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Leading property website Zoopla has delivered strong results for letting agents in the run-up to the busiest time of year for...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has appointed Victor Olowe as the chair of its new Valuation Assurance Committee. Oluwe is a...

Propertymark is urging the UK government to implement reforms that will make it more cost effective and simpler for people to...

There’s a call from a prominent international building science service for the new Labour government to review the Energy Performance Certificates. EPCs...

Regulation of lettings and estate agencies must be a priority for the government elected tomorrow, a PropTech entrepreneur demands. Sián Hemming-Metcalfe of...

A review of Edinburgh’s controversial short term lets licensing will take place this summer. City councillors agreed to publicly consult on the...

The Property Energy Professionals Association - a trade group representing accreditation schemes for energy assessors - is complaining that it’s not...

Letting agents’ trade body Propertymark has backed a call by consumer group Which? for radical reforms to Energy Performance Certificates. Yesterday we...

Energy Performance Certificates can be riddled with inaccuracies and give unhelpful advice to property owners. That’s the view of consumer service Which? Which?...

A new in-person real-time chat service for tenants claims to “assist all aspects of the rental experience.” The service comes from a...

Propertymark has come out in support of the National Trading Standards Estate and Lettings Agency Team’s probe into Rent-to-Rent.    NTSELAT has...

Propertymark says it will continue lobbying government for the implementation of the Regulation of Property Agents - even though the government...

The government’s failure to act on the Regulation of Property Agents (RoPA) working party - chaired by Lord Richard Best and...

A lawyer says radical rental reforms proposed for Scotland - which could be a model for change in England and Wales...

Propertymark is demanding equal treatment with the social housing sector. Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove intends to boost standards in social housing...

Propertymark is urging agents to get ahead of the curve and be ready for the next big initiative - Regulation.  Propertymark has...

England’s county councils want the next government to set out a long-term plan for housing, as a new report claims there’s...

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

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has launched a new Residential Retrofit Standard in a bid to help the housing industry...

Knight Frank’s residential operation has won the ‘Best Customer Satisfaction Strategy Award’ at the UK Customer Satisfaction Awards 2024. The agency says its...

The Building Research Establishment - which undertakes research, advice, training, testing, certification and standards-setting for the housing sector - is calling...

The long-awaited Third Reading of the controversial Renters Reform Bill will not happen this week according to the Leader of the...

Propertymark's latest research report suggests some letting agents want radical changes to the Renters Reform Bill now going through Parliament.  The aim...

The Property Institute has welcomed a Labour Party move to introduce the regulation of property agents across much of the sector. Tabled...

Qualifications for property managers in the social housing sector should be extended to the private rental sector too. That’s the view of...

Labour is using a Bill currently going through Parliament as a backdoor method to introduce the regulation of lettings, estate and...

Agents’ trade body Propertymark says the current debate on the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill is another example of how agent...

Propertymark has urged the government to do more to help the country’s most vulnerable citizens heat their homes.   Office for National Statistics...

Controversial website content by the high profile website GetAgent must never appear again, according to the ad industry watchdog. The Advertising Standards...

A row has broken out over Section 21 between Michael Gove’s Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, and an all-party...

Propertymark has fired a broadside at Labour saying it must provide agents with a proper court system to handle evictions. Labour deputy leader...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors is launching its manifesto at this week’s Tory party conference - and improving the supply...

Propertymark has set out a five point plan to improve the status and usefulness of the Energy Performance Certificate and to...

We compare traditional methods of client money account inspections by an accountant to the alternative Client Money HealthCheck. But first, let’s clarify...

A left-leaning think tank which says it champions ‘left-behind Londoners’ is demanding a turbo-charged version of selective licensing to be run...

One of the UK governments has backed a call for private landlords to get cash help to meet new Minimum Energy...

PropTech supplier Goodlord this week launches what it calls “a manifesto” demanding government help for the lettings industry.  Few details of the...

A new tool is being marketed by industry supplier Landmark with the claim that it helps agents “assess climate change risk.” The...

A prominent lettings agent in the north of England has written to Housing Secretary Michael Gove urging him to cease attacking...

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

It’s been revealed that Propertymark contributed its thoughts to a Parliamentary committee which has slammed the failure of the government’s Boiler...

The growth of the short term rentals sector has helped create an economy featuring jobs that benefit local communities and fit...

Housing Secretary Michael Gove has sent a letter to the Competitions and Markets Authority saying the watchdog is independent - but...

The advocates of Build To Rent have made another ambitious target for the sector’s growth.  Research from the British Property Federation and...

The Lettings Industry Council, a group of rental industry chiefs, has joined with other property professionals to reveal what they see...

A team of experts has released a report that responds to government reform plans - and it insists that if Section...

Purplebricks has announced a new director of risk and compliance, following its lettings division’s high profile compliance error last year.  In Decvember...

Purplebricks has set a date for a possible showdown with shareholders over the agency’s lettings compliance crisis amongst other controverisies.  It has...

Purplebricks has given its interpretation of how much its lettings sector compliance crisis has cost the company. Back in December the Daily...

