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Regulation of lettings and estate agencies must be a priority for the government elected tomorrow, a PropTech entrepreneur demands. Sián Hemming-Metcalfe of...

Two webinars between now and General Election Day will seek to explain what the manifesto pledges mean for the lettings and...

A lettings expert is advising agents that “congruence” is key to successful acquisition of landlord clients. Former ARLA Propertymark president and the...

Your Move – part of LSL, which last year underwent a radical restructuring - is trying to woo existing agents and...

Companies House has new powers from this week to combat fraud. These are measures under the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act...

Email and instant messaging contact details must be kept up to date for HMRC to contact agents about Anti-Money Laundering supervision. Propertymark...

Inspirational broadcaster and author Katie Piper is set to take to the stage at the Propertymark One Conference at the ExCel...

A pressure group unhappy about lack of progress on the Renters Reform Bill wants MPs to be bombarded with complaint emails.  Over...

The benefits for letting agents to outsource their client accounting is well documented, however with an increasing number of options available,...

A managing partner at a letting agency has given an insight into the unique forces which he says is “strangling” the...

The Housing Ombudsman - currently active in the social housing sector but tipped to take a wider role involving private renting...

Rightmove has released its annual league table of busiest rental locations. Wrexham is this year’s busiest, with each home available to rent...

Campaigning charity Shelter claims there’s a conspiracy amongst MPs, landlords and others in the private rental sector to water down the...

A tenant is reported to have sued a lettings agency after its alleged failure to return his £375 deposit. The Get Surrey...

A client account is essential to your lettings business, but the rules and regulations you need to follow to keep this...

Letting agents are currently managing 25 email and phone enquiries on average for every property they have to let across Britain,...

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

The company which owned and was responsible for a five-storey block of rented flats in Bridlington has been ordered to pay...

Interim inspections are a necessity if you want to avoid property issues and tenant relationship breakdowns. They’re a no brainer –...

We compare traditional methods of client money account inspections by an accountant to the alternative Client Money HealthCheck. But first, let’s clarify...

A new PropTech product is being launched today following a year of research involving the Leaders Romans Group. Inventory Hive’s new diary-management/maps...

What objections are you hearing when you try and convert let-only landlords to fully-managed? Because the latest figures show just 18 per...

There’s another free webinar for agents to learn about the Renters Reform Bill next week. This one is organised by lettings-focussed PropTech...

OnTheMarket says it’s the first major UK portal to offer a dedicated contact form for Scottish Home Reports. When a property is...

OnTheMarket has completed a new integration with Canopy which it claims will provide valuable pre-qualified leads to letting agents. The latest integration...

Labour says it will enact a law banning company bosses from contacting staff outside working hours. The Financial Times reported over the weekend that party...

As an estate or letting agent, you may already know that having a strong online presence is crucial for success in...

An online newspaper has named the lettings agency at the heart of a high profile dispute with tenants over mould. The i...

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

The Letting Partnership has been helping UK agents build successful lettings businesses since 2006. Despite the current challenging financial landscape, The Letting...

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

Short lets platform Airbnb - increasingly used by landlords acting as hosts - has issued a warning to consumer users about...

It’s been revealed that agents have been kicked out of The Property Ombudsman in recent months for failing to pay compensatory...

Letting agents and landlords are invited to join a virtual forum for a further update on new licensing requirements and to...

Knight Frank is partnering with licensing compliance firm Kamma. The growth of discretionary licensing schemes across the 408 local authorities in the...

The Observer newspaper has investigated the way letting agents apply so-called zero deposit schemes - and claims that in some cases...

Agents have only until the end of tomorrow, December 2, to feed into Propertymark’s response to a new consultation on the...

A PropTech chief technical officer says the more technology is used by agents, the more they will win leads. Damon Bullimore of...

TecLet, the software platform business now rebranding as part of OnTheMarket Software, has been updated to accommodate radical changes to the...

Five agencies have been expelled from The Property Ombudsman scheme - all for compliance failures. The first is Home Trader Properties, in...

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

The government is relying on the private rented sector to bolster its high-profile Homes for Ukraine programme - despite a series...

The two main reasons that an agency decides to outsource are to reduce costs and to have the ability to focus...

An Austrian-based property management PropTech service, which already has links to Knight Frank, is now launching in the UK. iDWELL, which describes...

A cloud-based software firm that’s been snapped up by a major PropTech company is urging agents to embrace the cloud. Openview -...

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

Agents are being invited to take part in a pilot project which claims it will cut down on ‘back office’ chores...

The two main reasons that an agency decides to outsource are: 1.) To reduce costs 2.) To have the ability to focus on...

A PropTech supplier which helps agents and landlords identify private rental sector licensing issues has announced a new partnership. Geospatial technology firm...

Sally Lawson - letting agent and ARLA President, business owner and franchiser - runs Agent Rainmaker, which aims to optimise agents’...

An activist group in London has launched a scathing attack on councils which it claims have been ineffective in regulating rogue...

