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Tenants should brace themselves for soaring rents in the New Year, a property expert warns.  The National Association of Property Buyers predicts...

A prominent lettings agent says educating landlords about the need to use agents should be the industry’s number one priority. Agent Rainmaker...

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

The Property Franchise Group says that in the past year the number of managed properties it handles has risen from 58,000...

The Welsh Government has revealed that it hasn’t had time to evaluate its tenant fee ban due to the pandemic. Tenant fees...

A new service has been launched to charge prospective tenants £30 - potentially even more - just to view a property...

The Dogs Trust campaign ‘lets with pets’ states: “Landlords and letting agencies who exclude pet owners from their properties are missing out...

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

Light has been shed at last on the long-running uncertainty about why some landlords choose to use lettings agents and some...

Trading Standards in one region of the UK is staging Twitter quizzes aimed at students, and asking about agents’ fees surrounding...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Nick Lyons CEO What is No Letting Go and what does...

PropTech company Goodlord, already used by hundreds of agencies across the UK, has revealed a £10m investment windfall after its latest...

A newspaper claims multiple councils are opening investigations into agents allegedly defying the tenant fees ban - and at least one...

Almost three quarters of Belvoir’s lettings franchisees anticipate rent increases this year.  In a survey of the franchise firm’s offices across the...

Belvoir, which describes itself as the UK’s largest property franchise, has just released figures showing its 23rd successive year of uninterrupted...

There was a surge in the number of fake lettings inventories submitted last year, allowing tenants to be conned out of...

Countrywide has issued an unusual statement saying that the veteran lettings expert recruited to steer the organisation through the tenant fee...

Welsh housing minister Julie James is to address agents, landlords and other property professionals at the Residential Landlord Association’s Future Renting...

Most landlords are wary of the potential damage, smells and noise complaints that can come with accommodating a tenant with pets....

A rental market slump in September has led to a rise in average void periods across many parts of England and...

An agency in the north of England is continuing its strategy of acquisitions in a bid to offset the effects of...

Franchise agency group Winkworth claims the lettings fee ban impact has been less severe on its agents than on other companies,...

There is increasing evidence of the so-called unintended consequences of the tenant fee ban according to a major regional lettings agency. Linley &...

The tenant fee ban in England has led to a surge in demand from tenants for properties according to Belvoir.  The franchise...

Campaigning charity Shelter has made a remarkable attack on a lettings agency, accusing it of “an abuse of power” over its...

Knight Frank says the number of new prospective tenants registering for prime central London properties in the second quarter of this...

An ‘open banking’ PropTech platform has partnered with two rental organisations which will offer agents, landlords and tenants direct payments and...

The supply of lettings property has begun to increase in higher price brackets in prime central London, leading rents to fall...

A new white-labelled outsourced lettings management service is launching today, claiming to undercut all rivals. F%ur - a brand from 4percentproperty -...

The Guild of Property Professionals has announced a link with insurance product and moving services operation The Lettings Hub. Lettings Hub offers...

The head of the country's oldest agency recruitment consultancy says the tenant fee ban will hit staffing levels in the industry...

The Tenant Fees Act coming into effect tomorrow and banning fees on tenants in England has been given a ringing endorsement...

PropTech supplier Goodlord says it’s updated its core product to ensure compliance with new regulations - and it says it’s offering...

Hunters says it’s opened seven new branches this year so far - well ahead of the three it had launched at...

The newly-formed Federation of Independent Agents (FIA), the network set up by former Property Franchise Group managing director Graham Lock, has...

Tenancy deposit alternative Reposit has announced a partnership with Pattinson, the largest independent agency network in the North East. The 26-branch network...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card?  My name is Daniel and I’m a director at...

An agency in the north east of England is moving its HQ off the High Street and into an office block...

Hamilton Fraser’s Academy programme has announced its next workshop, on May 14, to target how lettings agents can future-proof their business...

PropTech company teclet has announced it will this year once again be a main category partner at The ESTAS estate and...

Belvoir says a survey of its franchisees shows that Brexit is having what it calls “a significant impact” on the rental...

Who are you? I’m the Director of Sales for both the well-known industry leading Today publications and The ValPal Network. Leading publications: Estate...

