Eight fledgling UK PropTech have been selected for the Propertymark-linked REACH UK 2024 technology scale-up program. The REACH UK program, launched in March...
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03 September 2024
From: Breaking News
Regulation of lettings and estate agencies must be a priority for the government elected tomorrow, a PropTech entrepreneur demands. Sián Hemming-Metcalfe of...
04 July 2024
From: Breaking News
Propertymark says it will continue lobbying government for the implementation of the Regulation of Property Agents - even though the government...
24 April 2024
From: Breaking News
The government’s failure to act on the Regulation of Property Agents (RoPA) working party - chaired by Lord Richard Best and...
22 April 2024
From: Breaking News
A law professor has dismissed a Labour call for agents to have qualifications as “eye poppingly silly” and “snobby.” Labour’s shadow housing...
30 January 2024
From: Breaking News
The Property Institute has welcomed a Labour Party move to introduce the regulation of property agents across much of the sector. Tabled...
25 January 2024
From: Breaking News
Labour is using a Bill currently going through Parliament as a backdoor method to introduce the regulation of lettings, estate and...
19 January 2024
From: Breaking News
In the face of stretched incomes, rising interest rates and escalating consumer prices, an increasing number of tenants are at risk...
11 September 2023
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Finances have never been more stretched in the UK, with almost every bill and expense soaring for employees and employers alike,...
18 July 2023
From: Breaking News
Rightmove’s new agent qualification - launching later this month - has been officially approved by the government’s regulatory body, The Office...
10 November 2022
From: Breaking News
Agents can now sign up to register their interest in Rightmove’s new qualification, the Level 3 Certificate for Estate and Letting...
19 August 2022
From: Breaking News
The former president of ARLA Propertymark has made an outspoken attack on the government for failing to regulate the agency industry. Maxine...
30 June 2022
From: Breaking News
Greater regulation of lettings agents, and all other property professionals, is required to ‘finish the job’ of reforming the industry which...
26 May 2022
From: Breaking News
A senior figure in an industry trade body says lettings agents are going to have their hands full dealing with legislative...
16 February 2022
From: Breaking News
The Association of Residential Letting Agents' wing of Propertymark says the recent expulsion of three agents from The Property Ombudsman demonstrates the...
04 May 2021
From: Breaking News
After years of deliberation there still appears to many to be little progress on the recommendations of the Regulation of Property...
19 March 2021
From: Breaking News
The architect of the Regulation of Property Agents working group - which has called for agents to be trained and licensed...
10 December 2020
From: Breaking News
Two industry training firms say the lockdown beginning this week gives agents an opportunity to prepare for 2021. Agency Mentors and The Able Agent...
03 November 2020
From: Breaking News
It’s been an unexpected year for the property market, shaped by the effects of the pandemic. We didn’t quite anticipate the...
27 October 2020
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A prominent member of the House of Lords has given a surprising insight into how the fiscal and regulatory clampdown on...
30 January 2020
From: Breaking News
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors wants the government to implement recent recommendations to regulate the agency industry, starting with the...
22 August 2019
From: Breaking News
PropTech, and specifically Artificial Intelligence, could help letting agents better cope with new demands created by further industry regulation. That’s the view...
08 August 2019
From: Breaking News
The Association of Residential Lettings Agents says it fears the government needs to do more to prevent the possibility of banned...
23 July 2019
From: Breaking News
There’s a warning this morning that the root-and-branch reform of the agency industry recommended by a government-backed working party will be...
19 July 2019
From: Breaking News
Trade organisations including the Association of Residential Letting Agents have welcomed today’s publication of the report of the Regulation of Property...
18 July 2019
From: Breaking News
The latest property completed in the ever-growing Build To Rent sector is a 44 storey tower standing at 141 metres tall. The...
13 February 2019
From: Breaking News
It seems prop-tech is exploding at a scary rate, and the latest brands are all trying to grab our attention by...