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Eight fledgling UK PropTech have been selected for the Propertymark-linked  REACH UK 2024 technology scale-up program. The REACH UK program, launched in March...

Rigorous government targets to improve EPC ratings in the private rental sector and the wider housing stock won’t be met without...

PropTech platform Goodlord has produced a guide for letting agents wanting to post on Til Tok - and it says the...

Propertymark has responded to the formal consultation schemes being imposed by a string of local councils - but says such measures...

Rightmove, still very much the Number One portal despite growing competition, is launching a new national marketing campaign this coming weekend. The...

Housing Minister Matthew Pennycook has written to one of the key areas he believes vital for achieving Labour’s house-building targets, calling...

Property professionals gearing up for the 2024 Variety North West Property Awards can look forward to a star-studded evening as TV...

eXp UK has passed the 600 agent milestone and now declares itself to be the leading platform for self employed agency. It...

A survey of over 730 property professionals has found that 76% believe the introduction of technology has changed the UK property...

Leading property website Zoopla has delivered strong results for letting agents in the run-up to the busiest time of year for...

Knight Frank has set out its forecast for the rental sector for the rest of 2024 - notwithstanding political uncertainty. In the...

HM Revenue & Customs has named 92 schemes which it says are involved in tax avoidance - and it admits this...

Propertymark is inviting letting agents to find out more about the latest legislative changes at one of its upcoming regional conferences.   As...

Letting agents and landlords are being offered free advice and information at a networking event hosted by Cumberland council. Property owners and...

Letting agents keen to scale their business fast are being encouraged to attend what the organisers call “an industry flagship event”...

A luxury development of 15-storey and 45-storey towers housing 581 one and two-bedroomed apartments in the heart of Birmingham is to...

One of the UK’s most high profile lettings agents is calling on politicians to change course on rent controls. David Alexander of...

A Labour council in London is seeking much greater control over the creation of so-called ‘small HMOs’. Lambeth council wants anyone creating a...

Consumer organisation Which? claims there are some 1,000 reports of rental fraud scams a month at this time of year. It says...

A regional agent says the fear of further taxes on the private rental sector may lead to a spurt of landlords...

Leaders Romans Group has acquired Alan Francis Estate Agents and Lettings Ltd, a Milton Keynes company which has operated in the...

New figures show the scale of the rental supply slump in recent years. The respected Home website, which produces a monthly lettings...

New figures showing no slowdown in the rate of private rental inflation is just additional “misery” for tenants, a leading financial...

One in 10 UK tenants are now spending at least 60% of their take home salary on their rent, according to...

A housing group is launching a campaign to recruit more young people to the property industry in general and the building...

Average rent arrears claims reached £2,092 in the second quarter of this year - a rise of 15% from £1,816 in...

A warning has been issued that lettings agencies could lose millions of pounds if landlords quit over new EPC targets. Reapit analysed...

Johns&Co, an agency specialising in property investment and asset management, is expanding into a new territory - Manchester. Since its establishment in...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has appointed Victor Olowe as the chair of its new Valuation Assurance Committee. Oluwe is a...

Daniel Daggers, the self-styled #MrSuperPrime estate agent star of Netflix show Buying London, is to address a Propertymark event. Daggers, founder of...

Just as the prospect of tax rises in the Budget is causing uncertainty in the prime London sales market, so Labour’s...

PropTech management platform Lavanda is to be used to manage the vast 68,000-bed portfolio of Unite Students, the UK’s largest purpose...

Propertymark has renewed its call for agent comments on Material Information.  The trade body - in collaboration with TDS, The Guild of...

The Law Society claims over 29,000 eviction claims in recent months leave “tens of thousands at risk of losing their homes.” The...

Two new signings for the fast-growing Harding Green broker-model agency are both former lettings managers at Knight Frank. Milly Englander was formerly...

Landlords generated average rental yields of 6.3% in the second quarter of the year, research for Paragon’s latest PRS Trends Report...

Ascend, which says it’s now the UK’s largest third-party operator of single-family Build To Rent homes, has recruited a new associated...

The number of buy to let property purchases in the UK fell 14% from 224,700 in 2022/23 to 193,700 in the...

The chief executive of Purplebricks says he’s backing Labour’s house building plans because of the state of the private rental sector.  Sam...

A relaunched online lettings agency operation is offering lettings listings deals to landlords from £39.50. The little known Essex-based Griffin Property Co...

Flats in a multi-millionaire developer’s prestigious shoreline scheme in Folkestone can, after all, be short-let following a U-turn by the property...

Rightmove has admitted to shareholders that it’s to lose 8% of its lettings listing from next month - the equivalent of...

Propertymark says stricter rules for EPC ratings in the private rental sector must be backed up with incentives and financial support. The...

Leaders Romans Group has snapped up Norfolk rental operation Dragonfly Lettings, as part of what LRG describes as “a significant step”...

A report from Propertymark has laid out the stark and in some cases unforeseen consequence of the Conservative government’s phased removal...

In a statement which appears to go against the trend of much of the lettings sector, Connells says it sees no...

An agency has signed up to OnTheMarket, claiming the portal progress since being taken over by a US firm was the...

Propertymark is today launching a consultation exercise, seeking the views of lettings and sales agents - amongst others - about Material Information...

A new analysis by Zoopla suggests and one in eight homes currently for sale were previously let out. The portal says this...

The Bank of England has cut base rate from 5.25% to 5.0% - its first cut in four years. It was a...

