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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...

Rigorous government targets to improve EPC ratings in the private rental sector and the wider housing stock won’t be met without...

PropTech platform Goodlord has produced a guide for letting agents wanting to post on Til Tok - and it says the...

A new partnership being launched today aims to see if the private rented sector can contribute to ending homelessness. It takes the...

Propertymark is lobbying Housing Secretary and Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner to suggest that letting agents have a vital role to...

A regional independent lettings agency has launched a new profit share scheme for its staff - but it’s keeping quiet on...

Agents and landlords are invited to what a council calls “an invaluable local conference where they can get free advice from...

Housing Minister Matthew Pennycook has written to one of the key areas he believes vital for achieving Labour’s house-building targets, calling...

Property professionals gearing up for the 2024 Variety North West Property Awards can look forward to a star-studded evening as TV...

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

One of the largest lettings portals in Scotland is warning that plans by the government north of the border to introduce rent...

Some of the richest people on the world, who use London as one of their bases, are choosing to rent rather...

With the energy price cap to rise by 10% from October, Rightmove reveals that this could mean an annual increase of...

Knight Frank has set out its forecast for the rental sector for the rest of 2024 - notwithstanding political uncertainty. In the...

The abolition of Section 21 isn’t really that big a deal, a prominent lettings agent claims. Kristjan Byfield, who runs the base...

HM Revenue & Customs has named 92 schemes which it says are involved in tax avoidance - and it admits this...

Anyone renting an Airbnb or other short let property in Edinburgh from the summer of 2026 is likely to be hit...

Propertymark is inviting letting agents to find out more about the latest legislative changes at one of its upcoming regional conferences.   As...

Letting agents and landlords are being offered free advice and information at a networking event hosted by Cumberland council. Property owners and...

Letting agents keen to scale their business fast are being encouraged to attend what the organisers call “an industry flagship event”...

One of the UK’s most high profile lettings agents is calling on politicians to change course on rent controls. David Alexander of...

A family agency, At Home in Edinburgh, has been shortlisted for a major residential sector award. The agency, which has a team...

A PropTech platform claims a new ‘Yield Control’ feature makes the end-of-tenancy process more efficient. Residently claims to connect and make smoother...

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

Consumer organisation Which? claims there are some 1,000 reports of rental fraud scams a month at this time of year. It says...

A regional agent says the fear of further taxes on the private rental sector may lead to a spurt of landlords...

Propertymark has come out with a strongly-worded statement accusing politicians in the Scottish Parliament of ignoring the industry’s views on rent...

PropTech entrepreneur and lettings agent Kristjan Byfield is announcing an upgrade to his platform The Depositary, which will see its first...

London-focussed property data firm LonRes, which analysis activity in the prime areas of the capital, says annual rental growth increased to...

New figures show the scale of the rental supply slump in recent years. The respected Home website, which produces a monthly lettings...

A housing group is launching a campaign to recruit more young people to the property industry in general and the building...

Average rent arrears claims reached £2,092 in the second quarter of this year - a rise of 15% from £1,816 in...

Johns&Co, an agency specialising in property investment and asset management, is expanding into a new territory - Manchester. Since its establishment in...

OnTheMarket has launched a new report giving details of real-time lettings activity in local markets across the country.  OTM says that there;’s...

The rise in consumer inflation from 2.0% to 2.2% is “an unfortunate but accepted part” of achieving a stable housing market. So...

A tax expert is advising anyone involved in the furnished holiday lettings sector to ‘act now’ ahead of upcoming tax changes. Ben...

Aldermore has cut rates across its buy to let and residential owner occupier mortgages - the latest in a series of...

Lettings agency chain Lomond has revealed a list of what it calls “up and coming rental hotspots” with yields having strengthened...

Daniel Daggers, the self-styled #MrSuperPrime estate agent star of Netflix show Buying London, is to address a Propertymark event. Daggers, founder of...

Holiday Cottage Handbook has launched a new podcast series - Bitesize - looking at the short-term rentals industry, and wants experts...

The new Labour government has a “golden opportunity its” to resolve the rental crisis, but must give clarity to the industry...

Kate Davies, executive director of the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA), says rent controls are not the magic answer to problems...

A charity leader claims spiralling rents are forcing children into what he calls “damp and mouldy B&Bs”. Matt Downie, chief executive of...

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

The Law Society claims over 29,000 eviction claims in recent months leave “tens of thousands at risk of losing their homes.” The...

Two new signings for the fast-growing Harding Green broker-model agency are both former lettings managers at Knight Frank. Milly Englander was formerly...

A brief statement to the London Stock Market this evening has confirmed that Rightmove will, after all, carry OpenRent listings in...

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

Ascend, which says it’s now the UK’s largest third-party operator of single-family Build To Rent homes, has recruited a new associated...

A prominent figure in the lettings industry is warning that any proposed ban on so-called bidding wars will end up with...

The latest rental market survey by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors suggests there’s still a significant mismatch between supply and...

