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

A lettings and sales agency chain with 14 branches across the north east of England has committed to raising £5,000 in...

Hamptons, one of the high-end brands owned by Connells, had appointed Graeme Young as regional lettings director.  Young assumes responsibility for 14-branches...

We’re absolutely delighted to announce that, after 10 years, we’re able to expand The ValPal Network to Northern Ireland. Since our launch...

TV property guru and Move iQ founder Phil Spencer to be a keynote speakers at Propertymark One this year, the trade...

There’s been a rise of over 400 per cent in the monetary total of fines issued for Right To Rent offences...

An event which claims to change the fortunes of letting agents has been recognised by the Professional Speakers Academy. Agent Rainmaker Live...

One of Britain’s leading agents - former RICS residential chairman Jeremy Leaf - says he is seeing a change of mood...

The Information Commissioner’s Office has issued advice to agencies on how to comply with data protection law.  The UK data protection regulator...

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

The Competitioin and Markets Authority is to probe five activities involving letting agents and landlords and their responsibilities to private tenants. Sarah...

The Scottish Government does not intend to abandon its licensing scheme for Airbnbs and other short term lets, nor to delay...

Propertymark has given details of how it believes the Scottish Government rent control system has backfired and works against the interests...

A trade body has criticised the various UK governments for “rushing blindly” into poorly-constructed regulation of short lets. The angry words from...

The Competition and Markets Authority is beefing up its enforcement work against illegal cartels and offering a reward of up to...

Energy Performance Certificates must change to properly support reaching net zero, tackling fuel poverty and improving buildings, according to an energy...

Shocking new research shows that Energy Performance Certificates are inaccurate at best, useless at worst, and easily rigged. A Sunday Times report...

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

Agents have only until the end of tomorrow, December 2, to feed into Propertymark’s response to a new consultation on the...

Emergency legislation containing a private sector rent freeze is to be debated by Scottish politicians this week - and the surprise...

Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng has announced that stamp duty will be cut.  In future there will be no stamp duty on the first...

A jury has ruled that a lettings agency has been guilty of illegally evicting tenants in Margate - with locks changed,...

A lettings agency is alleged to have used violence and vandalism over a prolonged period against the tenants of at least...

Acquisition is one of the most frequently used words in the lettings sector now as large numbers of agencies are snapped...

The small number of rental properties listed on websites and portals as Price on Application have now been deemed illegal by...

Airbnb, so often criticised for operating in the largely-unregulated short lets market, has called on the UK government to scrap Section...

Lettings accreditation and training service Safeagent is calling on the government to make more public cash available for councils to exercise...

ARLA Propertymark has hit back in this week’s debate on the quality of private rental property, following sharp criticism in a...

Thousands of tenants have no choice but to accept “appalling conditions” according to the chief executive of campaigning charity Shelter. Polly Neate...

Private rental property conditions and the enforcement of regulations by councils and government have all been in the firing line from...

New build homes command rental premiums of as high as 41 per cent in the current market, it’s been claimed. The Unlatch...

A little-known law may require tenants to pay stamp duty on the rental properties they do not actually own. London lettings agency...

A lettings agency has been prosecuted by Birmingham council for unlawfully evicting a tenant. Principal Homes is based at Great Barr and was...

Areas of the country which appear to have had a surplus of rental stock in the past is now reporting a...

We’re only a little over a week away from the Euros, happening at last a year later than scheduled because of...

A lettings agency which markets private rental properties and units operated by a housing association has apologised for its ‘No DSS’...

Activists from the Acorn renters' campaign group have held a protest outside a branch of Chancellors in Oxford. The group says the...

A lettings agency director has been issued with a Criminal Behaviour Order for unlawfully evicting a tenant back in 2019. CFDP Ltd, trading as...

A block management company owned by the Leaders Romans Group has been awarded over £6.5m in government building safety funds to...

Another lettings agency has been found to have unlawfully discriminated against a tenant receiving benefits. Worthing County Court declared that Michael Jones & Company unlawfully...

A huge trading standards operation clamping down on lettings agents who fail to abide by Client Money Protection rules has been...

A landlord who built unlawful extensions to a family home and squeezed up to 14 people into the rooms has forfeited...

A 24 month community order and 200 hours of unpaid work are the price being paid for an unlawful eviction.  Buy to...

A branch of Martin & Co has completed its second independent lettings book acquisition in 18 months. Martin & Co Chelmsford, part...

The takeover of Hunters by The Property Franchise Group means the combined operations will manage over 70,000 tenanted properties across the...

There’s been a small change to the Coronavirus regulations as they apply to the maintenance and upkeep of properties in Scotland. First...

With the Government announcement this week of another national lockdown across England amid the surging coronavirus infections, it once again puts...

A council claims that as many as a fifth of all the private rental sector homes in its area have a...

Recent debate about urgent need for reform and better collaboration within the property industry, has once again come under the spotlight...

A Green Party councillor has been refunded fees he and his partner were charged by a letting agency five years ago,...

A top property lawyer says a recent decision by bailiffs not to forcibly evict anyone in Tier 2 and Tier 3 is an...

