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A new platform for the mydeposits custodial scheme has launched this week, incorporating features inspired by feedback from members and designed...

Landlords’ champion Paul Shamplina says more landlords should use lettings agents, who he describes as their “allies” in the battle to...

One of the highest profile groups in the private rental sector supplier space - Hamilton Fraser - is restructuring. In future the...

The UK Association of Letting Agents is introducing four new products to its agent members. Several of the products are from the...

It looks as if the private rental sector will contract as a result of the threat of new regulations contained in...

More than four in 10 landlords claim their letting agents charge too much - and one in six has been hit...

Two of the most respected figures in the lettings sector are calling on agents, landlords and tenants to consider the future...

Hamilton Fraser, well known as a provider of insurance products and services to letting agents and landlords, has been acquired by...

Deposit replacement service Ome is launching a new platform for agent and landlord members. The portal, in development since the middle of...

A leading expert on the private rental sector predicts it will take three years for the government to scrap Section 21 evictions...

Californian PropTech firm Trov, specialising in digital insurance for tenants, has announced a deal with major UK rental companies.  The deal is...

There’s an hour-long webinar this morning, aimed at giving property professionals the latest information on arrears, possession cases and evictions.  It’s at...

Two industry suppliers are asking agents to contribute to a survey assessing how the lettings sector has performed in 2020. Government-authorised deposit...

One of the government’s approved client money protection schemes claims over 10 lettings agencies a week are closing. Client Money Protect makes the...

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

Three more deposit alternative supplier have issued statements seeking to distance their product from criticisms raised in a BBC investigation. Yesterday we carried...

One of the growing number of deposit replacement providers claims that there could be £1.2 billion in deposit monies that are...

A new rental deposit alternative scheme claims that some renters have to resort to high-interest payday lenders in order to afford...

Unusual research undertaken by an alternative deposit scheme suggests that women pay a substantially higher proportion of their salary than men,...

The average deposit paid by a new private tenant is now £1,299 according to a new player in the deposit alternative...

A new product in the increasingly competitive field of deposit alternatives has been launched by lettings and landlord insurance industry giant,...

An estimated 20 per cent of letting agents have still not signed up for a Client Money Protection scheme, six months...

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

Another client money protection scheme has been given approval to launch itself before regulations go live on April 1.  From that date...

Client Money Protect has gained formal government approval to operate a client money protection scheme when the regulations go live on...

The parent company of The Property Redress Scheme (PRS) says its group companies will be taking a more 'joined up' approach...

One of the client money protection schemes operating in the lettings sector says he believes agents and property managers could be...

Giving clients reliable advice when they are buying, selling or letting a home lies at the core of every successful estate...

The head of the parent firm of mydeposits is warning tenants and landlords tempted to enter into new ‘no-deposit’ schemes to...

HF Resolution Ltd, a subsidiary of Hamilton Fraser, has acquired one of the industry’s leading tenant eviction solicitor firms, Landlord Action.   Landlord...

Hamilton Fraser - parent firm to mydeposits, Total Landlord Insurance, Property Redress Scheme and Client Money Protect - has brought its...

Hamilton Fraser - parent company to several key brands operating in the private rental sector - has launched a series of...

Our key partner and buy-to-let specialist, Hamilton Fraser, and renown industry expert, Paul Shamplina have released the first in a new...