High-end lettings agency Strutt & Parker says the take-up of new rental tenancies decreased by 5.4 per cent over 2018 as...

Another major franchise agency says its preparation work ahead of the June 1 tenants fees ban mean the impact of the...

ARPM  Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Simon Duce, Managing Director. What is ARPM and what does it...

Knight Frank has given an upbeat snapshot of the lettings market in Prime Central London, based mostly on higher rental growth...

A warning has been issued to lettings agents to review tenancy agreements to see if they are fit for purpose when...

Online letting agency MakeUrMove has launched a new subscription model which it claims will ”ready landlords for the incoming tenant fee...

The number of tenants saying they are using letting agents to find a place to live has increased 12 per cent...

An angry lettings agent has emailed Cabinet minister James Brokenshire to show his disgust at the government’s U-turn over deposit caps. In...

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

A lettings agent says the fees ban expected to be introduced next year may end up indirectly helping to save the...

The Tenant Fees Bill is back in Parliament this week when it goes for its Second Reading in the House of...

Free seminars are to be held next month to help letting agents restructure their business to optimise opportunities in the current...

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

The chief of what is described as Britain’s largest lettings agency has told an influential group of MPs that the proposed...

Letting agents have responded with enthusiasm to the government’s announcement over the Easter weekend that the industry would in future have...

Neil Cobbold, COO of PayProp, advises letting agents to act now to beat the upcoming letting agent fee ban and discusses...

A leading figure in the PropTech sector is urging letting agents to use the 2019 lettings fee ban as an opportunity...

An Essex lettings agent has explained why he has set up an online petition calling for a reversal of the government’s...

The government has explained why the ban on letting agents’ fees on tenants will not be implemented until spring 2019 -...

Government proposals to ban letting agent fees levied on tenants next year are unlikely to make renting cheaper as new research...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents says it is seeing a consolidation of agencies ahead of the ban on agents’ fees...

A family-run lettings agency says its viability is seriously threatened by the likely fees ban to be introduced in 2018 -...

Industry figures have broadly welcomed the latest consultations and proposed additional regulation for the lettings sector, announced by the government yesterday.   The...

A Westminster Hall debate for MPs on letting agent fees will take place this morning in the House of Commons. The debate...

Belvoir, the UK's largest property franchise group, has reported an increase in profit and revenue in the first six months of...

The Welsh Government is now kicking off a similar consultation process to that conducted by the Department for Communities and Local...

With a host of changing regulations hitting the private rental sector, some landlords may be put off using letting agents, but...

The government has revealed that it has received over 4,700 responses to its official consultation over the proposed ban on letting...

ARLA has led a call by many letting agents on hearing the Queen’s Speech - what was the point of a...

A group of letting agencies in Yorkshire have proposed to the government a radical alternative to the proposed fees ban -...

A two-branch letting agent is offering landlords 0% management fees for six months in preparation for the proposed ban on agent...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents says it has so far received over 700 detailed responses to its consultation on the...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is calling on the government to either extend the consultation period for the proposed ban...

A prominent campaigning letting and sales agent predicts that the Conservatives are likely to put their proposed ban on letting agency...

The Department of Communities and Local Government is scrapping a series of workshops for letting agents to discuss the proposed ban...

Housing minister Gavin Barwell has confirmed that consultation on the government’s proposed ban on letting agency fees levied on tenants in...

Citizens Advice has spoken out about soon-to-be-banned letting agent fees charged to tenants. The organisation's 'A State of Disrepair' report says that...

Letting Agent Today’s Conor Shilling was in the audience of The Great Buy To Let Debate - always one of the...

The head of MartinCo, the country’s largest franchise agency group, says the government’s buy to let tax changes and lettings fee...

Housing minister Gavin Barwell says recent changes to buy to let mortgage interest relief and stamp duty will only affect a...

The Fair Fees Forum, a platform for letting agencies and trade bodies set up by the National Approved Lettings Scheme, has...

A Tory MP has taken to the internet to warn against what he calls the “unintended consequences” of a ban on...

The NALS ‘Fair Fees Forum’ - set up before last week’s announcement on the banning of letting agency fees levied on tenants...

Phillip Hammond has delivered his first Autumn Statement, tackling amongst other things, what he called “the housing challenge.” The speech made no...