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Propertymark has responded to the formal consultation schemes being imposed by a string of local councils - but says such measures...

A Labour council in London is seeking much greater control over the creation of so-called ‘small HMOs’. Lambeth council wants anyone creating a...

A warning has been issued that lettings agencies could lose millions of pounds if landlords quit over new EPC targets. Reapit analysed...

Landlords generated average rental yields of 6.3% in the second quarter of the year, research for Paragon’s latest PRS Trends Report...

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

Paragon Bank has reduced rates on its core range of buy-to-let mortgages, taking 15bps off 10 products, in addition to launching...

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

HMO Sales Expert, a 2024 start-up, has launched a UK-wide partnership programme. It’s commenced with Plymouth, Doncaster, Leicester, and Peterborough, and later...

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

Reapit has launched a new feature to help agents comply with material information guidelines from the National Trading Standards Estate and...

Software company COHO has presented wards to agencies, suppliers and individuals involved in the HMO business. The firm says the awards honour...

Asking rents continue to show posi­tive growth in all regions except Greater London, the UK’s largest rental market, where they continue...

Londoners looking to buy a home can expect to spend 42% more on monthly mortgage payments than tenants pay on rent,...

The average gross rental yield reported by landlords has reached the highest level since the second quarter of 2018, according to...

A council has placed a Banning Order on a lettings agency operating unlicensed Houses in Multiple Occupation. Trophy Homes Ltd was hit...

The ESTAS, the customer review and awards platform, has unveiled new headline partners for 2024. Reapit and PayProp will become the Headline...

Houses in Multiple Occupation are making up an increasing percentage of buy-to-let business, according specialist lender Shawbrook.  In both 2022 and 2023,...

Property logbook company Chimni is trialling a new form of Digital Property Logbook aimed at the Lettings markets.   The new logbooks...

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

Knight Frank’s Richmond residential lettings team has welcomed Ivanka Modesteva-Gyurova as Head of Lettings. Modesteva-Gyurova began her career at Foxtons in 2007,...

London lettings agency Martyn Gerrard has opened a new flagship office in Hampstead, expanding its network across the North and Northwest...

Labour has waded into the increasingly-fractious debate over the Renters Reform Bill. Activists in groups such as the Renters Reform Coalition and...

The excessive enforcement of council rules on private landlords while social housing is so poorly run will be ‘the next Post...

The government has done a U-turn on its original policy to relax HMO regulations on private rental properties used by asylum...

The Martyn Gerrard agency has acquired a London independent - Range Homes. Range Homes, based in the north London suburb of Palmers...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? My name is Sara Stevenson. I am the Lettings Director...

One of the lettings sector’s longest-standing suppliers - Mortgages for Business - is rebranding. It’s to be known as Mortgage Finance Brokers,...

A new lettings franchise is being launched, which claims its franchisees can earn £100,000-plus annually.  The Sourced Group has launched Sourced Living,...

Agents, landlords and others’ views are being sought in a consultation on proposals to introduce a borough-wide additional licensing scheme for...

A series of lenders have slashed their buy to let mortgage rates in a bid to win business. These include: - LendInvest Mortgages...

Online rental platform Lettingaproperty is telling landlords to take a strategic approach to property management in 2024, to help navigate legislative...

The president elect of ARLA Propertymark has created a comprehensive list of female experts in different property disciplines. Angharad Trueman, Group Lettings...

A prominent housing market commentator says Labour would introduce a tougher version of the Renters Reform Bill if it forms the...

A Labour-run London council is consulting on a new licensing scheme for private rented property.  If it goes ahead it will be...

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

A lettings agency has initiated new systems to ensure there is no repeat of a mistake that left some client properties...

The Generation Rent activist group has come out against an amendment to the Renters Reform Bill which reversed the threat of...

Propertymark is hailing its new Lettings Helpline as a success, just a month after it launched. In that four week period the...

Propertymark has welcomed the government’s commitment to end the practice of council tax of banding single rooms in HMOs, potentially saving...

The lettings agency Winkworth has taken the unusual step of criticising policies of a series of councils. The councils are all Labour...

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

Tenants in Bristol are paying 41 per cent more for a rental property than they did just five years ago, it...

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

Two massive new rental licensing schemes are set to be approved in Brighton - and part of the reason is “uninterested...

A move to stop HMOs being used as Airbnb or other short lets has been put forward in the westcountry -...

An MP says owner occupiers are “scared, unable to sleep at night, worried about their safety and even concerned about whether...

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

Elliot Leigh - an agency that is the largest guaranteed rent provider in London and Essex - has completed phase one...

Belvoir franchisee Lloyd Rumbold has completed on the acquisition of Belvoir West Bridgford, adding a fourth franchise to his portfolio of...

Buy to let investors who want to convert family homes into HMOs in Hounslow for three to six tenants will now...

