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

Leading property players and analysts suggest that the lacklustre housing market figures produced by the Halifax over the weekend owe more...

The Bank of England has kept base interest rate at 5.25%. Some industry figures hoped for a cut following yesterday’s inflation news,...

Inflation back on target and following speculation about a summer interest rate cut have prompted Propertymark to insist that the Bank...

Deposit alternative supplier flatfair says it’s seen a 30% year-on-year increase in No Deposit tenancies. It also claims 14% more landlords are...

Houseful - the company which operates Zoopla amongst other industry brands - has launched Movemnt, which it describes as “a national...

Shelter has spoken out in favour of what it calls “bold” commitments by Labour on the private rental sector and house...

A prominent housing market analyst says people shouldn’t bother reading election literature but instead study interest rates if they want to...

The Prime Central London lettings market is returning to normality, a prominent agency says. JLL says average rents fell 1.4% between Q4...

The latest rental data from PropTech supplier Goodlord has shown that March rents are now up by over 6% year-on-year.  And looking...

Tenant groups and charities reacted angrily over the Easter weekend to the proposed changes to the Renters Reform Bill being advocated...

A think tank is urging the UK government to consider tax perks for private renters to help them save faster for...

The letting agents’ trade body Propertymark has made the unexpected move of calling on banks to cut mortgage rates. Rates are typically...

Rents have risen seven per cent in the past year while voids have lengthened in the past month - although remain...

Savills says prime rental growth across London and the country has stalled for the first time in almost three years. In prime...

All eyes are on HM Treasury this week ahead of the next inflation figures, to be released on Wednesday morning. Analysts suggest...

The latest Rental Index from PropTech firm Goodlord has shown that year-on-year rents are up by 7.3 per cent across England...

A client account is essential to your lettings business, but the rules and regulations you need to follow to keep this...

Rental growth in prime regional markets has started to slow, following runaway growth over the past three years. That’s the view from...

Rent levels and voids held steady over the past month with strong demand keeping annual price growth at nearly eight per...

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

Average rents in Scotland for new tenancies in the private rented sector have risen by double digits for the third time...

Annual rental growth in July was 9.1 per cent across prime London according to LonRes.   This figure took rents to 28.4 per...

After numerous stories of councils and letting agencies at each others’ throats over To Let boards, Trading Standards and other controversies,...

The latest market snapshot from Propertymark shows that once again the lettings sector is dominated by demand outstripping supply. Using data from...

A prominent lettings and sales agency says there are four reasons why house prices won’t fall off a cliff, despite interest...

LSL Property Services - owner of the Reeds Rains and Your Move brands - says it’s movement of agency branches to...

The number of new prospective tenants registering at each branch of a Propertymark-member lettings agency held steady at 106 in March,...

The Bank of England has raised base rate by 0.25 per cent to 4.25 per cent - the highest level since...

The first Women in Estate Agency conference has been a sell out.  Over 250 people from across the industry attended the day-long...

Letting agents say the latest review of how Right To Rent has been carried out demonstrates “a knowledge gap” by landlords. This...

The rapid recovery in London rents post-Covid has seen the capital’s tenants leave in record numbers, according to new research from...

Propertymark’s chief executive Nathan Emerson has welcomed the dramatic government U-turn on taxes - but most importantly has retained the stamp...

The euphoria caused by the stamp duty cuts announced just before the weekend has given way to a realisation that they...

As the new academic year gets underway, demand continues to far outweigh supply in the lettings market in London and the...

A prominent lettings agency chief says the lifecycle of a typical tenancy has been transformed in recent years, as a result...

The Property Franchise Group says that in the past year the number of managed properties it handles has risen from 58,000...

Propertymark has called for a return of mortgage interest relief and a review of landlord taxes to boost the rental sector. The...

The Merthyr Tydfil branch of sales and lettings agency Martin & Co has completed a second acquisition in 12 months –...

The latest rental market snapshot from PropTech company Goodlord shows rents holding steady across England but as lockdown restrictions ease voids...

At least one lettings agency is on a list of targets for socially-distanced protests tomorrow by anti-eviction campaigners in the left...

Real estate as an industry has remained unchallenged throughout all of these years. For the industry worth more than 217 trillion...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I’m David Hackett, Head of Business Development for The DPS    What...

The current need to work from home, and the prospect of continuing to do so in part after the pandemic, is changing...

Rent arrears in the private sector have actually dipped from their pandemic peak over the past two months - but they...

ARLA Propertymark is warning government that the majority of letting agents and landlords won’t be able to conduct retrospective full-scale Right...

Staying on top of the numbers and figures in a constantly changing industry can be stressful. Changing property prices can be...

The Momentum movement on the left wing of the Labour Party is joining forces with housing organisations to argue against private...

