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Propertymark is urging member agents in Wales to attend a so-called Cultural Awareness Course which will explain their responsibilities under the...

There’s been a rise of over 400 per cent in the monetary total of fines issued for Right To Rent offences...

Five outstanding women were honoured at the first ESTAS Women in Estate Agency award, parts of the ESTAS. The five were Wendy...

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

The Property Ombudsman has ruled that a letting agency’s ban on renting to a family with children was discriminatory against women...

The first Women in Estate Agency conference has been a sell out.  Over 250 people from across the industry attended the day-long...

The political party propping up the Scottish Government says higher taxes on buy to lets will help the housing market be...

The Stirling Ackroyd Group says it’s delivered 20 per cent revenue growth alongside the opening of five lettings and sales offices...

The Women In Estate Agency group is holding its first conference in London in March, where lettings industry gurus will be...

A consultation over the summer looks set to be the first part of a radical change to the structure of communal...

Politicians across the UK appear to be growing more vocal in their support for rent controls. The Welsh nationalist party Plaid Cymru...

The UK Association of Letting Agents says it welcomes new rules for alarms which put the social and private rental sectors...

Propertymark has told the government that imposing the same solution to the Net Zero challenge on all of the private rental...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Alexander Siedes, CEO and Founder of Homeppl What is Homeppl and...

The UK’s largest ever additional licensing scheme for HMOs has come into effect over the long weekend.  Westminster council’s scheme will focus...

Rent controls are to be introduced into part of the UK as a result of a deal between two political parties. The...

How up to date is your knowledge on notice periods, pets in rentals, electrical safety inspections and lodgers? This year we’ve...

One of the largest new additional licensing schemes for HMOs anywhere in the country is set to come into force in...

Activists from the Acorn renters' campaign group have held a protest outside a branch of Chancellors in Oxford. The group says the...

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 debate over rental properties listed on portals with ‘No DSS’ statements has reignited over the weekend. This follows a BBC investigation...

A lettings agency that told a prospective tenant it had a policy of not offering tenancies to housing benefit recipients has...

A property litigation expert is warning letting agents and landlords about far-reaching consequences of the recent ruling which declared a blanket...

The Prime Minister has stepped into the ongoing row over a Labour claim that last week’s stamp duty holiday was merely...

In what is claimed to be an industry first, PropTech platform Goodlord has signed the Race Fairness Commitment. This commits Goodlord to...

Higher housing costs - including private sector rents - have reduced incomes and increased inequality as the poorest families have borne...

New research has thrown light for the first time on the gap between the rental affordability of male and female workers...

An influential think tank says Capital Gains Tax on buy to let properties and second homes should be levied at the...

Both sides of the Right To Rent debate are squaring up for their latest court battle. Earlier this year the High Court...

Foxtons has been named as one of almost 100 firms which will be highlighted for failing to boost the number of...

With the government already on the ropes over Brexit, there’s a call today for one of its flagship immigration policies to...

A pressure group that in the past has protested outside letting agency branches has staged more direct action - this time against...

The website of a respected political weekly journal says Right To Rent’s immigration checks provide cover for “buy to let bigots”...

No fewer than 86 per cent of renters - the equivalent of over six million households - have less than a...

It started off as an idea from Jeremy Corbyn’s campaign to become Labour leader but today it’s being backed by a...

Eviction specialist company Landlord Action wants the government to complement its action against rogue letting agents and tenants with a ‘rogue...

Stephen Moss, CEO of based Pring.co.uk the UK’s leading property investment search engine, takes a look at the impact of ‘Corbynmania’...

Right To Rent checks will become mandatory in England from February 1st, the government has announced. Under the new rules, landlords who...

Government proposals forcing agents and landlords to check the immigration status of tenants risk a serious breach of human rights according...