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A brief statement to the London Stock Market this evening has confirmed that Rightmove will, after all, carry OpenRent listings in...
09 August 2024
From: Breaking News
New figures show the average inheritance tax (IHT) bill in 2021/22 rose to a new high of £215,000. The number of estates...
02 August 2024
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The government’s renewed pledge to end Section 21 eviction powers for agents and landlords is fine, a leading industry figure has...
18 July 2024
From: Breaking News
Propertymark has warned Labour’s Deputy Prime Minister against scrapping Section 21 eviction powers without an adequate replacement. If Angela Rayner does fulfil...
11 July 2024
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The Conservatives have this afternoon set out a 78-page manifesto, of which just over two pages are given to housing and...
11 June 2024
From: Breaking News
A lettings agency trading as Bowden Property Group Ltd has been fined £4,000 and £1,470 for failing to protect two tenancy...
29 May 2024
From: Breaking News
Propertymark has stepped into the row over whether there should be more controls over second homes, holiday lets and people from...
28 May 2024
From: Breaking News
Build To Rent developer and operator Dandara Living has struck a partnership with deposit alternative service flatfair. Dandara joins other BTR operators...
22 May 2024
From: Breaking News
A statement from a city council claims that a property company failed to attend court in a case of deposit protection,...
19 April 2024
From: Breaking News
The government has written to Conservative MPs promising changes to the Renters Reform Bill to ease concerns over its anti-landlord bias. Jacob...
28 March 2024
From: Breaking News
Housing Secretary Michael Gove has this morning announced wholesale changes to planning and regulations surrounding short lets. His proposals include: - planning permission...
19 February 2024
From: Breaking News
Propertymark is urging the Sunak government to introduce specialist housing courts with expert Judges who can expedite cases and create a...
15 February 2024
From: Breaking News
Two property company bosses have been sentenced following an Insolvency Service investigation which found they had abused a £30,000 Bounce Back...
20 December 2023
From: Breaking News
Purplebricks has appointed a new media agency - mSix&Partners - as it launches its ‘free’ sales offer to landlords and other...
15 December 2023
From: Breaking News
Although Purplebricks’s Scottish lettings book was sold in a deal over the Bank Holiday weekend, there remains uncertainty over the rest...
30 May 2023
From: Breaking News
A chief executive who pledged to beef up her agency’s lettings division - but failed to do so - is leaving...
18 May 2023
From: Breaking News
Airbnb is warning the UK government not to be heavy handed in its planning controls restricting the short lets sector. At the...
17 April 2023
From: Breaking News
New powers have been revealed to tackle what the Welsh Government calls the ‘problem’ of second homes. A statement from the Senedd...
05 April 2023
From: Breaking News
A rent guarantor provider has announced a deal with agency Clever Student Lets. The provider - called RentGuarantor - says the deal...
24 January 2023
From: Breaking News
A new survey by HomeLet and Dataloft shows that of 12,000 tenants questioned, over three quarters are worried about the cost...
28 December 2022
From: Breaking News
Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng has announced that stamp duty will be cut. In future there will be no stamp duty on the first...
23 September 2022
From: Breaking News
Agents have only four weeks to respond to a committee of MPs’ ‘call for evidence’ ahead of an investigation into the...
25 July 2022
From: Breaking News
A prominent lettings industry supplier says uncertainty over the details and timescales to implement rental reforms will dog the sector for...
30 June 2022
From: Breaking News
Zoopla is warning that the recent sharp rise in rents has stretched affordability with the average rent now accounting for 37...
17 May 2022
From: Breaking News
A leading lettings agent has warned tenants against using social media to find rental properties. David Alexander - head of DJ Alexander,...
06 January 2022
From: Breaking News
Two lettings agencies in Cornwall are campaigning for more affordable rental accommodation for NHS staff in the county. Camel and Homequest Lettings...
11 November 2021
From: Breaking News
One of the insurers at the centre of the Business Interruption controversy is believed to have reached a settlement with some...
30 June 2021
From: Breaking News
Last week’s bid by PropTech referencing firm Goodlord to draw a line under its long-running ‘fire and rehire’ industrial dispute has...
24 May 2021
From: Breaking News
The industrial dispute involving Goodlord has ended with nine of the affected staff leaving the company after a lengthy strike. The Unite...
20 May 2021
From: Breaking News
Central London’s prime rental market is witnessing a wave of enquiries from tenants wanting to strike a deal according to a...
30 March 2021
From: Breaking News
The industrial dispute involving Goodlord has escalated with protests outside agency offices using the lettings platform, and the creation of a...
18 February 2021
From: Breaking News
A trades union claims that lettings software provider Goodlord is slashing some staff salaries by a quarter - that’s £6,000 per...
12 February 2021
From: Breaking News
Scotland’s official clampdown on short lets is gathering pace with the country’s housing minister advocating a licensing regime and so-called ‘control...
05 February 2021
From: Breaking News
The head of industry recruitment consultancy Property Personnel is calling on agencies to be more tolerant of the struggles working parents...
13 January 2021
From: Breaking News
Activists are attempting to build rent strike momentum amongst students who rent property across the country. ‘Rent Strike” is a national network...
