers with complimentary access...

Not-for-profit accreditation service safeagent says the government should ensure councils delay the introduction of all new private rental sector licensing schemes...

A council says it’s considering lending funds for improvement to landlords who “behave fairly and appropriately” - and buy into a...

The safeagent accreditation business says it has helped secure the conviction of a rogue lettings agent who falsely claimed membership of...

Accreditation body safeagent has announced a new designation for lettings and management agents who successfully pass its NCFE accredited courses. The designation...

A Labour council is leading a trial by local authorities of a new digital platform that checks whether agents, landlords and...

The safeagent accreditation scheme says the next government should not scrap landlord licensing as some trade groups have requested, but should...

Three criminals have been sentenced after pleading guilty to money laundering involving an online lettings agency. The sentences follow an investigation spearheaded...

Not-for-profit accreditation scheme safeagent has partnered with Landlord Accreditation Scotland to provide specialist training for agents north of the border.  LAS is...

A local authority is being warned that its landlord licensing and accreditation scheme is potentially unlawful. The Residential Landlords Association, which represents...

Junior housing minister Heather Wheeler MP has written to Hull City Council to express her concerns about the authority's controversial accreditation...

The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) is threatening Oxford Council with a judicial review of its landlord and letting agent accreditation scheme. The...

Hull council has won a legal case in the High Court against a local trade body, the Humber Landlords Association. The claim...

An accreditation scheme has been launched for the fast-growing sector of short lets and home sharing.  The UK Short Term Accommodation Association,...

Propertymark’s Money Shield service and the National Approved Letting Scheme have each received government approval to operate Client Money Protection schemes. From...

A new free online training course which guides letting agents through the key principles of disputes has been released by The...

Just when you thought there could not be any more rival licensing or accreditation systems in the private rental sector, a...

We are used to stories of councils condemning letting agents and landlords - but now a London council is praising the...

Managing agency Rendall & Rittner has scooped a Platinum Investors in People award, demonstrating commitment to high performance through good people...

The National Federation of Builders is linking up with a lettings trade body to make it easier for reputable craftspeople to...

The government has given the go ahead to what will be one of the UK’s largest selective licensing scheme outside of...

After the series of anti-buy to let measures contained in recent Budgets, it is perhaps unsurprising that a survey of landlords...

At the latest meeting of the Fair Fees Forum, members described the current approach towards landlord licensing as a 'post code...

The National Approved Letting Scheme has launched a new course which it describes as “ground-breaking” and which allows candidates to become...

The first letting agents to have completed a new training course aimed at improving services for tenants and landlords have graduated.    Some...

The National Landlords Association and Residential Landlords Association have joined forces with Leeds city council to create a new accreditation system...

The Property Ombudsman scheme is backing a national campaign to help more consumers find reputable and trusted businesses and services.    Consumers are...

A survey of 1,000 tenants and landlords has provided evidence of what many agents already know - that the growing complexity...

Scotland’s largest professional organisation for letting agents is urging all those in the rental sector to ensure they are fully compliant with...

A group of landlords that mounted a successful legal challenge to a council’s proposed licensing scheme is continuing to recruit letting...

A group of landlords and buy to let investors that has already successfully persuaded a council to scrap plans for a...

We often report local authorities criticising the standards of letting agents and landlords - now here's a quite different story. Letting agents...

ARLA is stepping up its call for letting agents to have professional qualifications in a bid to combat fraud.   In a contribution...

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has criticised Boris Johnson's handling of the London Rental Standard, an accreditation scheme for landlords...

Letting agents in Scotland have started to sign up to a new compliance programme which has the aim of stamping out...

An ‘ethical lettings charter’ set up over a year ago by a pressure group for improved private rental sector housing has...

We’ve seen large numbers of local councils set up private rental accreditation systems, and a string of politicians from all major...

The Property Ombudsman, Christopher Hamer, has announced his support for an accredited landlord's scheme in Sunderland.  Sunderland City Council's Accredited Landlord’s Scheme...

A letting agent is warning of apparently inaccurate information being sent out as part of a new agent and landlord accreditation...

Yet another ‘rental standard’ has been set up a a local council to create what it calls ‘a kitemark’ which can...

One of the Labour party’s London Assembly members has criticised Boris Johnson’s London Rental Standard (LRS), saying it is ‘falling private...

A local council has announced its support for a new scheme which is aiming to improve quality of housing as well...

After celebrating its year anniversary this week, Boris Johnson’s London Rental Standard has been criticised for signing up only 12% of...

Private landlords are being encouraged to sign up to a new local authority accreditation scheme which offers them advice and support...

A group of renters who have formed the Acorn group in Bristol - which has already held protests against letting agents...