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Labour is launching a new Freedom to Buy scheme to get 80,000 young people on the housing ladder, over the next...

The 85 branches of Spicerhaart have signed a three-year partnership with The Lettings Hub to use its tenancy management platform. Spicerhaart also...

The percentage of tenants borrowing money to fund their cash deposits on their next property has risen over the last 12...

There’s a huge number of amendments to the Renters Reform Bill, which has its Third Reading in the House of Commons...

Propertymark has emphasised the importance of retaining fixed term tenancies under the Renters Reform Bill. Propertymark chief executive Nathan Emerson met Housing...

An analysis of tenants renting between 2020 and 2023 shows a big rise in those on high salaries asked to provide...

Propertymark has set out its pro-agency position on a range of issues contained in the Renters Reform Bill, currently trundling through...

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

Increasing numbers of relatively well-paid tenants are being asked to provide a guarantor. That’s the view of PropTech firm Goodlord which says...

A £5,000 fine has been upheld against a landlord who failed to declare himself as a property agent and did not join a mandatory...

Renters are being offered a 100 per cent mortgage by the Skipton Building Society - the first time such a product...

OnTheMarket has bagged Arun Estates, one of the UK's largest agency groups, in a deal involving the TecLet lettings platform. TecLet, an...

PropTech provider OnTheMarket Software has integrated a digital e-signature service, Finch, into its TecLet platform.  The integration within TecLet claims to save...

Lloyds Banking Group and homelessness charity Crisis have joined forces in a new two-year partnership including the establishment of a so-called...

A rent guarantor provider has announced a deal with agency Clever Student Lets. The provider - called RentGuarantor - says the deal...

A new assessment of the private rental sector by guarantor service Housing Hand suggests that tenants paying rent upfront have a...

A team of experts has released a report that responds to government reform plans - and it insists that if Section...

Propertymark is urging lettings agents to familiarise themselves with recent updated guidance to avoid falling into non-compliance. The trade body says updated...

Rental sector support companies Canopy and Housing Hand have announced a partnership.  Housing Hand will serve as a rental guarantor for renters...

A student lettings platform now operating in seven cities is reported to have raised £700,000 in its first funding round. HYBR –...

A PropTech provider has launched a renter guarantor service after claiming there’s been a 10-fold rise in tenancy fraud in the...

The number of prospective tenants asked to provide guarantors ahead of renting has risen by a huge 36 per cent over...

Rental guarantor service Housing Hand has announced a new partnership with student accommodation provider Kexgill. The firms claim the arrangement will challenge...

A lettings platform set up by a 24 year old is today announcing an expansion from its Bristol start up to...

Research from lettings management software provider teclet shows how important 24/7 transactions are in the industry today. Results show that 33 per...

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

We may still be some months off 2022, but property experts are already beginning to make their predictions for next year...

It’s an exciting time when prospective tenants show an interest in your listed property. However, it's important not to let that...

Propertymark has given its support to a free and independent dispute resolution service, the Business Banking Resolution Service, which is being offered to...

A PropTech company says sloppy referencing by agents and landlords effectively means that around a third of prospective tenants are discriminated...

Rental guarantor service Housing Hand claims there’s been a rise in the number of universities enquiring about white label deals, as...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents says the government is willing to listen to agents and other industry players ahead of...

A lettings agency that failed to pay a compensation award ordered by The Property Ombudsman has been expelled from the scheme...

There could be 700,000 private tenants in arrears by the end of this year - an unsustainable burden on agents and landlords,...

The Tenant Fees Act 2019’s 12-month transition period came to an end on 31 May, prohibiting various payments and charges that...

A rental guarantor service claims that it and companies like it have helped keep the UK’s private rental sector buoyant during...

If you think 2020 has been complicated, just wait until 2021: that’s the claim of a rental guarantor service which warns...

PropTech firm Goodlord is for the first time offering ‘bank-grade’ facial recognition to letting agents. As part of an update to its...

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

Consumer charity Citizens Advice has given guidance to student tenants who may have to return home early this term because of...

A rent guarantor service says the rental sector has investors and landlords who are happy for tenants to defer rent payments...

A rent guarantor service has rejected criticism of so-called Coronavirus break clauses in rental contracts. There’s been criticism in recent months of...

Student renters want break clauses automatically included in tenancy agreements to protect them financially in the event of a second wave of...

Three agents have been expelled by The Property Ombudsman for failing to pay compensation awards.  In the case of Foremost Lettings Ltd...

Teclet has announced another strategic partnership with LettsPay, a client accounting platform - the latest in a lengthy series of API...

A new PropTech platform backed by Countrywide and Foxtons says it offers agents an opportunity to reduce admin, increase revenue and...

Campaigning charity Shelter, which has been outspoken in its criticism of many letting agents in recent years, has now produced a...

A rent guarantor service has taken a swipe at new housing minister Chris Pincher and his recent predecessors who have not...

The giant Hunters franchise chain, which has over 200 offices across the UK, Is boosting its technology through a strategic partnership...

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

The future of the lettings industry will be tech-driven says one of the industry’s leading consultants, who is now also director...

A rent guarantor service says it’s already chosen 25 lettings agents to take part in a trial of what it calls...

The online platform teclet, which enables agents to automate the lettings and management process, has announced that Movinghub has become an...

A PropTech platform launched three years ago acting as a search system for students wanting purpose-built accommodation is evolving into a...

A rent guarantor provider claims that deposits which prospective tenants are required to pay are often reduced if such a service...

Lettings automation service teclet has revealed that the Tenant Shop is the latest partner integrated into its platform. Tenant Shop provides energy,...

The private rental sector is not fit for purpose when it comes to housing vulnerable tenants, claims debt charity StepChange which...

A PropTech entrepreneur says all agents would benefit from the introduction of more automation, but that those with student tenants may...

A rent guarantor service based in London and previously aiming itself at the UK market is expanding into the Republic of...

PropTech firm teclet has been announced as a main category partner for the 15th annual ESTAS Estate and Letting Agent Awards...

A no-holds-barred blog on a controversial website claims that it lifts the lid on being a letting agent in central London...

Younger people will have more difficulty finding rented accommodation in coming months as a substantial proportion of landlords actively cut back...

A rent guarantor operator has changed the wording of a description of its services on its own website following the intervention...

Campaign group Generation Rent has provided material to The Guardian newspaper suggesting that a typical two-adult household is being charged letting agents’...

A Build To Rent operator with properties in London and Glasgow is scrapping tenants’ deposits from the middle of next month,...

The Fair Fees Forum, originally established before the proposal to ban letting agents’ fees imposed on tenants in England, now says...

The head of a major lettings agency in Brighton says fees can work out to be “disproportionately high for tenants” but...

Online estate agent Urban.co.uk says it has created a league table of fees that tenants are charged by agencies in different locations...

An online agency says it has attracted ”many hundreds” of landlords by giving 12 months’ rent up-front. LetMe also offers a guarantee...

A London lettings has tweeted that it does not share the view of one of its own branch managers who said...

A campaign group in the north east London borough of Hackney claims to have ‘mystery shopped’ 50 letting agents and has...

Allen & Crane Estates, a sales and lettings agent based in Burnham near Slough, has been expelled from membership of The...

A north of England letting agent has made an outspoken attack on “bad tenants’ who hide behind apparent “legal loopholes.” Tariq Zarin...