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Let's be honest – landlords are the lifeblood of any letting agency. Winning and keeping their business keeps the wheels turning...

Propertymark is hosting two important webinars this week to keep agents informed of important industry regulations. The agency trade body is hosting...

The recent cyber attack on CTS left around 80 conveyancing firms across the country commercially paralysed as the harm to their...

From valuations to viewings, conveyancing to completions, technology has transformed our sector dramatically and permanently. After comparatively slow beginnings, PropTech really took...

Skipton Building Society has unveiled details of the first 100% loan-to-value mortgage launched since the 2008 financial crisis. Aimed at renters, the...

Eight agents were excluded from The Property Ombudsman (TPO) scheme during the first quarter of 2023 including collapsed online brand Doorsteps for...

Property professionals heralded the end of the low interest era yesterday after the latest Bank of England base rate hike. The Bank...

The worst cost-of-living crisis in generations is everywhere we look and agents – and the property industry more widely – are...

Asking prices for typical first-time buyer homes and equivalent rents have risen three times faster compared with the pre-pandemic years, Rightmove...

Today’s consumers judge a business not just on the quality of its products, but also on their experience in using them....

It is no longer significantly cheaper to rent compared with making monthly mortgage payments, Rightmove claims, but raising a deposit remains...

Agency proptech supplier Muuvo has partnered with Canopy to provide its RentPassport and RentTracking products. Muuvo provides software for agents to help...

PayProp’s recent Rental Confidence Index survey polled property professionals about their biggest concerns for 2022. Unsurprisingly, new regulations were a top...

It’s not an easy time for many renters (and homeowners). The cost of living is going up across the board for...

Propertymark has shortlisted five of the 700 or so PropTech suppliers in the UK, as part of the trade body’s REACH...

With one of the world’s most successful vaccine rollout programmes under way in the UK, the chances of a complete lockdown...

As part of our third PayProp Special Report on COVID-19 rental arrears in the UK, we surveyed over 600 agents, tenants...

It’s that time of year again. Black Friday has been and gone and the run-up to Christmas is well and truly...

According to the annual Property Week PropTech survey, almost 48% of property businesses had tested new technology because of the COVID-19...

As lockdown – Season 2, the sequel no one asked for – gets underway in England, landlords, tenants and agents will...

Letting agents and landlords have faced huge change and uncertainty this year, with Covid-19 the major driver. But even before the...

I was asked recently, how can an agent generate more landlord leads? Well that got me thinking, firstly, we have to...

The ban on evictions was due to end earlier this month, but following a last-minute U-turn from the government, it has...

One of Countrywide’s biggest shareholders has written a second letter to the company to demand bold action to save the agency...

As we adjust to a life post-Covid-19, letting agents, landlords, and tenants are thinking - ways to speed up the process...

Covid-19 has placed a spotlight on the impressive variety of fundraising platforms and technologies available – and not often in places...

Much like PropTech, Open Banking has been used as a buzzword in recent years. However, when it comes to the rental...

We are facing a new world in the lettings industry, with the proportion of households in the private rented sector (PRS)...

 – use technology to build a trusted brand as a people-focused custodian of client money Non-stop regulatory changes in the industry are...

FirstHomeCoach, the brainchild of a former HSBC banker, has launched with the aim of providing “every service” a first time buyer...

The Deposit Protection Service (The DPS) keeps deposit money safe for letting agents, landlords and renters during the course a tenancy....

Even with 2019 well underway, letting agents need to keep refining their long-term goals and business targets. For agencies with a...

I’m spending a lot of time in airport terminals waiting for flights. They’re not the most comfortable of surroundings, but at...

Landlords and letting agents might feel they’ve taken a bit of a battering from the government in recent years – and...

In recent months, there’s been a notable move in the rental market towards deposit replacement products in place of traditional security...

This week I carry out a question and answer session with one of the most high-profile names in property. Isobel Thomson has...

Well, I don’t know about you but after the holidays I've got an imprint just below my navel where my belt...

Having launched 13 years ago, PayProp, part of Humanstate Group, an international private technology services group, has grown into a leading...

Three agencies have been expelled from membership of The Property Ombudsman for two or more years, after failing to pay awards...

We are now only days away from one of the most-anticipated events in UK politics; one which has a considerable impact...

Campagining housing charity Shelter claims that an estimated 13 million people aged between 18 and 44 feel the high costs of buying...

Q: What does it say on your business card? Director of Business Development Q: Who are PayProp? PayProp is an automated payment and reconciliation...

Subletting of prime London lettings properties is a lucrative business.  What began as a rogue trade over the course of several years,...

Young prospective buyers will be able to pay the equivalent of rent on a property which they then go on to...