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

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

Two long-standing experts in property have launched a service which they say will help letting agents retain and grow their client...

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

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

Zoopla lettings chiefs have told the government it should tighten up its imminent Renters Rights Bill by demanding all lettings agents...

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

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

Agency software supplier Alto links with repairs and maintenance software provider Fixflo for an unusual webinar tomorrow at 10am. Guest speaker will...

Houseful - the company which operates Zoopla amongst other industry brands - has launched Movemnt, which it describes as “a national...

London’s rental market has weakened in recent months according to the fledgling online service Hello Neighbour. Rents are 1% down compared to...

Over the weekend the Conservatives pledged that if elected on July 4 they would permanently scrap stamp duty for first time...

Zoopla says a prominent regional agency, Dowen, has returned to its site in a bid to ramp up its plans for...

A prominent housing market analyst says people shouldn’t bother reading election literature but instead study interest rates if they want to...

A third of homes currently for sale can be bought with a mortgage and monthly repayments that cost less than the...

A controversial rental sector figure claims over half of the properties listed to let are actually available for a tenant to...

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...

The UK's rental market is experiencing a slowdown says a lettings chief. Nicky Stevenson, Managing Director of Fine & Country notes that...

Promising figures from the latest house price index doesn’t mean underlying problems in the market have been solved, warns Propertymark. UK house...

Propertymark is joining a growing chorus demanding an annual uprate of working age benefits and Local Housing Allowance. LHA rates have been...

The PropTech sector has mostly agreed with the rest of the industry in its view on yesterday’s Budget - that it...

Towns within commuting distance of big cities have seen some of the UK’s largest rent rises in recent years, says Zoopla. The...

Lettings agency Edward Mellor, which operates its 15 branches across Greater Manchester, has signed up to OnTheMarket. This follows the controversial CoStar...

A return of pent-up demand and mortgage rates falling below five per cent have boosted the start of the year for...

Labour is using a Bill currently going through Parliament as a backdoor method to introduce the regulation of lettings, estate and...

A large multi-brand lettings agency group is dropping its listings on Zoopla and instead going to list rental properties on OnTheMarket...

A new Bank of England survey has confirmed a growing outflow of landlords from the private rental sector since 2020. The Bank’s...

One of Britain’s leading agents - former RICS residential chairman Jeremy Leaf - says he is seeing a change of mood...

Data from London-focussed lettings agency Foxtons has found that rent is up eight per cent year-on-year, with the London average now...

The scale of rent rises has peaked with future increases likely to be smaller, says Zoopla. The portal’s latest report into the...

I think we can all agree that the National Trading Standards Material Information reforms are a good thing for the property...

Parts B and C of the process to improve material information disclosure in property listings are published today within comprehensive new guidance...

A survey over 2,400 tenants has found that 55 per cent would prefer to have their utility bills included within the...

The London rental market is shifting towards equilibrium for the first time since the end of the pandemic, according to Foxtons. In...

A new rental property listings platform - called Krispyhouse - can completely by-pass letting agents. It describes itself as a ‘dating service’...

Rental growth in prime regional markets has started to slow, following runaway growth over the past three years. That’s the view from...

London-focussed agency Foxtons says there is a part of the capital which is seeing an average of 38 prospective tenants for...

Zoopla has issued the first major private rental sector market forecast for 2024. Rental growth this year is on track to end...

Zoopla’s research team says the rise in mortgage interest rates means it’s now cheaper to rent than to buy for the...

A personal finance expert has revealed that a new group which he calls Guppies are reconciled to possibly renting forever. Alan Davison,...

Alto, Zoopla’s cloud-based software product, has announced a marketplace product allowing agents to self-serve and activate Proptech partner integrations within the...

Zoopla’s Alto cloud-based software has announced a new integration with lettings PropTech supplier Canopy. This will enable tenant referencing to be permitted...

The BBC says discussions are underway to extend the Renters Reform Bill to specifically outlaw any rental listing banning families and benefit recipients...

Thousands of listing for rental properties on two popular websites explicitly say children or pets are not welcome. A BBC analysis of...

Typical UK rents now account for 28.3 per cent of average pre-tax earnings - slightly above the 10-year average of 27...

Zoopla has announced it’s hosting its quarterly market update next Wednesday, June 14, to discuss how agents can keep their business...

The property market could be emerging from the downturn, Zoopla says.  Annual house price growth remains just 3.0 per cent according to...

A prominent business analyst has given a bleak warning about the prospects for property investors and other home owners in 2023. Sarah...

Propertymark has renewed its call for Local Housing Allowance  - which has remained static since 2020 - to be increased. It says...

Propertymark’s ARLA President is calling on the government to intervene to help boost the flagging stock of rental properties. The call, by...

An investigation by the BBC and Zoopla shows the sharp drop in the volume of available rental units in the past...

New figures today from London agency Foxtons show that the average rent in February 2023 rose five per cent from the...

Annual rent rises that are currently 10 per cent or more are likely to halve to “mid-single digits” according to a...

