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

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

An agent whose business was rammed by a car believes he was targeted because of claims he was letting homes to...

Despite once claiming it would abolish Section 21 evictions “on its first day in office”, Labour appears to have gone cool...

Anti-second home posters seen in parts of North Wales and on social media have been reported to the police as a...

Half of all private renters would not know where to turn to if a letting agent failed to address a problem...

Propertymark is highlighting new advice for agents and landlords given by Lets With Pets, the website of The Dogs Trust charity. The...

Propertymark has welcomed proposed reforms to evict tenants who show persistent anti-social behaviour.   In 2018, a Northern Ireland Department of Justice consultation...

A letting agent who stole over £40,000 from her employer was caught when a bank queried the use of a company...

A new report suggests that past impressions of Build To Rent and other institution-funded rental units as expensive and concentrating on...

Inspirational broadcaster and author Katie Piper is set to take to the stage at the Propertymark One Conference at the ExCel...

A group of rental activists claims that police in England are disproportionately using a 19th century law that criminalises rough sleeping...

A prominent housing expert has told MPs that letting agents could be used to police the standards off homes made available...

Propertymark has responded to an HM Treasury consultation on anti-money laundering processes - and in doing so it’s slammed “heavy handed...

Local media on the south coast are reporting that a lettings agent crashed his Bentley into two parked cars and then...

Police are urging letting agents and landlords to act swiftly if they think one of their properties is being used as...

The Metropolitan Police has been advised by tenant activists and the London Mayor on developing rule changes for evictions. The changes include a presumption against...

Police are encouraging letting agents and landlords to regularly check properties following the discovery on a cannabis factory. Police attended the address...

Five regional police and crime commissioners have written to letting agents highlighting the problems of cannabis farms in private rental properties.  The...

Propertymark is supporting a new Anti Social Behaviour Awareness campaign, calling for greater clarity from government on how agents and landlords...

Anti-money laundering consultancy FCS Compliance has announced its latest Webinar for agents using Rightmove. And with it comes a warning that the...

Propertymark has made a strident set of demands of the government in a bid to end the so-called Sex For Rent...

Two agents who helped establish a multi-million-pound drugs ring in two cities have been jailed. Ossama Omar and Mohamed Latif ran Platinum...

A lettings agency maintenance manager stole almost £100,000 from her company - but has escaped prison. Farida Mughal was working at the...

Several lettings agents have been expelled from The Property Ombudsman scheme; they are amongst eight named as having been kicked out...

The letting agent’s trade body Propertymark is concerned that the court system could buckle if eviction case numbers rise as a...

A charity is claiming that new powers to evict anti-social private tenants could lead to more homelessness, while those already living...

A lettings agency manager stole nearly £140,000 from her company to help clear her son’s drug debt. Wendy Dare, 57, is now...

Landlords and agents acting on their behalf are to be given more powers to evict unruly tenants who ruin neighbours’ lives...

A prominent lettings agent has criticised leading candidates for the leadership of the Scottish National Party for anti-holiday let policies. David Alexander,...

Licensing for Airbnbs and similar short lets should be targeted in priority areas only and not the subject of blanket rules. That’s...

The Association of Independent Inventory Clerks is hosting a webinar this evening for letting agents and other industry employers responsible for...

Agents and landlords are to face even longer waits for eviction court cases following the spending cuts announced in the Autumn...

A warrant backed without bail has been issued for the arrest of a lettings agent who failed to appear in court. Gareth Wills...

The former director of a lettings agency has received a suspended jail sentence for making threats of violence against ex-colleagues in...

The Times has named a member of the City of London’s governing council as a key figure behind rogue letting agencies. Luis...

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

Housing is back on the political agenda with a bang. The government’s new Levelling Up White Paper sets out sweeping reforms...

A lettings agency employee who diverted over £50,000 of landlords’ money into his own account has been given a suspended sentence. Paul...

Westminster council wants central London to have the same powers as Paris and Amsterdam to stop anti-social behaviour caused by Airbnb...

ARLA Propertymark has identified a key weakness in the government’s ambitious plans to reform the private rental sector as part of...

The Liberal Democrats have proposed sharp restrictions on holiday rentals at the heart of the party’s plans to solve the housing...

A fake lettings operation has been uncovered by a leading legitimate agency - and now the National Trading Standards Estate and...

Police officers are this week raising awareness among agents about the signs of potential cannabis grows. The campaign is being led in...

Local media in Bournemouth report that a man was stopped by the police when he was seen after dark carrying a...

Media reports in Stoke on Trent say a man was arrested after a police raid on the Homes2Let lettings agency in...

The chief executive of Shelter says the experience of Scotland shows that the scrapping of S21 eviction powers produces benefits that...

Agents need to be diligent regarding the the growth of cannabis in rental properties and the devastating lengths tenants will go to...

A lettings agent has been jailed for three years for defrauding tenants and landlords out of more than £182,000.  Lee Clarke, 42,...

