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An online lettings platform claims to have launched the first “end-to-end self-service lettings platform” which could save landlords around £3,800. Hello Neighbour...
19 April 2024
From: Breaking News
VISTA, a tenant referencing service first announced back in November, launches today. Insurance and referencing service HomeLet says the product will “provide...
15 February 2024
From: Breaking News
UK Association of Letting Agents has announced a link with PropTech supplier Canopy. UKALA member agents will receive a discount if they...
21 November 2023
From: Breaking News
HomeLet claims its new VISTA service will revolutionise the lettings industry by eliminating fraud through the use of detection technology and...
06 November 2023
From: Breaking News
Alto, Zoopla’s cloud-based software product, has announced a marketplace product allowing agents to self-serve and activate Proptech partner integrations within the...
09 August 2023
From: Breaking News
Zoopla’s Alto cloud-based software has announced a new integration with lettings PropTech supplier Canopy. This will enable tenant referencing to be permitted...
11 July 2023
From: Breaking News
PropTech rental platform Goodlord has partnered with an open banking platform to enhance its tenant referencing service. Goodlord, which first integrated open...
12 May 2023
From: Breaking News
Barbon Insurance Group, which describes itself as the UK's largest tenant referencing and specialist lettings insurance intermediary, has a new managing...
27 April 2023
From: Breaking News
Rightmove says it’s helping to digitise the rental processes, making the process less fragmented and frustrating for agents. In its trading statement...
06 March 2023
From: Breaking News
Referencing service Homeppl is expanding into Right to Rent checks. A digital R2R check can be integrated into Homeppl tenant referencing checks...
11 November 2022
From: Breaking News
Letting Agent Today has been approached by researchers at the University of York and University of Bristol doing a study on...
21 October 2022
From: Breaking News
Lettings Hub says there were 91,593 cases of tenant application fraud in 2021 alone, with the most common form of fraud...
23 September 2022
From: Breaking News
OnTheMarket is launching a management fee protection product, developed with tenant referencing platform Canopy and insurance broker the Alan Boswell Group....
29 July 2022
From: Breaking News
Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Bekki Leaves, Director What is FCC Paragon and what services...
27 July 2022
From: 60 Second Interview
The Lettings Hub has announced a two-year partnership with HooYu, a Know Your Customer specialist. As the deadline to end the temporary...
27 July 2022
From: Breaking News
OnTheMarket says its innovations with partnerships in the lettings sector have played a part in its successful growth. In the 12 months...
15 June 2022
From: Breaking News
A new national lettings-only portal is planning to launch this October with a pledge to revolutionise the rental sector. Its aim is...
13 June 2022
From: Breaking News
TV property expert Phil Spencer says the slowing sales market should spur sales-only agencies into the lettings field. He suggests that ongoing...
13 June 2022
From: Breaking News
PropTech supplier The Lettings Hub has launched a tenant referencing service that it claims allows letting agents to conduct their own...
08 April 2022
From: Breaking News
A PropTech supplier to the lettings industry that has just signed a deal with OnTheMarket has come out in support of...
11 March 2022
From: Breaking News
OnTheMarket’s deal with a PropTech firm to provide free tenant referencing has been extended indefinitely for agents who pay the portal...
04 March 2022
From: Breaking News
A commercial partnership between tenant referencing platform Canopy and property website OnTheMarket has involved an investment of some £350,000. The figure has...
01 March 2022
From: Breaking News
Rightmove says added functionality for its tenant referencing portal is now being tested and will be rolled out later this year. In...
28 February 2022
From: Breaking News
A new fixed-rate platform has been launched that says it will save landlords thousands of pounds in management fees. Rentd claims to...
11 February 2022
From: Breaking News
Tenants are complaining that lengthy application processes at lettings agencies contribute to their frustration at missing available properties. The results of a...
26 January 2022
From: Breaking News
PropTech companies Kamma and Veri-Check are consolidating an existing partnership. Kamma users can already access Veri-Check’s instant property licensing checks, but in...
14 January 2022
From: Breaking News
A PropTech firm is pledging its new service allows agents to complete identity checks, upload the necessary documentation to let their...
13 January 2022
From: Breaking News
During the last year, the industry has experienced a rollercoaster of highs and lows as agents experienced rental peaks, stock shortages,...
24 November 2021
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Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Alexander Siedes, CEO and Founder of Homeppl What is Homeppl and...
18 October 2021
From: 60 Second Interview
An international residential platform which manages 200,000 properties in 29 countries across Europe - including the UK - has signed an...
29 September 2021
From: Breaking News
Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I’m Vince Demilio, Sales Director of The Lettings Hub What services...
