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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...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has appointed Victor Olowe as the chair of its new Valuation Assurance Committee. Oluwe is a...

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

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

The trade body representing the Build To Rent industry wants to recruit people from that sector to sit in its board. The...

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

Propertymark is urging agents to get ahead of the curve and be ready for the next big initiative - Regulation.  Propertymark has...

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

The Open Property Data Association has released a new version of its property data standards framework to help letting agents comply...

Labour is using a Bill currently going through Parliament as a backdoor method to introduce the regulation of lettings, estate and...

The prominent independent advisor ISS - Institutional Shareholder Services - has publicly backed the OnTheMarket board and is recommending shareholders vote ‘for’...

The Belvoir franchise giant has scooped a London Stock Exchange award for business, environmental, governance and social issues. It’s won the Best...

The Head of the National Trading Standards Scams Team is one of two new non-executive directors at The Property Ombudsman. Louise Baxter...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Ross Nichols, and it says i’m Co-Founder at Just Move...

Newcastle-based lettings agency Seekers has successfully qualified a further four members of staff and funded their membership of ARLA Propertymark. The four...

Connells Group is making a bid to win business in the Build To Rent sector, launching what it calls “the UK’s...

Propertymark wants letting agents to join its leadership team and ambassadorial positions. The trade body says it is seeking new directors for...

The Property Redress Service claims to be the largest lettings redress service now, with over 13,250 letting agency branches on board. In...

Purplebricks is set to cut 10 per cent of its staff within hours according to The Times. The company is reportedly laying...

One of the two official redress bodies, the Property Redress Scheme, has announced a beefed up advisory panel with a substantial...

The National Audit Office has made scathing criticisms of government efforts to build more affordable housing. The public spending watchdog says the...

The government is intervening further in the running of Liverpool council, which operates a controversial private rental sector licensing scheme. Housing Secretary...

Within two hours of Greg Clarke being appointed by Boris Johnson as the new Housing Secretary, the leader of Generation Rent...

Franchise giant Belvoir has named a former chief executive of a major housebuilder as a non-executive director, to help with the...

Agents should not wait until regulation and legislation improve the rental sector - they should be doing so voluntarily.  That’s the view...

A property entrepreneur critical of the quality of traditional buy to let says the government should create a Minister for Renting...

Propertymark, which will from later this year combine both the National Association of Estate Agents and the Association of Residential Letting...

The Liberal Democrats is the first of the major parties to release its party manifesto for the December 12 manifesto, and...

The government has published proposals for far-reaching changes to the way estate and letting agents are regulated, trained and licensed. The proposals...