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A new partnership being launched today aims to see if the private rented sector can contribute to ending homelessness. It takes the...

Rent Reporting platform CreditLadder has integrated into SME Professional, a software service sold to the letting and sales industries. It says...

Propertymark has warned Labour’s Deputy Prime Minister against scrapping Section 21 eviction powers without an adequate replacement. If Angela Rayner does fulfil...

A charity claims that new official figures on rent rises will “create more worry among private renters.” StepChange charity is referring to...

A third of homes currently for sale can be bought with a mortgage and monthly repayments that cost less than the...

What appears to be another government housing policy U-turn - this time on ground rents - is being hailed as “a...

The removal of Section 21 notices and the end of fixed-term tenancies are the two issues that concern landlords the most,...

Propertymark has emphasised the importance of retaining fixed term tenancies under the Renters Reform Bill. Propertymark chief executive Nathan Emerson met Housing...

The long-running aspiration of many to allow rental payments to be counted towards credit ratings appears to have taken a step...

A thieving lettings agent stole over £128,000 which should have gone to landlord clients - and with it she funded an...

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

Introduction The lettings market is no stranger to the complexities and challenges that come with finding the right tenants for the right...

Some prospective buy to let landlords may be about to use their equity to snap up investment properties at discounted rates,...

A lettings industry trade body has written to the government urging fundamental reform of the court system to prevent it grinding...

Zoopla’s Alto cloud-based software has announced a new integration with lettings PropTech supplier Canopy. This will enable tenant referencing to be permitted...

It’s no secret – 2023 is a difficult year for the property industry. While rising rents should lead to increased income...

The controversial Renters Reform Bill is not the anti-landlord charter that some in the h system claim it to be. That’s the...

OnTheMarket has completed a new integration with Canopy which it claims will provide valuable pre-qualified leads to letting agents. The latest integration...

A survey of 2,000 tenants in England and Wales shows that some 23 per cent claim to be struggling to pay...

It’s been revealed that agents have been kicked out of The Property Ombudsman in recent months for failing to pay compensatory...

A new scheme offering landlords the opportunity to lease property through a local authority has been launched.   Leasing Scheme Wales: Gwynedd gives...

A lettings agency in Scotland has played down the impact of the emergency rent freeze and eviction ban which have been...

Propertymark has spoken out against a possible loophole that might allow tenant arrears to go unpaid in certain circumstances. The trade body...

Proceedings against a bankrupt letting agent have been delayed 10 weeks to allow mental health reports to be prepared.  Madelaina Eftekhari is...

A two-branch lettings agency in Hertfordshire has ceased trading and says it will soon be placed into creditors’ voluntary liquidation. A statement...

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

PropTech supplier Goodlord, which says it’s working with 1,100 agency branches already, has introduced a new product. It says its Rent Collection...

Letting agents using rent protection and legal expenses insurance via Goodlord will have their rent protected until vacant possession, with no cap...

The Property Redress Scheme has expelled an agent operating a guaranteed rent scheme which failed to pay £150,000 to a former landlord client. The agent...

Six agencies have been expelled from The Property Ombudsman for failing to pay compensatory awards - five of them for offences...

An estate and lettings agent has analysed how the level of rental arrears has grown between each wave of the pandemic. The...

An automated payments service has teamed up with a student accommodation provider to devise an eCommerce system allowing simpler rent payments. Vyne uses...

Housing charity Crisis says government statistics show almost one in five private renters in England in arrears or likely to fall...

With one of the world’s most successful vaccine rollout programmes under way in the UK, the chances of a complete lockdown...

The Daily Mail says it has informed Trading Standards of a lettings agent which is claims is “illegally working” despite not...

A new report from the government says it’s too early to tell whether lettings agencies are abiding by new anti-money laundering...

A council says it’s let 21 properties thanks to a rent guarantee system launched to woo private landlords to supply homes...

Letting agencies and landlords are being invited by a local council to take part in what it describes as a “risk...

A rent guarantor service says the rental sector has investors and landlords who are happy for tenants to defer rent payments...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is urging its members to write to their MPs over the provision of cash help...

The largest survey yet conducted about rent payments during the pandemic shows the claims of pressure groups about widespread evictions are unfounded. Over...

A pro-tenant campaign group has this morning kicked off its campaign to have the eviction ban - already extended until late...

The industry’s major landlord trade body is urging its members to write to MPs to explains what it calls “the devastating...

A lettings sector group says there was never any eviction crisis looming for private tenants, contrary to a slew of recent claims. New independent...

A mailing list operated by the left wing activists’ group Momentum has been used to win support for a rent strike...

Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick says the government is “thinking carefully” about what more it can do for private tenants, especially after...

Three groups of rental activists have demanded the government scrap all rent payments immediately and cancel all arrears - but mystery...

Shelter has delivered a 14,000-signature petition claiming that thousands of private renters who have lost their jobs could be facing eviction...

ARLA Propertymark has made a series of demands on the government in the light of the Coronavirus crisis.  In a formal written...

