The government’s failure to act on the Regulation of Property Agents (RoPA) working party - chaired by Lord Richard Best and...
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New research shows there are 36,210 long-term vacant homes across London - that’s around one in every 100 properties. The borough in...
26 January 2024
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Reapit has inked a deal with fast-expanding PropTech service Kamma to automate information about private rental sector council licensing. This year is...
19 October 2023
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Professional cleaning firm Prompt Cleaners has created a league table of regions and local authorities where renting is cheapest and dearest. The...
16 August 2023
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PropTech Kamma has entered into a partnership with agency and consultancy JLL. This means JLL’s UK residential agents will have access to...
27 July 2023
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After announcing a new license in Southwark and Camberwell earlier this month Fine & Country is now expanding further in London...
30 March 2023
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Fine & Country is expanding its brand in London. An existing agency serving Southwark, Peckham Rye, and Camberwell is to take on...
20 March 2023
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Households living in rental properties across the North of England face the biggest financial headache from soaring fuel price rises, according...
08 September 2022
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PropTech firm Kamma says total fines for agents and landlords have now topped £8m in London alone with a £238,000 increase...
09 August 2022
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Labour’s Sadiq Khan wants an increase in Capital Gains Tax for some buy to let investors. The London Mayor made his response...
31 May 2022
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The largest operator in London for the niche co-living sector has doubled the size of its portfolio in the east of...
20 May 2022
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Build To Rent operator Avanton has pledged to build hundreds of new homes in two London hotspots under its A:Living brand. They...
29 March 2022
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A London-focussed lettings agency group has paid £2,000 as a result of breaching the Tenant Fees Act. The issue relates to the...
23 December 2021
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Council-imposed fines on letting agents and landlords that fall foul of licensing regulations have risen dramatically in the past month alone. Research...
25 November 2021
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At least one lettings agency is on a list of targets for socially-distanced protests tomorrow by anti-eviction campaigners in the left...
09 April 2021
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A London council has embarked on consultation over two new private rental licensing schemes - and says they are needed as...
23 March 2021
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New research by lettings management platform Howsy shows which major London commuter hubs make the most attractive potential for buy to...
14 August 2020
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Rental demand has dropped significantly across London and other major UK cities as a result of the pandemic. When comparing current levels...
23 April 2020
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A leading lettings sector trade body says evidence shows the direct payment of benefit to landlords is the biggest possible contribution...
19 September 2019
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Greater London rents have risen an average of four per cent in the past year - but some boroughs performing above-average...
13 September 2019
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Rents in London are rocketing but a leading market commentator says this is no reason to give in to a “Marxist dystopia”...
07 August 2019
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A London council’s action against a property agent it has accused of “repeated negligence” has resulted in £37,000 of fines and...
31 July 2019
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New research shows that some buy to let investors in London could typically lose over £19,000 a year if Berlin-style rent...
19 June 2019
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A London council has won one of the largest-ever Proceeds of Crime claims from an unscrupulous buy to let investor. Andre Charles Trepel,...
02 May 2019
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A buy to let investor has been landed with a fine and costs of over £20,000 because he failed to apply...
06 March 2019
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Just when you thought there could not be any more rival licensing or accreditation systems in the private rental sector, a...
25 February 2019
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Three brothers and a property management company have received fines and a confiscation order, and must pay costs, following what a...
04 January 2019
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A property managing agent has been ordered to pay £40,000 following the death of a woman at a fire at a...
12 April 2018
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The owner of a property firm who reportedly misled tenants and let an illegally converted property has been jailed for 155...
29 November 2017
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PropTech firm PayProp has welcomed the latest measures to clamp down on rogue elements within the lettings industry - but warns...
11 October 2017
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Southwark council in south London is sending leaflets to all its leaseholders to warn them that letting out homes on any...
20 June 2017
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A management firm and corporate landlord have been hit with a £250,000 fine after a “potentially lethal” flat blaze in London -...
30 May 2017
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A north London landlord who housed a family of five, including three children, in a cramped attic has been prosecuted by...
11 May 2017
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Letting agents who have broken the law are set to be ‘named and shamed’ by the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan,...
27 April 2017
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A BBC investigation claims that people living in the private rental sector spend more than a third of their disposable income...
08 August 2016
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A man who posed as a letting agent to swindle landlords and tenants has been jailed for just over two years. Legal...
02 August 2016
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A council has set up an anti-fraud tool to prevent social housing being illegally sub-let under the pretence of being private...
03 November 2015
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Three multi-million pound deals will provide over 1,000 new homes specifically for private rent in London, under the government’s Build To...