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

A new action plan to tackle issues around HMOs is being drawn up by a Midlands council next week. West Northamptonshire council’s...

Tomorrow sees the start of a month of webinars hosted by Rightmove to help agents understand compliance changes and how they...

PayProp is known for its award-winning rental payment platform, which combines bank-integrated client accounting with automation to save letting agencies time...

A family business has been named Residential Letting Team of the Year for the second time. The small At Home In Edinburgh...

The Labour-run London Assembly says it is concerned about government plans to allow landlords to house asylum seekers for two years without...

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

  A council has told letting agents to ‘get a move on’ as it admits there’s been a slow start to its...

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

Five franchisees who purchased an investment platform say they want to double the size of the business by 2028. Established in 2007,...

A council is pleading with the government to think again about proposals to suspend the need for an HMO licence for...

Landlords are urged to be cautious and do extensive research before signing up to a letting agent in the face of...

Letting agents have a final chance today to have their say on a consultation into a newly proposed licensing scheme for...

A trade body says inventories are set to play an increasingly important role in the private rental sector as fire regulations...

Investors looking to add to their portfolios in 2023 should be urged to consider student housing opportunities, according to a Newcastle...

Senior Labour figures have come out with sharply opposing views on whether the party backs rent controls. Shabana Mahmood, a senior MP...

An activist group claims that 54 per cent of students are currently living with damp and mould. The group - Students Organising...

The letting agents’ trade body Propertymark has slammed the current lack of consistency of council tax on HMOs. It describes today’s system...

A London lettings agency has been ordered to pay over £12,000 in a fine and costs for its part in running...

A veteran Conservative is calling on his government to clamp down on HMOs and ensure there is better council regulation and...

After announcing a new license in Southwark and Camberwell earlier this month Fine & Country is now expanding further in London...

A charity is claiming that new powers to evict anti-social private tenants could lead to more homelessness, while those already living...

Landlords and agents acting on their behalf are to be given more powers to evict unruly tenants who ruin neighbours’ lives...

A clampdown on HMOs is to begin this week - and the council behind it is describing it as ‘preserving the...

Over half of all fraudulent tenancy applications involve fake or doctored pay slips, a PropTech firm claims. Goodlord analysed a sample size...

We’re only in February and it’s already clear that this year will set the future direction of the private rented sector...

A property firm has been fined £8,000 for operating an HMO on one of Britain’s most famous roads. Westminster council has won...

A lettings company called Trophy Homes Limited, based in Liverpool, has pleaded guilty to failing to apply for an HMO licence...

England’s HMO market is shrinking despite a widespread need for more affordable rental accommodation. In 2019/20, there were an estimated 510,776 HMOs...

Winkworth is expanding in the south west with a new office opening in the Bishopston area of Bristol, tapping into a...

The founder of a Barnsley based lettings and property management company is celebrating transforming his business - and winning an award...

A prominent letting agent has written an open letter to Housing Secretary Michael Gove, calling for a halt on government attacks...

Savills has promoted Sophie Candlin, a negotiator in its south west London Teddington office, to become its head of lettings. She takes...

A new licensing scheme for HMOs, agreed by leaders of Portsmouth council, will be implemented from September 1 2023. Licensing of HMOs...

The government has made a general commitment to work with those who want council tax reforms for Homes in Multiple Occupation. Earlier...

A lettings network is urging landlords to back a campaign to abolish council tax re-banding for shared houses. Platinum Property Partners says...

The lettings agency operated by controversial agent Ajay Jagota has been sold for an undisclosed sum. Jagota set up KIS Lettings with...

An agent operating an HMO on Deeside without a licence and breaking other housing laws has been fined £28,000. Flintshire council carried...

A lettings agent has taken the surprising step of encouraging tenants to seek compensation if their landlords fail to abide by...

A consultation period has started on another council’s set of proposals to clampdown on HMOs. Blackburn with Darwen council wants to impose...

A network of professional landlords is warning the government that its reform agenda for the private rental sector is plain wrong...

Newcastle-based agency Walton Robinson is offering a buy to let property sourcing service.  This year, the agency claims it’s secured rental increases...

Rising numbers of young people going to university and a relatively low supply of new student housing means that by 2025...

Tenants are demanding better quality HMOs according to new research from specialist buy to let lender Paragon Bank. The bank’s survey of...

New plans to help control the numbers of residential properties turned into HMOs in parts of Coventry are moving a step...

Knight Frank has named Camillo Degregorio as head of lettings in its Richmond office in London. Degregorio started his career in 2010...

Yet another revision to the Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarm (England) Regulations takes effect from October 1 - that’s just under...

An analysis from PropTech firm Goodlord claims that agents and landlords would have lost a combined £1m over the last year...

A PropTech platform that boasts 200 letting agents and landlords amongst its current clientele has won over £500,000 in additional funding...

HMOs rented by students can be up to £30 a week cheaper than purpose built student accommodation in halls of residence. That’s...