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The deputy chief executive of an organisation funded by the Nationwide Foundation claims to have suffered “horrendous exploitation” at the hands...

Propertymark’s training arm, Propertymark Qualifications, says there’s been a strong uptake across the board with the first of its candidates passing...

Former housing minister Rachel Maclean - the victim of a shock sacking by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak last month - has...

A Labour MP has attacked Airbnb hosts and others in the short lets business, accusing them of “this exploitation of housing...

One of the country’s best-read and respected regional newspapers has accused Airbnb of a ‘racket’ by advertising homes on its short-let...

Media reports in Stoke on Trent say a man was arrested after a police raid on the Homes2Let lettings agency in...

Agents’ marketing platform BriefYourMarket has announced a new integration live and ready to install on Reapit’s AppMarket. BriefYourMarket first integrated with Reapit’s...

A police force has issued a warning to agents and owners of short-let properties to look for signs of modern slavery...

Three criminals have been sentenced after pleading guilty to money laundering involving an online lettings agency. The sentences follow an investigation spearheaded...

As expected, the Liberal Democrats’ conference in Bournemouth has backed a motion calling for the scrapping of Section 21 - effectively...

A council has used a drone with a thermal imaging camera to identify illegal ‘sheds’ where tenants are being rented beds...

A rogue landlord has been ordered to pay over £60,000 after - in the words of the council - “being found...

Local authority officers have found three tenants living inside a shed in the garden of a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Brent,...

Shelter is campaigning for the outlawing if default fees levied on tenants by agents in Wales. While the campaigning group welcomes the Renting...

Local authorities across the UK are to get another £2m to crack down on rogue operators in the buy to let...

The head of the online lettings agency recently scooped up by Emoov says traditional lettings agents have made a rod for...

A council claims that up to 13,000 private landlords are “of interest” to HM Revenue and Customs, where there are alleged...

The government has launched an official consultation process on a package of measures to crack down on what it calls ‘rogue...

Letting agents are being urged to help tackle what the police are calling “modern slavery” happening in communities across Britain.  Modern slavery...

The immigration charity the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants says it is working with a range of other bodies...