The chief executive of Purplebricks says he’s backing Labour’s house building plans because of the state of the private rental sector.  Sam...

Flats in a multi-millionaire developer’s prestigious shoreline scheme in Folkestone can, after all, be short-let following a U-turn by the property...

Rightmove has admitted to shareholders that it’s to lose 8% of its lettings listing from next month - the equivalent of...

The regulatory body for the private rental sector in Wales is offering letting agents a course in how to be “anti-racist...

Two long-standing experts in property have launched a service which they say will help letting agents retain and grow their client...

Propertymark says stricter rules for EPC ratings in the private rental sector must be backed up with incentives and financial support. The...

Rent Reporting platform CreditLadder has integrated into SME Professional, a software service sold to the letting and sales industries. It says...

A report from Propertymark has laid out the stark and in some cases unforeseen consequence of the Conservative government’s phased removal...

In a statement which appears to go against the trend of much of the lettings sector, Connells says it sees no...

New figures published by HMRC show a 7% rise in Capital Gains Tax liabilities on the sale of residential property in...

The new Labour government is to bring in so-called ‘hardship tests’ to make it tougher to evict tenants, a newspaper claims. The...

Inventory supplier No Letting Go is offering clients open access to its bespoke property reporting software, known as Kaptur. The allows agents...

An agency has signed up to OnTheMarket, claiming the portal progress since being taken over by a US firm was the...

The latest rental index from PropTech firm Goodlord shows record-breaking rises. William Reeve, chief executive of Goodlord, comments: “These July figures show...

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

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has given a warm welcome to Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner’s planning reforms. This week Rayner...

A high end agency has created a new senior role to oversee co-ordinate lettings activities with sales, and oversee a raft of...

The chance of the Bank of England deciding to cut base rate today and thus trigger further interest rate cuts, is...

Compliance issues are on the increase in the private rented sector according to a prominent industry supplier. Inventory and software chief Nick...

Foxtons latest trading update shows growing reliance on lettings income. However it says the performance - which saw double digit growth in...

Deputy Prime Minister and Housing Secretary Angela Rayner has launched a comprehensive review of the National Planning Policy Framework. The objective is...

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

Clarity is required from the government over how planning changes are to help meet targets for 1.5m new homes in the...

An investment expert says TV property shows - especially episodes recorded some time ago - should carry warnings about soaring buy...

Deposit alternative service flatfair has entered a partnership with Fresh, a Build To Rent and co-living operator. Instead of paying a traditional...

Rightmove has thrown its weight behind the new Labour government’s bid to help first time buyers - and it wants it...

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

Deputy prime Angela Rayner will tomorrow unveil a new National Planning Policy Framework in a move that will strengthen requirements for...

The John Lewis Partnership has received the green light to transform its Waitrose site in Bromley into a new Build To...

A trading statement by Rightmove reveals that it’s  spent £3m on just an 8% share of a PropTech system that describes...

The Bank of England will trim base rate to 5% next week, according to a majority of economists in a poll...

Robert Jenrick, who was appointed Housing Secretary by Robert Jenrick in 2019, is to run for Tory party leader. During his time...

The latest edition of the English Housing Survey reveals precisely how relatively rarely Section 21 is used. Data from the survey analysed...

Some 51% of young first-time buyers are willing to consider so-called ‘non-traditional routes’ to move out of renting and onto the...

Zoopla lettings chiefs have told the government it should tighten up its imminent Renters Rights Bill by demanding all lettings agents...

A prominent industry trainer is working with a fledgling sales agency to launch what it calls a “buyer representation programme” -...

Figures from the National House Building Council show that housebuilding is currently running at only half the rate the new Labour...

A new agency - which describes itself as a “disruptor company” - says it will charge an all-in lettings and management...

Rightmove says the number of available rental properties is currently 14% higher than this time last year, while tenant demand is...

The low supply of rental homes continues to put upward pressure on rents, reports Hamptons.   The average tenant paid £1,347 pcm to...

A new lettings market index has been launched by the Skipton Group, parent company of Connells, the country’s largest lettings and...

Planning permission has been given to the biggest-ever Build To Rent scheme in Milton Keynes. A company under the name PLATFORM_ has...

A boycott of a major property portal has been called off after a settlement has been reached over fees. PropertyPal is the...

The veteran founder of Hunters, Kevin Hollinrake, is reported to be in the race to be Conservative Party leader.  He is MP...

New figures from lettings agency Hamptons suggest that investors purchasing buy to let properties are increasingly looking to the north of...

Agents are being urged to campaign to change Labour’s Renters Rights Bill to stop it damaging the lettings industry. Neil Cobbold, commercial...

PropTech provider Spectre has added a social media marketing tool to its platform. This is the result of a partnership with Auto.social...

A prominent lettings agent says banning agents and landlords conducting bidding wars for a rental property is not addressing the real...

London high end agency Eccord has bolstered its property management team with two experienced new hires. Steve Wilson joins as Senior Property...