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Propertymark has responded to the formal consultation schemes being imposed by a string of local councils - but says such measures...

In a statement which appears to go against the trend of much of the lettings sector, Connells says it sees no...

Zoopla lettings chiefs have told the government it should tighten up its imminent Renters Rights Bill by demanding all lettings agents...

David Cox, the former chief executive of ARLA Propertymark and now a senior executive at Rightmove, says it’s unlikely we’ll see...

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

Letting agents’ trade body Propertymark has backed a call by consumer group Which? for radical reforms to Energy Performance Certificates. Yesterday we...

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

As the Renters Reform Bill makes its way through the House of Lords, Propertymark has advised peers not to miss this...

A council has placed a Banning Order on a lettings agency operating unlicensed Houses in Multiple Occupation. Trophy Homes Ltd was hit...

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

An analysis of over 600,000 tenancy applications has found that fraudulent applications rose by 140% last year.  The analysis, carried out by...

Managing agents in London have been instructed to pay a £15,000 fine for operating a House in Multiple Occupation without the...

PropTech platform Goodlord has launched a new referencing service for letting agents, offering what it calls ”a carefully curated balance of...

The long-awaited Third Reading of the controversial Renters Reform Bill will not happen this week according to the Leader of the...

Propertymark's latest research report suggests some letting agents want radical changes to the Renters Reform Bill now going through Parliament.  The aim...

Attention estate agents: if you're looking for a bumper Christmas bonus, then maintaining your marketing spend throughout December might just be...

A senior Propertymark official will today tell MPs of the industry’s concerns about the Renters Reform Bill. The Bill has reached the...

Propertymark has given an insight into how letting agents are likely to be expected to use a new Landlords Database. The database...

The government has indicated that the delayed publication of the latest How To Rent document is to be Friday March 24. The...

Marketing firm Property Webmasters says AI is changing the game for agents promoting their services and clients. Chief executive Jamie Arthur states:...

A council is introducing a service which it claims will help identify properties which cannon future be used as private rental...

Foxtons’ latest trading statement suggests that it’s heavily reliant on lettings revenue as the sales market stutters and the whole company...

A north of England lettings agency has rebranded after two decades. Walton Robinson - which specialises in residential lettings for students, professionals...

Marketing platform BriefYourMarket has announced a PropTech integration with SME Professional, a provider of management software aimed at letting agents. Started in...

The anti-agent pro-renter group Acorn has protested outside some agents’ offices in Bristol demanding an end to rival bids for properties...

London-focussed agency chain Dexters says it now has some 10,000 enquiries a year for its rental relocation service. It has 30,000 landlords...

Data from fraud prevention database CIFAS a marked increase in both identity fraud and false lettings applications in the UK according...

Propertymark has given its backing to a clampdown by Housing Secretary Michael Gove on private landlords - although landlords themselves appear...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I'm Vik Tara and on my business card it says...

The Valuation Office Agency, which compiles information on rents as part of its lettings market overview, is asking for help from...

With the private rental sector stressed at the prospect of stricter energy efficiency rules in the coming years, the body representing...

OnTheMarket has agreed an exclusive deal with a training service to offer agents online courses at discounted rates. The partnership means The...

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

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

A controversial database which will allow widespread access to the identities of rogue letting agents and landlords has been backed by...

A high profile lettings expert says agents should use marketing databases in order to grow business. Agent Rainmaker’s Sally Lawson says that...

Since the Tenant Fees Act ban came into force, agents have been responsible for covering tenancy referencing costs, whether that’s by...

Letting agents have been told they must have the right technology to reduce the risk of fraud. Olly Thornton-Berry, co-founder of risk...

A collection of rental experts in a body called The Lettings Industry Council have set out what they want to see...

ARLA Propertymark is warning the government that it should not delay further on its long-awaited Renters Reform Bill, because of the...

A new PropTech platform allows letting agents free access to the information required to set up a tenancy and register renters...

The Tenancy Deposit Scheme says teclet, a wholly owned subsidiary of OnTheMarket plc, has integrated with the TDS API - aimed...

Prospecting tool Spectre has announced an integration with AgencyCloud from Reapit to personalise direct mail letters. Instead of beginning prospecting letters with...

An hour-long webinar this week aims to inform agents how to deter property fraud by greater emphasis on compliance, due diligence...

A report prepared by housing experts in Manchester shows a massive surge in the number of Airbnbs in the city -...

ARLA Propertymark has launched a radical programme of reform for the private rental sector - getting in before the government’s own...

Two recent calls for the introduction of a national mandatory landlord register in England have been rebuffed by agents’ trade body...

Travel Chapter, which owns the high profile Holidaylettings brand, is to float on the London Stock Exchange's junior AIM market. Devon-based Travel...

Independent Liverpool-based agency LPS Real Estate has acquired another indie - Maison Lettings. As part of the acquisition, LPS will take over...