It’s been an unexpected year for the property market, shaped by the effects of the pandemic. We didn’t quite anticipate the...

The Home Office is proposing a new online service to make it easier for agents and landlords to check that prospective...

A lettings agency that told a prospective tenant it had a policy of not offering tenancies to housing benefit recipients has...

A property litigation expert is warning letting agents and landlords about far-reaching consequences of the recent ruling which declared a blanket...

The chief executive of campaigning charity Shelter claims some lettings agencies are ignoring the recent ruling that private landlords cannot discriminate against...

A specialist buy to let mortgage broker is urging prospective investors to buy sooner rather than later if they want to...

The Prime Minister has stepped into the ongoing row over a Labour claim that last week’s stamp duty holiday was merely...

London Mayor Sadiq Khan, has told the government of “illegal evictions by letting agents” - without specifying the incidents he refers...

Shelter is calling for stricter enforcement against letting agents in Northern Ireland which it claims are illegally charging tenants fees for...

The director of renters’ campaign group Generation Rent says the long-running scandal of a planning decision made by the Housing Secretary...

A consumer charity has been blasted by a landlords' trade body for making “irresponsible” claims about tenants and the Coronavirus crisis. Research...

The Court of Appeal has ruled in favour of the government’s controversial Right To Rent scheme, overturning a decision reached last...

Gas and electrical safety certificates should be extended for six months to cover for the impact of the Coronavirus.  The call comes...

One of the lettings sector’s biggest trade bodies is calling on government to make a clear statement to help landlords who...

The much delayed merger of the UK’s two landlord bodies has officially happened today. The National Residential Landlords Association has been formed...

Despite the challenges being thrown up to the lettings sector by Coronavirus, this is a reminder that new MEES regulations on...

The Budget has failed tenants by doing nothing to increase the supply of private rental property according to two lettings sector...

The chief executive of a new lettings sector trade body is to address his first conference next month, giving an indication...

The Property Ombudsman is warning agents not to discriminate against tenants through a No DSS or any similar policy. Following the legal...

The typical landlord’s income from property has plummeted by a fifth in under a decade according to the National Landlords’ Association. Its...

A trade group’s submission to the Treasury ahead of next month’s Budget includes a call for the new Chancellor to slash...

The National Landlords Association has issued advice for the lettings sector on the coronavirus infection. Although much of the advice is a...

A lettings sector trade group says lavish additional services are being offered by landlords who are nervous that Brexit will lead...

A tenant is thought to be the first ever to have been awarded damages under new Scottish lettings legislation. Dambaru Baral was...

A legal firm is warning agents and landlords that they have less than three months to prepare for the latest MEES...

A new trade body set up to represent companies working with hosts using Airbnb and similar platforms says the government should...

A rogue landlord has been found guilty of unlawful harassment and misleading and aggressive practices, and will be sentenced next month. Ragoopathy...

If letting agents want more satisfied clients and fewer disputes they should provide better information to tenants. That’s the view of PropTech...

Reports from China suggest that property investors from that country - a staple in the buy to let market in many...

The National Landlords’ Association says the new Conservative government must do two things in its early phase in office. The NLA, which...

New research from the National Landlords Association reveals that migrant workers, and not professional executives, provide the best rental yield. The NLA...

A roundtable discussion of rental industry leaders has produced a recommendation for the mandatory regulation of lettings agents. The objective, they say,...

Labour’s policies for the private rental sector are “too extreme ... unrealistic and will be hugely damaging to housing supply in...

Another survey of private landlords show a majority feeling less confident about the market than they were three months ago. Last week...

An inventories supplier is advising that the growing number of sub-letting scams can be reduced by regular property visits by agents...

One might have thought that if private rental tenants were as badly treated as some people suggest, housing would be their...

Landlords’ confidence in their lettings business has slumped to an all-time low, according to research by the National Landlords Association. In a...

London’s Labour Mayor, Sadiq Khan, has returned to his campaign to win powers which would allow him to impose rent controls. Khan...

The National Union of Students claims young people at college and university are being unfairly targeted by agents and landlords when...

One of the industry’s leading trade groups has repeated a warning to the Conservatives that they cannot rely on the votes...

A London-focussed lettings agency is hosting a seminar for landlords in association with a rental sector trade body. The key theme of...

The private rented sector would shrink by 20 per cent if Section 21 ‘no-fault’ evictions are abolished, according to an economic...

Ben Beadle is to be the chief executive of the new National Residential Landlords Association, launching in January. The new body comes...

Private landlords are to be given a month’s rent upfront and 12 months’ membership of a trade body if they sign...

Members of the industry’s two major landlord bodies have backed a merger which will now take place on January 1. Members of...

New research from an international law firm shows that the rental sector in major cities is now changing its demographic make-up...

The two largest landlord trade groups are to merge. The National Landlords Association and the Residential Landlords Association will unite to form...

The Trussell Trust, which coordinates the vast majority of the food banks around the UK, is working with the National Landlords...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents and the National Landlords Association have spoken out about the complexity of the fees ban...