There was just a two per cent rise in late rental payments over the last month according to figures from an...

A leading PropTech expert has urged lettings agents to improve their administration and paperwork if they want to avoid what could...

The government’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme will be essential to keeping payments flowing through the rental sector, according to a leading...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents says the key for getting through the virus crisis is good communications, both with clients...

The Generation Rent pressure group, fiercely critical of agents and landlords in recent months, wants the government to implement a 12 month...

A campaign group is urging its members to write to landlords asking them to “suspend” rent demands until the Coronavirus crisis...

A leading Proptech expert says agents must have robust payment systems to cope with the unusual pressure of tracking mortgage and...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has confirmed that the government is bringing forward measures to “protect” private tenants against eviction during the...

Letting agents will for the first time be able to use Open Banking to process payments more efficiently, following a decision...

A lettings agent who stole over £23,000 from tenants to pay for his gambling habit and pay off debt has escaped...

The Property Ombudsman has expelled five agencies, mostly for failures to honour awards: four of them are lettings operations and one...

The Liberal Democrats is the first of the major parties to release its party manifesto for the December 12 manifesto, and...

The Nationwide is investing in a digital lettings service called Bunk - it’s headed by a 24 year old who has...

Eviction expert Paul Shamplina has urged letting agents and referencing companies to invest in technology to improve fraud detection. The call comes...

Local authority officers have found three tenants living inside a shed in the garden of a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Brent,...

A PropTech tool wants landlords to manage their own properties and is accusing agents of being likely to increase charges to...

The PropTech firm CreditLadder is working with the Nationwide Building Society on a pioneering scheme to try to help tenants buy...

The lettings industry has welcomed news that reforms to Universal Credit will include a new online system for private landlords to...

Three letting agents who failed to return tenants’ deposits or pass on rent payments to landlords have been convicted of fraud...

The private rental sector in Wales could be offered incentives and other support to house those most in need, the Welsh...

A managing agent who used ‘ghost tenants’ as a front so that she could cram 16 people into one overcrowded house...

An agency has been expelled from The Property Ombudsman after receiving over 100 separate complaints, and failing to pay over £419,000...

Rent recognition platform CreditLadder, which enables renters to add their payments to their credit history, has announced a partnership which aims...

The chief commercial officer of PropTech startup Canopy says that letting agents and Build to Rent landlords need to accommodate the...

The Rent Recognition Challenge, an initiative to use technology to help share renters' payment histories with lenders and credit reference agencies,...

A local authority has started a one-year trial of a ‘social lettings agency’ which aims to match those at risk of...

Renee Wells, on behalf of Just Landlords, has compiled a list of what letting agents can do to ensure that tenants...

John Lewis has announced details of a partnership with rental app Canopy to provide employees with the opportunity to have their rent payments...

The government says that later this year it will allocate a further £1.4m to PropTech firms looking at how tenants’ rent...

The chief operating officer of a leading PropTech company says government proposals to increase mandatory licensing of Houses in Multiple Occupation...

NoAgent, an online service charging landlords a fee to manage their properties, is the latest to offer a link between tenants’...

The Treasury has confirmed to Letting Agent Today that the ban on credit card surcharges which came into effect in recent...

The Property Ombudsman scheme has today announced three expulsions of agencies as a result of non-payment of rent or awards. Firstly, a...

Automated rental payment provider PayProp has joined the call for private rent payments to be counted towards tenants’ credit scores in...

The government is offering £2m to budding PropTech and financial technology entrepreneurs who can develop an application that will enable Britain’s 11...

The House of Lords has given the Creditworthiness Assessment Bill its second reading and a step forward to ensuring that tenants’...

A Welsh local authority is offering a cash payment of up to £1,200 to landlords who join a quasi-letting agency run...

MPs are today going to debate whether rent payments should be included when calculating credit scores to support tenants wanting to...

Rent payments should be included when calculating credit scores to support tenants wanting to buy a home of their own, says...

Agents are being warned to ensure they serve eviction notices correctly as the ‘peak eviction’ summer period arrives.  Specialist tenant referencing service...

The Liberal Democrats want a raft of additional controls on the private rented sector aimed at addressing what it describes as...

Specialist mortgage lender Together is the latest company to back the idea of rent payment records being used to measure the...

A 27 year old father of two has secured over 140,000 signatures for an online petition demanding that rent payments be...

A lettings agency on Merseyside is one of the first in the UK to take part of an experiment which could...

Credit scoring company Experian is launching a scheme that allows private sector tenants the opportunity to use their rent-paying records to...

Scottish tenants are paying off late rent amid improving household finances, according to Your Move.  As of January the proportion of late...

A firm has launched a new service for landlords and agents which is designed to speed up and increase the recovery...

A London letting agency is playing down the impact of Chancellor George Osborne’s proposed changes to buy to let tax breaks,...

An agency has been expelled from The Property Ombudsman scheme for a minimum of two years after failing to comply with...

A letting agent has been disqualified from acting as a director for 10 years following the collapse of his Hove agency,...