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Propertymark has struck a lukewarm tone in its response to Labour’s housing ambitions. The trade body says that to meet its manifesto...

The BBC is reporting that councillors in Manchester have launched a series of attacks on users of Airbnb and other short...

A ban on so-called bidding wars, which Labour now proposes, would have to include letting agents as well as landlords a...

The next Government should create a separate Ministry of Housing and encourage MPs of all parties to work together to solve...

Reapit has launched a new feature to help agents comply with material information guidelines from the National Trading Standards Estate and...

Shelter has spoken out in favour of what it calls “bold” commitments by Labour on the private rental sector and house...

Agents, and others in the lettings industry, have given a sceptical response to the Conservative manifesto and its varied pledges about...

Propertymark is urging the government to tackle the problem of banks closing down undesignated or pooled client accounts of letting agents. HM...

A Parliamentary committee has heard that thousands of small and medium-sized letting agencies were debanked in 2023, with financial institutions forcibly...

Despite several fires in rented properties, the government is proposing to double the maximum legal power of e-bikes. A Department of Transport...

A high profile lettings agency has had to pay almost £22,000 in damages to an employee who raised concerns about safety...

Propertymark’s property auction division - NAVA - has given ringing endorsement to the Material Information changes demanded under new Trading Standards...

Agents’ trade body Propertymark says the current debate on the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill is another example of how agent...

The Information Commissioner’s Office has issued advice to agencies on how to comply with data protection law.  The UK data protection regulator...

Parts B and C of the process to improve material information disclosure in property listings are published today within comprehensive new guidance...

A government minister has pledged to act on the threat to lettings agents posed by banks acting against pooled client accounts. Many...

It’s vital for agents to have a process in place to check documentation received at their office, to avoid potential claims.  This...

An overseas agency trying to establish itself in the UK has taken a swipe at domestic agencies’ love of High Street...

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

The Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, is being urged to act now to stop the problems banks are creating for letting agents. Following a...

The British Property Federation, which typically has relatively little to say about the private rental sector, has issued a series of...

Keller Williams UK - which has seen market centre closures in recent months - insists that its lettings business KW Move...

A lettings agency in the Brighton area which describes itself as “ethical” is closing down due to staffing issues and the...

Keller Williams UK, which recently announced the closure of two of its franchise operations, has bounced back with what it calls...

The financial fall out from Purplebricks’ disastrous lettings compliance crisis is likely to be revealed next week. The troubled agency says it...

It’s being reported that a prominent independent agency is to be snapped up by the fast-growing Leader Romans Group. Isle of Wight...

Senior figures in the agency industry have backed new guidance from the National Trading Standards Estate and Lettings Agent Team regarding...

The National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agency Team has published fresh guidance to help letting agents meet new requirements regarding...

Shocking figures have emerged regarding the long-running problems caused by banks demanding that agencies have a designated client account for each...

Trading Standards and the government have jointly announced compulsory new data which must appear on property listings. A property's council tax band or...

ARLA Propertymark has blasted the government over its net zero policy of banning new boilers from 2035 and giving landlords £5,000...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I’m Heidi Shackell, CEO of The Lettings Hub. How has your...

One of the country’s largest lettings operations has outlined the challenges it faced during the Coronavirus crisis. LSL Property Services’ latest trading statement...

Foxtons has made no bones about how it sees future growth - it wants to acquire lettings books from other agencies. “There...

With one of the world’s most successful vaccine rollout programmes under way in the UK, the chances of a complete lockdown...

Foxtons says it staged 300,000 virtual viewings last year as the pandemic’s lockdowns and temporary market closure severely restricted physical viewings. Chief operating...

The head of industry recruitment consultancy Property Personnel is calling on agencies to be more tolerant of the struggles working parents...

Letting agents and the rental market in England are still in business even during the national lockdown already in force. The government’s...

Connells has made it clear that the innovation and technology it has put into lettings are key to identifying the approach it...

The government has told letting agents in Tier 4 areas that their first priority must be the safety of their tenants. The...

An end-of-year market snapshot by the Association of Residential Letting Agents shows the supply of rental accommodation was the highest on record...

The UK Association of Lettings Agents is recommending transparency in relation to the disclosure of referral fees to landlord clients. Last month...

One of the government’s approved client money protection schemes claims over 10 lettings agencies a week are closing. Client Money Protect makes the...

Letting agencies should review banking and payment systems in the light of rule changes and the ongoing challenge of the pandemic. This advice...

Agents have another 12 months to make referral fees more transparent according to an update from the National Trading Standards Estate and Letting...