08 December 2020
From: Breaking News
A specialist buy to let mortgage broker is urging prospective investors to buy sooner rather than later if they want to...
21 July 2020
From: Breaking News
A group of activists in London claim as many as 2,500 tenants are on a rent-strike during the Coronavirus crisis. The number is...
01 June 2020
From: Breaking News
A mailing list operated by the left wing activists’ group Momentum has been used to win support for a rent strike...
18 May 2020
From: Breaking News
For many this coming Easter weekend will be the strangest ever - for agents and industry suppliers it will not be...
09 April 2020
From: Breaking News
One of the lettings sector’s biggest trade bodies is calling on government to make a clear statement to help landlords who...
07 April 2020
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Two lettings agencies have been vandalised by activists who defied the Coronavirus lockdown to damage property. Local media reports in Cheltenham say...
26 March 2020
From: Breaking News
Haart has announced a strategic partnership with software platform teclet which will now be adopted in all lettings offices in the...
30 January 2020
From: Breaking News
Number 10 briefings to the national media suggest that the scrapping of Section 21 - long talked about by the previous...
17 December 2019
From: Breaking News
An independent Yorkshire letting agency has broken new ground by extending into Humberside for the first time, after striking a major...
18 November 2019
From: Breaking News
Former QPR and Nottingham Forest striker Dexter Blackstock has been fined over £25,000 and branded a rogue landlord after admitting 12 licencing offences. He...
21 October 2019
From: Breaking News
A Plymouth sales and letting agency has taken a number of measures to help raise awareness of climate change in its...
09 October 2019
From: Breaking News
Deposit alternative service Zero Deposit has become the “exclusive deposit replacement partner” of the National Landlord Association - less than two...
01 August 2019
From: Breaking News
Tenancy deposit alternative provider Reposit has been taken on by Devon-based agency chain Webbers. The agency’s 15 offices operate in north Cornwall,...
10 June 2019
From: Breaking News
Online lettings agency RentMyHome is partnering with a trade group for home stagers in order to offer clients discounted services. MyHomeGroup owns...
02 May 2019
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A former agent made redundant by LSL Property Services is the 125th franchisee for EweMove. Damien Guest, who has worked in agency...
30 April 2019
From: Breaking News
Today’s vote in the House of Commons on Theresa May’s Brexit withdrawal deal may be dominating the headlines but it’s the...
15 January 2019
From: Breaking News
The government says it will not reveal an implementation date for the banning on agents’ fees on tenants in England until...
02 January 2019
From: Breaking News
The charity Shelter, which regularly campaigns against lettings agencies and landlords, is bracing itself for a strike next week - and...
07 December 2018
From: Breaking News
Liquidators Grant Thornton says funds found in the accounts of a Guernsey lettings agent are likely to be sufficient to pay...
21 September 2018
From: Breaking News
The mystery surrounding a lettings and estate agency on the island of Guernsey offers an insight into a system where companies...
23 August 2018
From: Breaking News
You may have spotted a particularly entertaining ad yesterday for lettings property management firm ARPM - it’s the one that featured...
10 August 2018
From: Breaking News
Rents have risen a negligible 0.9 per cent across the UK in the last 12 months according to HomeLet. The average monthly...
16 April 2018
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The new leader of the Labour party in Scotland says his party will introduce “stringent” rent controls if it gains power...
13 March 2018
From: Breaking News
Anti-deposits campaigning agent Ajay Jagota says the 2004 Housing Act - which actually came into effect in 2007 - may now...
30 August 2017
From: Breaking News
A buy to let mortgage lender claims that five out of six areas affected by the long-running spate of strikes on...
23 January 2017
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Letting agents in Cambridge have struck a deal with Stagecoach East to give five free days of travel to new tenants...
29 January 2016
From: Breaking News
Labour will today ask Home Secretary Theresa May to publish the result of the Right To Rent pilot project amidst claims...
12 October 2015
From: Breaking News
The government has confirmed that it has no plan to ban letting agency fees in England. Fees are already banned in Scotland...
16 September 2015
From: Breaking News
After the passing of the Deregulation Act deposits deadline this week, Richard Price, Executive Director of UKALA, is in a contemplative...
26 June 2015
From: Features
New tenancy deposit rules come into effect today have been given the thumbs-up by The Association of Independent Inventory Clerks. Under the...
23 June 2015
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New tenancy deposit rules come into effect today have been given the thumbs-up by The Association of Independent Inventory Clerks. Under the...
23 June 2015
From: Breaking News
Landlords could risk facing heavy fines if they fail to protect their tenants’ deposits before an important new deadline on June...
17 June 2015
From: Breaking News
The Deposit Protection Service is reminding letting agents and landlords that they have to act with extreme urgency over older tenancy...
16 June 2015
From: Breaking News
The Association of Residential Letting Agents says the government’s controversial Deregulation Act, which is now in force, is creating critical new...
11 June 2015
From: Breaking News
In 2007, the government introduced a compulsory deposit protection scheme as part of the Housing Act 2004 to help protect tenants...