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PropTech provider Spectre has added a social media marketing tool to its platform. This is the result of a partnership with Auto.social...

An agency has upgraded a lettings office after what it describes as a makeover by ‘green office and retail design consultants’. The...

Southampton council has approved a big new Build To Rent scheme on the site of a disused gasworks. Hawkstone Properties Ltd and...

The Conservatives have this afternoon set out a 78-page manifesto, of which just over two pages are given to housing and...

The government has won a landmark legal challenge against a freeholder forcing it to fix serious building safety issues in a...

A prominent agent campaigning for business tax reform is urging Labour to come clean on its policies for business rates and...

Housing minister Lee Rowley will be taking centre stage at the largest property agency conference in the UK this summer, Propertymark...

Leaders - part of the Leaders Romans Group - has unveiled what it claims to one its latest “sustainable office” in...

Property logbook company Chimni is trialling a new form of Digital Property Logbook aimed at the Lettings markets.   The new logbooks...

The Chancellor has one last chance to come good on the election promise of lowering the burden of business rates –...

A building society has launched a pilot project banning mortgage lending on holiday lets in two tourist areas for 12 months. Leeds...

A wealthy landlord who set up a fake lettings agency in Hull has been jailed for 11 years for allowing ‘ghost tenants’ to...

The number of private tenants in properties that are hard to heat has fallen, a council claims. As agents will know private...

An organised crime group involved in producing and distributing an estimated £2.4m of cannabis has been found to have e used...

Residential buy to let in the North West of England, London industrial property and retail warehouses are set to be the...

Propertymark has urged the government to do more to help the country’s most vulnerable citizens heat their homes.   Office for National Statistics...

Propertymark is revamping the big London conference it trialled this year - and it’s fired an entire hotel for the after-party...

My Property Box Tyne & Wear has extended its all-inclusive rent deal - and it says it’s in response to concerns...

Large portfolio professional landlords are in a confident mood, with the majority planning to acquire at least one new asset in...

The scale of investment in UK commercial property has fallen in all sectors, new research suggests.  Sirius Property Finance has analysed UK...

Landlords and agents acting on their behalf are to be given more powers to evict unruly tenants who ruin neighbours’ lives...

The Herbert R Thomas agency, known as HRT, is merging with Rawlins & Madley. The two South Wales firms announced the merger on...

A new dedicated Build To Rent company, Adler Estates, has launched in the westcountry. It’s part of the Eagle One group of private property companies...

Propertymark is querying why there’s no help for the private rental sector to meet energy efficiency targets expressed in a new...

A lettings agent has been banned from holding office in a company for 11 years for abusing Covid loans - but...

A new survey of over 8,000 commercial estate agents indicates a challenging 2023 - suggesting a possible alternative investment option for...

Propertymark wants the Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy to widen access to cash help to those that need it...

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The controversial Boiler Upgrade Scheme - which Propertymark say is so complex many people don’t think it’s worth applying to -...

The government’s Boiler Upgrade Scheme application process is so complex property agents and their landlords do not think it is worth...

Lee Rowley is the new housing minister, specifically responsible for taking charge of the government’s rental reform agenda. The government has confirmed...

Leaders Romans Group has launched what it claims is its first sustainable branch lettings office.  Its Brighton city centre branch, operating under...

Airbnb is piloting new tools which it claims may identify and block prospective renters who want to stage anti-social parties. The technology...

A jury has ruled that a lettings agency has been guilty of illegally evicting tenants in Margate - with locks changed,...

A lettings agency is alleged to have used violence and vandalism over a prolonged period against the tenants of at least...

Leaders Romans Group has entered a three year deal with The Depositary, which is claimed could save the group tens of...

A lettings agency has identified where tenant demand is strongest right now - and where demand is lower than some agents...

Westminster council wants central London to have the same powers as Paris and Amsterdam to stop anti-social behaviour caused by Airbnb...

Many people - including agents, landlords and tenants - are unprepared for the domestic heating revolution on its way to Britain. That’s...

Just as COP26 is drawing to a close, so one of the lettings industry’s leading legal voices is warning that the...

Over £80,000 pounds of fines have been imposed on a letting agency and its director. Zenith Accommodation Ltd’s boss, Mohammad Mallick of...

Almost £300,000 has been awarded to a consortium of councils to improve energy efficiency in the private rental sector. York council will lead...

Justice Secretary Dominic Raab says it will take a year for court backlogs to be reduced substantially and even longer to...

The telecoms solutions company behind "Phone-in-a-Phone" (PiP) now brings property professionals the UK's first mobile-only business phone system in an app...

A London lettings agency - that has now entered bankruptcy - has been cleared of any involvement in a rental scandal...

A PropTech supplier claims letting agents can now register deposits at the click of a button thanks to a new integration...

A landlord and the property company of which he is director have been convicted and ordered to pay more than £17,000...

A new web-based listing management platform for small estate agencies is being launched in the UK, claiming to allow modest firms...

Wales’ Labour-led administration is to announce a three-pronged approach to affordability issues - and it looks likely to involve a clampdown...

A firm creating an app showing live streams of properties to let or for sale claims one agency attracted 18 offers...

