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Agents and landlords are invited to what a council calls “an invaluable local conference where they can get free advice from...

It’s been revealed by Propertymark that HM Revenue & Customs has fined agents over £1.6m for branches of anti-money laundering regulations. The...

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

New figures published by HMRC show a 7% rise in Capital Gains Tax liabilities on the sale of residential property in...

Deposit alternative service flatfair has entered a partnership with Fresh, a Build To Rent and co-living operator. Instead of paying a traditional...

A controversial council has launched a 12 week consultation on its policies restricting Airbnb-style short lets. Edinburgh council insists that new Airbnb...

Figures from the National House Building Council show that housebuilding is currently running at only half the rate the new Labour...

Agents are being urged to campaign to change Labour’s Renters Rights Bill to stop it damaging the lettings industry. Neil Cobbold, commercial...

Industry technology provider Reapit is holding a webinar tomorrow giving agents “an opportunity for savvy agents to unlock profits through tried...

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

The BBC is reporting that councillors in Manchester have launched a series of attacks on users of Airbnb and other short...

Agency software supplier Alto links with repairs and maintenance software provider Fixflo for an unusual webinar tomorrow at 10am. Guest speaker will...

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

Fine & Country - the agency which was recently put up for sale - is hosting a webinar next week to...

An increase in property listings is helping to create a more normalised market which is a welcome relief to renters, landlords...

The Propertymark Qualifications Level 3 (Level 6 SCQF) Certificate in Property Agency has been launched to enable and support learners who...

Two webinars between now and General Election Day will seek to explain what the manifesto pledges mean for the lettings and...

PropTech supplier Goodlord is launching something called Complete Tenancy Management This claims to give agents tools to manage a tenancy over its...

The future of the UK lettings market will be determined by the July 4 election and now PropTech player Reapit |...

A pro-tenant group wants the next government to take Right To Buy properties back to public ownership when they come up...

In an early General Election skirmish, London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan has been accused of failing to enact key private rental...

Political parties should not allow the lengthy General Election campaign to delay work on a new and beefed-up Energy Performance Certificate...

Asking rents continue to show posi­tive growth in all regions except Greater London, the UK’s largest rental market, where they continue...

Letting agents are being encouraged to sign up so a mystery shopper can assess their performance. KnowYourMarket, a market research firm in...

London councils have slammed government plans for regulating the short-term and holiday lets sector. In a letter to Housing Secretary Michael Gove,...

The latest market report from Propertymark’s lettings agents suggests the demand is slowing. The latest data - for March - shows that...

HMRC has launched a pilot for the proposed Making Tax Digital service for quarterly reporting - and agents can sign up...

An online lettings platform claims to have launched the first “end-to-end self-service lettings platform” which could save landlords around £3,800. Hello Neighbour...

The number of new prospective tenants registered per Propertymark member branch decreased from 97 in January to 89 in February -...

A webinar is coming up aiming to help agents make better decisions and more rapidly. It’s being run by Propertymark which says...

Property logbook company Chimni is trialling a new form of Digital Property Logbook aimed at the Lettings markets.   The new logbooks...

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

A lettings agency has been expelled from The Property Ombudsman scheme following itsfailure to pay £1,100 out of an adjudicated award...

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

Propertymark is telling the Bank of England that now is the perfect time to cut base rate and trigger wider interest...

It’s not easy for anyone - even professionals like lettings and estate agents - to keep up with the blizzard of...

There’s been a large rise in complaints and a huge increase in compensation according to figures out today from the Property...

A former housing minister responsible for the sell off of huge numbers of social homes has told the Prime Minister he...

Propertymark is urging the government to tackle the problem of banks closing down undesignated or pooled client accounts of letting agents. HM...

Companies House has new powers from this week to combat fraud. These are measures under the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act...

Labour has waded into the increasingly-fractious debate over the Renters Reform Bill. Activists in groups such as the Renters Reform Coalition and...

Email and instant messaging contact details must be kept up to date for HMRC to contact agents about Anti-Money Laundering supervision. Propertymark...

Shelter is asking for public support for radical changes to the Renters Reform Bill, now going through Parliament. The campaigning charity is...

Countryside campaigning charity CPRE has given a warm welcome to Michael Gove’s clampdown on short lets. Earlier this week Housing Secretary Michael...

There’s growing anger over restrictions on private homeowners using their properties via Airbnb and other short let platforms. Earlier this week Housing...

Housing Secretary Michael Gove has this morning announced wholesale changes to planning and regulations surrounding short lets. His proposals include: - planning permission...

The trade body representing short lets providers and support companies has reacted angrily to government proposals for a radical shake up. Housing...

London landlords have started the new year by dropping their rents according to lettings agency Chestertons, whose data suggests that there...

Birmingham’s Labour council is considering closing its social housing waiting list to new applicants - and this is likely to trigger...

The number of private tenants in properties that are hard to heat has fallen, a council claims. As agents will know private...

Over a third of ARLA Propertymark members reported in December that rental prices have increased, according to their latest Housing Insight...