23 September 2021
From: 60 Second Interview
Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I’m Heidi Shackell, CEO of The Lettings Hub. How has your...
19 August 2021
From: 60 Second Interview
A PropTech lettings platform boasting investment from the Foxtons agency has been snapped up by LegalforLandlords for an undisclosed figure. Propoly, launched...
04 August 2021
From: Breaking News
Agents using Reapit now have access to tenant due diligence and guarantee firm Homeppl, which will assist in combating rental fraud. Homeppl...
03 August 2021
From: Breaking News
A pet referencing service is being launched next month - but it expects agents and landlords to pay to see the...
06 July 2021
From: Breaking News
A PropTech company says sloppy referencing by agents and landlords effectively means that around a third of prospective tenants are discriminated...
21 June 2021
From: Breaking News
OnTheMarket has signed a 12 month exclusive commercial partnership with Canopy, the tenant referencing platform. The partnership will enable the portal to...
24 May 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
Tenant referencing. It’s a necessary evil. Although most tenants are responsible and pay their rent on time, broke swindlers with dubious...
04 March 2021
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A PropTech supplier says rental market activity remains relatively robust through this third lockdown, with a 25 per cent drop in...
02 March 2021
From: Breaking News
Rightmove has set out its innovation programme for the private rental sector. The portal has given over a substantial amount of its...
01 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
The Guild of Property Professionals and The Lettings Hub is to continue its partnership. Iain McKenzie, The Guild’s chief executive, says: “Having...
15 February 2021
From: Breaking News
A tenant referencing service and lettings insurance provider is linking with an anti-money laundering compliance consultancy. HomeLet and Let Alliance, part of...
15 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
The lettings technology company Goodlord, which works with over 2,000 UK letting agents, has been named by Deloitte as one of...
25 November 2020
From: Breaking News
PropTech platform MakeUrMove, which launched back in 2008 as the first online lettings agency, has secured a £1.3m funding package from...
17 November 2020
From: Breaking News
The government is urging agents and landlords to be “considerate” when deciding whether to accept tenants on the basis of their...
12 November 2020
From: Breaking News
Letting agents and landlords have faced huge change and uncertainty this year, with Covid-19 the major driver. But even before the...
05 November 2020
From: Proptech & Innovation
PropTech firm Goodlord is for the first time offering ‘bank-grade’ facial recognition to letting agents. As part of an update to its...
21 October 2020
From: Breaking News
Making sure the check-in process for tenants is carried out in a smooth manner is more important than ever, in light...
07 October 2020
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Lettings supplier Blinc UK has acquired a 50% stake in Pink Chilli, a new pre-tenancy software platform for letting agents. Pink Chilli...
15 September 2020
From: Breaking News
A new product aims to improve tenant referencing by shifting the emphasis to the renters themselves. LegalforLandlords has just launched its new...
03 September 2020
From: Breaking News
The Lettings Hub is to roll out its Property Passport free tenant referencing product for letting agents. A beta test exercise already...
15 May 2020
From: Breaking News
Labour’s latest suggestion for the private rental sector - a rent holiday for tenants during the Coronavirus crisis - has been...
02 April 2020
From: Breaking News
Hello and welcome to today’s Conquering Corona, our guide to the latest information to help agents and the rest of the...
25 March 2020
From: Breaking News
One of the UK’s largest tenant referencing and let insurance providers has announced a new integration with a PropTech firm -...
02 December 2019
From: Breaking News
The relatively low profile 99home online agency says it is now the UK’s fifth largest operation in the online sector after...
26 November 2019
From: Breaking News
A PropTech firm says it is going to eliminate tenant screening costs by 2021 for lettings agents and landlords who use...
22 October 2019
From: Breaking News
Another online lettings agency has come forward with a deal to help landlords and tenants stranded after the closure of Upad. Last...
16 October 2019
From: Breaking News
Rightmove has at last completed on its acquisition of tenancy referencing firm Van Mildert, first announced two months ago. The deal, reported...
01 October 2019
From: Breaking News
Landlords in a part of Teesside are to be allowed to operate a “collaborative” licensing scheme after a council backed down...
17 September 2019
From: Breaking News
Anyone underestimating the size of the UK’s growing private rental sector ought to think again - new research shows its value...
20 August 2019
From: Breaking News
With the recent introduction of the Tenant Fees Act – which bans upfront fees charged by letting agents and caps security...
19 August 2019
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One of the key players in the ultra-competitive deposit alternative sector has announced a massive and new $11m investment. Flatfair says that...
16 August 2019
From: Breaking News
In what some see as a sign of the growing importance of the lettings sector over sales, Rightmove has acquired tenant...