A six-month prison sentence, suspended for 12 months, has been handed to a former lettings agent from Eastbourne for charges of...

London’s Labour Mayor, Sadiq Khan, has made a new call for power to cap private rents. He’s claimed that rents in the...

A rogue tenant has tried to bribe two letting agents with hush money after they discovered his cannabis growing factory. Anisi Hamollari,...

A lettings agent has told the BBC that he has spotted illegal rental scams using online platforms, but the police have...

Police were called to a protect outside a lettings firm in Oxfordshire after a crowd picketed the office over a dispute...

Many letting agents fail to conduct the obligatory identity checks on landlord clients according to an industry supplier. Blinc UK says that...

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

A landlord who persistently broke residential lettings rules has been banned from operating in a landmark legal ruling. Julie Stoddern, of Camborne,...

Local media in the Homes Counties report that two arrests were made after police were called by a lettings agency where...

Two letting agents have been ordered to pay £16,000 to a landlord after their activities were found to be unregistered and...

Essex Police Force has tweeted a pair of photographs that go to prove agents should check a property before going on a...

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

Letting agents should help landlords through a blizzard of red tape and regulation cause by local licensing schemes, a PropTech entrepreneur...

A lettings agency has called in the police after a protest involving anti-agent activists demanding compensation for past tenants. The Eastern Daily...

There are growing calls for so-called ‘exempt accommodation’ to face the same controls that are exerted over the rest of the...

Restaurant staff were kept in “dangerous and overcrowded” conditions by a property company and its landlord-director, a court has heard. The company...

The This Is Money website is carrying a story of a London rental property where the front door was left open...

A fake lettings agent has been caught trying to cheat prospective tenants out of £1,500 which she claimed was a deposit...

A crooked lettings agent stole almost £30,000 from dozens of clients to prevent his business from going bankrupt. Tim Catherall, of Nottinghamshire,...

A police force is warning potential tenants to check before handing over money after scammers conned people into making rent pre-payments...

West Midlands Police have revealed that a major drugs racket being run by a rogue landlord from his properties in Coventry...

A new report demands that online rental platforms and portals allowing direct advertising by clients do more to deter fake landlords...

A Derbyshire estate agent has escaped a driving ban after being found smoking cannabis in a car. Annabelle Lamb was spotted with...

Back in March 2019 we covered the story that Weymouth council in Dorset wanted a landlord licensing scheme for a town...

Which? is warning prospective renters to beware scam lettings agencies and scam landlords following a case where £5,600 was conned out...

A law firm is warning that agents and landlords should carefully follow correct procedures if they suspect a rented property is...

The extension to the evictions ban will compound the suffering of victims of domestic violence and anti-social behaviour. That’s the view of...

A buy to let investor who kept a group of men as slaves – making them work 90-hour weeks in return...

A commission investigating affordable homes in the UK has called for annual private sector rent increases to be limited to a...

A shocking case of a buy to let HMO that did not even have a working smoke detector has led to...

The controversial Liverpool council licensing scheme is to be policed through the use of what the authority calls “cutting-edge big data...

The West Midlands Police force says it’s secured what it calls a “landmark court order” against a rogue landlord who turned...

A jailed letting agent in a long-running legal saga has now been told she must repay her victims some £43,000 -...

Generation Rent - an outspoken organisation sharply critical of lettings agents and many aspects of the private rental sector - is...

A landlord has been ordered to pay almost £20,000 and has been told by a judge that he was meaner than...

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

The safeagent accreditation scheme says the next government should not scrap landlord licensing as some trade groups have requested, but should...

A leading trade body says the government’s latest injection of funds to help local councils root out rogue operators in the...

A landlord who made a perverted request to take photographs of a teenager in her underwear has had his request for...

A police force has issued a warning to agents and owners of short-let properties to look for signs of modern slavery...

New analysis by Direct Line for Business reveals a surge in the number of police investigations into the theft of electricity,...

A call has been made for the best letting agencies and other rental sector professionals to show how they comply with...

A joint operation between Avon and Somerset Police and North Somerset council has uncovered a string of issues connected with rental...

Police in South Shields have called for the sharing of information about tenants in HMOs - and a council is considering...

An MP says he will raise with local police chiefs a series of claims from landlords and tenants concerning a lettings...

The Association of Residential Lettings Agents says it backs a new Trading Standards-led body which will enforce the Fees Ban starting  on...

Prospective tenants are being warned about a fraud scam that cons people into paying an advance fee to rent a property. The...

An 18 month probe by different authorities has led to a £4,000 fine for an HMO owner in the Highlands. The local...

The High Court has ruled that the government’s Right to Rent scheme breaches human rights law. Under the Right to Rent landlords are...

The head of a Hertfordshire lettings agency has pleaded guilty to managing a brothel, according to a statement from the police. He’s...

A local authority in the Midlands has admitted what many people have believed for some time - despite a slew of...