Agents spend their whole careers telling vendors and landlords why they will be able to achieve a better sale price or...

It’s been an unexpected year for the property market, shaped by the effects of the pandemic. We didn’t quite anticipate the...

Agents are being warned to prepare now for likely controls on referral fees, following recommendations made to the government by the...

The fledgling trade association representing short lets companies wants public cash and other forms of aid to help the sector through winter. Merilee...

One of the most prominent south coast lettings and sales agencies is returning to Zoopla after a five year absence.  Mishon Mackay,...

It’s a year today since the closure of the formal government consultation into scrapping Section 21 powers for agents and landlords. In last...

The acquisition of an independent agency in Yorkshire has resulted in a branch closure and the two staff being transferred to...

Rogue landlords have been accused of tax evasion which could cost the Treasury as much as £1.73 billion a year. The accusation...

Agents and landlords are urged to lobby MPs to highlight the threat of the current eviction ban and to urge no...

Zoopla is promoting 12 lesson plans for agents and other property professionals who are teaching their children at home during the...

Part of the controversial Spicerhaart empire want the government to guarantee that some landlords receive 80 per cent of their usual...

We'd hoped it was good news but in fact it's just good-news-yet-to-come. The Savills office in Wuhan, the epicentre of the Coronavirus crisis in...

Although the worst of the stock market bloodletting triggered by Coronavirus now appears to have gone, franchise agency group Belvoir has...

It’s been revealed that Upad, the lettings agency which closed at short notice in October last year, had three prospective buyers...

New figures just released by the government emphasise the significance of creating a specialist housing court says one of the lettings...

Another online lettings agency has come forward with a deal to help landlords and tenants stranded after the closure of Upad. Last...

Several lettings agencies have stepped up to offer help to stranded customers of the collapsed online service Upad. A notice on Upad’s...

The online lettings agency Upad has this weekend published an immediate closure announcement on its website. It reads: “We regret to inform...

A new online lettings agency called Accommodation.co.uk is looking for franchisees to join ahead of its formal launch next month.  The company...

The number of landlords admitting to not paying tax has soared in the past year, according to new data. During 2018/2019, 16,110...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? That depends on which business card. One says ‘Properganda PR,...

There is a warning that the HMRC’s Let Property campaign, which received huge publicity and attention for some years, has so...

The owner of a buy to let property already shut by police has been fined by a court in Devon.  In June...

A leading PropTech entrepreneur says agents who accept that the lettings fee ban is coming and who plan positively for its...

A letting agent operating in Cambridgeshire has seemingly 'gone to ground', owing landlords and tenants thousands of pounds. Frank Smart, who has...

The chief executive of the UK's largest franchise agency, Belvoir, says the number of letting and estate agents will 'undoubtedly fall'...

A prominent campaigner for alternatives to traditional rental sector deposits is welcoming the government’s commitment to consider the issue in the...

An agent has been banned from letting properties under ‘fit and proper person’ legislation in Scotland, following an incident in which...

The industry has reacted angrily to the announcement yesterday that the Tenants’ Fees Bill is now formally starting its progress through...

The government is being urged by the Residential Landlords Association (RLA) to do more to enforce compulsory fee disclosure. Since May 2015,...

Research by the National Approved Letting Scheme (NALS) has identified that some 93% of local authorities have failed to issue a...

As the industry awaits the delivery of today's Spring Budget, the National Approved Letting Scheme (NALS) has called on the government...

A letting agent whose office closure prompted a police investigation has issued a statement saying she has had a stroke.   The agency, Drake...

Campaign group Generation Rent is running a research project into letting agent fees via a comparison website named Letting Fees UK. The...

A letting agency is being investigated by a local council and the police after it closed suddenly last month. Dukes Letting Department,...

No action is to be taken over a lettings agency which has closed leaving landlords and tenants with a reported combined loss...

Eviction specialists at Landlord Action say county courts are still overwhelmed by the number of possession claims being put forward, a...

A campaign targeting residential landlords has given HM Revenue and Customs an additional tax take of over £50m.  The Let Property Campaign,...

York Council is seeking the introduction of fixed penalty notices for letting agents and landlords in the city who are found...

Police say a man has been arrested on suspicion of fraud following the closure of east of England letting agency Kirby...

Mystery surrounds the fate of Kirby Property Management, a letting agency with offices at Cambourne, Cambridge and St Neots in the...

A letting agent has been disqualified from acting as a director for 10 years following the collapse of his Hove agency,...

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

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