A fast-expanding PropTech business has opened a new office in London to serve a growing client base in the capital and...

A London council is urging letting agents and landlords to sign a pledge to encourage tenants to use the local recycling...

A lettings firm specialising in holiday properties is reported to have disappeared with all items taken from its office and calls...

A two-branch lettings agency in Hertfordshire has ceased trading and says it will soon be placed into creditors’ voluntary liquidation. A statement...

An independent agency in the Midlands has set up a club attracting investors from as far as Hong Kong, Dubai and...

Propertymark is advising agents to prepare for substantial changes to the Right To Rent process arriving in just two months time. As...

A lettings agency has gone on the offensive and is publishing landlords who switch from rivals because of allegedly poor service. And...

Zoopla has unveiled a new tenant document-sharing feature on its Alto service, which it says will help letting agents fulfil compliance...

A member of staff at a Connells-owned branch has been quoted as saying the agency had “no lawful basis” for passing...

A London-focussed lettings agency group has paid £2,000 as a result of breaching the Tenant Fees Act. The issue relates to the...

Alto, the Zoopla-owned cloud-based software for agents, has unveiled what it calls “its next generation of functionality.” New features include an enhanced...

Jersey is calling for views on whether the island’s estate agents should be subject to greater regulation.  The island’s Economic and International...

The next episode of the Channel 5 show Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords this evening features an agent offering a supposed guaranteed...

Why CRMs should not be relied upon for contract creation and management. Customer relationship management platforms (CRMs) are useful tools that...

A lettings agency has been prosecuted by Birmingham council for unlawfully evicting a tenant. Principal Homes is based at Great Barr and was...

The telecoms solutions company behind "Phone-in-a-Phone" (PiP) now brings property professionals the UK's first mobile-only business phone system in an app...

Lettings platform Goodlord has opened its doors north of the border.  Agents based in Scotland can now sign up to Goodlord, which...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I’m Vince Demilio, Sales Director of The Lettings Hub What services...

When it comes to gathering evidence for deposit disputes, the need for thoroughness is understandable. However, on occasion some landlords take...

Agents who are members of The Guild of Property Professionals and who have been hit by the uncertainties surrounding outsourced property...

How up to date is your knowledge on notice periods, pets in rentals, electrical safety inspections and lodgers? This year we’ve...

Through our FREE online deposit dispute webinars, we’ve trained thousands of landlords and letting agents about how the dispute resolution process...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? My name is Maxine Fothergill and for the past ‘almost’...

The government has updated its guidance for agents, landlords and tenants to explain the possession action process in the county courts...

A new maintenance management app connecting agents and their tenants allows the tracking of repairs. Refectio compiles tenants’ faults onto a dashboard,...

The Citizens Advice consumer charity is warning that fake investment scams are amongst the fraudulent activity that’s on the rise across...

The government has extended the ‘special arrangements’ for Right To Rent checks - these will now be in force until September...

As we all know, there is an increasing number of PropTech solutions aiming to service the property and lettings industry, with...

We’re only a little over a week away from the Euros, happening at last a year later than scheduled because of...

A new CRM which calls itself as “a transformative new technology” says its latest app aids safety for agents. The latest version of the...

With winter gone and spring now in full bloom, there’s no better time to inspect your property to check for damage...

There’s been a huge 263 per cent increase in the value of fraudulent tenant applications in just three months, it’s been...

PropTech start up Halo claims that what it calls a new “tenant engagement platform” will streamlines the rental onboarding process. The firm...

Halo.rent, a proptech startup from the UK, announces the launch of its tenant engagement platform that streamlines the entire rental onboarding...

An automated payments service has teamed up with a student accommodation provider to devise an eCommerce system allowing simpler rent payments. Vyne uses...

The head of a lettings agency says there are up to 60 enquiries for every rental property he lists - and those...

A council says it’s looking for lettings agencies that worked with a rogue landlord who's been issued with a four year banning order. Bristol...

Rightmove is reporting a big rise in the proportion of properties listed with video content. It says rental listings with either a...

An online petition which appears to inaccurately say private tenants can still be evicted “for no reason” has won 30,000 signatures...

Some of the most prominent names in the rental sector are taking part in a debate on threats and challenges for...

How did you get into property? My grandparents did some small property developments when I was growing up which always interested me,...

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

Over the last 20 years, the growth of online property portals – including Zoopla, Rightmove and PrimeLocation – has transformed the...

Congratulations from all of us at Letting Agent Today - and probably most of the rest of the industry - to Martin...

A lettings agency is in the news because it has asked a student to stop using a specific room in a...

Industry supplier The Letting Partnership is calling for businesses to take on more apprentices and support young people in a challenging...

Agents on Rightmove can now start using the portal’s new appointment booking tool, Viewings Manager, which has just completed its test...

There’s been a flurry of new PropTech products launched, mostly focussed on lettings agencies. Australian-based supplier Movinghub, which works the UK market...

Here is a quick read focusing on 5 things you can check your business is doing while on your tea break....