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

A property management firm says it recently compiled a check-out report for a property which was 414 pages in total. The property...

There’s been a 165 per cent increase in the number of private rental homes with an Energy Performance Certificate rating of...

A letting agents’ trade body is urging the industry to sign a parliamentary petition calling for the Section 24 changes for...

A prominent figure in property investment is warning that buy to let is the sector facing the biggest challenges in the...

Energy efficiency is the hot topic in the lettings sector right now with new minimum EPC levels expected to be introduced...

Another franchise lettings and sales agency has gone green by changing its car fleet to electric vehicles. One of the Midlands branches...

Charnwood council in the East Midlands is proposing to introduce two different licensing schemes for private landlords, with agents and others...

An agent has been disqualified from managing companies for five years after she failed to safeguard £28,000 worth of tenants’ deposits...

Industry supplier Let Alliance has merged with the Barbon Insurance Group, which includes HomeLet and Rentshield     The announcement was made at...

A new survey suggests that long-term renting could be substantially less expensive than a mortgage. The study, for Ocean Finance, has analysed...

More than a third of landlords are looking to cut their annual spending - and many of them are considering ending...

Time to put the gloom and doom about buy to let to one side - a new analysis shows that a...

Landlords are increasingly looking to reduce the fees they pay to letting agents due to industry tax changes and increasing management...

In 2026 - just 10 years from now - the average UK private rental deposit is set to reach £1,111 - the...

Landlords and letting agents are at risk of overestimating the profitability of Buy To Let investments by neglecting to take into...