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The Guild of Property Professionals is launch a new Ezine system for members to market properties to let and for sale. According...

A wealthy landlord who set up a fake lettings agency in Hull has been jailed for 11 years for allowing ‘ghost tenants’ to...

An organised crime group involved in producing and distributing an estimated £2.4m of cannabis has been found to have e used...

A new Bank of England survey has confirmed a growing outflow of landlords from the private rental sector since 2020. The Bank’s...

Purplebricks has appointed a new media agency - mSix&Partners - as it launches its ‘free’ sales offer to landlords and other...

A report being considered by a council says one of the UK’s biggest cities could see an 80 per cent collapse in...

The National Trading Standards Estate and Lettings Agency Team has issued new guidance on terminology used in property advertising - particularly lettings. The...

Hortons lettings agency Hortons has released a new advertisement featuring daytime TV presenter Kerr Drummond - who also happens to be...

One of Connells’ high end branch, Hamptons, is releasing a TV advertisement on Boxing Day.  The advert, in 30 and 60 second...

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...

A lettings agency is in hot water with advertising regulators for using the phrase “What the flock are you looking at?”...

A business news website is reporting that an agency has been ordered to pay £1,550 for displaying a board illegally. Charles Lear...

A leading lettings agent has warned tenants against using social media to find rental properties.  David Alexander - head of DJ Alexander,...

During the last year, the industry has experienced a rollercoaster of highs and lows as agents experienced rental peaks, stock shortages,...

The House of Lords will today discuss the apparently-growing Sex for Rent scandal. Campaigners say a search on websites such as Craigslist...

A lettings agency which markets private rental properties and units operated by a housing association has apologised for its ‘No DSS’...

Rightmove has revealed its new TV advertisement, which it claims will reach 59 per cent of the UK during its campaign...

A new proposal from the government says agents and portals will be banned from advertising rental properties with non-compliant Energy Performance...

Campaigning charity Shelter, which has been outspoken in its criticism of many letting agents in recent years, has now produced a...

A Liberal Democrat MP is seeking to amend the Renters’ Reform Bill to make it illegal for tenants to be offered...

The Property Ombudsman is warning agents not to discriminate against tenants through a No DSS or any similar policy. Following the legal...

Hostmaker, a property management firm working with properties listed on Airbnb and other short-let platforms, has ceased trading with its parent...

Agents and landlords are advised to think carefully before allowing tenants to keep pets, despite a government push to relax restrictions. The...

A London company that has previously had an ad banned by the Advertising Standards Authority has announced a change of name. The...

An undercover investigation by the LBC radio station has revealed unscrupulous landlords who expect sex from women tenants in return for...

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 ruled in favour of deposit alternative scheme flatfair in a dispute which began with a complaint...

Labour is backing new guidelines which ban adverts which can be interpreted as encouraging landlords and home owners to flout restrictions...

A short lets management firm which was earlier this year at the centre of an advertisement controversy is now partnering with...

The Advertising Standards Authority has stepped in following a complaint about an advertisement which claimed a flat was just a one...

The concept of a so-called rental property passport would rapidly improve the quality of accommodation and landlords, and would be far...

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

Airbnb has issued a statement distancing itself from controversial advertisements from a short lets management service. Hostmaker - which describes itself as...

A statement issued by short lets management firm Hostmaker about its controversial advertising campaign has been branded “disgusting” by a campaign...

Airbnb and short let management service Hostmaker - at the centre of a dispute involving a landlord trade body and the...

A company appearing to call on landlords to abandon tenants and instead let their properties to short-let visitors is now trying...

The Mayor of London is under pressure to pull advertisements calling on landlords to stop providing homes for Londoners and move...

The chief executive of Hunters has told MPs there are 19 properties on its books which specify ‘No DSS’ - but...

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

Northwood, which is part of the Belvoir group, is launching a new TV advertising campaign to highlight its Guaranteed Rent Scheme. “We...

An advertisement on a property management firm’s website suggesting that rental income would be guaranteed to landlords has been banned by...

The Advertising Standards Authority has banned an advertisement for a company that helps Airbnb hosts prepare and manage their properties for...

Letting agents and landlords will have to win planning consent to erect To Let signs in student areas of Leicester from...

The Advertising Standards Authority has banned an advertisement by the short let management service Airsorted because the firm was unable to...

The Observer newspaper has published a story alleging that a London lettings agency “pressured” prospective tenants into accepting accommodation without viewing...

A TV news programme has exposed how a sleazy male landlord - who presumably did not instruct a letting agent -...

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

Letting agency Saxons has been fined more than £3,000 after pleading guilty to the offence of displaying an unauthorised To Let...

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

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has started work on a TV advertisement to highlight the importance of landlords instructing agents. The...

A local authority has clamped down on what it describes as illegal advertising boards, fining agencies thousands of pounds in the...

A BBC survey claims that private sector landlords are more likely to accept potential tenants who own pets than ones who...

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

A London couple have used a lettings website to advertise for flat sharers in their property overlooking the Thames - it...

A company called My Property Host is seeking to attract failed sellers to become ‘accidental landlords’ and let out their homes...

A lettings sector supply company has had to amend an advertisment after a complaint about its “misleading” statement over smoke and...

The Thames Valley Police says it wants to speak to a man in connection with an investigation in which a number of...

A council has asked agents in its area to tell landlords of additional planning powers taken by the authority which may...

The internet classified listings service Gumtree will meet with the Residential Landlords Association to discuss scams in which fraudsters posing as...

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

An industry body has asked classified listings online service Gumtree to issue its users clear warnings about possible scams involving fake...

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

The body which issues codes of advertising has issued new guidance for letting agents on how to publicise rental fees in...

A letting agent in London has ditched the usual euphemisms and gone for the blunt approach by describing rooms to let...

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

David Alexander, managing director of the letting agency DJ Alexander, has come across some unusual requests in over 30 years doing business...

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

Earlier this week we passed the official deadline for letting agents to fully publicise their fees as well as providing evidence of which...

So, a sigh of relief.  Most agents will be pleased with the election result - even if they are not Tory supporters...