Alto, Zoopla’s cloud-based software, has announced a new integration with popular lettings platform Goodlord. Goodlord is Alto’s only tenancy progression and onboarding...

An end-of-year assessment by Zoopla suggests the price of flats across the UK have underperformed the rest of the market and...

The drastic shortage of rental properties will lessen during 2023 according to the Leaders Romans Group - and much of that...

Zoopla has given details of its collaboration with homelessness charity Crisis following the announcement of a three-year partnership earlier this year. Crisis’s...

The average rent for a new letting has increased by £117 per month since last year, reaching £1,078 per calendar month...

A financial expert says the latest house price index, showing the biggest monthly fall for over two years, is the “first...

A news website is reporting that a landlord cut the asking rent of a property after social media criticism of its...

Boomin, the online property portal founded by the former boss of Purplebricks, has called in liquidators according to a Sky News...

The average gap between housing benefit rates and the actual cost of rents has grown by more than 40 per cent...

Lettings platform Vouch and cloud-based software service Alto are teaming up for a webinar. The aim is to offer agents a route...

Five agencies have been expelled from The Property Ombudsman scheme - all for compliance failures. The first is Home Trader Properties, in...

Zoopla is issuing a warning today that price cuts in the sales market are likely to hit pre-pandemic levels as affordability...

More ‘old’ new faces have been drafted in to Purplebricks in a bid to improve its compliance and market performance. Last month...

The average rent in the UK has increased by £115 per month since last year, reaching £1,051 per calendar month according...

PropTech firm Homesearch has launched technology which it claims allows every agent to offer a white-labelled search engine. And it claims this...

One of the biggest names in the deposit alternative sector says the rental market is “stacked against” private tenants. Gary Wright, chief...

Zoopla is warning that low-income renters across England are facing a ‘housing black hole’ due to soaring rents and the freeze...

Foxtons is to advertise all of its lettings properties on OnTheMarket with immediate effect. The agency say it already “facilitates” 10 per...

Senior figures in the agency industry have backed new guidance from the National Trading Standards Estate and Lettings Agent Team regarding...

Maxine Fothergill, who has just completed her year as President of ARLA Propertymark, is the latest recruit to Zoopla’s Lettings Advisory...

Zoopla - which in recent years has gone out of its way to win agent support - has come out strongly...

Agents are being invited to take part in a pilot project which claims it will cut down on ‘back office’ chores...

Zoopla is warning that the recent sharp rise in rents has stretched affordability with the average rent now accounting for 37...

London-focussed agency Foxtons says the tenancy renewal numbers seen by the company this year are “unprecedented”. Gareth Atkins, lettings managing director at...

Hunters, now part of The Property Franchise Group, has signed a six year software deal with Zoopla’s Alto service. This means that...

A platform that says it wants to help reduce letting agents’ reliance on traditional portals such as Rightmove and Zoopla has...

New data from Zoopla suggests that lettings demand has now recovered across the central districts of all  major cities including Birmingham,...

The rental market continues to boom despite the growing cost of living crisis, with average rents rising at a 13 year...

Zoopla has unveiled a new tenant document-sharing feature on its Alto service, which it says will help letting agents fulfil compliance...

Blockchain PropTech operator Coadjute is to continue as Headline Partner for The ESTAS for 2022 and 2023.  Coadjute - which took over...

Landlords selling up or converting to short lets have led to a growing housing crisis, according to a trade body of...

Alto, the Zoopla-owned cloud-based software for agents, has unveiled what it calls “its next generation of functionality.” New features include an enhanced...

The long term undersupply of rental properties across the country is expected to support rental growth into 2022, says Zoopla. In addition,...

Lettings platform Findingaplace, a matching service between tenants and agents launched last year, is seeking to raise £250,000 - and possibly...

New figures provide further evidence of the difficulties first time buyers have getting on the property ladder - and why as...

More buy to let properties are being put on the sales market, despite the strength in the lettings sector, says Zoopla. In...

Rents in some of the most popular locations of the country have risen 25 per cent in the past year according...

There’s been a 21 per cent rise in demand for properties from buy to let investors according to a new analysis...

Baroness Alicia Kennedy, director of the Generation Rent campaign, says rents in Wales, Scotland and South West England have soared thanks...

The man behind a PropTech supplier of virtual tours says he wants to get every listing in the UK’s lettings and...

Zoopla has revealed the formation of a Lettings Advisory Board, to be chaired by the national lettings managing director of Leaders...

The city centre rental market, considered to be one of the industry’s losers during the worst of the pandemic, is beginning...

Zoopla says rents outside London are rising at an average three per cent per year, the highest level since late 2018. However...

Franchise giant Belvoir has held its annual awards including the naming of the prestigious ‘franchise of the year’. The accolade went to...

The National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agents Team is appealing to the industry to be eagle-eyed for scams. This follows the...

The fall out from Coronavirus is forcing the rental market into a once in a lifetime change as tenants reassess priorities. This...

The 60-branch London focussed agency chain Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward is the latest agency to invest in Zero Deposit. The firm joins Andrews,...