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Property consultancy JLL says there’s been a noticeable rise in prime Central London lettings activity.  Average rents rose 0.9% from Q1 to...

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

You don’t have to simply accept things as they are when it comes to managing your client accounts. If your bank...

Lloyds Banking Group, Nationwide, NatWest and Rightmove have announced a strategic investment in Coadjute, a prominent PropTech business.  This is the first...

NatWest Group has announced a new package of what it calls ”targeted lending and support” to help local councils provide more...

Over £100m has been invested into a new site that will offer purpose b built accommodation for 713 students beds in...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Neil Cobbold, Managing Director What is PayProp and what does it...

Propertymark has stepped into the row over a bank chief’s comments on first time buyers. Sir Howard Davies, chairman of NatWest, responded...

One of the country’s biggest Build To Rent players has secured funding for 1,000 new BTR homes. Legal & General has signed...

The law is clear – agencies in England, Scotland and Wales need a valid client money protection (CMP) policy to protect...

A survey conducted by financial institutions has found the first suggestion that rental properties are slowly becoming more energy efficient. A study...

A former president of the Association of Residential Letting Agents has lifted the lid on how buy to let came about,...

A PropTech firm says Open Banking could help to transform the lettings industry for the better if it is fully embraced.  And...

Student rent has increased almost 20 per cent over the last year.  In data released as part of the 2021 NatWest Student...

Letting agents have only 10 days to open segregated client accounts or they could face being expelled by their client money...

Professional client account solutions for modern letting agents Letting agents will need to come up with new ways to manage client money...

Senior lettings agency figures are amongst those who will this morning give evidence to a committee of MPs investigating so-called ‘DSS...

The Residential Landlords Association has given its backing to Zoopla’s ban on agents and landlords advertising properties to rent as ‘No...

Momentum is building in the campaign to end ‘No DSS’ discrimination against private rental sector tenants in receipt of housing benefit. Late...

A pressure group that in the past has protested outside letting agency branches has staged more direct action - this time against...

Urgent action is needed to tackle discrimination against benefit claimants by buy to let mortgage providers according to a leading trade...

The price of some buy to let mortgages looks set to rise across the board following the decisions of two of...

NatWest Intermediary Solutions has announced a major overhaul of its buy to let mortgage offer, but it is bucking the trend...

A letting sector trade body says two thirds of the largest buy to let mortgage lenders do not allow landlords to...