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Eight fledgling UK PropTech have been selected for the Propertymark-linked  REACH UK 2024 technology scale-up program. The REACH UK program, launched in March...

Edinburgh-based property portal ESPC has revealed the top-performing Edinburgh postcodes in terms of rental yields, for the second quarter of 2024. The...

A council has taken over powers for enforcement in the private rental sector - and it’s started off with a warning...

It’s been revealed by Propertymark that HM Revenue & Customs has fined agents over £1.6m for branches of anti-money laundering regulations. The...

More than 20 property organisations and professionals have been named as finalists in a regional agency awards event. The winners of six...

One in 10 UK tenants are now spending at least 60% of their take home salary on their rent, according to...

An agency has issued a statement massively congratulating itself on its own social media strategy. Fine & Country doesn't go easy on...

The Fine & Country Foundation says it’s reached almost £1m since its inception in 2014.  Jon Cooke, trustee of the foundation, says:...

The number of buy to let property purchases in the UK fell 14% from 224,700 in 2022/23 to 193,700 in the...

Leicester based student accommodation provider, Sulets - formally Student Union Lettings Ltd - has won a Platinum award from Investors in People.  Only...

The Bank of England has cut base rate from 5.25% to 5.0% - its first cut in four years. It was a...

Fine & Country is holding a recruitment open evening in its flagship office on Park Lane in London next month.  Managing director...

Fine & Country is expanding its operations thanks to two brothers. From Thursday this week the brothers James and Henry Carver, who...

A court has heard that a trusted lettings manager was discovered to have been diverting company funds to her personal bank...

Actual lettings and sales clients were contacted during a training event led by a renowned property industry coach. Fine & Country hosted...

The government’s renewed pledge to end Section 21 eviction powers for agents and landlords is fine, a leading industry figure has...

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

Labour’s proposed planning reforms indicates that the new government is serious about change and grasping the nettle on housebuilding. That’s the view...

Leading property players and analysts suggest that the lacklustre housing market figures produced by the Halifax over the weekend owe more...

Fines totalling £108,000 have been issued to letting agents and landlords breaching HMO rules in part of London.  An additional HMO licensing...

Paying staff too little is a sure-fire way to hinder growth and profits, according to letting expert and former ALRA President,...

Fine & Country - the agency which was recently put up for sale - is hosting a webinar next week to...

Three directors from two letting agencies and a landlord have been fined £27,500 after failing to secure the appropriate license for...

The Property Franchise Group, which calls itself the UK’s largest multi-brand property franchisor, says its merging with lettings giant Belvoir has...

More details have emerged of the deal - reported on Letting Agent Today and Sky News on Sunday - for Property...

The Property Franchise Group is buying the Fine and Country chain, plus the membership body the Guild of Property Professionals. The deal is worth...

A lettings agency trading as Bowden Property Group Ltd has been fined £4,000 and £1,470 for failing to protect two tenancy...

A mortgage lender claims many potential first time buyers are missing out because they don’t understand the concept of shared ownership. Just...

Letting agents believe Help to Buy has been the most positive influence to the property market in recent times, while on...

Two London agents who traded fraudulently through their lettings business and scammed victims out of over £24,000 have been sentenced. After a...

A housing company has been fined £528,000 after an employee repairing a fence post inadvertently struck an underground cable, suffering burns...

The head of a lettings agency in Kent says it would be a “practical solution” for second home owners to become...

Fine & Country says it’s staging so-called Masterclass sessions with experts creating strategies “to help agents dominate the prime property market...

Recent substantial fines issued by HMRC are a harsh reminder to agents to ensure that their Anti-Money Laundering policies are up...

A statement from a city council claims that a property company failed to attend court in a case of deposit protection,...

The UK's rental market is experiencing a slowdown says a lettings chief. Nicky Stevenson, Managing Director of Fine & Country notes that...

A representative of the National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agents team has told agents to accept new rules about material...

Burns & Webber, a long-established name in the Surrey property market, is rebranding by adopting its parent company’s name, Curchods.  The four...

A fledgling trade body has introduced what it calls “principles for a new Build to Rent Code of Practice that will...

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

A group founded eight years ago to represent the Build To Rent niche has now rebranded in a bid to win...

There’s been a rise of over 400 per cent in the monetary total of fines issued for Right To Rent offences...

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

Property professionals have less than 48 hours to submit entries for the Midlands PROPs Awards.  The search for the very best of...

Propertymark is urging the Sunak government to introduce specialist housing courts with expert Judges who can expedite cases and create a...

The number of private tenants in properties that are hard to heat has fallen, a council claims. As agents will know private...

A property management firm claims that energy efficiency is apparently renters’ most important quality when choosing a place to live.  Centrick says...

Propertymark is hosting a webinar where Scott Bailey - policy manager at the Home Office - will answer questions on Right...

Fines for agents and landlords who breach Right To Rent rules increase today from £80 per lodger and £1,000 per occupier...