A high end agency has created a new senior role to oversee co-ordinate lettings activities with sales, and oversee a raft of...

The chance of the Bank of England deciding to cut base rate today and thus trigger further interest rate cuts, is...

The Propertymark Trust is to help agents donate orphaned funds to support charitable causes, thanks to support from CRM suppliers across...

Foxtons latest trading update shows growing reliance on lettings income. However it says the performance - which saw double digit growth in...

Propertymark is urging the UK government to implement reforms that will make it more cost effective and simpler for people to...

Clarity is required from the government over how planning changes are to help meet targets for 1.5m new homes in the...

Rightmove has thrown its weight behind the new Labour government’s bid to help first time buyers - and it wants it...

A court has heard that a trusted lettings manager was discovered to have been diverting company funds to her personal bank...

The John Lewis Partnership has received the green light to transform its Waitrose site in Bromley into a new Build To...

A trading statement by Rightmove reveals that it’s  spent £3m on just an 8% share of a PropTech system that describes...

Robert Jenrick, who was appointed Housing Secretary by Robert Jenrick in 2019, is to run for Tory party leader. During his time...

A lettings and sales agency chain with 14 branches across the north east of England has committed to raising £5,000 in...

Connells’ new chief executive is to be Helen Charlesworth, who for the past eight years has been managing director at Stonegate...

The boss of a rental flatshare agency claims tenants are sacrificing summer holidays because of high rents. Matt Hutchinson, director of the...

Actual lettings and sales clients were contacted during a training event led by a renowned property industry coach. Fine & Country hosted...

A prominent industry trainer is working with a fledgling sales agency to launch what it calls a “buyer representation programme” -...

Figures from the National House Building Council show that housebuilding is currently running at only half the rate the new Labour...

A new agency - which describes itself as a “disruptor company” - says it will charge an all-in lettings and management...

Planning permission has been given to the biggest-ever Build To Rent scheme in Milton Keynes. A company under the name PLATFORM_ has...

A boycott of a major property portal has been called off after a settlement has been reached over fees. PropertyPal is the...

Zoopla is now describing itself as ’the official data partner’ of the Channel 4 programme ‘Worst House on the Street’.  Its data...

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

London high end agency Eccord has bolstered its property management team with two experienced new hires. Steve Wilson joins as Senior Property...

Letting industry doyen Valerie Bannister has celebrated 40 years in the industry with a party thrown by her employer, Your Move.  Valerie...

The government’s renewed pledge to end Section 21 eviction powers for agents and landlords is fine, a leading industry figure has...

The average age of landlords acquiring new rental property with a buy to let mortgage has fallen over the past decade,...

A new Renters' Rights Bill is to be introduced into Parliament, it's been confirmed today. The announcement was made in the King's...

New analysis from the British Property Federation (BPF) shows a dramatic slump in the number of Build To Rent units started. Although...

A lettings agency chief says there’s growing discussion about rent controls in his area - and he fears this may be...

The trade union UNISON has partnered with activist group Generation Rent to demand root-and-branch reform of the private rental sector. Four key...

Lettings agency giant Connells says the private rental sector performed strongly in the second quarter of 2024 despite worries over future...

Asking rents continue to show posi­tive, albeit lower, growth in most regions according to the property website Home. The site conducts a...

ARLA Propertymark and a number of other property industry bodies wants Housing Secretary Angela Rayner to regulate letting and sales agents. An...

Industry technology provider Reapit is holding a webinar tomorrow giving agents “an opportunity for savvy agents to unlock profits through tried...

Glenigan, regarded as one of the construction industry’s most respected insight and intelligence consultancies, says the sector will enjoy a long-term...

Former Bank of England governor Mark Carney is warning that homeowners, including those serving the private rental sector, will have to...

Propertymark says it’s contacting all the appropriate new ministers over the summer to trigger an engagement process so agents’ voices can...

Deposit alternative provider flatfair claims to have enjoyed a record-breaking start to 2024, forming 61 new partnerships.  These include Concept Estate Agents,...

Propertymark has warned Labour’s Deputy Prime Minister against scrapping Section 21 eviction powers without an adequate replacement. If Angela Rayner does fulfil...

Data sourced from millions of Barclays current accounts reveals spending on rent and mortgages rose just 1.5% year-on-year in June –...

There’s a call from a prominent international building science service for the new Labour government to review the Energy Performance Certificates. EPCs...

Propertymark has struck a lukewarm tone in its response to Labour’s housing ambitions. The trade body says that to meet its manifesto...

Labour’s proposed planning reforms indicates that the new government is serious about change and grasping the nettle on housebuilding. That’s the view...

High end lettings agency Hamptons has launched a new international department to woo overseas investors and tenants seeking rental properties in...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has congratulated Labour on forming the next government but says it must move quickly to...

Leading property players and analysts suggest that the lacklustre housing market figures produced by the Halifax over the weekend owe more...

The incoming Labour government has a social mandate to support the next generation of homeowners in the UK, says financial PropTech...

The biggest rental sector headline from Labour’s manifesto may well be its pledge for the “immediate” abolition of Section 21 eviction...

A nationwide survey conducted by Leaders Romans Group shows significant concerns over proposed rent controls, property taxes, and regulatory changes. LRG this...

Regulation of lettings and estate agencies must be a priority for the government elected tomorrow, a PropTech entrepreneur demands. Sián Hemming-Metcalfe of...