New data from Zoopla shows that a two-speed rental market is operating across the UK, with London in particular hitting major...

David Smith - a solicitor specialising in residential property, agency and regulatory law - today launches a book advising property professionals...

A complex ‘sentiment tracker’ suggests demand is still strong in the lettings market. PropTech supplier Yomdel publishes a weekly tracker index; it...

Average room rents in the capital have dipped seven per cent compared to this time last year according to a flat-sharing...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has been informed that the controversial Right To Rent checks forced on to agents and...

A high end lettings agency says the most expensive rural rental market in the north west of England is dominated by...

Two specific elements of Labour’s tax proposals, outlined in its manifesto, could “drive a nail into the coffin of buy to...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents made a short sharp attack on the government last night, over freedom of movement and...

Throughout April and May, we ran a high-profile campaign across our sites, Landlord Today, Estate Agent Today, Letting Agent Today and...

Data from rental insurance firm HomeLet suggests that the Tenant Fees Act may already be causing more movement amongst tenants. The firm...

Media reports in London suggest that Labour’s hyper-active housing spokesman on the Greater London Assembly may be under threat from Jeremy...

The management company of a private New York City rental apartment complex is to install a facial recognition system which must...

The Mayor of London is under pressure to pull advertisements calling on landlords to stop providing homes for Londoners and move...

The impact of Britain’s decision to leave the European Union has not hit the central London lettings sector as much as...

Buy to let mortgage costs remain stable with little movement recorded over the past three months according to a market snapshot...

There’s been a big boost to the movement towards deposit alternatives in the private rental sector following a survey released this...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has asked the government for urgent clarification on how Right To Rent will work post-Brexit...

Buy to let may have been in the doldrums in recent years thanks to new taxes and stricter regulations but there’s...

A landlord who failed to comply with orders to improve the standard of a property has had to pay over £7,500...

Barbon Insurance Group, which trades as HomeLet and Rentshield Direct, has now snapped up Movem. Movem uses personal online banking transaction data...

The Rent Recognition Challenge, an initiative to use technology to help share renters' payment histories with lenders and credit reference agencies,...

The cost of buy to let mortgages remain at record lows and - with little movement in costs and rates over...

The next phase of the government’s Rent Recognition Challenge takes place this week, as six short-listed PropTech companies know which will...

Buy to let investors are taking a wait and see approach when it comes to additional investment in the sector according...

Belvoir has published what it calls ‘a decade of data’ tracking the changes in the private rental sector since 2008, when...

One of the six PropTech start-ups shortlisted to develop a system allowing tenants’ rental histories to count towards their creditworthiness says...

The new sole chair of the Association of Independent Inventory Clerks says he wants the service to be at the heart...

The government says that later this year it will allocate a further £1.4m to PropTech firms looking at how tenants’ rent...

The chief operating officer of a leading PropTech company says government proposals to increase mandatory licensing of Houses in Multiple Occupation...

The chairman of the Residential Landlords Association has written in the Labour-supporting New Statesman magazine about the need for the lettings...

A portal which allows renters to review their lettings experiences and which encourages agents to buy and download tenants' references has...

The autumn's Prudential Regulation Authority changes, coupled with months of rate rise predictions, seem to have had little effect on the cost of...

Letting agents and landlords are being urged by a trade body to sign a petition calling on the government to make...

The head of an online letting agency specialising in student accommodation says the controversial Right To Rent legislation may have to...

Who are you? Rebecca Johnston What does it say on your business card? Managing Director (TDS Custodial) What is TDS Custodial? TDS Custodial is a government-approved...

The Tenancy Deposit Scheme says the end of May usually triggers the annual movement of students from their rented properties -...

The Bank of England's decision to keep the base interest rate at the record low of 0.25% has kept buy-to-let headline...

Specialist student rental company Studenttenant.com has expressed concern at Prime Minister Theresa May’s announcement this week that Britain would not seek...

Thirty one per cent of European Union citizens living in the UK’s private rented sector say they are worried that the...

Almost half of letting agents say they have seen uncertainty from their landlord clients “which could cause waves in the rental...

A law firm called CaseHub says it is launching a “once-in-a-generation fight back against extortionate letting agent practices” in the shape of...

The Residential Landlords’ Association is taking legal advice on whether George Osborne’s buy to let tax changes are a breach of...

The Halifax is the latest of many house price indices to show higher than expected house price growth - and yet...

The Build To Rent movement, whereby financial and other institutions fund the construction of purpose-built rental accommodation and go on to...

HomeLet’s rental index figures for June shows another rise with average rents outside of London now standing at £747 per month,...

In case we didn’t learn the lesson last time around, we appear to be on the brink of a refresher course...

So spring has sprung and the Hare is on the loose. After a very long gestation period, the Veyo leveret has...