The UK rental market is experiencing a gradual easing in demand, marking a shift from the peak levels witnessed in recent...

The controversial minister who steered rent controls through the Scottish Parliament has contacted Propertymark to reveal details of the next stage. Patrick...

ARLA Propertymark has urged letting agents to take breaches of the Information Commissioner’s Office’s  data protection principle regarding GDPR seriously.   The call comes...

Housing Secretary Michael Gove has given what some commentators have interpreted as a sign that private rental sector licensing from councils...

Repairs and maintenance supplier Fixflo is warning agents of a surge in demand for Electrical Installation Condition Reports in the short...

The Fine & Country Foundation’s Annual Carols by Candlelight concert, held in collaboration with King's College Cambridge, has raised £21,061. This will...

Next year will see “a strong resurgence” in the rental market, a leading agent predicts. Nicky Stevenson, Managing Director of Fine &...

A lettings agency has pleaded guilty to seven offences relating to an HMO. IHomes Letting Limited has been fined £16,970 for failing...

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

More multi-millionaires and billionaires are choosing to rent super-prime homes in London, rather than purchase, reveals a new wealth report Beauchamp Estates’...

Franchise giant Belvoir is the latest agency group to sign a deal with geospatial technology firm Kamma. The partnership will offer all...

Changes put forward to the Renters Reform Bill to crack down on rogue landlords, protect vulnerable residents and improve the safety of...

Propertymark has called on the government to retain the option of fixed-term tenancies in the private rental sector where it is...

The UK lettings market, after experiencing recent surges in prices, is now displaying signs of returning to its seasonal patterns.  This is...

The autumn roadshow being hosted by Fine & Country resumes next week with the first of six dates throughout the rest...

PropTech firm Kamma - which specialises in information about landlord licensing - has inked another partnership. This latest link is with Goodlord.  Kamma’s...

An overwhelming number of letting and sales agents back the idea of more so-called Material Information on property details.  That’s according to...

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

Harlow council says it wants to take a harder line against agents and landlords who knowingly let unsafe and substandard properties...

Media reports in Brighton say that a lettings agency which serve tenants with illegal eviction notices and unjustified legal threats has...

A high profile lettings agent has written to his local council seeking information about an Additional Licensing scheme which has expired...

Local media on the south coast are reporting that a lettings agent crashed his Bentley into two parked cars and then...

The Scottish Government is proposing to give local councils the discretion to charge Council Tax premiums of up to 100 per...

An agency has been fined by a London council for failing to licence a property it was managing. Gracechurch Property Services has...

New directives issued by the government put the emphasis firmly on private landlords and their letting agents to take responsibility for...

Following the merger of the South Scotland and North Cumbria branches of Fine & Country, the  agency has added a further...

Law firm Brevis Law is shedding light on the difficulties agents and landlords have in meeting Right To Rent requirements in...

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

Fine & Country has announced what it calls “a ground-breaking partnership” between licencees Jonathan Handford and Sean Newman and Jack Rees...

A new northern version of a popular property awards ceremony makes its debut this autumn. The North West PROPS, a northern-focused version...

Propertymark chief executive Nathan Emerson says the lettings market is defined now by the “alarming disparity” between demand and supply. In the...

A respected measure of investor confidence says it’s on the rise as a result of growing optimism over UK inflation figures...

Agents representing landlords of HMOs In Portsmouth are being warned by the council that their need to be licensed or face...

Agents who allow rental properties to be let to migrants who do not have the right to be in the UK...

Propertymark has issued another plea to the government to be fair to the private rental sector - this time regarding a...

PropTech Kamma has entered into a partnership with agency and consultancy JLL. This means JLL’s UK residential agents will have access to...

The average Anti-Money Laundering fine issued to estate agents for non-compliance in 2022-23 is almost half as large again as in...

A landlord who is also the owner of a High Street lettings agency has been fined £17,293 for breaching housing licence...

A property firm which admitted misleading tenants on their rights and threatening them to leave has been ordered to pay £8,000. Four...

A property company director who admitted misleading tenants on their rights and threatening them to leave has been ordered to pay...

London letting agents and landlords have so far been hit with more than £900,000 in fines in the first half of...

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...

Three property management companies and a landlord have been fined approaching £80,000 for health and safety failings. Mohammed Ali Abbas Rasool, Cadogan...

Six letting agencies across the London borough of Haringey have been fined a total of £12,000 after a council clampdown. Trading Standards...

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

Lettings chain Fine & Country says rents are likely to steadily rise through the summer. Nicky Stevenson, managing director of Fine &...

A management company and a lettings agency involved in running a London HMO have been prosecuted for fire safety failures. Monsoon Properties...

The Competition and Markets Authority is beefing up its enforcement work against illegal cartels and offering a reward of up to...

I was surprised the other day to read statistics from the English Housing Survey about how many landlords use letting agents. In...

A holiday lettings agency has come out fighting on behalf of its clients. Following calls by local leaders in Cornwall and Devon...