29 July 2019
From: Breaking News
Deposit alternative service flatfair has partnered with Barbon Insurance Group to co-market the two organisations’ products. “We’re thrilled to partner with the...
19 June 2019
From: Breaking News
The Guild of Property Professionals has announced a link with insurance product and moving services operation The Lettings Hub. Lettings Hub offers...
19 June 2019
From: Breaking News
High profile agency Haart has issued a warning to landlords on what it sees as the three key risks to successful letting...
17 June 2019
From: Breaking News
A PropTech product is claiming a breakthrough for letting agents who can now access same-day referencing on prospective tenants. LetAlliance claims that...
11 June 2019
From: Breaking News
The best lettings agents will survive and shine through the ban of fees levied on tenants, which comes into effect this weekend. The...
29 May 2019
From: Breaking News
Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Simon Paul Skinner, Operations manager at LetHQ. My business card...
16 May 2019
From: 60 Second Interview
HomeLet, the tenant referencing and specialist letting insurance company, has been announced as an ESTAS partner for the Estate & Letting...
07 May 2019
From: Breaking News
Tenant referencing, rent protection and insurance provider Rent4sure is to join other leading suppliers as an ESTAS partner for the 16th...
11 April 2019
From: Breaking News
The average rent in the UK is now £940 per month, up 3.8 per cent on this time last year. When London’s...
11 March 2019
From: Breaking News
The news this week that even individual private landlords must join a redress scheme is just the latest in an onslaught...
25 January 2019
From: Breaking News
A PropTech firm is offering landlords the opportunity to manage their portfolios from £35 a month, suggesting it could be a...
25 January 2019
From: Breaking News
Online letting agency MakeUrMove has launched a new subscription model which it claims will ”ready landlords for the incoming tenant fee...
11 January 2019
From: Breaking News
The party conferences of the two main political parties threw up some interesting developments with regards to housing and the rental...
06 November 2018
From: Sponsored Content
Good tenant referencing should include awareness of would-be renters’ social media history according to RentalStep - but it says more thorough...
30 October 2018
From: Breaking News
One in nine landlords now check prospective tenants’ social media accounts to try to assess how they may behave as renters,...
18 September 2018
From: Breaking News
Barbon Insurance Group, which trades as HomeLet and Rentshield Direct, has now snapped up Movem. Movem uses personal online banking transaction data...
14 September 2018
From: Breaking News
Letting agents and landlords have been warned to expect a possible rise in arrears in the coming months if conditions in...
18 July 2018
From: Breaking News
LonRes, the data and agent network business specialising in central London, is entering into a strategic partnership with rental services provider...
18 May 2018
From: Breaking News
One of the PropTech companies at the centre of the Rent Recognition Challenge contest is calling on letting agents to use...
15 May 2018
From: Breaking News
Goodlord, the PropTech company which restructured earlier this year and laid off a reported 40 members of staff, is fighting back...
17 April 2018
From: Breaking News
Increased volatility in the private rental sector and rising costs for landlords and investors have combined to lead to an increased...
20 March 2018
From: Breaking News
The trend towards reducing or eliminating deposits at the same time as edging towards a ban on letting agents’ fees on...
01 February 2018
From: Breaking News
A new online service backed by newspaper publisher Trinity Mirror says it wants to enable tenants to bypass lettings agents. HomeRenter offers what...
07 November 2017
From: Breaking News
Letting agents have been accused of failing to carry out sufficient financial checks on prospective tenants. Tenant referencing and insurance operator Landlord...
14 September 2017
From: Breaking News
Hallmark, which has been working with agents and property management firms for over a decade, has formally launched its new name...
14 September 2017
From: Breaking News
A company claims to have a package of services which would help letting agents overcome the widely-anticipated ban on fees being...
06 July 2017
From: Breaking News
After criticism of many younger voters allegedly failing to turn out during the June 2016 EU Referendum, new analysis of voter...
26 June 2017
From: Breaking News
The software company behind a new product claim it helps agents comply with The Property Ombudsman’s code of practice on referencing...
26 June 2017
From: Breaking News
A Build To Rent operator with properties in London and Glasgow is scrapping tenants’ deposits from the middle of next month,...
26 May 2017
From: Breaking News
Tenant referencing company Rent4sure has set up a new team to support agents in the light of the expected ban on...
22 May 2017
From: Breaking News
Agents are being warned to ensure they serve eviction notices correctly as the ‘peak eviction’ summer period arrives. Specialist tenant referencing service...
19 May 2017
From: Breaking News
Two lettings agencies have been expelled from The Property Ombudsman redress scheme. As we reported when the story broke yesterday afternoon, one...