MPs on a key Select Committee have been criticised by the letting agents’ trade body for failing to probe how Local...

If housing really is seen by Prime Minister Boris Johnson as one of his key policy goals, there must be uncertainty...

The former president of ARLA Propertymark has made an outspoken attack on the government for failing to regulate the agency industry. Maxine...

There’s just a week left - including the long Jubilee celebration period - for agents to respond to a major property tax...

Greater regulation of lettings agents, and all other property professionals, is required to ‘finish the job’ of reforming the industry which...

Propertymark says the new boiler upgrade scheme, which comes into effect this week, is an opportunity for letting agents to promote...

A collection of rental experts in a body called The Lettings Industry Council have set out what they want to see...

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

A prominent industry supplier has hit out at what he calls “the merry go round of housing ministers” following yet another...

A senior figure in an industry trade body says lettings agents are going to have their hands full dealing with legislative...

Self-managing landlords who think they don’t have the same compliance obligations as agents could face serious repercussions, Trading Standards chiefs have...

Agents should not wait until regulation and legislation improve the rental sector - they should be doing so voluntarily.  That’s the view...

ARLA Propertymark has launched a radical programme of reform for the private rental sector - getting in before the government’s own...

As energy efficiency becomes increasingly key for the private rental sector and owner occupiers alike, new data from PropTech firm Sprift...

ARLA Propertymark has thrown its weight behind a call for HMRC to extend the time limit for the payment of Capital...

Some low-cost energy efficiency improvements to a property could boost its EPC rating according to an analysis undertaken by Rightmove. The portal...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents' wing of Propertymark says the recent expulsion of three agents from The Property Ombudsman demonstrates the...

An influential group of MPs has called for the replacement of “outdated” Energy Performance Certificates with new ‘Building Renovation Passports’. Currently EPCs...

After years of deliberation there still appears to many to be little progress on the recommendations of the Regulation of Property...

Landlords and managing agents of HMOs could face unlimited fines following new measures being brought in to strengthen fire safety, the...

What’s life-changing, involves months of anticipation, and ends with a big arrival? You might think we’re talking about pregnancy. But research...

The architect of the Regulation of Property Agents working group - which has called for agents to be trained and licensed...

The UK Association of Lettings Agents is recommending transparency in relation to the disclosure of referral fees to landlord clients. Last month...

Agents have another 12 months to make referral fees more transparent according to an update from the National Trading Standards Estate and Letting...

Agents are being warned to prepare now for likely controls on referral fees, following recommendations made to the government by the...

It appears lettings agents may have escaped the recommended demands for referral fees to be made more transparent to customers. A statement...

A leading PropTech figure says a political issue north of the border demonstrates the advantages of voluntary industry codes of practice over...

Airbnb is doing a U-turn with its global leader pledging to slash the number of professional landlords using the platform and...

The National Residential Landlords Association is giving the thumbs up to the government’s Green Homes Grant, which it claims has taken...

A leading trade body is backing calls by MPs for additional financial support to tenants during the Coronavirus crisis. The National Residential...

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

A pressure group representing private tenants wants government to help housing associations purchase buy to let properties “at knockdown prices.” A blog...

Once the worst of the Coronavirus crisis passes there’s likely to be much more regulation of parts of the rental sector...

The clampdown on referral fees, until now concentrated on the sales sector, will extend to letting agents too. James Munro, head of...

Nearly half a million properties could be removed from the long-term lettings market as disenchanted landlords move to short-lets. A survey by...

A prominent member of the House of Lords has given a surprising insight into how the fiscal and regulatory clampdown on...

Durham county council wants to spend just over £250,000 setting up a lettings agency to place tenants with private landlords. The authority...

The new government must prioritise the implementation of proposals to ensure letting agents and others in the industry are appropriately qualified. That’s...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents and the National Association of Estate Agents have issued their manifesto for next month’s General...

The government is being urged to speed up the release details of the future it sees for selective licensing following revelations...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors wants the government to implement recent recommendations to regulate the agency industry, starting with the...

The Association of Residential Lettings Agents says it fears the government needs to do more to prevent the possibility of banned...

The government has published proposals for far-reaching changes to the way estate and letting agents are regulated, trained and licensed. The proposals...

Trade organisations including the Association of Residential Letting Agents have welcomed today’s publication of the report of the Regulation of Property...

An independent review into selective licensing in the private rental sector makes a series of recommendations to tighten processes, with the...

A trade body has accused the government of going back on its promise not to introduce a national register of landlords. The...

In recent weeks our campaign to replace leasehold with commonhold has continued to gather momentum both in the press and across...

A housing minister has pledged that more key reforms for the private rental sector will be revealed soon, despite Brexit political...

Another think-tank has come up with reforms which it wants the government to make to the private rental sector - and...

Zoopla says it’s introducing new measures to minimise the presence of what it calls “blanket restrictions” imposed on tenants who receive...

As 2018 ticks away and 2019 beckons, it’s time for everyone at Letting Agent Today to wish you, your family and...