Deposit alternative firm flatfair has teamed up with an accommodation service to supply short lets. Users who find short lets through the...

Rightmove has announced what it calls “a new vision for its lettings service” and wants agent feedback on what they think...

As we all know, there is an increasing number of PropTech solutions aiming to service the property and lettings industry, with...

The ban on bailiff-enforced evictions is now finally at an end and from today there is a change to the notice...

Last week’s bid by PropTech referencing firm Goodlord to draw a line under its long-running ‘fire and rehire’ industrial dispute has...

The industrial dispute involving Goodlord has ended with nine of the affected staff leaving the company after a lengthy strike. The Unite...

A lettings agency director has been issued with a Criminal Behaviour Order for unlawfully evicting a tenant back in 2019. CFDP Ltd, trading as...

ARLA Propertymark says there should be a long term appropriately funded strategy to help the private rental sector and home owners...

Another lettings agency has been found to have unlawfully discriminated against a tenant receiving benefits. Worthing County Court declared that Michael Jones & Company unlawfully...

The initiative which the government hoped would transform energy efficiency in the private rental sector is being axed this week. The Green...

In an exclusive, the Daily Telegraph says emergency courtrooms will be used after their funding runs out over the comning summer...

Rightmove has set out its innovation programme for the private rental sector. The portal has given over a substantial amount of its...

The industrial dispute involving Goodlord has escalated with protests outside agency offices using the lettings platform, and the creation of a...

A trades union claims that lettings software provider Goodlord is slashing some staff salaries by a quarter - that’s £6,000 per...

Lettings management service Ringley Group has teamed up with a utility broker, 001 Ltd. It says this sources and identifies economies of...

A letting agency comparison website is offering a free month of landlord leads - so long as agents try a Vegan diet. Rentround insists...

One of the housing ministers with responsibility for the introduction of the controversial Renters Reform Bill in the near future has...

Lettings agency Carter Jonas predicts the housing market - for both owner-occupiers and landlords - will become increasingly eco-focussed in 2021. It says...

Restaurant staff were kept in “dangerous and overcrowded” conditions by a property company and its landlord-director, a court has heard. The company...

Three lettings agents who kept tenants’ rent instead of passing it to the landlords have been ordered to pay almost £100,000...

Anger continues to mount over government plans to make rental properties more energy efficient, with one agent advising his landlords to make...

A call to action has been sent to letting agents to make their voices heard about new EPC proposals from the Department...

A new proposal from the government says agents and portals will be banned from advertising rental properties with non-compliant Energy Performance...

The Home Office is proposing a new online service to make it easier for agents and landlords to check that prospective...

Much has been made of the backlog of court cases - including landlords’ possession attempts - and now the Ministry of Justice...

The new trade body for companies working in the beleaguered short lets sector has recruited 14 new member firms - although...

The Court of Appeal has ruled in favour of the government’s controversial Right To Rent scheme, overturning a decision reached last...

The lettings and management software platform teclet has announced its latest partner - LegalforLandlords. Agents using teclet - which is currently offering...

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PropTech platform teclet is offering letting agents that list with OnTheMarket a three month trial offer of a digital inventory service. One...

The safeagent accreditation business says it has helped secure the conviction of a rogue lettings agent who falsely claimed membership of...

The clampdown on referral fees, until now concentrated on the sales sector, will extend to letting agents too. James Munro, head of...

A Labour council is leading a trial by local authorities of a new digital platform that checks whether agents, landlords and...

New analysis by Direct Line for Business reveals a surge in the number of police investigations into the theft of electricity,...

Another law firm has sharply criticised the government’s proposals to abolish Section 21 eviction powers for landlords. Devonshires says the government should...

A rent guarantor service says it’s already chosen 25 lettings agents to take part in a trial of what it calls...

Legal & General is to develop a Brighton industrial estate into the town’s first Build To Rent scheme. The work will go on...

The government has published an independent assessment of its Tenants Fees Bill proposal - the ban on fees levied by letting...

A software platform has been launched which allows Build To Rent units to be short-let on the likes of Airbnb during...

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

Three letting agents who failed to return tenants’ deposits or pass on rent payments to landlords have been convicted of fraud...

London agency giant Kinleigh Folkard and Hayward is the latest to offer its tenant clients a no-deposit service.  It's going to use...

A new investment company says its latest tool, powered by Artificial Intelligence, helps buy to let investors search for the best...

We regularly carry stories about fines for landlords and letting agents who have apparently broken council or national laws - but...

A landlord is almost £42,000 worse off after repeatedly ignoring council orders to stop illegally letting so called “beds in sheds”...

One of Britain's highest profile landlords is to be sentenced on December 11 - and she must show the court details of...

The JLL lettings agency has launched a ‘virtual property manager’ for a small number of Build To Rent tenants, claiming it...

Plans have been unveiled for a 23-storey development comprising 307 Build To Rent units, located overlooking Cardiff Bay. IM Properties and its...

A new online rental platform claims that landlords could save enough to afford an additional holiday this year if they signed...

An investor has been fined £2,525 after failing to licence her property and allegedly providing inadequate living conditions for her tenants. Adeola...