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Reapit has launched a new feature to help agents comply with material information guidelines from the National Trading Standards Estate and...

A prominent solicitors’ firm says the failure of the Renters Reform Bill to become law may have attracted headlines but the...

A prominent lettings agency claims the Renters Reform Bill is not proving a deterrent to buy to let investors. The Leaders Romans...

Propertymark’s property auction division - NAVA - has given ringing endorsement to the Material Information changes demanded under new Trading Standards...

Plans for leasehold reform face a major early stumbling block as analysis shows plans to retrospectively introduce a cap on ground...

Former housing minister Rachel Maclean - the victim of a shock sacking by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak last month - has...

An industry supplier owned by the Leaders Romans Group says the government’s pledge to reform - not replace - leasehold should...

New research from lettings agency Hamptons shows that since 2018, average service charges for flats across England and Wales have increased...

The U-turn by politicians in Scotland who ended a complete rent freeze doesn’t go far enough, says Propertymark. At the end of...

Ruling politicians in Scotland have agreed that from April private rents can rise by 3.0 per cent in a 12 month period...

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

Agents, leaseholders and freeholders can gain an insight into one of the most contentious areas of leasehold with a free webinar...

A property consultancy says it’s identified the next ‘landmine’ in the building safety saga facing agents and landlords around the country. Mary-Anne...

New rules out for consultation concerning block management aim to improve professionalism across the sector, root out rogue agents, and increase...

The Property Ombudsman and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors are seeking views of agents, landlords and tenants on a new...

Principle Estate Management has won another major contract - completing the firm’s transformation from little more than a one man band...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? My name is Maxine Fothergill and for the past ‘almost’...

A leading trade body is pleading with the government not to make it harder for landlords or their agent representatives to...

The Generation Rent pressure group is wrong to claim that the majority of landlords are failing to support tenants needing help...

The landlords’ newly-merged trade body has renewed its call for the government to do more to help the private rental sector...

Legal & General, one of the largest specialist builders of so-called retirement communities for the over-55s, is now going to let...

An online platform claims it has found a new and easy way for investors to become landlords, describing itself as ‘PayPal...

A property management company is taking the unusual approach of suggesting to buy to let investors that they purchase properties with...

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

A buy to let investor has lost possession of his flat after converting it into an Illegal House in Multiple Occupation...

The Association of Residential Managing Agents has launched a first-of-its-kind Client Money Protection to members.  Although CMP schemes are to be mandatory...

The Independent online newspaper says Conservative MP Gary Streeter will tomorrow meet with Prime Minister Theresa May and urge her to...

The government has this morning - Easter Sunday - announced a crackdown on rogue letting agents in the shape of a...

The Conveyancing Association has made a wide-ranging response to the government’s call for evidence on the regulation of letting and managing...

You have only until 11.45pm tonight to have your say on government proposals to clamp down on letting and managing agents...

Leasehold enfranchisement specialist operator Leasehold Solutions is the latest to welcome the government’s suggestion of a regulatory watchdog to oversee leasehold...

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

A former letting agent has received a suspended prison sentence after pleading guilty to ten counts of fraud. Nicholas Dowse, also known...