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Housing Minister Matthew Pennycook has written to one of the key areas he believes vital for achieving Labour’s house-building targets, calling...

PropertyPal - a portal recently at the centre of a fees dispute - has merged with Propertynews. The two brands, which are...

The government has launched a public consultation on a radical new UK home energy rating system to replace the long-standing Standard...

The Property Franchise Group has reported a bumper half year of trading with revenue at £13.2m and pre-tax profits up 11...

Knight Frank, in conjunction with Build To Rent operator Moda Living, has published a highly supportive report about BTR. Creating what it’s...

New research shows a 41 per cent reduction in the number of London properties available for private rent since the Covid-19...

Platforms like Facebook are infiltrated by fake review factories, despite the imminent publication of a new Bill which will look to make...

The Solihull branch of Hunters has acquired independent agency Searchers, which was set up back in 1995. Becki Dean, lettings director for...

Letting Agent Today has been approached by researchers at the University of York and University of Bristol doing a study on...

OnTheMarket claims it’s scoring a first amongst property portals in the creation of an ‘Accessible features’ search filter for users to...

Airbnb is now introducing pet insurance cover for its hosts as it continues attempts to win long-term renters away from the...

Landlords’ confidence in their lettings business has slumped to an all-time low, according to research by the National Landlords Association. In a...

In the last ten years Google's revenue, largely from pay per click ads (Adwords), has grown by 527% (Source: Statista). In...

Two housing organisations have come together to fund a major research programme to improve standards in the private rental sector. They are...

Lettings agents’ representatives have hit back at an accusation of discrimination made against the industry. A report by Shelter and the National...

Which?, the consumer organisation which this week revealed details of an undercover investigation of 30 viewings of properties marketed by lettings...

A consumer group which conducted 30 undercover viewings in five different UK cities claims letting agents are showing potential tenants around...

You might not want to read this as you’re tucking into an early Easter egg, but an interiors firm has compiled...

Earlier this week the housing charity Shelter confounded many in the private rented sector by concluding on its website that tough rent...

Campaigning charity Shelter appears for the first time to have acnowledged that rent caps may backfire and end up harming tenants...