Portfolio landlords can be the key to running a successful lettings agency. That is the latest claim from lead generation software provider...

There has still been no formal response to a government consultation on the database of rogue agents and landlords, 25 months...

A new web-based listing management platform for small estate agencies is being launched in the UK, claiming to allow modest firms...

Average rents in London declined during the second quarter of 2021, according to the latest market snapshot from the  Deposit Protection...

Some 39 agents and landlords have had banning orders over the past three years according to a report in The Guardian. Under the...

A landlord who persistently broke residential lettings rules has been banned from operating in a landmark legal ruling. Julie Stoddern, of Camborne,...

Propertymark has responded to the official consultation on the government proposals called Energy Performance of Privately Rented Homes in England and...

A newspaper claims a lettings agency is battling allegations of overcharging customers and using fake companies to carry out maintenance work. The Daily Record...

Viewber has linked with the PropTech property management service PlanetRent. Viewber offers agents access to an online database of vetted viewing assistants,...

A new report from the Nationwide and campaigning charity Shelter puts letting agents in the dock over the standards in the...

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

Independent agent uses innovative ‘feet up’ campaign to win business. An independent letting agency has invited landlords to put their ‘feet up’...

Generating leads is a crucial and age-old part of estate agency. Before the internet, lead generation was just as important to...

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

A Liberal Democrat Baroness says she is to make a last-ditch bid in the House of Lords tomorrow to stop evictions...

Be proactive, have a plan, and keep prospecting.  After the easing of lockdown measures, it’s safe to say the property market picked...

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

Which? is warning prospective renters to beware scam lettings agencies and scam landlords following a case where £5,600 was conned out...

A Liberal Democrat bid is underway to accelerate the government timetable to scrap Section 21. The Renters’ Rights Bill put forward by government...

An agency and its landlord clients have come to the aid of nurses who are in the frontline of the fight...

Lettings PropTech company teclet has announced that its partnership with the Mortgage Advice Bureau has been extended to offer mortgage and...

Hello and welcome to Wednesday’s update on what offers and advice are available to agents at this most difficult and challenging...

Pressure group Generation Rent claims half of London’s councils did not fine any landlords for letting out unsafe homes in the...

The government has failed the private rental sector says the Residential Landlords Association. In a statement released even before the resignation of...

The government’s hugely-publicised database for rogue letting agents and landlords has been running for almost two years and has…wait for it…just...

A judge has ordered two landlords to pay a total of £14,858 for illegally renting out an unlicensed house without working...

No date has been set by government for the second reading of the Renters' Reform Bill 2019-20. The Bill was announced in...

A prominent buy to let mortgage chief says lenders should be able to access the rogue landlord database launched last year. John...

Another think tank has come up with proposals to scrap Section 21 eviction powers and cap rents - and it also...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents and the National Association of Estate Agents have issued their manifesto for next month’s General...

A collective of activist renter groups has set out a manifesto of what it wants from the winner of next month’s...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents wants agents and tenants to have access to the government’s high profile but so far...

One in six landlords is seeking to reduce the size of their portfolio in the next 12 months and around half...

The most reliable indicator of rental trends in the UK As the largest provider of deposit protection in the UK, our database...

An analysis of rental properties in Scotland to discover the most numerous overseas landlords has discovered, perhaps surprisingly, that they come...

A property education business says it’s targeting a major expansion with the launch of online additions to its nationwide courses in...

The Association of Residential Lettings Agents says it fears the government needs to do more to prevent the possibility of banned...

There’s been a sceptical response to news leaked from government over the weekend suggesting that a database of rogue landlords would...

The Mayor of London is calling on government to introduce a new registration system for anyone wishing to rent out a...

A Freedom of Information request by The Guardian newspaper has produced the startling admission from government that not even one landlord...

An independent letting agency in the north of England is offering landlords two free cinema tickets when they book a valuation...

The news this week that even individual private landlords must join a redress scheme is just the latest in an onslaught...

The council at Brighton & Hove has won an extra £34,820 in public money from the government to help it build...

The Guardian says the government is committed to making a datebase of rogue letting agents and landlords available to tenants. The newspaper quotes...

The Labour-led local authority in Hackney has issued a statement pledging fines or even bans if landlords fail to get appropriate...

LetsBid, a digital online auction service for lettings and sales, has extended its pre-screening service for agents with a new agreement...

Which?, the consumer body that appears to be taking an increasingly-aggressive line against letting agents and landlords, has now issued a...

ARLA Propertymark has launched a new database to help its agent members keep abreast of compliance issues in the lettings sector.  The...

This week marks a major milestone in Mayor of London Sadiq Khan's efforts to crack down on the capital's rogue letting...

Spicerhaart says that with the lettings agency industry under attack there is a danger of some within the sector focussing too...

A statement from the government has repeated its determination to clean up the private rental sector through a series of measures,...