Seventeen housing organisations have sent an open letter to the government rejecting its idea of prioritising British families when it comes...

A return of pent-up demand and mortgage rates falling below five per cent have boosted the start of the year for...

Foxtons’ internal lettings data shows that the 2024 lettings market in the capital is likely to be more balanced than in...

Propertymark’s monthly political and government update webinars are set to continue in 2024 - General Election year. A statement from the trade...

Summer looks like it’s going to be a hectic period for lettings agents and the private rental sector according to TV...

A PropTech supplier this week hosts a free webinar for agents to shed light on the rise of attempted tenancy fraud...

Knight Frank has revised its housing market forecasts for 2024, just two weeks into the new year. It’s done this on the...

Letting agents’ body Propertymark is throwing its weight behind a mandatory licensing and registration scheme for short let landlords. Anyone who lets...

A mandatory short lets registration and licensing scheme is to be introduced in part of the UK, described as a system...

ARLA Propertymark has urged letting agents to take breaches of the Information Commissioner’s Office’s  data protection principle regarding GDPR seriously.   The call comes...

New figures released this week by Propertymark reveal that even in the run-up to Christmas there was no significant change in...

The chief executive of Propertymark says seasonal trends are returning to the housing market after several ‘unusual’ years. Nathan Emerson says: “In...

ARLA Propertymark has responded to the Scottish Parliament’s examination of the Housing (Cladding Remediation) (Scotland) Bill, calling for clarity on contributions...

A register launched to shed light on overseas property ownership in the UK now has over 30,000 registrations.  The Register of Overseas...

Housing Secretary Michael Gove has given what some commentators have interpreted as a sign that private rental sector licensing from councils...

Two property company bosses have been sentenced following an Insolvency Service investigation which found they had abused a £30,000 Bounce Back...

It’s all change for a regional agents’ group which has announced a new chair and new directors. Cornwall-based former estate agent Steve...

Propertymark has set out its pro-agency position on a range of issues contained in the Renters Reform Bill, currently trundling through...

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

A surprising one in seven lettings agents is now reporting a fall in rents rather than a rise. Although far more agents...

Leaders Romans Group claims the pessimistic mood which many say surrounds the private rental sector is exaggerated. It has surveyed its landlord...

A tenant is reported to have sued a lettings agency after its alleged failure to return his £375 deposit. The Get Surrey...

PropTech supplier Lettspay has launched a new client account banking service for letting agents and property managers in partnership with Griffin...

Propertymark has issued a statement warning politicians not to introduce rent controls by the backdoor through processes which tinker with the...

Propertymark has urged the government to take the potential Help to Buy ‘timebomb’ seriously. The news comes as London lettings agent Benham...

It looks as if the government is accepting that there is a problem with how banks treat Pooled Client Accounts -...

Airbnb has taken the unusual step of buying space on an influential Labour Party website, just ahead of the party’s conference. Amanda...

It’s getting worse - the supply-demand mismatch in the rental sector is now “drastic” says Propertymark. The number of new prospective tenants...

London-focussed agency Foxtons says there is a part of the capital which is seeing an average of 38 prospective tenants for...

Propertymark, together with Gas Safe Register, has produced top tips to be passed by agents to landlords and tenants as part...

A move to stop HMOs being used as Airbnb or other short lets has been put forward in the westcountry -...

The new Housing Loss Prevention Advice Service - introduced this month - will make possession court case delays even worse. That’s the...

A report being considered by a council says one of the UK’s biggest cities could see an 80 per cent collapse in...

Propertymark chief executive Nathan Emerson says the lettings market is defined now by the “alarming disparity” between demand and supply. In the...

The Nationwide Foundation - a pressure group funded by the Nationwide - says more effective enforcement is required for the private...

More than 20,000 UK estate agency branches have registered with HMRC for money laundering supervision – but thousands have yet to...

The Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, is being urged to act now to stop the problems banks are creating for letting agents. Following a...

The Renters Reform Bill will cost letting agents over £275m in the next decade as fewer landlords use their services. That’s the...

Landlords of more than 5,000 homes must register for a license and ensure their tenants have good quality housing or face...

Airbnb has issued a statement responding to the call for a clampdown on short lets demanded by Labour’s outspoken London Mayor,...

The latest market snapshot from ARLA Propertymark shows a familiar story for the lettings sector.  It says that in June the number...

Propertymark has put forward a six-point plan to slash economic crime in the property sector. The trade body says a series of...

A lettings agency claims foreign homeowners are sitting on £84.2 billion worth of property across England and Wales - but with...

A new action plan to tackle issues around HMOs is being drawn up by a Midlands council next week. West Northamptonshire council’s...

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

The story of low supply in the prime London lettings market appears to be coming to an end, says Knight Frank. The...

A property law specialist wants a national register which would allow tenants’ histories to be checked before rental agreements are signed. Nyree...

There’s another free webinar for agents to learn about the Renters Reform Bill next week. This one is organised by lettings-focussed PropTech...

Data from London-focussed agency Foxtons reveals that average weekly rental prices in May have surpassed the peak of 2022. The average weekly...