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Average rent arrears claims reached £2,092 in the second quarter of this year - a rise of 15% from £1,816 in...

A lettings agent says ‘times are changing with deposits” and claims more landlords and tenants are choosing alternatives.  The comment by Paul...

An interview with a figure from one of the many deposit alternative services reveals a significant rise in interest in this...

The number of tenancies ending in a claim for more than five weeks’ rent has risen to 17%, a deposit alternative...

The percentage of tenants borrowing money to fund their cash deposits on their next property has risen over the last 12...

Average rent arrears claims climbed to £1,816 in the first quarter of this year. That’s a rise of 27% from £1,435 in...

Family-owned agency Boydens has signed a deal to offer deposit alternative service Reposit to landlord clients. Paul Buck, a representative of Boydens,...

Data released from Reposit, a deposit alternative service, reveals what it calls “a concerning surge in rent arrears” during the final...

Reposit is the latest deposit alternative service to announce strategic partnerships with agencies - the latest signings are Symonds & Sampson,...

The average cash deposit of five weeks rent rose by four per cent over the last quarter from £1,217 at the...

Reposit has increased the number of agencies offering its deposit alternative product.   This increase in agent customers comes as Reposit reports growth...

Over half of the agency branches sold to franchisees by LSL Property Services have signed up to a large PropTech deal. As...

Nearly a third of tenants are borrowing money to fund a cash deposit, a survey claims. A poll of 1,000 current renters...

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

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

PropTech supplier The Lettings Hub has announced a new integration with deposit alternative service Reposit.  Agents were already able to offer their...

Long-standing industry figure Robin Paterson has described how a company has re-shaped its service post-pandemic to offer high quality short lets...

Three more deposit alternative supplier have issued statements seeking to distance their product from criticisms raised in a BBC investigation. Yesterday we carried...

Competition between various deposit alternative providers continues apace, with one of the earliest companies - Reposit - naming a new agency...

Tenancy deposit alternative provider Reposit has been taken on by Devon-based agency chain Webbers.  The agency’s 15 offices operate in north Cornwall,...

Tenancy deposit alternative Reposit has announced a partnership with Pattinson, the largest independent agency network in the North East. The 26-branch network...

Utilities and comparative platform Tenant Shop has linked up with Reposit to offer a security deposit alternative product for agents. Tenant Shop’s...

The concept of deposit alternatives is gathering pace and now one PropTech firm closely involved in it - Reposit - has...

When it comes to growing your business sustainably, maintaining a brand that is eye-catching and identifiable with your audience is vital...

In the past 20 years the UK private rental sector has exploded! The sector has grown from under 10% of housing...

The Dispute Service (TDS) has announced today that it will provide dispute resolution for a new deposit replacement company.  The 'long-term strategic...

The head of the parent firm of mydeposits is warning tenants and landlords tempted to enter into new ‘no-deposit’ schemes to...